Blargh! What Ruined Your Day?
 

As a twin to the "What Made Your Day?", what are those things that seemed to crap on your head like a pigeon?

Well, my external DVD reader\writer died on me and some of my favorite DVDs got messed up. Not going to sleep well as it already is: I need to set up an emergency appointment with Dr. KW (I use initials for the anonymity factor) to figure out a new plan for medicine.

As of right now, my father still hasn't come in yet. I have not reached to the point of destroying the futon.

Have any of you guys had pigeon-worthy days lately?

Oh yes, I've had those type of days before. Whether it's seeing friends argue over everything or just anxiety acting up and making me feel lousy. I always seem to get crashes when it's nighttime just about every night.

Here at the coast I'm more vulnerable to seagull poop. But anyway: after a 3 hour drive to a church we have to work at we noticed we forgot some very important bits. My boss went back, and now I'm alone for the next 4 to 5 hours just cleaning the damn organ.

Speaking of poop, a bird managed it's way in here and I've got the honor to clean after him.

Pigeons, seagulls...both are rats with wings at this point.

I dealt with crows, seagulls, and pigeons when I lived in Lynnwood, WA. Rats with wings, all 3 of them.

I feel like the Vent thread is kinda the opposite of the "What made your day" thread

I guess a little more civility plus the fact things went so well...then a rat with wings of your choice decided to crap all over it.

I'm doing fine with running diagnostics on new machines...that's actually a bit fun. I also fixed my smartphone so now I don't have to waste data on music streaming apps because my music collection is back. However, due to weather patterns dictating rain, I get the trifecta of crows, seagulls and pigeons because I have to babysit a whiny cat. Gemini was locked out in the rain overnight and when we found her, still raining the next morning, we toweled her off and was like "You're dead to me..." She may be dumb to ask you to stop the rain, but not dumb enough to charge out into rain or snow.

I guess this is part of being a parent to a cat who lives for the attention, the water packed in cooked canned tuna and summer sunbathing. I like a little attention, just more focused with one guy at a time, she wants a crowd. I don't eat sandwiches or even use canned tuna. I'm at risk for melanoma, so I stay out of the light.

The entire day ruined my day.

So just getting out of bed was enough to ruin your day?

My brain every morning

My father forgot I had a physical a town over and he's in Bethlehem, PA getting his glasses.

I had my annual scheduled for today.

Not to mention I got angry at my parents over semantics on medication.

Definitely a shit day.

i have those days that makes me worse

right before i was on the airplane, i was so upset we had to leave when i was in spain, i even started to cry, and my parents made it look like it has something to do with them
not everything is based on them when i'm not feeling well, we wanted to eat by the chinese for lunch but it was or closed or too expensive, i wasn't hungry anyways
and the worse part was i couldn't eat bread but i could eat soup (which is weird)

but all of the bad stuff together (my parents thinking everything is based on them, not eating, no eating chinese and leaving the house in spain) made it worse to me
i'm on day 4 and i'm still upset to leave the house, it's like loosing someone or something, but i'm stable now though

Actually, for a good portion of adolescence and post-adolescence, I had crying as a symptom of illness. Whenever I got a cold or was feverish, it alerted my parents to help me.

oh i see

I woke up.

We shopped around the dollar store.

Then my mom made a faux pas that I can't stand: forget my birthday.

My mother forgot my actual birthday is next week. We're celebrating on Saturday as it's during the work days.

Also, cannot find my numbers needed to deposit money in my PayPal "Open a PayPal account to use eBay, they said... it's fun and easy, they said. Damn setup require numbers you have no access to because the bank gives you a run around with the shit you already put up with daily!"

More shit to put up with: having to remove the Gorilla Glass from my phone after it broke numerous times. Phone is fine, original glass is fine.

Edit: Got the PayPal setup in process. Whoever said it was easy was stabbed in the lobe with a pickelhaube helmet and I can only imagine it would hurt enough to seek medical attention. (FYI pickelhaube helmets were standard WWI headgear for the German Army. Also called Kaiser helmets, they are popular with some bikers in the West. It is denoted by the giant spike dead center on top. For players of The Urbz: Sims in the City, in the biker district, Gasoline Row(?), the resident NPC Pork Chop wears one.) To be honest, I am no stranger to pain and the phantom sensation of getting stabbed is extremely common.

