Inconvenient Annoyances

Zucchini bread! 

Bah! I would but I don't have any nuts and they are kind of pricey when you need to save money on shopping.  It wouldn't be the same without the nuts! I found a recipe in Joy of Cooking for a zucchini-cheddar bread that looked great, but then realized I am out of baking powder, too. Doh! Will go shopping tomorrow, though, so the zucchini-cheddar bread may be in the works... I've never tried a savoury one before, so that might be nice for a change. 

Oh I have some pecans or something around here - should have put them in your box!  (I think they have been opened though, so would have felt weird - just the same as why I didn't send pumpkin in the tin or marshmallow fluff past its sell-by date.  )

Zucchini-cheddar bread sounds good! 

Zucchini-cheddar bread sounds good! 

Mmmm that does- I'm pretty sure we had a Zucchini thread in food talk last year

Zucchini-cheddar bread sounds good!  

I wouldn't turn that down, especially if I could do it in the breadmaker, as I am lazy!  

Tesco online is playing up. 

hangover 

I think my head is going to explode from frustration.

I hate children so much right now.

Because my fiance's brother can't control his feral, wild, screeching hellspawn kids, we had to say "No kids under 10" at our wedding, and stupidly said we'd provide a creche. Holy bejesus it's expensive. It's so expensive I want to cry.

4 kids, 7.5 hours, 2 childminders, 1 room rental = £1050 total

Yes, the per head for the kids greatly exceeds that of the adults at the wedding.

And I'm really beginning to wish we'd just said "No kids. Your problem." on the invites. Hell, it'd be cheaper to fly over someone from the States and put them up in a posh hotel room to watch over the kids for the day than this. Screw regulations, I'm ready to put the little f*&$&*$ in a cage. 

I hate children so much right now.

Because my fiance's brother can't control his feral, wild, screeching hellspawn kids, we had to say "No kids under 10" at our wedding, and stupidly said we'd provide a creche. Holy bejesus it's expensive. It's so expensive I want to cry.

4 kids, 7.5 hours, 2 childminders, 1 room rental = £1050 total

Yes, the per head for the kids greatly exceeds that of the adults at the wedding.

And I'm really beginning to wish we'd just said "No kids. Your problem." on the invites. Hell, it'd be cheaper to fly over someone from the States and put them up in a posh hotel room to watch over the kids for the day than this. Screw regulations, I'm ready to put the little f*&$&*$ in a cage. 

Is there no one (among your guests) with a teenager who'd be willing to sit with the kids during the ceremony? I'm not sure I'd be willing to pay that much for 4 kids and would have to let the parents know it's not going to be possible like you thought. Why can't they hire their own babysitter anyway??

Dude SP- that sucks.

My IA: A man at work last night (I was waitressing) was excessively rude, snapping his fingers, talking down to me, and snapped at me for not removing his soup bowl before I brought out his entree. (Uh, a**hole- you had just finished when I brought your entree out) When I dropped off the check the man looked at me (I was flushed from running around a crowded restaurant taking care of seven demanding tables) and said- "Are you blushing or do you just wear too much makeup?" 

Who talks to people like that?

My IA: A man at work last night (I was waitressing) was excessively rude, snapping his fingers, talking down to me, and snapped at me for not removing his soup bowl before I brought out his entree. (Uh, a**hole- you had just finished when I brought your entree out) When I dropped off the check the man looked at me (I was flushed from running around a crowded restaurant taking care of seven demanding tables) and said- "Are you blushing or do you just wear too much makeup?" 

Who talks to people like that?

What a jerk!

Squirrelly - I agree with Sarah.  I would find a teenager or someone else (a distant cousin...anyone!) who would be willing to volunteer their services.  Even if you paid them something like £250...it would be saving you a buttload of money.  Personally, I would watch 4 kids for a day if someone paid me that much.

My IA:  My stupid ass drug-dealing neighbors who have the weirdest schedule in the world (meaning...they are never home but when they are at home we have to listen to non-stop knocking on the door...and the knocking is always exactly the same...I guess it's a secret "I'm here to buy drugs" knock) decided to get a puppy.  Great.  I don't have a hard enough time as it is with a newborn but now I have to listen to a puppy whining, yelping, barking, etc. all day and night.  I hope they plan on taking said puppy with them when they disappear for days on end.  Oh yeah...and they're not supposed to have dogs in the first place.  FML!

My IA:  My stupid ass drug-dealing neighbors who have the weirdest schedule in the world (meaning...they are never home but when they are at home we have to listen to non-stop knocking on the door...and the knocking is always exactly the same...I guess it's a secret "I'm here to buy drugs" knock) decided to get a puppy.  Great.  I don't have a hard enough time as it is with a newborn but now I have to listen to a puppy whining, yelping, barking, etc. all day and night.  I hope they plan on taking said puppy with them when they disappear for days on end.  Oh yeah...and they're not supposed to have dogs in the first place.  FML!

Ohhh no. That's horrible to live next to, and please report this for the puppy's sake! My family took in a dog who had previously been owned by a drug dealer/user. The poor thing had been used as a puppy mill so the woman could sell dogs to make more money to buy drugs. I can't even begin to tell you the sort of health issues that dog had when we adopted her. The owner would go away for days on end and just leave the dog behind, generally forgetting to feed it. By the time we got the dog, she would be frantic anytime someone started preparing food because she had spent such a long period of her life never knowing when her next meal was. 

4 kids, 7.5 hours, 2 childminders, 1 room rental = £1050 total

Wow I agree with GTTL & E2W to find 2/3 teenagers and give them £100 gift certificates EACH or 1 good adult and pay then £250-£300

7.5 hours? Are the adults really gone that long from the kids?
SP - that is a huge price to pay - hire brother's wife to do it ;-)

Totally botched the pancakes this morning.  I think I forgot I had put in the baking soda already and put in more.  They tasted absolutely horrendous.  We had to eat cereal instead. 

Dear Irresponsible Dumbass:
   You are given a piercing aftercare sheet for a reason...FOLLOW IT.
Dont come into the shop a week later,showing me how unclean you've kept it and showing how you've been chewing the inside of your lip where the piercing is.
And then look at me like you expect me to fix it at the drop of a hat.
As the aftercare sheet states... "Treat your piercing as a flesh wound".
And while you're at it, brush your damn teeth,rinse out your mouth with listerine. and kept is clean FFS!!!!!

/rant over