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Abby7

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 08:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Reader: So sorry to hear that you are going through this now.

I hate to say this..but, yeah, life does suck at times. Please, continue to gripe here! I think MANY of us know what you are feeling (some of us, I'm sure have experienced it)...but gripe all you want.

I want to hear it and send you good wishes and hugs! Things WILL get better! I wish I could tell you when...I can't.

Just know, it will! support to you, reader.

Twinkie

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 08:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
{{{Reader}}} I know how bad life can suck sometimes. But I have found that things get easier. Whether easier cause it GETS better or easier cause you can DEAL with it better. Keep your head up honey. We aren't given more than we can handle. It just seems like it sometimes.

Ddr1135

Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 03:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
{{{Reader}}} Things will get better. We all go through times like that. Right now money is tight for me too. But I have to realize I put a roof over my child's head, even if it took all my cash, I provided that for him.

Not1worry

Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 12:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am sick and tired of people telling me how lucky the families of the deployed soldiers are. I know in WWII,Vietnam, etc., there was no email or phone calls. I KNOW that. But it is not in the least comforting to hear it! I only get one phone call a week, maybe. For 15 minutes, and the kids need to talk to their dad also. So I usually get around 5 minutes, which isn't enough time to really communicate. I ask him does he need anything, tell him to be careful and tell him I love him.

Just yesterday my dad tells me, "Well, you know when Judy's husband was in 'Nam, she didn't hear from him for 3 months." I don't give a crap about Judy or her husband. I wasn't even complaining about my husband not calling, Dad just brings this up like it helps.

He's gone, it sucks, I just want a little understanding!

Gripe over.

Abbynormal

Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 01:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I give you my complete understanding Not1worry. I only get to see my DH about once a month although I do talk to him daily. I can't imagine not seeing him for months on end, especially being in a high risk situation as your DH is. If I were in your shoes I wouldn't give a crap about how lucky people thought you were either. :)

Reader234

Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 03:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
{{{not1worry}}} Good for you for standing up and admitting your feelings.

{{{Abby}}}} I loved your story in the roadtrip!! I love Gaitlinburg too!!

Thanks for the {{HUGS}} and the positive wishes. I have to admit I'm very embarrassed I posted, and overwhelmed by the {{HUGS}} thank you... I needed that!!

Twinkie

Saturday, November 01, 2003 - 07:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OK I have a major gripe. As if our situation wasn't bad enough, a few months ago we got a notice in the mail that our home was in violation of city codes. WHAT??? Our home is beautiful! One of the nicest in the city! So we ignored it. Then recently we got another notice for the same thing!! AHHHH This time they included pictures. And guess what? Its not even our house!! The totally inept housing inspector got the right house number but not the right street. DUH! So now I am going to give them a great opportunity to save their hide. Monday I will call their office and ask to speak with the director. IF I don't get to speak to the director to tell him how inept his inspector is I will promise the secretary (or whoever I get) that I will go public and call the media. Since there are local elections coming up that would sure put a black eye on their department. Can you tell I've had just about enough crap from everyone???

Whew! I feel better just ranting!

Thank you so much! Twinkie has left the building!

Ophiliasgrandma

Saturday, November 01, 2003 - 09:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Twinkie, just be thankful they didn't declare you dead. I hear that's a real can of worms to untangle.

Twinkie

Saturday, November 01, 2003 - 09:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OG, that happened to my mom about 7 years ago!!! OMG what a nightmare that was!

Ophiliasgrandma

Saturday, November 01, 2003 - 10:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I cannot conceive how horrible it must be to have your identity stolen. They keep reporting on this on the news. These poor people have to live through hell for a while.

Hippyt

Thursday, November 13, 2003 - 12:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
FILE LOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone join me in screaming FILE LOCK!!! KILL FILE LOCK,KILL,KILL!!!!

Squaredsc

Thursday, November 13, 2003 - 12:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
FILE LOCK, KILL, KILL, KILL!!!

is that ok?

Hippyt

Thursday, November 13, 2003 - 12:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes! Very good!

Texannie

Thursday, November 13, 2003 - 12:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I got this in am email, not sure if it should be here or in the menopause thread..i thought it was hysterical!

We start to "bud" in our blouses at 9 or 10 years old only to find anything that comes in contact with those tender, blooming buds hurts so bad it brings us to tears. Enter the uncomfortable training bra contraption the boys in school will snap until we have calluses on our backs.
>
Next, we get our periods in our early to mid-teens (or sooner). Along with those budding boobs, we now bloat, we cramp, we get the hormone
crankies, have to wear little mattresses between our legs or insert tubular,packed cotton rods in places we didn't even know we had.
> Our next little rite of passage (premarital or not) is having sex for the first time which is about as much fun as having a ramrod push your
uterus through your nostrils (IF he did it right and didn't end up with his little cart before his horse), leaving us to wonder what all the
fuss was about.
> Then it's off to Motherhood where we learn to live on dry crackers and water for a few months so we don't spend the entire day leaning over Brother John. Of course, amazing creatures that we are (and we are), we learn to live with the growing little angels inside us steadily kicking
our innards night and day. Our once flat bellies now look like we swallowed a watermelon whole and we pee our pants every time we sneeze.
When the big moment arrives, the dam in our blessed Nether Regions will invariably burst right in the middle of the mall and we'll waddle with our big cartoon feet moaning in pain all the way to the ER. Then it's huff and puff and beg to die while the OB says, "Please stop screaming,
Mrs. Hearmeroar. Calm down and push. Just one more (or 10) good push," warranting a strong, well-deserved impulse to punch the jerk (and
hubby) square in the nose for making us cram a wiggling, mushroom headed 10lb bowling ball through a keyhole.

