The "I had a crappy day thread"

[H. Caulfeild]

i hope everybody's ok with this but...
like most people, i don't always like listening to other people's problems, but i want everybody to listen to mine, so i just thought, maybe, maybe, we could start something where if you wanted to, you can rant about what really ticked you off today, or whatever you want to complain about...and everybody can listen (or pretend to), and you can respond if you wish...

i'd start but i had a pretty good day actually, but i still have three more pages to go on this stupid Othello paper...

[oceanflower]

Well, my 2-yr.-old has had me up since 2:30 A.M....he's not sick, so I don't know what's up... It's now 6 A.M., my daughter just woke up too sick to go to school, I have to get my twins ready for school in one hour, then be at a teacher's conference at 8:30 AM , then take the twins for their yearly doctor's check-up at 3 PM....and I've had 2 hours sleep. I'd have to say this is the beginning of a crappy day. :bad:

[MSREADER]

H.C,

Looks like you started this just in the nick of time. ;)
Liz: And it's a Monday!! I think it the perfect day to order out for dinner. I hope your day improves. :good:
I'm going to bed now. :forward:

[Star_Anise]

Well, I can't complain too much right now, I had a day that started out a bit crappy; I hadn't had enough sleep, didn't get to eat until 10pm, got dumped by my friend who'd promised to take me to a concert... but my day somehow got better when I went to work.

Now, I am successfully procrastinating, which means my essay is not getting written...but I'm definitely going to remember this thread, I get the feeling I'll need it in the near future.

[oceanflower]

Well, my 2-yr.-old has had me up since 2:30 A.M....he's not sick, so I don't know what's up... It's now 6 A.M., my daughter just woke up too sick to go to school, I have to get my twins ready for school in one hour, then be at a teacher's conference at 8:30 AM , then take the twins for their yearly doctor's check-up at 3 PM....and I've had 2 hours sleep. I'd have to say this is the beginning of a crappy day. :bad:

It's now 10:09 P.M. and I'm getting ready to go to bed and put an end to this crappy day. Nighty-night all!

[H. Caulfeild]

sooo.....today pretty much sucked (enter synonym for donkey here). there's this girl (more like a woman) who i really like, and she is...well...there are very few words to describe her...but i made a complete fool of myself in front of her and then i tried talking to her after that and ended up using a backhoe to dig myself an even bigger hole, that and my foot was getting in the way when i was trying to talk. that and i got a c- on my math test and turned in a four page paper only to find out it was supposed to be six but my friend misinformed me and i only typed four and i asked a really stupid question about crime and punishment (which we are reading in our english class right now, and i found out i'm missing seven math assignments that could really hurt my grade and end of the quarter is next wednesday, and i haven't done and physics homework in about oh...a month, and we have a test tomorrow...and i'm quitting my job cuz i hate it even though i need the money for college and i don't know what job i'm going to do this summer even though my dad's putting a lot of pressure on me to join a carpenter's union, but i don't want to...
yep, i had a crappy day, and it's only 4:00 in the afternoon, i have the whole rest of the evening to screw up even more, alright...
on a positive note, i started reading paradise lost, it's amazing, but today still sucks...

[oceanflower]

:o Wow, H.C., that makes my crappy day sound pratically positive! Don't worry about the young lady in question...we women are used to men ....how shall I say this...well, making asses of themselves because of us, and a really nice young lady will not hold it against you. :) As for the schoolwork...well, tomorrow's another day to put it all in perspective. And the job decision will just have to wait until the day after tomorrow (As Scarlett O'Hara always said in Gone With the Wind, " After all, tomorrow is another day!" ...and she had a lot of crappy days that she managed to pull herself out of). ;) And if you're thinking "Who asked you, Liz?" the answer is "No one!" ....but I'm a mom and can't help myself. :)

[musi]

i have less than 24 hours to my exam.. am i ready? no. and i am unlikely to be..
the vastness of information is killing me. how on earth could our teacher come up with so much information when he barely speaks during the lectures????????????
oh, i am truly shocked. i also have to write a 7 page long essay on the very subject: information technologies in harbours. great! truly wonderful beginning of a day.. :)
and the information for the exam somehow consists 50% of materials in english, 30% in german, only pehaps 20% in Estonian and guess what the language of the examination will be? estonian!!! great! the day is getting better every second.
every new link i open for information i get killed instantly - more and more things..

i know, i should have started preparing earlier.. i know that, i fully realized it. but that should not stop me from complaining.. :)

and i am waiting for a mail from my friend.. hm.. what am i worried about more? the exam or mail? should be exam!!! concentrate!

thank you for starting this link. it really helps. :)

[oceanflower]

It sounds like our students have bad cases of "spring fever!" ;) Hang in there, musi..good luck with th exam and esay...and maybe after you get the letter you're waiting for, things will look brighter. :)

[H. Caulfeild]

thank you for starting this link. it really helps. :)

no problem, i thought it was a better solution than punching a wall (which is usually how i take out my rage built up through the week, or day, or whatever...)

[dumptruckrabbit]

ive decided to post my crappy day message in advance, for tomorrow is bound to be an emotionally draining hideous mess of a day, and with all the work ill have to do because of he snowball effect of chronic procrastination and also sickness, at least ill get all of my whinging out of he way first (i can tick that little box of the list, then). due to the fever and headaches ive been experiencing for the last two weeks (yes, it would have been better for me not to have eaten away at my immune system with rediculous alcohol as soon as i felt well enough to keep it down , and yes, i possibly could have improved my lot by going to the doctor, they have been known to cure sickness. but i didnt.) i have to catch up on all ive missed (although i was there in the lecture hall, i was in a half delirious fever trip) as well as giving my tutorial presentation on foucalt (who the hell can contemplate truth and power when they cant even remember how to operate a can of spagetti?) and the one on iambic pantameter- is it the natural metre for the english language or is it an ideological construct in which is embedded social prejudice? so far my plan for the discussion reads- 'no. ' and i also get the results back on the presentation i did while both sick and half drunk (the intelligence inducing mixture of cold and flu tablets and beer) without any sort of plan, off the cuff. yeah, that would have to have been the pinnacle of my intellectual capacity- cant wait to hear what he thought of that.

[dumptruckrabbit]

ha! i have just been informed that today is in fact saturday! i have all of tomorrow to procrastinate and avoid all constructive behavior like the plague, and crappy day will in fact be on monday, which is not tomorrow but the next day! life truly is beautiful. now, To the pub and beyond!

[oceanflower]

ha! i have just been informed that today is in fact saturday! i have all of tomorrow to procrastinate and avoid all constructive behavior like the plague, and crappy day will in fact be on monday, which is not tomorrow but the next day! life truly is beautiful. now, To the pub and beyond!


:o You'd better stay away from the pub and get in bed until Monday!

[Star_Anise]

ha! i have just been informed that today is in fact saturday! i have all of tomorrow to procrastinate and avoid all constructive behavior like the plague, and crappy day will in fact be on monday, which is not tomorrow but the next day! life truly is beautiful. now, To the pub and beyond!

Just admit to yourself (like me) that you do your best work under pressure. This way, staying up until 5 in the morning writing an essay seems perfectly sensible. And alcohol is very good for creativity. That's my excuse, at least.

[oceanflower]

Early this morning I found out that my cousin in Massachusettes was killed in a motorcycle accident. Late in the morning I received a phone call informing me that my oldest son had been in an automobile accident and was on his way to the hospital. Thank God my son just has whiplash. I have a headache. So far, a crappy day.

[musi]

Early this morning I found out that my cousin in Massachusettes was killed in a motorcycle accident. Late in the morning I received a phone call informing me that my oldest son had been in an automobile accident and was on his way to the hospital. Thank God my son just has whiplash. I have a headache. So far, a crappy day.

really sorry, oceanflower! but cheer up, everything will be fine.
hope your son is feeling better soon.

[Scheherazade]

Sorry to hear about your loss, OF. And hope your son get better soon.

[oceanflower]

Thanks, everyone. My son has minor whiplash, but his car is badly damaged. At least the accident wasn't his fault. In the motorcycle accident my cousin died instantly, thank God, and was having fun with his friends at his last moment. No one else was hurt.

[musi]

i still have a sore throat..
does that count?
:(

[MSREADER]

Thanks, everyone. My son has minor whiplash, but his car is badly damaged. At least the accident wasn't his fault. In the motorcycle accident my cousin died instantly, thank God, and was having fun with his friends at his last moment. No one else was hurt.

Liz,
I am so sorry to hear about your son, whiplash hurts. :(
My deepest sympathies to you and your family on the loss of your cousin.

Joyce

[MSREADER]

I have had a crappy week.
For all sorts of reasons, illness, car problems, family.....and for those of you not in the U.S.A,
April 15th is Tax day. I haven't finished mine. :o
Thanks for listening.
I'm crawling back into my hole now.
Hope to be out by the end of the week......

[oceanflower]

I have had a crappy week.
For all sorts of reasons, illness, car problems, family.....and for those of you not in the U.S.A,
April 15th is Tax day. I haven't finished mine. :o
Thanks for listening.
I'm crawling back into my hole now.
Hope to be out by the end of the week......

I hope you've made it relatively unscathed, Joyce. And as for tax day, you can always get an extension...I did. :)

[dumptruckrabbit]

everything turned out fine in the end. i got 80 on that thingy that i did when sick and pissed, and did that foucault thing off the top of my head, riding high on lots of strong coffee and dont think i went too badly. so all that whinging was for naught.

[musi]

i am stupid..
i had a crappy day yesterday because i am stupid!!! my iq is high, but i am STUPID!!!

damn it, i got so used to being a pessimist, now i tend to see bad things in everything there is!!! my self-appraisal sucks, so i start doubting myself. great! i try to see bad things in the only person that i should really trust and love with all my heart. and what does he have to do with it? he is the greatest human being on the planet! ain't that stupid??
great, now i am going to cry! sure, dear, that is a perfect way to deal with a problem - being sorry for yourself and crying all the time! i am stupid!!! really stupid!

no words.. i am speechless.. this would be nothing, if it didn't repeat itself..

i know, i am not making any sense, but perhaps putting it down on sort of a paper will help.. hopefully..

and then in the end, every time i start worrying and get scared i realize it was nothing to worry about. and does that teach me - no, it does not! i start it all over again - as if i am looking for a thing to worry about. masochist! lovely! what am i afraid of, i wonder? there is nothing for me to be afraid of, but i am scared!! why? i know, low self-appraisal.

i should get over it, deal with it, do something.. or just send this fear to hell and become fearless..
easier said than done.. well, this has potential.

thank you for this thread and thank you for reading. i do not make sense, but i feel better.

[musi]

good, i am stupid once again!
for totally another reason: for acting the way that was described above..

[oceanflower]

everything turned out fine in the end. i got 80 on that thingy that i did when sick and pissed, and did that foucault thing off the top of my head, riding high on lots of strong coffee and dont think i went too badly. so all that whinging was for naught.

Like musi says, it helps to get things out of one's system sometimes. Whinging can be very therapeutic in the proper setting...such as here. :)

[MSREADER]

i am stupid..
i had a crappy day yesterday because i am stupid!!! my iq is high, but i am STUPID!!!
damn it, i got so used to being a pessimist, now i tend to see bad things in everything there is!!! my self-appraisal sucks, so i start doubting myself. great! i try to see bad things in the only person that i should really trust and love with all my heart. and what does he have to do with it? he is the greatest human being on the planet! ain't that stupid??
great, now i am going to cry! sure, dear, that is a perfect way to deal with a problem - being sorry for yourself and crying all the time! i am stupid!!! really stupid!
no words.. i am speechless.. this would be nothing, if it didn't repeat itself..
i know, i am not making any sense, but perhaps putting it down on sort of a paper will help.. hopefully..
and then in the end, every time i start worrying and get scared i realize it was nothing to worry about. and does that teach me - no, it does not! i start it all over again - as if i am looking for a thing to worry about. masochist! lovely! what am i afraid of, i wonder? there is nothing for me to be afraid of, but i am scared!! why? i know, low self-appraisal.
i should get over it, deal with it, do something.. or just send this fear to hell and become fearless..
easier said than done.. well, this has potential.
thank you for this thread and thank you for reading. i do not make sense, but i feel better.


"the only person that i should really trust and love with all my heart."


