State of emergency in NJ and NY right now because of a foot of snow. My poor husband was two hours late home! I hate winter. I still don’t know if school’s cancelled tomorrow for my eldest or just a late opening.
Heh - that definitely shouldn’t be a surprise. What would a theatre group be without drama?!?
That’s homework time! Or “watch a movie that Seanette doesn’t care to see” time… Or something… :0)
Bertie got locked in my bedroom for 5 days when I went on vacation and the wind blew the door shut. It wasn’t a lot of fun to walk in from a 12 hour drive, late at night, to find a big wet spot in the middle of the bed. But she was mortified, and starving/thirsty, and it wasn’t really her fault since she’d been trapped in the room, there was no punishment or anger. I might have wished she peed on the floor instead, but oh well. I cleaned the bed, threw the sheets in the wash, and slept on the couch.
Took a sizable rock and started using it to hold the door open.
Oh, then Little Guy, in his final days, would occasionally lose bladder control when I woke up and he tried to get up. But that was my beloved 20 year old cat, it wasn’t really his fault, and he was dying.
But a healthy cat, intentionally peeing on my bed, whether I’m in it or not? Dead Cat.
It would be one that focuses on comedies?
I am working with Evil Bitch Supervisor today. EBS is a notorious cunt. EBS has been fired from many other projects with this company because we all hate her as she is a nasty, hypocritical cunt. I work from home. She is the sort of cunt who will yell at you and write you up because she can allegedly hear your kids in the background and thinks this is interferes with your work. She has to yell because her kids can always be heard in the background when she is speaking to people. So it is okay for her to have noisy kids but deeply offensive when someone else does so.
We think she is still allowed near this company because she is either sleeping with someone important or has threatened to play the “I will sue you if you fire me because my skin is dark” card. EBS is the kind of creature who will yelp at you for being a minute late back from a break. The sort of asshole who thinks her job as supervisor should consist of attempting to get others fired. The kind of putz who is incapable of constructing a sentence or saying something without an insult stuck in there somewhere.
I am sitting here just waiting for this shift to end. I had thought I was finally free of EBS as I have not encountered her in several months but she shows up like hail now and then, existing solely to cause trouble for everyone near her. I can only pray she gets anal cancer. Or a serious case of no ISP for the rest of her miserable life.
Geez. Monday there’s a shooting (with victims) at Wiedner University in Philadelphia. Tuesday there’s a shooting (with victim) at Purdue University in Indiana. Right now they’re reporting shots fired (no idea beyond that) at University of Oklahoma.
The more they play them up and broadcast them all over the place, the more that happen. One begets many through the complicity of the Media.
*We got the bubble headed bleach blonde who comes on at five
She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
It’s interesting when people die, give us dirty laundry
Can we film the operation? Is the head dead yet?
You know the boys in the newsroom got a running bet
Get the widow on the set! We need dirty laundry.*
Don Henley - Dirty Laundry
I’ve taken to occasionally writing complaints when I’m dissatisfied with a product or service, for fun and profit. Well, not fun really, but I like to get some coupons out of the deal and they presumably like feedback.
Usually it’s easy to predict what possibly mitigating factors they will respond with, so when those aren’t the case, I make sure to clearly state that it is NOT what I’m talking about, so we don’t need to waste time with more emails back and forth. Half the time, no matter how clear I am, they still respond asking me if it’s possible that [thing I just said was not the case]. Read what I fucking wrote, assholes!
I just had this happen with Domino’s. Every time I try to get a deal and order online, they overcharge me by a small amount (like $1-2 usually) and I just suck it up because who cares, it’s $1-2. But as I said, I want coupons, and I may as well tell them that their system has a problem, so I did. I know that certain items have surcharges, such if you order a pan pizza when the deal is for regular crust. So I made it VERY clear that that’s not what happened. It does it even if I’m ordering a plain cheese pizza with regular sauce on regular crust. Each item will show the correct charge, but the total will be a number higher than the real sum.
