Open letter to some co-workers:
What do you MEAN you're not voting? Are you kidding me? People have been arrested, tied up, beaten, raped, and killed in the struggle to get voting rights and you're just throwing it away. Voting is a sacred duty. Do you know how many people in the world want what you're just throwing away???
Gah!
And you, you there in the cubicle next to me. You with the Lexus. I'm talking to you. McCain's going to tax your health care benefits that you're so smug about. Yeah, that's right. Taxes AND more expensive health coverage! It's a two-for-one sale!
/end rant
So, fellow whiners, what's eating you?
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My dear, sweet husband made my sandwich for lunch today, and he put so much mustard on it that it tastes like a mustard sandwich. That is all.
esperanza for old skool! that is a most excellent whine.
because liz is humble, she isn't mentioning her *excellent* blog series on why she is walking the election beat and voting: http://mysterymommy.blogspot.com/
due to schedule change, daughter is leaving for another year away at college at 7 a.m. is she packing? who knows?!?!
a few days ago, she suggested that i could "just fed-x" everything she doesn't pack. HAAAA HA HA HA! such a sense of humor. [wild-eyed glare.] "oh, you didn't mean that as a joke?" rolling eyes, she said, "MOOOOOM!" "but we might get something for it on ebay." [exit stage left, with door slam.]
stay tuned for the next installment of: as the dorm turns.
Well, the puppy's unknown illness last week turned out to be a Brown Recluse spider bite. We were back at the vet on Saturday, and they kept her until Monday afternoon.
Fortunately the IV antibiotics, IV fluids, and steroids did their job, and Squeak is doing really, really well.
Last week sucked, in about 17 different ways, but so far this one is going better. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
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kathy a, I like your eBay suggestions - bet it got her attention! and esperanza is totally up for Old Skool with her 'mustard sandwich' (eww!).
Whine: Back at school for orientation week, which included 6 hours of assessment workshops today (ie -- are we assessing our students properly? Can we assess the assessment? As an assessment of our assesssment, do we think this is working, and if not, how can we assess that?)
Anti-whine: tomorrow is a free prep day, and I'm so excited about my new classes!
Whine: kids and spouse were supposed to be leaving tomorrow for Houston to visit family. Um, that's not so much happening. All family in the area are still without power, and roads are still treacherous. MAJOR anti-whine: nobody hurt that I know of. No major damage to anyone's domiciles. So it could be a lot worse than eating canned food in 95 degree heat for the next few days.
Totally selfish "I'm-such-a-selfish-beyotch" whine: this means my weekend alone is out the window.
Esperanza for the old school whine. My son is a mustard freak. I've eaten those sandwiches. Blech.
Quinn...you deserve your weekend alone. How dare Ike screw up your plans?
So, this week has shown some major improvements over last week, but then again, when you've hit rock bottom there is no place to go but up.
Daughter's job at Panera is going swimmingly. She brings home bread and more bread. Sometimes pastry,and sandwiches, too. Free food. Can't beat it. But..because it is a whiney Wednesday, I must say I am getting a bit sick of bread. How many loaves of bread can one family of 3 eat?
Son's hurt knee turned out to be a broken femur. I KNOW. Who would have thunk it. It's the very bottom of his femur, on the little heart shaped end. This means physical therapy. Which means a big giant fight with the insurance company. So looking forward to that. NOT.
I have developed the weirdest allergy yet. I appear to be allergic to elastic, and now am having serious trouble with my underwear. TRY to find a bra with no elastic in it. Just try. Never mind undies with no elastic waist. It is probably latex but I blew off my doctor's appt in order to sleep.
Headaches every freaking night.
My crazy client with the daughter who hasn't been in school in 2 years? The police filed a 51A on her, and she has till Sept 26 to get that kid into a school. She is still in total denial and nothing anyone can say can get her to understand that the state is going to take her kid away. SOOO frustrating.
But, my other client, the one with the two CF kids, one denied an iep for years? She had her court appearance this week and WON bigtime. BIG TIME. Details are confidential according to the mediators, but this was HUGE and I'm so proud of her and her husband for hanging in there and making that damn school system follow the law.
My daughter has a decent schedule and is doing well at school. She also got her first paycheck which was SO exciting.
I've been feeling poorly all week, overloaded and having trouble breathing. After tomorrow afternoon I'm gonna break out the pee pills and keep taking them until I'm no longer soused.
