Share your frustrations.

[irene adler]

It is hot. Life is infinitely more challenging when it feels like it NEVER cools down.

Whine with me.  

[Pom]

I don't have any bitching of my own, but my poor niece is having a $$ and friendship meltdown. She is in her friend's wedding in November. The wedding is on a Wednesday in Las Vegas. Ceremony at the Venetian, and very costly. Niece is paying for all her own stuff, dress, flights, hotel, time off work, most of the bachelorette party. They have to arrive on Monday for parties and rehearsals. The bride and groom are really being cheap IMO. The MOB and Maid of Honor-sister are also apparently fucking useless.

This is my opinion: if you are asking someone to take an entire week off for your event, well pitch in something, fuck. OR MAYBE HAVE A WEDDING YOU CAN AFFORD or don't ask other people to break the bank to attend. Now the bride is making all these demands on my niece who is very giving. But I think she may have reached her breaking point. I helped her get a better room rate at TI, but I know she can't wait for this moneypit to be over.

[UnderProtest]

I'm so annoyed at "friends" from home. I'm traveling across an ocean and will drive up to see you people. Is it too hard to pick a day/time to meet up? I'm not driving up there to not do anything. Okay, so maybe I will because I want to shop and eat, but I won't drag my kids with me. And don't tell me you are sad that I can't make your kid's event when I've been asking you for dates for two months and you never bothered to tell me about the event.

[midnightrae]

Now that I am able to drive and go back to work in the next couple weeks, my car won't start.

[mbcdefg]

MH is working on the same night that they do Simpsons Trivia, so we can't go to any this semester.

And the next session is their annual costume contest.

[Deleted]

Oh, goody. I needed a place to whine. I'm sorry you guys are dealing with stresses but I am glad to have a place to park my annoyance.

I rarely try to schedule things for myself because DH always seems to have another meeting/dinner/event that he needs to attend and his things always pop up at the last minute. With four kids, age 9 and under, one of us needs to be here or I have to pay for a babysitter and that can be $$$. I was supposed to be escaping for a couple hours to get a manicure and pedicure today. This is not life-altering or a big deal at all but I was looking forward to it after some stressful days last week*. DH informed me yesterday that he needs to help one of his doctors (DH works at a hospital) that lives in our neighborhood get things loaded up to move to their new house. The moving party is tonight at the exact same time as my nail appointment. I don't want to pay for babysitting just to get my nails done so I reschedule for Thursday. Per the norm, DH just sent me a text telling me that he now has to go to a work dinner at another hospital on Thursday night during the time I am supposed to be at my new nail appointment. I don't think I can win this one. Yes, this is totally petty, but it is super annoying to always have to cancel my plans. He is trying to get off early to make it work on Thursday and I would love him for that.

*Last week some friends listed their house for sale and I hosted them and their five kids during the day for three days while they had showing. I cleaned before and after, made dinner and snacks, and dealt with the general craziness of their five kids and my own four kids, plus adults. 9 kids is craziness.

[HoneySpider]

Why the heck is my hair both dry and greasy at the same time?

[glynn]

DH told me he had to go to work for a meeting at 6:15AM so I would have to get the kid to school. I normally do not leave the house until 7:45AM. To take her to school I have to leave by 7AM, thanks for the heads-up DH. No shower or nothing and he walks out leaving me to deal.

[alleinesein]

My rant this week- useless HR managers. I got called last wednesday about a job I applied to at a former employer. The call came in late wednesday afternoon so by the time I got the vm it was after business hours. I called back on thursday and got their vm that said they were out of the office for the day and that they would be returning calls on friday. I left a message with 2 phone numbers that I could be reached at including the best times to call me. They also have my email and my skype ID. It is now tuesday and I am still waiting for a call back from HR. How do these idiots still have a job when they cant even return a call.

I am so over this job hunt. Its been 30 MONTHS! I have no drive, passion or even an iota of excitement for anything left in me.

[orangeblossom]

Allergies/eczema or whatever it is bothering my eyes.  They look and feel a hot mess.  They say I'm not allergic to anything besides dust, and even that wasn't a huge reaction, but I call BS. I go outside, and my eyes immediately start itching.

I went to the dermatologist for a follow-up on my hand eczema today.  It's looking better.

Expectations: Hey cutie pie doc, my hands are much better.  This is the regimen that's going to work.  Oh, BTW, can I get some face ointment, I was desperate and used a really high-strength one on my face.

Doc: Take off your glasses.  His response:



Me: I know, it's bad, so what about that cream.

Doc: You need a steroid shot.  



Me: Uh, so what about that ointment or a steroid taper, because



Doc: It's up to you.


Me: Fine.  Proceed to take off cardigan for shot in my arm.

Nurse: Oh, you can put your shirt back on, this one's going in your hip.

Me: 



Nurse: Don't tense up.

Me: I'll try, thinking, 



The end.  My eyes feel  slightly better already.

Hope everybody's day and the rest of the week improves.

[itsme]

I have a coworker who is a one-upper who sucks the joy out of people's lives. Oh you were secret service? I was going to do that. Oh you were in the military? I was going to be an officer. What's the max you can lift? Oh, I can do that.  It's really hard to have a conversation with people when she is always butting in.  

[irene adler]

Pom, what a twat. I'm sorry your niece has to deal with that

itsme, my one upper cw has been gone for 4 days and returns tomorrow. Work has been exceedingly pleasant. I am going to miss the quiet.

[rootbeerfloat]

Oh, orangeblossom. Feel better.

[orangeblossom]

Sept 22, 2015 16:41:28 GMT -5 rootbeerfloat said:

Oh, orangeblossom. Feel better.