Easy is drinking soda through a straw that is solid in terms of walling. Difficult is tightrope walking with loud music, wind and the world watching. PayPal setup was difficult moreso than soda drinking. It was a few percentage points off of the same difficulty as the distractions in tightrope.

a few days ago i slept well till i got into an panic for nothing, i think i figured that it was hot in my room and didn't opened the window,
but that ruined the whole day after that,

usually i'm just in a panic when i hear an beep in my ear that is pretty much hard (ringing in the ears)
so i found it weird, i started working on my breath, breath in for a few seconds and breath out, i did it a few times, drinked water after that and i tried to fall asleep since i was a bit calmer then during the panic parts
i was tired the whole day when i had to go to work last week :/

i'm feeling better now though, still afraid of panics though

He can ruin anyone's day just by looking at them. Creepy, creepy little uncanny valley doll man.



Double that; also there is no Spaghetti for dinner.

Not vent day, not good day, more of a conflicted day.
 

Not sure why dear wife is angry at me; I must have done something. Asking will make it worse.
I got a nice roast at the store. I burned it. So much for following that recipe! Next time, 2 cups of water and check every half hour. Oh well. I can eat it and Schrodinger the dog loves it.
Halloween
Even as a child I was never a fan of Halloween. When I was kid almost 60 years ago there was a drunk down the street who thought it was fun to answer tricker or treaters with a pistol and yell at them. If you stayed he'd give you candy; or so he said as he yelled at us as we ran away. My 18 year old sister (the pretty sister, not the nice sister or the mean self centered sister) got us off his porch pretty quick. I did not want his candy. I had to be before I went to school, 4 or 5 years old.
I asked my daughter to hand out the candy this year. Bad knees are incompatible with getting up and answering the door every five minutes.
Right now I'm sure the wealthy neighborhood is getting pounded. Soon it will be on us in the middle class neighborhood. No rain so I expect a big turn out and an egging if we run out of candy.
Tomorrow will be a good weather for pressure wash the damage off the house.

Spent Halloween at the doctor's office. I was okay with the prednisone, but augmentin? That was the bottom drawing line! But I have no choice. Along with Delsym, I have been going through a cocktail of chemical weapons aimed at my upper respiratory system.

Either way... tomorrow morning should be worth a chance to start anew.

Hope you feel better soon, Panda. Now it's freezing up here more people will start sneezing, catching colds, and spreading their germs.

Hate the flu season. I always get full on fever which actually knocks me out for a day or 2, but, 'it's just a cold'. I always get sick after everyone else gets better.

Do you get the flu shot? I had to have a shot once for a job but that was the only time I had an injection for the flu.

Maybe I should. Never got a flu shot, but no one ever talks about it here. Never heard anyone say that they just got one and no one even tells me to get one. I'm not sure if it is that common, or a USA thing..

Probably a USA one to make $$ for the doctors and medical companies/big pharma. My husband has to get one every year as he works in a hospital. He always get a bit sick right after (minor aches/tired).

I worked in public health (USA) for years. The flu shot is always a mixture of about three of the viruses that researchers think will be the flu bugs of the year. Sometimes they guess right, but more often than you would think, they are way off the mark. A couple of years ago, I think the vaccine was only about 15% effective.

I'm not an anti-vax person, but I don't get the flu shot, ever.

It's a nice thing to guess, but aren't the viruses that cause the cold and flu able to mutate incredibly quick? Does a flu shot even make any sense?
Not getting a flu shot after all, lol. I feel kinda silly thinking about that.

They do mutate rapidly. Sometimes, though, the researchers do guess correctly and the flu shot is really effective.

My own personal prejudices aside, if the flu is a horrible one and you've not heard that the vaccine was ineffective, you might want to consider getting it. If your health is not good, you might want to consider protecting it with whatever value the shot might have.

I think avoiding sick people and washing your hands correctly & often may be even more effective than any type of vaccine. However, if you are among a susceptible population-every bit helps.

when i was to my parents, i took a shower and saw blood clots, i thought at first it was nothing, so we went out after i changed my clothes (my dad had to go home first though)
we went out to an greek restaurand, i was nauseous since i kept eating even though i was full, but it was gone in 10/15 minutes so i wasn't nauseous for that long and it was mild so i didn't throw up and wasn't about to
my parents took me home after we leaved the greek, i went to the toilet and i saw blood, i was in shock because i didn't had any symptoms of menstruations so that was unexpected :/

and i'm not supposed to be since i continue taking birth control without any stop-weeks, and the worse of it all was i already put on my PJ's so my PJ's leaked and also didn't had any symptoms, and 2 or 3 weeks ago i was in the same situation, expect i had symptoms that fits with the period, and this time i don't have symptoms that fit with the period/menstruation, i didn't threw up nor was i having diarrhea (well expect last hour but that don't count)

i already left an letter to an female quidance so hopefully she'll read it in the morning and talks about how i'm doing, maybe even visit the doctor if possible, i'm started to get worried
so yes the period literally ruined my day (literally on my mom's birthday)

Got Season 5 of the Simpsons in the mail...

