Things That Suck

[Boschi]

Chronic back injury... when your job involves lots of stoop labor. Fuuuuuuuuuck.

[Finey_McFine]

Van Halen is going on tour and NOT coming to Houston.

[BeMyDeputy]

Van Halen is going on tour and NOT coming to Houston.

Sounds like an excuse to come to San Diego!

[Finey_McFine]

Sounds like an excuse to come to San Diego!

HA! I wish...they're actually coming to San Antonio, but I can't make it that particular weekend. We have to take the young one to orchestra camp. She has all the fun! *pouts*

[CrazyTaraWitch]

The problem with picking your PIN number when you're 18 is then you're stuck with using the same number on everything forever or confusing yourself. If you were a particularly stupid 18 who picked a number based on a date you know longer want to be constantly reminded of, it can kinda suck.

[Rachel]

Talking about politics with a moron. i'm not saying someone you disagree with be cause if you have an intelligent argument with FACTS to back it up, I'll listen all day long. But if you just keep saying general stuff like, they just suck and don't do anything, i just want to smack you.

Oh. and i hate websites that use it's OWN website as a reference. Really?

[LikeAnAmazon]

Being in love with your straight best friend, being more completely overwhelmed by school than you've ever felt in your life, and having arguments with your mother a minimum of three times a week consistently for several months, all at the same time.

[CrazyTaraWitch]

Having a beyond-amazing first date with someone you'd been waiting months to meet, then finding out the next day that she's not looking for a relationship.

[CrazyTaraWitch]

I want a new job. I've wanted a new job for a long time now, and have been very actively looking for the last few weeks, but tonight I've come to the conclusion that the job I have no is the about the only one that would support my long-term education goals. I've been wanting to do a Midwifery program for ages, hoping to start in July, but today I started thinking about switching back to a Nursing degree, because I'm sure I'd love Nursing almost as much as Midwifery and if I became a NICU nurse, which would probably be the specialty I'd want anyway, I would qualify to move to the UK which has been a dream of mine off and on since I was 14. Even a Midwifery programme would be hard to manage with a daycare job cause of needing to apprentice, but I'd probably have some flexibility with an apprenticeships; a Nursing degree however requires Clinicals, which from what I've heard are not flexible at all, and would thus make a regular 9-5 type job impossible. The job I have now isn't completely flexible, but it gives me about three afternoons a week off and if needed I could probably work with my employer on what those afternoons would be, which would at least make scheduling Clinicals, or an apprenticeship, plausible. No daycare job is going to give me that kind of freedom.

The truth is I'm tired of my job. I love the kids I take care of, but it's not enough. I don't like being a nanny; loving the little ones doesn't make up for that. When I was in day cares I took such pride in my work and really felt like I was doing good; sometimes I take pride in little accomplishments of the kids I care for, like A correcting herself on the use of moi and toi yesterday, but the job as a whole I have no pride in. Nannying isn't what I want to be doing with my life; I'm sure it's fantastic for some people, but it's not what I want. Most days I enjoy my work, but the thought of keeping this job for the next 4 or 5 years until I could finish my degrees is... depressing. It's not a bad job, but I miss *loving* what I do. I'm having trouble finding a daycare job, but even if I do get one it would mean giving up all reasonable possibility of becoming a Nurse.

I know life's not fair, but it SUCKS to feel like I have to choose between career happiness now and career/life happiness later.

[BeMyDeputy]

Foot-in-mouth disease.

[a.renegade.dream]

Having to wait another week to move into your own apartment with the love of your life really really sucks. We just want to get our stuff moved and to get settled in, we don't care that the apartment needs a fresh coat of paint or it needs new kitchen cabinets. All we need is our desks set up and our bed with clean sheets and I'll be happy. Ugh, I just want to start a home already! *pouts*

[Foomatic]

My partner got laid off today. Let the suckage commence.

[BeMyDeputy]

My partner got laid off today. Let the suckage commence.

What a depressing coincidence. The grant that funds my fiance's job didn't get renewed, so he's out a job at the end of the month.

[Foomatic]

@Kate - Jerry Brown cut the funding for senior services and adult education, which basically was her salary. First time in the history of her organization that they had to lay someone off.

[CrazyTaraWitch]

Headaches, especially when they hit hard out of fucking nowhere.