Musi,

I am posting some quotes in reference to your comment, above, that I highlighted.
My own brain is not up to full capacity, so the only words of wisdom I can offer is:
"Give yourself a break." The following words are much deeper. ;)

Take care of yourself.
Joyce


"You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy." ~ Jane Roberts

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness." --Robert Morely

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance." ~Oscar Wilde

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)

[H. Caulfeild]

ok, so first of all, sorry about any misspelling or grammar trash...i'm typing with one hand, cuz islashed the other two oper with a knife (to the bone, which i saw, along with all the arterials gushing blood on the bathroom wall and fat cells) the pain is almost nauseating, and i can't do anything (cuz it had to be the hand i write with), so ill be out of action here for awhile, sorry guys... i'm just having a pretty crappy days...

[H. Caulfeild]

i meant two fingers (index and middle) on my other hand, i don't have three hands...

[oceanflower]

Geez, Zach...that's the crappiest day yet! Did you have to get a million stitches? That had to be a scary experience...take care of that hand! *big hug*

[MSREADER]

ok, so first of all, sorry about any misspelling or grammar trash...i'm typing with one hand, cuz islashed the other two oper with a knife (to the bone, which i saw, along with all the arterials gushing blood on the bathroom wall and fat cells) the pain is almost nauseating, and i can't do anything (cuz it had to be the hand i write with), so ill be out of action here for awhile, sorry guys... i'm just having a pretty crappy days...


:o Oh my gosh, HC!! I am so sorry. Please take care and heal quickly.
And I'm sorry but I just gotta ask........What the he** were you doing with a knife in the dam* bathroom?!?! Geez.....
I wish I knew how to send you pictures of goodies, but I don't....sorry.
Get well soon!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Joyce
:)

[musi]

Joyce, thank you very much! i am better now really, hopefully it will last. i think all will be great! thank you! :)

[musi]

Take care of your hand, H.Caulfield! Get well soon!

[musi]

well, when things like this happen, i realize how relative everything is.. i wanted to complain about a crappy day, because i ran out of my favorite tea and since i am a tea-maniac, i can't help living without a cup of steaming beverage.

but the accident with HC sort made me think - it is nothing really.

so, i won't complain.

[musi]

i really wanted to post in a good day thread the fact, that the project i had been doing for a moth is finally complete. no, it is not. it has a mistake in it. i have to start all over. great! :mad:

[H. Caulfeild]

well...i wasn't exactly in the bathroom when it happened, which kinda sucked cuz its my friends new house and i'm not sure if they have blood all over their carpet now...but i wsa trying to open a box, the knife caught on something and my fingers ran right down the blade...
on a lighter note...the doctor at the hospital that sewed me up was told that i had cut myself, so she thought she was dealing with a suicidal patient...hehe...really funny...and thanks for the well wishes, i'm almost now forced to finish The Idiot cuz i have nothin else to do...

[Ygraine]

Today I discovered that our delightful but useless history teacher has given us till next Friday to do our history coursework (on a subject he hasn't taught us) from start to finish. I have a French oral to write and prepare and my coursework to check through and finish off. I have to learn the Aeneid II Latin ==> English translation and be able to comment on literary features. I need to know Emma and Pride and Prejudice for a closed text exam (and that's the most enjoyable thing). I also need to learn the Duchess of Malfi, Howards End and The Merchant's Tale, on which I also have to write an essay. oooh, almost forgot the notes and document case study on the Cold War. I hate exam period

[H. Caulfeild]

dang, i'm sorry...i was going to give an update on my ever-increasing problems with this stupid knife cut but never mind...

[oceanflower]

Give us an update, Zack...we're here 'cause we've had crappy days..misery loves company. ;)

And I had a crappy day, myself. I couldn't sleep all night because my pain medication wasn't doing the trick (arthritis and fibromyalgia), but I ended up staying in bed until 4 PM with lidocain patches all over me, then I got up and made dinner which made things worse, but finally I got back to bed...and slept one hour because I'm sore all over. So...here I am. :bad:

[musi]

my stupid project.. i wonder if i ever will finish it.. i gave it to my teacher. he gave it back. since i have to prepare for the exam tomorrow, it will be a very long night..

this night was very long too.. i had to prepare for the test, but i was sooo tired, so i slept most of the time. my dog woke me up, because it was lonely (mom is away).. the test today sucked..

[oceanflower]

Good luck, Musi! :)

[H. Caulfeild]

so i found out that my fingers might never fully work again...i'm having surgery friday to repair a tendon and two nerves, so yeah, i'm kinda pissed at myself

[MSREADER]

so i found out that my fingers might never fully work again...i'm having surgery friday to repair a tendon and two nerves, so yeah, i'm kinda pissed at myself

:( Oh Zach....I am so sorry. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. Do not be ;) pissed at yourself. What is done, is done. Please try to think positive.
I will look forward to reading a post from you in the "what was the good thing that happened to you today?" thread.
Best of luck to you.
Joyce

[oceanflower]

So sorry, Zach, and good luck on Friday.

[musi]

i somehow could not log on to literatureforums yesterday.. :(

well, anyway i am here today! :)

[Star_Anise]

I've had two crappy days running, and like Musi, couldn't get to the forums yesterday, so you're going to hear all about them. Firstly, I'd had about 5 hours sleep yesterday (mostly self inflicted, but hey, I'm going to complain anyway) I was in a terrible mood, so kept snapping at my friends, the felt bad for doing so. Went to work, had a headache, kept stuffing up, then couldn't sleep last night (not my fault this time).

Then today, sick as anything, couldn't find painkillers, sent someone to get them, they took two hours, went to work, kept stuffing up, now exhausted. Have done none of the housework, and have to be up tomorrow for driving practice, and am desperately hoping I am feeling better tomorrow. Otherwise I'll dope myself up to the eyeballs for the gig I've been looking forward to for weeks. And then have to remember not to drink. And then back to uni on Tuesday, having achieved none of the goals I was meant to in the holidays. Maybe I should just become a hermit. Problems solved.

[musi]

Cheer up, Star!
i really hope you are feeling better after a good sleep. somehow good rest solves the problems.. :)

[oceanflower]

Last night while the family was away, our two dogs managed to open up the cabinet under the kitchen sink and get into the trash. The last time this happened, Lindsey, our Standard Poodle, ate paper towels and a plastic bag, got diarrhea, and had to be take expensive pills from the vet and eat a special diet for several days. Well, Lindsey's done it again, diarrhea and all! So, it's back to the vet tomorrow, my checkbook trembling and at-the-ready. As if Mondays aren't bad enough.

[MSREADER]

*and that's why I have cats* ... So sorry for your troubles though, Liz & Lindsey :(

I had a very crappy day Friday. So crappy, I couldn't post. Now must make decisions. :( :(

[Star_Anise]

I had the best time at the gig last night, but now I'm paying for it. A high price. That I will probably be paying for the next week.

[musi]

i am back..
the trip was an interesting one, though really weird and tiresome.. a long story..
what do i complain about?
i will not see my friend this weekend.. makes me wanna cry.. and i really know the reason for this crying.. and i sounded really stupid on the phone with him, so i called back and said that he is the most wonderful person on the planet and i miss him very-very much.. well, at least that made me feel better..

as for other crappy things, i almost haven't slept all the week.. :) germany is really warmer than it is here,

oh, damn, i have to go drink my tea.. i will continue complaining later.. and saying hello like a normal person.. :)

[musi]

continued..

but friends of mine wanted to buy a car there and take it with the ferry to estonia. well, the car wasn't exactly in the consition it was advertised over the net, so we spent whole day argueing with them about everything - very tiresome..
then we reached some agreement, which was not at all what we planned, actually the whole trip turned out not the way it was planned, but then they called us and said that everything had to be changed. so we spent 4 hours in the night on Hamburg Hauptbahnhof in McDonalds :) waiting for the train on our way to Rostock. somehow this train station does not have any place to spend the night.. quite unplanned, we were supposed to go there in the morning without any stops.
then we spent 9 hours waiting for the ferry in Rostock and when we finally were on board the ship, hoping and praying for a shower and sleep, we realized we bought a cabin right on the bottom of the ferry (no windows :) ) and practically no place, just 4 beds attached to walls with 50 cm difference. :)

what were the good things? i am back home, though i am really tired. but i bought Douglas Adams in Hannover, so i read some of it. thank goodness there was a bookwith me! :)
and my friends are still happy, because though it was really tiresome trip, they still got the car and got it much cheaper. :)

[Jezebel]

Ok, I am hoping this is going to be cathartic… I woke up this morning hoping to go to some garage sales, get some books, go over to my friend Joe’s house with my boyfriend…basically have a nice relaxing day since I’ve been going nuts with all my school work lately. First, it rains. So no garage sales. Then as we’re driving to Joe’s the brakes in my car stop working. Whatever, Joe picks us up, we hang out for a while it’s nice then we go home (my brakes are half assed working at this point). I get home and there is a letter from my mother waiting for me. She has sent me my charge bill- that she has taken the liberty of opening (she always does this, it makes me crazy), she also sent me a nasty letter (my mother has psychiatric issues that she denies, the mentality and maturity of a 16 year old, blames me for everything, and refuses to go to therapy). Now I’m wide awake and wired and pissed off because of my mother and have a paper to write tomorrow. Now I’m not as angry anymore but I think I’m going to cry so maybe that is good (less emotional repression)? I don’t know, hopefully tomorrow is better.

[oceanflower]

It may not solve anything, but I personally feel better after a good hard cry.

[musi]

i think i am in trouble.. damn..

[musi]

i am stupid again.. same thing, different day.. patience is a virtue, but when will i learn to understand it? speechless, dumb, stupid, motionless, insensitive..

[Star_Anise]

i am stupid again.. same thing, different day.. patience is a virtue, but when will i learn to understand it? speechless, dumb, stupid, motionless, insensitive..

To quote Ambrose Bierce: "Patience is a minor form of despair, often disguised as a virtue." I wouldn't worry too much.

[musi]

i have realized it is very difficult to love.. and i somehow absolutely suck at it.. :(
mom says some take a lifetime to learn to love.. but it is veeery difficult. i wonder why?

[musi]

there is a disasterous pain, going through my body. it stops me from moving. it doesn't let go. i cannot relax. my back is strained, i cannot step on my leg, every movement hurts.
why am i cursed with pain for 5 years of ballet? :(

[Star_Anise]

My tooth has crumbled, god knows why, at least its the one that has no nerve beneath it. I hope I can get an emergency dental appointment tomorrow, but this means maybe missing uni. Still, a girl has to eat occasionally.

[Jezebel]

Evan (my boyfriend) is in school but his parents are home (who I cant stand) so I'm stuck sitting in our room all day with nothing to do until he comes home at 6 tonight. The brakes on my car don't work so I can't go out and drive anywhere and there is nothing within walking distance. I'm bored and lonely and I had to write this thing about my family for school so now I'm sad :(

[Star_Anise]

It's not even midday, and I've already been turned away from emergency dental care, had several nasty busdrivers, feel sick and dizzy, it's cold, they have terrible tea at uni, and I can't eat much other than slop. I now have to go to the lecture that drives me insane, have to keep several engagements with people, then go to work tonight, and all I want to do is go to sleep. Barring that, curl up in a ball and long for the sweet embrace of unconsciousness.

[oceanflower]

It's not even midday, and I've already been turned away from emergency dental care, had several nasty busdrivers, feel sick and dizzy, it's cold, they have terrible tea at uni, and I can't eat much other than slop. I now have to go to the lecture that drives me insane, have to keep several engagements with people, then go to work tonight, and all I want to do is go to sleep. Barring that, curl up in a ball and long for the sweet embrace of unconsciousness.

Geez, Star, that's awful. When will you be able to have your tooth fixed? A toothache can be excrutiating....do you have strong painkillers?

[oceanflower]

For musi, Denise and Star, who have been having several crappy days:

***HUGS***

[Star_Anise]

Thanks Liz. I got the tooth fixed yesterday - they wouldn't have wanted to turn me away. So feeling much better now, especially after that GIGANTIC hug. Now just have to catch up on all my study. That could be excruciating ;).

[musi]

my blood pressure is 92/66, i can barely move, my head aches, i have no strength. i hate coffee, so can't get strength there, stopped liking chocolate (how could i?).. the pulse is 86, which is not good either. oh, there has got to be a way out...

