Inconvenient Annoyances

just an update: the renter finally contacted me after a forceful email - that he apolgizes and will have 50% in Sat and the other 50% in next saturday...I am giving him the benefit of the doubt since I am WAY over here. *cross your fingers for me*

just an update: the renter finally contacted me after a forceful email - that he apolgizes and will have 50% in Sat and the other 50% in next saturday...I am giving him the benefit of the doubt since I am WAY over here. *cross your fingers for me*

Good luck...you might want to download the '3 day notice to pay or quit' form just in case.

Yes - got that thanks to you! Also my Ex was going to post that on the door.  All the bills are still in my name so he didnt have to put down deposits so I have that in my back pocket as well.

I'm really struggling to hold it together today   

Me, too pb.     Here's a hug.....   You can give me one when you see this.

Me, too pb.     Here's a hug.....   You can give me one when you see this.

Thanks Andee- (((Hugs))) to you too!!!   

my toe really hurts

Just overheard our CEO bawling out my coworker for not magically getting work done, basically. My coworker wanted to spend a short amount of time doing research/prototyping of a feature to be able to gauge its scope, and the CEO apparently took great offense to that because it wouldn't be a finished/worthwhile feature.

I hate micro-managers.

Just overheard our CEO bawling out my coworker for not magically getting work done, basically. My coworker wanted to spend a short amount of time doing research/prototyping of a feature to be able to gauge its scope, and the CEO apparently took great offense to that because it wouldn't be a finished/worthwhile feature.

I hate micro-managers.

Bahhh.  I hope your day gets better and your dog too!

Thought I was feeling a bit perkier today but then I had to walk 2min to pick up a repeat prescription at the gp's this afternoon and nearly fainted on the way there.  I'm really really hoping I start to feel better this weekend because I am thoroughly sick of being so ill.

Thought I was feeling a bit perkier today but then I had to walk 2min to pick up a repeat prescription at the gp's this afternoon and nearly fainted on the way there.  I'm really really hoping I start to feel better this weekend because I am thoroughly sick of being so ill.

Hope you get some rest. Flu can be tricky. Feel better soon!

My IA: DS just phoned and mentioned he found a mouse (dead) floating in the toilet  Can't imagine how it would have gotten in there unless Maxwell was giving it a bath.

Not a great week for me at the moment .

Two main IA's today:

1) One of my wisdom teeth has been hurting this week and now it's all swollen and painful when I chew... it wasn't so bad at the beginning of the week but now the glands on one side of my jaw have swollen up and the pain has gone up to my ear .

2) I have my first meteorology/forecasting exams next Wednesday and Thursday... one is a theory exam (all the physics and maths behind the weather... the meteorology part) and the other is a practical exam (drawing up charts, analysing and predicting temperatures, clouds, rain/snow etc., and creating forecasts). I think I'm okay on the theory (most of the stuff is pretty straightforward and the pass mark is only 50%), but I've been getting stressed with the practical side - the techniques aren't difficult, but they can be time consuming and there's a lot to think about when doing them. We've been using the afternoons to practice, but I don't think I've had a single good afternoon so far - I just feel like I'm constantly getting stuck on one thing and that I don't know what I'm doing (yesterday it took me an hour to draw up a surface chart that should have only taken about 20 minutes and then I got completely stuck on the cloud forecasting and got nowhere in the last hour).

Had my first real bout of winter blues today (for this winter, so far) - I think mostly because I'm just annoyed & frustrated with a number of things:  been stuck inside the last couple days waiting/hoping for my Amazon ('free' shipping) order to turn up with the Christmas presents I ordered - I always forget that the free shipping through Amazon is often a really crap service (when they use Home Delivery Network Ltd anyway...it arrived at their Leeds depot yesterday morning at 5 am - so why the f*** isn't it here by now?!).  Plus I worry if I'm not here to receive the shipment - well it's going to be kind of big & heavy for starters - then it's going to go off to some depot somewhere that I haven't the remotest idea how to get to and/or arranging redelivery is going to be further faff.  I'm still not as comfortable driving here in the UK as I'd like to be, unless it's a place with which I'm already familiar on getting to it - which annoys me, because I feel like I don't have the same freedom & mobility in the car that I had in the US - lacking confidence & all that.  I know it's my own fault for not getting in more practice, but I just don't believe in driving around for no directed purpose.

And then there's - well isn't buying Christmas presents supposed to be a joy?  Except it doesn't feel like it - it feels like a chore.  I ordered online to try & avoid hassle and it seems because I forgot about the free shipping being crap, it's ending up being more of a hassle.  Maybe I should have bought them in town instead.  Then I feel guilty because I don't feel like I think I should feel about getting ready for Christmas.

Plus I just hate winter full stop, and I'm worried about bad weather coming in again & making everything 10 times harder to get done than it already is.  And I still hate my job too - thank goodness I just have this week coming up to work, and then I'm done until January 5.  And I haven't lost any weight over the past month liked I wanted to do, and DH made a comment this morning about that - although he didn't mean anything by it, it made me cry anyway.

I finally got outside for just a little while this afternoon (it's a little warmer this weekend - not warm, but you know what I mean) & the fresh air was nice.  I think we are going to do a walk tomorrow, so that should help.  

(((hugs))) C! Hopefully some walking in fresh air will help 

I'm sorry you've had a tough day C. 

You will get braver with your driving, and when you're ready you'll push yourself further and further.  I had to get really mad at myself and just do it.  You'll get there!   

Had my first full blown migraine this afternoon.  I'm fairly certain had one a few weeks ago but shrugged it off as a tension headache, since it was bad but not horrible.  Today my eyes went all weird, I had horrible pain in my head and then my left side of my face and my left hand went tingly for a spell. 

Soooooooo freaked out.  Fortunately for me, my BF is a migraine veteran and assured me that I wasn't dying, and has taken very good care of me.  Still a bit of a dull pain in my head but I'm feeling a heck of a lot better.

I have a doctor's appointment for Monday for something else, luckily, so I'm going to bring this up with my doctor as well.  I think I've been too stressed out lately and I need to figure out how to make this and other issues not happen!