Aw, shit. They’re paving the streets around my house, so all the streets are blocked off and no parking, and my end of the alley is blocked off (my garage is nearest the blocked off end). I came up the other end of the alley to put my car back in the garage (where it had to go - no street parking today), and some fool decided he had to do some work with his big truck today, and parked it right across from where someone else was parking in the alley, effectively blocking the alley. My car has to go into the garage, and I can’t get it there, so I tried to squeeze my way between the two vehicles blocking the alley. You probably can guess where this story is going - I have to replace somebody’s driver side mirror now. :mad: 
Shit. I was so busy watching the front of the car that I forgot about the mirrors.
Oh, it starts long before that, young lady.
As I told my 24 year old niece about 6-7 years ago; “Be careful what injuries you get now. Every last one of them will come back to haunt you when you turn 40.”
Bylaw will come out for that at least. Of course you needed to call before you tried to pull into the garage. Pain in the butt to wait, but they aren’t supposed to be blocking the alley.
My friend next door has started parking wars (she got a handicap zone put in front of her house for her sweetie) and I’m getting dragged in. Or rather, I ignore it as long as I can get in and out of the driveway. Of course I got pissy last time someone parked four inches into my driveway (which is double but shared so I had to maneuver around two parked cars, one beside me and one behind) and had mom call bylaw. Guess what? It was my son’s friend’s mom’s car. If I’d known it was hers I would have left a note or called her later but we have condos across the street and too many vehicles around for me to keep track. If people would park properly I wouldn’t have this issue. This includes my friend who should learn how to park the damn suburban so she won’t have to worry about the legally parked ones. 8m not enough. Sheesh.
Skateboarding is not a crime.
But one of my knees doesn’t work so good anymore.
And apparently I injured my right wrist (I’m right-handed) with all my digging and carting dirt yesterday. Yesterday was not a good day.
I told a younger friend of mine when he turned 25 that the human body seems to come with about a 25-year warranty. Everybody who has had appliances with warranties knows what happens after that.
I’m hungry, dammit! We’re trying to learn how to do groceries on an actual budget. This was our first month, and we made it, but only by getting a meager haul this week. If I have one more hard-boiled egg I’m going to puke.
You can always make scrambled eggs.
d&r
Fried eggs, poached eggs, egg fried rice…
Spam spam spam spam eggs and spam…
It hasn’t got much spam in it.
Every time I watch one of the hockey players take a really hard hit against the boards I think: “He’ll regret that when he’s 40”.
Vandals, thieves, arsonists, and hit-and-run perpetrators all need a good, healthy dose of karma, right up their asses.
Not a rant, but an update to my previous one-
got my paycheck today and
a) it was almost twice as much as I expected. Like, my immediate reaction was to show it to my boss and say, “this can’t be right.” But it was.
b) I had a co-worker’s dog all last week while she was on vacation and it never occurred to me to ask for money for that. But it occurred to her, so I had an envelope of cash waiting for me when I went to pick it up.
Yay! Went straight to the bank and then to Aldi’s. And I’ll have more hours coming up, so I shouldn’t be in quite the same pickle again in the near future. I still have to be very careful and stretch it out because I don’t have a lot, but I have a loaf of bread, a carton of eggs, and fresh tomatoes.
So nice to read some good news for a change SurrenderDorothy! Thanks for posting to let us know things had perked up. I’m glad your co-worker understood that you had saved her a bundle by taking the dog instead of having it at the kennel.
Fuck insomnia! I am so very tired of not being able to sleep more than two hours in a row. No reason to wake up - don’t have to use the bathroom or anything - just wake up. Every. Two. Hours.
I go straight into REM sleep and have strange dreams. I never feel rested. My doctor says I need to exercise - how in hell can I exercise when I’m exhausted all the time?
I keep thinking, every night when I go to bed, that I’m so tired I’ll sleep straight through. I go right to sleep - and wake up in two hours.
Grrrrrrrr.
Sounds like a lot of stress taking it’s toll.
Have you ever tried Trazadone? It’s an anti-depressant not largely in use for that anymore. I use it to help me sleep. My prescription is for 25mg every night, but since that’s half a very small pill and they tend to shatter on being cut, I just take a whole 50mg pill ever night. I renew twice as often as my prescription calls for, but I’ve never been denied or called out for it.
It’s dirt cheap too. $6 for 45 pills at Walmart, I don’t even bother with the insurance on it.
Without it, I wake up every 5 to 30 minutes, roll over and get back to sleep - assuming I can get back to sleep. On really bad nights, I call it “the spin cycle”, where I toss and turn, waking every few minutes. With the trazadone, that doesn’t happen at all. I may wake up a couple of times a night and can easily get right back to sleep on all but the worst nights.
YMMV. I know some people who tried it and it either didn’t work or they experienced negative side effects like feeling dopey all day.
A-fucking-men to that. Not to mention, Poochie was probably happier too, to be in somebody’s home rather than a kennel. Cheers, S. Dorothy! 
Chimera, it probably is stress. I spent a month in Tennessee and had no problems at all sleeping. There’s just a lot going on right now and I have to figure out what to do about it.
I’ve taken Trazadone. Unfortunately, it aggravates my Restless Leg Syndrome beyond the ability of Mirapex to counter. So, while I do get sleepy I can’t sleep because of my legs.
Thanks for the idea, though. I appreciate anyone
I’m on the phone with Dell’s customer support as I type this. My problem, one that requires (so far), 46:14 and 6 people is the apparently vexation-inducing task of mailing me backup Windows disks for this computer I bought 4-5 years ago. This does not include the 7 minutes I was on the phone with Microsoft (who directed me to Dell).
Of the 46:14, I likely spent 10-15 minutes of it in complete silence, which is where I am now.
ETA: 51:06 now… this is beginning to PISS ME OFF!
… and, my phone disconnected. 1:02:31 total time.
Now the countdown begins for them to call me back… This is not a time to hold my breath, is it?
Fuckers.
My uncle died this past week. A couple of hours after that, his wife (my wonderful aunt) fell and broke a hip and shoulder. Her daughter and granddaughter have been dealing with the situation, including multi-city hospital shifts. The granddaughter has been keeping the extended family informed via Facebook. Some asshole reported her to Facebook for being abusive (absolutely ridiculous), and her Facebook account has been suspended.
Also, yesterday morning the hospital said that my aunt would be there for a few days. I ordered a gift basket to be sent to her room. Mid-afternoon the hospital decided to release her, and booted her out within a hour. So the gift basket arrived about 15 minutes too late.