I don't need hugs as much as I need someone to give me an hour or two of sleep.

Maybe this is more of an LJ thing, but I've had a lot of stress at work. Then yesterday, I got a call from a neighbor about how our dog had been barking all. day. WHich he probably had because we are crate training after the neighbor complained about poop in her yard, which led to an electric fence, but then the dog was too scared to poop/pee outside, thus leading to the need to crate him during the day.

Well, said neigbor has a little 8 yo girl who has been rather mean to Ellie. I have bit my tongue because Ellie doesn't really get it and I hate this sort of interpersonal confrontation, but I mentioned it on the phone to the neighbor, and of course my voice got all wobbly, which I know men see as weakness, or at least I perceive it as such, and that led to me basically feeling lame for complaining to him when it may have seemed like retaliation (but I never would have said anything otherwise) and when I hung up the phone I just spent some time crying.

Basically, I feel like the people I work with hate me, my neighbors hate me, and their kids are mean to my awesome daughter.

(And you know, no one is sick or hospitalized, and I know many close to those of us here are, so I feel selfish complaining about people being mean to me.) But damn it, I would like a week or at least a day of people being nice to me.

But damn it, I would like a week or at least a day of people being nice to me.

That we can do!

Unlike the sick or hospitalized (where we DO do our best with the ~ma) being nice to you is well within our skill set!

I really admire you being very much an individual AND a military wife. The two do not always go hand-in-hand in my experience. Home births? Elimination communication? Bein' a big ol' hippie lawyer? DAMN WOMAN.

I believe that "Lonesome Rhodes"(Have you seen that movie? It's eerie...I wonder who Schulberg had in mind. Although you'd think it was Beck, more or less.) will ultimately have the highest-rated psychotic break since Howard Beale. Fox News will ultimately have to pay a huge fine cause they knew he came in that morning raving(like usual) but without pants(slightly less usual.)

Stephanie, hon, you are NOT SELFISH. At all. You've got significant emotional stressors in your life, and those are legit and causing you pain, and we're the best place I know to vent about that kind of stuff and get some comfort. Don't apologize -- we bring {{{{ }}}}

Stephanie, you and your family deserves to be treated nice, and not just for a day or a week. You, as mentioned, are not selfish.

Well, my eyelid is worse. Not only is it itchy and bumpy, it's now swollen so I can't open it all the way. I think I'll be visiting Urgent Care this morning.

Sitting in a waiting room typing up HUD regs while trying not to claw at my eyelid? Was not on my agenda for this trip.

And in not me news, Stephanie, you are super awesome and most definitely deserve to be adored as we adore you and treated with the utmost kindness.

I wonder who Schulberg had in mind. Although you'd think it was Beck, more or less

I've never seen that movie. But a number of self-proclaimed prophets, rabble rousers, what have you, were able to gain an audience during the Depression years of the 1930s. Father Charles Coughlin (a genuine priest) may have been the best known, but he was hardly the only one.

so much sickness and assorted other nasties. ~ma to everyone who needs it!

I have resolved to try to actually post more often. (I was sending lurker-ma before.)