[skye]

Poor girl, take a rest.

[oceanflower]

my blood pressure is 92/66, i can barely move, my head aches, i have no strength. i hate coffee, so can't get strength there, stopped liking chocolate (how could i?).. the pulse is 86, which is not good either. oh, there has got to be a way out...

I think you should see your doctor, musi, honestly.

[eflo]

I think you should see your doctor, musi, honestly.
Geez, musi. I don't think oceanflower is giving you advice...I think that's a command. And if it's not a command from oceanflower, then consider it coming from me. I hope you feel better! :)

[musi]

thank you! i think cognac did the trick for today, but i surely cannot go on doing that every day.. :) (too bad, it was a really tasty cognac..)
if this continues, i will definetely go see a doctor and take a lot of rest.. :)

[skye]

Aha, home remedies? ;)

Just don't wait too long before you go to the doctor.

[oceanflower]

I bumped into someone's car this afternoon. I was backing up on a crowded street, and bumped into the bumper of another car. It didn't do much damage...only scuffed the paint, but you know how something so seemingly insignificant can end up costing a fortune. Well, I'm insured...but I hate to think of my insurance rates going up. :bad:

[musi]

my back aches.. and so do my legs.. i am forcing myself to drink tea with raisins.. yuk..

[Scheherazade]

Everytime I click on this thread to post something, I read other people's posts and then decide that I should not burden others further with my own... troubles.

[oceanflower]

Everytime I click on this thread to post something, I read other people's posts and then decide that I should not burden others further with my own... troubles.


All troubles, large and small, are welcomed here...crappy days are relative. So tell us about yours. :)

[H. Caulfeild]

ok, well, i'm going to rant again...so if you don't want to be utterly depressed (i'm not sure how bad this will be) stop now...
so for two weeks i've been trying to work up the guts (moxie...) to ask this girl out, but because i'm so freaking retarded, and have absolutely no communication skills whatsoever, it's almost impossible, i can imagine myself doing it, but i can't, i think about what i want to say, but i never get the opportunity, and on top of it all my fingers are beginning to stiffen up, despite getting their strength back, and i can hardly bend them, and the dead skin is starting to fall off revealing the swollen pink skin underneath with the scars lacing across the fingers, now that's attractive. my grades are dropping, i have to write three huge papers in the next two days with information coming from eight different books. i have a physics final this week which includes relativity which i really don't understand at the moment, and my parents are going through some financial and health issues. my best friend just moved away, ummm...my car is falling apart...and i'm feeling especially obese today...it's awesome...

[oceanflower]

That's a crappy day for sure, Zach...I'm so sorry. My advise...unasked for, but you're gonna get it anyway...is to get the academics out of the way before you ask the girl out. You're so overwhelmed now, but when things calm down it probably won't be quite so traumatic to ask her out. At least you won't have so much pressure on your shoulders. And I hope things work out for your parents.


***BIG HUG***

[musi]

HC, i am wishing you a lot of strength now! i agree with oceanflower, the school stuff should be the first to go off your shoulders. and maybe you should see a doctor because of your fingers? that could be serious.
anyway, cheer up and i am sure everything will work out fine in the end!

[musi]

i have a feeling, my country cannot live without rain.
last summer we had ONE day of sunshine with +25 in the air. thank heavens i was not working that day.. i think Estonia cannot tolerate the sun.. i mean, yesterday was the most wonderful day of all previous spring with sun, warm wind, which is really rear here.. we had barbeque outside and after the sauna i went out to lie in the sun. total bliss and happiness.
guess, what's the weather like today. it is raining. it is pouring, as you say - it is raining cats and dogs, as we say, it is pouring as if out of the bucket. but the fact remains - here i am in my new Dolce Gabbana jeans i bought on Friday running home without the umbrella, totally wet, totally angry, totally suffering from pain in my leg (love towards balet is somehow lethal) and i am wet. i am glad i am not made of sugar - otherwise i would melt..
well, i shouldn't be surprised, i should have got used to it, but i, alike any other person here, always love the sun, since we have it 50 days in a year, because the rest of the time it is raining.. it is always raining..
i am not making sense, i am certain, but in case you would ever want to visit Estonia, bring an umbrella, a lot of good mood and sunshine, 'cause i am sure any other country has it so much, they can easily share..

[H. Caulfeild]

i feel your pain musi...almost four straight weeks of gray skies, despite the weather forecast being bright and sunny with highs of 55, yeah right. well, if i see the sun anytime soon i'll send him your direction...

[Star_Anise]

He's not here - but I don't mind. I like stormy weather, but that could be because we're experiencing a bad drought. I'll let you guys have the sun if you send me the rain!

[angelhair]

Star, you can have it by the river full if you like. We've had more than our fair share this winter and desperately need some warm sunshine. We'll do you a swap if you like? :)

[Star_Anise]

Star, you can have it by the river full if you like. We've had more than our fair share this winter and desperately need some warm sunshine. We'll do you a swap if you like? :)

Sure thing! Although I shouldn't make this deal with winter coming on - I still hold out hope we'll get some rainfall of our own, and we could end up flooded!

[angelhair]

I hope that winter is kind to you. Brings you just the right amount of rain to replenish the earth and re-stock the rivers. No flooding involved. I've come rather too close for comfort to that lately. It's so not nice.

[musi]

i am lonely.. and i hate it..
my Mom and Dad are gone for a vacation all together with grandma and grandpa and they all are miles away from me. i am never bothered by my family, when mom and dad are home, so now i am really lonely. and i am offended, that i am left here alone. [sad smile]
my friend is also far away and cannot come for next couple of weeks - he has important issues at the university. and i am here alone. offended. [smile grows even sadder].

i am left here alone with my doubts, my worries, my self-pitying.. my mom (she is a psychiatrist, but she is a wonderful mom, not one of those weird psychotherapists one sees in movie, because at home she is always mom) has a lot of people calling her telling about their problems. so yesterday one woman called and as i said that mom won't be back till June, she said: "we'll have to live ourselves". this made me think that i am really lonely now. it is not that i have a lot of problems right now and i want mom to solve them, everything is perfectly fine, i just feel so bad.. :( oh, i want to cry.. yes, it is offense and i really pity myself that i am here alone, all alone with noone there. i come home to see an empty house (cats and dogs are there, but i love humans!) and i hate it. i fall asleep in a big silent house and it gets so lonely, that i have TV playing all day long - cartoon network - to hear something but silence. it is weekdays, all of my friends are working and working a lot, so i cannot have them over at my place or go anywhere..

and when i think i have problems, i think of people in Africa.. :(

i am still lonely now. perhaps, the fact that i realize i am totally and completely angry with everybody leaving me alone now soothes the matter as i think that if i realize the problem, i can solve it.

emm, thanks for listening and reading, it means a lot to me.

[oceanflower]

I'd love it if you'd come to my house for a cup of tea, musi...how soon can you be here? :) Oh well, we may not be able to share a cup of tea with you, but we're here to keep you company, if only in a small way.

[musi]

i suck.. at everything.. i am angry, depressed, frustrated.. my mood is below zero and nothing seems to change it.. oh, i do not want to think, i do not want to do anything, because the things i really want to do now i can't, they are impossible at this point of time.
i suck..
i cannot even talk to the person i love.. i screw everything up.. and i am very angry at the world.. and at myself..
where is such a lovely place where i can shout everything i want to say and be heard? and be understood? the thing is, it is a stupid time to shout, not the moment, because it is pointless. everybody has their own problems and there i come with my stupid anger and misery.
i need to believe very much..
nothing to say, nothing to ask, nothing to do to make me feel better, unless.. but that unless in present conditions is too unreal to be true.

[oceanflower]

musi, you should seriously consider seeing a doctor. You had some serious sounding physical symptoms a week or two ago, and you sound extremely depressed now. A good physical exam with complete blood work might shed some light on the situation. I only suggest it because I went through te same thing about 15 years ago, feeling ill and depressed, and I turned out to have a problem with my thyroid and adrenal glands. See a doctor...it can't hurt, and will most likely help.

[majime_na_yuki]

I feel depressed; I hate myself. My depression has been caused, as always, by school. I always make the most ridiculous mistakes. I always feel as if others are judging me for every move I make...I don't know what's wrong with me...Everyone hates me. I hate myself; my lack of talent; and my appearance. I'm always on the verge of tears. My life is very awful at the moment - that is how I perceive it; and I can't perceive it any other way.

[oceanflower]

I feel depressed; I hate myself. My depression has been caused, as always, by school. I always make the most ridiculous mistakes. I always feel as if others are judging me for every move I make...I don't know what's wrong with me...Everyone hates me. I hate myself; my lack of talent; and my appearance. I'm always on the verge of tears. My life is very awful at the moment - that is how I perceive it; and I can't perceive it any other way.

I'm no doctor, but what you describe sounds more like clinical depression (I've ben there myself) than just a crappy day. If you have been feeling this badly about yourself for some time, yuki, you should definitely see a doctor...either your family doctor or a councelor or therapist. There's no need to live with feelings like this, any more than you would with so-called 'physical" aliments such as asthma, etc..

[musi]

musi, you should seriously consider seeing a doctor. You had some serious sounding physical symptoms a week or two ago, and you sound extremely depressed now. A good physical exam with complete blood work might shed some light on the situation. I only suggest it because I went through te same thing about 15 years ago, feeling ill and depressed, and I turned out to have a problem with my thyroid and adrenal glands. See a doctor...it can't hurt, and will most likely help.

thanks, oceanflower, i will go to see a doctor on tuesday. but i called a doctor about my blood pressure being 85/64 and he said it was perfectly normal for young women my age(but i do not know anybody with the same problem). nothing to worry about, should drink more (i do a lot) and with time it should be ok (couple of years :) ). but maybe it could be caused by low number of red blood cells in my body.. well, we will find out about it next week.. :)

[angelhair]

thanks, oceanflower, i will go to see a doctor on tuesday. but i called a doctor about my blood pressure being 85/64 and he said it was perfectly normal for young women my age(but i do not know anybody with the same problem). nothing to worry about, should drink more (i do a lot) and with time it should be ok (couple of years :) ). but maybe it could be caused by low number of red blood cells in my body.. well, we will find out about it next week.. :)

Well, I don't know you that well yet, but it sounds as though you deffinately need checking out. Keep us all informed about what the doc says and the outcome won't you? :)

[musi]

Well, I don't know you that well yet, but it sounds as though you deffinately need checking out. Keep us all informed about what the doc says and the outcome won't you? :)

of course!!

[musi]

just another crappy moment of this day: i got up all my strength and nerves to make a phone call, with my heart beating like hell and my cold hands trembling.. and.. guess what? no answer.. :rolleyes:

i don't know what to say.. can i cut off my head to stop thinking? like: no brain - no problem?
oh, damn, i sometimes wonder, how can my heart take it all.. but it is a trained device already..

[oceanflower]

just another crappy moment of this day: i got up all my strength and nerves to make a phone call, with my heart beating like hell and my cold hands trembling.. and.. guess what? no answer.. :rolleyes:

i don't know what to say.. can i cut off my head to stop thinking? like: no brain - no problem?
oh, damn, i sometimes wonder, how can my heart take it all.. but it is a trained device already..

That's so typical about the phone call, isn't it? And I know what you mean about cutting off your head to stop thinking...I often feel that way. Sometimes I'd just like to go to bed and sleep for a week to give my brain a rest. *sigh*

[musi]

my heart is breaking and falling into pieces. i wish i could describe the process, but it is painful enough to think of it. oh, hell, this is terrible. i do not have the strength to go on, i do not have any strength. :(
please, i want everything to be ok, i want to stop crying, i am tired of crying..
oh, this is hell..

[oceanflower]

my heart is breaking and falling into pieces. i wish i could describe the process, but it is painful enough to think of it. oh, hell, this is terrible. i do not have the strength to go on, i do not have any strength. :(
please, i want everything to be ok, i want to stop crying, i am tired of crying..
oh, this is hell..

It's not much but: *HUGS* from me.

[follow_me_around]

Teribbly sorry to hear that Musi..I don't know what happen...but another warm HUG for you...Hope you'll feel better soon.


