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The TVClubHouse: Archives: 2004 January - Arpil: The Grouching Thread, Pleasent People Keep Out (ARCHIVES): Archive through January 29, 2004 users admin

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Reader234

Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 12:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OMH!!!

If its the grouching thread, are we allowed to {{{HUG}} GAL? Are we allowed to send + + + +positive + + + vibes her way to try and help get over the bumpy road she's traveling on???

Thank goodness it was just YOU in the accident? Gal, I hope you know a chiropractor that can help smooth out the bumps too, my friend's stepfather was a chiropractor, and even tho I wasnt injured in my accident, he pointed out and soothed out spots I had no idea!! Take Care!! Get pampered! (and stop taking it out on others!! Say it like you mean it!!)

Sasman

Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 12:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
{{{{GAL}}}}

Need a good lawyer?

Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 12:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks for the hugs Midlifer, Reader and Sasman - before I hire a lawyer to sue myself, I think I need to just go with Colossus' plan for our future - open a shoeshine stand on a beach down in the Bahamas. I don't think I was injured at all, Reader, but I also know how those things go - you only really find out later. This crapping weather just won't let up - wet and icy this morning and the back end of my car got away from me. It's been pouring ever since, too, just to enhance my shitty mood. Colossus is handling the auto repair issue, and my body doesn't seem to be damaged, but my feelings are pretty hurt. It'd be one thing if I'd been doing anything at all to cause the accident, but I was just moseying along being careful because of the conditions and this is what I get. I should have just stayed the crap in bed.

Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 1:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Got the damage estimate. $1300. Anyone got some lexipro to spare?

Luvmyjrt

Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 2:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
{{{{GAL}}}} -- screw the Lexapro and head straight to Xanax! Sorry it was such a bad day for you! (Did you and Colossus "make up"?) I'm having a crap day too! I've worked for the same company for 17 years, have always loved my job and can thankfully do it with my eyes closed. I was asked to transfer to another branch and -- well, I hate it! The people are nice and all, but it's just not the branch I was at for the first 16 months of moving here! Whhhhhaaaaaaa! Not really a way to "transfer back" since that's corporate suicide! Life sucks sometimes!

Tishala

Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 3:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
GAL, that sucks. I HATE accidents, especially when I can't blame them on someone else! As long as your car is already damaged, it might be a good idea to kick it just once and show it who's boss.

Eliz87

Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 1:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Christina Aguilera's "Fighter" brought this on. Where do these talented people get off making out like their lives have been so frigging difficult?

Oh yeah, I bet it really SUCKED winning talent shows and being on the Mickey Mouse Club and having people write songs for you, being in magazines, wearing expensive clothes, getting your hair and makeup done for you, etc.

I'm not saying that I think fame is all wine and roses, but it sure can't be a humdrum existence!

Sasman

Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 2:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My contract is not being renewed and my last day on this job is 12/31. That sucks at this time of the year!

Goddessatlaw

Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 2:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, Sasman - I'm so sorry. {{{{{{{Sasman}}}}}}}} Tell them to screw off and go find a better job.

Sasman

Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 3:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks GAL - first of all I could use a little vacation time; secondly there seems to be a lot more jobs in my field then there have been for quite some time. So I am not all that sad but it always comes as a little kick in the ass no matter what the circumstances.

Tishala

Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 10:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yesterday I bought a BIG prime rib to roast at a friend's Christmas dinner...now, I'm not a huge meat eater and I don't even celebrate Christmas, but I'm sorta known as the Martha Stewart in my circles, so I decided to do a good deed for the holidays.

I go to Whole Foods to get the meat and it cost me a small fortune because everyone on Los Angeles is on either the Atkins diet or the SOuth Beach diet, so they are eating up cattle herds as far away as Papau New Guinea and the markets can charge whatever they want. This thing cost me almost $100...

and then we get the "mad cow" warning yesterday. And now the prices of beef are bottoming out. And some people have expressed reservations about eating the beef. So if I had waited a DAY, I could have gotten this crap cheaper BY FAR and I probably wouldn't have bought it because nobody would want to eat it. I am very, very angry. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Fruitbat

Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 12:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
:) >>>eating up cattle herds as far away as Papau New Guinea<<<

They will eat it, just you watch.

Danzdol

Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 1:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ugh! Tonight I am going to my FIL's for dinner. The thing is he remarried a Venezuelan woman, who I like BUT she has this custom tohave dinner very very very late. Last year we all got there at 7pm and did not have dinner until midnight!!!!!!

So, my FIL calls that "just to let us know" dinner will be at around 10:30pm -11pm tonight.

I HATE that. It might sounf pety but that means that after our lunch today we will be on small snacks until the big dinner OR if we have dinner beforehand then we won't be hungry for tonight's dinner. It makes no sense. It's bad to eat so heavy at that time as well.

