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Confessions?
I was going to put this in the Random Thoughts but realized it was probably more of a Confession.
S/O Weekend plans... the friend that is here this week on business? I love him to death... great guy. But his very "last minute" EVERYTHING and standard tardiness is driving me up a freaking wall. We were going to go out for dinner Monday night; he said he'd call at 6:00 (he said that at 4:30.) 7:00 rolls around and Greg and I say "Screw it... we're going to go effing eat!" He calls 7:20 and says he'll meet us in 10 minutes... a half hour later, he shows up.
He SWEARS he'll be at our place the next night for dinner and "show us"... 5:00, he says. We, of course, don't buy it, so when he calls at 6:10 and says he'll be there shortly, we plan for another 20 minutes (accurate.) We had other plans Wednesday, but Thursday he PROMISES he'll be done by 5:00 because we had baseball tickets. Game got cancelled due to the snow, but I tried to see if he wanted to go out to dinner anyway. At 6:00, Greg and I were staring in the fridge/freezer piecing together a dinner. Fifteen minutes later and I'm just about getting it started... and he calls.
Oh, and he can't make up his mind if anything's going on tonight (even though we'd talked about grilling out chicken sausages and he wanted us to come check out his new hotel, which is a trendy boutique. The ONLY one in GB.)
ETA: I realize this probably makes me a bad friend for b!tching about all this, but I'm really trying to be understanding that he's training and the women he's training are having a hard time getting the material. But seriously, for a hard-core planning couple like us?! KILLING ME.
Re: Confessions?
That would annoy the crap out of me Paula!
I ate potato salad for breakfast.
I'm sitting at work crying because MH wants to get rid of our dogs. And he's serious.
I don't know if this is more of a vent or confession. But I will put it here. So me and two of my friend have had this tradition for like 10 years that we take each other out for our birthdays. It's a nice tradition and I look forward to it but I am kind of getting resentful.
First of all they are both in their 30's and neither of them drive. I think thats odd but whatever, so I always have to drive. They never offer gas money (not that i would take it, because i wouldn't but I would lke them to offer) and sometimes we go fairly far away. And one of them I go out with a few times a month and always have to drive then too of course.
Also I feel like I am always making the plans, I know I am the driver, but i feel like even if it's for my birthday. How about you guys make some suggestions for once?
And then one of them (A) texts me yesterday to ask what time I am picking her up, so I tell her and she is like can you text (L) and let her know that you are picking her up after? How about you freaking text her?
I am just getting annoyed and resentful of the whole thing.
I was venting to MH last night about it and he said maybe we should stop doing it but I don't want to be the one to suggest it
I would be pissed, that needs to be a decision you both make.
What is his reasoning for wanting to get rid of the dogs?
Don't suggest it. Just don't plan it. And then when they say "We didn't plan anything for X's bday...," you can reply "Oh, I'm sorry, I got overwhelmed with all the planning and no one else said anything..."
Or you could just tell them at some point you're unable to drive and see where that goes. LOL
And Mandy, I'm sorry YH is being kind of a d!ck about the dogs... I'd seriously flip. He made a commitment to the dogs... just like he made a commitment to you and he would to having a child.
This. Why does he suddenly want to get rid of them?
.: Diary of a Recovering Runner :.
From this morning's TGIF post:
Yeah your right Paula, I am just going to stop making plans. If they want to go out so badly they can plan it.
Also I'm sorry Mandy but I agree with Paula, I get really upset when people just give pets away. They are a commitment. When you adopted them you promised to take care of them for the rest of their lives (obviously their are circumstances but ruining grass isn't one of them). YH is being very unreasonable.
I'm mad at Mandy's husband for wanting to get rid of the dog's. Sorry Mandy but these dog's are kept outside to begin with, have an invisible fence (which I am really against), and then they are being tied up to a tree to be kept away from the grass. I can understand if they dog's were in the house more often than not but to be outside all the time, they only know the yard to be theirs. Grass is grass. They are going to piss in it, burn wholes in it, dig in it, run it. They are dogs, that's to be expected.
I can understand if they were eating the woodwork, eating carpet, biting people. But for walking/running on grass, that's horrible.
I hope your DH was just speaking out of anger and will not act on it.
my confession: I'm in a very bad mood. AF is in town, I am tired and trying to fight off a cold. People are pissing me off left and right at work. If this one girl starts her freaking giggling fit again today, I don't know if I have much holding me back. She already started first thing this morning. In a very loud voice, I said "inside voices people! we really need to learn to use our inside voice" Ol' girl shut up after that.
Also, these preparers are pissing me off. They've had stuff since FEBRUARY! It's now April and the returns still haven't been started. Yes, I am friendly with you at work but get the shiot to me. Just because we are friends doesn't mean that you can slack off for me.
I think I need a midol!
My confession - I wasn't sure if I should say everything Mel just said. But ITA.
.: Diary of a Recovering Runner :.
I'm back - I left for lunch if you guys are wondering why I disappeared (I left for a 2 hour long lunch so I could calm down).
I have told him that we are keeping them and we are spending the next month training them the way his dog training book says to do it. We are giving them a designated digging area, we are going to work on the chewing (they have chewed the porch but again, they are dogs, they chew and if he won't give them the right kind of bone at night, they're going to chew on wood), and we are going to do all of this together because they are our dogs. He told me awhile back that I could not train them because they would be confused as to who their "master" is. Well, he hasn't trained them so that has to stop.
The invisible fence works in our area - We actually can't put a regular fence in our lot because of where we live (you can't put a fence down in rock and our lot is 90% rock with some grass growing on top of it). There's actually only one fence in our entire neighborhood and it falls down everytime we have a big wind. I know people hate them but it's been the perfect thing for our dogs.
ITA and am happy that you are trying to resolve the situation the proper way and stepping in to say they need the proper training. I know it takes a lot of time and you are a busy woman but it's enjoyable too.
My confession, MH is sick again and I just cannot stand it. I sound like a total b*tch i know but he is such a whiner when he is sick. I've always been taught to suck it up when you are sick. It just seems like he is always sick. I know he's not sick more than any other person it just seems like a lot because I get sick maybe once a year and it's just a cold...like I have now.
mmmm that is a balanced meal, Peanut butter has lots of protein too so it's pretty much healthy.