You have every valid reason to complain, romani. That sucks.
Can you at least drink wine? That can really, really help for sure! One glass of nice red wine can make you feel a lot better. Though it probably won't help your studying. I'm glad that it looks like nothing too serious, appendicitis or ectopic pregnancy or anything else equally nasty. An ulcer is miserable, but thankfully not life threatening. Though you are way too young to have that kind of thing happening to you.
I hate HMOs. I hate the fact that I can't drink pop during finals weeks. I am very cranky because I'm in pain, I lost my caffeine source, and I'm fighting with my insurance company.
Most of all, Mr. Ulcer, I hate you for appearing at a very inconvenient time. Couldn't you have just not appeared for the next 20 years or so? Or at least waited 2 and a half weeks until my semester was over? I would have really appreciated it.
I agree with hope, black or very dark colors is still the norm. I come from a large Catholic family and black or very dark colors still seem to be very much what people wear. I don't know if it'll be different because it's the south. We're a northern clan. I really don't think you can go wrong with conservative, plain, dark clothes though.
Okay, now I'm cranky because my FIL just died, and we're all very sad. I have to work all night though I only got an hour of sleep, as I've spent three hours trying to get tickets to the funeral. Delta's bereavement fare was over $1700. Maybe they call it a bereavement fare because it makes you cry! I tried to get a fare online for $935, then that flight got completely booked. Next one went from $935 to $1428 in the 30 seconds it took to put my credit card information in. This is, of course, after not being able to fly into the destination I wanted anyways. Fortunately I finally found a way for my company to get me a discounted ticket and pay for it, thank you!
Now I have no idea what to wear to a funeral, because I've never been to one before. I'd heard people don't wear black anymore. It's a catholic funeral, in the south. Any ideas? I just dread being around so many sad people, I usually avoid that situation and I can't this time.
Thanks, hope, that's good guidance. Especially since I have that sort of stuff, though it's 25 years old from interviews, I'll try to squeeze into it somehow. My condolences to you too.
And a confirmation from romani too. Interesting, I went to a memorial service for my grandfather (one and only one I've gone to) and I was the only one wearing black. But that was in the pnw, non-religious. Someone told me that nobody wears black anymore.
-- Edited by busdriver11 on Thursday 1st of March 2012 06:42:20 PM
My FIL died in December (MIL in April). Catholic funerals.
Any dark color (black, dark gray, dark navy) is fine.
It is still a sign of respect to wear dark, understated clothing.
I always wear black shoes, black bag, black dress slacks, dark navy, black or gray jacket and a silk scarf with a little color under the jacket. Conservative jewelry (which I always wear anyway).
We, too, thought the "bereavement fare" was a joke.
My condolences, busdriver.
-- Edited by hope on Thursday 1st of March 2012 06:00:11 PM
I would prefer if you stay awake when you fly, thank you very much.
You never know when some frivolous consumer item I need right now is on your plane. Plus, I really like you, so I want you to be safe.
Sometimes 52 seems warmer. Sometimes it feels colder. When I lived in the midwest, I remember going outside in 20 degree weather in a tshirt and being cold, but not too cold. 52 in the warmer rain feels warmer than when it's the icy kind of rain. Weather wimp? Yes. That's right. I have tried to take as many naps as possible, but work and real life keeps getting in the way of that! I am tired of being sedentary, but anytime I get too active I start coughing and wheezing. Unpleasant.
That really stinks, romani and soccerguy. Seems like those people don't know what the heck they are doing. Rick Snyder sounds like a complete idiot.
Is your son, a senior, hope? I'm assuming that's the CSS profile? What a headache.
People wear jackets when it's 52 degrees, samurai? Isn't that shorts and sandals weather? Ok, I know you sunny weather people are used to much warmer weather, so you probably are freezing at polar temperatures like that. 3 hours is a long time to be cold. And walking pnemonia, yikes, you'd better just lounge around and take care of yourself! That can be serious. Can you go back to bed for a week or so?
I'm cranky because I've eaten/drunk too much in the last few weeks, and even though I'm picking up my exercise routine to daily workouts, my pants feel even tighter. And even though I've had a pretty good trip so far, the next two nights will be all nighter flights. And I like to sleep.
