MamaTigs (who I’m sure says hi) is weird. This morning she demanded a description of the disgusting green stuff coming out of my ear. And she said I should have taken a picture of the cotton I had in there overnight. Ewwww. Though being a confirmed zit-popper myself, perhaps this is a case of pot calling kettle.
Yay! Payday! My creditors will love me.
Happy Firday, evrahbudde!
I really like getting out at 3:00 for summer Firdays but it means I’m busier than shite getting everything done. Poor me!!
I think just plain boots, would be a good nic for marley.
rosie, I [del]third[/del] number-whatever getting that nose bleed thing checked out. And, thanks, bobbio, for the helpful first aid hint about nosebleeds.
snowbunny, when my kid had ear infections with gunk coming out, it usually meant the eardrum had ruptured. Ears and teeth are the worst as far as pain threshold is concerned. I’d rather have abdominal surgery.
It is hot. That is all.
Tupug
I came home last night to no internet. 
I was too tired to do more than watch Frasier reruns and go to bed. Huckabee was on Jon Stewart and I started to watch but quickly became aware that I could have an incipient stroke if I continued, so I went to bed. Nice man, but nuttier than a fruitcake and not in a good way…
It’s hot, humid and wet outside. I hate summer. I’m taking #2 son to the movie matinee. I making him see Star Trek–it’s designed for immature males (this one is). He should love it. And then we pack him for camp on Monday. And then Daughter and I are going to BAKE–she’s deciding between pumpkin chocolate drops or something cappucino.
Have a good day, all.
Good morning everyone. I’ve been up a good while, but have been cruising the net and paying bills. Such fun…not.:rolleyes:
whitebunny, seriously girl, get to a doc. Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve NEVER had gunk come out of my ears and neither have my kids. Granted, I don’t recall having had ear infections (I was REALLY healthy as a kid), but my kids have had them.
At any rate, I hope the pain/infection is resolved soon.
It rained today! We needed it. It hasn’t rained in just under 30 days here. We missed the 30 day mark by a couple of hours. I’m glad it’s raining, the grass was getting crispy.
rosie, I hope you get to a doc too. I don’t have any advice to offer. My former boss used to get nosebleeds for seemingly no reason, but it seems hers came on when she was stressed out.
I’m thinking that today is going to be a “chill day”. Well, I hope it remains that way, anyway. Today is my son’s last day of school, the daughter has been out of school awhile, neither work, and I don’t have to be anywhere that I’m aware of.
Hugs and smooches to all.
…this is why I’m not a nickname person. 
You don’t need a passport to go to Canada, you need one to get back into the US. There’s a new one for non-air travel that’s a card like a driver’s license that will work for Canuckistan and Sombreroland. I don’t know if it will work on the Carribean islands if you go by cruise ship.
The cheap alternative is to cross the border, do something stupid like barf on an RCMP ossifer, and let them deport you.
Home. Yay! About 10 this morning, we had a massive power fart at work, and since the UPS in my building has been on the fritz, all computers crashed, too. It came back on within a minute, but since I was already planning to leave at 1020, I didn’t care.
I met daughter in her classroom - it’s soooooo nekkid! Nothing left on the walls or the bulletin boards, all desks stacked in a corner, everything stored. I brought home a few items for her, but the rest will stay till next school year. And there’s a chance she’ll be moved up to 5th grade - she said she should find out this afternoon.
I took her to lunch at the Chinese place next to the school, and we chatted and wasted some time. The teachers are being taken on a paddleboat cruise on the Potomac this afternoon, and she’ll be home later tonight. Her friend won’t be coming to visit after all - they had to shell out $600 on tires for the car, and that was their travel fund. Oh well, Daughter and SIL leave for FL on Thurs, so they’ll all get together then.
I need to bathe my doggies. Scruffy had a bunch of fleas, and I expect Bernie does too. Which means the cats probably do, too. ugh. Stoopit fleas.
TGIF! Where’s the Chocolate Fairy??
I’m waiting for the chocolate fairy too, FCM.
You know, some people can just be so…I dunno…stupid, I guess.
My former supervisor does not like me, period. Whatever, I don’t care. A couple of days ago, she came in, brushed right past me, and went into my co-worker’s office to talk to her. She didn’t even say hello to me.:rolleyes:
So, she and the co-worker are talking, and something came up in the conversation that I had information to contribute. This woman literally glared at me and put her hand up. I just shook my head and sat back down at my desk.
