In a similar vein I've been fighting with Ford over the problems I've been having with the MyFord Touch system in my Focus and they are now going to send me a check equal to one of the monthly lease payments. They are also still working on the problems.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
NoiseDesign - Aug 28, 2012 12:36:22 pm PDT #19504 of 30001
Our wings are not tired
askye - Aug 28, 2012 12:48:22 pm PDT #19505 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
Cass glad you were victorious.
I saw my therapist who was really nice and I threw a lot of info at her. She does DBT. I brought it up and she said she did it. I was kind of rambling at that point. I cried but it wasn't so bad.
Today I woke up and actually didn't feel dread and anxiety. Which my Inner Mental Bully spun this as a bad thing - but I tried to stay away from those thoughts.
I had decided I did not want to return to the assignment. It seemed my choices were - go back to work and be filled with dread and anxiety and try and deal with that and being depressed while trying to perform a job and not cry/freak out in front of people. OR Not go back and be filled with dread, anxiety, depression and try to fight off the Inner Mental Bully's thinking that I'm a bad person, failure, and fraud while being able to cry and freak out in the comfort of my own home.
I wasn't able to make that decision until I could get some validation from my therapist, M. Because I also feel that I can't trust my instincts on certain things because whatever I pick is wrong.
Will offered to come up but I think I need some time to process all of this so I'll see him Thursday. And tomorrow I'm going to make myself go to the knitting group so I'll get out and do something.
omnis_audis - Aug 28, 2012 2:15:04 pm PDT #19506 of 30001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Askye, glad to hear of the progress. Baby steps! tons of hugs (if you like hugs) for you!
Unless you can get them to install a slide down into the garage (was it the garage), so you didn't have to use the stairs.Ha. Except the garage is my neighbors and not mine. But that would be cool. Sure would make bringing stuff down to the garage a lot easier. And if I could get a winch at the top of the slide to haul stuff back up, it could just work!
So now I am waiting for insurance to call me back, and hear the progress with my ongoing battle with payment for the stupid ER visit in Vegas last year. Ugg. Such a pain. And there is no phone in the workshop, and they don't want to call on the cell. Ugg. Blah blah. bitch. moan. Ugg.
ETA: Well, it's past 5pm now, so I'm guessing insurance gal is not calling back. Ugg.
Hil R. - Aug 28, 2012 3:08:15 pm PDT #19507 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Whoa. Just found out that my little cousin is going to be in the touring company of Billy Elliot.
omnis_audis - Aug 28, 2012 3:15:54 pm PDT #19508 of 30001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
very cool!
Cass - Aug 28, 2012 4:27:53 pm PDT #19509 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Very cool, Hil.
In a similar vein I've been fighting with Ford over the problems I've been having with the MyFord Touch system in my Focus and they are now going to send me a check equal to one of the monthly lease payments. They are also still working on the problems.
It's the worst case of, "Well, I won? But that was a horrible battle and just shouldn't have happened in the first place" for me. Except it sounds like yours are technical in nature, ND. Still I hope they solve the problem soon.
Mine was just stomach-turningly bad customer service after they made a small and honestly understandable-ish error. It was the awful way I was treated by customer service that kept me fighting though.
I wasn't able to make that decision until I could get some validation from my therapist, M. Because I also feel that I can't trust my instincts on certain things because whatever I pick is wrong.
How awful, askye. I am glad you were able to speak to your therapist. Because your Inner Mental Bully is wrong. And you are both strong and willing to ask for help, so extra strong.
and hear the progress with my ongoing battle with payment for the stupid ER visit in Vegas last year.
Our healthcare system is so shockingly broken. Even for people with health insurance.
Good things - I made rice with lime and cilantro inspired by dinner at erin's before I moved and then made a burrito bowl. Including salsa I first tried at her place. And some cheese. It would have been a very erin-approved dinner if I hadn't added a bit of carnitas. Still it was delicious and made me think of cool PDX evenings.
askye - Aug 28, 2012 4:54:04 pm PDT #19510 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
omnis I forgot to say that I hope the hole in your floor can be fixed faster than they predict.
Thank you Cass. The burrito bowl sounds good.
omnis_audis - Aug 28, 2012 5:36:44 pm PDT #19511 of 30001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Got home to an amazing sunset. Can't watch from my porch because of repairs, so am on community deck, which has less obstructed view, but stairs. But view is gorgeous. To the east, cloud bank coming in, and moisture from it spurred a lil rainbow! To west, great light show on puffy clouds.
smonster - Aug 28, 2012 5:55:24 pm PDT #19512 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
WTF. Z has apparently decided to amuse himself by sending me trippy text messages. IDEK.
Hil R. - Aug 28, 2012 6:03:21 pm PDT #19513 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Just went to pub trivia, where my team won. That was fun.