What in your life is ridiculous or annoying right now?

[SwimDeep]

I have one to add. H logged off early today. I was in a meeting with a VIP when he came downstairs. He was very quiet as he fixed his snack. And then he went into the living room and... TURNED ON THE TV 😑

Webex has good noise canceling now, so I'm not annoyed that anyone might have heard it. What's annoying is that he would have flipped the eff out if I had done that to him. I have a long weekend this week. Think I'm going to watch TV while he's working upstairs? NO

I am also annoyed at myself because I have always told him that I'm good at tuning things out and it doesn't bother me that he watches TV while I'm working. I created this monster 🙃

[DotAndBuzz]

My younger one is just starting dance competitions. She's 13, and I've resisted letting her do it until this year. I finally caved. Went to the dance mom meeting a couple weeks ago, and was just added to their GroupMe.

It's a good thing she loves this, because this group of women are NOT my people.

Thankfully she's doing it with a good friend, and her mom and I (also really close friends, both new-ish to this studio post-covid) were just sitting there like....is this for real? SO MUCH PLANNING DRAMA. Someone has taken charge of booking a block of rooms, which....great? But also, I don't need updates about every step of the booking process in the group chat, including where you tried and couldn't get a block, because XYZ hotel has been booked for 2 years with ABC company, and this other hotel has a wedding, and blah blah blah. Just tell me where the block of rooms is when it's done. Then again, my friend and I may just get an air B&B in the city we have to go to for "Nationals" and call it done.

[mommyatty]

Oh, on the room block thing. DD is going to field hockey tournaments that are “stay to play”. What an absolute freaking scam. A certain percentage of your team has to book their rooms through the tournament website (where the rooms are WAY HIGHER than normal) or they cancel your team’s bid. But we all knew the two main tournaments are stay to play tournaments. So the number of people on our team (most of whom are loaded, way more than I am) are like “But but but I want to use my Marriott points! But but but the Hilton website is cheaper! But but but I could get a better deal on Expedia!” Dude, quit it. It’s a stupid rule but our team’s coordinator didn’t make it up. We have to do it or choose not to play.

And the ones most resistant are the ones who absolutely are adamant that we go to these particular tournaments because of the number of college scouts who go.

[rachers]

Sept 20, 2024 15:41:38 GMT -5 fn2187 said:

School shooting threats are just insane and pathetic. There’s threats going around my area this week and I read possibly all over the US, targeting for specific schools on different days, but shows the same photo of a gun at a desk which just terrifies parents and so many are picking up their kids when alerted. One threat at one school even had a list of targeted students which is just terrifying. These threats HAVE to stop. And I wish there was an answer to make that happen and now!

It’s so awful. I did an interview with the news today talking about it.

I hope it’s a wake up call to parents to monitor their child’s social media and be more involved in general.
We had a child arrested recently for threats and now they’re looking into ten more children involved.

We have to have accountability but we need to get down to the core of this problem. Focus on gun sense candidates and laws, have proper gun storage so no child can access a firearm, and education and remaining vocal.

Im on a tangent because I volunteer on this topic and it’s weighing on my heart so heavily right now. We have schools here that are keeping their kids home because of threats and it is becoming too much.

[basilosaurus]

Keeping with medical, I scheduled a mammogram. Since I have to travel off island I chose a place I really enjoy visiting rather than the closest. This is not my annoyance. I'm actually looking forward to all the good eating.

The annoyance is that I got a WhatsApp confirming the date only, so I responded asking the time. Check in between 930 and 11, then I'll get a time slot in the afternoon for the actual scan. Wtf kind of scheduling is that?! So it's an all day ordeal and not in the fun or historical part of the city where I could happily wander for hours.

It's not like this is just another country doing things differently. Last time, in a different city, I got one done on basically walk in with obviously some wait time between getting the scan, waiting for results seeing the doc, getting u/s, waiting for results, seeing the doc, but the whole thing was maybe 3 hours. I'd change but I've already booked my travel (ferries, trains, and automobile) so I'll just load up the kindle and have a leisurely lunch i guess.

I'm just thankful it's very affordable even with travel and hotel.

[CurlyQ284]

A year and a half ago I planned a trip to Disney, we leave Thursday. My dad passed away 2 months ago, my mom is going to leave my hometown and stay with me (9 hour drive) until her house sells and then buy a house here. She didn't want to be here alone while we were at Disney. My boss leaves for a Viking cruise on the 8th, so I need to be in office while he's gone (I'm the #2).

So now I'm flying directly from Orlando to DC to help my mom finish packing, supervise the movers, and then drive her to Michigan. We should be home on the 6th. I feel exhausted just thinking about it.