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Re: Monday confessions/vents/rants
DH has no concept of applying for jobs in the real world and it bugs me. I know he's been in since he was 18 and I should cut him some slack, but some of the things that he talks about regarding me working blows my mind.
For example, I applied for a new position that pays about 15,000 more than I make now. He told me we need to start saving money because civilian jobs don't pay you until you've worked there a few months.
Where does that come from?! I've ALWAYS gotten paid a month into my new job, which I'd go straight from my one now to the new one. I really hope that these "work theories" don't come up every time I look for a new job.
Vent: DH gets a lot of 3 and four day weekends. I work for a company in the civilian sector, and get 7 holidays each year. Not even enough for a single long weekend each month.
Kinda sucks. Understandably, DH wants to go do things, visit places, etc, on these long weekends, to take advantage of them. He gets annoyed when I say I have to work. But, he never gives me more than two weeks notice of a long weekend! It's not easy to take a couple days off work when you have maybe a week and a half notice...
I'm beginning to think that the doctor was wrong and that this isn't shingles. It looks like it might be starting to cross the midline. Ugh. I'm hoping that I'm just seeing things and when E gets home he says it looks the same. Otherwise I guess its off to the doctor again for me tomorrow.
Try marking it with a marker, that way you can easily tell.
DH came home from work today and declared he wants to put in a packet for a lateral transfer.
My initial reactions was:
And that's both a vent and a confession
H received a voluntary deployment offer yesterday. It's to a fairly safe part of the world, and would be for less than 6 months. He turned it down because it starts in a month, and he thought I'd be upset if he went. On the contrary, I'm peeved that he didn't snap it up! Less than 6 months away from home and not a combat zone? He'll almost certainly get a far less attractive deployment order by the end of the year at the rate things are going, so of course I'd rather he take this one!
Another doctor snapped it up immediately when H passed, so it's off the table now. Boo.
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My dogs are so weird with DH gone. FIL has a furnace guy here and I wasn't home when was here earlier today. He had to leave and come back. Anyway, the dogs were fine with him earlier. Now that I'm home my too girls are wigging out. The dobie is laying next to me and growls every time he walks by and the german shepherd barks and growls every time he comes in with a tool/part/etc. FIL's weirdo dog is just playing along and now they're all staring at the room where he's working on the furnace. They have never done this before and we had repairmen etc. over at our house when we were in CA. That was always when DH was home. I confess that this makes me feel safe but weirds me out and makes me nervous. You don't think they'll attack someone will they? Like I said I have never seen our girls like this before so I have no idea where it's coming from.
In my mind STBXH stands for 'shiit the bed ex husband'. If you've seen Friends With Benefits with Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis you'll understand where I'm coming from.
I still don't know what it actually means.
soon to be it took me awhile too
I changed my name
I changed my name
It's me isn't it...eventhough I'm not new per-se...
Now I confess that this post makes me paranoid. I feel like I've been annoying since I've come back.
Sorry if its me and my new stuff posts (or me in general), I try not to be annoying.
No. I'm adding the disclaimer I'm not naming names. I'm 5 and will just be silent making everyone feel weird instead of laying it out.
I changed my name
Man, that makes so much more sense. I don't think it'll every register as that in my head though.
Oh and I'll be kind of piised if H sends me flowers tomorrow. I HATE how much they are marked up around V-day and I would much rather have a $7 mixed bouquet from Publix.
.... or something I can eat.
For some reason when I read that I thought "edible flowers!" although an edible arrangement is probably more what you meant. Or chocolate.
Oh shiit, now I'm all paranoid too, but you guys are actually way busier than MB lately and I'm bored as hell. I confess that I cannot wait to go to FL for work later this week and get some drinks and some sun. My coworkers are taking every last ounce of patience I have, which isn't very much to begin with.
I also confess that I can't wait for my weekly dose of The Bachelor tonight.
I had a group project for an online class. The individuals in my group are completely disorganized and suck at communication. The first week of the project went by with them debating how to split up the project while I explained that the instructions say that we each do our own reasearch on the same exact thing then post and discuss. I posted my portion on the day we said it should be due (Wednesday) and FINALLY someone posted theirs and a response yesterday at approximately 5:00 PM eastern time. We're now at the individual portion where we say how we arrived at our decison. It's a 1,500 word assignment due tonight at midnight central time. Our group still doesn't have a definitive answer to the question because the only not being wishy washy is me so I'm writing my paper based on what we have so far. Normally I don't throw people under the bus but I'm being completely honest about the group situation in my paper.
Do it, I have turtle ones
If Lace isn't going to name names, then no being freaked out. Just be narcissistic and be all, "It can't be about me, I'm awesome".
Today I went to Planned Parenthood because I can see them for free with Prime and I needed a Pap and an HIV test for my package (that sounds funny, I mean my USMC candidate package). There were protesters, and it really angered me. I know they exist, but aren't there some executions in Texas to protest or something? 97 out of 100 girls/women who enter are seeking to improve their health because they're sick, trying to make sure they're just regular healthy, or trying to prevent pregnancy (I get Catholics are against the last one as well). Who else is doing that free or low cost? You're throwing the baby out with the bathwater crazy religious folks. As usual.
I almost said something to them (not something terribly rude, just "I know you're not going to change your mind, I'm not either, and you're shaming girls who can't afford to go to the doctor for, you know, their health and cancer screenings. It makes me sad." Catholicism is a sect I generally respect or putting their money where their mouth is, but we don't have a hospital run by them here providing low income health options, etc.), but I couldn't figure out if I was mad at them or mad at the fact that I missed a call from H because PP kept me waiting an hour after my appointment and I haven't talked to him in a week. I have all this heavy stuff to discuss, and we can't talk. So I didn't say anything to the elderly Catholics and their in unison crossing of themselves.
I am annoyed H only got a few hours notice of a week-long TDY... now I'm stuck with a ton of OOT guests that are coming to see him.
They are my friends too so I'm excited to see them but it won't be the same.
Confession: H is pretty terrible at taking care of our dog. He gets sucked into his computer games and whatever else, forgets about her- than gets pissed when she pees in the apt. Well no sh!t she peed inside you haven't taken her out all day. Plus this secretly scares me with our future children.
Rant/Vent: I really dislike my job. Not what I do, because I love that, but the way the whole organization is run. It makes me stressed out to go to work and I don't like that feeling. I have started to get anxiety about going to work and I never had that before. I am researching different jobs, but there aren't that many around here in my field right now.
lol you and me both.
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