Just tired! What's your Vent for Hump Day?

Unfortunately for me I've been up since 3 am today- work is going to be 'fun' haha

I really will be 'running' on Dunkin today ( area where I'll be has no there places to go potty anyway ) yea me

I just hope I make it thru DS's concert tonight

I'm up early because I have an early meeting before school. I hate getting up in the mornings, and I really hate getting up even earlier than usual!

Good thing is that it's our "short" day - kids get out 45 minutes early so we can have meetings after school. I have a Curriculum Committee meeting then.

But it's a longer day than usual because I have a hair appointment after the meeting - an appointment that was supposed to be yesterday except that my hairdresser forgot to put it in HER appointment book! So it has been rescheduled for today.

2 more days until a 4 day weekend. I really wish I didn't have to do the family thing on Friday and Saturday but I do. I really just want to shut off my phone and enjoy the quiet and be alone.
I'm trying to meal plan and I have no thoughts either. Friday is dinner at my mom's so just lunch is needed. Saturday I'm making lasagna for DH's mom at our house so that's dinner and left overs Sunday. Monday I'm at a friend's scrapbooking.
I'm thinking just a whole Lotta sandwich meat and we fill in with that.
I have nothing out for tonites dinner.
DH has been slacking in helping with house work. And his sleep mask has been slipping at night so he honks and wakes me up at 4 30 (an hr before my alarm)
I think after weekend I will recharge. I'm hoping so anyway. I just got a new book delivered and I'm planning on reading this weekend on the porch. Suppose to be warm out. So get some vitamin D and just do as little as possible.
Thanks for letting me whine.

I take prescription Prevacid for extreme reflux. Today it isn't working which only happens when I'm extremely worried, dr appointment in 12 days. My throat is gurgling like soda is in it. Uggg. I have to be extremely careful or it turns into full on chest pains.

I used to treat it over the counter until it got so bad I had to get medical help. I've been symptom free for over a year now. I feel like I just took a huge step backwards.
The anniversary of my dad's death was the other day and I just to ball up and cry.

omg hysterical, poor animals wanting to get away from the feet forest!   My dog routinely gets up far earlier than necessary...mainly because she hears ds up getting ready for work at 5 am so you have my sympathy on that one

I needed this vent thread today - just got the call that my dog's ashes are ready to be picked up at the vet.

I really didn't care if they were saved, but DD felt it was important. I don't want to go there. They said there's no hurry, but I don't think procrastinating will make it easier.

My whine is the construction up the street. Which follows closely on the construction that was *just* finished one street over from us. ugh. I live in a neighborhood that used to be affordable. Many smaller houses that weren't outrageously expensive, at least not by DC/NoVA standards. Well as those small houses are sold they get bought, torn down (sad), and a huge $1.5 million house gets built on the lot, squeezing in as much house as they can by code. Dh and I couldn't afford to buy here now, and when we do sell this house we'll get triple what we paid for it without ever having done much to improve it. 

Anyway...that's not my vent, mine is the construction. I'm the second house from the corner. The house on the corner across the street is having their exterior painted. There are usually two of the company's vans there. Then the house next to them is the one that was just torn down. They've dug out the pit and yesterday was concrete pouring day, then putting in the big posts. So... two painter vans in front of the corner house which meant that workers for the construction site had to park down on my block. Then the concrete truck rolled up. And the big flatbed thing that was hauling the posts. And that truck had to back up -- *beep beep beep BEEP!* -- a million times to get himself situated and parked right up from my front yard. -- AND...two houses up from the construction site a tree was being taken down, complete with large crane thing. 

omg.

Oh, and did I miss the other detail of this story...? -- My dog HATES the backup *beep*. And she hates hearing voices talking outside. And she ESPECIALLY hates it when people park across from her front window. And she really really takes offense when those workers who parked their trucks near us come back to the truck to take a break or eat lunch! ALERT!! POSSIBLE INTRUDER ALERT!! NOISE ON THE STREET!!

Add in the mailman, a UPS truck or two, and the Big Scary Baby in Stroller from down the street and my poor dog had a very bad day. And today isn't shaping up to be much better. 

And the weather in lovely so we have windows opened which conveniently lets in all the sound.

So my vent is not so much about the actual construction as it is about having to listen to my dog bark and growl and huff all day long. 

I have to laugh: when I pulled it up on Amazon, it was listed under both "Health, Household and Baby Care" and "Industrial and Scientific."

I'm sorry you have to deal with your sister and bro-in-law regarding your mom. Please, do tell them to fuck the hell up! Your mom needs someone in her corner.

For me, yesterday and the day before were unusually warm days, in the 80s, which for April, is rare here. Today it's back down to a more seasonal temp of 40ish. Yesterday, the facilities crew came to fix the water heater. Went to turn back on the water and something broke. No water. So we now have porta-potties in the back. I nearly froze my ass off earlier! Not to mention, it wasn't properly seated, so it kind of rocked. Very unnerving!

Plus, they come with these cool sink things now, so you can wash your hands. Of course the water is ice cold, and I was trying to get the soap off my hands with this tiny stream of water you have to pump with your foot to get it going. I had to wear my jacket to use the bathroom and my stupid right sleeve would not stay up so it wouldn't get wet!

I'm not eating or drinking anything today!

mommaho


Is your mother on a gel or air mattress? If not she should be. It can be adjusted to prevent hot spots.

Ha ha - I promise you didn't freeze your backside at 40. You should be on a jobsite in Minnesota in January. Even the chemicals freeze in the portapotty.  I do sympathize - having to use them sucks. 

My very sad story.
I have no car, and apparently no friends.

Mine's a whiny baby vent, my esophagus doesn't work properly. I came to terms with that a long time ago and usually I'm fine but the last couple of days it's been annoying me. Yesterday it made me throw up with it's weird spasms and today it's making me feel like I'm going to throw up Good times!