Why does the mom have to plan and work so hard for mother's day?
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Why does the mom have to plan and work so hard for mother's day?
When people, almost 100% of the time coworkers, forget what they told you in a conversation and then backtrack, leaving you to look like the idiot. Thank God for e-mail - now wish I'd remember to use it more to CMA.
We really had to wrestle Mother's Day away from my Mother-in-Law this year!Quote:
Originally Posted by CathyA
It's pretty sad. At school males (at least teacher males) can take off some time, but it is unpaid, I believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stella
Also, no time off for adoption. Hmmmm.
Sorry you had to go through this, and hopefully everyone is recovering now, since I see this was a few weeks old.
Ok! Quick! Get me out of the peeve thread! I can be dangerous in here! :)
WHY do I have 4 types of peachy colored longiflorum-asiatic lilies without names!!!?????? ACK. I'm going to yank up one set of them, I swear, they are ugly anyway.
One of these days, a neighbor of mine is going to get the blow job of his life. He ran his effing yard vacuum for over an hour tonight at dinnertime. Some day I'm going to grab it out of his hand and put it where it will do the most good.
Oy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jemima
You know somebody has a twisted sense of humor when you hear "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones as background music in Safeway....
Cecilia (who can't figure out an appropriate smiley for this sort of wierdness)
How about this one, CeciliaW?
http://www.buddy-icons.info/img/smile/1787.gif
(Taking aim at the speakers emitting the music).
Do you mean the lyrics, "Cain't get no satisfaction? That's hilarious!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by CeciliaW
Just point, Mrs,-M, and I'll join you. The local Acme (Albertson's, or maybe Chubb Foods today - who knows?) is apparently being run by adolescents and I can barely stand being in the store due to the obnoxious and overly loud music.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs-M
I know it, Jemima. I've met the same a few times while shopping privately-owned clothing stores.
People who tell you they want something you posted on Freecycle and then never show up. Or in the case of the first person who asked for it, never emailed or called me back to make arrangements.
I am so over recycling. The rules seem to get more byzantine by the year: shredded paper goes in transparent bags in your recycling bin; shredded paper should be "layered" in your yard waste bin; styrofoam can be taken an hour or so's drive away; plastic bags can be bundled and deposited in your recycle bin; plastic bags should really be taken back to the store and put in a bin there; rules for the periodic neighborhood hazardous/miscellaneous waste seem to change with every scheduled event...So I have piles of used batteries, bins in every room for paper and cardboard, boxes with electronic gear waiting for the next pickup. It feels like a part-time job. Of course I'll carry on--I know I should appreciate that my community has a robust recycling system--and I do--and of course a partial solution is to buy less, but the whole process peeves me. It never ends.
I hear you on this. And it can be taken to extremes.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
Friday I got roped into helping clean out a lab that had belonged to a professor who retired. Someone decided that we must recycle all the glass and plastic containers he'd kept samples in. So as we were emptying these jars clouds of pecan shell dust and other crap was floating all in the air. No to mention having to handle the samples of actual pecans - from 1969, no less - that had to be rancid as hell. My sinuses went ballistic that night.
And there's still lots of jars to be emptied. >8) I'm pretty sure I'll have research to be done offsite the next couple of days.
Jane that is not very earth friendly of you.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
As I stand and sort and exercise my "awesome compacting ability" (that's DH's subtle dig at my excess poundage) on our household waste, it's kind of my zen moment. I do it mindfully and keep the bad ideas out of my head because really, I know that it has limited utility but there is little I can do about the actions of others. You think that my ghetto neighbors bother to separate green compost products from recyclables from "regular" garbage, let alone pull out #6 plastics from all of the others? Not bloody likely. Hell, I'm happy if they actually get throwaways in a receptacle of any kind, keeping it off of my garden. It's entirely unrealistic to expect them to sort according to any kind of schematic, no matter how "simple." Pigs.
In fairness, pigs recycle food scraps...Quote:
Originally Posted by Iris lily
LOL......yeah....don't give pigs a bad name. haha
I know this will make some of your skins crawl, (that doesn't sound right...haha) but I wish they would make recycling mandatory. I'll bet just a small fraction of people recycle.
I'm pretty compulsive about it.
There's been an interesting response to mandatory composting/recycling in Portland. Last fall they instituted a schedule where they'd only pick up Garbage every two weeks and but would pick up Compost every week. So of course now they're all up in arms about people putting Garbage in the Compost bins every week. Imagine that.Quote:
Originally Posted by CathyA
There are gremlins in our house! Every night before I go to bed, I make sure that the kitchen is tidy, that dirty dishes are either washed or placed in the dishwasher, that sinks are cleaned, counters wiped, etc. Same in the bathroom. Yet, when I get up in the morning, there are food containers, some with food in them on the counters, dirty dishes in the sink, cigarette ashes in sinks and on the stovetop and counters. Just the other morning I woke to find that the bathroom sink had sprouted a fur coat of beard trimmings! Ewwww!! I don't know how the other people in the house stand it! We have to stay up some night and see if we can catch this little creature, and put an end to this, and I don't really relish staying up all night, but I guess we will have to. It only takes a few minutes to clean up each mess, really, but my back hurts so badly that I hate to waste the little time I have before I have to quit cleaning each day cleaning up after the little monster that has no respect for the work I have already done. Now I am done with my rant, and I feel a little better. I'll report back when we have caught the culprit and tell you what mysterious place he comes from.
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Originally Posted by CathyA
It is mandatory in my city and surrounding cities. Here our garbage is picked up bi-weekly. Recycling bi-weekly-and we can put all recyclables in our blue bin-paper, plastic, etc.
Weekly we have a green bin pick up-that's organic matter-we are not permitted to put food scraps etc in our garbage, nor recycling in our garbage
Raccoons love green bins!
