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My only complaint this morning is that it's been over 2 and a half weeks and I STILL can't sleep through the blasted night without getting ill and not breathing well. When I'm actually able to fall asleep, I wake up every single hour gasping for air. I am exhausted
I just want to sleep in my bed for an entire evening without having to elevate my head with 6+ pillows and waking up constantly. (wow, feels soo good to vent a little bit! I've got a lot to be thankful for, but I'm definitely happy to vent about my exhaustion for a moment.)

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I like this thread!

How is this for frustrating? My dog is driving me up the wall. No matter what I do she pees in her crate. With a blanket, with a bed, with nothing at all. She doesn't let me know she needs out at night, she just messes in her crate, so she needs baths weekly. Plus, despite weekly pedipaw use, her dew claws are needle sharp. She is sleeping under the blanket on my lap, and used them to pull her self to a more comfortable position- slicing open my leg in the process. Now I am bleeding everywhere. Sigh. Plus, I scar really easy. Like, every cat scratch, dog scratch and bug bite will be a mark for years... Mean ness.
That sounds soo frustrating love!
In a bit of a side note, have you had your dog checked by the vet for a UTI? If not, it would be a good idea just to make sure that there isn't a treatable medical reason behind the accidents. (if you want to drop me a pm and you think it's a behaviorial thing with your dog, I'd be more than happy to pass along a few suggestions that might be worth a try
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One thing? Oh man I could name a zillion right now. But I'll name one.

So dh gets this computer given to him by our neighbor. He decided to fix it so that we now have 2 desktops and a laptop. So everyone can get a machine if they need to instead of the kids whining and complaining about it


Here's the bad thing. It doesn't have some kind of a card (dh told me what it was) so that you can connect to the internet. So he showed me how to do it (it takes what it seems a zillion steps and he didn't write it down for me- so I really have no clue).

Well, I need to send and look at email. My daughter wants to go on a school trip to Orlando with orchestra in April. We've got a deposit due next week. The kids can fund-raise, and the amount they fund-raise go into their accounts. Then they use that money for trips etc. Well- dd didn't go on the trip last year b/c it was only the select orchestra and seniors that went, and she was in neither of those groups.

Last year, we went to a spaghetti dinner fundraiser only because dd was playing her violin with Fiddle Fire. She sold all 6 tickets she was given. At least I think she sold them all, I know we bought 4 of them b/c I remember coming to it late. The person in charge of finance said that she had NO money in her account. So then I emailed her back and said no- I remember buying tickets to it. So she said she'd look into it and email me today. Except I CAN'T GET INTO MY EMAIL.

So I guess I'll wait until dh gets home so he can show me again how to do it. And then he's going to want to go out and buy the stupid computer card. That we have NO MONEY FOR. I have no job- I have no prospects at the moment. And that's due to another long rant that I really don't want to get into right now

Maybe I'll try to convince him to just put email on either the laptop or the computer downstairs. Better yet- maybe I'll set up my yahoo mail again and just put that one out (I need a better email addy anyhow for job stuff).

Cheryl
 
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Gosh, so many vents. Sympathies to everyone.

Today's vent is DH grows all our produce, including soy beans. But now is soy bean shelling time. OMG, I hate with a passion shelling soy beans.
 
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After two weeks of hard work, I have finally winterized our Victorian house. Cleaned the rooms, cleaned all the windows, got the storm windows up, winter duds out of attic, etc., etc. Because our house is so old, a lot of the windows involve the use of a screw driver to get them out of their frames.

I thought I was finally finished, but then looked at the windows in the study in strong sunlight. Streaks all over the outside of the windows. Had to get out the screwdriver again, stand on a stepstool and redo the windows.
 

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My rant today is my Mother, the QUEEN of guilt trips.
She calls me at work and wants me to go to a seminar with her tonight on Down Syndrome.(which my brother has.) I told her that doesn't really interest me as by the time I get off work, have supper and go to the gym, I really will have no time at all to myself. Well she got all huffy and practically hung up in my ear.


It wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that she does this ALL the time. She can't do anything on her own, and thinks I need to hold her hand, and when I try to live a life of my own, I get guilt tripped. There is so much more to this, but I'm not going to bore you all with the details. The thing is, I am tired of it, and everytime she does it it ruins my day.
 

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How 'bout this one

I have a cousin who's getting married. 2nd time around. He's a nice guy and I'm happy for him. My aunt (mom's sister) is being not very nice though. She called my mom and said "NO children". Meaning my 6 year old niece. She's a cute kid- just can be a royal pain at times. Made mom mad. Mom had already made plans, with my sister so she's not going. Aunt got REALLY mad at her. So mad- that my sister and mom did NOT get an invitation.

Well guess what- we did. Even got a phone call saying "Please come- we want the girls to play (both kids play strings- my oldest has a bit of talent on the violin
) I didn't go there with mom- that would so hurt her. But she does know that we got an invite. Mom says "You can't go- you can't afford it". Ok- how do you know that? UGH. She just doesn't want us to go.

Which means- we are darned if we do and darned if we don't. Someone's going to get mad at us no matter what. And right now- with what happened last week, and now having loans to pay back and NO JOB- we REALLY can't afford to spend over $1000 to go there. SIGH. So now she's (my aunt's) going to be mad at me. Needless to say I still have the invitation sitting at home wating to be mailed. Because I'm chicken to send it.

Besides that and 2 teenagers that I'd like to ship somewhere other than here right now- life is a pain.

I needed this- thank you.

Cheryl
 

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Lot's of venting again:
Had a phone appointment to a doctor. She wasn't very nice at all, and now everything is all messed up again because she didn't give me more sick leave. According to her I have magically been cured within last 2 months without any treatment or doc visits (after being sick for almost 3 years)...
She told me that she can't help me and won't be seing me anymore. Now I need to wait for almost 2 months 'til my other doctor has time to see me. Public health care.....


Also some cat stuff is not going as planned. My friend and I agreed that when I get my next breeding cat, it would go to live with her (can't keep them all in my apartment). Now she told me she had taken a random cat from a random friend. The cat was from some accident litter and is already an adult. Well, I'm happy that the cat has a new home. But my plans are now screwed.

My ex was supposed to make me a homepage (for the cattery). He started over a year ago but never finished, and now he says he needs to start over. I'm kinda in a rush with this... I dont know anything about making a website so can't do it myself. He keeps promising to help me with it, but he doesn't. He's always either tired or playing some games in facebook or just pretending to be doing something. Why promise and even offer to help in the first place if he doesn't want to do it?
 

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The Department of Holidays.....er Highways!!! AAAARRGGHHHH!!!!!! They have been fixing the highway the last few days, and I am using the term fixing rather loosely. The 'fix' consists of oiling the blasted surface, covering it with gravel, sweeping off the gravel and turning any remaining potholes into large bumps. It's like driving down a string of railway ties!!! That cold rolled asphalt is nasty stuff, never packs down and by spring will have all let go and made bigger potholes.
 

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My vent for the day...
i feel AWFUL. I am not sure if it is allergies, or a cold....but this morning my nose started dripping and I started getting congested. I think I have sneezed at least 100 times today. I keep sneezing about 20 times in a row...I didn't have allergy pills so I took a daytime cough/cold bc it has medicine for nasal decongestant. Didn't work. DH brought me home more from work.....those pills didn't work either.
It has been about 12 hours of me feeling like crap. I got some nasal spray because when I went to the store, they were out of allergy pills. So now I am half asleep on the couch watching Greys, wishing my nose would stop dripping so I could lay down in bed and sleep!!!!!!!!!!

