Vents/flamefuls/uo/complaints/etc

[irene adler]

Or just stories about your bat shit crazy relatives. What's on your mind?

I need some entertainment today.

[Deleted]

Flameful - I went out with a guy Friday night and he was nice, but he didn't walk to me to my car despite the fact we were in a somewhat unsafe area. So, there won't be a second date, that kind of stuff is important to me even though I'm totally capable.

[v]

(1) Jimmy Fallon is really, really not funny. And so repetitive. How many times do you need to see people slow jamming the news, or a celebrity lip synching competition, or beer pong, or whatever? Anything that was funny and clever the first time loses that luster quickly. This is on my mind because I saw a clip on the Today Show this morning of him and The Roots and such playing classroom instruments while Adele sat next to them singing her song. Which is exactly what he did with the Let It Go person last year, no?

(2) Speaking of which, they need to fucking stop playing that Adele song all the fucking time. By "they," I mean everyone. How anyone thinks that's a good song is beyond me.

(3) A friend is going through a really shitty time with his career (really wanted to make partner at his law firm, was passed up last year, and now a woman in his group just made partner -- major salt in wounds). Not a surprise, but I know it all becoming real will make him go from the dumps to the abyss. But since he's been so difficult to deal with over the past year (in large part because of all of this) and because he was kind of pretty shitty to me when *I* was in an abyss because of my miserable work situation last year, I have decided that I'm going to avoid all contact with him over the coming weeks. Which makes me a terrible, shitty friend but I can't deal with it. (How *do* you support or tolerate friends who deal with depression by mostly avoiding human contact but also by being miserable and rude when they do make it out of the house?)

[gt7301b]

Well mine isn't really entertaining, but annoying to me. I have a meeting at our HQ on Monday and also have parking on-site. However, my badge is expired at HQ, even though our building is technically part of HQ. I can't get it renewed without going downtown, but I need my badge to be activated to get into the parking garage. There is no visitor parking at my building, so I will have to pay to park (well I'm not paying, the company will have to reimburse me) when I have free parking. This is why we are losing money folks.

[mbcdefg]

I'm debating whether to pimp out my eBates referral link on my Facebook page, to try and get some more people to use my referral for Black Friday. I hate when FB friends post about MLM stuff (and I usually hide them as a result) and I'm thinking that this sort of falls in the same category. But I want the referral money, damn it. 

I'm not a fan of the GBCN gift exchanges. I don't want to spend $25 on a stranger, especially when my return gift is likely going to be a bunch of lotions and fuzzy socks and bath bombs that I will never use. Hell, I don't buy gifts for my OWN friends ... a friend recently proposed a Secret Santa and the rest of us immediately shut it down because it was a complete PITA the last time we did it. It seems like it happens every year because people are itching for the drama when at least one personal inevitably flakes out on sending a gift ... I enjoy good drama once in a while but I'm not spending $25 to get it.

v , in fairness, the classroom instruments thing is a series. But I get you. I go back and forth between adoring and hating Jimmy Fallon. I've always enjoyed his impressions but I couldn't STAND him on Saturday Night Live because he'd crack up and ruin the sketches (he and Horatio Sanz almost completely derailed More Cowbell). I was honestly hoping he'd bomb on The Tonight Show, especially since I was a big Conan fan and felt awful for him getting completely fucked over, but Jimmy grew on me. 

And I also don't get the Adele love. I like her voice, and I appreciate seeing a fellow Big Girl find such success in the entertainment industry rather than yet another thin blonde waif who can't sing, but I don't know why everyone is creaming their underpants over the new album. I was driving home from work last week and a radio station was playing the album in its entirety. 

[v]

Nov 25, 2015 11:20:29 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

v , in fairness, the classroom instruments thing is a series.

I think this may actually be my issue -- why is everything with him a series?  I have to imagine that there is a ton of writing talent on the Tonight Show.  Why can't they come up with anything new rather than doing the same things over and over again???

I will add that I also find SNL incredibly, incredibly unfunny.  I've never been able to reconcile why I liked 30 Rock so much when most of its talent came from that incredibly unfunny show.  But yes, Fallon was the worst of all of them (except maybe Sandler).

[mbcdefg]

Nov 25, 2015 11:24:39 GMT -5 v said:

Nov 25, 2015 11:20:29 GMT -5 mbcdefg said:

v , in fairness, the classroom instruments thing is a series.

