Question: Will hiding in a cavern with stockpiled chocolate goods be any part of this plan?

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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.


Sue - Aug 14, 2015 10:21:10 am PDT #3309 of 30003
hip deep in pie

Awww, poor Matilda. I think I was lucky enough to have my BFF in the same class all through elementary school. Then she moved away. :(

I'm glad there's some new babies to coo over and more imminent babies. Lots of people need better jobs or failing that, big cluesticks for their bosses.


Jesse - Aug 14, 2015 10:36:14 am PDT #3310 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Whoa, Consuela. That sounds....extreme.

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.

Oh god, flea.

I think I was lucky enough to have my BFF in the same class all through elementary school.

I was just talking about this last weekend -- I think my best friend and I were in different second grade classes, but together aside from that. Granted, there were only two classes per grade in my school, but I wondered if it ever actually came up to either keep us together or separate us?


Lee - Aug 14, 2015 10:38:04 am PDT #3311 of 30003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Of course! I know I've seen your dishes but I don't remember, what do you have?

At this point, the pieces from three different sets that have survived both me and all of my moving.

I should maybe do something about that.


Calli - Aug 14, 2015 10:58:29 am PDT #3312 of 30003
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I'm sorry, Dana. How sucktastic.

Flea, could you find your own dream job somewhere, move the family for it, and have your DH wrassle the kid stuff?