Whaddaya Know...It's Whiner Wednesday

cyndilouwhoo · #1 10-17-2001, 07:24 AM

OK barkeep...

Set 'em up.

Whines for everyone!

And don't forget to say "cheese"

Cyndi

cyndilouwhoo · #2 10-17-2001, 07:34 AM

Well, last night was another early night for me. Bed at 10pm. I now have a cold to complement my exhaustion...bleh...I feel awful.

It's raining and generally terrible outside.

I actually had to set the alarm to get up this morning. Double bleh!

I am off to do another performance of Streetcar Named Desire for a group of hormone-addled HS literature students.

(Stanley: Stelllllllaaaaaahhh!!! Students: )

Can you say "bleh?"

I can't weigh in this morning. Will have to wait until tonight. Regardless, the news won't be pretty. Glad I got back on the wagon yesterday. It could be worse.

It's just shaping up to be a dandy day.

On the good side, I am going to the gym for an hour right after the show gets out this afternoon--I am planning on walking the treadmill for 30 minutes, provided my lungs hold out. A good sweat will do me a world of good.

Be good y'all.

**taurusmoon** · #3 10-17-2001, 07:41 AM

I'm overextended this week. Too many commitments, too little time.

And, if that's not bad enough, my overextension is overextending through the rest of the month.

I have a stack of appointment cards a mile high and it just keeps growing. Doctors, dentist, chiropractor, blood center, haircutter... they're all conspiring to prevent me from working out. Add the Yankees to the list of conspirators too. And then there's all the everyday errands and chores to add to the mix.

I can't take it!

Okay, I feel better now.

Sara

**lynnzop**[$] · #4 10-17-2001, 07:47 AM

I thing I'b gehding a cohlbd.

Oh that's too darn hard. But I do want to whine a little. I went to bed at 8:30 last night because I started feeling a bit punk after dinner and woke up at 4 a.m. with no hope of getting back to sleep.

It's supposed to be windy windy windy here today.

I missed my weigh in yesterday because of my workshop and now I have to go to a trad meeting to get weighed in. I want to wear a slip (and nothing else) to weigh in because I'm afraid my clothes weigh too much.

Ack. Hi-ho. Better step to it.

Lynn

cyndilouwhoo · #5 10-17-2001, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by lynnzop
I thing I'b gehding a cohlbd.

Hee Hee! Thanks for my laugh of the day Lynn. You captured exactly how I now feel.

Quote:

Originally posted by lynnzop
I missed my weigh in yesterday because of my workshop and now I have to go to a trad meeting to get weighed in. I want to wear a slip (and nothing else) to weigh in because I'm afraid my clothes weigh too much.

Lynn

I'm ready to ask about Nudist WW meetings in my area. Only weighing in "el buffo" will save me this week.

Cyndi

Who is glad that "Maintenance" lasts 6 weeks. Otherwise I'd be dead

cyndilouwhoo · #6 10-17-2001, 08:01 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by taurusmoon

I'm overextended this week. Too many commitments, too little time.

I can't take it!

Okay, I feel better now.

Sara

Speaking as someone who has just joined the ranks of the unemployed:

Might I suggest quitting your job? It frees up ever so many hours

**taurusmoon** · #7 10-17-2001, 08:13 AM

LOL Cyndi. At least it would make me forget about my current set of problems.

Sara
Who is very, very tempted

jenninca · #8 10-17-2001, 08:34 AM

I have conference night tomorrow.

Have I ever mentioned that I really don't like conference night?

By the end of conference night, there is almost nothing about my teaching that hasn't been questioned or criticized.

The parents that I really need to meet with won't show up. I haven't heard a peep from the parents of the kid that I sent home with a progress report showing a 17% in Language Arts. No peep from the mother of the girl who misses an average of a day or two each week.

I have to face a parade of parents going in and out so quickly that I don't even have time to stand up in between conferences. I have to defend why I give so little homework, why I give so much homework, why I give so many quizzes, why I give so few quizzes, why I can't watch their child in class every minute, why I don't call them every time their child does anything wrong (I'd be on the phone all night!), why I sit someone next to someone else, and why I don't sit someone next to someone else. And on and on and on....

That's my main whine of the day.

I'd like to say I'll get out for a long walk tonight, but my couch is being delivered today (Have I ever mentioned that I

my boyfriend, who volunteered to come home from work to be here for the delivery?). I haven't sat on a couch (except trying them out in the store) since I moved here in July. Tonight, I plan to be a couch potato. (But don't worry, Sara, it will be a temporary thing.)

Cindy

**pluckyduck** · #9 10-17-2001, 08:36 AM

My only whine is that I'm testing DH's patience with my current absorptions.

I'm an utterly charming person (need smilie of girl fluffing or patting her hair, like the curly headed girl in the Charlie Brown cartoons), but I can be really annoying to live with.

I'm a little, um, uneven.