Yesterday, we had a birthday/good-bye celebration for some of our staff. This woman and the rest of the regional staff showed up. I greeted the other staff, who returned my greeting. She, on the other hand, wouldn’t say a single frackin’ word to me.
Look, woman, you don’t have to like me, but you need to be adult enough to maintain a professional relationship with me. If I can do it, so can you. We are going to have to work with each other because of the functions of our offices. Learn to deal.
I’ve spoken to my current boss a couple of times (he brought it up) about my desire to maintain a professional relationship. I am exceedingly polite to her.
She doesn’t like to be told she’s wrong or that one of her products (DBs and spreadsheets) has issues. I’ve tried to show her, but she literally puts her hand up, palm out in my direction, and refuses to hear it. This is BEYOND stupid and juvenile.
The latest thing to set her off was some email traffic between her and I. Our email systems do not allow us to use anything but plain text. She has admitted numerous times to me and other staff members that she rarely reads beyond the first line or two of a message. I was trying to work with her to discover why a database wasn’t working properly. So I sent her an email explaining the problem. She replied but COMPLETELY ignored what the problem was. My next email was two sentences and I capitalized the word “not” so she would see it. Again, with plain text, stuff gets lost in the body of the email, so that’s why I capitalized the word. She got pissed off and said “STop with the shouting, I get it”. I was all:confused:. I cc’d the other analysts in this series of emails. They were all dubious and confused about her response too.
At any rate, I wish she’d just grow the fuck up. I’m tired of it. I’m glad she’s not my boss anymore, but hell, we still have work together. She has said some horrible things to me, in front of other staff. They all think she’s being unreasonable and childish too. I’m the one who has every right be angry, but I’m trying to do the right thing.
I can’t change her attitude towards me. Nothing I say or do will ever change it. I accept that. However, I have radically changed how I react to her. I don’t let it get me down anymore. I just go on. She can be childish, I refuse to sink to her level. Maybe that’s why her attitude toward me has gotten so much worse. She doesn’t get a reaction out of me anymore, so it pisses her off.
Anyway, I came home laughing about yesterday’s incident and told my husband. He asked my why I don’t just tell her to go fuck herself. He doesn’t understand the need for me to maintain a relationship (such as it is) with her.
Wow, that’s sort of ranty. Sorry about that.
I figure what goes around, comes around. One day, maybe she’ll regret it. Maybe not.
Time for more coffee.
Sorry about the coworker, Taters. Even if you’re not reacting in kind, it’s frustrating to deal with someone that childish.
I’m off for the weekend! I’ve put more than my 40 in this week so no guilt about leaving from me. Now I’m going to the grocery store. Then laundry and house cleaning. Envy me my exciting afternoon off!
Mars was proposed last week, but I’m afraid I don’t remember by whom.
Taters, that woman sounds like she didn’t go to kindergarten at all…
Taters, I’ve been to the doc. Don’t worry. I’ve got horse-pill size antibiotics. And it’s feeling just a bit better today. Not good, but better. I had a lot of ear infections as a kid and a fair number of them ended up draining like this, so it’s nothing new.
Otherwise there’s nothing much happening. I’m deliberately taking it easy today so my body can really get into the fight against the crap in my ear. That’s my excuse for being lazy…it’s even true. 
Geez, I have a couple of coworkers that outside of work I would rather have nothing much to do with, but we get along well enough at work. If one of them would only quit sending me the occasional religious or political spam; I haven’t figured out a way to ask her yet. I think she just hits “send to all” and is done. And I don’t want any hurt feelings, it’s way too small an office and we work too closely together. So for now, I just delete 'em.
Jeez, Taters - and I thought our office drama was bad! Last week, we had a guy sent home for a couple of days for being a raging freaking lunatic. We have two of them. I guess it was this guy’s turn.
Go to the doctor, palebunny! Ick. After dealing with my Dad’s hearing loss, you really don’t want to jack with your hearing! ETA - good for going!
I got my hormone shot this morning. Now I don’t have an excuse to be bitchy for another three months. 
Then I went shopping for a few things, including a couple of pounds of live crawfish for some gumbo I’m making today. The house smells like boiled seafood now! The gumbo will have crawfish tails, shrimp, chicken and andoiulle sausage. Mmm.
Other than that, jus’ chillin’.
rebo, that’s the point. There doesn’t need to be any drama. I just want to get on with my work, is all.