Then had Seasons 2 & 4 of the Simpsons along with 6 pounds of unpopped mushroom popcorn stolen from my porch!

I'm worried about my daughter. What will happen to her when she gets older and I can't take care of her anymore? How do I keep her from becoming homeless? I really ought to start to homeschool her, she's learning all the wrong things in "school". Her mom is dead set against it. I don't see how homeschooling can be any worse... she's failing school in almost every subject and the "socialization" is that she can get what she wants with anti-social behavior.

Does she have special needs? At risk kids also have "special needs" in my opinion. I homeschooled but who will do it if you want her to be homeschooled? If your wife is home all day will she do it? Does your daughter want this? My son has special needs (not severe but the schools failed him after 5th grade), so after 6th (terrible year) I took over.

I have the college unit requirements to be allowed to homeschool. My wife won't do it. My daughter doesn't want this because she had gamed the public school system to her short term advantage. She's smarter than her teachers and the average bear.

If you live in the USA you have the right to homeschool. I don't know your district or state but they may have more constraints.

I ruined my own day, by procrastinating. I have chores I want to get done and now it's raining and I have to be outside to do two of my chores. I can't really put one of them off either.
So, I'm gonna get wet and cold. Serves me right. Humm... maybe I'll play the sims until it warms up a bit. yeah, that's the ticket!

Went food shopping and they decided to add taxes that can only be paid in cash. Right now, still angry I couldn't take advantage of my food allowance.

Way to bust up a party.

Yep, Dark Period.

Yup in December and January the day length is 7-8 hours and 16-17 hours in June and July depending on region (Poland). I think I'm suffering from vitamin D deficiency and need to buy some pills at a chemist's. It's not expensive and i think it'll help me feel better during long winter nights.

When I lived in Washington state, Greater Seattle area, I was on Vitamin D pills and on artificial sunlight therapy during monsoon season. (Trust me, we didn't have defined seasons in Seattle like we do here in Asshole. Seattle had two: dry and monsoon. Asshole has the typical 4 and a rainy season between Spring and Summer and Summer and Autumn. Winter is going to set in tonight.)

Seattle looks like the northernmost large city in contiguous USA and thus experiences noticeable differences in day and night lengths in summer and winter. Wrocław is situated further north and its latitude can be compared to Calgary in Canada. Its climate is a transition between marine west coast and warm continental. Anyway, vitamin D is what I'm currently craving for.

I'm not sleeping right. I have an underlying medical problem which has now returned to be another tick on my I hate getting older list. Add to that our road is incredibly noisy, our apartment has very high heat (something I thought I would love after freezing most of my renting life in cold, crappy apartments), and now the management has set out some very bright lights that point at all the windows (bedrooms) that already face a highway that has traffic 24 hours a day/night. I can't close the windows because of the heat (we can't regulate it properly). So it's light, heat and noise all night. My husband is looking into another set of blinds or shades. Meanwhile I have to decide which wheel of doctors I want to put my (lack of) confidence in to get my problems "solved." I'm going to just hide under the bed till the full moon is over. I realize people have "worse" issues but nevertheless...

Realizing the holidays are going to be rush-rush in a couple weeks.

The fact I have info on Dr. Nye (enough to at least wish him a happy return upon meeting him) was enough to set off that stupid stressor I have when it precedes Black Friday.

For one, shopping during the holidays is more an epic quest a la Link in Legend of Zelda. It's almost like having to talk to all the villagers before finding what's on the list.

Then, there's the crowds...I hate them so much! I have medicine for it because the effect is like being hanged alive like Clint Eastwood's character in Hang 'em High where, once the meds kick in, you probably have a rope burn equivalent from the anxiety.

I have a party next weekend (this upcoming weekend) and I need to assemble my outfit. I bought a new shirt to go with a merlot red pair of shorts and now I need to find shoes. I have my leopard print slip on sneakers which I recently outfitted with gel insoles from Dr. Scholl's.

Kids these days call them their "rides". Can't argue with that logic, because I grew up in a number of towns where it was pedestrian friendly. Princeton Junction, NJ; Redmond, WA, and Lynnwood, WA are the ones I grew up in.

Or I could break out my fancy thick strap sandals from Rocketdog. After all, it's a party.

ARGGH! I have all this energy and I am in bed!

11/13/2019 18:06
Slept until noon. I had a rough night.

