Crappy day? what went wrong today , Vent here!

[soccerluvof4]

Just feel it would be nice to have a place to share/Vent your crappy day. As they say misery loves company and though I dont want anyone to have misery or feel sorry for me we just have shit happen once in awhile and it becomes a crappy day. Not to mention one persons crappy day might not even come close to what another person had to experience.

So I will start with I am in the process of buying and selling a home which has been a train wreck but slowly working through it. I am suppose to close on the New house Dec 6th and my current home on Dec 11th. Normally this wouldnt of bothered me but because nothing at all has gone smooth on either side of this transaction yesterday was just insult to injury if I am saying that right. I came home from the gym and my Newer Microwave (Stainless Steel Frigidaire Galaxy) blew so I called everywhere and no one could get me one in a reasonable amount of time with the holiday coming and of course the closing . Finally, I found a supplier that said if I drove to there warehouse I could get one so a 2 hour roundtrip , unistall and reinstall tool the better part of my day plus another 300$ gone. Then to make things worse I get a call from my agent that there having a problem with the title company on the property line on the eastside of my home. Supposedly the home was surveyed in 2006 and resurveyed in 2009 which was never told to me. The difference is only 7 feet and the buyer doesnt want to lose house over that so thats good news BUT there actually saying to make this right the whole area should be resurveyed. The ironic thing is at least 10 homes have sold with in 2 blocks of me in the last year or two and no issues. I looked at every property line site I could find like our county etc.. and it shows it as even being bigger not smaller so while the agent feels it will work its way out just another damn thing that piled on yesterday. Yes it could most certainly of been a worse day but there is my vent. 

[Sugaree]

I have a sick kid and a new puppy.  Got puked on at 3 a.m. by the kid.  While dealing with that, the puppy was left unsupervised and chewed up a phone charger.

[APowers]

Overall, not a bad day at all, but I woke up to about 8" of snow, which meant I spent all morning shoveling snow off driveways (I do handyman/property maintenance stuff, so am on call for this). NOT how I planned to spend my day off. Also, yesterday, I had to go inspect a vacation rental in which the guests ripped the doorjamb apart to get the door unlocked (they weren't supposed to open this door, which is why it was locked...), so I also have an urgent repair hanging over my head on my planned-to-be-off holiday week...I'll fix it first thing monday, but it still clogs up my brain having to plan for it.

[Civex]

Boss is lazy. Lazy boss likes to delegate out as much of his job as possible. I generally don't care as long as I keep getting decent raises and work flexibility. I would estimate I'm doing my job and 30% of his. Today boss decided to randomly drop a new employee on me to train-problem is with a short & busy week, I really did not have time to do much with the new employee today (I had set aside next week to complete this training). New employee complained to boss at lunch and said that I was treating them like a burden. They are a burden. Boss sends guilt trip email about how we don't treat new employees like that. Meanwhile, the place is burning down because we are busy and half the staff are checked out for the holiday. Get chewed out by different team because we aren't performing. Can't fucking win. I'm going to focus on doing unimportant tasks less diligently or not at all, so that like 50% of the team, things aren't assigned to me because they won't be done or won't be done well.

[MaybeBabyMustache]

Still dealing with the fall out from my son getting hit by a car on his way to school. (He only had minor injuries). It makes me pretty bitter to deal with all of the insurance & police reports & medical insurance when the driver has done everything she could to denial fault (police disagree), drag things out & generally work my last damn nerve.

[LaineyAZ]

Broke a molar.  I have dental insurance but it is new, and so root canals and crowns are not covered for the first year.  Dentist appt. is Monday and luckily I'm not in pain but I'm expecting to shell out $$$ to get it fixed. 
Timing is everything ….

[Just Joe]

Still coping with the family dog who was hit by a car recently. Healing nicely everywhere but a rear leg. Looks like surgery will be necessary. We've already spent a mint but dog is important to all of us. Worry not, she's getting top notch love and care from us.

[warehouse]

Got the stomach flu after Thanksgiving, along with 8 other people who came to my home for the holiday. Spent two days writhing in pain. Feeling a little better today and found fleas on my dog. Had to wash all the bedding in the house, dog beds, vacuum all the carpet and furniture and then spray it all with a flea spray. Then bathe the two dogs. I'm tired.

