whateverday randoms

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I had by far the most anxiety inducing dream of my life last night ( I know, I know, no one wants to hear a dream recap, but I had to get it all out. Within about a 1.5 hour dream, all of this happened, which took place in like the same day).

-Accidentally scheduled two men for the same date and they showed up together and I had to deal with that
-Had to adopt a beagle dog because the owner was going to put it down otherwise
-Needed to pack up and move from my apartment within hours. Had not started any packing and did not have anywhere to live
-Tried to negotiate with apartment lady and they had one available apartment. It was crazy out of my price range and also under water? Literally there was like a window looking out to the river and boats kept running into the window
-Had to cal my dad to see if he could help me. He couldn't and told me to get a line of credit. Couldn't get line of credit due to bad credit score
-Totally missed a very important work flight to the democratic convention and as of wake up time wasn't sure if I had then lost my job

You guys it took me at least an hour after I woke up to shake the anxiety attack. It was THE WORST!

I figure it's only up from here! Ha!

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An off leash dog attacked me and my dogs last night. It was 45-50 pound fluff ball who was curious and playful like a husky. No owner in sight. I yelled at it and stood aggressively and it still approached and my dogs are not friendly leash dogs to other dogs. So I picked my dogs up and turned my back to walk away. It followed us and proceeded to fight my dogs in my arms. UGH. I was so shaken and I ugly cried. I was screaming so much my voice is hoarse and my throat hurts today. I kneed the dog down and was round house kick/pushing it back (while holding my 2, 17 pounds a piece dogs). The owner finally chased it off and then the owner couldn't get the dog. UGH. I'm scared and upset. We have a 30 or 35 pound limit for animals in my gated complex.
The owner apologized while chasing his dogs. Out of habit and shock I said "it's okay. My dogs aren't friendly" but it isn't okay. I walked all the way back to my apartment while holding the dogs because I was afraid to put them down since I didn't know if the dog was still loose. I don't know their name or apartment number. So I'm sure a complaint to the office manager would do nothing. I feel bad for my dogs. The strange dog mouthed my arm and my dog nipped my chin. No blood was drawn and I checked my dog but he was just wet. One of my dogs released their anal glands so instead of going to bed, I washed a load of laundry while I calmed down.

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@lemonlover that is SO scary!!!!

I had similar thing happen. I had my chihuahua out for a walk in front of my apartment years ago. Suddenly a pack of three very large black dogs, probably 70 pounds each, descended upon my pup. They were super sneaky so I didn't see them until it was too late. I grabbed my dog and held him as high as I could, but the dogs, were jump on my back and front trying to pull me down. I was screaming and trying to run but I couldn't. Finally a very nice man in a car pulled over and was able to get them off just in time. They had me bent over and were scratching up my back. Despite him fending them off, one continued to follow me up the stairs to my apartment as I was yelling and crying.

Some people walked by and thought the poor guy helping me was trying to attack me! I felt so bad. So I'm trying to fend off the dogs while yelling 'it's not him! it's the dogs! He's a very nice man! THANK YOU SIR"

I still feel bad I never got his name or anything to send him a proper thank you.

Sorry to hijack your story, just saying I totally understand how totally frightening that entire situation can be.

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@pdx18 , people came out on their balconies and someone came out their door because I'm 80% sure they thought I was getting attacked or attempted rape by a human. I kept screaming "leave me alone. get away!" With a lot of "no"s throw in. I have NEVER experienced something like this before and I owned my dogs for 6 years now. I was trying to run away as well. I was trying to make it to our pool area or gym.

So I took a sleeping pill to sleep. I HAD A DREAM that  my ex boyfriend travel 17+ hours to see me and didn't shower and we had sex. So I found out and was all "why did you give me dirty dick?" LOL.

ETA that's a dream. 

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@pdx18 sorry about your dream, that sounds awful to wake up with such anxiety. Hope your day gets better.

@lemonlover Wow that is scary, glad you are okay, but sad you had to deal with it at all.

