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27 December 2005

Time for some fine whine →[More:]Here's mine: I am in day 2 of a HUGE gout attack and am wearing houseshoes to work. Plus, I seem to have lost my daily bp meds and, since the refills have run out, getting pills so I don't explode seems to be a complicated process. I feel better already!

post by: DeepFriedTwinkies at: 12:26 | 40 comments

I'm trying to move out of a really shitty living situation, but my goddamn landlord isn't returning my future-possible-landlord's calls, so we might not get the house, and I CANNOT LIVE HERE ANYMORE.

posted by cmonkey 27 December | 12:29

I woke up with bad stomach cramps from combing jalapeno poppers with wasabi. But it's starting to abate.

posted by jonmc 27 December | 12:30

The lady at the sandwich shop put mayo on my veggie sandwich instead of the honey mustard I asked for. It was kinda gross.

posted by selfnoise 27 December | 12:35

I'm bored and can't concentrate at work and no one's returning my chatty e-mails. I'm going home for lunch and gonna bring back one of my Wild Thing dolls to keep me company 'cuz I'm lonesome
*sniff*
;-)
Where the hell IS everyone? It's like the first day back to work after a holiday or some damn thing.

posted by shane 27 December | 12:38

1. I am still tired from the weekend.
2. My sister in law gave me a dvd in fullscreen format. Who watches movies in fullscreen?
3. I forgot to take my contraceptive pill on sat. and even though I made up for it on sunday, and there is little likelihood of me being pregnant I have convinced myself that I am. I am not happy.

posted by gaspode 27 December | 12:39

[Feel free to chatty e-mail me with just any damn thing if you're in the same situation as me.]

posted by shane 27 December | 12:41

This place keeps posting job openings that are perfect for me [and I could ride my bike to the office] but never acknowledge the submission of my resume.

posted by sciurus 27 December | 12:45

I broke my leg (badly) a year ago and my orthopaedist has told me it's time to have the hardware (a plate and six screws) removed. I have been running on it and he tells me I will sure as shit break a screw if I keep exercising on it. I scheduled the surgery today and I'm way more nervous about this one than I was when they put the metal in. ('Course, at that point I was in so much pain I would have agreed to just about anything to make it stop.)

It's routine surgery and I'm being completely irrational.

posted by mike9322 27 December | 12:45

I have some sort of plague cold that's wreaked havoc on my throat. It hurts like nothing else when I cough, and I've been coughing more or less constantly. Bleh.

posted by ubersturm 27 December | 12:52

The Svenhard's stuff is in the work vending machine again. In addition the the mysteriously named "Breakfast Claw," and "Raisin-ette," today there's a danish, only the call it a "Cheese Horn." Bearclaw & Danish are copyrighted but Raisin-ette isn't? WTF?

It's all real tasty though.

posted by jonmc 27 December | 12:56

And what an appealing name this product has.

(oddly on the site, it's "Bearclaws," but the one on my desk clerly says "Breakfast Claw." Maybe it's been in storage awhile. "Cheese Horn," remains consistent. I'll keep you posted.)

posted by jonmc 27 December | 12:59

No smoking or drinking till tomorrow after my physical. I totally overindulged over the holiday and need to cleanse as best I can to try and get my blood pressure normal so I can get more nerve pills. God I want a cigarette.

posted by rainbaby 27 December | 13:02

rainbaby: Hang in there! I'm going downstairs to smoke one for you right now.

Yesterday, I drove to Princeton Junction to hang with a friend who I've been trying to have sex with since October. Dinner conversation was depressing and frustrating, but he lightened up after he did a Good Samaritan thing and towed a stranger's car out of a ditch, no charge.

And then when we get back to his place and start cuddling, and after I give him a BJ? He says he can't return the favor because his headache is too painful.

Ungrateful bitch.

posted by TrishaLynn 27 December | 13:07

People keep getting on my case. Everywhere I go there's someone on my case. Where in god's name is it written that everyone needs to act like a fool and make my life as absolutely difficult as is humanly possible?

posted by rebirtha 27 December | 13:08

And then when we get back to his place and start cuddling, and after I give him a BJ? He says he can't return the favor because his headache is too painful.

Dealbreaker. Right there.

posted by gaspode 27 December | 13:09

Trisha- God, what a huge jackass.

Rebirtha- you didn't get the memo? I'm sure I sent it to you. Why can't you keep track of these things?

posted by selfnoise 27 December | 13:11

I have nobody in my life who considers oral sex a favor. Somebody do me a favor, I'll hit ya back I promise!

posted by danostuporstar 27 December | 13:22

So, Thursday morning (my first full day off in about three weeks) at 4am I wake up with a horrible pain in my side -- I'm about 90% sure its a kidney stone, but since I'm also 10 weeks pregnant, I work myself up into a panic thinking its ectopic and I'm about to die.

Off to the E-room. Some tests, but no MRI, due to the baby. Some drugs, but nothing good, due to to the baby. Ultrasound. Baby is wiggling and right where it should be. (whew!) They "presume" its a kidney stone. But none of the modern great kidney stone drugs are useable during pregnancy, so I get sent home with some lesser drugs and a warning not to take them unless I really need too.

I have a housefull of guests, lots of traveling, and lots of pain all weekend. Yet, I, the master hostess, let the pain show not at all except when I'm snuggling in bed with my sweetie.