Cheers

[oceanflower]

Today I went to see my doctor because the left side of my face felt like one huge toothache. They had to fit me in, because it was so busy (as Mondays usually are). So I sat and waited in an uncomforatable platic chair for 2 hours, during 1 1/2 of which I was "entertained" by two bored little boys loudly pretending to shoot at each other (a healthy game for 3-yr.-olds, don't you think? :rolleyes: ) When it was finally my turn, I climbed onto the scale for the inevitable weigh-in...and was unpleasantly surprised to find that I'd gained 7 pounds since my last visit. And here I thought the heat in my clothes dryer was shrinking my jeans. :p Anyway, the Dr. diagnosed a sinus infection, which I'd known all along, and within 15 minutes I was leaving the office with my prescription...but not before I paid my bill from my last visit...$56.00, and that's with insurance. I got to the pharmacy to find a long line of fellow sufferers...and after 45 minutes I was handed my antibiotic, and I handed over $30.00 for it ...and that, too, is with insurance. The day was not a total loss, however. The pharmacy was in a Sam's Club, and whilst waiting for my prescription I browsed through the book racks...and treated myself to a book: French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano. Time to start working on those extra 7 pounds! :rolleyes:

[musi]

it is not a crappy day so far :)
but i am still in some depression.
my grandfather is ill and is very seriously ill. my mom and dad are taking him back to Germany by car, cause he certainly cannot take a bus there. what looked like a simple cold, turned out to be something weird. and he is old and he is not in such a good health. and he always talked about dying at 76, because his brother and sister did and now he recently became 77, but i think it is the age his mother died.
i am hoping for the best. i just try not to think of it.
and i am still alone. :)
and sometimes mad at my friend, but i realize with my rational part of the brain, that i shouldn't be, however irrational part has some stupid thought there, which always spoils the fun and adds vinegar. i should get rid of it. somehow. :)
i just get confused with things, with what i want and how i want it to be. i try not to think of what i would like at the very moment, because recently i have realized dreams come true. always. so, be careful what you wish for.. :)
i am in a relationship with the most wonderful person on the planet and though i am mad sometimes, i still think he is the best for me. he is not perfect, but i would love to spend the rest of my life with him. oops, did i just make a wish? :)
but i have to kill my pride to stop hurting myself now. and the process is painful. :)
i think it will all be alright in the end.

[musi]

my grandfather is in koma and i don't know if he makes it..

[Scheherazade]

So sorry to hear that, Musi... :( He will be in our thoughts.

[oceanflower]

I'm sorry to hear that musi. I was very close to my grandfather, ma he rest in peace, so I can imagine how you must be feeling. I'll say a prayer for your grandfather.

[follow_me_around]

Deep sympathy from me as well. I was not there when my grandpa was sick and finally passed away, and I didn't spend much time with him because of the distance between us.
Hope he'll make it

Cheers

[musi]

thank you!
the news came this morning, that he is feeling a little better, but he has a pneumonia in both lungs (sorry, i do not know how to say it correctly in English) and has diabetes, so the recovery might be difficult. but hope remains, since today the temperature was a little lower..
thank you again!

[oceanflower]

thank you!
the news came this morning, that he is feeling a little better, but he has a pneumonia in both lungs (sorry, i do not know how to say it correctly in English) and has diabetes, so the recovery might be difficult. but hope remains, since today the temperature was a little lower..
thank you again!

You said it correctly in English. :) He'll continue to be in my prayers.

[musi]

there are 47 detected errors on my pc. what am i to do? click "next" button..
i guess i just get on everybody's nerves, because i am depressed.. and the more i am depressed, the worse things happen. i just bore everybody with my problems, not thinking other people might have problems too.. how selfish..
ah, i keep on doing it - this post is a perfect example..

[follow_me_around]

I think it's ok, I mean maybe at the moment what your going through is the hardest one among us. I mean facing day by day, waiting for the good news about someone you love who's in comma, is really a huge thing...

No worries there, if posting makes you feel better, feel free to do so
Cross my fingers for your granddad

Cheers

[skye]

I had a crappy week, I'm not sure I won't to stay in my current job (teaching), my leg hurts all the time, I can't sit for long, my parents are annoying, me and my mum we never agree when it comes to clothes, but she just won't accept it, I'm always without money, I keep getting advice from everyone but nothing works, oh yeah and the importance of a university degree is totally overrated (at least here), I wish I only finished high school and got a normal job like a shop assistant or a truck driver or something.

[oceanflower]

I'm going to cheat a litlle, since I've only just begun my day.....but so far it's been a crappy day. Yesterday my sinus infection seemed to get worse..sinus pain, achey all over, chills...so I called my doctor. He said that I'm taking the strongest antibiotic aavailable for sinus infections, and that I just nedded to give it time to work. That't be fine, except today my brother is getting married. I still feel like hell this morning, and I have to get myself, 3 teenagers, 1 toddler and 1 husband ready to leave by 1:20 PM. My face is puffy from the sinus infection, so I'm really going to look wonderful. :rolleyes: I keep coughing from the post-nasal drip, so I'm just drinking the cough medicine straight from the bottle.....oh, it's pathetic, but I can't be sitting in a church hacking away. *sigh* And it'a only 10:30 AM.

[Star_Anise]

Crappy day, more like Crappy extended weekend

Let's see; Thursday, someone decide to have an emotional breakdown and blame me for everything, although obviously I'm the cure, not the problem. Friday, kitchen floor being replaced, meaning early morning, lots of banging, no access to food. Then I managed to lock myself out of the house, on a very cold day (coldest of the year so far, what luck). Saturday, the electricity decided to cut out (third time in a month), our circuit board had pretty much melted, so no electricy until this morning. Keep in mind how cold it is. Sleep deprivation is not my friend.

At least today, we got the electricity back. But while I've been catching up on all the things I couldn't do, I have achieved no study. Combine this with how much assessment I've had, how much is still due, working more shifts than usual, and how much organising I'm doing for upcoming birthday, and you'll get the picture of how crappy things feel right now. *vents primal scream*

Sorry about the sinus infection, Liz. Hope the wedding still went well, and you managed to enjoy it somehow.

[oceanflower]

Thanks, Star. The wedding was lovely...I made it through without feeling too terrible...but woke up this morning with a swollen throat and no voice! Dragged myself to the doctor, who said I've got a virus on top of the sinus infection. He gave me some prednisone for the throat, so that should do it...I hope. On the positive side, the sinuses are actually feeling better today.

Sure am sorry about your weekend...."crappy" is an understatement. :(

[musi]

Star, cheer up, i really hope this too shall pass.. :good:

[musi]

it is not a crappy point, but my cartoon network channel now goes with a full translation.. it is not in English any more.. :rolleyes: it has lost what was so great about it.. hehe..

i guess i will switch to discovery now..

but i was really shocked this morning, i thought i was mad at first, but then realized i wasn't..

oh, damn, they spoiled so many great moments in front of a TV..

[Star_Anise]

Addendum to crappy weekend: why can't people leave me alone when I tell them to? Lock myself in the house, heating cranked up, to work on my assignments, and I have tradesmen, family members, friends, random strangers annoying me every half hour. Next time, I'll just pretend I'm not home.

And this is not the time for self indulgent "writer's block"...


The wedding was lovely...I made it through without feeling too terrible...but woke up this morning with a swollen throat and no voice! Dragged myself to the doctor, who said I've got a virus on top of the sinus infection. He gave me some prednisone for the throat, so that should do it...I hope. On the positive side, the sinuses are actually feeling better today.

Geez, Liz, when's the universe going to give you a break? You make me look like a whinging little kid. I'm sending you all the positivity I have left. It's no good to me any more ;)

[follow_me_around]

Why parents always worry when their 24 yo daughter doesn't have a bf at the moment?


Cheers

[musi]

i have my mother board removed from my laptop. it will be changed, but i shall not have my computer for the weekend and i have new dvds i wanted to watch.. and all the information on "puh" (that's my computer name) might be gone.. nice..:bad:

[H. Caulfeild]

my emotions and i have been waging a month long war and i believe that i have finally won, and i think that's made me a little more depressed...

[oceanflower]

I had a whole crappy week. After a week-and-a- half of battling a sinus infection, then a virus on top of it, I ended up back at the doctor's office. The sinus infection is cleared up, but now the virus has set off an infection in my bronchiole tubes....I'm coughing night and day...and am taking my second course of antibiotics, second course of predisone, and a new cough medicine. I'm feeling a bit low, physically and emotionally.

[angelhair]

(((((( Liz :)))))))) We're all here for you whatever the probs are.

I am a complete mess this week. I am missing someone dreadfully that I have no right to miss. I can't help it. No matter what he does or how he treats me, somehow I just can't let go. What is wrong with me? He has me hooked so deep I feel like I'm drowning at times. :( My knees are killing me. I hate having to admit that I have arthritis in both knees at my age (I've had it for many years now ) but I have and i'm going through a seriously painful flare up, which means I find standing and walking incredibly painful. I shouldn't complain as I have been through a 9 month *good pahase* where I can lead a normal life and nothing stops me, but it really, really hurts. It never really goes away, but at best is livable with at worst - like now it's driving me insane.:( I don't know how to get comfy and feel my life is on hold for heaven knows how long. For a free-spirited person like me thats hard to take.
I keep telling myself that there are so many people much worse off than me, and to a degree that helps, but it doesn't ease the pain or stiffness.
Right now I feel like I'm going mad, and there's nothing I nor anyone can do about it. Not even REM helps.

Sorry about the rant, I just had to let some of it go.

[musi]

To everybody, who is having a hell of a time - warm and big HUGS!!!
(to me as well)

my grandfather is dying. the chances of recovery are almost zero, there is nothing doctors can do, they have never seen anything like it (why are they doctors then??). they told my cousin to prepare the relatives for the sad news.
as for me, i am losing strength and belief in life. i wish someone would hug me now and tell me that everything is ok and there is nothing to worry about, but so far, there is only me who can do it, nobody else. but as i myself am torn among fear, doubts and confusion, i am a bad choice for a hug. you can guess how my mother feels about events happening. her heart is not good, though she is really a healthy person. so i can't go to her right now talking about how i feel that everything is pointless. i have lost a meaning in life. where can i find one? in me, perhaps, but it is hell to fight fear and confusion. i should just send it all to hell and forget about everything, but it doesn't seem to work. i can't go complaining to the person i love because i have been doing it for the last 2 weeks and he is probably tired of me crying all the time.
i just need something to believe in. something big and strong that i can rely upon. i know nothing is permanent, but it takes time to realize it.
what am i doing here? why am i writing it? why is certain phone number switched off right when i need it most? why can't i fight any more? i used to be a strong girl, surviving many difficult things, but i am losing this battle, unless i get backup real soon.

and when i think i have problems, i think of people in Africa..

[oceanflower]

I think we all need a big *Group Hug*

[musi]

:D

sorry, it just made me smile!!
have you seen the shark tale? there was a group hug there - a wonderful moment! :D

yes, i agree on a group hug, a cup of hot tea and chocolate cake!:)

[Star_Anise]

Have I mentioned I hate birthdays? *sighs*

[musi]

my grandfather died yesterday.

[Scheherazade]

So sorry to hear that Musi... May he rest in peace.

[oceanflower]

I'm so sorry, Musi. My prayers are with you and your family.

[TariNumenesse]

Musi, I am so sorry! I'll be praying for you and your family also.

[oceanflower]

After spending the night coughing, I woke up with pain in my sinues....again! While I was dressing for the doctor's appointment my daugher ran in and informed me that her room is covered with insects. I figured she was exagerating and sent my husband to check it out. He returned with the news that her room is swarming with TERMITES!! We've only lived in this house since October, and we had a ternite inspection, so how can this be, I wondered. The exterminator soon informed me that these kind of termites are called "swarming termites" and live in the ground for years until just the right time when they swarm into a house. Figures they picked this time to swarm, doesn't it? That's ok, the exterminator will kill 'em all....for $1400!!

I staggered to the car 1400 dollars poorer, and drove in a daze to my docor's appointment. The sinus infection is the same one I've been battling for a month that never really went away (it was just pretending to, to lull me into a false sense of security). The doctor gave me a prescription for a third course of antibiotics and a third course of prednisone, which the pharmacy was happy to provide for me...for $40. No wonder they looked so happy to see me again.

I am going to go to bed now.

[Star_Anise]

*HUGS* Liz! I can't do much to help, but I can *HUG* you!