One week the most important thing for me is that the family eat dinner at the table together every night. Next week, I forget all about family dinners because a project at work has me sucked in. Two months later, I remember about family dinners and make a big deal about that again.

Hey, that makes for variety, right?

Anyway, DH has been startled to see that the H & F thing has stuck, and a billion points for him, he's been super supportive. He's also been startled that my household notebook thing (see Home and Garden) has stuck, and my Commandant approach to running the family's affairs hasn't gone by the wayside.

However, I have laundry backed up the yin yang...won't let him do it because "I'll do it tomorrow." I keep telling him that the billing I do for his business will be done "tomorrow". There's a huge list of things that I've promised him I'll do tomorrow, whenever the hell that is.

Sooooooo, my only whine is that it might have to be "tomorrow" pretty darn soon. The tension is building.

When tomorrow comes, I might have to have online participation and my current stepping obsession take a backseat for a day or two.

Andrea
a perfectly charming person

jenninca · #10 10-17-2001, 08:43 AM

Andrea, is your "tomorrow" related to Epinions' "soon"?

jenninca · #11 10-17-2001, 08:49 AM

New whine: I have discovered that my brain doesn't function in the morning.

I am wearing jeans today. We can usually only wear them on Fridays, but we got in our patriotic t-shirts yesterday and the principal made an exception so we can wear them. I love jeans. I'm not giving up this chance.

My jeans were still pretty damp when I put them on. So I laid them on the bed and proceeded to walk around in my t-shirt for an hour. Guess what? They're still pretty damp.

Doh! That is why dryers were invented!

Gotta go!

Cindy

hypotenuse · #12 10-17-2001, 09:22 AM

Me, bleary eyed, sitting at diningroom table, desperately trying to focus enough to find my coffee mug.

Number one son: Maaauuummmm!! I need money.

Me: Huh?

Number one son: Tomorrow's the Cougar Carnival and I have to have a lot of money because they're selling the tickets today, and today only, in the Cougar Cafe and if I don't get my tickets today I can't go and the bus will be here any minute and I need lots of money right now. Cash.

Me: Huh?

Number one son: I gotta have it now!

Me: Do you have any paperwork on this activity?

Number one son: Huh?

Me: Do you know how much each ticket actually costs?

Number one son: Huh?

Me: Do you have any idea about how many tickets you might need?

Number one son: Huh?

Me: Can you give me a ballpark figure on a total of how much money you need?

Number one son: Yah. LOTS.

Me, scrounges in purse and comes up with $3.57. I'll drop it at the office after the bank opens.

Why do children do this? If I had known yesterday, I could have called the school for the info, hit the bank, and had it ready to go this morning. Now I have to make a trip out to the school. Which is on the other side of nowhere, which is why my kids ride the bus.

Sheesh.

Lynne

**pluckyduck** · #13 10-17-2001, 09:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by jenninca
Andrea, is your "tomorrow" related to Epinions' "soon"?

Andrea
who really has nothing more to say

sylvanb · #14 10-17-2001, 10:08 AM

Hey! I finally get back on track (again

) and here it is Whiney Wednesday so I can't brag about it without feeling bad. Hmpffff

Got to the pool last night, did my laps and my jogging and such, and plan to keep doing it. Until the next break in the schedule, for travel or sickness or whatever.

I really do get considerable exercise of the "stepping" sort much of the time. Last weekend for instance I was all over the boat and up and down ladders for two days (winterizing). The reason I don't join the Steppers is, my goal in life is to minimize the walking.

The other reason is Fear of Committment.

Well, DH has a horrible cold, and I am sure I am catching it. That whine enough for you? Huh?

**mrisch**[$] · #15 10-17-2001, 11:20 AM

I have not been able to work out all week - it's just one thing after another and its driving me crazy - plus I have eaten out twice (nice, but fattening).

And I am sooooo tired - our burglar alarm failed (read went off, even though not set) at 4:30 AM last night.

#16 10-17-2001, 12:20 PM

My Kansas "Drastic Measures" CD is scratched... just when I was going to rip the thing.

How am I going to fight fire with fire now?

Time to hit the newsgroups... ick! Power? Bleah!

Scale says 202... I get to celebrate 200 again for a few times! BOOYAH! WOOHOO! OOGAH BOOGAH!