This is a downer of a day
 

I'm doing okay and it looks good for me up until the slam the lid on the casket and drop me into the ground.
It's my wife and daughter that I'm kinda grim about, especially after I'm gone or too feeble to look after things.
Edit: Day Two of Downer Days
My wife and daughter seem angry at me. Daughter because she has to go to school, wife because of my daughter - it's my fault I'd rather stay home than go visit my brother in law.

• My Brother in law doesn't like my daughter
• My wife doesn't like her brother.
• I'm of a different religion than my Brother in law, and I don't care to argue religion. It's going to be a thing on black Friday, too.
• I can't have coffee in his house. I'd rather stay in a hotel. Without coffee, I'm going to have a headache all day and be in a foul mood. I don't like being in a foul mood.
• All in all, I'd rather not board my dog and use the money to buy a nice big roast and celebrate thanksgiving with my family on Saturday.

Now feeling the side effects of getting two vaccines at once. I think I will crawl into bed and sleep off this malaise of chemical warfare against sickness.

Besides, I have baking and cooking tomorrow.

P.S. I got a 5 year tetanus shot in the left shoulder and a seasonal flu shot in the right shoulder.

i woke up in the morning and started having headache, and was tired (i'll be honest i couldn't sleep well because i was worried about my symptoms)
i took a power-nap after buying some stuff but it didn't got any better, infact i'm nauseous and still having headache now :/

Forgot to buy drip pans and my mother is going rip me a new one for not following through. She hates people who don't follow through on promises.

The weather is indeed frightful.

It's a mix of rain, ice, sleet, and snow.

This is the rage of Winter Storm Ezekiel.

My team at work is running at half staff. One person got fired and 4 people are off sick. It's not fun.

Shoveling snow all afternoon

I am wondering which I like better, the silent treatment or the acidic criticism. I bought our daughter an advent Calendar with a little piece of candy for every day. Got slammed for giving her sweets. It's not really about that.

Hmmm...if you ask me, I think I like the silent treatment better. It's not actual open warfare, so you can just feel a bit superior that she is being so petty

Why'd you get slammed for giving her sweets? I mean it's your own damn business... right? Or are people just completely incapable of staying in their own damn backyards?

Ordered a hoodie from Etsy, I chose the 'pay in advance' option because nee online-banking. Didn't find or get any data on where to send the money so I sent the seller a message about it. No answer for 1.5 weeks and now my order got cancelled.
My account told me I haven't sent any messages at all, somehow.

I want that damn hoodie!

Dealing with nausea from an unusually heavy period.

I knew something was up when my period came at the beginning of the placebo week. I was painful to deal with in interfacing, I had the worse cramps, I was having like pseudo pregnancy cravings (like eating weird stuff in large amounts) and today I had nausea.

My father then told me, judging by my symptoms "You doing end-of-year cleaning? Your mother used to suffer from these every so often. Think of it as routine maintenance. You'll resume regular functions next time."

My father is a man who cares for the women in his life enough to help if needed. My family is known for a closeness that is awkward at best, but awkward is just part of large families.

So yes, the past few days were just ARGGHworthy with a Period from Hell. Probably Tartarus. It became more ARGGHworthy when I found out it came from my mom, so you can bet this will be part of my life until menopause sets in.

I was around your age (you're 32?) when I started to have issues (33). Wacky, very heavy periods. I went back and forth to different gynos. They may try to check your hormones or like you say, this can be normal and genetic. You're on the pill? (you mentioned placebo week). Also you were sick for awhile recently so that can affect your periods. I'm not a doctor and your dad is a wise man.

I had extremely heavy periods when I reached menarche (my first cycles were sometimes heavy enough to stain through the mattress.) I eventually was put on birth control for a number of reasons, PCOS was one of them when I was 19 prior to removal of a softball-sized ovarian cyst about 12 years ago. My cycle was regular from then on, fairly like, like barely absorbed anything because barely anything came out. This past cycle was a surprise. But if my father is correct, it should resume as the prior of being feather light.

My annual was partially interrupted and the "check under the hood" was put on hold until my blood pressure went down.

Unfortunately, my insurance have denied an obesity medicine and a statin. I'm a 5'3" 300-pound woman with Mediterranean blood through my mother. When they did pre-op for my implant, I got a stare of "How are you still alive?"

Even though I get certain leeways under regulations for disabled and elderly patients, there are some restrictions.

SMH. I can't believe you were denied for those medications.

In Washington state, it would be given, no questions asked, but New Jersey is on a tighter budget in terms of who gets what.

Under some jurisdictions, weighing 300 pounds or over can label me physically disabled.

Bad enough that the disabilities I was diagnosed with when I was younger are making life hell when I try to keep up with others.

It's like waking up and screaming "Nooooo!" at my reflection. Although it does eventually get boring.