[oceanflower]

Thanks, Star...I needed that! :)

[Jezebel]

My crappy day: I'm a college student so I am not living at home (plus my home is not a "healthy" environment) and my mother is pissed that I don't live at home (attachment issues etc) so she gave away my dog to "get back" at me for leaving her. Only thing is she gave him away two weeks ago and didn't tell me. I went to my house on Friday to show my car (my old car is off the road and in the garage at my mothers house I am trying to sell it) and I don't see my dog anywhere so I ask where he is and my mother says oh he's at an animal shelter. I called the shelter so I could say goodbye but eh is alreayd adopted out and gone.;

[musi]

My crappy day: I'm a college student so I am not living at home (plus my home is not a "healthy" environment) and my mother is pissed that I don't live at home (attachment issues etc) so she gave away my dog to "get back" at me for leaving her. Only thing is she gave him away two weeks ago and didn't tell me. I went to my house on Friday to show my car (my old car is off the road and in the garage at my mothers house I am trying to sell it) and I don't see my dog anywhere so I ask where he is and my mother says oh he's at an animal shelter. I called the shelter so I could say goodbye but eh is alreayd adopted out and gone.;

oh, Jezebel, i am really sorry!:(

[oceanflower]

My crappy day: I'm a college student so I am not living at home (plus my home is not a "healthy" environment) and my mother is pissed that I don't live at home (attachment issues etc) so she gave away my dog to "get back" at me for leaving her. Only thing is she gave him away two weeks ago and didn't tell me. I went to my house on Friday to show my car (my old car is off the road and in the garage at my mothers house I am trying to sell it) and I don't see my dog anywhere so I ask where he is and my mother says oh he's at an animal shelter. I called the shelter so I could say goodbye but eh is alreayd adopted out and gone.;

Oh my God, that is so cruel! I'm so sorry, Denise. You must be broken-hearted.

[Jezebel]

completely :(

[musi]

if i ever wished for something to be happening the way it is happening now - i shouldn't have.. because it is certainly coming true..
why do i get myself into things like this???
why is the most perfect guy not really perfect and is not taking this relationship the way that it would end up with "a happy ever after"???
why do i keep meeting a certain person in certain periods of time for the last 8 years???
will i ever stop feeling something towards him???
shall we get on with this weird relationship for the rest of our lives???

i really feel i am tired of all these things. i mean, i must just take them easily - nothing bad is happening, everybody is happy, but for me. this story is getting absolutely insane every next minute. i am glad i am not married and do not have children - that would be the worst part right now. i am so confused, i just want to get away, very far away and just get lost and see who first comes to my rescue. hehe..

old feelings should stay asleep, they should never be awoken. it is unbelievable, really.. this world is so small, that it would be strange, if everything wasn't mixed up together. but this mixture is so weird..

well, i will just relax, i guess. we'll see what happens next. let it all flow. do nothing much, just enjoy life the way it is coming at me.. after all, everything is fantastic, just because it happens..

and when i think i have problems...

:confused:

[CrazedPianoKid]

today my best friend shot me right above the belt on the hip and on the finger playing paintball it wasnt too bad but i still wanna shoot his finger (with a paintball gun of course)

[oceanflower]

today my best friend shot me right above the belt on the hip and on the finger

As soon as I got this far in the sentence I was shocked...I though you got shot with a bullet! :o Well, I've never played paintball, but I assume it hurts to get shot outside of your protective clothes. Sorry to hear about that.

[musi]

i have somehow sprained a ligament in my right hand shoulder.. it hurts.. and now i am in an elastic bandage all over the upper part of my body and the weather is whispering: "let's go lie in the sun and take a swim!" :rolleyes:

[oceanflower]

Sorry to hear that musi. Get a good book, take your painkillers,, and just lie back and let it heal. :)

[TariNumenesse]

Holidays started and I have a cold. My theory is that it came from exams and the teachers forcing us to work too hard :mad: . I tried to go out this morning and felt absolutely horrid by the end of the meeting I attended, and now I am housebound.

[oceanflower]

Holidays started and I have a cold. My theory is that it came from exams and the teachers forcing us to work too hard :mad: . I tried to go out this morning and felt absolutely horrid by the end of the meeting I attended, and now I am housebound.

Kleenex, throat lozenges, cozy jammies, hot tea or cold ginger ale, and a good book...that's my prescription.

[musi]

i have my right arm in bondage, so i can only use my left one. the doctor said i have some liquid in my shoulder and for one week at least i should not move the arm. knowing how i hate being helpless - it is a disaster and i am not enjoying it at all. :(

[oceanflower]

Sorry, musi. :(

[musi]

Sorry, musi. :(

thanks, Liz. i now have my mouse under my left hand, but the typing still sucks. :)
i am trying my best to just let it all flow and not worry about a lot of things i cannot do right now.. sometimes it works.. :)

[musi]

i have a feeling i will be fired.. well, we'll see..

[oceanflower]

Geez, musi, I hope not...good luck!

[musi]

this seems to be my favorite thread recently..

well, my laptop battery still holds 80 min instead of 4 hours, so today it will be taken away again.. oh, the horror, the pain.. well, if it won't work after that, they will have to replace it!!! all of this is so much not cool!!! damn, i've got things to do on it!!!:bad::mad:

[musi]

great!
if i am fired, i know why - because i am a buddhist and the people i work for are Lutherans. you should have seen their eyes when i said i need 2 weeks holiday to go to a buddhist camp to Germany in the end of the month! i never thought religions play such an important role in people's attitudes.. well, come what may..

[Scheherazade]

So sorry to hear, Musi. Didn't think religion would play such a role either.

[angelhair]

Today has been avery crappy day. I missed out on seeing R.E.M in concert in my home town despite making it to the front row, a friend seems intent on argueing rather than talking, and I'm having doubts about something serious. urgh I hate these days :(

[ArthurDent]

Today has been avery crappy day. I missed out on seeing R.E.M in concert in my home town despite making it to the front row, a friend seems intent on argueing rather than talking, and I'm having doubts about something serious. urgh I hate these days :(

Did "angelhair" come from Nirvana's Heart shaped box?

The specific line is "Cut myself on angel’s hair and baby’s breath".

Here's another thing to connect to the subject. Did you know that Kurt Cobain wrote Aneurysm for Bill Berry of REM?

Anyways, It seems like "One of these days" eh?

[oceanflower]

Today has been avery crappy day. I missed out on seeing R.E.M in concert in my home town despite making it to the front row, a friend seems intent on argueing rather than talking, and I'm having doubts about something serious. urgh I hate these days :(

AAGGGHHH! Jakki, you poor thing! I know you were looking forward to that concert! How did you miss it if you were in the front row?

[oceanflower]

Here's another thing to connect to the subject. Did you know that Kurt Cobain wrote Aneurysm for Bill Berry of REM?



I love R.E.M...I've been a member of the official R.E.M. fanclub since 1999... and I didn't know that! Of course, the song obviously refers to the aneurism Bill Berry suffered while R.E. M. was on tour for their Monster album in 1995. Thanks for that tidbit, ArthurD. :good: :D

[musi]

oh, angelhair, i am really sorry to hear that..
but indeed, how did you miss the concert?

[Star_Anise]

Well, it wasn't so bad a day, but some things are worth complaining about, such as a customer throwing up in the bathroom (thank god I didn't have to clean it up), and friends at work being damn nosy about my private life. Gotta hate gossip like that when it's about you!

Not only that, but my car decided to pack it in, when I was going to get some driving practise. Still, its raining, so I have to be happy.

[oceanflower]

Once again I was at the doctor's office, and guess what's wrong with me? Another sinus infection! This time the doc sent me for a CTscan, which turned out to be a nightmare. For a sinus CTscan you have to lie on your stomach on a hard, narrow table, arms at your side, and put your chin on a little pillow, face tilted up. I have painful bone spurs in my neck, however, and that position was a torment for me...I held it for eight agonizing minutes that seemed like an hour...I was soaked in perspiration from the effort. Then the technician says "That's it for the sinuses...the doctor wants an internal ear scan... can you hold it for 15 more minutes? "Not unless you inject me with morphine," I said. After a brief consultation with the radiologist, I was comfortably on my back for the ear scan. Afterwards I rushed to the elevator, a different one than the one I used when I came in. I got in, pressed the buttom for the ground floor, and non-chalantly looked behind me...to see a blur of trees and sky racing by...I shouted "Oh my God!" as I hurtled to my death in the backless elevator... then realized that the elevator's entire back wall was a window! I'm so glad no one was in the elevator with me. :rolleyes:

[H. Caulfeild]

so work sucked today, i work at a golf course, mowing greens and stuff, so i'm pulling out of the garage with a trailer behind me and the trailer, which is wider than the cart i'm in, hits the corner of the wall, and of course one of my supervisors is standing right there watching me. i stop the cart to see if there's any damage, i might have to pay a couple hundred dollars for a new trailer depite the only damage being a broken bolt...and my supervisor pretty much cussed me out...great way to start the day... now my newly bought car is in the shop and i can't find someone to take me to get it...and it's flippin hot, and i'm just about to go thirty thousand dollars in debt to go to college, *sigh* too much...

[oceanflower]

So sorry, Zach. *hugs*

[Star_Anise]

It's a shame I feel the need to add to this thread again, but here goes...my parents have been acting like children again, my friends are channelling nothing but negativity towards me, and I'm still falling behind in everything that has to be done. What is unusual about this situation is that I can't summon my usual nonchalance. What's with that? Just a bad day, made worse by other people. I suppose I just won't talk to them for a while.

[oceanflower]

Poor Star. Will you take a hug? No, you need several, I think.

*HUGSSSSSSSSSS*

It's ben a bad day,please don't take a picture.

Bad Day - R.E.M.

[musi]

it is nothing really, just a minor thing, but i've been typing some things for a couple of hours - thing that need to be done by tomorrow morning and somehow computer decided to make a joke and made everything disappear.. :bad::mad:

[Star_Anise]

Thanks, Liz. think I just had to get it out of my system. The hugs certainly worked!

I hope you fix the problem with your computer, musi, or else, give it a good kick from me!

[oceanflower]

it is nothing really, just a minor thing, but i've been typing some things for a couple of hours - thing that need to be done by tomorrow morning and somehow computer decided to make a joke and made everything disappear.. :bad::mad:

AAAAGGHHH!! That used to happen to me all the time with my old computer. I used to slam down the mouse so hard and scream so loud, everyone in the house would come running. One time I even cried! :o

[Goldfishies]

it is nothing really, just a minor thing, but i've been typing some things for a couple of hours - thing that need to be done by tomorrow morning and somehow computer decided to make a joke and made everything disappear..

That happened to me once too. I eventually found out that it was a spy-ware virus that had got onto computer. My mom insisted on keeping the old piece of junk even though no one uses it anymore. The PC sits in a corner of my room and occupies precious space.

[musi]

tomorrow morning the best summer i've had so far will end.. but i am hoping i have learned at least a couple of lessons throughout my life, so life will not seem such a bad place to be..

[Goldfishies]

tomorrow morning the best summer i've had so far will end.. but i am hoping i have learned at least a couple of lessons throughout my life, so life will not seem such a bad place to be..

are you off to university again?

[musi]

no, the uni is in September only.. it is personal part of my life that is going to be hit.. again.. :rolleyes:

[Goldfishies]

no, the uni is in September only.. it is personal part of my life that is going to be hit.. again.

when does uni end?

[musi]

in June usually, but it depends on university and year as well. for example, my first year at uni finished in July, while 2 and 3 finished in end of April. this year i think we are going to have half a year off for writing the diploma..

[Scheherazade]

Maybe I should start 'I will have a crappy day' thread.

[musi]

Maybe I should start 'I will have a crappy day' thread.

until it happened it is likely to change. something totally good and unpredictable might happen, so no point worrying in advance. :)

[Goldfishies]

I got caught in the rain while walking back to my house. Now it’s storming outside :mad: :bad: :mad:

[oceanflower]

I have a sore throat. Ants have invade my house, so we'll have to set off "bug bombs." It's too hot to go for a walk to escape it all. I'm in a bad mood.

[Goldfishies]

I have a sore throat. Ants have invaded my house, so we'll have to set off "bug bombs." It's too hot to go for a walk to escape it all. I'm in a bad mood.

Sounds bad. Are you talking about smoke bombs?

