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06 August 2010

Share your blahs, I've got a few . →[More:]
1. I am the only person in this section of the office right now - about 35 cubes. There have been layoffs and departures not replaced, it's lunch time, people are on vacation, and it's Friday afternoon for which there is a summer hours option, which I forgot it was my week to work, so I didn't. So I'm here.

2. I am also here because I can't leave the desk phone due to possibly manufactured dog drama that I suspect is masking marriage drama.

3. I'm beyond rut and into downward spiral looks/age wise. Weight creep despite good diet and exercise. Bad skin despite three months and lots of dollars at the dermatologist. Not loving the expensive haircut that I never got until a few months ago. I have no clothes. They fit, they are just old. Six work shirts in rotation, not to mention work out or fun clothes.

4. No weekend plans.

Other things are going well - home improvements, de-cluttering, work. I'm just in a blah puddle at the moment. It will pass. In the mean time, anybody want to splash around?

post by: rainbaby at: 12:01 | 22 comments

rainbaby - check your email.

posted by youngergirl44 06 August | 12:06

*hugsplashes*

I am in a blah because I really want to start my vacation now, but I have to work. What I should have done was take today off, too, but I wanted to hoard my vacation days so I scheduled my flight to leave tonight rather than in the middle of the day.

I'm also a bit blah-ful because awesome boyfriend is between jobs and has been for quite some time, and I kinda feel guilty everytime I complain about the job I have and we're on the same career path (executive assistant).

Also, "executive assistant" really isn't a career path, is it?

posted by TrishaLynn 06 August | 12:08

Yeah it's blah time all right. Hugs. This too shall pass. Or if it doesn't maybe we can go out like Thelma & Louise.

posted by mygothlaundry 06 August | 12:38

Wife has summer off and I am still working full time, or a bit more. I get home and all I want to do is lie down and all she wants to do is connect and talk to me.

I mean I love that someone in the world looks forward to seeing, touching, and talking to me, but I also need some space here.

Plus it is not blazing hot but it's not cool either.

And I totally suck at volleyball lately. . .mostly because I am at least 15 years older than all the other folks I play with but it sucks to get my spikes dug on a routine basis.

posted by danf 06 August | 12:51

ugh.

Husband is still in the middle of big work upheaval including salary renegotiations etc. So we are a little in the dark as to what our income for the next couple of years will be, which is a little stressful given the aforementioned homebuying (I mean, it will be fine, we just don't know exact numbers etc.)

Anyway, he is a worrier and I am not. The big meeting for him is next week. My response is to not even think about it until we get all the facts. His is to sit up all night worrying and making potential budgets. He is kind of mad at me today because I haven't shown any outward concern. Oy. I told him he was borrowing trouble (I know! not sympathetic of me) and he got even madder.

blah.

posted by gaspode 06 August | 13:04

Booooo things sucking! I've got minor grief here and there, but I am still the happiest, most content I've been in years. Divorces for EVERYONE! Bad gall bladders, too! Come on! Who can argue with success?!

Well, I'm kidding, and I'm sorry for my friends awash in blah-puddles. They suck and sometimes seem too vast. In the meantime, listen to Caitlin Rose's new record streamed on myspace. This girl's great. Totally scratches a bit of the Neko Case / Patsy Cline itch.

posted by richat 06 August | 13:04

My refrigerator seems to have broken, and it's a weekend (or close enough) so no one will come to repair it until monday by which time everything will have spoiled.

Also, I can't play volleyball anymore due to tendinitis and a jammed finger.

Also, why is "tendinitis" spelled like that? My spell check insisted though Wikipedia seems to allow both spellings, preferring this one.

posted by Obscure Reference 06 August | 13:07

danf- right? I just wanna come home and have a few minutes to breathe. But no. We have a house full of people and apparently they're all watching the clock for Mom to come home. Like you, I try to count it as a blessing that I'm so loved. But let's be real here. They're looking for somebody to feed and amuse them, amirite? Blah.

It is blazing hot here. 104 today. Too hot for too long starts to make folks cranky and crazy.

My parents are getting older and more feeble by the day. Being the only daughter, guess who does the majority of the care-giving?

