Substitute Red Bull for coffee... but there is a problem. When sitting and watching someone, you can't keep going somewhere to pee! You are supposed to stay put and watch them the entire time. If I was alone, I would just bring a large Gatorade bottle and... well the problem is I'm working with someone else and they are a woman, so I don't think it would be appropriate.
Wait - how does SHE pee? Oh, wait - adult diapers. You could try them yourself. Batman swears by them. So does James Bond. Rambo just wets his pants.
My former best friend popped up on a mutual's Facebook photo today having a baby shower. It's strange. I knew this girl when we were 15 and now she's going to be a mother. I feel like I want to congratulate her, but at the same time, I remember how badly our relationship deteriorated and how much of her negativity/complaining weighed me down the years before the friendship broke. The last straw was when she made me responsible for it. I guess I just miss her and the fact that the childhood friendship didn't survive. I hope she's matured enough to handle stress in a way without taking it out on others. I suppose it's also made me take stock of my own life and feel a little lacking.
Professional snipers will piss themselves if it means getting the shot. Also all this bitching about how awful ones job is, knock it the hell off. When you happen to be unemployable for some weird random reason and you can't bloody figure out then fine. But if you have a job be damn thankful somebody was nice enough to not let you feel the horror of not having an income. So there you go, at least you are being compensated to be unhappy. Enough from me, before I put my foot in my idiotic mouth.
I feel for you @edamame - your story resonates with me. I broke off a childhood friendship for reasons of negavity. We were so close, our parents thought we might have been lesbians (we weren't) because we lived out of each other's pockets. lol Our friendship did not survive me meeting my husband. It was a triggering point when all the underlying bad feelings poured out. Looking back, I was too hard-nosed about accepting any blame for a failing relationship, and I chose to see it as out growing a friendship, since I was going to Uni and she wasn't. I was admittedly neglectful and didn't value her enough. Because despite the turmoil, she was always there to support me. And in so many ways, she understood me like no one has since. I still remember her loving my sketches and sticking them up on her wall. And her crazy love of cats. I still think about her often with a lot of sadness and regret, but we've both moved on. Over the years we've tried, but our values were too different. What is saddest for me is knowing that who I am now has a lot to do with her, and having to accept we can no longer contribute to each other's life in a meaningful way. Anyway, thanks for giving me a moment for unhappy reflection, it's made me a little teary but it was much appreciated. It's made me realize that lately I've been burning too many bridges again. A bit too happy with my torch. I should pause and reconsider.
Dear people who have to deal with dead animals and people on a routine basis: You are some of the strongest, bravest people I know. Just today I discovered the corpse of a headless baby squirrel and came close to losing my shit in the horror. I took care of the body pronto, but I won't lie. I felt nauseated the whole way. A wonderful thing to wake up to in the morning. >:[ - Link the Writer
And that's why I am here. Finally snapped two weeks ago, quit my job. It was the worst I have ever had. I was so depressed it nearly mad me lose my mind. Home life is super toxic, had to cut out something. Wish I worked an extra week. I calculated how much I needed first, made sure there was enough for rent, food and taking care of the kittens. One of my roommates is moving out with only two weeks notice, rent has gone up. I dread asking for help from my parents. Right now I am doing some online work through Amazon but paid cheap each assignment. Might need to spend days just doing that go make up for the extra costs. Applied to many places, but no calls back yet. My phone is off in four days. Might have to take a fast food job out of necessity. Dreading.
@Vikingessa I am sorry to hear that. I have been out of work for over 2 years now, after 403 apps. and 3 interviews. And the only reason I haven't hung my ass out to dry is because of a promise I made to good man. So believe me when I say to you that I am sorry, I too have had jobs that pushed me over the edge as well.
I just started my review and edit of chapter 53. (out of 64) It's crap. Crap crap crap. Going to have to (s)crap the whole thing and rewrite it.
Why is this in the Not Happy thread? You have an opportunity to make something great! And you know more about it than you did the first time through!
Definitely agree with the latter modifier, but when we're talking brisket or al pastor, homemade flour tortillas are the way to go.
I feel pretty crap at the moment in terms of my own motivation and inability to work on one idea. I've been trying over the past month or so to work on a single story idea and to get that to a state where I can start writing it, but at the same time I've recently had a different idea and been trying to work on that with little success. I know that I'll likely end up forgetting to come back to the last story because that's what always happens, but I don't seem to know how to break the cycle. What's more, I end up finding jobs to do- jobs that need doing, not ones I'm making up just for procrastination- that are taking up the time I had set aside to work on story stuff, so when I look over what I've achieved today it looks like I've done a lot of stuff, but hardly any of it is writing.
I hate to sound like a jerk toward my own fellow video gamers but...sometimes I think we're some of the most selfish, overly-entitled children ever. In the Bethesda.net forums, in the Fallout 4 section, there are constantly threads by my fellow console users begging Bethesda to reveal the release date for the console mods. One of them has daily posted a thread titled: “it's x days until the end of May”, the 'X' being the number of days left until May 31st rolls around. And he/she uses it to beg Bethesda for a release date for the mods. Jesus Christ on a pogo stick and a scroll, people! This isn't the cure for all the cancers out there, they're an optional addition for us console users to mod Fallout 4 like our PC counterparts already do. Gah!! HAVE YOU NO PATIENCE!?
Missed class Thursday, but submitted my rough draft of a analysis paper for review on Wednesday. Teacher still hasn't contacted me and this work is due Tuesday. I can't begin the three pages until he contacts me back.
Speak of the Devil, that's what I did today! I popped in Fallout 3 to finish off the DLCs before moving on to New Vegas to finish its DLCs as well.
I got very little work done yesterday & promised I'd do extra today. Ain't gonna happen. I spent all morning avoiding my WIP. Starting to feel burned out. I even tried writing something new and gave up after two pages.
You know what helps me when I am in that kind of mood? I don't write and instead research. There are literally loads of topics I need to follow up on and if at any one day I don't manage to get my act really together (or even a few days after each other) than that is absolutely okay and I go to greener pastures. This weight passes when I give in and let myself rest
I walk around downtown all day, and survive on frozen dinners. I'm really schizo about noises in my apt, so I just stay outside. I'm not really capable of getting to a desk job, because I can't handle school, so I just sort of hang out smoking rollies. It's pretty frustrating not being able to do much, but at least I'm not tied down to responsibioities I can't take care of, so, meh.
I just ruined my favorite shirt. My old dryer used steam to dry clothes, not heat, so my "lay flat to dry" shirts never got messed up. But I forgot this shirt was lay flat to dry, and my new dryer, which DOES use heat, made it shrink. I'm trying to fix it now, but it's looking like a lost cause. So mad. At least it was only ten bucks...
Give yourself a break. There's no other job where people insist working seven days a week is more productive than having time out occasionally.