[Jezebel]

I have a sore throat. Ants have invade my house, so we'll have to set off "bug bombs." It's too hot to go for a walk to escape it all. I'm in a bad mood.


Oh man, I hate bugs and the heat. I hope your throat feels better. Tea with honey usually helps my throat when it is sore.

[oceanflower]

Sounds bad. Are you talking about smoke bombs?

It's terrible to be invaded by such teenny-weeny creatures...I get a sick pleasure imagining their horrible demise in just a few days....Bwahhaahahahaaaaaa!!!!!! We've got insecticide bombs...they emit a curtain of insecticide. We all have to be out of the house for 3 hours, as well as the two dogs, and the air-conditioner has to be turned off...and as you well know Samantha, living not too far from me, that means the house is going to be an oven by the time it's all over. Oh well...the dogs are going to the doggy beauty parlor, and the rest of us will go to a movie or something...then home to clean up ant corpses. :rolleyes:

[oceanflower]

Oh man, I hate bugs and the heat. I hope your throat feels better. Tea with honey usually helps my throat when it is sore.

Thanks, Denise. Tea and honey does sound good...I think I'll go get myself a mug right now. :)

[musi]

try raspberry jam, Liz, it is good for the throat too.. i hope you feel better soon!

[Goldfishies]

It's terrible to be invaded by such teenny-weeny creatures...I get a sick pleasure imagining their horrible demise in just a few days....Bwahhaahahahaaaaaa!!!!!! We've got insecticide bombs...they emit a curtain of insecticide. We all have to be out of the house for 3 hours, as well as the two dogs, and the air-conditioner has to be turned off...and as you well know Samantha, living not too far from me, that means the house is going to be an oven by the time it's all over. Oh well...the dogs are going to the doggy beauty parlor, and the rest of us will go to a movie or something...then home to clean up ant corpses.

Well if the insectide doesn't kill the ants, then the heat probably will. Are the insecticide bombs just harmful to the ants, or does it harm people too?

Ants=bad :bad:

[oceanflower]

Well if the insectide doesn't kill the ants, then the heat probably will. Are the insecticide bombs just harmful to the ants, or does it harm people too?

Ants=bad :bad:

Once the bombs have been detonated for threee hours they're not harmful to people and animals. The heat may well kill the ants...that's probably why they're running into my house! :bad: :bad:

[oceanflower]

try raspberry jam, Liz, it is good for the throat too.. i hope you feel better soon!

Tha sounds like a tasty way to sooth the throat...thanks, musi. :)

[Star_Anise]

Ants=bad :bad:

Well that's one way of looking at it, guys...but you could also see that the ants have an equal right to be there *finds self beginning to preach and stops, with great difficulty*

We had an ant infestation a while back - all we had to do was find out where they were getting in and then block it. No mass scale murder, no war of insecticide.

I woke up this morning feeling like someone had been using my head for a football - but the only reason I can figure is overwork and undersleep. Missed my first lecture, but I'm confident the day will not get worse. At least, I'm blindly hoping!

[musi]

the weather is changing again, so my barometer-head has been terribly heavy all day. chinese massage helped a bit, but now the pain is coming back. it is about the time to go to bed, but i have a lot to do still.. :bad:
and i spent the previous night thinking about a purpose in life.. or to be exact, about not having a purpose in life. everyone seems to have one but me. am i just depressed? or is it serious?

[Goldfishies]

and i spent the previous night thinking about a purpose in life.. or to be exact, about not having a purpose in life. everyone seems to have one but me. am i just depressed? or is it serious?

Don't worry, I think about it all the time. Then I got to thinking what is the purpose of doing anything at all. Hmm...*feeling utterly confused*

[oceanflower]

Well that's one way of looking at it, guys...but you could also see that the ants have an equal right to be there *finds self beginning to preach and stops, with great difficulty*


When the ants start making my mortgage payments, they'll have an equal right to be in my house. ;)

[musi]

a severe illness that is going around our town stroke me down on Thursday.. not sure where i caught it, though. it is a virus and i was lucky not to have the worst parts of it - vomitting and diarrhea, i just got off with nausea and high temperature, while most people here had everything together.. i must be lucky. or maybe it was because i managed to drink 5 litres of water on Friday, which certainly helped me.. i am much better now, but i am at my best when sleeping :), which explains my Sunday, when i was awake for only 7 hours.. still a little dizzy and nausea is there with me, but i am perky, i guess.. it could have been worse, i am sure, so i am grateful i am back on my feet again. :)

[oceanflower]

Welcome back, musi. We were worried about you. :)

[Goldfishies]

a severe illness that is going around our town stroke me down on Thursday.. not sure where i caught it, though. it is a virus and i was lucky not to have the worst parts of it - vomitting and diarrhea, i just got off with nausea and high temperature, while most people here had everything together.. i must be lucky. or maybe it was because i managed to drink 5 litres of water on Friday, which certainly helped me.. i am much better now, but i am at my best when sleeping , which explains my Sunday, when i was awake for only 7 hours.. still a little dizzy and nausea is there with me, but i am perky, i guess.. it could have been worse, i am sure, so i am grateful i am back on my feet again.

I'm glad you're better musi :good:

[Star_Anise]

An endless, tiring, essentially useless day...I didn't sleep well last night, who knows why; my group project, which took up most of my day, got nowhere; I had to work, even though I was unavailable. I am exhausted and still have more to do.

And tomorrow, I have to do it all over again!

[musi]

An endless, tiring, essentially useless day...I didn't sleep well last night, who knows why; my group project, which took up most of my day, got nowhere; I had to work, even though I was unavailable. I am exhausted and still have more to do.

And tomorrow, I have to do it all over again!

cheer up, Star!:)

[musi]

my laptop touch screen is not working. well, i gave it to the service a week ago. yesterday they just began tesing it and they need 4 more days to wait for some stupid detail.. :confused:
i should tell them to get me a new one.. i am tired of it having problems already..

[oceanflower]

I was ging to recommend chocolates and coffee to keep you awake...but then you'd have trouble sleeping...hmmmm.

[musi]

my yesterday evening turned hell suddenly - i caught a cold somewhere, so my head aches and i have sore throat, but the worst part is my mom is not speaking with me. she says i showed disrespect to her yesterday when i was not picking up my cell phone when she was calling. and i humiliated her in front of my friend who i was with when she was calling. says i wanted to deliberately revenge her for something she has done to me.. that is one of the major problems of having psychotherapist-Mom - everything i do definetely has unconcious wishes and so even if i say i didn't hear the phone (which i really didn't hear) it means i didn't want to hear it.. and so on..
i am giving up really. this is stupid. i think she is the best mom in the world, just because she is understanding and loves me very much, but what she says is absolutely insane! yes, perhaps, i should have heard the phone, but i didn't hear it and there is no way i wanted to humiliate her or revenge (that is totally stupid..). i said i was sorry and it won't happen again, but she keeps on not talking to me, so what am i to do? throw myself off the cliff? insanity, really. there is no other way i can tell her i am sorry and did not mean to do what was done, i have already told her that. i have no other means of showing her i am sorry and if she keeps on not talking to me i will not have the chance to right anything at all. and knowing my Mom, she will probably remind me of the situation every time we will have a problem.. aahh.. i am confused.. :confused:

[Star_Anise]

*HUGS!*

How awful, musi; I know how quarrels, even small ones, can really ruin things. I'm sure after she's had a chance to "cool off" you'll be able to sort things out. I mean, it's musi, how can she stay mad? :)

[blp]

my yesterday evening turned hell suddenly - i caught a cold somewhere, so my head aches and i have sore throat, but the worst part is my mom is not speaking with me. she says i showed disrespect to her yesterday when i was not picking up my cell phone when she was calling. and i humiliated her in front of my friend who i was with when she was calling. says i wanted to deliberately revenge her for something she has done to me.. that is one of the major problems of having psychotherapist-Mom - everything i do definetely has unconcious wishes and so even if i say i didn't hear the phone (which i really didn't hear) it means i didn't want to hear it.. and so on..
i am giving up really. this is stupid. i think she is the best mom in the world, just because she is understanding and loves me very much, but what she says is absolutely insane! yes, perhaps, i should have heard the phone, but i didn't hear it and there is no way i wanted to humiliate her or revenge (that is totally stupid..). i said i was sorry and it won't happen again, but she keeps on not talking to me, so what am i to do? throw myself off the cliff? insanity, really. there is no other way i can tell her i am sorry and did not mean to do what was done, i have already told her that. i have no other means of showing her i am sorry and if she keeps on not talking to me i will not have the chance to right anything at all. and knowing my Mom, she will probably remind me of the situation every time we will have a problem.. aahh.. i am confused.. :confused:

Your mom sounds like she's of a similar school to my old shrink - that kind of mindreading thing, where she knows what you really meant (and it wasn't good) even though you don't yourself. That kind of psychotherapy can be really helpful, but it's a bit worrying because it can also become a technique for making everyone except the shrink in the wrong all the time. There's a kind of rule in it that if you do something wrong, you always did it on purpose. and that means she can always blame you, even if you did the wrong thing by accident - because nothing's ever an accident. But blaming someone all the time is abusive. Anyway, what she's saying doesn't make any sense. If you'd seen her name come up on her phone and not answered, that would be because you didn't want to speak to her. But you couldn't have psychically realised it was her calling and deliberately not heard.

[eflo]

Not so much a crappy day today as a long one. Was up at 600...wasn't able to get back to sleep and am still up. It's just after midnight here... Me sleepy.

[oceanflower]

It's only 1:32 AM, but so far my day is starting off crappy. My very expensive, less-than-a-year-old microwave oven suddenly stopped heating. After going through the troubleshooting directions, all I came up with was "Call your G.E. serviceperson." why do I have the feeling that whatever is wrong won't be covered by the warranty. Why? Because that's the way my life has been lately. :bad:

[musi]

i got hit in the back of my car yesterday.. but for other weird things that happened yeaterday, that was the worst one. the speed was low and the person who hit me is responsible, and we got the papers right this morning and there are just a few scratches on the back of Miu Miu, so it is not a big problem - i will go to the repair service in 15 minutes and probably have it all done in no time, but the very happening was not pleasant.. i was in state of some shock for all of yesterday and am still thinking about having something terrible to eat (like McDonald's) to get this thing over.. :)

[Jezebel]

I'm sorry to hear about your car accident. I'm happy to hear you are not hurt and everything is working out ok with insurance/paperwork.

My day hasn't really started yet but I had a very crappy night, tossing and turning and feeling very sick and feverish, and I know I will have a very crappy day because I'm sick but I have to go to school and work. :(

[Star_Anise]

Oh, I'm so glad you're ok musi, and Miu Miu too. What a horrible thing to happen. I hope it's all fixed up no problems and you can get back out there.

I hope your day isn't too bad, Jezebel. Maybe things will get better? I'll hope for you!

[musi]

thanks! i took Miu Miu to the service center and they will take it on 28th of September. there is notheing much, just the paint, so it won't take long :)

Jezebel, i hope you get well soon!:good:

[Goldfishies]

thanks! i took Miu Miu to the service center and they will take it on 28th of September. there is notheing much, just the paint, so it won't take long

Sorry to hear about your accident musi. I'm glad it was only a scatch and nothing worse. I hope you don't have too much trouble getting around.

[oceanflower]

Get well wishes to Denise!

And musi, I'm sorry about your car, especially since it's new. Very frustrating, I know. So...how does one pronounce "miu miu?" Is it like "moo moo," or "mew mew," or me-ow me-ow?" :)

[majestic62]

Well this actually refers to yesterday.... I wrote a computer studies exam today, so I was abviously studying for it yesterday. So I left most of my work to study yesterday, most of which I had never seen before. But I havent slept much at all in the past weeks, and then half way through the day I fell sick so I had to try and study while I was sick and tired. And as you can guess I got almost nothing done.

