Let's play "why do you have a cob on?" Who would win?

[ForTheLoveOfGrace]

Things that have seriously irritated me today even more than normal as sleep deprived :-

1. DD not having her listening ears on (No change there then)

1. People who post on social media wishing friends or family a happy birthday with tons pictures of themselves with that said person when all they’re doing is posting pics of them looking fab and are saying “look at me aren’t I gorgeous” get over yourselves.
2. Tailgaters (No change there then) I want to get a big flashing red sign that says ‘fuck off twat’ installed in the back of my car or better yet get out and punch the bastard!
3. Negative depressing people who have nothing but negative things to say! I have to visit this person regularly and it's sooooo draining. Even things going on with other people that don't effect them directly are a complete disaster!

Arrrggghhh! Where is the wine!! Right your turn.....

For the second day in a row I've woken up with such low blood pressure it's a wonder I'm still on my feet. Low b.p means I can't take my medication which in turn means I can't write quite a skill not being able to draw a straight line with a ruler I have exams in a few days, I really need to study.

As above, I suspect the blood pressure is due to my rattling chest. Couldn't get in to visit the dr today unfortunately. So now I'm fucked off at myself for everyone else being prioritised while I fall apart.

Now I'm fucked off that dh has taken the two eldest to the swimming disco while I'm left with the grumpy shouty twins who may break my head.

Oh goodness Drogo what are you going to do about him?

1. GP surgery being bloody impossible twats. 'We don't have any nurse appointments' ok can you send me to the hub then? 'No, you need a prescription for the hub' ok can I get a prescription? 'No you need a note from the nurse....
   so what do I do I have to see a nurse for my wound every 3 days? 'There's a walk in centre 30minutes away'.
   The burn is on my bastard leg...

2. people not doing their job and expecting you to do it as though you don't work 2 hours past your hours to finish your own shit and they swan out at 5pm

3. people on buses - cough THE OTHER WAY

4. sinuses - ow, also WHAT DID YOU SAY? I CANT HEAR ANYTHING!

5. ZARA - your clothes are beautiful but every size is massive

And I'm done... for now. Although, why is cheese so expensive nowadays?

DS not napping all day, then going mad at six because he's so tired which means he's already asleep for the night and will be up by 4 ☹️

shin

Now I'm being sick too . Fuck it all, I'm going to cry.

@nutbrownhare15 if dh ever gets a bit self centred about tiredness I just give him a night shift or two- I’m ebf but I can’t feed the baby all night so there’s plenty of walking around to share. Mine usually remembers pretty quickly what a good wicket he is on, if yours doesn’t at least you will know he is tired so can take it with better grace, it’s a win either way

@Parly sleet isn't horizontal rain, sleet is almost snow, it's frozen, horizontal rain

Although I think that fine mist is worse, you know that fine mist? Gets right through your clothes

Oh and my Tesco online account is corrupted won't take any form of payment even Tesco IT are having a job trying to sort it, which means my groceries we've delivered today. So I've now got to go grocery shopping on a Saturday with a baby -same one who's refused to sleep all day and will be up at the crack of dawn.

Heating has been on the blink for 6 weeks.
I told husband it must be a valve because it's intermittent.

Plumber comes and says it's the Hive control unit.

Install new control unit, no change. I shout at hive a lot. Hive say it's the boiler.

Boiler very new, so shout at Vaillent and we get an appointment under warranty. Vaillent come by and tell me it's the valve.

Husband changes the motor in the valve and heating is now working perfectly. Can't shout at plumber as he's a neighbour.

6 blinking weeks.

@BlackPrism

Ooh yeah I know stuff... soaks you through.

Have to do all my work tonight and tomorrow so I can take my daughter up to my sister's for three days from Sunday.. which will NOT be a break because my sister will have expectations and my daughter will be unsettled and I am so fucking tired and red up of everything.
Also DH having his third interview today for a job and getting through to the next (not last) stage, which will happen sometime next week. I hope he gets the job but all this stressing, all the prep, for the love of God, PLEASE GET IT OVER WITH!!!

@lovelygreenjumper Oh my god I had to stop myself from smashing my own phone reading about that!!!!! What a horrible, pathetic woman! It's hard to fathom there are people like this - do they not realise how Dickish they are or do they genuinely not care? Not sure which is worse! Has really really riled me on your behalf!

The pound went up hours after I changed my money so I lost out on £20.