I think this may actually be my issue -- why is everything with him a series?  I have to imagine that there is a ton of writing talent on the Tonight Show.  Why can't they come up with anything new rather than doing the same things over and over again???

I will add that I also find SNL incredibly, incredibly unfunny.  I've never been able to reconcile why I liked 30 Rock so much when most of its talent came from that incredibly unfunny show.  But yes, Fallon was the worst of all of them (except maybe Sandler).

I haven't watched SNL in a very long time. 

Although I watched the Democratic Debate sketch online, where Larry David played Bernie Sanders. I nearly cried when he started yelling about owning only one pair of underwear and drying it on a radiator.

[irene adler]

mbcdefg, pimping out your ebates link on Fb does not fall anywhere near MLM territory.

Christmas would be a lot more fun if gifts were not a thing. Too much pressure, too much waste, too much judging, and, at least for me, too much worrying if whatever I got is good enough

[Pom]

I love my family and friends, but I am secretly thrilled to be alone with Mr. P for the holiday. We've had invitations, but we are simply in need of a break. We saw my nieces last weekend, my sister acted like an ass and was a no show (not bothering to tell anyone until we had already arrived at the destination and it was her idea to do the trip in the first place...her kids were pissed) and my parents were here for a week just before that.

We plan to eat, sleep, love the kitties and watch Netflix.

[irene adler]

Pom, last year thanksgiving was just dh and I and it was the absolute best. We drank a ton of mimosas, ate too much food and did not wear real pants all day. GLORIOUS.



I used to plan my whole day before thanksgiving around listening to Talk of the Nation because it was always the absolute best. Man, I miss that show.

[crashgizmo]

I have a 2 part confession: Part 1 is I lied to my grandmother and told her we were serving food to the homeless on Thanksgiving so we didn't have to spend it with her. Before I am totally flamed, we originally WERE going to do that, and there was no more availability. And we are seeing her the day after. Part 2 is pretty much the only reason we didn't want to see her on Thanksgiving is she judges drinking hardcore and we have tons of delicious wine to drink. So basically, I chose booze over family.

[hamster]

I'm hoping I get the flu and we have to cancel Thanksgiving.

My employer is making us take PTO for the week between xmas and new years. We have 28 days of PTO for sick, vacation and holidays (hospital system) and I'm fucking pissed they are doing this. I'm not quite sure it's even legal, but I'm feeling too vulnerable to make a stink.

[MNH2013]

Not much here other than I'm still sitting at work. There are less than 10 people in my building. At least we get out early.

[tacosforlife]

Nov 25, 2015 11:59:32 GMT -5 crashgizmo said:

I chose booze over family.

Booze has never told me I have a stick up my ass or that I come on too strong or otherwise insulted me.

Solid choice.

[steph96]

Nov 25, 2015 12:02:10 GMT -5 hamster said:

I'm hoping I get the flu and we have to cancel Thanksgiving.

My employer is making us take PTO for the week between xmas and new years. We have 28 days of PTO for sick, vacation and holidays (hospital system) and I'm fucking pissed they are doing this. I'm not quite sure it's even legal, but I'm feeling too vulnerable to make a stink.

The place I work is doing that too. It really sucks for all the new employees that don't have that much PTO saved up.

[steph96]

I'm going to throw a rave in here... The Paula's Choice BHA stuff is a miracle worker!! I had some terrible cystic acne and within 2 uses, it has gone down about 80% and is no longer painful. It also made my blackheads vanish. It is magical!

[audette]

Some might find it flameful. Others might find it amusing.

I have a 23lb turkey thawing in the fridge right now. So we can cook up Thanksgiving dinner for DH and I tomorrow. Just the two of us.

[irene adler]

Nov 25, 2015 12:50:28 GMT -5 audette said:

Some might find it flameful. Others might find it amusing.

I have a 23lb turkey thawing in the fridge right now. So we can cook up Thanksgiving dinner for DH and I tomorrow. Just the two of us.

Not flameful but smart. DH and I fully plan on buying a black Friday turkey and making Thanksgiving dinner for ourselves Saturday or Sunday ( because Mil has a tendency to load up DH his siblings--who all have kids--with leftovers but send us home with our empty plate. The grand babies need to eat! )

[sunshineluv]

Nov 25, 2015 12:48:43 GMT -5 steph96 said:

I'm going to throw a rave in here... The Paula's Choice BHA stuff is a miracle worker!! I had some terrible cystic acne and within 2 uses, it has gone down about 80% and is no longer painful. It also made my blackheads vanish. It is magical!