Oh, wait... that's supposed to be a whine. Aw f- it.

murasaki · #17 10-17-2001, 01:07 PM

Got in my run this morning, 24 minutes for what used to be a 28 minute route. (no whine there)

I'm starting to get through some of the books on Poe that I have to read for my term paper. At least I'm making progress. (no whine there)

Today is always my worst day of the week. I have two of my three graduate classes and I always feel like the biggest dummy. I try to tell myself that it's just culture shock; I've been out of academia for 7 years while the others in my classes have never left it; but all to no avail. I still feel like a big dummy, mostly because I think most literary criticism is crap put forth by a bunch of dead white guys as to how I'm supposed to interpret the writing of other dead white guys that the first group canonized and completely disregarded anyone who didn't fit in their little boxes of "excellence." Grrr.... (ah, there it is! I knew I had a whine in me)

--naomi

AmyLEnsor · #18 10-17-2001, 02:52 PM

OK, I'll whine. I got into an argument with my husband last night. To make a long story short, let me just say that we have sleep issues with our daughter. She usually doesn't go to bed before we do, or at least not before my husband does. He came home and went upstairs to watch tv with his computer because Molly was asleep on the couch. I did a step aerobic video since he wasn't using the tv. When Molly woke up, he came down to get her and she was a screaming crying mess because she just wanted to go back to sleep even though she had napped from 6-8. I should have just put her down for the night, but then she would have gotten up around midnight and been rarin' to go. I had about 20 minutes left on the tape and he had the nerve to ask me if he was going to have to watch Molly an hour or two every night so that I could exercise.

I told him no. All the while thinking no, because I'm leaving to go back to my family because I'm sick of you. No, because I'll just hire a babysitter while I go to the gym, no because of other stupid things.

I will admit that I left the house right after he got home last night, but last night he had some time to himself first. He wants me to exercise during the day, but Molly didn't nap Sunday or Monday, so I couldn't. And many times I do by taking her in the stroller with me. He is still trying to adjust to the idea that he may have only 2 hours of free time a day. Yeah, that's right. Our daughter is 2 and a half and he still thinks that our life is going to get "back to normal" one day. I keep telling him that this is normal now, but he doesn't want to believe it.

Of course, she is sleeping right now, at almost 11 am PST! I was going to start waking her up in the mornings so that she might go to bed at a reasonable hour, but I didn't have the heart to. So I guess I'd better go hop on the treadmill now!

cyndilouwhoo · #19 10-17-2001, 03:29 PM

Well, I'm back for another whine (no cheese, thanks; I still have to weigh in!

)

Got out the door this morning (8am) went to pick up another cast member, sat in traffic so what is normally a 15 minute trip turns into almost 30 (sigh)...Get to the theatre, spend 90 minutes doing my hair and putting on makeup (It takes time to look as trashy as I do--and believe me I am trailer trash by the time I'm done

), Zip into costume just in time for places, get backstage and go out and do my thing...

In the middle of the very first scene...the lights all over the building go out...(sigh)

No lights, because come to find out that not only is the theatre lacking juice, the entire town is out. Shortly after, we discover that not only is Norwell out of power, so is Hanover and Scituate...

So we sit around in the dark for close to an hour (the kids scheduled to see the play go off to Rockland to have breakfast at BK) waiting for the lights to come back on...they never do.

So finally at 11:30 we call off the show...and at 11:40, (just after 3 cast members have left--of course), the lights go back on...(sigh)

So I basically disrupted my whole leisurely morning schedule for nothing.

And come to find out that these poor kids have been studying Tennessee Williams for the last month and were actually looking forward to seeing the play. They were so bummed out we all felt terrible.

In a way, having no power was kind of scary. It shows you the mindset we are all in after Sept. 11th--we wondered if it had something to do with a terrorist attack. Shows you that nothing is the same anymore.

But at least I got to go work out at the gym (with big hair, lookin' like trailer trash

)

One positive note: I look ab fab in my workout clothes and new shoesies

Cyndi

Still peeved at the power company

**pluckyduck** · #20 10-17-2001, 07:43 PM

Oh, Cyndi, what a bummer. I'm sorry!

Now, here's my whine of the afternoon:

I have 11,107 steps by 6:45!

Why is this a whine? Because I know my steps by now, and this has only been a 9000 or so step day.

Either my Omron is overcounting by 2000 a day, or I've been undercounted by 2000 a day for the last 60 plus days.

Each one is a big fat WHINE in it's own way, yes?

Andrea
a lot of steps and no peace

**pluckyduck** · #21 10-17-2001, 07:49 PM

Quote:

Yeah, that's right. Our daughter is 2 and a half and he still thinks that our life is going to get "back to normal" one day.

Forgive me but --

ROFLMAO!

The poor dear.

This is normal. Free time is had in snatches, not in chunks. I imagine that when the kids get up into the teenage years and suddenly free time does come in chunks that it just makes you

a good bit of the time, anyway.

As far as the sleep issues go, I won't give too much advice. Too easy for someone else to say "Yes, you must get that sleep thing under control. Be more disciplined."

Every kid is different.

But you count, your time counts, as does your husband's. Perhaps pre-negotiated workout times might cause less friction? (feeble suggestion, all that I have.)

Andrea

**mtomm**[$] · #22 10-17-2001, 07:50 PM

Yesterday was my weigh-in day at Weight Watchers. Last week I lost 4.4 pounds!! It was my first week so I knew it would pro