I think the whole thing is stupid.
I just noticed the time. Good grief! I need to take a shower!:o
WHEW!
Doggies are bathed and my back is killing me! Scruffy was easy enough, but Bernie didn’t want to stand, wouldn’t turn around couldn’t get in and out of the tub… oh my back! Both had tons of fleas - yoiks! The water was red with blood :eek: and I saw several of the critters go down the drain.
So, what’s a good flea treatment for dogs and cats? I’ve got some powder for the cats but I’ll need help to do them. I’ve also sprinkled flea powder on the carpet - I’ll vacuum it up in a couple of hours. And I guess I should toss the dogs’ afghans into the laundry… in fact, I’ll do that as soon as I post this.
Taters, I’ve worked with some zingers in my life, but doggone, you’ve got a real winner there. Mess with her mind - treat her like she’s your bestest friend in the whole world! 
Or is that too evil…
Off to wash dog blankets. And cool off - I’m sweating like I just ran a marathon. House is closed and air is on - that’ll help.
Whew - it’s tough to be me…
I’ve always had good luck with Advantage flea products. That stuff works fast and lasts a good long while. When I started using that, my flea problems went away.
Taters, I’m amazed you haven’t thrown the woman out a window yet… that sort of behaviour makes me downright stabby, especially if it’s coming from a supervisor-type person. Glad to hear she’s not your direct sup, at least.
taxi, I think you’re bang-on about the overcooking thing. I’ve done the cake-to-muffins conversion several times without adjusting the ingredient quantities, and it usually works out just fine as long as I’m careful not to overbake. Try cutting the regular muffin time to 20 mins and mini-muffins to 15 mins, and see how that goes.
Speaking of things that make me stabby, one of my close girlfriends just sent out the Facebook invite for her 30th bday party and I’m sorely tempted to give her a piece of my mind right now. You see, she’s decided to throw a giant weekend-long party at an out-of-town spa/resort. If I decide to attend, I’d have to cover a car rental, hotel room and meals/drinks/activities for the weekend. Plus birthday gift, because we can’t possibly show up empty-handed. That’s a $400+ expense for me and The Boy… which we can afford, in theory, but I think it’s a little excessive for a birthday, even if it is one of the big ones.
The really annoying part is that we’re already spending around $3500 to attend her destination wedding in a few months, so I think she’s being totally unreasonable.
(for the record, my 30th birthday involved cheap Thai food and bubble tea… apparently someone forgot to send me the memo about expensive multi-day spa getaways with 30 of my closest friends)
Geeze, Mahna, I think I’d have regretfully decline the b-day invite.
Maybe I’m just crabby or something, and of course, I don’t know your friend, but it seems just a tad insensitive to expect people shell out that much moolah for a birthday celebration, especially in light of the fact that you’ve spent quite a bit for her upcoming nuptials. But…that’s just me.
I should do something productive, like say, clean, but I’m not feelin’ it.
Destination wedding? I don’t think I’d attend one for a sib, let alone a friend. But then I’m a cheap old grouch.
Howdy Y’all! I’m home and surprisingly unstabby towards iPhones. Truth be told, it’s been right uneventful. Even though I am working for five and a half hours on Monday, my day off, to take care of some stuff that’s been put off cause of iPhone related stuff. [scarlet o’hara]As God is my witness[/scarlett o’hara] I will work only the hours of eight am to one-thirty pm Monday.
Muppet I’d send a card and decline the invitation. Then again I am evil.
Taters good for you for being the adult! You get to feel all high and mighty knowin’ you’re doing the right thing and it pos her to know end. It’s all win-win!
MOOOOOOM I second the Advantage flea stuff. A tad pricey but worth it for flealess living.
I have ribs on the smoker and N.O.T. cookin’ for N.O.T. salad for tomorrow’s dindin. I had baked beans in the freezer so I took 'em out and set 'em in the refrigidaireator to thaw. Shortly I shall grill burgers for tonight’s dindin.
Rebo push some gumbo through the cd drive. kthnksbye!
I’m one of the bridesmaids, so attendance is kinda-sorta mandatory.
Plus it’s a nice excuse to go on a nice trip to someplace warm, sunny and beachy, especially since late November in Toronto is usually cold, wet and miserable.
It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who thought the birthday thing was out of line, though. I was starting to wonder if I was the one who was being unreasonable, because everyone who’s responded so far is acting as if this as a completely normal and sane sort of thing to do.