The Not Happy Thread

Just fucked up pretty significantly at work and I already felt the hate spiral beginning this morning, so now I think I'll just swirl into the shitter with it for a bit.

Can this week just end? It's been hell. I feel like all I've done is complain lately but even the cheerful assholes get knocked back every now and then. Just want something to stay good. And not worry.

 

It's 3 am Saturday somewhere, and someone is way drunk.

Dunno who

It'll all be good by Monday morning, just roll with it.

 

And there will not be any little fluff balls coming in the coop. When we moved our brooding chickens to the safer and quieter "nursery" so they could have their peace they suddenly decided the newly built location wasn't to their liking so they abandoned the eggs. Unfortunately, we noticed it to late and moving the eggs to the incubator wouldn't have worked. Bummer.

 

Hungover.

 

How about:

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I can send you the recipe if you deem it absolutely necessary. If you do and dare try this, I'd love to have a feedback...

 

My hometown's specialty!

 

"The good old days may not return/the sky might melt/the sea might burn." Tom Petty, Learning to Fly

 

"but I ain't got wings"

 

"coming down..."

 

"I'm flicking a fly... now it ain't got wings... "

 

I just paid in full my obscene electricity bill of 550 euros, even though I know for a fact that I didn't use that much. Why did I pay it then? Because I don't have the capacity to argue over it, and it was already a month overdue to be paid. I felt bad for not paying, and now I feel even worse for having paid it. I have to pay another 450 tomorrow for my rent as well. I've never had 1000 leave my account before in one go. FML.

 

The people who matter the most to me are having horrible times and I wish I could do more than send little messages of encouragement and love. Curse you, quarantine.

 

550 euros! My electric runs ~$70USD in the summer when I'm running the AC in the bedroom constantly. Is that for one month?

 

6-7 weeks of electricity, apparently. I could understand if I lived in a large family unit and was growing weed in the loft, but neither of those apply. This bill was before the lockdown too.

 

So, let's talk about Hostess mini muffins. The box claims 5 packs of 4 muffins each. I opened the first pack and there were only 2.

Just when I thought 2020 couldn't get any worse...

 

My mother taught school for decades. Believe me when I say that I admire teachers and the work they do, but until I had to do his teacher's job at home, I had no idea how much BS busy work my kid was being forced to do. I knew he was ahead of the class, and I guess I knew that he wasn't learning much that I wasn't teaching him myself, but this schedule is ridiculous. How am I supposed to teach him anything, if we have to do all these online lessons on material he mastered at least six months ago?

Oliver received Student of the Month for March after "turning his behavior around." His teacher has a calendar she marks every day with either a smiley face or a negative note. Every week, he had two to four notes about not paying attention in class or not finishing his work. He got that number down to zero for a month straight, and now that I see what he was expected to complete every day, I think he deserves a damned medal for pretending to pay attention. I don't know of another kid who could constantly work one to two grade levels below his ability and not go mad.

If there isn't a huge difference between the pace of his current curriculum and that of the Gifted and Talented classes he's supposed to start next year, (he's in kindergarten, and GT doesn't start until first) then they better skip him a grade, because he's about surpass expectations for first grade reading and math both. I guarantee by the end of the summer, he'll be reading at a third grade level and multiplying multi-digit numbers, probably better at this rate. (I wish I could take credit for all of this, but I just show him the next step, and he learns like a little machine.)

I know from personal experience the kind of trouble a kid can get into over the years, if they're bored in class, and he's ten times smarter than I ever was. He deserves better. He deserves a challenge, and I'm not sure I can bring myself to force him to do these stupid worksheets and coloring assignments every day. I mean I will so he doesn't fail, but man, it sucks.

 

Kindergarten isn't mandatory in Texas, is it?

 

So there's news stories starting to circulate about people in my country attacking 5G towers.

I know it's probably only a handful of village idiots but... god I really wish more was being done to stamp out positively dumbass conspiracy theories like the 5G one.

 

Got a message from my boss that I'm going too fast and need to calm down. This after he sends daily reports on how we're doing and he highlights for me just how bad I'm doing.

I don't know what they want from me. I'm doing my best with laggy internet and jank desk set up. He told me not to stress it, but I'm hella stressing it.

 

I'm told it's not. There's conflicting info on the internet. I was sort of okay with Pre-K last year being basically free daycare. I was aware they wouldn't teach him much, and I got used to the idea again this year. At least he's benefiting from the peer socialization and structure. I just had no idea how much work he was doing that was so far behind his level. I've spoken with his teacher periodically throughout the year, and I really thought she was giving him different work from most of the other kids. She said she was. It turns out she was just sending home more advanced books to read. I don't expect her to have to teach two classes or to put together separate lesson plans for every student. That would be ridiculous, but a huge majority of the work they do now is on these apps that she could easily skip him ahead on without having to do any extra work herself.