> After that, it's time to raise those angels only to find that when all that "cute" wears off, the beautiful little darlings morph into
walking,jabbering, wet, gooey, snot-blowing, life-sucking little poop machines. The teen years. Need I say more? The kids are almost grown
now and we women hit our voracious sexual prime in our mid-30's to early 40's while hubby had his somewhere around his 18th birthday (which
just happens to be the reason all that early hot man sex got you pregnant in the first place).

> Now we hit the grand finale: "The Menopause," the Grandmother of all womanhood. It's either take the HRT and chance cancer in those now
seasoned "buds" or the aforementioned Nether Regions, or sweat like a hog in July, wash your sheets and pillowcases daily and bite the head
off anything that moves.

> Now, you ask WHY women seem to be more spiteful than men when men get off so easy INCLUDING the icing on life's cake: Being able to pee in the
woods without soaking their socks...

> Now I love being a woman but "Womanhood" would make the Great Ghandi a tad crabby. Women are the "weaker sex"? Yeah right. Bite me.
>

Midlifer

Thursday, November 13, 2003 - 01:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tex, how did they know my life story?

Landi

Thursday, November 13, 2003 - 01:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
THANKS TEX!! that was awwwwesome!!! i'm saving that story for the next time i'm having one of those days when he says... "had a bad day?"

Texannie

Thursday, November 13, 2003 - 02:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Glad ya'll liked it!

Secretsmile

Friday, November 14, 2003 - 09:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OK..major rant here! My daughter just called, she fell down the stairs and sprained her knee. She was upset that she fell, but STEAMING mad that her boyfriend of 3 years was with her, and didn't stop to help her up or take her to the emergency room because he wanted to get a head start on a end of semester project.

I know I can't choose my children's friends or S.O.s but there is no doubt in my mind that too many young people deserve the bad reputation they get. I had to bite my tongue so as not to blast his behavior, but was relieved to hear her say that she deserves better treatment than this, and told him so.

I realize we aren't supposed to hit our children, but I know if one of my son's behaved in such a manner I'd cuff them. (Not that I can actually reach the top of their heads, but you know what I mean)

Mamie316

Friday, November 14, 2003 - 09:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Secret... I know exactly what you mean. Before I had kids, I would see these rude young people and I would say "My kids will never behave like that!" And I'm glad to say they don't. Some kids have no respect for anything or anybody and that just irks me to no end. And I know what you mean about not being able to reach the top of your sons head , mine is 6'8"!

Midlifer

Friday, November 14, 2003 - 09:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
SS, I feel for you. At least your daughter has some sense. My daughter dated a total LOSER a few years back, and I had to bite my tongue to not say anything, otherwise she'd go the other way (she gets that from her mom..lol)...ANYWAY, she finally came to her senses, and married a great guy back in the Spring, one I'm happy to call my son-in-law.

Mamie316

Friday, November 14, 2003 - 10:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My daughter is only 18 and dating a guy that is just okay. He really is kind of blah and she is just the opposite. I've talked to her about it and she just says "Mom, I'm not going to marry him or anything!" Sometimes I wish I could have been more like her at her age! I wasn't which makes me mad when I think of it now!

Secretsmile

Friday, November 14, 2003 - 10:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, thank you for giving me hope! I am begining to think that I live in a time warp.

I know my sons have better manners than some of their peers, but I am still shocked when confronted by rudeness in some young people.

Don't you agree that your children appreciate knowing the proper behavior in certain social situations? I think it helped with their self confidence, and it really didn't take all that much effort on my husband's and my part.

Mamie316

Friday, November 14, 2003 - 10:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I totally agree. You lead the way and they follow. I was raised to respect my elders and have always acted that way. My kids will stand and give their seat to someone. They still always hug and kiss their older relatives hello and goodbye. They are good listeners. I see them and I have hope for the next generation. I do have to say that most of their friends are the same way with only a few exceptions and those don't usually stay around for long!

Secretsmile

Friday, November 14, 2003 - 10:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL, Mamie, just had to share this little tidbit. My daughter just im'ed me and told me she put her boyfriend on probation, LOL. He has until Thanksgiving to show her at least as much consideration as he shows himself, and if he doesn't, he can't come home with her for the holiday but can spend it alone rethinking his commitment!

I'm having myself quite the gigglefest here! She's only 19, what power our girls have these days huh?

Midlifer

Friday, November 14, 2003 - 11:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
And it's power for the good, SS. My 20 year old told her roommate's boyfriend, in NO uncertain terms, that he was NOT allowed in her apartment because my daughter firmly believes that this boy (emotionally) abuses her roommate. She even had him thrown out when he did enter the apt. I also taught both of my daughters to NOT be afraid to hit a guy "where it hurts" if he ever lays a finger on them. They would, believe me.