Then I would have said :"stop being a bee-otch with me because If I wuld have entered the data mysefl there would be no errors!!!"

This is a perfect example of you doing someones job for them. This is another one of my kind-of-pet-peeves. You are talking to someone at some business and you end up explaining to them what their system is probably doing, or in this case, why it was probably entered like that.

I have decided that they should at least pay you like $10 each time this happens

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Well I needed to vent again, so here goes...

I'm leaving Friday with just mine and my son's clothes. Well most of them anyways. After all the trips I made down to Georgia and bringing some clothes here and there, I cannot believe how much clothes I have lol. But thats not the issue. I had asked my mom if sometime within the next year or so if she could rent a mini van(she doesnt own a vehicle) and bring the rest of my things down. That way I can get the rest of my stuff, along with her coming to visit us. I told her we would pay for 1/2, she pays the other 1/2. She said she'd think about it. Now, she comes to me asking me when my fiancee and his mother will come all the way up here to pick up my stuff. WTF?? I told her I cant leave the country for awhile, plus shes never been to Georgia and shes always wanted to go to Savannah. I told her its not possible for Brian to take time off work and his mother cant make the 2000 mile trip. Shes in her 60's and cant sit for too long. It would take them both 3 times longer than the trip should take. I just told her to throw my stuff out if its that important for her to get it out of her house. Shes basically telling me she won't ever be coming to visit us. I don't know what to say to her anymore. I understand shes pretty much loosing her only child and grandchild, but I'm not putting my life on hold just cause she doesnt want us to leave and thats pretty much what it comes down too. Shes also not even going to come with me and my son to the airport to see us off. I'm doing everything possible not to gloat about us leaving Friday, yet shes just being negative in every way she can. Ok, I think I got it all out lol. I feel a bit better.

Mary

Oh well it isn't surprising they'd confuse Canada with California. Both have an Ontario, after all! Okay, I'm being facetious, but it really isn't entirely surprising. When I lived overseas, I had to write a letter explaining my address to the people at my student loan place so they would send things to me there ("Dear sir or madam, please process my change of address, which I sent you 5 months ago. On the second line, ul. is an abbreviation for ulica, the Polish word for street. That is my street address. The third line is the city I live in...." etc...). Yes, people, there IS a world beyond our borders, and shocking though it may sound, there are people who have lived in it!!

Here is my rant of the day. I keep checking USCIS site to see if we've been touched, not because I expect anything much to be happening with our petition yet, but because I'm pretty obsessive. I want a damn touch so I can update my damn signature. Here's the rant part. As I'm sitting there thinking how much I want to be touched the song from Rocky Horror Picture Show came to mind: "Touch-a, touch-a, toucha-, TOUCH ME!!" Worse yet, I'm now making up new lyrics to it:

Touch-a, touch-a, touch-a, touch me
I want my sweet, darling man here
Thrill us, chill us, approve us,
(I'm not sure what to say here instead of "creature of the night" though...)

Worse still, I will have a new version of the entire song by the time I'm back from Seattle. Heck, I may even rewrite the whole show.

Michael Rainey was ill the day the earth stood still
But he told us when we could wed...

Awww. I'm so sorry about your Mom, Mary. She must be really hurting to be lashing out like that. I know it's not fair to you, but give her some time and she'll come around. Sometimes it just takes one person to leave the door open for healing to occur. ((((hugs))))

Darn you, SonoranSongbird! Can't get that song. Out of. My head. *sticks fingers in ears* La la la la lalala

I'm very very unhappy right now with work.. like so much I can't express it..

I hate every minute of being here, and i'm getting headaches and my stomache is upset every time the phone rings..

This is not fun anymore

Awwww. ((((Hugs)))) to you, too, E. I'm very unhappy because I just finished yelling at the customer service people at my US bank for many many many reasons which are costing me money and I've had it up to HERE and I hate the fact that I yelled and that they don't get it but sometimes I've just HAD IT. So now not only am I unhappy with the bank, I'm unhappy with myself for letting them get to me and I wish we could just start over.

Wine anyone?

She can change her mind later on AND she might want to fly to Savannah when she does. Hmm, she is not making things easy though. Sorry to hear it.

Sorry, Krikit. Now that I've gotten the song stuck in your head, I've moved on to dissecting the Cranberries' song "Zombie" which has f^%* all to do with zombies.

I like the Cranberries, but that's just me

I do too, Nini, and I like that song. I just don't understand the connection between zombies and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. This came up in a thread on another board where there is a lively debate going on over whether zombies can really be scary since they (apparently) move so slowly you can outrun them while sleepwalking.

Emancipation, sorry that situation sucks badly.

I think it's a metaphor for the children slowly being sucked into the strife happening in Northern Island. That's my take on it, personally.

*hugs Mary and Emancipation*

I"ll take a big glass.. had a huge cry this afternoon.. just am soo frustrated with the turn of events at work the crappy attitudes, and the way my work looks S#*$ty because of the messups of others.. GAH!!!!

