Originally Posted By SuzieQ Thank you! What a great find on your dress! I had similar experiences when I worked for a company that threw lavish semi-formal Christmas parties every year. Somehow, I always found just the right thing. And since the company was an oil refinery, it was always so much fun to see everyone dressed up instead of wearing fire retardant coveralls, LOL!
Originally Posted By LVBelle Ugh, I am not looking forward to today. My work has been an extremely stressful place lately. Our school is on the fifth year being on the Needs Improvement list for No Child Left Behind so we're under all kinds of scrutiny and have tons of hoops to jump through. Today we have people from the region coming out to observe at our school. We're all under HUGE pressure to be perfect. Our rooms are supposed to be clean but we've had meetings the past three days on prep and I can never stay after to do it. Having 30 kids in a small room pretty much guarantees that it NEVER gets clean. To make things more fun, they turned on our heat and it has issues in my room. It gets above 90 degrees in my classroom in the afternoon. It's miserable and they have no idea what's wrong or when it can be fixed. Oh, and I'm having an allergic reaction to some new shampoo and my entire head and the back of my neck have broken out and itch like crazy! If I hadn't had to call in sick last Monday, I would SO be staying home today...
Originally Posted By sherrytodd 2/3 I hope your dad is doing ok. My whine. It's Colorado. It's the Christmas season. There's no snow! And this morning. It's grey and RAINING! It doesn't rain in December in Colorado! AND, the stupid squirrels keep stealing the bulbs out of my Christmas lights on the house making the whole strand go out. I'm gonna go buy a B B gun! An official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle, with a compass in the stock and 'this thing' which tells time! That should take care of the squirrels!
Originally Posted By SuzieQ LOL on the Red Ryder! The squirrels would be amusing the first time or two, but after that it'd be annoying. I can't believe they are stealing the light bulbs! My mom had a ficus tree on her balcony and she strung it with lights. A squirrel built a nest in the tree one winter. It was protected on the balcony and nice and warm in a corner against the house. You never knew if the squirrel was going to fly out in your face when you opened the door, LOL Needless to say, they discouraged the nesting next winter. I think you have snow headed your way. We've had a good dumping of rain here in the San Francisco area, and it's now dumping our first good snow in the Sierra. It's supposed to hit you on it's way east!
Originally Posted By smedley It's not fair!! I have been so looking forward to seeing Enchanted this weekend when it releases in the UK, just DH and I at an evening performance so there aren't too many kids there (I have no qualms about going to the cinema with children, but I also like having the option of taking the later performance) Anyhoo, I've had a text message from my sister in law asking if we want to go to see it with them, which will mean my niece as well, who is a first class brat, and also that we would have to go during the day... How do I tell her that I don't want to go with them because a. her child is a brat and liable to be the one disturbing me from watching the film. b. I would prefer to go to an evening performance when there are less children in the audience.. *sigh* whichever way I go I know I'm going to end up in the wrong and it's going to affect my enjoyment of the film.... Grrrr *disclaimer* yes I am aware that this makes me sound like a first class brat myself, but I was hoping this was going to be a date movie for DH and myself not half his extended family too.
Originally Posted By sherrytodd Sadly, being the aunt of a brat that I do love dearly, you better come up with something else to do that day quick that you've had "planned" for a long time.
Originally Posted By smedley *sigh* I love my niece too, but she does drive me nuts. I'm hoping they were planning on going Saturday (I will call them during the day later) as I already have plans that involve spending the day with the Bloonas...
Originally Posted By JazzCat Just tell her you already had plans with Mr.Smedley to go see it as a date night. Only an inconsiderate boob would try to involve herself into your plans.
Originally Posted By smedley Let me introduce you to the inconsiderate boob some time.. I didn't manage to get out of it, so we're going with them Sunday afternoon, I'm thinking I might go during the week as well if I have a particulary bad time, and see it then on our own... Oh and to add insult to injury, I have a cold again, my sinuses are inflamed and I feel terrible, why does this ALWAYS happen to me the week before Christmas???
Originally Posted By JazzCat If there is ever a time that you could introduce me to her I'd be a very happy girl because that would mean I got to meet you! You probably get a cold every year before Christmas because you run yourself ragged and your immune system is shot. Is there anyone who can take over some of your responsibilities or can you over look some of them? Or are you like me and feel like you have to do everything yourself? (Being the perfectionist I am!)
Originally Posted By LVBelle I am still all itchy, my neck and head are still broken out and I really don't want to go to a doctor, I just don't have time this week. I'm starting to wonder if it may be stress related, work is insane now. I had no idea when I took a job at this school that they were doing so poorly by No Child Left Behind standards. It's making us all so miserable. We have people coming in for audits all the time and we're under intense scrutiny. We have another audit on Tuesday and more in January. And some moron schedule parent conferences for the week after break. So I'm busting my butt to get ready for conferences before break so I don't have to stress about them over vacation.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling My head is pounding. Can't my doc just remove my sinuses altogether? All they do is make me miserable. Can't I have like "bionic" sinuses that never "malfunction"? Wah.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling And sorry to hear about your dad, threeundertwo. I hope he's doing better. On a lighter note, I think it is sheer perfection that 999Haunts didn't get the 999th post in the Whiny-Butt Crybaby Thread and therefore had to whine about it! That's comic genius right there!
Originally Posted By smedley When you get your bionic sinuses sign me up for a set too Chickie please... Why am I dedicated to my job, due to staff issues I have just committed to working tomorrow and thursday nights, meaning that being as I worked yesterday and today dayshifts I will have work 7 days straight by the time I finish on Monday morning, team this with my cold and the fact that I'm so tired I just fell asleep at my desk, and I'm feeling pretty sorry for myself!! lol
Originally Posted By smedley Noooo my sinuses are so painful tonight I want to cry, and I still have another 3 nights to work not including this one... To say I feel sorry for myself would be a huge understatement.
Originally Posted By alexbook I've now lost three (3) debit cards since 2005. All of them were left in an ATM. In fact, all of them were left in the same ATM. I need to stop using that ATM.
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka I'm right there w/ya, Smed. Forget a Mellow Room...we need an LP infirmary.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling ^^^ Seems we used to have one of those around here somewhere... <--- rummages around in her Mary Poppins bag.... found it. It is really old though and I'm not sure I should bump it. *pondering* Eh, what the hey. I'm gonna bump it.
