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Monday Moans
Well....I'm on pager this week again. AND 1/2 of my department is away on vacation, so it should be absoslutely dreadful.
Yesterday would have been my parents' 29th wedding anniversary - spent the day w/ my mom but it totally sucked. It feels like its getting harder to be without him because the first few months of shock has stopped. Now we are expected to live normal lives without him? And all of the people on the outside dont even care anymore how we feel. It's no fun.
AND zig was supposed to have surgery for a recurring problem w/ one of the veins in his leg in mid may, but last weekend he fell through a ceiling in a friend's barn they were tearing down and hurt that same vein, so it looks like he has to have 2 surgeries now, which pushes the other one off...we should find out today. I swear my husband is the most accident prone person on this Earth!
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Re: Monday Moans
**ETA: Sorry this turned out to be so long!!**
Kim - Sorry you have to be on pager again this week - hopefully it's a slow week for you!
My moan is basically the same as last week. Still waiting for something to break so we can move to Atlanta. I want to get outta here like now!
No matter what, DH and I are moving into our own place probably around July 1. I can't wait to get outta MIL's house cause it's starting to drive me batty and really putting stress on DH and I's relationship.
Oh! I totally have to vent about this. Ok, so Saturday, MIL went for a drive down to the Cape with one of her friends for the day. DH and I had an event to go to that afternoon but had some errands to run that morning. MIL wanted us to take a bunch of trash out for her, so we filled up her car with trash (cause it's an SUV and everything could fit in there). MIL leaves and about 15 minutes later, we leave to do our errands. But, the second we shut the door, DH remembers that MIL took the house key off her car keys and neither of us grabbed our own set of keys (cause why would I grab my keys if we weren't taking my car). So, we call MIL's cell phone - they hadn't been gone very long and it wouldn't have been that big of a pain for them to come back and let us in. Nope - cell phone is off. Called FIL, he doesn't have a key. None of the neighbors have a key. DH climbed onto the back deck to check the door but it was locked. Called MIL about 6 more times....cell is still off. So in the end, we had to call a locksmith and pay $130 for him to come and pick the lock. This was around 11/11:30 in the morning. MIL finally decides to turn her cell on at 3:00 in the afternoon! We've already left and are at the event we were attending so we didn't get her call. Apparently she felt the need to turn right around and come home because she thought we were just sitting outside the house.
1. We are married adults - you don't think we could figure out how to get in the house? You thought you had to rush home because we'd be sitting on the stoop all day?
2. Yes, partially our fault for not remembering to grab house keys, but HELLO....why do you even have a cell phone (that WE pay for since she's on our plan) that you NEVER turn on? Isn't this exactly why you have a cell phone to begin with?
3. Don't get mad at us for not answering your call - DH didn't even have his phone on him at the event and her voicemail to me wasn't even a voicemail. It was like she accidentally called me because the whole message was just her talked in the background to her friend. So why would I think it was urgent for me to call you back?
UGH. I'm still super frustrated about it.
RIP Dr. Irving Fishman - 10/1/19-7/25/10 - thank you for holding on for me.
You made my wedding day complete.
My moan is that I can't wait for this semester to be over. I've been having the worst breakdown for the last week with how much work needs to be done mainly by tonight and Wednesday.
Oh and I'll also moan over the fact that my husband has been gone since last Tuesday and won't be home again until May12. UGH There are times that I really hate his job.
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Kim, I hope you make it though this week!!!
Lauren, sorry your having such a hard time with MIL. That's super exciting that you get to move out soon!
My moan is that I can't find a new job. I am burnt out on my current situation but the job hunt just seems to be getting crappier and crappier. I'm afraid that I'll have to settle and stay here because I don't know if people will hire me after my baby bump starts showing. I just want out of here so bad! I hate this stuck feeling so much
Also, Velvet jumped her first vertical on Saturday at 2'6", which was very exciting! But then yesterday, she reared. Twice. Ugh. I feel like we go 2 steps forward and 3 steps back. So frustrating.
No real moans here. The inspection on our house is today, so our fingers are crossed that it goes well. And that we can get all our loan application paperwork together in time... it is so much!
Kim- I hope Ziggy's leg is okay and that the surgeries aren't too serious. Does he have PVD? Good luck and T&P's to you guys, please keep us updated!
Lauren- I totally feel your pain on the MIL situation. I feel like that is something that would happen to us with DH's mom. Ugh, it is so annoying. Last night my MIL told me I needed to try to "love her more". Seriously!?!?!?! After you have treated me like crap since last March!? WTH!?!?!?
Also good luck to everyone on the job/house/DH traveling woes... Hope everyone's Monday gets better!
I'm not sure what PVD is...but its some sort of varicose vein thing (but not just cosmetic, it hurt him like hell), its genetic in his family. He has to have the vein removed already (Which was scheduled for may 16th) but then he fell through the stupid floor and now he has a superficial clot apparently in that same vein. The ultrasound tech thought that he would prob. have to have surgery to the remove the clot first, but we wont really know until his Dr calls back w/ her opinion on the results of the ultrasound. No fun. He needs to stop doing dangerous things.
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Everyone welcome.
As always, I'm a day late....but I am so sick of finals. I feel like they've been going on for weeks. (Oh, wait, they HAVE.)
Also, my advisor is a lazy pain in my as right now.
Hope everyone's weeks start looking up.
I'm a day late, too.
I hate having allergies. That's it. Allegra is my friend, but i'd rather not take it all the time.