Thank you.

[blondemoment123]

My house is a mess, my anxiety is through the roof, and work is driving me batty. Is it Friday yet?

[steph96]

I just want to go home, go to the gym, and then study. But nooooo. There is a terrible wreck that has traffic stopped. I've been parked on the highway for 30 minutes. Grr.

[agnes]

I'm frustrated and anxious. Great combo.

I'm stewing over a work issue. One department is not doing their job and creating expensive mistakes. But for some reason my department has to make up for it. NO ACCOUNTABILITY.

My mom group texted that my grandma is in the hospital and might had had a heart attack.

I was an hour early to get to my appointment (crossing my fingers on a positive outcome on a future opportunity. I am being vague on purpose) because if I left later traffic would be worse and I was just over work. OVER IT. I needed a break.

[sfy]

agnes, I hope your grandma is okay and recovers quickly.

[midnightrae]

My case manager is apparently having problems getting me a therapist.

[monsterz]

H told me he had our DVR set up to record all our shows. Nope he forgot to set up Big Bang Theory and I don't see it as being available on demand.

[agnes]

Sept 22, 2015 18:24:11 GMT -5 sfy said:

agnes, I hope your grandma is okay and recovers quickly.

thank you. Once I finally got to talk to my mother, she said she had an "episode" not a heart attack. They did do angioplasty and they said she has cardiomyopathy due to stress. She should be out of the hospital tomorrow but will have to take it easy.

[sfy]

Sept 22, 2015 21:30:18 GMT -5 agnes said:

Sept 22, 2015 18:24:11 GMT -5 sfy said:

agnes, I hope your grandma is okay and recovers quickly.

thank you. Once I finally got to talk to my mother, she said she had an "episode" not a heart attack. They did do angioplasty and they said she has cardiomyopathy due to stress. She should be out of the hospital tomorrow but will have to take it easy.

Oh, that's good to hear!

[dellabear]

@forcuatro um, why can't the doctor hire movers?? Moving parties are for starving students.

My rant is my fucking insurance company. They gave me a huge run around to get a preapproval for IVF coverage, which they only cover in very limited circumstances that I happen to be in. When I finally got the preapproval, it didn't actually tell me what would be paid. So then I sent in my claim. First they keep putting me off, telling me it takes 10 business days, oh we're a little behind, oh we didn't receive your forms until X date (when I can see in my online account they were received 3 days earlier), excuses, excuses. 

Then they refuse to pay the claim until I get the doctor fill out a medical questionnaire...the same one already filled out for the preapproval. Because they didn't notice that I was already pre approved, even though I sent a fucking copy of the preapproval letter with the claim.

Then I get told that I need to obtain a breakdown of fees WITH MY NAME ON IT because the generic one off the clinic website isn't specific to my situation even though the receipt with my name on it says IVF fee $6200 and the website says IVF fee $6200 includes x, y, and z.

I completely lost my shit on the agent at this point. Actually it was the supervisor. Not that it matters. There is no accountability whatsoever. It's an employer medical plan and my employer is a huge organization that is not going to care about my service issues or change providers over it. I'm sure they're both on the same page of "pay as little as humanly possible".

Now I've obtained this new cost breakdown with my fucking name on it, and sent it in and am assured that my claim will be processed in 2 business days. I'm sure they will shortchange me. I'm so fucking annoyed with this.

[Susie]

On Friday night I tried to pay off 3 of Calvin's tiny SLs. I did the whole "payoff quote" with effective date the next day, paid that amount, yada yada. Today I look, and the 3 loans have balances of:

$0.70
$0.70
$0.68

I can't pay them off, because this servicer won't allow another payment to be made w/in 5 days of the last one. It won't automatically get paid off with a 9/28 regularly scheduled auto draft payment because it advanced the due date to sometime next year. So in theory, next week I could manually pay off the stupid $2.08 -- but watch it leave me with like a $0.02 balance or something? WHY DO THEY MAKE THIS SO HARD? TAKE MY DAMN MONEY.

[crashgizmo]

Hugs to all of you who are having challenges!

I am just....crabby. That is the only way I can describe it. The biggest problem with that is that I manage a large team and I don't want to have an attitude with them, since they are all working so hard and it's a busy time of year.

DH is still having back pain from his injury this weekend and wakes up 3433423094 times a night. Which in turn wakes me up. Plus, work is stressful, and I don't have any big trips or vacations planned to offset the daily grind. Add that to the constant foot pain I am having (plantar fasciitis) and I'm chock full of crabbiness.

[irene adler]

orangeblossom, how are you feeling today?

[AAM2012]

I am sitting in the doctors office and every.single.person who is around me smokes. I am dying to breath!

[orangeblossom]

Sept 23, 2015 9:47:33 GMT -5 irene adler said:

orangeblossom, how are you feeling today?

Thank you for asking. My eyes feel much better. They still look a sight, but I'll take that over irritation.

Hope you're having a better day too!

[mich1]

Last week, my sister called me to tell me my niece was singing the National Anthem with her chorus at the MN Twins/Indians game last night. It was going to be televised. As we don't get sports channels, we hightailed it to Buffalo Wild Wings and got them to change one of the TVs to the Twins game, so *maybe* I could see my niece.

The stupid channel cut to commercials during the singing of the National Anthem, dammit!

[explorer2001]

I'm at my doctor's office. It's official. I have the flu. I haven't had the flu in years. I am vigilant about getting my flu shot, in fact I was scheduled to get it next week. Being sick sucks! Doubly when there is nothing you can really do about it.