They do it because they like to open gifts at midnight so they make dinner as close to midnight as possible.

At least they told us about it ahead of time unlike last year when we were all so hungry that we were in a bad mood. There were even no appetizers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Zules

Friday, December 26, 2003 - 2:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Very rare occasion for me and I didn't think I'd ever come to this thread but....

I AM GROUCHY!

I cannot believe I am at work today! What the hell am I doing here?!? The phone only rang 3 times all day. All of them calling my boss (who is not here today) to wish him a Happy Birthday. There was no mail, not one single fax even! Oh, how I hate working for other people!

I'm looking forward to the day the economy picks back up and my clients can once again afford me then I can quit this crap!

Okay, thanks for listening. I'm done now and I'm leaving. They can fire me for all I care, I can't stay here another minute.

Talk to you guys on Monday! Have a great weekend fellow grouchers!

Oregonfire

Friday, December 26, 2003 - 10:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am perma-grouchy. I haven't been around for a while, but I've had some major life upheavals:

I moved back across country *again* to live in my sister's effin' basement. I make almost nothing teaching online. My car died tonight and my sister made me feel like I should be friggin' grateful she even came to get me HOURS later. Then it died *again" and now it's on the side of the highway. I want to set fire to it and call it a day.

I'm moving shortly to NYC to get some semblance of a life going on. If I can't get work there, then I'm out of ideas. I'm bitter, bitter, bitter.

Mygetaway

Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 2:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Glad to see you around Oregonfire, but I'm sorry things are sucky right now.
Hope they pick up for ya soon. Sometimes it seems like when you're down, you just keep getting bombarded, huh? Been there... a lot recently.

Good Luck in New York!!!

Whoami

Saturday, January 03, 2004 - 5:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think people should be banned from walking on my sidewalk until I have a chance to go out and shovel. All those darned compressed footprints are impossible to shovel up!

Also think Mom should be whipped for planting things in the border that either act as springs and toss the snow right back onto the sidewalk; or hide under the snow just waiting for the exact moment I go to lift the snow-filled shovel...only to snag a corner of the shovel and dump the whole load right back onto the sidewalk!

Can you tell I had to shovel today?

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, January 03, 2004 - 8:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Whoami, I shoveled too. Everything hurts. Well, not really everything, but oddly enough, my thumbs hurt from gripping the shovel somehow, and my neck hurts from lifting heavy snow.

Ktbb

Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 6:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have a complaint and it looks like its the right place to complain. I am so tired of fighting with my significant other. It's bad enough that we seem to fight all the time anyway, but 9 times out of ten it's about my kids. She refuses to grow up and take the high road and whatever my 14 year old does she does right back!! It is always placing me in the middle all the time. I'm so stessed out that I've had 4 migraines in the past week and I've had a constant head ache for 10 days now. It is driving me slowly crazy!

Mocha

Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 6:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm sorry Ktbb. I really have no advice to give you but feel free to vent and get it out.

Ktbb

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 12:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks for your support Mocha. I've calmed down now and things are better.

Mocha

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 - 5:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You're welcome Ktbb and glad things are better for you.

Goddessatlaw
Member

07-19-2002

Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 2:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
White. White. Ice. White. White. Snowplow. White. White. Ice. White. White. Salt. Molasses. Snowplow. White. White. White. Cold. Cold. Freezing. Cold. Colder. No salt or molasses, it's too cold. White. White. Ice. No snowplow yet. Pretty much sums up my week. More white on the way. Is this ever supposed to stop?

Tabbyking
Member

10-06-2002

Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 2:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
having a terrible time. it's hard to parent long-distance. ds is having an impossible time in one of his classes, has been not sleeping, eating, told me sometimes he thinks he might just kill himself...and the advisor for his major won't let him drop the class 'just because you are failing it'.
ds realizes EE is not the major for him. the advanced calc and computer science courses are way beyond him. the computer science class is supposedly 'beginning intro to java', but son said it's like walking into a class where the professor speaks a foreign language. on the labs, you get all or nothing. ds has worked through the night 'til my brain is mush' and can't get the labs right, so gets 'nothing'.
how do you make an advisor realize this is way beyond wanting to drop a class late because you are 'failing' it? ds is an emotional/physical mess right now and i am right there with him in the mess department.
at this point, i am ready to just drive down there and bring him home...but the advisor could make things so much better if she would just let him drop this class, take the administrative probation for being below 12 units this quarter, and letting my son switch majors.
all i can do is pray and cry.

and what's even harder is that, because ds has turned 18, he has to handle this on his own.

Zules
Member

10-29-2003

Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 3:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Awwwww, {{{{{Tabby}}}}}. I'm so sorry about what's going on with your ds. Are you saying that you can't talk to his advisor because he's turned 18? If that's the way it is, it's a real shame, maybe you could talk some sense to her.

Good luck, I'll be praying right along with you.