My gawd, I am so sick of all this shit.
Turns out my fistula has sprung a leak. My insurance will not cover having the procedure done in office, so I have to have it done at the hospital. Surgery is late afternoon, no food/drink after midnight the night before. Okay, whatever.
Wait, you need to have a pre-op physical first. Okay, I need a physical anyways to stay on the transplant list, let’s kill two birds with one stone. Only, no. Two separate friggin’ physicals. I’m put on hold with the scheduler, she transfers me back to a nurse who answers with the delightful “What do you want?”
I HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA. I want to NOT have to see a doctor every goddamn week. I’d like an insurance company that doesn’t make me jump through friggin hoops (seriously, I can see the surgeon at one site but not another - same medical group, etc, just location).
I’d like the person who is generously giving me her kidney to get off her ass and lose the weight she says she’s in a rush to do, only not so much.
I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I’m angry that because I “look” okay, people think I’m not sick. Let me tell you, carrying around 25# of barely functioning kidneys sucks monkey dick. Conversely, I’m tired of being asked “How ARE you?” with that look of pity. You don’t fucking care. You just want to tell me of some random person you know whose uncle died of kidney failure because of the die-a-beet-iss and how I would be fine if I just lost weight. NOT THE SAME DISEASE moron.
I’m annoyed as fuck at coworkers who say they will back you up, then don’t. It’s amazing how needing someone to cover for you on a Friday causes all the rats to desert the ship. Your mom has a doctor’s appointment? How in the world does she only have appointments all day every Friday? How does that work? At this point I will have to be in office WHILE having surgery. No idea how that will happen.
I am just tired of every fucking thing right now.
Of course, now I need to get human to go see yet another goddamned doctor.
I did not sign up for this shit.
I don’t really have a big rant because I had a great week on vacation, but I do have to vent about one thing. I have to vent about this lady at the airport. Let me set the scene:
It’s 5:30 am or so in the Albany airport, which is a fairly small one as far as airports go. (It’s why I love it, actually, always can find parking and the security line is short.)
Anyway we are already through security and we sit down near to this woman. She is large, and she is dressed extremely frumpy, in baggy sweats, and an ill-fitting shirt - and a sequined glittery cap. Fine, right? None of my business!
Well, then she takes out a bag of potato chips and starts tossing them back into her mouth. I mean, shoveling. And I hated to even think it, because I am not exactly svelte, but I was thinking, lady, you don’t need potato chips at 5:30 am. She’s also wiping her hand on her pants…ocasionally. Not nearly enough.
BUt that’s not all! With the same greasy potato chip hand she is pawing at her cellphone. She is playing videos, or ads, AT FULL VOLUME, in the airport, so everyone can hear. Sometimes it’s little snippets of songs, or sometimes it’s those adverts that show up before videos.
I was annoyed at first, but then the sheer comedy of the whole thing struck me. I mean, really? COuld you be any more ridiculous?
That may be a characteristic of the US branches. I’ve only had experience with the one across the road from us (in the UK), and the people I’ve seen working there seem fairly happy and engaged, though I haven’t gotten into any in-depth discussions with any of them. Except the guy who showed us his alchemy tattoo and occasionally grabs PaulParkhead on his way to the tills to put him at the front of a new line. 
As PP does the bulk of the grocery shopping these days, he’s the one they see most often, and he’s apparently built something of a rapport with that guy at least.
I’ve noticed that there are often differences between US and UK branches of the same company. For example, Costco in the UK is apparently not nearly as nice a place to work as it is in the US; apparently the positive and employee-friendly corporate culture they pursue in the States wasn’t transferred to the UK along with the franchise. More’s the pity.
Internet people, stop telling “everyone” on the internet to vote today. I understand the importance of voting, but come on! Not everyone is in America! Not everyone in the world or the online world has an election today, dammit!
And then there are the people who, at the end of November, ask me if I had a good Thanksgiving. Um, yes, I did, I had a good Thanksgiving - back in October!
Yeah, I guess that was kind of a minor rant.
I can get behind this in a way. It seems that every friend is posting “vote!” stuff, but since most of my friends are friends with my other friends, we are all getting this all day long. I plan on hitting the polling place after work, but I feel like everyone is just nagging about it.
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And although I will vote because I am a responsible taxpayer, I know my vote won’t do squat. The idiots in my state will overwhelmingly vote Republican and that fucker Brownback will be in office for 4 more years.
