Where Have all the Whiners Gone Wednesday

[cyndilouwhoo]

Why, they are right here in H&F.

Need I say more?

Let's rock and roll ladies and gentlemen.

Cyndi

Gearing up for a crushing whine of epic proportions

[taurusmoon]

Damn. I'm too tired to whine.

As a wise man once said, "I'll be back."

Sara
Off to rehearse a whine in the shower

[jenninca]

Why am I NOT tired? I went to bed at 11:00, couldn't fall asleep until after midnight, and woke up easily when the alarm went off at 4:15.

This is not my official whine. I'll have to contemplate what my official whine is today. Other than the fact that I have to go to a stupid workshop tomorrow and so much stay late today to spell out my every move for a sub.

Cindy

[pluckyduck]

ROFL!

I'm not ready to officially whine yet, either...but duck and cover, it's coming!

Andrea

[jenninca]

Originally posted by pluckyduck
ROFL!

I'm not ready to officially whine yet, either...but duck and cover, it's coming!

Andrea

This I can't wait to hear. I've sensed this one coming!

[lynnzop[$]]

I can't complain, really. Except that I'm TIRED. For the past two days I've gotten home before the boys get off the bus just so I can catch a ten-minute nap. And then I'm crawling back to bed at 8:30, totally drained!

Must be the kid-induced stress.

Plus, with our moves all over, I may be finally allowing myself to unwind a little. When I was in retail, I would refuse to get sick from November 1 - January 15. Then I would invariably come down with pneumonia, bronchitus or something equally as wicked just to make up for lost time.

A meeting-filled day. At least it makes the work day fly by more quickly!

Lynn

[hypotenuse]

Long time passing...



Consider yourself dead Cyndi. I'll be over there in a minute to handle it.

If I start bitching and whining Amy'd have to increase the bandwidth again. So I'll be back with a condensed version later.

But!

I DID get my battery! And will start recording steps again today.

Lynne - where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing. Where have all the flowers gone? Long time ago. Where have all the flowers gone, they've gone to children everyone. Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn? :hum: :hum: :hum:

You're dead Cyndi.

OOOOOOH! My first official whine :lick:

Well let's see....

1) I woke up at 1:37 a.m. cause I had to pee (from drinking all of that water). Couldn't get back to sleep.

2) I bought a piece o shit pedometer that is screaming for a nasty review to be posted (coming soon).

3) I am anxiously awaiting my fail-save pedometer (HJ-105).

4) I was good yesterday food wise. Today I want M&M's. So far resisting temptation. :violin:

5) I bought four new cds - my husband is going to freak! My cd habit is out of control

[cyndilouwhoo]

Originally posted by hypotenuse
Long time passing...



Consider yourself dead Cyndi. I'll be over there in a minute to handle it.

Lynne - where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing. Where have all the flowers gone? Long time ago. Where have all the flowers gone, they've gone to children everyone. Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn? :hum: :hum: :hum:

You're dead Cyndi.

:smirk:

Cyndi

Who just wanted to make sure that everybody had something to whine about

Originally posted by kristinafh
2) I bought a piece o shit pedometer that is screaming for a nasty review to be posted (coming soon).

Ode to my Odometer
(My apologies to Adam Sandler)

Piece of shit pedometer
I got a piece of shit pedometer
That ****in' pile of shit
Never works very far

My pedometer's a piece of shit
Cause the sensors are ****in shot
And the belt clip's ****ing broken
I got to tape it to my belt
(It's a piece of shit)

I can't see through the display
'Cause it's got a big ****ing' crack
And the case smells real bad
Cause I puked up on it's back
(It's a piece of shit)

(Piece of shit pedometer)
Piece of shit pedometer
(He's got a piece of shit pedometer)
The stupid sensor sticks!
(The ****in' pile of shit)
Inaccurate crap!
(Never works very far)
Oh **** you pedometer

It's got no USB port, it only got the display
Whoever designed this pedometer I really want to blow away
(They can bite his ass too)
And I ain't got no ****in totals
My steps are way too ****ing low
All of the day I wonder "How far did I just go?"
(You ****in' piece of shit)

(Piece of shit pedometer)
I got a piece of shit pedometer
(He's got a piece of shit pedometer)
Watch batteries suck my ass
(The ****in' pile of shit)
That pile of plastic shit
(Never works very far)

Oh what the **** did I do
What the **** did I do
What the **** did I do
To get stuck with you
You're too big for my belt-loop
And you look gay neon blue
But I'm too broke to buy something new
Oh **** me

Well the hinge likes to stick
The battery always ****in' shorts
And the buttons are all mashed in
So I can do any recalls
(Crap, crap crap)
The calorie count is busted
It says I eat like a ****ing horse
(What a pain in his ass)
And if a girlie ever sees my pedometer
She'll think I'm fat and swell with remorse
(He never ever gets da pussy)
Hey shut up
(Piece of shit pedometer)
You piece of shit pedometer

(You got a piece of shit pedometer)
You piece of shit pedometer
(Piece of shit pedometer)
Thing's full of wires
(You got a piece of shit pedometer)
No way to change the stride length
(Piece of shit pedometer)
All different numbers
(You got a piece of shit pedometer)
****ing tape for a hinge latch
(Piece of shit pedometer)
Can't get the steps right anywhere
(You got a piece of shit pedometer)
(Piece of shit pedometer)
(You got a piece of shit pedometer)
(Piece of shit pedometer)
Oh the whole board thinks I'm a loser
(You got a piece of shit pedometer)
Plucky, give me a spare...
(Piece of shit pedometer)

[cyndilouwhoo]

Oh, my File...