I need a new job.. like in 12 hrs when it comes time to go to work in the am.

I can definately sympathise with you about work. I'm to the point of hanging up this teaching thing. *sigh* I'll be so glad for the three day break we're getting next week (five if you include the weekend) cos we're all about to bang our heads against the wall. Kids...increasing workloads...more standards...people griping about their taxes going up so we can better educate their kids. I went to pay the ad valorem taxes on my car the other day. They didn't decrease by much and I commented on it, not complaining, just commenting. She smirked at me and said "Well, you have the increase in the millage rate and higher taxes to thank for that...just so we can pay YOU more money". She fails to realise that those tax dollars go to give her children a good education and to pay those that implement that good education. I wanted to tell her that if she thinks she can do a better job for less money, then by god go and do it!

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our cat Stella is limping around right now - during her checkup appointment at the vet today (she's diabetic) one of the nurses was rough with her while taking her out of her carrying crate and getting a blood sample from her leg. My mother-in-law is super pissed and so am I.

My SIL is a special ed teacher in Atlanta. The funding to the educational system is absolutely deplorable. But that's okay, Karen. You can rest easy. Karma will wipe that smirk off her face.

GRRRRRRRRR I HATE DOCTORS AND NURSES LIKE THAT , I BET THE GOT CONFUESSD WHEN THEY STUDIED THEYR DEGREA AND REALY MENT TO BE BUTCHERS
I hope your cat is doin better give it a lil smootch on the head from me

Cos teachers are so well paid to begin with.

Actually Ontario, California was started by a guy from Brockville, ON. Built up a get deal of that part of California, I wish I could remember his name (sorry, senility is slowly setting in ).

I like your song lyrics, Creature of the night...Waiting's such a fright..Want to get some tonight...It'll be alright... (that's all I can think of right now).

Michael Renne? Who was the witness? Gort? I now pronounce you husband and wife, you may Klaatu barada nikto.

New Vent...what the He@l is wrong with the universe when it comes time for a wedding? Seems like everyone I know has some sort of drama just before their nuptuals...here's a recap of MINE:

5:00 PM - Walked dog in the park; lost my keys.....yep, ALL of them
5:10 PM - Broke into my house (where the heck did I put that spare key??)
5:30 PM - Doug laughing at me for being so pissed at myself
4:45 AM - Awoke to the sound of my dog gagging (is there a worse sound?), followed by a loud YACK...she sleeps with us under the covers....
4:47 AM - In the shower (thanks Maddie)
5:00 AM - Crawled into guest bed
7:30 AM - Ford dealer informs me I have to bring the car in to program new keys to the car
8:30 AM - Tow truck's here! $75 for 3 miles?!?
11:00 AM - Two new keys & labor: $100
11:30 AM - $30 vet bill to find out the dog "must've ate something that didn't agree with her"...thanks....

4 hours of work at no pay, and $205 spent on BADD(Bride Attention Deficit Disorder)....but no Bridezilla here....nope, not ME!

Sorry, I don't mean to laugh at your misfortune, but !

Hey everyone.. so some of you may remember my MOH fiasco... well her friend, the other bridesmaid, just wrote me an email.

Hey Liz



I just thought that I would let you know that Jenny is really, really hurt and upset by the way you left without speaking with her.

Jenny takes friendship very, very seriously and gets hurt quite often from a lot of her friends.

She really wished you reached a little further out to her (perhaps a phone call) before you left.

She said if you had called and expressed that you really wanted to see her before you left she would have come to your going away party, but she felt like it really didn’t matter to you either way. We spoke about this last night.

This is probably based off of the fact that apparently when you asked her to step down as the maid of honour, you started off by saying “I don’t know if our friendship will withstand this,” or something along those lines, which gave her the impression that you had no faith in the strength of it at all.

I tried to explain that you thought you did reach out with the text and e-vite, but Jenny thought that was very impersonal and since you sent them to everyone else as well it was obviously not specific to her.

She’s really hurting thinking that her friendship meant so little to you.

If that is not the case, I think you should try to get that across to her.

A written letter or a phone call would probably be best. (Not email).

Just a suggestion.

Lord, this girl is all about herself, isn't she!

This is such a 'whatever'. She is so about herself. So now if you want to keep the friendship you have to jump through a bunch of hoops.

If you had just done everything right, paying particular attention to each of her feelings she would have come running to your party.

Whateverrrrr

No kidding. I don't understand how she feels she deserves "special treatment" above all of Liz's friends.

You know who your friends are, Liz. If she was a true friend, she would've said something to you, not through your friend... clearly if she can't take the time for you, why should you for her?

I'm going to take a wild guess here---Jenny has never actually had to pack for a long distance move, has she? Especially not while simultaneously dealing with immigration and wedding stuff. Yeah, okay, you were the one who was supposed to take the time to make sure she knew how absolutley much you valued her friendship, wanted her to come to your party, were going to miss her, and so on...while the van just packed itself!

