Or maybe you could just be Buffy, he'll see your amazing heart, and he'll fall in love with you.

Xander ,'Get It Done'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


flea - Aug 14, 2015 7:29:00 am PDT #3299 of 30003
information libertarian

We are both having work crisis time in my household as well. Because he is a federal employee, mr. flea is fairly unlikely to be fired, but he hates everything at work so much right now I'm afraid he'll quit. Quit his "dream job" that we moved to Ohio for. ARGH.

My crisis is more "I am bored and considered a cog rather than a valued employee, plus underpaid of course" but my big issue is I am having so much trouble running a family and working full-time. I simply don't have enough energy at the end of the day to manage the emotions of everyone in my family (about to be 12, going to high school, hormones; 9, stubborn as fuck and makes brushing teeth into an hour long fight every night; 46, stubborn as fuck and wants to complain about work nonstop) as well as do the things that need doing like feeding and clothing everyone.


aurelia - Aug 14, 2015 7:33:22 am PDT #3300 of 30003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Ugh, Dana.

So the thing I long feared would happen finally has. Yesterday I forgot that I drove to work and took the bus home. Oops. I wonder if I can get an entry ticket on foot and avoid a $48 stupidity tax.

The house two doors down from us was sold to a 27 year old single man who offered 600K all cash. We were trying to figure out why he wanted to live in our neighborhood (which is full of families and kids).

Witness protection!


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 14, 2015 8:14:25 am PDT #3301 of 30003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Sorry about the job news, Dana.


DavidS - Aug 14, 2015 8:21:37 am PDT #3302 of 30003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

What a fucking drag, Dana. I feel for your husband.

Today we find out Matilda's teacher/class assignment. Since they lump the 4th/5th graders together, and you keep the same teacher for 2 years, this is a bit more consequential than the previous assignments.

On the flip side, we've learned to deal with the trauma of not having besties in your class.

Ugh - one of my friends just discovered that her high school aged teen daughter needs SIX extractions for orthodontia because she has all these baby teeth that never properly came out, and her previous dentist didn't catch it. Plus she'll need extra surgery to guide the adult teeth down. That's triggering all my dental anxiety about Matilda's work. So stressy!


Consuela - Aug 14, 2015 8:39:14 am PDT #3303 of 30003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Yikes dana! That sucks, I hate when people do that. OWN YOUR MISTAKES, folks. Although since none of our leaders in Washington do, why should anyone else?

flea, I'm sorry to hear about your husband's unhappiness, but one of my coworkers just moved to your husband's agency here in SF, and seems to like it alot. She says everyone's really dedicated to the mission and there's no dead weight (unlike my agency). Can he swing a lateral transfer to another office without having to move, maybe? Or another agency with offices local?

Speaking of dead weight, holy crap the new contractor they hired to (basically) fill my spot cannot open Outlook. She has been here for two weeks and has done NO WORK. She's got medical issues and family issues and I suspect some mental health issues, but she's done no work at all, that I can tell. I can't even get my work done because she's constantly asking for help with her computer.

The problem is that she's a contractor, and we will cut her loose in a dead moment, with no notice at all, if we decide to. I don't mean her ill, but despite what's on her resume, she seems barely able to feed and clothe herself, much less work at a fairly high level. (She is sleeping in her car in a bad neighborhood until she gets an apartment, and apparently lives on protein bars. I can't even.) She needs help, but we are really not the folks to provide it...


Steph L. - Aug 14, 2015 8:43:37 am PDT #3304 of 30003
I look more rad than Lutheranism

How on earth do people like this get hired??? Padded resume?


Atropa - Aug 14, 2015 8:59:59 am PDT #3305 of 30003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Ugh, my sympathies to your husband, dana.


Beverly - Aug 14, 2015 9:06:46 am PDT #3306 of 30003
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Oh, Dana, I'm so sorry. A little peacetime for recovery for him, and for you, too.


Scrappy - Aug 14, 2015 9:11:10 am PDT #3307 of 30003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

SO sorry, Dana. Hope this is the beginning of a much better things for your DH.


DavidS - Aug 14, 2015 10:14:44 am PDT #3308 of 30003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Egad, Matilda is spilling tears over class assignments.

Matilda did not get any of her closest friends: Isabella, Norah, Davi, Justice or Poppy.

She did get two pretty good friends in Reece and Sophie. And she has *always* wanted to have classes with Iris and Satchel. But two of her frenemies in Caterina and Angelika (rather bossy girls) are in her class.

Worse, Isabella and Justice are in the same class without her. Oh, the stinging disappointment.

Especially since these classes will remain intact for both 4th and 5th grade.