That was one champeen whine



Cyndi

Who can't get it out of her head

[AmyLEnsor]

I forget, File, what kind of pedometer do you have? Is it a Sportline model?

[pluckyduck]

Okay, lettterrrrr rip!

Home

Being the rebellious child that I am, I've let my home, laundry, grocery shopping and whatnot go to hell in a handbasket. While it is true that I am nobody's maid! I'm not a personal secretary!, this produces certain ill effects on me personally:

1) I don't have clothes to wear
2) I don't have food to eat
3) We have a lot of chaos in the house and spend a lot of time looking at each other going -- what shall we eat? what shall we dry ourselves off with? what shall we wear?


School

Part of the reason that I'm doing no home drudgery is that I've been emotionally and physically drained by issues going on at both of my boys schools. I'm fighting both schools because neither of my children are getting what they need....people are spending way too much time adminstering stupid bureacracy and not enough time teaching the damn kids at the level they need to be taught.

Adam comes home with reading and math assignments one to two grade levels below where he should be, and tons of stupid busywork that isn't teaching him jack crap. And then the teacher has the audacity to complain that he doesn't listen closely enough in class and/or doesn't pay enough attention to detail. Yeah, well, how much detail would you pay attention to when you were doing a math drill of problems like 6+3 for weeks on end? And stupid ass 2 page stories about Quack the Duck when you read Encyclopedia Brown and Half Magic for fun? "Quack was a yellow duck. He lived on a big lake." (need a pukey smiley!)

Dan's school decided to put the entire place in upheaval right before the school year started and make it some kind of "survival of the fittest" contest. Instead of accomodating the special ed class, they've gone out of their way to screw with them. (Okay, not intentionally, but they clearly put exactly zero forethought into what was best for our kids.)

Example: I get a call from Dan's teacher (a subsitute..his regular teacher is on maternity leave). Sweet woman, but she's at her wits end because all of the kids did really poorly on an important math exam....she gives them the test again, and again some of them, especially my Dan, just could not seem to complete it, even though she knew they knew the work.

Come to find out from Dan, due to the freakin' space problems and classroom sharing and changing they've been doing in the school, she had placed the kids in another teacher's classroom to do the test. You can't do that with these kids! They can't be distracted by outside elements or you've lost them...which is exactly happened when she pulled them out of their regular enviornment and plopped them in an unfamiliar place.

Point of this portion of my whine is that I feel like I have to be in hyper vigilant Mama Bear mode 24 hours a day, protecting my young.

Work

Everybody knows, the economy is in the crapper and the last two months have been filled with uncertainty. Not a great two months to be a direct marketer from New Jersey[/b]

In order to protect my division and my employees and the owners of the company whose money I spend, I've been doing the Hyper Vigilant Mama Bear thing at work too. I'm constantly scanning the news, the landscape, pouring through the customer base, watching the orders we do have like a hawk...trying to suck in enough information so I can make the right moves to keep the business healthy in an unprecidented time like this.



I'M TIRED!

I'm tired from being on alert 24 hours a day. Like the rest of the country, I'm tired of worrying about whether I should put my mail in plastic bag or wondering if that plane overhead sounds funny. I'm tired of waiting for the next terrorism shoe to drop. I'm tired of worrying non stop about my kids and business, too. (The husband with the heart problem, he's on his own...he could turn green/grey/black this evening and I probably wouldn't notice )

This all has nothing to with H & F or maybe everything to do with it, I don't know. But I've lost a lot of gas, mostly because I'd like to just stare at a blank wall for a month or so.

I feel obligated to throw in a comment about today -- today was a great day. We got a little bit further along with Dan's school, three meetings scheduled next week. The boys both brought home excellent report cards. And we had a super sales day at work! First one in two months that was above "decent"

Whew.

Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, what did you think of the play?

Andrea

[murasaki]

Hmmm... I'm having a difficult time coming up with a whine, but give me a few minutes...

I did get some great news today: I've taken 15 hours of undergrad French so far and when the director of the graduate English department heard that she told me to stop taking French classes, I had enough, she'd put the memo in my file. No more language worries for my degree, which is really great considering the next class I needed to take is scheduled simultaneously with one of the classes for my master's and French wasn't going to win.

Okay, here's the whine (I knew it would come to me):

Yesterday I forgot to take my student ID card and couldn't get into the weight room to work out, even though it's the same guy that takes my card every Tuesday and Thursday. Very annoying that I left my card home, very annoying that he couldn't bend the rules since I've obviously paid up front for the entire semester or I wouldn't be allowed in there at all.

Today I went running as usual. Unlike my last few times out, I had a sciatica flare up. I thought I had it beat for the most part, though I still do morning stretches for it. I slathered on the cream and it seems better now. My knee also seemed a little wonky today. I don't want it to become a problem now.

I'm still doing okay with the cold weather. I bought some running gloves that I can sweat in last weekend. I think I need to buy some sweat pants to go over my running tights.

I think that's all the whining for tonight...

--naomi

[quasar]

I'll whine.

I've been walking my patootie off but my ped has been awol since late Monday

Waaaaaaa!

I do have the numbers from the days before it got lost, but I suspect I've walked new personal bests these last few days at COMDEX.

Janice