On going drama between my brother and his live in girlfriend. He's a hot mess and hellbend on dragging everyone down with him. My sister called me to give me the latest drama and I just feel sorry for my parents being subjected to his problems this late in their lives. It's not going to end well. He uses his bi-polar issues to bully everyone. I said to my husband last week that I can tell he is going to crash (he was in the manic phase the last few weeks, working hard, being his "better self") even though he was rather obnoxious on Thanksgiving. So today my sister tells me the latest and I just said to my husband and son let's continue to distance ourselves from him and his issues. It's not the "bi-poplar" or "depression" (that runs in our family) but the cruelty I will not deal with.

So, this is kind of a clang association, and while the intro to my point may sound political, PLEASE don't turn it that way. There's a politics thread if you want to talk about it, but let's not pollute this one.

Did anyone see the clip of Biden attacking a man who asked a question about his son? He called the man fat, bragged that he was in better shape, challenged the guy to pushups, and then used the word "fat" as if it were the person's name, like "listen to this, Fat".

We live in a world where it's not okay to refer to a person by the pronoun identifying their biology (again, not debating, just stating), but you can call someone fat? how is that okay?

Because fat discrimination is one of the few we still allow.

Was not trying to make it into a political statement. However, it's a stark contrast from what I grew up with and into my own.

Although, depending on your state, attitudes can dictate every nuance of government-controlled entities.

Washington was known for their "I'll sue\PC culture" so just giving the medicine was part of a rather distant "I don't want any trouble, so take it and leave" culture. This was my observation of Washington state healthcare

I was unaware that New Jersey was something of an opposite, not to mention, ranking #46 out of the 50 states in a niceness ranking (New York ranked dead last at #50) but with these tough-it-out attitudes, I will be writing a letter of appeal with my doctors for the medicine.

Problem is, like @HCAC said, fat-shaming is still somehow acceptable and I might add, shaming people into losing weight can backfire in a number of ways.

In fact for the longest time, I don't regularly eat on time like at breakfast, lunch and dinner. It's usually lunch\dinner and a snack somewhere in between. But I also suffer from a low blood sugar issue and my hangry fits are worse than average people's.

Keep in mind, I never intended to bring politics into the thread. I was only stating the facts of what you're likely to encounter in those types of situations. I hope this explains my comparison.

Oh sweetie, I wasn't talking about you. My own statement could easily have been taken as political. That's all I was talking about. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

Forgive me. I tend to take blame easily whenever I feel like I did something out of line.

i had a horrible nightmare, i don't think i would be able to sleep tonight because of a horror nightmare about changing into an demon (this is how i feel now)

The IEEE ran an article advocating that engineers take LSD.
I left a comment that was inappropriate for what is supposed to be an academic organization that publishes peer review articles on electronics.
I was... censored! It's gotten that bad. I've honestly not seen that many decent articles being published. Anything decent like Boston Dynamics is all trade secret and most everything else is just regurgitated and rehashed math about moving robot arms.
I'm not going to renew next year. First the American Physical Society, and now the IEEE.

Edit: Ah! Got the latest IEEE magazine. The cover article is about a Boston Dynamics robot. Boston Dynamics makes the best robots. They never publish anything, Like I said last Thursday! I'm thinking "Oooh Boy! they're gonna tell all about it!" Two pages, mostly photo, that tells me nothing other than it's an agile robot. They mention a small hydraulic valve, but not hint as to the design. There is a long article about using an aerial drone to collect whale snot however.

Yeah, double post. Sorry.
I think my pastor forgot about me. He was going to arrange my confirmation. It was supposed to have happened by now. It would only be a big deal if I changed and went to a different church of the same denomination. He said last Sunday he's going to substitute for another pastor at another church for a month or so. He's very good... I worry he's going to be gone for good. The other church pastor disappeared and was replaced. I guess he pissed off a mortal higher up in the chain of command.
It's just with my favorite pastor gone, literally no one in the church will know I'm even there.

Anxiety. I am on high alert tonight because of North Korea and their Christmas surprise.

Why would you be on high alert over something you have absolutely no control over? North Korea has always been threatening the USA and other countries but this is only shitty propaganda you shouldn't fall for. Stay calm and don't let those fools intimidate you and spoil your Christmas time. Take care!

It's not so much the impact, but the fallout will reach my part of the country and disaster cleanup is insufficient for both state and federal agencies at the varying levels required.

Back when atomic bomb testing was conducted in the Southwest desert of the United States, the fallout rained down as far as New Jersey, which is where I technically live and yes, it's a big deal to have to deal with an army in Hazmat Yellow.

Granted, they can only reach the West Coast. Hence the "if" on fallout.

