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Gr. My brother texted me asking if I would babysit his kids tomorrow night. So I said nope, after working all day I don't really feel like spending my Friday night babysitting. I thought he would just leave it with "oh okay." But no... instead he just sends back another date that he needs a babysitter. ARRRGGHHH. I don't want to babysit tomorrow, I don't want to babysit EVER. I work full time, I don't really like kids... I don't want to spend my free time on the weekend babysitting them. But I'm having a really hard time formulating an answer that gets that point across without sounding horrible.
 

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I work full time, I don't really like kids... I don't want to spend my free time on the weekend babysitting them. But I'm having a really hard time formulating an answer that gets that point across without sounding horrible.
"Work's really wearing me out lately. I don't think I have the energy to be a good sitter right now. I'll let you know if this changes in the future and I'm available for sitting again."

Don't blame you one bit for not wanting to watch the kids.
 

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It is hot. Ew.

And we had a parvo puppy at work today, so I am super ultra paranoid that Abrams s going to get infected. Boo working at a vet clinic and having a puppy yourself!
 

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"Work's really wearing me out lately. I don't think I have the energy to be a good sitter right now. I'll let you know if this changes in the future and I'm available for sitting again."

Don't blame you one bit for not wanting to watch the kids.
I like that answer, thanks. If I were in high school or something and needed extra cash it'd be great, but I'm just not in that position anymore.

Thankfully he ended up texting me back a nevermind message, so I'm off the hook for another day.
 

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So I slammed my hand into a door today. It LOCKED on me and I had to unlock to get my hand put, at which point it's bloody and crushed.

Am at the docs right now and OMG it hurts. How am I supposed to type? And write? And cook? And run with the dog? And DRIVE A MANUAL? I am writing this out with my pinkie!

On the even more fun side, I was trying to get back with the ex about my visit out there (that is totally not going to happen now, and I have to figure out how to break that to my family) and called for the 3rd time today and he whined that going to visit when he's not there. YOU WOULDN'T ANSWER MY CALLS, WHY WOULD I WANT TO CHANGE MY PLANS? And that turned into "we'll, I'm sleeping with someone else right now and that's why I'm busy!" I don't care - why didn't you just SAY "I'm with someone else right now and can't talk" instead of turning it into a drama fest? And why would you text me TODAY to ask if you're going to be busy? OF COURSE I snarled at you, you're being a moron and my hand hurts. I want someone to whine to, not someone who is super evasive about not being able to talk because they're not enough of an adult to just say "I'm busy."

Does anyone even read these vents?
 

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Does anyone even read these vents?
I do believe I've read every single one, and really am sympathetic with most of them! I usually only reply if I have something really constructive to say, though.

Anyways... ex-drama sucks...time to close that chapter, eh? And I hope your hand heals quickly!
 

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I do believe I've read every single one, and really am sympathetic with most of them! I usually only reply if I have something really constructive to say, though.
Same here. I don't know what to say most of the time. But I read them all.



Terrible day at work again. Websites spontaneously started having loading issues which the boss thought MUST be related to (100% tested) code, even though the websites where we tested the code had previously been just fine until the moment of issues, and the website WITHOUT the new code was ALSO having issues, and after calling hosting company and having them confirm that they had servers down and it was causing outages STILL blamed me and the code change.
I just don't even know what to do with this.
 

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I do believe I've read every single one, and really am sympathetic with most of them! I usually only reply if I have something really constructive to say, though.

Anyways... ex-drama sucks...time to close that chapter, eh? And I hope your hand heals quickly!
I don't even know if drama is the right word for it... Just stupidity. It's okay to say "I can't talk right now, I'm sleeping with someone" but generally not okay after you've said "What's going on with your visit with your family? Why do you have to come now? Why can't you come out when I can see you!?"

I read them all. Well, most of them. The ones that can spell. And I reply to plenty of them - I just never seem to get any replies.

I do.

Hope your hand gets better =(






My vent is that icing sucks to work with in hot temperatures. Then licking it off my fingers made me want more. So instead of eating a tub of icing, I'm taking pug for a walk. Eff you, cookies.
<3

That sucks. Go for a walk instead. I want to go on a walk. :(
 

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Crap, I'm sorry Nolu. That sounds horrible. I hope your hand heals quickly. Sorry your ex us being difficult.



My vent: I need a new job. I can't get a new job for at least 12 weeks now, because I have so many limitations due to wrist injury. Ugh.
 

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Holy ****.

I have four dogs starting TODAY and then we get these crazy straight-line winds and my ENTIRE FENCE is knocked down.
 

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My vent: I need a new job. I can't get a new job for at least 12 weeks now, because I have so many limitations due to wrist injury. Ugh.
You seriously do need a new job. =< Or to at the very least just quit your old job... too much not-good going on there.
 