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And although I will vote because I am a responsible taxpayer, I know my vote won’t do squat. The idiots in my state will overwhelmingly vote Republican and that fucker Brownback will be in office for 4 more years.[/QUOTE]
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If it’s any consolation, not being an idiot, (but making my first post from my phone, so I’m not sure how this will work out) I voted to get him out too. IMHO he’s useless.
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Noise complaint spoilered.
Goddamn fucking leafblower has been going all morning! I swear, leafblowers were created by Satan. I’m blasting a ska CD in my headphones and can still hear the fucking thing.
I hate all the political ads, too, mainly because I voted by mail and sent my ballot in early. So I’m not in the candidates’ target audience anymore. And we have a hotly contested Congressional race going on as well as a gubernatorial race and the ads are all so overwhelmingly negative. I can’t wait for the end of the day when all of this will be over for at least two more years.
I had to make a vet appointment for one of the cats. He’s lost a lot of weight, doesn’t eat much but drinks a lot of water…I know there aren’t any good answers coming out of this. I hope he will be with us a while yet, but I don’t plan to push treatments to the limit like I did last time.
And while we’re at it, if there is a long line of cars waiting to get onto the ramp on the freeway, and you are too stupid to have gotten on the end of it, don’t sit there in a traffic lane with your blinker on saying please let lil ole me in. Go on, make a u-turn, and get on using the ramp on the other side.
I’ve seen the same behavior as you - not the left turn lane, but people in the left through lane who decide they want to go right through heavy backed up traffic, despite having miles to get in the right place. Think ahead lamebrain.
Dont you know that anyone who complains about leaf blowers is a racist?:rolleyes::dubious:
The bad news: Perricone discontinued my favorite product
The good news: cust svc shot an email “as a valued cust and purchaser of product blah blah” buy two get one free! OK bought 6/3 free=more than a year to find a comparable product as a replacement.
Yes, I’ve heard that one before. It was something I wasn’t aware of before I read it here on the board. Maybe that idea is an American thing? Leafblowers don’t seem to be associated with race here in Canada, but maybe we don’t have as many Hispanics/Latinos/whatever ethnic group is associated with leafblowers here.
Gee, with all my posts in this thread today, I sound kind of anti-American. I’m not anti-American or racist, I’m just anti-leafblower.
Every little bit helps! 
I’ve never head this! How odd! Does that mean I am against fat, old, white guys because that’s who works for the service I use? :eek: OTOH, I’m never home when the leaf blowers are running, so they don’t bother me.
ETA: And while I’m in a mini-pit mood, I pit this TMNT sour apple sucker that isn’t sour at all and barely tastes like apple. :dubious:
The pain left yesterday after a few aspirin. The Dr. just called and advised she received the test results and my breasts are awesome
ly healthy! Woo Hoo!
Yay!!!
Apple seems to be a weird fruit to have candy taste like. On the other side of things, a friend of mine once tried a bubblegum-flavoured apple. Not apple-flavoured gum - gum-flavoured apple! She said it was pretty terrible.
Yeah, every time someone here in California tries to ban leafblowers, they play the race card.
I’m so sorry, but don’t lose hope yet. It might be something treatable like dental problems or hyper-thyroid.
We currently have a cat in kidney failure, and we’ve been able to keep his weight up by feeding him watered down canned food 4 or 5 times a day. It helps that he’s getting a little senile, so he forgets that he’s just eaten and we can offer him some more and he’ll eat that too.
My rant: I know that my husband is always armed. That’s just fine with me, I moved to Texas with enough guns to arm a small country. I know that he has a seat holsterfor his truck. Again, that’s just fine with me.
What isn’t fine is when he asks me to take his truck to get the oil changed and doesn’t tell me that there is a gun in it. I had to wait to find out because the holster shifted when I stopped at a traffic light and I felt the weight against the back of my leg. :smack:
While I’m pretty sure that the oil change guy wouldn’t actually open the pouch and steal it, as a responsible gun owner, I didn’t want to take the chance. Could it have been something small and light like one of our Glocks? Of course not, it was a big ol’ metal .45 that just barely fit in my jacket pocket. Its a good thing my husband is so cute, I won’t pistol whip him (don’t want to damage his good looks), but I sure will give him an earful when he gets home tonight.