When bf first moved here with his dog he would occasionally walk him late at night (like 11pm and after) with no leash. Our dog is the chilliest/friendliest dog and while I know you can never say never, I doubt he would ever start something with another dog and he loves all humans, so bf just didn't get why I freaked out. However I had to explain to him that other dogs might not be so friendly and since our dog loves people he goes near them wanting attention, while he never jumps on them or anything he could still scare someone who doesn't like dogs. There's a couple dogs around our building that even on leash freak out when other dogs are even in sight, so once he saw that I think the message really sank in and the leash is always on now unless we take him to the apartment dog park.

I am going back to therapy to work on my control and anxiety issues. I think I thought I had them under much better control than I do. When in reality I had control over most day to day stuff, so there wasn't much to set off my anxiety and no one around to take it out on when it was set off. If I get super anxious I tend to either shut down or yell and obviously those aren't healthy. Bf hasn't said anything specifically about wanting me to get help or anything, but I want to be proactive before it does become an issue.

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Jun 29, 2016 11:50:05 GMT -5 @lemonlover said:

An off leash dog attacked me and my dogs last night. It was 45-50 pound fluff ball who was curious and playful like a husky. No owner in sight. I yelled at it and stood aggressively and it still approached and my dogs are not friendly leash dogs to other dogs. So I picked my dogs up and turned my back to walk away. It followed us and proceeded to fight my dogs in my arms. UGH. I was so shaken and I ugly cried. I was screaming so much my voice is hoarse and my throat hurts today. I kneed the dog down and was round house kick/pushing it back (while holding my 2, 17 pounds a piece dogs). The owner finally chased it off and then the owner couldn't get the dog. UGH. I'm scared and upset. We have a 30 or 35 pound limit for animals in my gated complex.
The owner apologized while chasing his dogs. Out of habit and shock I said "it's okay. My dogs aren't friendly" but it isn't okay. I walked all the way back to my apartment while holding the dogs because I was afraid to put them down since I didn't know if the dog was still loose. I don't know their name or apartment number. So I'm sure a complaint to the office manager would do nothing. I feel bad for my dogs. The strange dog mouthed my arm and my dog nipped my chin. No blood was drawn and I checked my dog but he was just wet. One of my dogs released their anal glands so instead of going to bed, I washed a load of laundry while I calmed down.

Ugh I'm sorry. Off leash dogs piss me off. I got bitten by one in the abdomen and like you I was in such shock (and in another country) that as I was crying I told the owner "it's ok." Luckily I ran away and told my SOs sister who chased down the owner and sorted everything out and took me to the hospital.

Maybe someone that witnessed it knows where they live? I hope they don't let their dogs off the leash anymore, there is no excuse. I hope you and your dogs are ok.

[berbles]

I got home from work around 6:30 yesterday and BF was asleep. He slept through the night. He didn't even eat dinner, poor thing. He has to be up every day at 4:30-5. So at least he got like 12 hours of sleep last night! I was a little annoyed at first, but then *I* fell asleep at 9:30, so LOL!

Speaking of the new job, I think I'm going to be really happy here. It's the same kind of work I was doing before, but the department is run completely differently. At my old job I was an admin and paralegal. I was basically everyone's bitch, including the other paralegal. Everyone would dump everything on me that they didn't want to do/felt was beneath them. So if an attorney had a file and printed something for that file, he'd place the printout on the file and throw it on my desk. Here, everyone puts their OWN shit away. If I have something that goes in a file but the file isn't in the file room, I hand it to the responsible paralegal and she files it herself.

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I mean I don't understand why people don't leash their dogs. Maybe this one escaped out their door? idk. The dog obviously didn't have his listening ears on. It's baffling. I love dogs and leashing them is part of being a responsible dog owner. It protects your dog from other unfriendly leashed dogs, other animals, getting hit by a car, etc. I just dealt with an off leash pug the other day and the woman was pissed I would yell at her dog because "he wouldn't hurt you!". Uh my dogs don't think your barking alien dog running at them is friendly and will rip your pug's face off.