[AnnaGrowsAMustache]

Got the stomach flu after Thanksgiving, along with 8 other people who came to my home for the holiday. Spent two days writhing in pain. Feeling a little better today and found fleas on my dog. Had to wash all the bedding in the house, dog beds, vacuum all the carpet and furniture and then spray it all with a flea spray. Then bathe the two dogs. I'm tired.

Wow, that is overkill for fleas. Dog fleas won't spread to humans. They might bite you a time or two, but if their host has become poisonous, because you've treated the dog, they'll soon disappear. They're not bedbugs! I personally would have just treated the dogs with a dropper type flea treatment from the vet, and washed their beds.

[John Galt incarnate!]

Winter's foul weather has arrived so it's muddy and cooler than I prefer.

[Cadman]

Here's a gripe. I'm approximately 6 months to my FIRE date and Megacorp just announced a voluntary separation program with 16 months severance (nice 6-figure check). Unlike previous V-Seps, my salary grade is excluded, but only at my business unit.

Fellow coworkers at my SG at other locations around town are eligible, and of course are NOT interested. Let's just say I'm not a happy camper.

[Metalcat]

Ugh...

This is a long story that I don't want to get into, but a few of my doctors have dropped the ball. I have 11 of them, so it's bound to happen now and then.

Again, don't want to get into it, but FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

It's noon here and I'm on my second glass of wine.

[Proud Foot]

I am so sorry to hear that @Malkynn. Thinking of you.

Sitting here at work. The company which hosts our cloud based accounting system is down due to issues with their primary firewall cluster. Still no ETA for when it will be fixed. Yay for day 2 of a 6 day close!

[Cpa Cat]

Sent a disengagement letter to a client because he wouldn't give me his information for his tax return, so I couldn't get anything done. He calls today, saying he wants to pick up "all of his paperwork."

What paperwork? I have no paperwork. This is why you're not my client. The only paperwork I have is me emailing you asking for paperwork.

He says "You weren't in, so I dropped it off with a realtor at the realty office next door."

1) Why would you drop your personal tax information off with some random person who happens to be in the building?

2) Why would you not follow up to tell me you had done that so that you could make sure I got it, instead of, you know... ghosting me.

Whatever. I just printed off all my emails to him in which I asked him for his tax documents and put it in the folder as "paperwork."

This was bothering me, but then I read everyone else's problem, and now I feel better, because mine isn't so bad.

[Just Joe]

Dog will need surgery on rear leg. Vet surgeon is cutting us a deal, yay. Still = $2500 more and 12 more weeks of invalid dog. Ugh. Means dog needs help multiple times per day to go outside and relieve herself. We'll do it. Not complaining much. We're pretty good at it now. Glad she is on the mend.

Boss's boss wants to reorganize our engineering unit. Ugh. Fearful that he's taking something that functions well and seeking change for change's sake b/c he is new. Oh - and I don't want to move spaces. That's a very elaborate project considering our equipment and materials.

On brighter notes: elderly family member doing better as demonstrated at Thanksgiving. Younger teen is doing better. Is/was coping with some emotional challenges.

[ScreamingHeadGuy]

I have three more “urgent” projects now than I did this morning before I got to work.  By the time I take care of the one (of the three) truly urgent project the other project I was working on (before these three sprung up) will have become urgent. 

Not sure if the other two will be truly urgent by the time I get around to them or if those managers will realize by then it isn’t. 

[Gremlin]

Sent a disengagement letter to a client because he wouldn't give me his information for his tax return, so I couldn't get anything done. He calls today, saying he wants to pick up "all of his paperwork."

What paperwork? I have no paperwork. This is why you're not my client. The only paperwork I have is me emailing you asking for paperwork.

He says "You weren't in, so I dropped it off with a realtor at the realty office next door."

1) Why would you drop your personal tax information off with some random person who happens to be in the building?

2) Why would you not follow up to tell me you had done that so that you could make sure I got it, instead of, you know... ghosting me.

Whatever. I just printed off all my emails to him in which I asked him for his tax documents and put it in the folder as "paperwork."

This was bothering me, but then I read everyone else's problem, and now I feel better, because mine isn't so bad.