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My child came home from daycare with no pants:mad: He apparently spilled something on them and they took them off. However, they then lost them:confused: It was a different shift of staff who took them off, and the later staff apparently did not think it odd tht a child was in his underthings. And they let him play outside that way:confused:
 

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My child came home from daycare with no pants:mad: He apparently spilled something on them and they took them off. However, they then lost them:confused: It was a different shift of staff who took them off, and the later staff apparently did not think it odd tht a child was in his underthings. And they let him play outside that way:confused:
What? That's crazy. Did you send a change of clothes with him? Even if he didn't have an extra set of clothes most preschools/daycares have a small supply of clothes JUST IN CASE. I would be furious.
 

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Gr. My brother texted me asking if I would babysit his kids tomorrow night. So I said nope, after working all day I don't really feel like spending my Friday night babysitting. I thought he would just leave it with "oh okay." But no... instead he just sends back another date that he needs a babysitter. ARRRGGHHH. I don't want to babysit tomorrow, I don't want to babysit EVER. I work full time, I don't really like kids... I don't want to spend my free time on the weekend babysitting them. But I'm having a really hard time formulating an answer that gets that point across without sounding horrible.
Just say no, I know it sounds blunt esp with family, but sometimes people need a blunt answer to get the point across or they will just keep ignoring you.
 

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I really think the old injury to my shoulder where the horse kicked me is coming back to bite me, I never went to the hospital initially (no money & despite the impact being hard enough to knock my glasses off my face & into the far corner of the stall) wasn't as bad as you might think, I actually went to work the next day even though I had to clean stalls with one arm :p.

Now if I use it too much (like all this last week was spend doing ranch yard/property work) or if horses jerk me around too much it really hurts afterward, like pretty intense deep joint pain, but also tingly/ numb at the same time.

I wish I had the monies to have it x rayed & looked at :(
 

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My dad has had three surgeries in less than a week and is still on the ventilator. He was supposed to be home in just a few days, and now they're thinking it will be weeks.

My MRI results from last week came back weird, and they scheduled me with a neurosurgeon and had me do a bunch of blood tests RIGHT NOW NOW NOW and kept calling my mom even though I've given them my correct phone number, and it was scary. The neurosurgeon said I don't need surgery on his end; I have cysts in my spine, and the blood tests all look normal. I still need to see a spinal surgeon and see if there's something wrong with my hardware, but at least it doesn't look like I have cancer. It was still scary, though.

My mom bitched me out on the phone today because she's (understandably) upset, but I'm upset too and I really don't appreciate being yelled at for looking 'sullen' and 'pouty' because I'm scared, upset, and overly tired. She's purposefully misunderstanding things I'm saying, and whenever I talk to my sister about ANYTHING she has to rehash what I said a thousand times with my mom until they come up with some secret mean interpretation that isn't accurate.

It also turns out my boyfriend lied about being enrolled in classes this summer to me, and I'm trying to decide if I'm going to be able to forgive that. He came clean three days later, and I'm not mad about dropping the classes; I'm mad about the lying. He keeps asking why I'm mad in front of people like he can force me to forgive him by using social pressure, and that's making me madder.

I'm supposed to be at work this week and I haven't been because I've been watching Zoey and going to the hospital and running around, which I don't mind doing, but I also am afraid I'm getting behind and I feel guilty and anxious when I'm at work (because I don't get cell reception) and guilty and anxious when I'm not at work because I want to be there.

My roommate had the AC set to 70 degrees all day because I was gone. It was 105 out; so it was trying to cool the house by 35 degrees. We discussed it and settled on 78-80. I pay utilities, and I'm pretty irritated by that.

And if one more person asks me what's wrong, I might accidentally punch them in the face.
 

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What? That's crazy. Did you send a change of clothes with him? Even if he didn't have an extra set of clothes most preschools/daycares have a small supply of clothes JUST IN CASE. I would be furious.
It was the one time he didn't have a different pair of pants, just an extra shirt. Usually he'd have at least a pair of swim shorts, but it was an 'everything is in the laundry' day due to a Pudding Incident. They do usually have some extra clothes or something, but maybe they were low.

Most annoying is that they could have called either of us..I could have taken pants at lunchtime. He doesn't know better at 2.5, but he doesn't need to be running around in his underclothes at "school". My husband picks him up after their naptime (it's disruptive to go in while all of the littles are napping and collect a kiddo, so we usually pick him up after) but if they'd called to say 'hey, he's running around in undies because we've misplaced his pants" he'd have picked him up right away. Hopefully other parents picking up their kids didn't wonder why our child was running amok with no pants on

He's going to drop in status for the month of July, as we're not sending him to daycare all week when he has a parent at home to watch him, so hopefully these shenanigans have stopped by the time he goes back full time. (he'll go for a few hours once a week if we need to run errands, etc that might be difficult with a sometimes crabby youngster, plus to keep him in a routine so there is not much turmoil in August when he goes back full time)
 

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