RIP Fly and Zack - The two older farm dogs. They weren't mine exactly , I live on a farm and they belonged to my landlord but I saw them and played with them on a daily basis for the best part of three years, and Fly especially used to come to me for fuss and cuddles , sometimes she'd even bring me her brush if she wanted me to brush her ( I was the only person apart from my landlord who she would let groom her) They had a good run , Fly was 15 and Zack was 13 which isnt a bad age for a border collie - but fly had started having fits and walking in circles (the vet suspected brain tumour), and zack had a recurrent tumour on his belly , so it was time for them to go...... but i shall miss them ... i'll even miss the howling like a rusty gate being swung at midnight for no apparent reason. On the plus side they still have Bob (border collie/huntaway cross) ad have just acquired a 15 week old puppy called Reg (soon of Bob and a welsh collie) ,so a new generation will be getting Pete fuss and cuddles and making me feel better. I also still have my own dog , Kim (yet another border collie)
I read a very insightful quote once that I can neither remember precisely nor find, to the effect that boys get upset when their girlfriends are bleeding, but men rejoice when their wives are.
Here's my experience with Facebook as of late: in the last few weeks things had been appearing on my wall under my name that I never posted. Not sure if it were a hack or a Facebook glitch, I kept deleting them, but they kept coming. I then resorted to changing my password, which worked, but it kept coming. Then I decided to try and deactivate my old account until I came up with another solution. Of course, by that time, I had forgotten my password and thus got locked out of my old account, thus forcing me to make a new one. Now I'm getting questions from my friends wondering if I really am what I say I am.
I'm about to punch my roommate in the face. I get home from work, and all he wants to do is talk to me. When I get home, I need to unwind. I need to relax. I need to chill. I don't need to listen to him talk about his stupid video game for an hour. Then, he awkwardly stands in the living room and watches whatever I'm watching. He doesn't say anything. He doesn't sit. He. Just. Stands. There. It's creepy. Now, NOW... He's fucking slurping his ramen. Every. Damn. Bite. I swear to god.. I'm bout to rip it outta his hands and throw it out the window. Misophonia -- literally a "hatred of sound", that is a rarely diagnosed neuropsychiatric disorder in which negative emotions (anger, flight, hatred, disgust) are triggered by specific sounds.
Lea! Did you murder him!? D: I have a shovel, dump his ass in the trunk of your car, I'll help you hide the body. --------------- So I had nightmares again. I woke up and wrote a bit in my historical fiction where the MC discovers a letter written by a major character from another story (they're set in the same universe.) I decided to write that this major character was dying of cancer while she was writing the letter. Great, now I feel sadder.
Ehhh, it being that time of the month and all could make her more irritable but from what she`s said on here in the past seem like that roommate can be irritating even without the extra help.
He's never chewed gum around me before but I'm sure he'd be loud about it like he is with everything else. Chips, I can understand. But if I can hear you chewing a hotdog from ten feet away over the volume of my TV, you've got a problem. lol
the best thing to do with gingerbread men at this time of year is to turn them upside down and decorate them as reindeer faces http://www.jellybeantrail.com/2012/12/holiday-reindeer-cookies.html
^ I may as well just echo the sentiment above (threadstarter). It xmas, I am alone, I'm broke. My two grown children (and granddaughter) are elsewhere. I am broke - on a teacher's salary, I am frequently broke. My 4-year-old is with his dad; it's HIS year to have him for xmas. Bah, humbug!
So what kind of teacher are you? I can't possibly see how you have a grandchild. That blows my mind. You look 25.
I've recently started back up at school. One of my classmates, a 19 year old girl, thought I was in my 30-40's. I'm 26. Maybe I should shave off this monster of a beard I've spent the last 7 months growing.
I thought that as well - unless that's not her in her avatar of course - if it is looking that good at 44 is a cause for celebration. At 43 (I'm 44 in January) I look about mid thirties when ive shaved and cut my hair , when i'm rocking the beard big enough to hide a badger in , and the white mans afro look (think leo sayer after a night sleeping in a hedge) I look more like a werewolf , and an old one at that
I am a teacher too but just work part-time because I have other income. It can be rough this time of year if you get paid at the end of the month like teachers here in this state. Not fun having your last paycheck used up by December's bills and not having your kids for Christmas doesn't help. Things will get better -
That's why it is better to live on the West Coast, you get paid earlier in the day than the people on the East Coast.