I'm struggling to see why this is your problem at all.  Your ex-client's problem?  Absolutely!  Your problem?  Not so much...

[Linea_Norway]

Recently we send our 18 year old Suzuki to a EU control, which is an obligated technical check to see whether your car is allowed to stay on the road. It was not approved and got a list of things to fix before approval.

DH gave it a try to fix it himself. We ordered the new metal bars that needed replacement. I borrowed the car maintenance hall at work, where we could lift the car up. We went there last night, in the dark on quite icy roads.

We started investigating the mist lights, but couldn't find any fault with them. There was supposed to be a fracture in the rear light, but nothing to see. Was this problem just made up?
Then we lifted the car up and investigated the tires. There was supposed to be something terribly wrong with 2 of the tires. We couldn't see a wrong thing, neither on the inside nor the outside of the tires.

Then the front wheels were taken off to replace the metal bars. We also needed to remove the stabilizer bar. DH had watched youtube videos and followed the instructions. He removed the correct bolts. But the metal bars that needed to come out had a rubber thing that was partly displaced, hiding the screw that needed to be loosened. DH has been trying to cut away the rubber, but didn't succeed with it. Also this metal car didn't seem to be much wrong with, apart from the rubber thing being a bit displaced. Same with the metal bar on the other side. Was this also just made up by the controller?

DH ended up putting everything back together. That was not so easy, because the nuts that keep the stabilizer bar in place couldn't be put back in place. That stabilizer is totally required for driving. It looked for a moment that we couldn't put the car back together at all. Eventually DH found another nut somewhere in the maintenance hall that he could use on one side of the car. He fastened the other side temporarily with a nail. Then we managed to put the wheels back on and roll the car of out the maintenance place to a parking place right in front of it. We do not dare to drive further with it, so we had to take a taxi home last night.

We now think the car is beyond repair to be approved anymore, because of DH's well meant efforts to repair something that was perhaps not broken at all. But the car is now worse then it was. We now plan to buy some new nuts, put those on the stabilizer bar so that the car can drive again. But it won't be good enough for bumpy roads, And we will now drive it to the car cemetery. The car wasn't worth enough to let someone else do the repairs.

My Mustachian People problem is that my job will end next week Thursday. By that time we must have fastened the stabilizer bar with the new nuts, so that we can drive the car out of my fenced in work area, where I won't be allowed back in after I quit. So we have some last minute stress to fix it, as this weekend we will jot have time for it.

For the next 1,5 weeks I have to get out of bed in time to drive DH to the train station with the other car. And work long enough days to pick him up again in the afternoon and organize grocery/other shopping somewhere in between. Normally I have shorter working days and a lot shorter commute.

[ysette9]

Thank you for a place to vent. I feel like a symphony conductor or air traffic control at night. So many moving parts to manage.

Feeding baby now, have to pump after. Two hours ago got woken by the 2 year old and her crying due to coughing. Dumped her in bed with my husband because I just can’t (not) sleep with her again. Have to reset my parents’ alarm so they get up at the right time for the next baby feed. Sigh.

At least no one is currently screaming.

[julia]

I'm sponsoring my spouse to become a permanent resident of Canada. It's been 5.5 months since we applied and he still hasn't received his open work permit even though people who applied 3 months after us have already received theirs.

[Metalcat]

I'm sponsoring my spouse to become a permanent resident of Canada. It's been 5.5 months since we applied and he still hasn't received his open work permit even though people who applied 3 months after us have already received theirs.

I hear you on bureaucracy and delays.

I'm 3 months and 600 phone calls into trying to get my neurologist to pick up the fucking ball that she dropped.
The specialty pharmacy let slip today that I'm not the only patient in her fuck-up pile whose paperwork was never actually sent in to start our drug trial.

Note: not the kind of drug trial where there's a chance of getting a placebo, it's an FDA approved drug that needs to be monitored for awhile in Canada before it can be fully approved here, so any one who needs it can get it, but we're monitored for 6 months. This is my first line treatment.

They offered me an emergency appointment to start my treatment with sample injections this coming Tuesday, and the next available appointment is in 3 months. To take it, I would have to cancel my own patients, right before my clinic closes for the holidays, and the patients I treat are pain patients, which would make me the asshole delaying people's urgent pain therapy.