But I wrote the exam today and it luckily didnt go that badly, I think all the old work that was almost general knowledge to me now helped me through though

[musi]

And musi, I'm sorry about your car, especially since it's new. Very frustrating, I know. So...how does one pronounce "miu miu?" Is it like "moo moo," or "mew mew," or me-ow me-ow?" :)

the "me-ow me-ow" version is great, since i love cats :D, but it is more like "meeoo meeoo":D

[majestic62]

Ok well, you dont have to read all this im just trying to get my frustrations out! Crappy day?! Try crapp year! Ok well first of all we have our matric dance AKA prom in 2 weeks. Now I wanted to take a limousine to it, now none of my friends wanted to take one, then when one of them was interested I looked around for ages trying to find something, and found nothing!!! Now ive still got to make a plan somehow to get there. Now were going to do something for an after-party for it but I cant get my friends to discuss things! They always make a joke out of things and they're all talk! They say they will do something but nothing ever happens!!

Now at the end of october we finish school and officialy finish high-school. So me and my friends wanted to go on a holiday. Now I only got them to start planning a month ago and its already getting a bit late to book things! Now of course my friedns being the brainless type they are, they suggested that we go out and buy this van which would only coat the equivalent of about $100!!!!! This thing was almost falling to pieces and they wanted to go on a country-round trip, carrying about8 guys plus luggage! And they werent even joking! Then they said we would just take two changes of clothes and a tooth-brush and sleep in a tent on a beach!! Not only is it dangerous and stoopid considering the country we live in but it is also illegal! But they never think practically! Now I never agreed on that, now my one friend started coming to his senses!

So we found a place at the coast which was cheap and we could start booking to stay there! And the cool thing was that my girlfriend(who I hardly see which is also the crap thing) was probably going to stay there as well round about the same time as us. So we started convincing our friends that this was a better idea and managedto convince all but one. Now everything seems like its going well for a change.... So we try and book and guess what they say!! :( "They dont accomodate students!!!!" Now I understand you probably get many kids going on post-high-school holidays, are irresponsible and probably mess everything up, but its frustgrating because I know for a fact that my friends arent like that! So now we will have to come up with other plans!

Oh and guess what even if we did go there then for the time we were going to book for, my girlfriend was only going to get there two days after we would have left!!! How marvellous!!!!:(

So anyway! I guess things arent all that bad, they usually have a way of working themselves out! :) but it just gets a bit frustrating at times....

{Sorry, just noticed that was terribly written! Please forgive me... :p }

[musi]

aah, majestic, i think thing will work out fine! :) but why don't those places accomodate students? or is there an age restriction? then if all the things are booked and you probably will have holiday for some weeks, maybe you should go a little later?

[majestic62]

Ya, i might get frustrated at times but USUALLY i manage to sort things out :) Well we will all be 18 yrs old at least and just out of school. I guess they assume were going to make a noise and disturb people. They probably think were going to all get drunk every night and trash the place. I guess some people my age are like that but most are pretty responsible. Because i mean, 18 years old counts as adult more or less doesnt it? I mean were old enough to own our own cars and drive there but they dont think we're old enough to stay there. We could go a bit later, were basically on holiday from the beginning of December to some time in January, December will be busy so maybe we'll try do something in January. Also my girlfriend is going to England in January so im going to think of some scheme so I can go as well.... :p

[majestic62]

Sorry I lie we're on holiday from Mid-November :D

[majestic62]

Ya and I think from all the exam stress and things my lip is now covered in these fever bilsters which are a pain in the ass more than anything else, and they also hurt a bit... :p

[Star_Anise]

Two crappy days, actually. But I only have myself to blame. I think I'll hide under a rock until this all blows over...which could be a while.

[majestic62]

Well its not really me that had the crappy day but anyway....

So today at lunch im busy eating and as usual at that time of the day I get a message from my girlfriend, only this time she told me that she just got held up at gun point- :mad:

I was worried sick, so I went down to her place and she burst out crying when I saw her, she was literally shaking when she was talking to me, and you could see how utterly frightened she was....

Her and her mom just drove into their garage when two guys came up to them holding guns. What makes me sick was that this one guy was waving the gun at them as though it was nothing. So they tried to steal her moms jewellry(there was quite alot, and expensive too), they even tried to bite her finger off to get to her ring :o apparently they didnt see it when this was happening but there were actually eight armed guys there! Against a mother and a 17 yr old!

Now this makes me absolutely sick! Dont they understand what they do to people! They are absolutely frightened now! They are too scared to leave the house even, and they are suspicious of everyone! I can tell you now that they will be severely traumatized by it...

This world makes me sick......

[oceanflower]

Oh my God, that's horrible, m.j.!! I'm so sorry for your girlfriend and her mom...what a nightmare!! Is there any chance of catching the evil b******s that did this to them?

[musi]

wow! this is so terrible, mj! really! i must be living in some other reality - i cannot even imagine someone doing it!!! that is so insane!!! do these things happen frequently where you live? why would someone attack two defenceless women to get their jewelry? with guns? insanity!:o

i am really sorry for both your friend and her Mom! such a terrible experience!!! i hope they are feeling better soon, but this is truly traumatizing! really, is there a chance police or some other government institution will take care of it?

[musi]

i am sorry, but i just have to put down what i am feeling right now.

my Mom is definetely out to get me! if i do something i haven't done before and do it wrong, she starts lecturing me as if it has been the 10th time and i just can't get it. what is wrong? i do not live up to her expectations? i am not a perfect housewife? well, i am not. and frankly i do not see myself that way. she wants me to have a career, a lot of money, keeps talking about it and yet i should be a perfect housewife. nice.
she takes everything far more seriously than i do. starts arguing over nothing! and i cannot say anything back, just because she would definetely start that talk about me disrespecting her again. i don't understand anything.. is it difficult for her to understand that i can manage my life myself? that she does not have to control me every step of the way? that perhaps there are things I want to do myself? learn myself? i understand that she is worried about me and loves me very much, but this constant control is freaking me out! she talks to Grandmom every day(Grandmom is in Germany), well, Grandmom needs it - Granddad is dead, but when Mom is not home, she calls me every day to ask me how i am. this is nice and sweet, because she is worried and wants to know i am ok. but it is not ok. not for me.

maybe this is temporary and i am just irritated and i need some sort of vacation away from the house or Mom seriously needs a vacation (she and Dad are leaving for Turkey on Sunday) and when they come back it will all be ok, but right now this is driving me crazy.. i am glad i am leaving tomorrow for Riga for 3 days not to get more arguments on my neck.

i am sorry for letting it all out on whoever is reading it right now, you probably have got more than enough worries of your own, but thanks for reading, i really appreciate it.
:(

[majestic62]

... Well their cellphones had trackers on them. But when they started to track them there were no police cars to follow the trace!!! :( So i dont know whats happening with that. They followed them from a shopping centre so hopefully they can somehow findout who it is from CCTV cameras. Also apparently the same guys did a similar thing to someone in the same street as them. I hope they catch the b******s!! And its not like they were some kids off the street. Apparently they were all really well spoken...

I mean, I live in quite a dangerous country but this is a shock to me even. You always hear of it happening but its only when it happens to you or someone close to you that it really affects you. I mean my girlfriend is literally frightened! We went for dinner for her sisters birthday yesterday and she is constantly looking at people, trying to recognize their faces. When we were eating she looked behind her a guy shouted, and she jumped, she freaked out and started shaking! Shes going to be too frightened to do anything. Even I am becoming a bit scared, I am usually safety conscious, but now im even more paranoid. So now her mom is already trying to sell her car for a smaller less fancy one, and I doubt any of them will ever drive fancy cars or wear lots of jewellery again.

So guys, no matter where you are in the world, be careful please!!! :( And take care of the ones you love....

[Star_Anise]

musi, there's no need to apologise for needing to vent your feelings. That's what this thread is here for. You shouldn't keep feelings like that locked up anyway, won't do you any good.

*HUGS*

I'm sure you'll work things out with your mother, but it may take a while - these things are never easy. Until then, vent whenever you need to!

[oceanflower]

That's right, Star. No apologies at this thread.....this is the place to vent. Just tell it like it is!

[Star_Anise]

Aaaah, the fall out continues. I suppose I just don't like being the one everyone gossips about. But you'd think if I've become notorious for something I would at least be able to say whether or not I did it, whether or not I enjoyed it. Ugh!

Not to mention I came down with some horrible 24-hour thing at work last night. Over it now, but back to the grind...

[musi]

i am car-less for 2 days (bumper is being replaced) with a gazillion things to do.. typical.. ironical.. as usual.. :mad:
but to think that a scratch on my bumper after that accident i was in costs 2 my official monthly salaries.. :o poor man, who bumped in me - he has to pay for it.. why do they always charge so much?? makes me think i never want to be in an accident ever again..

Star:
*HUGS*

[majestic62]

Argh! Yesterday, I was driving around the whole of the city for about three hours, and mostof it was in traffic jams which makes it worse. I was in a terrbile mood after that, and Im only a learner driver,so Istill have mymom screaming in my ears all the time!

[oceanflower]

Argh! Yesterday, I was driving around the whole of the city for about three hours, and mostof it was in traffic jams which makes it worse. I was in a terrbile mood after that, and Im only a learner driver,so Istill have mymom screaming in my ears all the time!

Out of fear for her life, presumably. ;)

[majestic62]

Out of fear for her life, presumably. ;)

Ya i think she is obviously a bit on edge, but she gets really worked up. Like instead of jsut quickly saying "Careful" in a nice quick way so as not to frighten me, instead shes like "ARGH!" "CAREFUL!" "ARGH! :o " :D So ya it makes me pretty nervous!

[Jezebel]

My sister is learning how to drive, she says my mom gets all nervous and "watch out" "oh oh you're too close" etc whenever she drives. She said it drives her nuts (no pun intended).

ok my crappy day....I just got the bill for what the repairs on my car will cost me. Keep in mind I just spent $800 getting it fixed during the month of September. Now, ten days into October, I'm going to have to drop another $1,600. This car has given me so many problems. Arrgh anyone want to give me a couple $1,000??

[majestic62]

My sister is learning how to drive, she says my mom gets all nervous and "watch out" "oh oh you're too close" etc whenever she drives. She said it drives her nuts (no pun intended).

ok my crappy day....I just got the bill for what the repairs on my car will cost me. Keep in mind I just spent $800 getting it fixed during the month of September. Now, ten days into October, I'm going to have to drop another $1,600. This car has given me so many problems. Arrgh anyone want to give me a couple $1,000??


Aah no! Thats terrible! :( I hope it works out ok! Im going to be getting a car in a couple months time, so I guess I should also be prepared to deal with problems like that! :(

[oceanflower]

I often think, as I sit waiting for the tow truck or writing a check for new tires, "Perhaps a horse and buggy is the answer." But then one has to think of vet bills, feed, grooming....and they're not air-conditioned and don't have a built - in dvd player, so.....I guess I'll go with the car and all it's heartaches, including the ugly holes it makes in my checkbook. *sigh* ;)

[Nanoitsu Shuam]

In Finland, distances are so small that few really need cars; and when they aren't, the public transportation is always there. And we have good sidewalks, and all, everywhere... To conclude: I don't need a car, never will need a car, and am happy about it.

I had a crappy moment today, though, when I noticed that certain prices have gone down so that I would have saved about fifty-three euros (which is about sixty-four dollars) had I bought the books that I did now rather than a few months ago and last year... I could buy almost four Wildside Press titles with that money, for crying out loud...

[majestic62]

In Finland, distances are so small that few really need cars; and when they aren't, the public transportation is always there. And we have good sidewalks, and all, everywhere... To conclude: I don't need a car, never will need a car, and am happy about it.

I had a crappy moment today, though, when I noticed that certain prices have gone down so that I would have saved about fifty-three euros (which is about sixty-four dollars) had I bought the books that I did now rather than a few months ago and last year... I could buy almost four Wildside Press titles with that money, for crying out loud...

For S.A its essential, public transport is horiffic, it pretty much consists of mini-bus taxis cramming like 30 people into a 20 seater :p and its not 100% to walk around and that, so its very unfortunate

[Nanoitsu Shuam]

I've heard that the smaller towns in the USA tend to be badly flawed in that respect, too: everybody needs a car...

PS. I do have a driver's license: and that's fine, since I didn't have to pay for it myself, and it works well as a photo ID :D

[Star_Anise]

Public transport here (in Canberra) is pretty crappy, just buses, as it's not big enough for anything else. Want to go somewhere after 6:30pm? Well, you can't. It's so much better in Sydney or Melbourne (Sydney has trains and buses, Melbourne has trams as well), but alas, not for me. I'm currently working on getting my license (it's a long and involved story) but my mother is impossible to drive with. Majestic, I know just how you feel. Too much shrieking, very useless instruction.