You are right! I am getting ahead of myself. I'm trying so hard to find us a house by mid-May that he can move into with us for the summer, I'm already thinking summer!
Yes, he's a junior right now.
-- Edited by hope on Wednesday 29th of February 2012 02:34:05 PM
Actually, I was out your way yesterday for about an hour, and it was really cold. I think the wind did it. It seems warmer here in Indianapolis.
You'd be surprised how often pilots nap while flying. It isn't discouraged, because it is considered a better idea to take well timed naps and be alert for the more challenging part of landing. Of course, only one person at a time. I personally never, ever, take even a one minute nap, I just load up on caffeine and suffer. And talk, talk, talk. God forbid anyone in my ****pit ever goes hot mike, because it wouldn't sound too good on CNN. Too many times of walking into the front (can you believe they asterisk the word ****pit) and seeing everyone asleep keeps me from snoozing. Or the other person saying, sure, go ahead and sleep, I'm wide awake. Then glancing over there, seeing them hanging in their seat 5 minutes later.
-- Edited by busdriver11 on Wednesday 29th of February 2012 11:45:24 AM
I am also cranky because I am getting over walking pneumonia and I sat outside for kid's club practice tonight and I really shouldn't have. I should have sat in the car or gone to Starbucks or something. Sure, it's California so it's downright warm compared to most of you all normally get, but it was 52 degrees and I only had a light jacket. So I am cranky because I wasn't smart enough to bring a heavier coat for those 3 hours.
And we just got home and t's almost 11 pm and I just remembered I have to throw in some laundry if I want to wear pants to work tomorrow. Arrgh.
I am cranky because I am in Pennsylvania at my older son's apartment, looking for a house to buy, while my husband is in Kansas 1,300 miles away, working twelve hours a day and presently filling out the Profile for my younger son, while he should be getting a mortage pre-approval. But does it matter anyway--since there seem to be no houses in our price range in the area in which we lived before we moved to Kansas three years ago and downsized. I am not one of these people who love looking at houses. I just want a place to call our own, in the area in which we lived and raised our kids for twenty years. Yes, I know I am lucky we can afford a house, etc. etc., but it is still making me very very cranky.
-- Edited by hope on Wednesday 29th of February 2012 05:49:39 AM
I am cranky because the boss at my internship has open billets that are going to sit empty for the foreseeable future because he isn't allowed to fill them. He wants to fill them, but he can't.
I talked to the student programs HR person and he wanted to know where my boss got his information from, and told me that my employer is on a "mad rush" to fill empty vacancies and offer the positions to interns where possible.
Somewhere there is a disconnect and that leaves me as the little intern trying to fight through bureaucracy to figure out what the real story is and where there might be an open billet that someone is willing to offer me.
I don't even know if it's possible to find out where open billets exist. My boss is coming back next week so I will talk to him again and hopefully get a better understanding of his situation, and then I can explain it to the student programs HR guy, and maybe he can find me an open billet in a different office.
I'm cranky because I just listened to Rick Snyder boast about how he's balanced the budget and blah blah blah here in Michigan.
Last week, out of no where, he issued an executive order dismantling the people I worked for (Michigan Comission for the Blind) and moved the services between different departments. He JUST moved us into LARA last year and now he's moved us to DHS. It took thousands of dollars and a year to get everything transitioned from saying our last department's name to LARA. Now we have to spend more money to change everything to DHS. There was absolutely NO warning of any of this and we all found out via the media rather than anyone in the government telling us. In fact, we still don't really know anything. They're holding a phone conference later this week to answer any questions.
We also have new overhead so they'll get to come in and tell us student workers whether or not our jobs are necessary, so I, along with a dozen or so other students, might be SOL. Fwiw, the last time they moved (the transition before the transition to LARA), they cut all the student workers in 2007ish. They reinstated the jobs in October and I've worked here now since about October and our main job has been fixing everything that has gone wrong since they cut the students last time. 5 years worth of mistakes because the full time employees simply couldn't handle doing 1 full time job and 2 part time jobs (the slack from student workers).
Cranky. This is going in this forum only because it's the most visited. I'm sure MadHatter will have no problem moving it if she feels it necessary :)
Sending hugs to you and your family. 
