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The TVClubHouse: Archives: 2004 January - Arpil: The Grouching Thread, Pleasent People Keep Out (ARCHIVES): Archive through March 25, 2004 users admin

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Heyltslori
Member

09-15-2001

Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 12:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
<Keeps close eye out for Juju until Hippy is out of puppy-kicking mood>

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 10:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Lori. Perhaps we could just remind Hippyt of her last vacation, and she might be a bit happier not to go on vacation and get a new wax ring instead.

Hippyt
Member

09-10-2001

Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 10:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
grrrrrrrrrrr

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Friday, March 19, 2004 - 12:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
... or not ...



Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Friday, March 19, 2004 - 12:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Grumble, grumble.

grumble grumble grumbly grumble.

grouch grumble blah.

This is how I feel. And my shoulders are sore.

Grumble.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Friday, March 19, 2004 - 11:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Maybe if your feet weren't so big, Yankee, your shoulders would hurt even more.

Eliz87
Member

07-30-2001

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 - 10:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okay, so I'm a little bit irked today.

As some of you know, we are trying to sell our house and are relocating to upstate New York. In the meantime, I have a 19-month-old and a one-month-old. So it's not as if I'm not a little bit stressed already... (Nice stress, but STRESS nonetheless!!) Anyway...

Someone came to look at our house this morning, commented on how cute MY babies are, and then proceeds to say, "Oh, do you babysit? Or are they your grandchildren?"

FRIGGIN FRACKIN FREAK!! I'm ONLY 33 years old!!!! Would it be totally out of the question for these to be MY CHILDREN (like THEY ARE)? What is it? Do I look way older than my years? Do I look so hideous that I give off the impression that no one would ever think of impregnating me????

OMG What is WRONG with people??

It probably wouldn't bother me, but this is the SECOND time I've been asked if these were my grandchildren. The first time it was a 16-year-old girl who asked me so that didn't bother me ALL that much because doesn't everyone look old when you're that young? But THIS was a 52-year-old woman that asked!!!! And then she was all, "Well, I'm not saying you look old, but I had mine when I was 20 and now at 52 I have five grandchildren..." And first to assume that I'm their babysitter!!!! UGH!

Mamie316
Member

07-08-2003

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 - 12:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Eliz, I've seen your picture and you do not look like you could be your kids' grandmother. Some people are idiots, just look at it that way!

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 - 1:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Eliz, you didn't tell them they were your sibs?

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 - 4:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
{{{Eliz}}} Just chalk it up to the fact that people are ignorant. You could always just LOL right in their face and come up with something clever to say that will embarrass them!

On a side note, I know someone who really was a grandmother at 32!

Eliz87
Member

07-30-2001

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 - 8:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh thank you so much. I knew I could count on you all for a kind word. Okay...the lady WAS kind of weird. Our house was originally a two-room schoolhouse and was built in 1880 (of course it's been improved since then, but still...), and the very first thing she asked was whether we had any ghosts. LOL Suffice it to say that she was just a little bit off-the-wall. (And in case you're wondering, no...no ghosts that I'm aware of!)

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 - 9:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, Eliz. Maybe you could get a t-shirt that says, I Live Here. That is just bizarre.

Mware
Member

09-14-2001

Wednesday, March 24, 2004 - 8:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
No, no, no Eliz. The correct answer to whether you have ghosts is "Of course we do, but we sent them away until after the closing."

Mamie316
Member

07-08-2003

Wednesday, March 24, 2004 - 8:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"We don't have ghosts , we have visitors."

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, March 24, 2004 - 9:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Juju, I'm on the road, so I just saw your response to me about my big *ss feet! You're so funny! (In actuality, my feet are a size 9 1/2, so they're not like gargantuan huge, but they are on the big side!) You're hilarious.

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I came in here to b*tch a bit about people. Specifically my parents.

Both of my parents are ill, and both have had major surgeries in the past little while -- my dad's 2 1/2 weeks ago, and my mom's on Monday. My dad is still feeling bad, and of course my mom is in the thick of feeling completely miserable.

She's been home since yesterday, and is completely wrapped up in being furious at my dad for not being proactive about taking care of her, getting her stuff, etc. Which he, to be honest, ISN'T really doing because 1) he stil feels bad himself from his surgery, 2) he has me here to help her out, and 3) he's a man and doesn't seem to have that caregiver instinct in him. (I know I'm being stereotypical, but he is a stereotype sometimes :-))

But my mom really has an attitude and says really nasty things to him (or loud enough for him to hear) whenever I'm helping her, because she thinks he should be the one doing it, or at least offering to do it.

But when he DOES go to help her, she gets angry too and snaps at him to "forget it" and says things like "leave it alone. I know you don't want to do it anyway." Of course then he gets mad and angry and says nasty things back and he's also angry that she doesn't realize that he hurts too. But they both do nothing but lob insults back and forth at each other, and I'm stuck in the middle trying to take care of them both.