OH and more vent....DH has adhd and sometimes he gets into a fit and ends up wanting to rearrange our house. Yesterday it was the bedroom and today was the living room. I usually just let him get into his little fits and "fix" rooms...but today I was going crazy. He moved the living room around and now I can't reach the window behind the tv....or the plug behind the couch. He moved the bedroom and put a chair in the middle of the room facing the tv...we don't even use the chair but he wants it there in case we do???? UGH! haha
OH isn't marriage grand
I love him with all my heart but sometimes he drives me batty.
 

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Vent of the day:
People who are not understanding of illness. If I have a migraine, I simply can NOT work! What part of debilitating, falling-down, screaming, puking, can't-see-out-of-my-eye headache do they not understand?!?!
They seem to think that blaming me for the migraines will make them go away...
 
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OMG, this thread has legs! Commiserations, again, to everyone who has vented. Hope you all feel better!

My vent is the same as last time. Still shelling those motherf@@@ing soy beans.
 
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Come to find out today that the wall calendar I purchase every year - 365 Days in Great Britain - is unavailable this year. Even the publisher isn't selling it. So annoying, I've been buying this calendar for years. It's a memory of home in England each time I turn a page.
 

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Yet AGAIN a mother let her kid cough all over the place without asking him to cover his mouth at the supermarket! What is WRONG with some parents these days?
 

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Some of the supervisors and cashers at work who seem to think I am an ameoba with 3 arms. I am stuck there despite having a college diploma because of the bad economy and the lawyers here in Red Deer prefer the older paralegals over us young grads.One of the reasons I am trying to move to Calgary amd get out of Dead Rear. The cashiers also get lippy if I go for my break (breaks are mandatory in the collective agreement) which I am entitled to pursuant to the Union Collective Agreement....I once yowled at a very lippy one and said, "I was on my break if that's all right with you". It was busy that day and I was not in the greatest of all moods.
 

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Someone ringing the phone and hanging up on my machine like 10 x straight before leaving a message. Yes, I was home. Yes, I have caller ID. I saw the name...and that's why I didn't answer in the first place!
 

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Originally Posted by LDG

Yet AGAIN a mother let her kid cough all over the place without asking him to cover his mouth at the supermarket! What is WRONG with some parents these days?
I find myself asking that everyday about 90% of the parents I see!

I have to constantly remind myself that I am not a parent, so I can't judge, but sometimes it is so DARN HARD!!
 

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To start back, I owe my sister over $400 for plane tickets to attend my dad's funeral. My sister needs a nebulizer. I have a nebulizer I was going to give her - which would be worth about $800+ for her, so would cover the loss of plane tickets. It has been sitting in my apartment for 6 months in the same space and I went to get it this morning and my husband had "put it away" but he doesn't know where.

So I'm looking for it in my dresser - my husband has a bad habit of putting things in my drawers that aren't clothes (which infuriates me because that's where clothes belong and that's it) - and I konked my head really hard on the tv while standing up (it overhangs off the dresser). Now I'm nauseous - my body usually translates REAL pain as nausea - and I'm waiting for the tylenol to kick in.

Raaaaaaaaaaar..

My sister lives 6 hours away and is leaving this afternoon probably before I get off work and I CAN'T FIND THE NEBULIZER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She needs it, I need her to have it. If I need a nebulizer, I can use my mom's; I don't have to pay the emergency visit to the hospital like my sister does every time she has a cold (she has asthma really bad).
 
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I was returning home from my walk this afternoon. A lady pulled out the daycare center next door and said "Thank you for planting the tomatoes". I said my husband was the gardener and I asked her why she cared that he plants tomatoes. I just couldn't see why she would care. Well, that set her off. She started screaming out the car window that I was confrontational. She said that I should immediately go home and, as she drove away, she said she hoped I could conquer the bitterness in my heart. Jesus Wept! I never set eyes on this woman before and I hope I never do again. I didn't reply to her because I am white and she was black and I know she was dying to call me a racist.
 
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