Will you send me the link to what you are using? My good friend was recently complaning about her cystic acne, she is in the market to try something new.

[sunshineluv]

I love Jimmy Fallon, he is so damn likeable and entertaining. His skits with JTim get me every time.

[steph96]

Nov 25, 2015 13:07:36 GMT -5 sunshineluv said:

Nov 25, 2015 12:48:43 GMT -5 steph96 said:

I'm going to throw a rave in here... The Paula's Choice BHA stuff is a miracle worker!! I had some terrible cystic acne and within 2 uses, it has gone down about 80% and is no longer painful. It also made my blackheads vanish. It is magical!

Will you send me the link to what you are using? My good friend was recently complaning about her cystic acne, she is in the market to try something new.

It's this: www.paulaschoice.com/shop/skin-care-categories/aha-and-bha-exfoliants/_/Skin-Perfecting-Two-Percent-BHA-Liquid-Exfoliant

The people at Paula's Choice are great. You can even email them with your skin concerns and they will recommend products for you. Right now they have 15% off plus free shipping. I split up all of my products into individual orders so I could maximize the number of free sample that I get.

[oswin]

Nov 25, 2015 12:45:13 GMT -5 steph96 said:

Nov 25, 2015 12:02:10 GMT -5 hamster said:

I'm hoping I get the flu and we have to cancel Thanksgiving.

My employer is making us take PTO for the week between xmas and new years. We have 28 days of PTO for sick, vacation and holidays (hospital system) and I'm fucking pissed they are doing this. I'm not quite sure it's even legal, but I'm feeling too vulnerable to make a stink.

The place I work is doing that too. It really sucks for all the new employees that don't have that much PTO saved up.

My company does a shutdown every year and it usually requires people to take 4 or 5 vacation days out of 15 total (sick time is separate). They generously give you the option to take it unpaid or borrow from next year. I hate it.

[niq]

Nov 25, 2015 11:37:00 GMT -5 @crackhabit said:

so the upside of this chipotle e-coli outbreak is that there are totally no lines.

yay.

more for me.

Whenever there is an outbreak on this or that bit of produce, I go buy a bunch of it as the price drops.

[just]

My boss said we could close at 3 today, but I can't leave until my employees do ... WHAT'S TAKING YOU SO LONG!!!! (to show how unreasonable I'm being - its 3:12 right now!)

[spunkarella]

I will be chowing down on not one but two all-out homemade Thanksgiving meals tomorrow and I'm totally phoning it in on my contributions. Publix pies, a (really good) bakery cake, 2 liter sodas. And a raw turkey that I got for free at work. I'm dropping off the turkey with MIL and she's going to cook it for supper while I'm eating lunch somewhere else.

Oh, and this is going around Facebook as an example of why you shouldn't eat other people's homemade food. I don't really see the big deal? The tub is presumably clean? I really hope someone makes good greens tomorrow. None of that canned stuff (I say as I roll up with my Publix pies). 

[v]

Nov 26, 2015 8:30:08 GMT -5 milsaroo said:

S/o the gift exchanges: I tried it last year and had too much anxiety. For BNOTB I think the best gift out of the bundle I gave was peppermint m&ms so when I did the MM one I only stuck to the person's wish list. I love giving gifts but giving to strangers that you want to like you is too hard, lol

Maybe UO, or just a confession: I don't like sex scenes, especially when I'm not expecting it

Oh yeah, me too.  I also kind of don't care when tv or movie characters start a romance -- two characters having their first kiss after a long build up is so meh.  Romance is just not a plot line I care about.

[Pom]

We lied to our neighbor friends and said we were meeting up with family for dinner because they would insist we come over (and we've gone before) for their Thanksgiving celebration. This is their first holiday with a new grandbaby and we didn't want to intrude. Plus, I wanted to stay home, LOL.

We will go over tomorrow.

[babsbunny]

I'm worried that if friend A takes cat of friend B who may spend a year working abroad that the cat will get declawed because friend A has declawed all cats they've ever had. I'm also a little sad that friend C is adopting a kitten who will most likely get declawed because said person already has an older declawed cat.

These declawings are for convenience.