This is going to be a tough Christmas. I really needed everything to be perfect since it is. So, I got up this morning and couldn't find my small gift for my daughter. I got her a gift card, but hate giving those, so I got something small to go with it. Now it's gone.

To top that off, I opened the box from Chewy that was supposed to have all the pet stockings in it. Nope, they doubled my monthly order instead. Great. I have a pack of toys under the seat of my car, but nothing for my son's animals.

Also, the car? My son still has it for repair. Six weeks I've been without it. So, nothing is wrapped cause I didn't buy wrapping paper. No one has Christmas candy.

And, oh year, my mother died earlier this year, so.......

yeah.

Nevertheless, I'm forever grateful for the Gift we were all given that we celebrate. This year, like no other before, Jesus is really the only reason for the season.

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas. May your days be merry and bright.

But this is not gonna happen. Those who lived during the Cold War remember very well the threat a nuclear war would bring about. Now there's no need to worry. Don't let anyone make you go nuts. Just live your life and take care of yourself. Otherwise, you'll go crazy.

Had a shitshow of a day.

Ended up ruining a project I worked on for so long.

Ate over the number of calories I am alloted in the day as my parents are starting me being reintroduced to smaller portions and water-only drinks like seltzer and aquifer water until the morning of the 8th of January. Then a new change or two is added to the regimen. It's a week or two at a time from what my parents knew about dieting sensibly.

Got unsolicited advice and vented about it because I hate people who give unsolicited advice. People who give unsolicited advice are like old women who tell old wives tales to a pregnant woman, thinking they're doing a service.

Truth is, they never do.

It irritates me to no end. My suggestions are for the short term, until something better comes in and BTW...I can't find the God damned eggs. I can make omelettes, but first I need to find the eggs. It's like playing Tetris in the Relativity house.

When people mistake suggestions for advice, and somehow thinks everything is about them...

And when people blow things out of proportions, especially when a certain someone I know gorges on candy and then gets mad when I get annoyed at them for commenting on the candy I've eaten during the holiday (which is probably a tenth of what they've stuffed in their mouth the past couple weeks). I don't think I've eaten less than this at Christmas the past 10 years or so, and it's still wrong? *grumbles*
What I did say was that the candy wrappers could probably be sorted as plastic (didn't even start out as a comment on the candy amount, but a trash thing, because we're supposed to sort the trash in more bins after new year), and she went to insta-fireworks mode. Seriously, she's got an issue

And that slightly sore throat. I really don't need it now

My father dropped a full glass of water on my Nintendo Switch. Great. I know my father has busted his ass to get the store in selling condition, but I felt incensed by his stone-handed, butter-fingered handling. It wasn't an isolated incident in the past few days.

He said he'd replace the system if he truly fucked it up.

I rather use my allowance.

Edit: He didn't turn it into an expensive paperweight but I dropped it when I FELL UP the stairs and luckily it didn't break.

I am not having a good Sunday. Besides, it takes a special type of klutz to fall up the stairs rather than down.

Fuck My Life, indeed

We went to the adoption event pre-approved, and there were plenty of dogs there, but we did not find *our* dog. We found a dog that I thought could be ours, but the rescue didn't think she'd do well in an apartment. I'm just feeling sad. I'm thankful I didn't tell my mother, it would feel worse to have to tell her that we didn't have a dog when she called to find out about which dog we got. Like a miscarriage. This way we can just feel sad as a family without having to mitigate other's emotions.

We got our dog from Petfinder which is an online site in The States. I saw several before we clicked with someone who ran a rescue with available dogs and was willing to allow a renter to adopt.. It was around this time of year-I remember picking her up a week after my birthday. There were no pounds near us so we had to go online. I remember being upset when this or that dog didn't work out.

As disappointed as you are, keep the faith. There is your special doggie out there. He or she will find you. Keep on trying. Good luck.

I'm well acquainted with pet finder, but they keep rubbing salt in the wound by emailing me and asking, "Did you adopt yet?" We're not renters, but there seems to be this thing about dog owners needing to have a yard around here which I don't understand. Is it a southern thing? Back home, we don't just leave dogs outside for long periods of time.

Yes, unfortunately. They like the dogs to have a yard to run around in because (apparently?) there are no parks in the USA and no one will take their dog on walks. We never had a yard in the 11 years we had our dog. Wait, we did when living with my parents but my dog was a "leashed" dog and never understood the concept of a yard. We never could really let her off the leash there thanks to their neighbor with the wacko dog who used to go insane and run back and forth when he saw her (we'd call him her boyfriend but it was a passive/aggressive relationship at best).

