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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Anyone for a Monday Vent?
I don't have much of a vent but in the interest of getting the board moving, here's what I have.
I am a Browns fan and I am fvcking tired of backing a losing football team! Will the EVER put together a winning season that leads to the playoffs?!
Re: Anyone for a Monday Vent?
My husband is a Browns fan. Sundays = me staying outside or in a different room!
I've been a Bengals fan for quite some time. I remember getting $50 tickets for front row in the end zone and wearing a paper "mike brown bag" over my head with 10K other fans in the stadium. Hopefully the Browns will turn it around soon. They had a good draft this year so it might take a few years to develop. Good luck, I feel your pain.
Hmm, my vent. DH and I switched cars yesterday. He refinanced the Accord (that I always drove) and I get the old crappy civic. We agreed to do this so I didnt' have a car payment, but the divorce isn't final until November and we haven't separated our money yet. So I am still making the payment but I have the crappy car. I thought we'd wait until it was final to do this, but I guess not. I am not fighting him on it because it has been smooth thus far and I don't want to rock the boat. It just really sucks to go from a fully loaded V-6 to a 4 cylinder with no bells and whistles:(
On top of all that's happened, this just flat-out sucks. But, I do see your point about not wanting to rock the boat. Hopefully it will be nice to not have a car payment ... soon.
My vent:
Yesterday I started up with my full-body strength training class at the gym that I've been away from for "a while". Then last night my throat started to hurt and it got worse through the night. Today it's a full-blown head cold complete with headache, ears hurting, sinuses throbbing, throat hurting, stuffy nose.
On top of all of that...I'm sore as $hit. All over. Nice.
Good news: I work from home so I migrated from the office to the couch. Still sucks to be sick and sore but knowing I can lay down ANYTIME makes it slightly better.
My vent-DH had sports on all day yesterday (annoying, but not vent-worthy) and every time the announcer said Michal Vick's name I wanted to throw something at the TV. Another vent-I need to have a "come to Jesus" talk with DH about chores, cleaning up after himself, etc. I avoid doing it when I'm annoyed b/c I don't want to turn into a super b!tch but then I don't feel the need to talk with him when I'm not annoyed-and then the cycle starts all over again. Either I have to learn to deal with the mess or grow some balls & talk to him when we're both calm. So I guess my vent is really about me, not him!
And Manther, look on the bright side-you'll probably save money on gas with the pokey little car!
I so need this!
My husband and I are currently remodeling our master bathroom and as great as he is at home improvement - I absolutely hate working with him on home projects. Most things come easily to him and he expects everyone else to be the same way. I'll try to help him with something but he won't give me any direction or tell me what I need to do to be helpful. Then he gets all mad that the project isn't going perfectly because I'm not helping "correctly". He ignores the fact that he gives me zero direction and I don't know much at home renovations! It then turns into a huge fight. every. single. time. No matter how much I try to tell him that I want to help, but I need to be told where to be and what to do, he still doesn't explain anything to me.
The rest of the year is full of renovation projects. I'm hoping I can make it through to the end of the year without my head exploding!
I'm a Bengals/Browns fan... double
.... I'll continue to cheer for them though LOL
My biggest vent is that I have to come into this craptastic job every day. Yes, I'm very thankful to have a good job, but the stress, aggravation, headache (every bad thing you can name) and environment here sucks. I'm frustrated that I can't seem to get anyone's attention in the field I WANT to work in b/c I'm not closer to being done w/ my degree. Well at least I think that's why I'm not getting anyone's attention. I just want to get out of this crappy job and do something I actually enjoy. I'm an extremely patient person, but when poo hits the fan here every day like it has for weeks, it gets harder and harder to maintain my patience.
Not really a vent but something that didn't go as planned that made me a tad bit sad. We were supposed to see H's sister, BIL, and our new nephew this weekend and it didn't work out.
And Sunday both our teams lost: Reds and Bengals.
Oh honey, I'm so sorry. That really stinks.
P and I are an "old" couple who like to hang out on weekend and play board games (the more interesting ones not the typical ones). If you ever want to meet up and grab lunch/dinner, we can see if we hit it off
Thanks! It feels like such a silly gripe, but it was getting to me.
We're totally an "old" couple too! Though recently I have been feeling like the wild child! We do games and like to go out to try new restaurants. At the same time we love having people over to just hang out (and feed).
Haha I feel like I am writing an add for a dating site..."I love long walks on the beach and staring into the stars".
If it isn't creepy, I'd be up for meeting sometime (you can even screen me!).
And back to you!
Ok now I have a serious vent. So all day I have been looking forward to getting off work, dying my hair, taking a nice long shower, and relaxing. So I get home and start dying my hair, wash my hands and then wait my 25 minutes. Somewhere in there I decide to get some water. And then I find out that our water is off (again). My timer goes off and I march myself down to the office and complain. In which she tells me it's an emergency so here's a key to an open apartment go was my hair. They could have told me. I'd have gone to my mother's house and had my nice long shower there. Instead I had a quick shower with no curtain.
Thanks I feel better
Oh man that sucks! At least there was somewhere close for you to wash your hair out. I hope you get to have your relaxing shower sometime soon!
Thanks Freelong. I was quite a sight for my neighbors.
H and I are always looking for new friends and we like board games so feel free to pm me and maybe we could get together some time. (That sounds a little creepy. Sorry)
Ha - we just went through this over the weekend with our kitchen. I finally told my H that everything would go much better for both of us if he would spend 5 minutes with me before I start something to show me how he would do it. I would get the job done better and faster with his knowledge - and he would get to keep me from getting all stabby-feeling towards him.
I seriously spent 3 HOURS hem-hawing around with someone for 3-hours over HOW to ask me a question rather than her just asking me the dam question. Really - she couldn't walk 30 FEET to come to my desk and just ask - or actually include the question in her emails - but rather emailed 3-4 times about how to ask me a question before setting up a 30 min meeting. I HATE IT when people make things more complicated than they need to be.
AND I need more freakin' old couple friends too. Preferrably ones who drink. B/c wow am I happy bourbon exists today.
And here is why I stopped doing any reno projects with DH. Everything for him needs to be just so. He's a horrible perfectionist and will actually go back over other people's (read: my) work and "correct" it until it meets his standard. He does a great job but of course everything takes him 3X longer than he estimated because of his perfectionism. It's best for our marriage if we just don't do projects together. This includes hanging Christmas lights.
Not Monday, but I'm about to break something, so I'll play. We are exactly one week into our 2.5 week road trip. I put myself in time out and took a long, solitary bike ride this evening. It was that or have it out with H. Too much confined space, navigating places with horrible maps, too many "do this" instead of "would you mind" from H...
On top of it, the only way I could swing being away from work this long is to work remotely in the evenings. Does my aircard work? ABSOLUTELY NOT! Is there WiFi in the campground? Yes, but it may or may not work. My best bet...getting up at 4am this time (6am our time) and working for 4 hours. I'm thinking let's skip our next stop, spend a few more days here and then get home!