Pain is much better today. Midwife appointment tomorrow. But not exactly the way I wanted to spend my Christmas holiday....

posted by anastasiav 27 December | 13:24

must...not..make..obvious.."head," ...pun...

posted by jonmc 27 December | 13:24

orgasm headache

I've had these and it's crazy bad. Ask him if that's what it was before you jackass tag him?

posted by rainbaby 27 December | 13:26

ubersturm I have that, too. Going to the doc's shortly. Last night was a magical experience of dry coughing and painful coughing along with severe sweating and chills. Although after reading about anastasiav's condition, and reading about jonmc's kidney experience, I feel like a wimp. except damn it hurts when i cough. I dont like being robbed of sleep. And with that I think I went over my whine limit. Apologies.

posted by chewatadistance 27 December | 13:33

I'm freaking freezing because the heat in this god-awful concrete tomb I work in has been off for three days. Everyone in my office keeps asking me to call the building engineer and have him turn the heat up, which I won't do because a) I know the heat is on and b) the guy's on vacation.

Also, I'm very tired because I foolishly stayed up too late last night, even though I'd begun the evening with the best of intentions.

Also, this weekend I got horrifically sloshed in front of someone I had just met and wanted to make a good impression on, and am feeling like a Foolish Specklet.

posted by Specklet 27 December | 13:37

anastasiav "wins"...congrats on the baby tho! (Sorry if I'm behind.)

posted by danostuporstar 27 December | 13:38

rainbaby: He had a tension headache that was veering dangerously into migraine territory. He took some meds before we started cuddling and I tried massaging the tension out of his shoulders, but it didn't work.

So maybe I really don't have anything to whine about since, you know, possible migraine. But it's just not fair! And I'm not going to get to see him again until Janurary 10.

And I acutally use orgasms to lessen the pain of headaches enough to fall asleep. Pleasure almost always trumps pain for me.

posted by TrishaLynn 27 December | 13:39

Oh anastasiav, that's the worst. I hope it passes. Congrats on the little wiggler, though.

Shane--I, too, have a fine collection of Wild Thing dolls. I have passed them on to my kiddo whose room is decorated in vintage Sendak prints. (People thought it was odd to decorate an infant's room in "monsters," but I'm not really the cutesy type. As it turns out, neither is she.)

posted by jrossi4r 27 December | 13:56

My mother's generational sexism (Get back in the kitchen! Where's your daughter? She must be lazy! Oh no, don't ask the boys to do anything! Why would you even suggest that your son could possibly make a salad or set the table? If you ask him to do it than I will even though I am 78 and not well. Men must sit and watch TV! Women must work!) reared its ugly head again at Christmas and I got drunk and mad about it but at least instead of losing my cool I ended up just furiously washing all the dishes and totally cleaning my mother's kitchen which at the time I thought would show her, ha ha!, but now I'm realizing that I just turned my anger on myself again. Oh well, that would be okay except she & my brother just called to tell me that they would be having dinner here tonight and I should make pasta. So I called them back and said, uh, no way, not tonight, maybe tomorrow, and now they're both mad at me. Jeeeeeez.

posted by mygothlaundry 27 December | 14:14

I haven't been sleeping well and I feel like I swapped spines with Quasimoto today at the lab as I fricken have to redo every single goddamn graph in my thesis because my supervisor from the very beginning told me that control patient samples 3 and 4 were 9mo and 12mo samples when they were actually 12mo and 15mo.

<clenched teeth>

posted by porpoise 27 December | 14:17

I was wrong! The heat's not on. It broken and god knows when it will be fixed.

Also, my nails are too long and typing is driving me crazy.

posted by Specklet 27 December | 14:17

I'm trying to move out of a really shitty living situation, but my goddamn landlord isn't returning my future-possible-landlord's calls, so we might not get the house, and I CANNOT LIVE HERE ANYMORE.

ZOMG UPDATE: WE GOT THE HOUSE

My months and months of a nightmare are over. Now I only have the lack of a sex life to whine about.

posted by cmonkey 27 December | 14:24

I have to quit smoking. Have to. Now. Cold turkey style, and while I guess it's really really a good thing I know it's going to be very very hard.

posted by tr33hggr 27 December | 14:43

I hate poor sound quality on live concert recordings.

posted by matildaben 27 December | 14:44

I hate the article I'm writing. It's a profile of a successful business person who said some pretty horrifying things in our interview. I really want the lead to be, "Bet you didn't know (name redacted) was a big fat racist who thinks everyone in this profession is a bunch of mealy-mouthed a-holes!" But I can't. So I have to comb through my notes to find the few inoffensive quotes from our interview. Not a lot to work with.

posted by jrossi4r 27 December | 15:32

I'm going to buck the trend and not whine, but be thankful for the simple things: a clean divorce with no acrimony on either side, the sunlight outside, and the promise of take-out food later on.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 27 December | 16:44

Pollyanna!

posted by Specklet 27 December | 16:52

Lipstick, you buzz-kill. :-)

P.S. I shall now also whine that Specklet has never wanted to make a good impression on me. Nor has cmonkey come to think of it. (But I do think it would be lovely to crash his new house and have a toga party.)

posted by DeepFriedTwinkies 27 December | 19:49

I'm whining because I don't have a toga.

posted by matildaben 27 December | 20:00

You are all welcome at my new house, toga or not. As long as you bring beer.

posted by cmonkey 28 December | 12:29

Who says I never?!

posted by Specklet 28 December | 12:42

Maybe we could combine the pajama party with the toga party?

posted by matildaben 28 December | 12:57

I have some sort of serious itch disease that I can't get rid of. I think I got infected/infested from carrying firewood around. Little fuckers won't die!!! I am seriously contemplating systematic removal of my epidermis, because I think that would get rid of it.

posted by mudpuppie 28 December | 15:53

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