You go, DG. You aren't the maid, anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by domestic goddess
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You go, DG. You aren't the maid, anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by domestic goddess
It's. so. hot.
Today was supposed to be the cool day :( It's hotter than any of the others!!!!
After cat-sitting for a friend for the past three nights, I am rethinking my desire of getting another cat, as for the past three nights kitty has awakened me in the middle of the night with his constant yowling, just for the sake of hearing his own voice. I can hear him through ear plugs, a closed bedroom door, and a fan in the window on medium speed. Sorry kitty, tonight you will be banished two floors down to the basement.
Having a companion animal is--or should be--a lifetime commitment. Like children, they can be expensive and annoying. They bring with them their own personalities and quirks. For all your little charge knows, he's been forever abandoned by a loved one. I think your impulse not to get a cat is a sound one.Quote:
Originally Posted by SiouzQ.
Not if SiouzQ makes a lifetime commitment to her cat. If she loves her cat she will be able to deal with the issues. Most cats don't have issues anyway. Don't know that that cat's history is but it's possible it just misses its owner and is mourning. Maybe when the owners are there Kitty never yowls.
I have a very lovely cat who is very sweet and very affectionate but she is needy and constantly wants to be petted. But I deal with it. My dog is a barker. And a digger. But I love them both and have made a lifetime commitment to them so whatever issues come up, we will work through them even if that only means me learning to accept the issues.
Once you learn to love your kitty you'll be ok being patient as you work on any problems that arise.
Plus, you know how many kitties need homes.
I would advise you getting a young kitten (6-8 weeks) when you do get a cat.
Good luck, whatever you decide.
On Saturdays, I usually bring home a "treat" for lunch--I went two different places and both were running late with opening, so weren't ready to serve :(. I had ice cream in the trunk, so I only had so much time for errands... Also, my Internet has been in and out for days. I have a back-up in place, but it's expensive and not nearly as good bandwidth.
For people for whom "organic" produce is important, why don't you learn what that term it means? No the local farmers are not automatically "organic." No DH's garden produce is not "organic." It's pretty unlikely that you are going to find certified "organic" at most fresh produce venues.
Political &/or religious posts on Facebook. I don't care what your belief/persuasion is - you can't have a reasonable discussion there.
Facebook in general. Although it can be useful for keeping up with old friends, and former classmates, it can also be a big time-suck and a source of misunderstandings. I deactivated my account today, when I realized that I was getting ready to respond to someone's post with an argument. Totally stupid, and not the place to do it. I'll probably get around to deleting my account altogether, when I have more time.
I wonder if we're the only nation in the northern hemisphere that doesn't get a summer?
I'll trade you ours...Quote:
Originally Posted by mira
^ let's meet in the middle :) Give me 10C of your heat, and we'll call it even!
You can have mine, too. Southeastern Pennsylvania looks like the scenery for a day after doomsday movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by mira
Hehe, I'll pass you over some of the torrential rain as well :)
My next door neighbor's obsession with power tools for every single task (can't SWEEP the driveway, which looks perfectly clean to me, must use a loud gadget to blow the thin dust layer off). Eek. And he's retiring. Double eek. Better than the last people with the dogs chained out in the snow barking, I suppose.
The MAll! Almost one giant peeve. But I will limit it to:
1) Whne did the mall become completely boring? (except for Anthropologie)
Oh a speaking of shipping, I took DH to a real store to buy new clothes for his high school reunion, to JC PEnney's. I like Penneys anyway, and I like their new marketing approach, limited "Sales"
. The St. John's Bay pants that are 34" waist are NOT that, they "run small" according to the salesman. How stupid is that!!!!????? Men's clothes were the one constant thing about shopping, the waist size is the waist size. Now I've got to bring a tape measure, I guess. When these start hitting the thrift stores in a few years I will no longer be able to shop for DH without having him along to try on stuff.
I am so with you on the Mall. I make it a point to not enter one. They were so chain store, expensive full retail, current look (meaning not wearable), too bright, etc.
If I have to got to Sears for underwear, I go in the side entrance and leave the same way.
My peeve today is about road construction detours. We have a roundabout going in about 2 miles from here. It is a main crossroads. They set the detour up but there is a shorter way which it appears most people are using. The problem is they just pull out in front of you from a stop sign when you do not have the stop sign. The rules don't change just because it takes a few more seconds to get across the highway people! Maybe after the first major car accident they will install temporary lights.
60mph speed limits on narrow, bidirectional roads! Whose idea was this?! In what way does it sound safe to zoom by another vehicle headed in the opposite direction, a mere 3ft apart at high speed?? Am I the only one who would be satisfied if every road had a speed limit of 40 or under? I'd rather get somewhere slowly than get there dead!!!