Now that's some Sophie's Choice shit right there.

[frugalnacho]

We put our 2 year old son into a pre-preschool/day care program 2 days per week.  He's been sick non stop since the beginning of October.  Just one sickness after another.  Cold, respiratory infection, ear infection, stomach bug, etc.  He's been to the doctor 5 times.  Every night he wakes up screaming like 5 times.  He's a total asshole all the time because he doesn't feel well, so he takes it out on whoever or whatever is around him.  "hit momma!", "hit dadda!".  Or he hits his crib, or his toys, like he's feeling shitty and just taking it out on everything around him.  The doctors are getting sick of us and the last time basically told my wife that yes he is sick, stop bringing him in because there is nothing they can do.  He's got a virus and his body will just have to kick it naturally.  Really frustrating.  He's also gotten me sick.  I've had 2 colds and a stomach bug in the last 2 months. 

Most of the people we talk to say their kids also got sick when they started school and/or daycare.  Some was only for a few weeks, but many were sick for a solid 6 months.  I keep hoping he's at the tail end and is going to get better, but it's now december.  I think the odds of him kicking it and being completely healthy through the winter is essentially zero, so we probably have a couple more months of constant sickness.

I just want all of us to sleep through the fucking night.  I'm in bed for 6-7 hours, but it's all broken up from him screaming bloody murder randomly through the night.

[Metalcat]

We put our 2 year old son into a pre-preschool/day care program 2 days per week.  He's been sick non stop since the beginning of October.  Just one sickness after another.  Cold, respiratory infection, ear infection, stomach bug, etc.  He's been to the doctor 5 times.  Every night he wakes up screaming like 5 times.  He's a total asshole all the time because he doesn't feel well, so he takes it out on whoever or whatever is around him.  "hit momma!", "hit dadda!".  Or he hits his crib, or his toys, like he's feeling shitty and just taking it out on everything around him.  The doctors are getting sick of us and the last time basically told my wife that yes he is sick, stop bringing him in because there is nothing they can do.  He's got a virus and his body will just have to kick it naturally.  Really frustrating.  He's also gotten me sick.  I've had 2 colds and a stomach bug in the last 2 months. 

Most of the people we talk to say their kids also got sick when they started school and/or daycare.  Some was only for a few weeks, but many were sick for a solid 6 months.  I keep hoping he's at the tail end and is going to get better, but it's now december.  I think the odds of him kicking it and being completely healthy through the winter is essentially zero, so we probably have a couple more months of constant sickness.

I just want all of us to sleep through the fucking night.  I'm in bed for 6-7 hours, but it's all broken up from him screaming bloody murder randomly through the night.

Yeah, kids are dangerous.
I got swine flu from working in schools twice, and opportunistic pneumonia afterwards both times.

It's why I no longer primarily work with kids.

[mm1970]

We put our 2 year old son into a pre-preschool/day care program 2 days per week.  He's been sick non stop since the beginning of October.  Just one sickness after another.  Cold, respiratory infection, ear infection, stomach bug, etc.  He's been to the doctor 5 times.  Every night he wakes up screaming like 5 times.  He's a total asshole all the time because he doesn't feel well, so he takes it out on whoever or whatever is around him.  "hit momma!", "hit dadda!".  Or he hits his crib, or his toys, like he's feeling shitty and just taking it out on everything around him.  The doctors are getting sick of us and the last time basically told my wife that yes he is sick, stop bringing him in because there is nothing they can do.  He's got a virus and his body will just have to kick it naturally.  Really frustrating.  He's also gotten me sick.  I've had 2 colds and a stomach bug in the last 2 months. 

Most of the people we talk to say their kids also got sick when they started school and/or daycare.  Some was only for a few weeks, but many were sick for a solid 6 months.  I keep hoping he's at the tail end and is going to get better, but it's now december.  I think the odds of him kicking it and being completely healthy through the winter is essentially zero, so we probably have a couple more months of constant sickness.

I just want all of us to sleep through the fucking night.  I'm in bed for 6-7 hours, but it's all broken up from him screaming bloody murder randomly through the night.

My older son got sick constantly the first winter.  He was still nursing, got better soon, but I was sick for 6 straight months.   Healthy a total of 30 days from October through March.

