Teh Suckz Thread

[arrowchild]

My dad's 60th b-day today...and the family has started to arrive. Don't get me wrong, I love them, but...my cousin and her 3 kids under the age of 7 and their small dog, (in what universe is it a good idea to bring a dog with 3 small kids on a 4 hour road trip?!), and her husband who I really, really, REALLY don't get aong with are here. In fact, he's one of the only people I have ever met who actually makes me sick to my stomach when I see him.
*sigh*

And why the heck are they here at 11am?! The party isn't untl 6pm tonight! My poor mom is probably pulling her hair out trying to get everything finished with them all here. I should really emerge from our apt and crowd control the little beasts...but I'm not feeling so hot today and I can't quite imagine actually interacting with any of them right now lol

The downside to living next door to my parents I suppose...extreme guilt for not helping with everything all the time...including less-than-considerate relatives.

[DollyKim]

I'll join you in the not feeling well department, something I nom nom nom turned in to mon mon mon I'll be okay, just small meals of non solid food for awhile. And the 11 Doctors arrived begging for me to play with them.

Arrowchild- don't feel guilty, you aren't the one over stepping your boundaries. If you don't take care of yourself how can you take care of others?

[OutBriefCandle]

Starting in September, unless something major changes I won't be able to get home from work for several hours after I get off unless I take a different bus and transfer. And when I say several hours, I mean longer than I actually am at work.

And then in January there's going to be another fare increase but that doesn't matter because my bus line is getting cut. Which means I can't get to work at all. Unless I walk across town and across the bridge to a different stop, assuming those busses are still running and early enough. A lot of busses are getting cut because of the funding crisis. And I'm not sure I feel comfortable doing that, because it's at least a mile, in the dark well before sunrise, and because of where I work I wear all black. Not to mention that come winter the snow doesn't get cleared from the bridge.

So, I'm hoping it doesn't come to this, the bus service sucks as it us and there just isn't another bus to be had here. Even if I got another job at the new hardware store that I can walk to, I wouldn't be able to get downtown for things like shows or the arts festival without walking across the river.

If things don't change, this is going to suck.

[Kirahfaye]

Hope the best for you, OBC. One of the metro counties shut down their entire bus line a couple of months ago. Not a popular decision . . . .

[arrowchild]

I'll join you in the not feeling well department, something I nom nom nom turned in to mon mon mon I'll be okay, just small meals of non solid food for awhile. And the 11 Doctors arrived begging for me to play with them.

Arrowchild- don't feel guilty, you aren't the one over stepping your boundaries. If you don't take care of yourself how can you take care of others?

Ouch...I hope you feel better soon-that sounds like no fun at all.
And thanks for the reminder...We all managed to survive the cousins visit...and made I myself take a nap for a while that day even, (quite an accomplishment for me! lol). But I did spend a chunk of time finding cheese and half eaten apples and strawberries all over my parents' carpet after they went home

outbriefcandle-that stinks! I rode the metro for a couple of years back and forth to college and I remember what a pain it was when they started cutting routes. But your situation sounds like it would be a lot worse than mine ever was.

[OutBriefCandle]

Thanks guys. I'd known there was talk of cutting things, but I figured that they couldn't cut my busses because there aren't any others. Just the local and the express and basically the only place you can go without transferring is downtown. I figured it was bare bones enough as it was, it wasn't like they could eliminate it. It wasn't like they could cut it because what other bus could we take?

You ever get that feeling that, you know there's gotta be someone up there because you can practically hear them laughing at you?

I submitted a long comment about why they should please please please not do this...and I'll be updating my resume this weekend.

[Kirahfaye]

OBC, I'm going to ask the obvious, but what about carpooling? Does anyone at work live anywhere near you or anyone near you work close by to where you do?

[Iwa_Hoshi]

I should learn to stop watching live action movies based on favorite games. More often than not, it doesn't turn out well at best you get something that about 70% of the game you remember

[DollyKim]

Have to make the following decision, reduce my doll patterns 50% or make them at full size with twice as many pages=bigger book=costs more. What to do?

[OutBriefCandle]

OBC, I'm going to ask the obvious, but what about carpooling? Does anyone at work live anywhere near you or anyone near you work close by to where you do?

No one at work is near me, and it's probably a bit early for most people...plus I'm not sure I'd want to be so completely reliant on someone else for getting to work. And I don't know how I'd get home from work even if I carpooled there because of the odd hours, I start early so I'm done by the time most people are on lunch break.


Also, this just in, spending six hours moving heavy fixtures back and forth across the floor, chasing down the bus across town after work, and pushing home a bike (with flat tires) makes you stiff and sore the next day. Who knew?

On the other hand, I have a bike now...and the tires look to be holding pressure so far now that they've been inflated...now I just need to re-learn how to ride. Whatever they say about "riding a bike," I've never had a bike with hand brakes or gears in my life. Won't get me downtown, but it'll give me an easier way to run around locally. Once I've got a bike lock for it anyway.