The joke is that hampsters are deathly allergic to elderberries.
Silo, that post ranks up with fnord’s “this ones for chiefscott” thread as terminally annoying posts. You may have turned me off smilies for good with that one.
Not quite as easy as it sounds, but I’m getting there. [/pity party]
Okay, Silo. Why am I going to the happy thread? Will it magically make me smile and giggle and dance? No, it won’t. So I’ll just hang out here with these people and wallow in my own self pity. Thanks for the offer though.
The unhappy thread is where I belong! I just finished working three overnights. Tomorrow I head back to work for another three. I need the weekend off so I had to switch shifts with my coworkers. If that wasn’t bad enough, the reason I need the weekend off is because I have to go to my friend’s wedding. I really don’t want to go, but my friend would not forgive me if I didn’t show. This friend was one of my last single friends, and while I am happy that she is getting married, all I can think about is how unhappily single I still am.
Michi,
I sent you an e-mail today, but I daresay this bears repeating. (I can’t think of a better person to honor with my 2000th post.) I really hope you had a nice time at the wedding, and that your friend appreciates you for attending.
I know full well how you must have felt. Five years ago, I had to fly to Hawaii over the Thanksgiving holiday (taking no other days off work: I’d just started my new job). For a wedding that I really didn’t want to go to. And to really rub salt in the wound: I had to be best man (I mean, I’m flattered that he chose me, but as to what I’d really have preferred…). My own time, and my own money. I barely got to do any sightseeing, and I confess it was not one of my more pleasant vacations. I did it out of duty, and you know what? Duty SUCKS! (And loyalty is really a pain in the ass, too! Particularly when it isn’t returned. But that’s the subject of another thread.)
I don’t blame you a damned bit for how you feel. If misery truly loves company, I’ll confess I’m unhappy, too. (I’d offer a challenge to see which of us is more unhappy, but that’s too damned depressing.)
But I do believe you’ll find someone. I can’t say where or when, but you WILL. I truly think you are a very special person!
Do you have a cite, punha? I don’t believe you. That would detract from the overall silliness of the film. And how would a hampster, found in dry, arid conditions, find elderberries, found in England? Coconuts and Sparrows not-withstanding.
So I’m more nervous then unhappy. Money issues. More specifically, a lack of money is the issue. And a lack of time, which is a direct result of the money issue, because I have to work more, leaving less time for my school work, which is what I am supposed to be making my top priority…
I should just start a thread called " The Nervous Worriers Thread."
There’s a club if you want to go,
You might meet someone, who really loves you,
So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die
I have to sit and wait till the unevitable letter comes through the door that my first choice university has rejected me because I only got predicted two As and B, even though I’m a year up, and I have a shitty maths teacher who is on the edge of a nervous breakdown who ruined my future. I have to fake happiness for other people who get offers when I haven’t got one yet and i know I’ll never get to study in London at a place which is perfect for me and it’s all because of this fucking school. I’m going to cry now.
sits in a corner and sobs.
This needs to be where I post this. I was stood up last Saturday. Gosh he said he would be at my house between 4 and 5, he had a ways to drive. No show, no call, what a jerk. I have not and will not call him! 1st dates are terrible. Thought this guy was nice, but what do I know.