Second kid was in a much smaller home daycare, so we got hit HARD when he was 4 and went to preschool...

[mm1970]

Ugh have this big deadline, and it's like pulling teeth to get people to sit down and go through the documents.  Went 1/2 hour over, still not done.  Finally took a break to have lunch, only to find...that my fridge is too cold.  The salad I put in there yesterday, lettuce is frozen solid.

I tossed the lettuce, ate the (crunchy frozen solid) radishes, cheese, and olives anyway - with almonds.  I'm eating fruit and celery with peanut butter, and hoping I can make it till dinner.

[Villanelle]

FML.  Something I'm not supposed to talk about and will only do in broad strokes here.  But we moved this spring, I'm settling in and really starting to establish a life that I love and that just fits, for the first time in a very long time.

And we were thrown a huge curve ball.  And everything is up in the air and we know nothing, and we don't even know when we will now anything, and that's complicated SOOO many things and is sending me into a bit of an anxiety tailspin, like I haven't experienced in quite some time. 

Just keep breathing. 

*To be clear, everyone is fine.  And everything will be fine, I'm sure.  I just have no idea what that particular version of "fine" looks like, which is difficult.  And I'm so happy with my current life and the thought of having to leave it just really, really sucks.  And if we are going to have to, I at least wish I knew, like... right now, rather than having this question looming for who knows how long.*

[mm1970]

FML.  Something I'm not supposed to talk about and will only do in broad strokes here.  But we moved this spring, I'm settling in and really starting to establish a life that I love and that just fits, for the first time in a very long time.

And we were thrown a huge curve ball.  And everything is up in the air and we know nothing, and we don't even know when we will now anything, and that's complicated SOOO many things and is sending me into a bit of an anxiety tailspin, like I haven't experienced in quite some time. 

Just keep breathing. 

*To be clear, everyone is fine.  And everything will be fine, I'm sure.  I just have no idea what that particular version of "fine" looks like, which is difficult.  And I'm so happy with my current life and the thought of having to leave it just really, really sucks.  And if we are going to have to, I at least wish I knew, like... right now, rather than having this question looming for who knows how long.*

that's the worst

[OtherJen]

Not a totally crappy day, but I woke up with a sinus headache that hasn't gone away, despite ibuprofen and hot beverages. I can feel the pressure behind my eyes and cheekbones and even above my upper teeth and all I want to do is sleep.

[Dee18]

I came back from Thanksgiving holiday to discover my downstairs neighbors must have turned the volume up on their ceiling mounted speakers....they watch a movie every single night.  Going to get some noise cancelling headphones this weekend. I’m early to bed, early to rise...they are not.

[BussoV6]

Not a totally crappy day, but I woke up with a sinus headache that hasn't gone away, despite ibuprofen and hot beverages. I can feel the pressure behind my eyes and cheekbones and even above my upper teeth and all I want to do is sleep.

That's no fun at all. I get this quite often.

I have a small spray bottle that I fill most days with dilute salt in water. I spray this up my nose every few hours and it keeps sinuses clear. This seems to work much better long-term than the commercial nose sprays.

[Metalcat]

Not a totally crappy day, but I woke up with a sinus headache that hasn't gone away, despite ibuprofen and hot beverages. I can feel the pressure behind my eyes and cheekbones and even above my upper teeth and all I want to do is sleep.

That's no fun at all. I get this quite often.

I have a small spray bottle that I fill most days with dilute salt in water. I spray this up my nose every few hours and it keeps sinuses clear. This seems to work much better long-term than the commercial nose sprays.

Just make sure not to use tap water.

[Dave1442397]

I heard a noise from the basement yesterday that sounded like there was an unbalanced load of laundry running, but I wasn't doing laundry. I went downstairs to see what was going on, and the freezer was shaking and making a whomping noise. I unplugged it, opened it up, and everything had already mostly defrosted. I salvaged some stuff, but most of it will have to go.

Today's mission will be to throw out the rest of the food and see if I can figure out what's wrong with the freezer. It's a five-year-old Frigidaire, and is the newest appliance in the house.

At least the dog is enjoying the defrosted waffles and cinnamon bread he'll be getting as treats for the next week or so.