When I'm in the middle reading something interesting and I have to stop and do some dumb project that could wait.
We have a double standard in our State. A 35 yr old woman had sex with 3 teenage boys dozens of times and gets no prison time. She has jail time but no prison time. ONLY 21 mos in jail!!! If a man had sex with one teenager he would be in prison for life. I wonder if the judge was a woman if the sentence would have been different. Such a double standard.
My father-in-law bought a Mac. He finally decided, after years of us saying he'd prefer one and find more success with it, that it is the best according to Consumer Reports and he MUST HAVE IT. The ONLY thing I asked if he were going to buy a Mac was to buy it directly through Apple and get AppleCare. Well you guessed it. To save $100 he bought it through Best Buy. So I ended up setting it up (which Apple would have done for him for free) and I am troubleshooting a wireless problem. He did buy the Apple Care but doesn't have it yet (it actually comes literally in a box). Well, I'm thinking he can get on the phone to Apple and figure it out himself. DH and I are the only ones in the family with Mac background and we cannot be helping him with every little problem. He's on the verge of returning it. Good. At this point, I hope he does.
Not sure if I am more mad at him or more mad at myself for not sticking to my limit up front. I told him before he ever bought it that I am not a technician and can't fix every little thing on his schedule (RIGHT THIS INSTANT), but then I'm doing it - wait, attempting it - anyway. Or if I'm mad at Apple for not resolving a HUGE HOLE in their OS! I can't believe so many people are having the same problem that my FIL is having! And I'm a die hard Apple girl! I had a pink iMac when everyone still thought Apple was going down the crapper!
Rant finished. Thank you.
Fidgie, I SO get it! I somehow ended up being considered *the* expert on our industry-specific software we've been using for three years (I essentially taught myself the system with some very cruddy screen prints). We're going to a new version in several weeks. The company we merged with is going on this software for the first time. I trained our corporate customs compliance person on the software. She let slip, when visiting another office, that I'm the one to go with on questions. I didn't mind a few here or there, but Thursday, I spent an HOUR on the phone with two people in that other office.
I spent considerable time putting together very good, very clear, very detailed screen prints and notes. Why people cannot use these is beyond me.
Thursday was the last straw. I went to my manager, who is going to our regional GM, who will put a stop to this immediately. I've got enough to do.
When said person called me on Friday with several questions, I nicely told her I was sorry, but I didn't have the time to help her. She was OK with that, but I've got enough on my own plate, which includes being unofficial IT in my own department, in addition to learning my own new duties as Customs Compliance manager.
After years of attempting to help DOS and Windows users who could not be bothered to maintain anti-virus subscriptions or to not "preview" email rife with malware and never backed up critical files, I finally declared to family and friends that I would be happy to be their tech support as available -- only if they bought a Mac, even a used one. If they chose to "save money" by buying a Windows computer, I would be willing to point them in the direction of training or live help or how to phrase questions for Web searches, but I was no longer going to spend hours of my life rebuilding infested systems or dealing with cr@ppy driver software only to have the work abused by people who didn't care to know better. I still find myself spending more time than I want on fixing Windows issues, but it's been a pretty good line in the sand for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by fidgiegirl
There's also the awkward discovery that he has been visiting - ahem - certain websites that most likely very much contributed to the virus issues he was having on his PC. And no way to alert him to this, because he would die if he knew that I know. *Sigh*
Thanks for the love, all . . . he's vacillating between returning and waiting it out. If he returns it, his PC friend isn't available until Tuesday night to help him set it up, anyway. So he might as well wait it out until I can get on the phone to Apple with this weird wireless issue. I set up one computer. I'm not setting up another one.
I work for a printing company and the designer here drives me crazy!!!
I'm especially agitated by her process (or lack of) for sending out proofs to our customers.
We have jobs that come in, get designed and she emails them to the customer for approval. Many times we will have jobs sitting out waiting to be approved for a week or more. She never calls them on the phone to let them know they're in their email. Not everyone is at a desk all day like us checking their email every 5 seconds!! Make a phone call and let them know it was sent so they don't have to go searching through a hundred emails a week or 2 after it was sent!! It frustrates me to no end! The faster we get jobs approved, the faster we can print and bill and get paid! Most of the time I have to take it upon myself to make the phone call. Not my job. When I first started working here they had me emailing the proofs for her!! What designer do you know that doesn't email their own proofs out ???!!! Seriously??!! Luckily I changed this pretty quickly...still very frustrating though.
Waiting around at home for someone to show up for an appointment (in this case, a re-fi appraiser, but it could be anyone). Why are they almost guaranteed to be late? I have things to do! This is my last day of vacation! *sigh*
Kara
I am sick of hearing my husband say that Tyler has taken on more than he can handle. (Regarding college, marching band & xc). His school work is going to suffer. It's a bad idea. Over! & Over! I am just tired of hearing it!
