Try a couple of little balls of crumpled aluminum foil? You could use them over and over.
Hmm, I have one that I foundonce that was designed to be a spacer over a stove burner to allow for a slower pan simmer. A long time ago.
I once had a basic crockpot that came with a ~6" circular wire rack to sit in the bottom of the pot. So no big enough for a layer cake.
Anyhow, I used that wire rack for decades after I thift-stored the stupid crockpot I never used. Too handy.
I don’t really need it to be big enough for a layer cake. I need it small enough to fit inside my ninja Speedi on top of my slices of bread.
I take back my crumpled foil suggestion. Did not know it was for on top of the bread.
Dear doctor’s office receptionist: you had a headset on, were speaking in a quiet voice, and barely looked up. Don’t get all pissy that I didn’t respond to you - I thought you were talking to someone on the phone.
In fact, this is a general pet peeve of mine. So many people are doing double duty nowadays, interacting with the people in front of them while also handling phones or whatever else is coming through the headset. If you are talking to me, give me an obvious indication that you are talking to me and not the person in your ear.
My cancer is now in a new thread in MPSIMS so as not to overwhelm this one.
I have a fair bit of experience with migraines too~thanks to the moron who rear-ended me at full speed on the snowy Interstate on Christmas Eve > traumatic brain injury.
Glad you’ll be seeing a neurologist and a migraine pain specialist is available to consult. I didn’t get effective treatment until my psychiatrist referred me to a board certified headache specialist 60 miles away-at the time the only headache specialist in the state. Other neurologists had failed to give me any relief but within a few visits I had effective meds (sumatriptan auto-injections ) that ended a migraine within minutes and soon got Botox injections every 90 days authorized for prevention.
If after a couple of visits you aren’t getting good relief and prevention, here’s a way to find a migraine specialist near you. It’s been well worth the 120 mile round trip for me. Plus there’s a fellow Doper and his lovely wife who live nearby and it’s a great excuse to get together with them for a fun lunch.
A joke?
Not at all. She loves to fight.
That’s rough. Judging by that last thread, ya’ll have a lot to fight about.
I just feel like every time I tell my life, “I can’t take it anymore. Really, this is my limit,” my life is like, “Nope. Here’s some more shit to manage.”
And I manage. But I’m not particularly having fun at the moment, considering I’ve been up since 2am with a racking asthma cough. I finally broke down and went to get some steroids so I think the situation will be improving soon, but it’s just more shit, and I feel bad that my husband has had to drop everything this week to manage appointments. He even drove me to urgent care. And we are losing money because he’s in business for himself; he doesn’t get any PTO.
Also, general poll, how would you feel if your CEO told you that you’re the only one at the agency that’s irreplaceable? On the one hand, it sounds like a compliment, but on the other hand… pressure much? It’s true I add a lot of value, but it’s true that a lot of other people do too, and we all need each other. I can’t carry this fucking place alone.
Oh yeah and another of our veterans quit. I think she’s been here twenty years. A good friend of mine. And nobody knows how to do her job, which mine is very heavily dependent on.
Been there, done that, didn’t stay very long.
I’m not giving you advice, I’m just saying what I did.
It’s a good feeling to feel wanted. It’s a horrible feeling to be taken advantage of.
Literally has nothing to do with politics. To quote her, “You’re the most conservative Democrat I’ve ever met, I’m the most liberal Republican you’ve met.”
This.
It’s one thing to believe in the mission the organization purports to try to accomplish. It’s a different thing to pour your life into their failing rat-hole that wasn’t, isn’t, and can’t be effective at actually accomplishing the mission.
I’m not sure if we are failing as much as we were a few months ago. Things seem to be trending upward, slowly. I’m just concerned I’m burning out because when I think about my actual job I feel more numb than anything else. But keeping in mind, I am SICK and STRESSED about so many other things going on right now. I think if I were feeling healthier I would be able to pour my give a damn energy into the job more.
Small win, they wanted to schedule an emergency crash course for this colleague leaving to teach a handful of us how to do her job, and I held my ground that I am not available Thursday because I am taking my son to therapy. I know once I cave on that boundary it will invite all sorts of chaos in. But yeah, my workload just increased. Whoo.
You are in an awful spot and I hope I come across as supportive, rather than as piling on. Because that is my intent.
You need to take care of yourself & your kid. You don’t have bandwidth for anything else. period. The rest of the world can go F*** itself. You need a job with the most money, lest stress, and the most flexible time off to be as close to a full time parent as you can be.
Only you know what that looks like. But IMO viewed fuzzily from this great distance it doesn’t look like what you’re doing now.
I want to say I’m supportive too. And personally, I’m not saying to leave your job.
Hell, you got crap tons of stress, and if I said you’re doing the wrong thing working where you are then that’s just piling more stress on you.
The only one who knows if the job is right for you is you. Any time I’ve left a job, it was because I knew I had to go. I never regretted it. You know best for yourself.
Most money, check. At least for the amount of work I have to do (which isn’t usually that much), I am one of the highest paid people there. In addition to remote work capabilities I also have a fuckton of vacation due to seniority.
Most flexible time off, check. They have given me full permission to do whatever I need to do for Wee Weasel.
Less stress… well that’s where we run into problems. Trying to keep an organization alive is stressful. Managing constant turnover is stressful. And I know the CEO is planning to bail as soon as she has the changes in place. She’s trying to leave us better off than when she came in, and I think she will, but that’s a lot more uncertainty to deal with down the road.
I’m trying to become anti-fragile. There is a lot of potential for career growth here. If change is a constant, I’ll get used to it eventually. Right now though, at least until I’m feeling better, I need people to just leave me alone.
So maybe that BP is her fault?
I just need to follow up my previous rant: the Ford dealership finally gave us our car back! They only fixed one of the two problems we brought it in for, but at least we have our own car back, and they don’t seem to have made the hesitation on acceleration any worse!