The response was for a guy from my local store to CALL me (I emailed for a reason, friends) and leave a message suggesting that I may have ordered something with a surcharge, and asking me to call back. I’m not going to call back and try to get that person on the phone and remind him what I’m talking about, and repeat what I already said, blah blah blah.
Just something I find kind of irritating.
I had an appointment to get the crown placed on my tooth implant for right away tomorrow morning. They called to say they needed to reschedule the appointment for later in the day because my ‘lab kit’ didn’t come in today’s mail.
Why the ever-lovin’ fuck would you trust something so expensive and fragile to the frickin’ USPS? And why would you not put tracking on it when you do? And as expensive as it is, you would think it would be able to be sent by FedEx or some other overnight outfit (even the USPS).
Hey Hey Paula, is it possible your cat has a bladder infection?
STOP SNOWING!!!
The only good thing about driving on these shitty snow-covered slipperier than snot roads is that the snow has filled in the potholes.
Amazon Prime two-day shipping, my ass. They have two hours to make it on day four. I’m not in a huge hurry, but :rolleyes:.
Highly unlikely, he’s been checked out by the vet. It’s a stress-related thing. And when he pees inappropriately, it’s a ton of pee, not the little dribbles that my other cat gets when his cystitis acts up.
Plus he’s part-Siamese, so, kind of crazy. I think this was triggered by me putting something large and unexpected in one of “his” spaces the other day. But who can tell, with a crazy cat like this?
Turn some of that snow into rain and send it our way, we’re in a drought here in So Cal!
Not the only thing. I just love drifting around corners, and I NEED snow to slide my car around 180º and slip into the parking spot in front of my house.
My kids love it; just another immature move in my quest to be Funnest Dad Ever.
You terrible slave, how dare you do such a thing?!?! Joking, I had a crazy cat too, and they do stress out and stop using their litter boxes for reasons that we never know.
Have you tried drugs? Some very high strung kitties really improve when they get something that takes the edge off their stress levels. I know someone who gave her exotic cat kitty Prozac every day and it really did seem to make him happier.
Aren’t you the same guy who likes to take your kids out for Belgium Waffles with extra whipped cream on Saturday mornings?
If so, you are right up there in the Epic Dad level 
Oh, right…got distracted by thinking about playing in snow. My rant: My husband is back in Oklahoma. He left early yesterday morning and was supposed to be back home late tonight.
This morning, protesters cut the fences and chained themselves to the equipment. As a result, everyone stood around drinking coffee and waited for the police to come with bolt cutters. Everywhere in Oklahoma is out in the middle of BFE, so it took hours for the police to round up enough vehicles to pick the protestors up. It didn’t get violent and the protestors loved getting their pics taken. I personally loved how they thought to bring pillows to sit on.
The pipe line is still going through, the protesters are probably out of jail as I type, but Bill had to stomp this fire out before he could finish stomping the original fire out and now he won’t be home until Sunday.
This means he won’t be here on Saturday, which is when my needle work is going to be judged at a very major needle work con. He won’t be following me around at the booths, helping me look at fibers and fabrics. He won’t get to look at patterns I want to use. He won’t get to look at the submissions, hear the discussions of technique and use of materials and he won’t be there to vote.
If I didn’t know that Bill is a very honest and loving man, I might just suspect that he got word in advance or something.
I missed out on some books that have widely been hailed as classics of literature, so from time to time I assign myself one of them and read it. I just finished one such book: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.
I feel like someone just played a practical joke on me. What a pile of crap!
I read a bunch of classics a while ago; some of them were truly amazing, and some of them were the biggest waste of time ever. (I’m a Kurt Vonnegut fan - can’t agree with you on that one. )
I do this, too. Mostly recently I read Great Expectations. I hadn’t read anything by Dickens except for one short story (The Magic Fishbone). I really enjoyed it.
I slogged my way through The Hunchback of Notre Dame and I’m very bitter that I wasted so much time on it.