Do you have a certain dog breed in mind? Sometimes a smaller dog will be easier to adopt ("apparently less need for yard") than a bigger dog. After what nice people go through to get a rescue or adopted dog I don't blame some of them (though I am personally anti-breeder) for buying a puppy. I bet if you could get in touch with some more southern rescues you could get a dog. Ours was from North Carolina and they shipped her up to NH and we brought her back to Vermont. The lady fostering said "They treat dogs very badly down south."

I swear it's easier to buy a gun in Virginia than to adopt a dog in Maryland. If we'd wanted a pit bull we'd've adopted by now; all the shelters are full up with them, but I didn't click with any and the shelter experience was too overwhelming for me. My husband wants a running partner and I was raised with the idea that dogs get walked several times a day ingrained in me. I could probably even take a puppy because if the dog were to be walked every time I have to go drop a kid off or pick them up, they'd be walked 4 times a day. Add in the dog specific walks and we're up to 6 times a day. Conservatively, our hypothetical dog would be walking over 3 miles a day before we add in my husbands quick mile or three. But apparently a home with two adults, a 7 year old, a 3 year old, and a cat would not be stimulating enough for a herding dog without a large fenced yard. Seems to me that a dog kept in a yard instead of walked would soon develop a digging problem, a vendetta against squirrels, or an astonishing ability to escape. In terms of breed, I tend to like pointy faced fluffy dogs.

Tunafishfish--here's an article I just found:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...d-to-adopt-one/

And, yes, there are a whole lot of pitbulls. People over breed them or they rescue them from dog fighters and many people return them back to shelters. I am not against Pitbulls but I would not get one myself, though they might be good pets.

We were very lucky with our dog. My sister has gotten several shelter dogs and they have all had serious issues.

Well, still homeless and still looking for a new home so....

But hey, at least there's free WiFi everywhere.

You're homeless??????

Been there, went through that. It's simply awful. If you have kids or pets it is very draining and sad. I hope you find a home soon.

@smorbie1
Yep. Have been since Jan 6th. We're staying at a shelter that takes good care of it's clients and are in their program that gets you back in a home. Just takes a bit of time.
@HCAC
What I said above and - only one of the boys is with me...But he's an adult and my hope is that they help him get set up on his own. It's time, lol. We had to give up our KiKi but he at least got adopted right away so he's not sitting in a shelter waiting on a foster or a new home. (Actually.. his new humans were going to just foster him at first. When they saw him they decided to adopt.)

Okay...this happened last week.
I went grocery shopping with my father and I forgot my wallet and he covered the $30.

Now, my money is being reloaded and there's two problems.

My father wants me to pay back in one way so I don't have a constant deficit of $30 every month.

My mother, being from the "Stupid Should Hurt" school of thought, want the repayment paid out differently.

Argh! I wish I hadn't ran out the door and into the car like a cat at 3:00 AM.

Somebody kill me.

I just got back from the endocrinologist and I am a hot mess. The paper work I was handed said how much of a monster I was around food.

I also have to visit more doctors, take metformin, which, when I was on in a while back, it was of no effect.

Argh! I told him "No stomach banding!" I was a mess by the time I got home and now looking at the papers.

TMI but I've been having stomach issues recently. Anyway, today I had stomach pains so bad, that kept coming and going, that I was actually paranoid I was going to give birth or something. They were literally as painful as contractions. Which was kind of awkward at a fancy meal. I had to sit there and pretend I wasn't absolutely dying.

Writing warning to the parents of my students who skip classes regularly and missed 20 or more classes in January. The worst part was the declension of surnames. As a rule of thumb, surnames should be declined, but:
1) Some of them are indeclinable
2) some people don't want their surnames to be declined
3) there's a shit-ton of exceptions
4) foreign surnames can either be declined regularly, irregularly or not at all

Now make a decision to either decline a surname or not...

I have a shit-ton of blood tests awaiting me.
I am not shitting you, my blood draw ordered are 2 pages long.

I hate fasting blood draws.

*I can't drink anything but plain water and black coffee\tea.
*Taking my morning meds is straight up nasty if melting occured.
*I am pretty vicious in terms of hangry (and you wonder how I survived 10 days on a extremely low calorie diet.)