[frugalnacho]

My city does street side leaf pick up until the first snowfall.  Everyone rakes their leaves out to the curb and a big truck comes along and sucks them up.  We got an unusually early snow storm around Nov 10-11 this year (9 inches).  The leaves were still on the trees! I think everyone assumed leaf pick up would continue since it would be ridiculous to stop pick up so early, especially since all the trees still had their leaves.  Everyone has since put their leaves in the street, but apparently the city is sticking to the first snowfall rule because there hasn't been a pick up in the last month, so now every curb in my city is loaded with rotting leaves.  We can't even bag them up as yard waste because they don't pick up yard waste in December. 

I understand having rules and schedules, but this is fucking stupid.  How did no one in the city government anticipate stopping leaf pick up before the trees shed their leaves wouldn't be a problem? I'm not going to go get my rotting leaves out of the street because I have no where to put them.  They are just going to end up rotting and clogging the sewer drains.

[OtherJen]

My city does street side leaf pick up until the first snowfall.  Everyone rakes their leaves out to the curb and a big truck comes along and sucks them up.  We got an unusually early snow storm around Nov 10-11 this year (9 inches).  The leaves were still on the trees! I think everyone assumed leaf pick up would continue since it would be ridiculous to stop pick up so early, especially since all the trees still had their leaves.  Everyone has since put their leaves in the street, but apparently the city is sticking to the first snowfall rule because there hasn't been a pick up in the last month, so now every curb in my city is loaded with rotting leaves.  We can't even bag them up as yard waste because they don't pick up yard waste in December. 

I understand having rules and schedules, but this is fucking stupid.  How did no one in the city government anticipate stopping leaf pick up before the trees shed their leaves wouldn't be a problem? I'm not going to go get my rotting leaves out of the street because I have no where to put them.  They are just going to end up rotting and clogging the sewer drains.

Ugh. I'm not a fan of curbside leaf pickup; my city doesn't do it, but a bordering city does and it gets really messy, clogs drains, and even causes slippery streets when those piles of leaves get wet. But at least both cities always pick up yard waste until the second week of December. All cities in our region should because although it's rare for us to have a snowstorm that early, it does happen. This sounds like something to bring to your city council, and I bet you could get support from your neighbors to do so. Next time you have a city council election, it would be a good issue to raise at a candidate forum.

[chemistk]

My city does street side leaf pick up until the first snowfall.  Everyone rakes their leaves out to the curb and a big truck comes along and sucks them up.  We got an unusually early snow storm around Nov 10-11 this year (9 inches).  The leaves were still on the trees! I think everyone assumed leaf pick up would continue since it would be ridiculous to stop pick up so early, especially since all the trees still had their leaves.  Everyone has since put their leaves in the street, but apparently the city is sticking to the first snowfall rule because there hasn't been a pick up in the last month, so now every curb in my city is loaded with rotting leaves.  We can't even bag them up as yard waste because they don't pick up yard waste in December. 

I understand having rules and schedules, but this is fucking stupid.  How did no one in the city government anticipate stopping leaf pick up before the trees shed their leaves wouldn't be a problem? I'm not going to go get my rotting leaves out of the street because I have no where to put them.  They are just going to end up rotting and clogging the sewer drains.

My parents live not too far from you (different city though), and just decided to burn the leaves earlier last month in a small firepit in the backyard over the course of a week or so, specifically because they city has screwed up the pickup schedule too many times (this year and years past),

[chemistk]

2/3 kids are currently sick and the third might be on his way depending on how the cough he seems to have goes. Just crossing my fingers that wife and I don't get sick as well.

Fold that in, we seem to have family that loves to make plans for us, without us. As in, they come up with a plan or hijack our plan and then just execute it regardless of whether we're completely on board. So, the quiet day we were going to spend downtown just as our little family (after a raucous Thanksgiving) participating in the local Christmas event is now a big thing with everyone coming up to our place.

Plus, we're still cleaning up the dog hair from my parents' dog that he shed over the week of Thanksgiving all over our house. We always think it would be nice to have a dog but then get swiftly reminded how much we hate dog hair everywhere.