[CrazyTaraWitch]

Today the barely-two-year-old I nanny asked me to call her by name instead of "ma petite fille." Why must children grow up and become independent-minded?! Okay, so I'm a big believer in letting toddlers have a say in things like what they're called, but I loved calling her by a French endearment; I feel like I have to stop now that she asked me to, but it makes me sad :(

[faolan228]

The fact that this is like, the first time I've been home for reals. And that I'll only be home for maybe like, 10 days this whole month.

[CrazyTaraWitch]

Having no new Doctor Who for months yet. I could really use some Moffat plot twists and craziness to obsess over right now...

[CrazyTaraWitch]

About two weeks ago I cancelled my internet. It was one of the most frustrating phone calls of my life, talking to someone with very poor English who refused to accept that I wanted to cancel without suggesting the same 3 alternatives over and over. Today I got charged for another month of service. Already frustrated just from remembering my last call, I called the company, and of course had to go through the rigamaroll to even get connected to someone. Apparently the woman from before not only wouldn't take no for an answer but was also incompetent, cause she fucked up my cancellation, and because it's a weekend. So, I have to call back tomorrow, either while working or while seeing my best friend for the first time in months. Just bloody wonderful.

[Foomatic]

Having high cholesterol. Nay, high is not the right word. Astronomically fucking ridiculously high cholesterol is more like it. I knew it was coming.

[CrazyTaraWitch]

Swollen, angry bug bites that don't feel any better no matter how much benadryl gel you apply.

[BeMyDeputy]

Migranes

[JustSkipIt]

Foo & Katie - sorry to hear that (the laid off part).

[CrazyTaraWitch]

My mum's about to move away, which sucks enough in and of itself, but it's made worse by the fact she keeps mentioning me visiting. She knows I have work and school, and I've even told her that I'm hoping to be doing a lot more school soon, as well as starting a new job in about a month; travelling won't be super easy for me. She, on the other hand, will be able to leave whenever she wants as long as her boyfriend's there to take care of the place, *and* she's the one moving in the first place. But she expects me to be the one to visit. I know she doesn't have loads of money, but it's not like I'm rich; the money I save is for school and very rare treats to myself like my trip last month. I can't afford to travel all the time, no matter how much I'd love to, and even if I had the money work and school would still be an issue. She doesn't have those issues, and it's not as if a train ticket would cost her any more than it would me. It sucks that she's leaving, and it sucks that she expects me to be the one to make sure we don't go years without seeing each other. I'm glad she's happy and that she's finally getting the freedom she deserves, but she doesn't seem to realize that that freedom comes with a cost-- and that cost is getting to see her kids.

[CrazyTaraWitch]

Having a giant, itchy bug bite on your boob.

[little.hesperides]

I went shopping for shorts yesterday. My regular size, the size that I've been for about 15 years, didn't fit anymore. I had to bump up a size.
Not only that, but my computer is giving me no end of trouble (fritzy wireless card is spazzing every 5 minutes and forcing a reboot). Makes work a BIT tough to complete. Did I mention I work from home and am completely dependent on my internet connection? Yeah...
GRRRRR

[Foomatic]

That moment when you realize you can't fix something that's been broken for a long time.

[Finey_McFine]

I didn't win Mega Millions.

[faolan228]

It appears that I'm not as 'bounced back' from my cheating ex-gf as I had thought. The first week was me walking around in a daze, and then a few days of me being 'oh well, her loss' and such.
And now it's hit me full force. Thoughts of inadequacy, what I might have done wrong, what in the world is wrong with me. I know that I'm only 18 and things like this aren't the end of the world. I know thoughts like that are kinda wrong. I know it.
Yet it's seeping into me. It's affecting how I'm looking at things, it's affecting how I react to everything, hell, it's even affecting how I write anything with a smidgen of romance. That's what really sucks.

I know it shouldn't have this type of hold on me, but it does.

[CrazyTaraWitch]

The IRS Help Line SUCKS. It keeps dropping me, over and over. Granted I waited until the last minute to do my taxes, but it was mostly do to my boss illegally giving me my W-2 two months late, and the actual forms were easy enough once I did it; it's just *singing* them online that won't work, and the fucking help line won't work to tell me how to fix it. I tried calling over the weekend, but of course they were closed, so now I call over and over and it doesn't. Fucking. Work. Every time. I tried using Turbotax since I was having so much trouble, but it screwed things up and said I qualified for a way smaller refund, so I *have* to use the free file forms or lose hundreds of dollars. So I am stuck calling this damn line over and over. And it SUCKS.