I realize Ty has taken on a lot. But you know what.... maybe he CAN do it. Maybe he should get the chance to fulfill a dream. He knows what he has to do if it's not working. So just drop the attitude already.
My left eyebrow is turning white! WTF? So much for symmetry...
I cannot believe that my sons academic adviser is is advising him to sign up for 21 Credits! I am appalled and more than a bit po'd. I can't believe that he would suggest that to anyone let alone a freshman! He also smooth talked DS into changing to a music education major.
DS was heading off to another meeting with the adviser when we left him this afternoon and we haven't heard from him since but I am hoping that he now has a more reasonable schedule.
Sounds like a recipe for failure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Azure
Tell me about it, Tiam! sigh...
Well, at least Ty was able to see his adviser and get it down to 19 credits. Three of the classes are trombone lessons, guitar lessons & intro to aural skills. So those should be pretty easy for him. It's just the amount of time involved.
We have been doing online stuff for years with no problem - until lately. I have had to deal with more weird things re: online services in the last six months. Bah!
Today my peeve is:People who sit in their cars with their brake lights on, which indicates to me that they plan to move any moment. I am trying to find a space to pull into at the downtown grocery store. PEOPLE! Either move your ass or turn your car off and sit in it.
And it just pizzes me off that I CANNOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME properly use "its" the possessive, I always use the contraction "it's." WHEN did this happen? I once knew and used the correct form daily.
Uggghhhh... I had a doozy of a day. I was way late to work because I wrote down my schedule wrong, and it just got worse from there. I dropped things, I banged my head about six times on hard inanimate objects at work, and I felt way off in dealing with customers. Even though I knew why it was happening (major PMS, which I have never really had before) it was (and is) kicking my butt today and once again, I allowed it to spiral out of control. Thank god tomorrow is another day and I can choose to start all over again. No caffeine, no alcohol, no cigarettes. Must get back on track. This sucks big time. Over and out. Sleep is the great healer of all things amiss....
The girls irritating friend came over last night and now I'm feeling very Get Off My Lawn. I am not even kidding you, the kid ate my dinner. Not the dinner I had prepared for the family, my dinner. As in I had to eat chips and cheese at 11PM because I didn't get to eat. I told her she had to go home for dinner since I hadn't planned on guests and I was working on a big baking project and she came back while we were eating. Zach let her in. I was up and down checking on the cookies for my dads Franciscan thing tonight and while I was in the kitchen she ate my food. Zach felt terrible. He was distracted and didn't realize it.
She also sat at the table pounding on it and demanding cookies. Zach gave her one. Why? I don't know. She complained that they had brown sugar in them. Guess who isn't coming over for a while?
Seems I have a little plumbing problem under the kitchen sink that will require me to put in a new trap or connector, or both. Should be easy, but the trick knee couldn't handle it. So now I have a bad knee and a bad sink. And a bad attitude. Sucks to be me.
My eldest son-he's 7-came home from school with lice. sigh. And my head feels itchy!
I'm rather peeved at the guy who smashed into my parked car last night in my complex, causing a good bit of damage. He had a fight with girlfriend, took off at high speed, skidded on wet pavement going around a corner, and bang, right into my car. Pushed one front tire onto curb, almost sending my car into the one next to it, but not quite. Rear right corner is really messed up. Stopped just short of my gas cap. Guy could have blown it sky high! Bumper is pushed into contact with tire, so it couldn't be driven. I have a Focus and this guy was driving a Jeep SUV. My car is 7.5 years old, paid off, with a bit more than 82K miles on it.
The best part? It happened a bit before midnight. Someone out walking their dog saw it happen, but guy drove off. Straight to the police station. He didn't have a valid insurance card on him (expired a few weeks ago), so at least he got a ticket and a court date for *something.* Cops were banging on my door for five minutes straight last night to tell me, but I was dead to the world. I'm a heavy sleeper. This morning, I was up at 5:40, doing some work, and cop came knocking. I am SO angry. I do NOT need this right now. 19 days before the customs brokers exam. Merger mayhem at work. I could go on...
Good thing I still had full coverage on my car (my insurance is cheap - $80 a month for car and renter's with State Farm). Went with a collision place SF works with, very close to me. They arranged for tow. I have rental car coverage, but I couldn't wait the two hours for Enterprise to bring me a car. I called my choir directors who are very close friends, and asked for the loan of their spare beater car, which I got (wife of couple off today). Dropped off my car key at collision place, then went into work about 10 am and worked 11 hours. Collision shop said, from a photo I took, that it's very possible it will be two weeks before I have my car back. Possible frame damage. My hatchback was hit, too.
I have to cough up my $250 deductible, though. SF will go after numbnut's insurance.
Idiot.