MamaLovesMango

I've been asking myself that for years. This is actually extremely tame compared to previous gambling.

DS was a little bastard this morning when trying to get him to school, 45 minutes to get him to get his shit together to get to school. So I was late for work.

I get to work wanting to sell boy child on eBay, to be told overnight there was a fatal RTC involving two young children (potentially giving my location away, and no not emergency services). I can't go into the details of what I have dealt with all day but I am so so so angry over what has happened. What I will say is that eventually, the truth will come out.

People have messed my team about with meetings all day. I don't mind if they refuse, but that fact that one person has deliberately not responded to four meeting requests, chasing emails and effectively wasted four hours of my teams time so far has monumentally pissed me off. It's not often I use my full job title, it's pretentious. She got both barrels of me via email, funnily enough she's found time to meet me Monday when she realised who I was.

Someone has also set fire to a scrapyard in my area of responsibility. That was fun, no idea what was burning but at one point it was "popping" so ended up working over by two years even though I'm paying someone to be on call. All because they didn't answer the phone. Guess who's being hauled in the office Monday...

And for good measure I'm all crampy. So that's fun.

Yeah, shitty shitty day today.

My two work besties are being moved together to a different team and I’m being left behind. I can’t even moan to anyone at work as I saw it on a piece of paper I shouldn’t be looking at. They are the only things that make work bearable sometimes

@whycantIthinkofadecentusername I live near that accident, such a tragedy

@whycantIthinkofadecentusername

You must be local to me.

My moans are small but made bigger as I was looking forwards to today.
My mum and I have a bi-anual pilgrimage to the NEC for the big craft fair. We have a good time.
Except I'm struggling to shift a stupid cold that has produced mucus like coal tar and gas made me almost dead on one side. I'm coughing up gunk too.
My fibromyalgia has relapsed significantly and my legs are really sore. A new symptom is the soles of my feet are very painful and both my heels feel partially numb.
Ended up having to leave early as I couldn't cope, plus the people who sell the massive meringues weren't there. Damn it, I wanted a meringue.

People that were interested in fostering / re-homing a dog from border collie rescue just got a real cob on with me, said I'm a cheeky twat and should be grateful they were willing to take a dog off our hands. Asked the basics about where they live / home environment and lifestyle all the usual.

It's the rescue's standard policy not to re home dogs to homes where there are kids under 12yrs generally which we explain is because most of the dogs are handed over and end up in rescue because they were bought as family pets and ended up herding and nipping and whatnot. Homes that are in built up areas, where the dog would be left alone for prolonged periods and all that kind of stuff too.

Just aim to make sure dogs don't boomerang in and out of rescues and different homes so reduce the chances by having very strict criteria, going through rigorous assessment, training and then careful re-homing to make sure wherever the dog goes - it stays for life.

Everyone goes through the same checks and even when we can't help we'll recommend trying other rescues and local shelters.

Woman told me I was a cheeky twat and should be grateful someone wanted to take one of the manky dogs off their hands.

It's not funny but I actually laughed aloud at the "manky dogs" as though that'd made me go "You know what? I think you might just be the exception to the rule You sound like the absolute ideal"

Manky dogs... God in Heaven this is why I don't think anyone should be allowed to own animals without a license.

@JohnnyHatesJazz @Boobahs I'll never be able to unsee it. Put my gripes with DS into perspective. Yes very local to the site, especially for work. Not helped when DP said you just need to forget it now. I've dealt with some horrific things in my line of work. This one will haunt me.

for everyone having a day like this today.

The lights just went out, stupid stormy weather.

I hadn't made my cup of tea yet. 😭

@whycantIthinkofadecentusername

Are you able to debrief with others involved or do work offer counselling?

DM's weekend visit lasted 4 hours. She's had to go home to her dentist as she broke a tooth.

Dd2 (5yo) has apparently lost the ability to not be an utter turd every minute of the day, I've been ill for 5 days with a cold and now have 'the runs' just in time for the weekend, my husband keeps roaring at DD1 (12yo) for various minor transgressions instead of actually disciplining her which doesn't bother her in the slightest but gives me a headache, and in 2 weeks I have to fly for 27 hours and use up 2 weeks of leave to see my MIL whose main hobby seems to be telling me how fat I am (I'm really not) and how unsuitable she finds my preferred form of exercise (she hasn't exercised since 1972). Bah, humbug...