This is such a petty peeve, but I just have to get it out there into the universe. We just had our annual review cycle at work, and I got promoted. I have worked very hard during the 2 years since my last promotion, and I am very proud of my accomplishments. My peeve? In prior years, there has been an announcement email sent out to the office each year at this time, detailing the promotions. That didn't happen this year for some reason, and since it's really pretty strange to mention ones own promotion in casual conversation, I can't talk about it. I wanted my 15 minutes in the sun, dammit!
Kara
I'd be happy to send out that email for you, Kara! Of course the people on my email list would be very confused, but hey, I confuse them constantly anyway...
Congrats on your promotion!
My pet peeve? People who edit their own posts immediately, when they realize that they didn't actually respond to the thread topic - oh wait! Can I BE my own pet peeve? :~)
Well, no more Friday night social plans with DH's family. I am too crabby and tired on Friday nights to have the patience I need to have a good time with them. It takes a lot out of me to be with them. I just know that. And I am TERRIBLE about concealing my annoyance with people, no matter how hard I try. And I hate that about myself, but try as I may, I can't do it. But sometimes I do better than other times. And tonight I thought I did a pretty darn good job and had a good time and then I get home and DH informs me that maybe I need a nap. >:( Nice.
Kelli, if it makes you feel any better, my wife and I have long declined Friday night social plans with anyone. We were just too wiped from the week to really want to discharge the batteries some more by electing to be with people. Now it has to be a pretty special event that we can't move before we commit to a Friday night. There's no shame in taking care of yourself, and that is what you are doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by fidgiegirl
Well the cleaning crew is throwing away my walnuts again. :|( Ok course I was dumb enough to leave them on my desk yet again.
Another pair of pants ruined by lily pollen. Why can't I learn not to wear anything but black when I work with lilies????!!!! I really liked these Goodwill pants, too.
LOL. I read this before I was caffeinated and initially thought you had ruined your underpants. I was wondering what you could possibly have been doing to get lily pollen on your underpants. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Iris lily
My town hasn't made recycling mandatory, but there are recycling bins outside most homes on trash day. You see, trash *must* be put out in special trash bags that cost $1.35-$1.60. Recycling pick-up is free. So you can either pay to have your bottles, cans and cardboard hauled away, or have them taken away for free. Your choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by CathyA
Today's peeve:
Neighbors who act like they are the sole universe, and no one else matters.
One of the neighbors is marrying off their only child today, and have a number of out of town visitors staying with them, including some people who brought along their travel trailer. Before 9am, their next door neighbor (across from me) starts mowing the lawn, starting right next to where the travel trailer is parked (within 20 feet). You couldn't do the rest of the lawn, or start in the back? Did you maybe think that after a rehearsal dinner, people might want to sleep in?
Hey, I had to tell my husband that 8 or 9am on Sunday morning was too early to mow our urban yard. He had been up since 5 and could not understand why it was a problem.
Herbgeek, that seems to happen often out here in the western 'burbs of Chicago. At 7:00 or 8:00 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday mornings, you can expect to hear the sounds of lawnmowers, and leaf blowers in season. Now I realize that sometimes they are lawn care companies starting early (though not usually at 7 am), but really, You can't wait until most people are into their day before you start up that loud and obnoxious noise? Really?! It isn't really the sleep I miss (though I do miss it when I have worked the night before and am therefore into my "night), but what I really hate is the lack of a peaceful start to the day and the noisy intrusion on what is a time of prayer and contemplation for me. But it was pretty quiet this a.m., so I will now shut up.
Sweetana3, I have to shamefacedly admit that in my younger and more mischevious days I enjoyed getting up early on Sat. morning to mow the lawn, because my neighbors kept me up until 3 or 4 a.m. with their music. Back then, I felt that a little payback was in order. I have mellowed, slightly.
There would be (you know what) to pay if I were dealing with such!Quote:
Originally posted by Domestic Goddess.
There are gremlins in our house! Every night before I go to bed, I make sure that the kitchen is tidy, that dirty dishes are either washed or placed in the dishwasher, that sinks are cleaned, counters wiped, etc. Same in the bathroom. Yet, when I get up in the morning, there are food containers, some with food in them on the counters, dirty dishes in the sink, cigarette ashes in sinks and on the stovetop and counters. Just the other morning I woke to find that the bathroom sink had sprouted a fur coat of beard trimmings! Ewwww!!
Well, normally I would just let them have it, but dd gets very defensive about dsil if I get a little upset. Then she chronicles every time in my life that I left anything sitting anywhere. It just really isn't worth it. So I am just going to quit cleaning up after them. If I can't cook because the dishes are dirty, so be it. If people come over and see the fur coat on the bathroom sink, I hope they are embarassed. That's just the way it is going to have to be.
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Originally Posted by domestic goddess
I had a moment of guilt this morning, mowing at 9.00 am because I feel the same, but then like Domestic Goddess, my neighbors are truly inconsiderate with their music and noise and late hours. Hmmmm. oops! But I don't make a habit of it.
By the sounds of it, my neighbor is coupling and uncoupling boxcars, or perhaps stacking sheet metal. I was hoping rain would keep things quiet around here today. But alas.
Just seeing this now, but thanks, early morning! I think I may be over this peeve by now...but I definitely appreciate the congratulations.Quote:
Originally Posted by early morning
Today's peeve? The ongoing one of my who has been nothing but trouble since she was hired 3 months ago (attitude and skills issues), and now she suddenly has job-related repetitive stress injuries. *sigh*
Kara
Today's peeve: tradespeople who schedule to meet you days in advance and then show up early. Not at the beginning of the time they said they would be there; 20 minutes early. -1 point for this contractor....