I've tried to calmly talk to each of them individually and explain that they're both on edge because they feel bad, and that maybe they should both try to let it roll off their backs a little, but they're both so angry and stubborn that they just got mad at me.

So I'm just calmly helping them both out with a smile on my face, trying to help them stay out of each others' hair, smoothing over the "issues" they have with each other, etc. But it's driving me completely MAD!!! And because I am being calm and happy and supportive and helpful with them, I wanted to vent it here in the GROUCHING thread!!!

Thanks very much. Whew...

Secretsmile
Member

08-19-2002

Wednesday, March 24, 2004 - 10:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
((((Yankee)))) Caregivers have the worse jobs in the world. Vent away, then put them to bed, poor yourself a big glass of wine, put your feet up, and promise yourself you'll never be that way!

Now, I on the other hand, after years of hospital nursing have taken notes on all the most obnoxious behaviors I've seen and plan to use them on my children when I'm old enough to plead dementia!

My favorites are pinching young boys on the butt when they are trying to help me outta my chair, and getting nekkie in public places so everyone has to look at my prune butt.

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 1:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
As a caregiver to my mom, I can totally relate Yank. Mom gets pretty snippy with me too. Maybe it has something to do with having to be taken care of.

Just have to say....DON'T go pour yourself a glass of wine (sorry Secret). When Mom had her first miscarriage many moons ago, a doctor told her to pour herself a glass of wine at night to calm her down and help her sleep. FF approx 50 years, and Mom is an alcoholic, smoking stroke victim. And I'm left to keep her alive every night when she's too drunk to walk straight, or make sure she doesn't pass out with a cigarette in her hand.

Mygetaway
Member

08-23-2000

Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 3:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yankee..are you sure you're not at my house by mistake??? LOL.. Geesh, that sounds like how it's been around here lately. I hate myself for how I've treated DH the last few weeks as he's been recouping from his surgery. It IS very hard. And I agree with Who, too.. I think it has to do with "having" to be cared for in the first place.

He's the only one I can vent to, but then when he tries to vent to me, I take it personally and think I'm being too much of a burden. So then he feels like he can't say anything at all. Grr...crazy

Hang in there and just keep giving them love.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yankee, pray for when your feet go to a size 10. Mine were 9-1/2 for a while, and it was a major pain in the toe because they don't make many shoes in 9-1/2. For some reason it skips from 9 to 10. Now I wear a 10, and I am much happier.

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 8:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Secretsmile, Whoami and Mygetaway. I appreciate your support! :-) Hasn't gotten any better today (gotten worse in fact), but I'm still hanging in there and being outwardly calm. I had to go to client meetings today, so at least I got out of the house for a few hours.

And Juju, I'm with you. I went shoe shopping not so long ago and I swear not one shoe I wanted to try on was in stock in a 9 1/2. I got so frustrated, I almost asked the salesperson to just tell me what they DID have in a 9 1/2, and I'd see if there was anything there I liked! LOL It's so weird to me that people don't stock 9 1/2s -- it's a legitimate size, as 9s are definitely too tight and 10s are huge (wide) on me -- sometimes I get lucky and get a 10 narrow which seems to work, though those are as hard to find as 9 1/2s.

I can't believe I'm talking about my feet so much! I must be crazy!

Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 8:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have a 9 1/2 size foot and the only shoes that fit me are 9 west. I swear by them.

Yankee_in_ca
Member

08-01-2000

Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 8:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's funny, Maris, because on the shopping trip I mentioned, the shoes I ended up getting were 9 West!

Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 8:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
There ya go!!!

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 8:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
my 13 year old,5'3" daughter has a size 10 foot. they look huge on her. she's only a size 3 for clothes. i only have a size 6 1/2 foot.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, March 25, 2004 - 9:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yankee, I think it was during my 9-1/2 phase that I discovered SAS shoes. They are rather ugly, or maybe I should say utilitarian, but they are WONDERFUL shoes. They are all hand sewn. You can put a pair on the very first day and walk ten miles in them and not have a blister. They have TWO sizes of narrow. My feet seemed to always fall right between narrow and medium. Narrow was too tight, medium too sloppy. SAS has an S (Slim) and an N (Narrow), with S being the narrowest. I wore a 9-1/2 N. It was just perfect.

They are not sold online just yet, but their stores seem to be expanding nationwide. You will also find SAS brand in expensive shoe stores. If your work ever takes you to Texas, there will be many SAS Factory Outlet stores in whatever major city you are visiting.

Ebay seems to have a lot of them too, I guess because they are expensive shoes. You can go over there and look just to see what the styles look like. There will be a fair representative of every style for sale most likely. Enter sas 9 n in the search box, which will also bring up 9-1/2's.

Heh. Or I can check my closet and see if I have any 9-1/2's that I never wore but can't bear to part with, and I can bring them to Vancouver next time you are home. LOL.

Edit: I should warn you that some of the sytles are really old-lady orthopedic types, but some of the others are passable, especially for wearing with slacks. I usually wore the loafer types called Softie and Kiltie. And some of the sandals are just fine.