[Sugaree]

We put our 2 year old son into a pre-preschool/day care program 2 days per week.  He's been sick non stop since the beginning of October.  Just one sickness after another.  Cold, respiratory infection, ear infection, stomach bug, etc.  He's been to the doctor 5 times.  Every night he wakes up screaming like 5 times.  He's a total asshole all the time because he doesn't feel well, so he takes it out on whoever or whatever is around him.  "hit momma!", "hit dadda!".  Or he hits his crib, or his toys, like he's feeling shitty and just taking it out on everything around him.  The doctors are getting sick of us and the last time basically told my wife that yes he is sick, stop bringing him in because there is nothing they can do.  He's got a virus and his body will just have to kick it naturally.  Really frustrating.  He's also gotten me sick.  I've had 2 colds and a stomach bug in the last 2 months. 

Most of the people we talk to say their kids also got sick when they started school and/or daycare.  Some was only for a few weeks, but many were sick for a solid 6 months.  I keep hoping he's at the tail end and is going to get better, but it's now december.  I think the odds of him kicking it and being completely healthy through the winter is essentially zero, so we probably have a couple more months of constant sickness.

I just want all of us to sleep through the fucking night.  I'm in bed for 6-7 hours, but it's all broken up from him screaming bloody murder randomly through the night.

I might have referred to my son as a "walking Petri dish" during his tenure at daycare.  We were constantly at the doctor.  Not because I thought he needed to be seen, but because his daycare required a doctor's note every damn time he got so much as the sniffles.  And then had the gall to argue with me on a few occasions because they didn't agree with his doctor's diagnosis.  It did seem to get better as he got older and started big kid school, but we just had a stomach virus go around the house last week and he was patient zero.

[dodojojo]

Working tonight. 

Working tonight because I did very little work this week.

Did very little work this week because I hate big parts of my job.  Parts that touch on morals and ethics.

Hate myself because the above has not been enough to induce me to walk.

Wonder if I'm sabotaging myself so someone else can make the decision for me.

[Pigeon]

My dean has been pressuring me to put myself up for the equivalent of full professor for a few years and after lots of kicking and screaming on my part, I caved to make the dean happy because this person is awesome.  The academic promotion process is ridiculous and involves a pathetic salary bump at my institution.  It's  a  ton of work, and people who have never even met you weigh in on your performance,  along with everyone you work with. It is so not worth it.

Tomorrow is the meeting of all my coworkers,  many of whom I supervise to vote on my case... I  have a number of extremely incompetent employees, several who should have retired years ago, and one who is certifiably nuts. Today nuts person made a veiled threat to make a scene at the  meeting tomorrow.

I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight. I don't drink and for the first time in about 30 years I'm  wishing we has legal weed in my state tonight.

[Whiskey]

Dog will need surgery on rear leg. Vet surgeon is cutting us a deal, yay. Still = $2500 more and 12 more weeks of invalid dog. Ugh. Means dog needs help multiple times per day to go outside and relieve herself. We'll do it. Not complaining much. We're pretty good at it now. Glad she is on the mend.

So happy to hear you're doing it for your dog. Ours had a back surgery last year ($10000 total with rehab) plus 8 weeks crate rest and all the help and nursing. But it was worth it. She is our fur daughter:) Good luck to you all.

[frugalnacho]

My city does street side leaf pick up until the first snowfall.  Everyone rakes their leaves out to the curb and a big truck comes along and sucks them up.  We got an unusually early snow storm around Nov 10-11 this year (9 inches).  The leaves were still on the trees! I think everyone assumed leaf pick up would continue since it would be ridiculous to stop pick up so early, especially since all the trees still had their leaves.  Everyone has since put their leaves in the street, but apparently the city is sticking to the first snowfall rule because there hasn't been a pick up in the last month, so now every curb in my city is loaded with rotting leaves.  We can't even bag them up as yard waste because they don't pick up yard waste in December. 

I understand having rules and schedules, but this is fucking stupid.  How did no one in the city government anticipate stopping leaf pick up before the trees shed their leaves wouldn't be a problem? I'm not going to go get my rotting leaves out of the street because I have no where to put them.  They are just going to end up rotting and clogging the sewer drains.

They picked up the leaves yesterday! City council must be lurking around here reading my posts.     :shifty eyes:

[OtherJen]

^^^ Haha, or someone who works for the city lives in your neighborhood and was equally unhappy.