^ This....yep...I was so crabby yesterday waiting for mine, Panda Queen. Got home with a headache because my body needed coffee and food by 10:00 am (I was up early that morning). They took vials. I now have a lovely bruise on my arm I am trying to get rid of asap. I bruise v. easily thanks to low platelets. This fasting thing is just not normal. How often do people fast? Shouldn't they take your blood as it is? (sorry you had to go through all that).

my day was good till my face swelled up, i sneezing a lot while trying to pick up my nose and now my face looked like i was crying since i also had a dry eyes and teared up to my right eye
and i couldn't control them, i don't know what to do now, my eyes tears up often when they are dry, i only have them when it's warm or when i'm very exhausted

and now i has them during vacuuming, and i still have the symptoms i mentioned earlier, open the windows, taking fresh air and taking shower didn't helped, and now i don't know what to do
maybe seeing a doctor if i'm allergic to dust or so? idk but it sure ruined my day

Not a bad day. Went to mass. Got told to stop sinning. I wonder if playing the sims is a sin? What if there are mods? I don't know of any saint who played the sims....
I learned how to make a roast that isn't "Rubber Roast". Daughter said she liked it. Not sure if she's just saying that to be nice but it wasn't a bad roast; I felt it was too salty.
Wife and daughter doing a day thing; big fight getting out the door and I tried to keep out. Got Schrodinger the dog in my lap and it's nice and quiet.
I guess I stink. Wife has been spritzing me with this toilet spray that smells like it's labeled "The State of California has determined this may cause cancer". She does it when I'm sleeping, and it wakes me up because it is so horrid. Okay, hint taken. No, the house does not smell like you've been smoking (she smokes like a warehouse fire the house totally sinks of smoke), and I'm sorry I'm burning frankincense and you don't like it (I'm just amazed that she's complaining about it). My nose is sent deaf because of an infection I had as a kid. Maybe I stink. If I just invented a stinkinator I would know.
It must be pure hell to have to be nice and live with someone you don't like and think smells foul, just because you need the money. I kinda feel sorry for my wife sometimes.

As far as Saints go in terms of innovation, St. Claire was able to astral project herself from quite a considerable distance.

Modern day followers of saints say her domain was television as the root words mean "far sight\image" and this also stands true in German as Fernsehen (the German word for television) uses the same root terms for the compound that translates it literally.

Of course, I never really had bothered to ask if there was a saint of shepherds of polygonal people. Most likely, a canonization is imminent.

As for me, I was awake all night and haven't slept since waking up at 8:30PM last night. Prior to that I fell asleep after eating a plate of loaded baked potatoes in a mash and taking my night pills, some having a sedative effect. I only slept from 6:00PM~8:30PM.

I have been worrying about insane things about my future. When I finally stop seeing the doctors, I plan on getting a job that can accommodate my disability and work with my strengths. I also want to wear smaller clothes and do things beyond the routine.

But now, I'm strung out on nervous energy. I actually would hate to be part of an evil plot and a swarthy devilish man is satisfied with my results. He would shout: "Her energy level has reached its peak...come forth, Gun Yoh!" (Gun Yoh is a reference to the late Gunpei Yokoi who invented the Game Boy. I spent the past 3 days playing on a new Nintendo 3DS XL, a successor.)

I hate for it to turn into this:
Devil: Aren't you glad you're alive?
Frank (my neighbor): Yeah, So?
Devil: So, this next part will be all the more horrifying...

I need sleep... I messed up and I'm messed up.

Cleaning the back splash behind the grills at work today and I stood on one of the trivettes
Didn't realise that it had only just been turned off, so I stood on it and a couple of minutes later, I've got a lovely burnt pattern on the soles of one of my work boots

I want to go to Quebec and France, see where my ancestors live, drink wine, be 18 years old, marry a young french girl, have lots of little french kids, speak french and go to church.
I guess I go back to 1960, kidnap myself, and head back to the past. This is what I get for drinking red wine and watching french movies gets me. :-D

Yesterday, early afternoon: "I"m going to restart my Pokémon games... All of them.

Jean-Michel Cousteau: Six hours later... (Editor's note: I counted)

Me afterwards: I should have drank one of my caffeine shots. I don't care if I rocket to the moon and leave a hole big enough for manhole covers, gimme gimme gimme!

Never did Pokémon not only raise the ire and disgust I have for corporate zombiehood (sitting at desks performing commands) and bureaucracy (Having to write Kymchee a number of times like it's a packet of forms), but now remind me to stick to it to the end.

P.S. Jean-Michel Cousteau is Jacques Cousteau's son, one of the few children born from the union of Jacques and his wife that work in oceanography (I read he had a child from an extramarital affair and it lead to a fight upon Jacques' death on ownership of the Cousteau name.) Jean-Michel hosted a special feature for Finding Nemo's 2-disc collector's edition set released during Thanksgiving 2003. Of course, in true Pixar fashion, the overlaid animation of Nemo, Marlin and Dory would upstage some mundane parts.

My car got hit by a Ferrari. Rich assholes can't ever seem to drive the POS they waste money on.