Today, even though I had plenty of sleep, I felt awful all day. Been feeling a bit unwell for the past few days, actually, but not in any way I can pin down. I could entertain the diea that stress and and emotional upset are keeping me from sleeping properly, but that way lies madness. So, I had to go to uni, and then work, feeling like I hadn't slept at all, and I have a long weekend ahead of me (work, friend's birthday, shopping, uni work) and I still feel crap. I can see my final assessments chasing after me now...these big, clawed monsters that lurk, just waiting for me...

[Goldfishies]

Public transport here (in Canberra) is pretty crappy, just buses, as it's not big enough for anything else. Want to go somewhere after 6:30pm? Well, you can't. It's so much better in Sydney or Melbourne (Sydney has trains and buses, Melbourne has trams as well), but alas, not for me. I'm currently working on getting my license (it's a long and involved story) but my mother is impossible to drive with. Majestic, I know just how you feel. Too much shrieking, very useless instruction.

Today, even though I had plenty of sleep, I felt awful all day. Been feeling a bit unwell for the past few days, actually, but not in any way I can pin down. I could entertain the diea that stress and and emotional upset are keeping me from sleeping properly, but that way lies madness. So, I had to go to uni, and then work, feeling like I hadn't slept at all, and I have a long weekend ahead of me (work, friend's birthday, shopping, uni work) and I still feel crap. I can see my final assessments chasing after me now...these big, clawed monsters that lurk, just waiting for me...

Star you need HUGS :)

[oceanflower]

There are so many reasons for writing about my last 3 days...all of them crappy...but the worst was yesterday. One of my 14-yr.-old twins, Michael, had to be rushed from school to the hospital emergency room in excrutiating pain..he had to be given morphine through an I.V.. It turns out he was passing a kidney stone. He's so young to be starting this...the chances he will suffer from these for a lifetime is 70-80 percent. The doctor gave me strong painkillers to have on hand for the next flare-up. Michael has an appointment tomorrow with a pediatric urologist who is one of the best in the Baltimore/Washington area, so we will learn more then. I spent today obtaining copies of Michael's blood work results and CTscan from the hospital records department. The hospital parking lot is being refurbished, so I had to walk way out of my way to get into the main building..then the X-ray Library and Lab records departments were on opposite ends of the buliding...more waliking on my already swollen and painful leg...no painkillers 'cause I was driving. When I got home I found that the roast I'd put in the oven for dinner was still raw, because I'd never set the oven to start automatically by timer. Oh well, that's what microwave tv dinners are for. *sigh*. I'm exhausted and overwhelmed and worried. And it's been raining non-stop for a week...dark and damp and depressing.

[Goldfishies]

Liz that’s terrible! Does your son have to stay overnight at the hospital or can he come home?

[oceanflower]

He's home, and feeling alright, and drinking lots of water. Apparently the most painful stage of a kidney stone flare-up is when it passes throught the urethra and into the bladder. If the kidney stone is small enough, passing it out into the toliet is not too painful, or even pain-free. Michael's CTscan showed a very small stone, thank God, so we're hoping he won't even notice when it leaves his body, so to speak. But...if necessary we have the Vicodin. *sigh*

[eflo]

He's home, and feeling alright, and drinking lots of water. Apparently the most painful stage of a kidney stone flare-up is when it passes throught the urethra and into the bladder. If the kidney stone is small enough, passing it out into the toliet is not too painful, or even pain-free. Michael's CTscan showed a very small stone, thank God, so we're hoping he won't even notice when it leaves his body, so to speak. But...if necessary we have the Vicodin. *sigh*
Kidney Stones. Yikes. To tell you the truth, I know exactly how your son is feeling. I've had them quite a few times myself. I never had them as early as 14...I did have them a few times when I was 16 though. Kidney Stones are said to be even more painful than a woman going into labour.

From all the times I have been to the Doctor's, they have told me that Kidney Stones are rare for people under the age of 20. Another bit of advice coming from me: I have never been a big drinker of soft drinks, and anything other than water. Around the time I got Kidney Stones, I was huge on drinking Iced Tea and a half-gallon of orange juice everyday. Not good according to the Doctor. The Doctor's always told me that Kidney Stones could be the cause of too much calcium. A former co-worker told me that Iced Tea has calciates in it. Calciates? Maybe she meant something else. In any case...you'll probably learn that there are basically two types of stones. I can't remember the names of them off the top of my head. One is caused by calcium though.

Best wishes to you and your son though. BTW, I mentioned that my doctor told me that it's rare to get stones before 20 years of age. Well, good news for your son if he's like me. I haven't had any since turning 20. Something to look forward to. :)

[musi]

my, these days have been crappy!

Star, *HUGS*. i am sure soon the problems will go away, the uni monster will stop chasing you and spring will have you in its power with all the sunshine and warmth it can give!

Liz, i am very sorry to hear about your son. i am just hoping, that the stone is a little one and Michael will soon be rid of it! till then, take care and *HUGS*.

[oceanflower]

Thanks for the good wishes for Michael. He went to see the specialist on Friday, but had an attack just before the appointment, and it took a large dose of Vicodin to relieve the pain. The doctor says it could take a week for the stone to passs completely out, and until then there may be more painful attacks. The doctor gave Michael a sieve-type collection devise in hopes that the stone can be caught on it's way out, and be analyzed in the lab. Apparently stones have a variety of causes, therefore lab anaysis is important in choosing preventive treatment. One useful tip: lemonade inhibits the formation of kidney stones.

[musi]

i am certain there are more important issues to complain about that might make a day crappy, so my being upset about a simple format c process is really nothing, but i guess i am not yet on that level of undertanding to let everything flow..
there are no good news, except the fact that i do have disk d! yey! however, my laptop is probably going to go to hell again.. and perhaps again.. and when i come to the very end of all ideas, i will plead for help.. and when the person i will beg for help runs out of ideas, i am going to put a big smile on my face and go make a cup of tea..
i will skip the running out of ideas part - i am off to get some tea.. anyone for a cup of black tea with chocolate?
:(

[Star_Anise]

Well, I am now working six nights this week instead of five, so there goes my night off for getting a big chunk of my study out of the way, my close friend has become oh so depressed and refuses to be cheered up at all, I am not getting enough sleep and hence am trying to replace sleep with sugar, which doesn't work. Give me strength, for the next week and a half may do me in...

[oceanflower]

You're in my prayers, Star...I feel your pain, believe me. Lack of sleep for you body and rest for your mind can make you sick, in both body and soul, so take care. And as always...we're here for you. :)

[musi]

it is not that i complain, but i am on the brink of extinction..

1. my laptop found the worst time to kill windows xp. well, it did experience a format c process yesterday and now seems to be alive, but is missing adapters for modem and a few other things. besides, it is also missing Office. it has a very important document i need right now, but i can't get to it - there is no office. i cannot put it into the internet, because it is missing the adapters. and i cannot connect it to my big pc, because.. it is missing adapters.. can you feel the irony?:rolleyes:
i have the adapters downloaded to my big pc, but there is no way i can get them to my laptop right now - i need Nero, which somehow happens to be at my friend's house and i will be able to get it only tomorrow evening. :rolleyes:

2. my project is going badly - there seemed to be a trick in it and our teacher definetely had a great laugh today, when a few people handed in the projects and he said there is a mistake, because there is a trick in the project, which no one noticed.. nice.. :rolleyes: the deadline is on Tuesday next week and i will not be able to pass an exam without my project handed in first.

3. i have a test on tHursday and a test on Friday.

4. i have an exam on Monday.

5. i really need the "DON'T PANIC" button right now..

6. am i forgetting something? oh, i will have to conduct a lesson in Operation and Management of Harbours - the greatest topic to talk about ever!

oh, yeah, where is BadKitty?

Star, how about we get out of here, get some sleep, some rest, sunshine, warmth and come back when it is all over? i am sending you all the strength i have spared - cheer up, it will soon be over!

*HUGS*

[oceanflower]

Gosh, musi! I'm adding you to my prayers for Star.

Group hug for Star and musi:

*HUGS* *HUGS*

[Jezebel]

I often think, as I sit waiting for the tow truck or writing a check for new tires, "Perhaps a horse and buggy is the answer." But then one has to think of vet bills, feed, grooming....and they're not air-conditioned and don't have a built - in dvd player, so.....I guess I'll go with the car and all it's heartaches, including the ugly holes it makes in my checkbook. *sigh* ;)

I've often thought of just giving up on cars and getting a horse but if my luck with that is anything like my luck with cars my horse would break a leg (or four) :(

and update on my car....I've now brought my car in three times (since the last post) for THE SAME PROBLEM that they just arent fixing. The brakes aren't working right because air is getting in the lines some way but I don't know how. I don't have the time or the tools to track this problem down so I have to bring it to a shop. I drop the car off, tell them exactly what is going on. I tell them DO NOT just bleed the brakes and send me back the car that is just going to band aid the problem not fix it and the problem will come back again. So what do they do? They give me the "oh little girlie, don't you worry you're pretty little head off with things that are too manly for you to understand" response and completely disregard everything I said. So they bled the brakes, gave the car back to me told me it was fixed and ITS NOT FIXED. I'm so frustrated with this stupid car and these "mechanics". How do you give someone a car back and say it's "all fixed" when the damn thing won't stop correctly???

[oceanflower]

I've often thought of just giving up on cars and getting a horse but if my luck with that is anything like my luck with cars my horse would break a leg (or four) :(

and update on my car....I've now brought my car in three times (since the last post) for THE SAME PROBLEM that they just arent fixing. The brakes aren't working right because air is getting in the lines some way but I don't know how. I don't have the time or the tools to track this problem down so I have to bring it to a shop. I drop the car off, tell them exactly what is going on. I tell them DO NOT just bleed the brakes and send me back the car that is just going to band aid the problem not fix it and the problem will come back again. So what do they do? They give me the "oh little girlie, don't you worry you're pretty little head off with things that are too manly for you to understand" response and completely disregard everything I said. So they bled the brakes, gave the car back to me told me it was fixed and ITS NOT FIXED. I'm so frustrated with this stupid car and these "mechanics". How do you give someone a car back and say it's "all fixed" when the damn thing won't stop correctly???

Next time put in writing that you do not want the blakes bled, and have them sign it. Then insist on having them put into writing what they intend to do. Then when you pick up the car, make sure that you have, in writing, a list of what they have done to your car. The key words here are "IN WRITING." Your safety is at take here, and I'm guessing they'll take you more seriously when they figure you might sue them if they don't fix the car properly.

[oceanflower]

Tonight (Friday night) was crappy. My daughter and I got home from a fun "girls' night out" shopping to find one of our dogs, Samantha, vomiting. She'd been vomiting earlier in the day, but I thught it was becasue she'd eaten grass outside. But Mads said she's been vomiting all evening. So Christina ans I took her to the Veterinary emergency facility, and they decided to keep Samantha for some tests. We sadly came home without her. About 2 hours later the vet called to say that the tests indicated something's wrong with her liver, but they don't know what's causing it. They're going to give her antibiotics to see if it's an infection, but the vet won't be sure for a day or so whether it's curable or not. She's about 12 years old, so I'm very worried, and my kids are depressed. To add insult to injury, I had to pay $688.18 right then and there, and that was just a deposit on the final total! :o

[Jezebel]

oh no I hope everything is ok!

[oceanflower]

No, I'm afraid everything is not ok. The tests found incurable liver disease, and yesterday we had to make the excrutiating decision to have our Samantha euthanized. We had almost 12 years of her loving companionship, so we're all very depressed. I'm in tears as I write this. Our other dog, Lindsey, has also spent those years with Samantha, and I'm worried about her. She's just lying in her bed, barely moving. When she goes outside into the back yard she runs back and forth frantically looking for Samantha. It's awful.

[musi]

oh, Liz! this is terrible! i am very sorry for your dog, but if it is incurable, i think you have made a humane decision, though it hurts you so much. i wish i could somehow help you or make you feel better. please tell your family i am very sorry about such a thing happening and *HUGS*. :(

[majestic62]

We also had to put one of our dogs down before. He was definitely the best dog I ever had. But unfortunately he contracted cancer, he used to spend his days sitting in one spot all day, almost completely lifeless. :( So I think it was for the best that we eventually put him down.