Feels like day after day of nothing to look forward to. Let me splash my toes in the blah-puddle.

posted by toastedbeagle 06 August | 13:10

I really am in the zone where I need something to look forward to. I want to plan a weekend away BY MYSELF at a nice hotel with a spa, a bar, and take a bagful of books. Eat, massage, drink, read for a couple of days. Yes.

posted by gaspode 06 August | 13:26

Someone can come with me as long as they don't want to do any activities more strenuous than opening a bottle of wine.

posted by gaspode 06 August | 13:27

Thanks for the splashes and hugs. That decompressing zone is so important danf and toastedbeagle. danf you should bring it up for discussion, she may not understand intuitively. toastedbeagle, not so much with kids, I guess.

mygothlaundry, I hope things look up for you soon. Otherwise, I'm down with the road trip plan. I think of you as more the Thelma type and me the Louise type. Does that bother you?

Surf Camp!

posted by rainbaby 06 August | 13:34

gaspode- know what? I can't get away, but I can PLAN a sweet weekend away. And I'm gonna. I'm gonna plan where, what I'm gonna pack, what I'm gonna read, and how often I'm gonna call for room service. Thanks for the idea.

posted by toastedbeagle 06 August | 13:56

Foodwise, I've completely lost control this summer. Eating tons of potato salad and chicken fingers. Ate pizza for lunch today. It's like, you can only deprive yourself for so long.

Not sympathetic to those coming home to a full house and wanting privacy, sorry.

The fake AskMe thread, as well as the old one which I'd never seen before, totally cheered me up yesterday and today. Classic, classic stuff. Am trying to think of a good Nigerian scam one, but the creative juices aren't flowing this lovely Friday afternoon.

posted by Melismata 06 August | 14:02

toastedbeagle - I find that just visualizing something like that can get you through a lot!

posted by gaspode 06 August | 14:11

Oh god, the decompression zone. GF is working a lot and comes up here only a couple days a week, and she doesn't understand that there's no on/off switch I can manipulate in order to go FROM been alone for five days and just got home from a shitty day at work and can't interact right now TO oh hai girlfriend in the house let's make small talk about how boring each of our days were. It's been this way for months, and no matter how hard I try to explain it (and my god, why do I have to explain it every damn time?!), she can't wrap her head around it. And that's beginning to get frustrating beyond a level I'm comfortable accepting.

So yeah, blah. And grr.

posted by mudpuppie 06 August | 14:15

I am still so sad about the deaths of my two friends, particularly Jamie, who lived next door - we were great pals. It was his funeral today. Unspeakably sad, a hundred bikers weeping as "Freebird" played.

I wish I had someone in my life. Am I too picky? I don't know. I'm not sure if I could live full-time with someone, but I would like a partner to spend my weekends with, and the occasional evening midweek.

Work is going well, I have a party to go to tomorrow (with zero chance of meeting a boyfriend there, trust me on this) and mostly my life is good. I do appreciate how very fortunate I am to have such a good life.

posted by Senyar 06 August | 14:47

Preggo blahs. Feel like, look like, sound like i swallowed a whale. Trust me, it's NOT pretty!

I want to take a nap so bad, but i'm stuck at work waiting for a 5:30pm meeting - who the hell schedules a meeting at 5:30pm on a Friday?

posted by ramix 06 August | 15:21

A sociopath, clearly.

posted by toastedbeagle 06 August | 15:50

I'm thankful the weather has taken a turn to the cooler side. But damn, I hate the stupid sinus headache that comes with it.

Lots of hugs and whuffles to the bunnies that need/want them!

posted by deborah 06 August | 17:21

I just went back to work after a month off to recover from emergency surgery. I didn't have enough vacation/sick time to cover that, so now I'm short of money and I have a couple thousand dollars in medical bills coming due. Most of the bills are payable to my employer, so I can't play the "ignore the bill" game.

My cat is acting crazy every morning at 4:00 AM, scratching on stuff in my bedroom to get attention.

I used a gift card to buy myself some new sweaters online for work and accidentally had them delivered to the place I lived 3 years ago, 1600 miles from here.

On the plus side, I am enjoying a nice bottle of Sierra Nevada Summerfest (yes, I cannot afford my medical bills but I am still drinking good beer), and I am going to take my daughter to the pool tonight.

Hugs to all.

posted by jeoc 06 August | 17:53

Yup, as jeoc says, hugs (BIG ones even) to all.

posted by richat 06 August | 19:15

Friends of the family live in PDX but they weren't invited to my dad's 80th. I refuse to lie about why I'm here, so I won't call them.

posted by brujita 07 August | 03:33

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