[berbles]

Jun 29, 2016 12:50:13 GMT -5 @lemonlover said:

I mean I don't understand why people don't leash their dogs. Maybe this one escaped out their door? idk. The dog obviously didn't have his listening ears on. It's baffling. I love dogs and leashing them is part of being a responsible dog owner. It protects your dog from other unfriendly leashed dogs, other animals, getting hit by a car, etc. I just dealt with an off leash pug the other day and the woman was pissed I would yell at her dog because "he wouldn't hurt you!". Uh my dogs don't think your barking alien dog running at them is friendly and will rip your pug's face off.

UGHHH! ME TOO. And I would have told the pug owner as much. MY DOGS AREN'T FRIENDLY, YOU NEED TO LEASH THEM.

There are several people in my neighborhood who let their dogs roam around unleashed and it pisses me the fuck off. People drive WAY too fast and one of those dogs is going to get killed. One time I was driving down the street and one of the unleashed dogs goes zipping across the street right in front of me, forcing me to slam on my brakes. The owner was on the sidewalk a few houses down, LAUGHING about it! As I approached the stop sign I screamed at him PUT YOUR FUCKING DOGS ON A LEASH! The dog was LUCKY I was going under the speed limit.

I actually wrote a paper in college about leash laws.

If your city has a leash law, and your dog gets hit by a car (even if the dog escaped from a fenced yard!) YOU are responsible for damage to the car/driver.

When we camp in Pismo (on the beach) people think I'm weird because I almost never leave Roxy outside untethered. Other dogs roam around freely and they're fine, but Roxy will take off in heartbeat if she sees another dog. And she's so small that she could easily be hit by a car/ATV/dirtbike. I will leave her on the 60ft lead, thank you.

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I'm sitting outside having lunch at a picnic table and a gopher surfaced literally under my shoe. I screamed and jumped up and he came out of his hole and started crawling around like nothing happened. Wtf. Now I'm sitting with my feet up wondering if he has rabies. Can gophers get rabies?

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Jun 29, 2016 15:16:15 GMT -5 berbles said:

Jun 29, 2016 12:50:13 GMT -5 @lemonlover said:

I mean I don't understand why people don't leash their dogs. Maybe this one escaped out their door? idk. The dog obviously didn't have his listening ears on. It's baffling. I love dogs and leashing them is part of being a responsible dog owner. It protects your dog from other unfriendly leashed dogs, other animals, getting hit by a car, etc. I just dealt with an off leash pug the other day and the woman was pissed I would yell at her dog because "he wouldn't hurt you!". Uh my dogs don't think your barking alien dog running at them is friendly and will rip your pug's face off.

UGHHH! ME TOO. And I would have told the pug owner as much. MY DOGS AREN'T FRIENDLY, YOU NEED TO LEASH THEM.

Yeah I told her my dogs aren't friendly and we actually just came back from the vet due to a hematoma. I even had a yorkie's owner tell me he didn't even own a leash for his dog. DAFAQ. We have leash laws both in our county and then also in the apartment complex lease. They also don't pick up poops. I want to rage at shitty ass dog owners. If I ever hit a dog I would cry and feel so, so bad about it. And angry at the owner. 

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Jun 29, 2016 15:44:02 GMT -5 boing said:

I'm sitting outside having lunch at a picnic table and a gopher surfaced literally under my shoe. I screamed and jumped up and he came out of his hole and started crawling around like nothing happened. Wtf. Now I'm sitting with my feet up wondering if he has rabies. Can gophers get rabies?

oh. ma. gerd. That's awesome. Was he adorable? I wouldn't be concerned about rabies until he bit me... 

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Jun 29, 2016 15:46:49 GMT -5 @lemonlover said:

Jun 29, 2016 15:44:02 GMT -5 boing said:

I'm sitting outside having lunch at a picnic table and a gopher surfaced literally under my shoe. I screamed and jumped up and he came out of his hole and started crawling around like nothing happened. Wtf. Now I'm sitting with my feet up wondering if he has rabies. Can gophers get rabies?

oh. ma. gerd. That's awesome. Was he adorable? I wouldn't be concerned about rabies until he bit me... 

Kind of! I posted a video of him rummaging around on snapchat...this is obviously the most exciting thing in my day lol

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Jun 29, 2016 15:48:11 GMT -5 boing said:

Jun 29, 2016 15:46:49 GMT -5 @lemonlover said:

oh. ma. gerd. That's awesome. Was he adorable? I wouldn't be concerned about rabies until he bit me... 