Today: late for my flu shot appointment because of traffic and every. single. red. light. Got the flu shot, and now my arm hurts. Had a pile of really annoying work and had to explain to the client that said work was not appropriate for the intended purpose. Time for wine.

[Sonos]

Crappy day at work. Spent all day struggling with last minute (some poorly defined) Excel requests and internal tools don’t play well with Excel. Still have to work tonight. And didn’t get any time to work on my other projects (I thought I’d have almost the whole day for them). I’m trying so hard at this new job and I never feel like I actually accomplish anything. Ugh. All I want to do is be productive, but it’s felt like months of just running fast but going nowhere. We have good health and a roof over our heads, so I’m grateful. Just wish I could get some traction at work.

[Just Joe]

Dog will need surgery on rear leg. Vet surgeon is cutting us a deal, yay. Still = $2500 more and 12 more weeks of invalid dog. Ugh. Means dog needs help multiple times per day to go outside and relieve herself. We'll do it. Not complaining much. We're pretty good at it now. Glad she is on the mend.

So happy to hear you're doing it for your dog. Ours had a back surgery last year ($10000 total with rehab) plus 8 weeks crate rest and all the help and nursing. But it was worth it. She is our fur daughter:) Good luck to you all.

Another trip to the big city for a checkup post-surgery. Everything looks good. Bandages changed and back home (and then off to work where I am now). Dog seems happy and reasonably comfortable. Protective of that foot of course. All in we're looking at a price tag similar to your's. Past conversations I've listened to have quoted huge numbers like those. I've had a half dozen dogs over the years and none of them needed more than food and shots more or less. 'Til this one. This is all the result of a hit and run.

Good to have rainy day money put back.

[TVRodriguez]

Cannot specify any of it, but just crappity-crap-crap at work.  Not the work itself, but the workers and the clients.  The work itself is actually quite diverting.  Let me go do that for a while to stop dealing with the crap.

[mspym]

A workshop has been scheduled for the end of the day and there will be a debrief afterwards so now there is no way I can make the social event with my friend that she bought tickets for 2 months ago. Bonus points for feeling unprepared AND a crappy friend.

[Arbitrage]

Pretty sure we have rats in the attic.  Last night, saw one in the garage.  I've been trying to (quietly) deal with the problem on my own, but it's now time to call in the professionals.  Such is life with citrus trees, though we've been rat-free for the last 4 years.

Hopefully this exterminator is better than the last one. 

[AnnaGrowsAMustache]

Pretty sure we have rats in the attic.  Last night, saw one in the garage.  I've been trying to (quietly) deal with the problem on my own, but it's now time to call in the professionals.  Such is life with citrus trees, though we've been rat-free for the last 4 years.

Hopefully this exterminator is better than the last one.

I had a similar problem - walnut trees. I shoved the cat up there. He had a lovely time. Now the roof space is part of his regular patrols. I can hear him thump around up there for half an hour every night. No more rats.

[BussoV6]

Not a totally crappy day, but I woke up with a sinus headache that hasn't gone away, despite ibuprofen and hot beverages. I can feel the pressure behind my eyes and cheekbones and even above my upper teeth and all I want to do is sleep.

That's no fun at all. I get this quite often.

I have a small spray bottle that I fill most days with dilute salt in water. I spray this up my nose every few hours and it keeps sinuses clear. This seems to work much better long-term than the commercial nose sprays.

Just make sure not to use tap water.

Why not?

[Frugalroogal]

Not a totally crappy day, but I woke up with a sinus headache that hasn't gone away, despite ibuprofen and hot beverages. I can feel the pressure behind my eyes and cheekbones and even above my upper teeth and all I want to do is sleep.

That's no fun at all. I get this quite often.

I have a small spray bottle that I fill most days with dilute salt in water. I spray this up my nose every few hours and it keeps sinuses clear. This seems to work much better long-term than the commercial nose sprays.

Just make sure not to use tap water.

Why not?

Because there can be nasty things in tap water, despite the water treatment process. Tap water is ok to drink, but squirting it into body cavities is not the best idea. Especially cavities near your brain.

You should boil water, leave to cool, add salt and then squirt up your nose.

Regards, a former microbiologist.