Inconvenient Annoyances

Our best loved guinea pig (my profile pic) Peregrine died.  He was old and had been a bit of a Lazarus with near-deaths for over a year, but we were still sad.  My little girl insisted we bury him in our garden in a shoebox filled with notes, pictures, "presents" and a cucumber slice.  I've never dug a grave before and only hope I buried him deep enough that neighborhood animals won't dig him up.

I'm sorry Tin.   

The next door neighbours being a general pain in the a$$. 

Tin, so sorry about the loss of your beloved pet. 

Sorry to hear Tin.

Tin - my condolences. Many a rodent wound up in a shoeboxe in the back garden of my childhood home.

NoT - You have to apply online? Can you talk to someone in the shop? Or call a help line and talk to a real person?

my IA: I broke a bone in my foot (proximal end of my right 5th metatarsol) some years back and periodically it hurts hurts hurts if I put any weight on it, especially if I go from being active to resting. I try to stretch it out, but I'd have to keep it flexed all the time and even if I could remember when I'm awake, I can't sleep like that. Seriously, it feels like there's a shard of broken glass inside my foot.

my IA: I broke a bone in my foot (proximal end of my right 5th metatarsol) some years back and periodically it hurts hurts hurts if I put any weight on it, especially if I go from being active to resting. I try to stretch it out, but I'd have to keep it flexed all the time and even if I could remember when I'm awake, I can't sleep like that. Seriously, it feels like there's a shard of broken glass inside my foot.

  Ouch! Take care of you. I broke a tow over a decade ago and it it now all horrible looking and arthritic, but that sounds truly painful.

My IA is being woken up from a nap by door to door salespeople.

my IA: I broke a bone in my foot (proximal end of my right 5th metatarsol) some years back and periodically it hurts hurts hurts if I put any weight on it, especially if I go from being active to resting. I try to stretch it out, but I'd have to keep it flexed all the time and even if I could remember when I'm awake, I can't sleep like that. Seriously, it feels like there's a shard of broken glass inside my foot.

That sounds awful! Have you considered getting it checked out?

My IA (which is really more of an embarrassing moment): walking into a glass door at the Penguin Books head office on my way to an interview. 

NoT - You have to apply online? Can you talk to someone in the shop? Or call a help line and talk to a real person?

my IA: I broke a bone in my foot (proximal end of my right 5th metatarsol) some years back and periodically it hurts hurts hurts if I put any weight on it, especially if I go from being active to resting. I try to stretch it out, but I'd have to keep it flexed all the time and even if I could remember when I'm awake, I can't sleep like that. Seriously, it feels like there's a shard of broken glass inside my foot.

Yeah, it's for the big guys like John Lewis and Boots.  All they do is direct you to the online application where you answer a series of inane questions that reveal nothing about who you are as a person or as a worker.    There's a few that don't have an online recruitment process though, so I'm hitting them up on Monday.  Then they can bask in my awesomeness. 

Hope your foot feels better!  I bashed mine about 2 months ago and it's still got the ouch-factor from time to time.  They said it wasn't fractured but I beg to differ.

I am currently huddling on the engine room floor trying to get the *#<€$<>*•?!€^ water pump to prime so I can watch the gauge while I ring up my fiancé for the fourth time with instructions on which magical sequence of levers to twiddle while my entire family are in the saloon asking me rapid-fire inane questions about when the water will be back on. Newsflash: your b*tching about it will not help me fix it any faster! And if I could fix it do you really think I'd still be in my sweaty, crusty running clothes from my run this morning instead of being in the shower?? Arrrrrrghhhhh

I hate finding out that one of my really good friends from high school likes Rush Limbaugh on Facebook and liked some crap about Obama being a socialist. Fortunately, he doesn't post about political stuff very often. He NEVER talked about it in school. I guess I'll just have to ignore it. Still, it's quite disappointing. How can otherwise intelligent people believe such stupid things?

stupid psycho bunny boilers who are shi*-stirring

random 2 year old temper tantrums galore

The girl sitting across from me on the train was plucking her mustache the entire time.  I commend her for not caring what other people think, but seriously, that can't wait till you get home?!

My 2 closest friends in the UK have 'de friended' me on facebook...it's official, I have no friends in this country  ...I have my husband and my daughter and that's it.

My 2 closest friends in the UK have 'de friended' me on facebook...it's official, I have no friends in this country  ...I have my husband and my daughter and that's it.

Aren't you in contact with them by other means?  Can you not ask them for an explanation?  A chat about what's going on - time to clear the air?  If not, it doesn't sound like they were really friends to begin with.  I'm sorry.