Kind of! I posted a video of him rummaging around on snapchat...this is obviously the most exciting thing in my day lol

I must say I'm kinda jealous you have a gopher friend now. Let's name him Frank.

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Jun 29, 2016 15:50:25 GMT -5 @lemonlover said:

Jun 29, 2016 15:48:11 GMT -5 boing said:

Kind of! I posted a video of him rummaging around on snapchat...this is obviously the most exciting thing in my day lol

I must say I'm kinda jealous you have a gopher friend now. Let's name him Frank.

Frank doesn't seem too bright! I worry for his future- we have a feral barn cat at my job who likes to hunt.

[sweetchix]

I restarted my calorie counting using "My Calorie Counter". I have 1450 calories each day. I only have a little over 200 left (darn cracker jacks). That's not enough for dinner. I do plan on hitting the gym tonight and will likely burn about 500-600 calories so I'm ok. Today.

Boss lady told me the woman she offered the management job to fell through so she has to start all over again. I asked what that meant for me; should I reapply. She basically said no because of my lack of managerial experience. Hopefully she follows through with reorganizing the department so I can get some supervisory experience. Otherwise I'm pretty much at a stand still here.

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Jun 29, 2016 15:53:14 GMT -5 boing said:

Jun 29, 2016 15:50:25 GMT -5 @lemonlover said:

I must say I'm kinda jealous you have a gopher friend now. Let's name him Frank.

Frank doesn't seem too bright! I worry for his future- we have a feral barn cat at my job who likes to hunt.

Whut? NO!

[berbles]

Jun 29, 2016 16:19:41 GMT -5 @lemonlover said:

Jun 29, 2016 15:53:14 GMT -5 boing said:

Frank doesn't seem too bright! I worry for his future- we have a feral barn cat at my job who likes to hunt.

Whut? NO!

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When I interned at a national park, I used to have to tell people to leash their dogs and some of them acted downright insane over my request...it was like I was asking them to amputate their dogs' legs or something. One guy SCREAMED at me and threw the bag with his dog's poop at our entrance door. Good times.

I am starving and can't wait to go home to eat dinner. Although I have to make something, which makes me just want to go buy something that's already cooked so I can snarf it down.

I solved a piece of a genealogy mystery that I've worked on for almost a year. Yay!

[sweetchix]

Jun 29, 2016 16:29:55 GMT -5 berbles said:

Jun 29, 2016 16:19:41 GMT -5 @lemonlover said:

Whut? NO!

This gif will never not make me laugh. Love it!

[1confused1]

I bought shorts today. I don't remember the last time I wore shorts, but my son is playing tournament baseball all summer and it's way too hot for capris. So, I'm just going to be confident and wear them!

[berbles]

Jun 29, 2016 19:05:30 GMT -5 1confused1 said:

I bought shorts today. I don't remember the last time I wore shorts, but my son is playing tournament baseball all summer and it's way too hot for capris. So, I'm just going to be confident and wear them!

I haven't worn real shorts in probably 10 years. Even though I'm close to the heaviest than I've ever been, I'm seriously considering shorts this summer. Because fuck it. 

My problem is finding shorts that:
1. cover my ass (it's huge)
2. don't expose my crack when I sit
3. don't ride up into my crotch when I walk

[1confused1]

Jun 30, 2016 12:17:02 GMT -5 berbles said:

Jun 29, 2016 19:05:30 GMT -5 1confused1 said:

I bought shorts today. I don't remember the last time I wore shorts, but my son is playing tournament baseball all summer and it's way too hot for capris. So, I'm just going to be confident and wear them!

I haven't worn real shorts in probably 10 years. Even though I'm close to the heaviest than I've ever been, I'm seriously considering shorts this summer. Because fuck it. 

My problem is finding shorts that:
1. cover my ass (it's huge)
2. don't expose my crack when I sit
3. don't ride up into my crotch when I walk

I had the same requirements, I found them at Old Navy.  I was very surprised they fit, but they do!