Lastly, I'm debuting on local TV tomorrow where I'll be discussing the liberal viewpoint on town politics.
Oh, and I voted in our primary today.
AW!!! John McCain's "tax your benefits" plan may have done the trick! Co-worker now leaning towards Obama!!!
Ok, this is old school. CA.com sucks. I noticed in my credit card bill last night that they had auto-renewed my anti-virus coverage. Annoying, but I should have read the fine print. So I go online, cancel the autorenewal, and guess what? This morning my anti-virus coverage says the license has expired, even though I've now paid for it through next August. I call them up, wait on hold, get connected to a customer service agent in India. She says, oh, you need to download the 2008 version, I'll email you the directions and your new license keys, please hold. 10 minute later I get disconnected. And I haven't received any email from them.
Yay Liz!!! Keep rockin', battleground stater!
I'm feeling surprisingly un-whiney today (lowered expectations! works every time! also fried tilapia.) so I'll just wave to all the pixies and say "Hi!"
hooray, liz! reason wins, once again!
AW: i'm hanging out at the portland airport for another hour, waiting for my shuttle bus. and this airport has FREE WIRELESS! it is the best airport in the entire world.
AW the second: daughter actually got packed, and she and dad hit the road. 2 hours later than planned [before a 9 hour drive], but she seems to have even checked to see that she had things like ID, chargers, and her contact lenses.
WTF travel report: homeland security has bought a spiffy new style of uniforms for all 5 gerillion TSA employees. i feel so much safer. and, i can actually see my tax dollars at work!
Definitely esperanza for old skool. Mustard. ick.
Good whines fellow pixies - hugs all around.
Whine: Who would have thought that THE PAPERWORK about going back to work is more stressfull than going back to work? It's un-fireplacing believeable. Fill out this form. Say this or that in exactly the right way, or you are screwed.
Insurance companies are the pure embodiment of evil (with apologies to anyone who works for one - but really - the whole point is to fireplace with anyone who is sick until they just give up and stop asking you for anything, right?)
Anti-whine: headaches under control.
Whine: depression/anxiety - eh, not so much.
Work date: oct 7th.
Stay tuned....
Mustard sandwich? Blech!
Whine: My son is adorable and flirty and chatty with the frapping barista/checker/post office worker/guy with dog (not to mention my husband), but pure screaming sleepless demon at home with me. Yuck.
Antiwhine: He insisted that he was old enough to climb up on the couch, so I insisted he was old enough to learn how to climb off the couch feet first. He got in down in less than an afternoon!
Oh jenevieve, I had one of those. Charming everywhere but home with Mom. Sending pixie peace vibes so baby charm will spill over on you also.
I don't know what makes me angrier--people who are ignorant enough not to vote at all, or educated citizens who have somehow come to the conclusion that they should vote for McCain.
I'm making an event of Election Day; I plan to dress in some of my nicest clothes, watch election returns all day, and vote with my entire family.
Antiwhine: My son cut his first tooth!
Whine: I think he's working on another one now. And either my daughter is working on one too, or she's just got Sympathy Cranky.
Whine: I missed my dinner last night because I was trapped in the bed, tandem nursing two cranky babies who refused to stay asleep if I moved. I'm hoping I get dinner tonight, but I may just snack early on the assumption that I won't.
Also! Esperanza, I like the absence of the words "oxygen" and "Baboo" from your whine. Old Skool is good.
Work stinks.
People are dumb.
Day care starts next week.
And so I am crabby.
The end.
oh, jenr is so stylish!
Definitely jenr for style.
uccellina: sorry about double duty cranky toothy nursing.
BlackenedBoy, go ye and contact your local Obama group. Celebrate Election Day with your family and hand out lit at the polls!!!
That's what MS and I are doing.
The short of it is I just discovered last night that I will not have half the help I anticipated and expected after the birth of this child. The worst of it is that I am the only one who thinks I need as much help as I think I need, like someone to stay with me overnight at the hospital or, say, someone to hang with my four year old beyond the first or second day I'm in the hospital. (I'll be there three to four days - c-section.)
Why does no one else in my life think having a baby is hard?
I am so screwed.
Aw Amy, I wish I was somewhere nearby. I'd totally foist Demon Baby off on teh Fun Daddy and stay with you.
((Amy))
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