Respond:
Dear Jen, GROW UP. If you want to talk to me, email me directly... or phone me.... unless you have forgotten my number. Your behaviour towards my wedding plans whas as bitchyyy as one would expect from a stranger. Take a chill pill, and THEN talk to me.
Liz.

I'm not shocked by human behavior anymore. I expect mediocrity, I EXPECT failure, and I expect people to think their business is more important than anyone elses.

I have learned that "strike 1, you're out" works best. If the mess up once, they will again and again and again. So I cut them off early. Completely. If they don't have the courtesy to follow through on something we have planned, I don't have the courtesy to tell them why they are such an idiot.

You're not a Dad, are you? lol

I know.. I felt so drained when I read the email...

I want to answer: listen, I don't have to time or patience to deal with this right now..

just seems like Jen wants me to jump through hoops and I just really don't want to!!!!!!!!!!

she is not really a friend if she is acting like this....

That's ok, I'm cracking up myself....24 hours later....

With "friends" like this I rather stay alone! This girl is all about herself, not about your friendship.... I would let her go

Why do weddings have to be about so much drama? We're "eloping", but my best friend wanted me to schedule MY dress fitting around HER schedule....is it jealousy? Don't want us to have OUR SPECIAL DAY? Don't bite, or in this case jump, Liz....this is YOUR time, YOUR day and YOUR marriage; they'll just have to get over it.

This is why we're going away, just the two of us......course, 2nd wedding for both of us so it was logical....Doug's best friend got married a couple weeks ago, and he called Doug today to ask him if he was ready to change his mind yet?!? Guess the friend's wife was UNBEARABLE the week of their wedding.....another reason to elope, lol, stress-free!

I burned the top of my mouth eating soup It was way hotter than I thought it was..I hate that.

Maybe Sara will pop in and reply to this thread about wedding mishaps. We had a lot of them. She dropped one of her friends from the wedding since she didn't have money to pay for her dress. (Expected us to when our wedding was already at 15k)

Anyway.. Sara wanna chime in?

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All I know is I am glad that bit is over with. Everyone wants to be a part of the "special day" so much that for some it is no longer special. After while I just told her to stop facilitating everyone. As soon as we stopped listening, taking advice and using "connections" we were virtually stress free.


Yuack! My mouth is sensitive too. You ever drink coffee or hot chocolate KNOWING it is going to be hot but you take it in, and SOMEHOW it is hotter than the blazes of hell and you scold your mouth/tongue so bad you can't taste for a week?

Welcome to every hot beverage I drink.

Ya.. I have a sweater of hers that I was hoping to return before I left. I'll mail it to her with a letter (sans apology) when I get around to it.

Torch it in a bonfire.

I'm such a baby! Yes, I have trouble with super hot beverages too...sigh.

I hate not being able to sleep. I miss my husband terribly. I wish I had a small ladder or a step stool so I could turn off the ceiling fan in my bedroom. It's been running constantly since I moved in 6 weeks ago because I only have 1 chair and it has wheels, and I can't reach the stupid pull chain thingy.

Perhaps, I can get my husband here for a visit, so he can put me to sleep (you all know what I am talking about!) and he is tall enough to reach the pull thingy to turn off the fan.

I have to vent that I don't have anything to vent about

WHY CAN'T THESE MODERATORS TERMINATE MY ACCOUNT!!!!!! IS THIS ACCOUNT REALLY FOR A LIFETIME??? BS!!! I WANT TO CLOSE THIS ACCOUNT!!!!

Liz,

You don't have to do a fkiiin thing. Man, I am pizzed with your 2 friends now.... how old are they? 12? Sheesh! This is YOUR time to be the bride babe, don't even bother with their pettiness. And freaking call me already.
L.

You could change your screen name if you want. What's up???

Carla

I hate burning my mouth too. And I also hate when you bite the inside of your mouth and lip, how you end up biting it over and over again.

Liz!!!!!!!!

That girl is a bee-otch let me tell ya. It is a huge stress to go through all this, wedding, immigration , moving, new life, etc, etc, etc....TRUE friends would see that and care about you and help you.

You don't owe that girl anything. It's all about herself, even now. She doesn't care whatsoever about you and she is just a crybaby that needs attention. Now she is probably trying to make her friend feel bad for going to your wedding or something.

Turn the page, give the shirt to Goodwill and forget about her.

We got a basic phone line so no long distance, Lenina hun

and I won't get a cell phone til next week but when I do I think calls anywhere in the US should be covered on that... I call you then?

I know.. I'm so sick and tired of the "but why don't you love me and beg for my friendship" tone I keep hearing from that general direction..

Going to wait to talk it over with my MOH (who's in midterms) and my e-MOH soon

oh ya, forgot to right my original vent in!! hehe

Gave one of my employers a month's notice prior to my resignation. It's been 3 weeks still my last day of work and they STILL haven't even STARTED working on my ROE....