I need hugs--I neeeeed to whine!

[davsand]

This has been a day from hell, and frankly, I am overloaded right now. I need somebody to just STFU and listen to me for a few seconds while I vent and whine then I can get on with my life... Help!!!

OK--I've been jobless for over a year. I got forced out of a job I loved, and I have been working contract stuff since the unemployment ran out. We've been luckier than most, but I am not good with this "at home" thing. It has made me nuts.

So now, I have a job offer from a guy I trust as far as I can throw him, and the SOB cut the salary before he made me an offer. I can live with this if I have to--I NEED a job. I have till Wed to decide on it.

In the meantime, I had three interviews set with a program that I REALLY want to work for, one of them was a PR/fund-raising job that I would kill for. It paid great, and it was exactly the kind of job I really want to be doing. The other two are OK jobs--certainly preferable to the one I have an offer for--but no way do they excite me as much as that PR job.

I left the house this morning looking for something to wear to interview in tomorrow--and I find (eureka!) a dress on the clearance rack that not only fits, but looks wonderful--for $20! I get home about fifteen minutes before five and I find a message on my machine that I need to call the HR director--that the interview for the ONE job I really want has been canceled. "Please call me ASAP." is how it ended. needless to say, she was gone for the day when I called her back.

OK, this too shall pass. I figure that any interview is better than nothing, take what you can get--ya know? I'm bummed--but not completely whipped yet.

I go to my kid's softball game, and the other freaking coach who was supposed to bring water for the team, forgot to do it--so I have fifteen little girls in the dugout who are playing in 90 degree heat with no water. I run to the quickie mart and buy two gallons of water, ice and cups just so those poor kids don't get dangerously dehydrated, and the freaking SOB comes up AFTER the game and says, "Oh, gee, I guess I forgot to bring any water..."

I manage NOT to chew him a new one for being so careless about the kids, and make an escape with my daughter who THEN falls down and skins up her knee. I drive home with bleeding kid, crying in the backseat.

I walk in the front door and find the message light flashing again, and it is my mother telling me she's having surgery tomorrow at the same time as my remaining interviews. I call her back and she's so out to lunch she can't even explain fully why she's having a surgery, let alone how long it will take.

I want to just sit in my garage and chain smoke. I want to sit and drink about ten gallons of Bloody Marys, and I wish I had a bale of... er... I can't say that here. Anyhow, my day has sucked, it is shaping up that tomorrow isn't gonna be much better, and I just needed to vent.

Thanks for letting me. Feel free to offer advice, BTW, at this point, I'm sure it can only get better.


Laura

PS, did I mention I have CRAMPS too???

[flamingyouth]

1. I'm sorry

Sounds like a very crappy day. Here's hoping things will be better tomorrow and permanently! :toast:

[davsand]

5. A toast with anything sounds good!

But that looks like a beer in your hand, and being the cranky-ass woman I am, I may have to mug you for it!!! :)

Thanks for the message of hope. I needed that.


Laura

[HornBuckler]

2. Yeah

Life Can Suck Big Time - Rent Some Flash Gordon - You'll Feel Better.

:)

[davsand]

8. I refer you to the movie title thread...

Flash Gordon came up there--"In my pants." :)

Thanks!

Laura

[Qanisqineq]

3. I've had an extremely bad fucking month, & today just made it worse

so I can relate.

[davsand]

9. You too?

I hate to ask, but do you have cramps too? Maybe this is an epidemic!!! Feel free to vent-lord knows we all need to some days.


Laura

[Qanisqineq]

17. HA! No, no cramps

just everything else seems to be caving in around me. But wait, I'll probably get cramps tomorrow or have projectile vomiting or come down with the measles or god-only-knows-what.

[davsand]

20. As long as it isn't the "dire-rears."

Sorry--that is a phrase I ripped off from a Terry Pratchett novel. He has a most colorful character named Granny Weatherwax who has some interesting turns of phrase...

:)

May your path lighten soon too!


Laura

[Pale Blue Dot]

4. I'm sorry, Laura. What a crappy day.

My advice: keep the Bloody Mary's flowing. And tomorrow's another day, so they say. Chin up!

[davsand]

11. Nothin like a good BM--eh?

Well, except maybe a decent fantasy football team... THAT is pretty cool. :)

Good to see you, BTW, how have you been?


Laura

[Pale Blue Dot]

14. I've been hunkered down, studying stat sheets,

getting ready for next season. I'm predicting I will kick butt again. :evilgrin:

[davsand]

21. Rub it in some more--why don't cha?

Jeesh--kick me when I'm DOWN!! :)

Laura

[2Design]

6. meditate breathe...pass on the @#$@#$ job

And continue the interviews. The job you really want may not have been the one ....

Rejection is God's protection....

God doesn't want you to be miserable.....is the contract work keeping a roof over your head......???? Taking a #$@#$ job will affect your attitude and your energy.

Having a Great attitude will help you find the job you want....

my2cents...:bounce:

[davsand]

15. Well, I've been very lucky with my contract stuff.

I will admit that. I just can't afford to be self employed--the insurance thing is killing me, and frankly, the budgets are drying up locally.

I agree, however, about the impact an awful job can have on your life. BTDT, and I walked away from one a few years ago that literally had me sitting on Sunday nights miserable about going back the next day... Life it TOO short for that!

Laura

[DebJ]

Here's lots of hugs<<<>>>> . I love giving hugs. And a friend

once said to me, when everything was hitting at once, "Get all your problems over with at once, you know? If you have to worry, might as well be efficient and use less time, do it all at once!"
When I get down, I always find relief in saying, Ok, God, I need You to worry for me for awhile. You take over worrying for me, and I'll rest awhile. That little prayer always seems to bring almost instantaneous relief. I have strong faith, I think, and the Footprints in the Sand image really works for me, as has God. He never has closed one door that hasn't coincided with the opening of a better one. I got laid off about 6 years ago, and I was chosen as the first to go because I was THE woman manager in the company. Within one week, by chance, I passed a place that was hiring, and got the job and started BEFORE my two weeks severance even ended...so I got paid twice for the same week with just one job to work. And the new job paid more. And it just got better. I was laid off at $28000, hired at $30000, and within two years, I was making $45000 plus bonus that gave me $52000. (I have now given all that up for the new door opened....I'm getting married in less than two weeks to a real soul mate....so now my $8 an hour looks really good to me, ha!)

[davsand]

16. May your marriage be blessed.

Your happy news makes my day seem less awful. Thank you for sharing it...

The hugs hepled too!

Laura

[mike_c]

7. rollin' one for you right now....

You'll survive it. I did. :smoke:

on edit: hmmm..., it's a bit of an inside joke....

[davsand]

18. Oh, hon, twist up a fattie--will ya?

Sigh... Some things I miss a lot--ya know? This is one of those days and that is one of those things!!!


Laura

[Lisa0825]

10. So sorry about your bad day!!!!!!

:hug: :grouphug: :hug: :grouphug: :hug:

[Kenneth ken]

12. may Tuesday be better

:hug:

:hug:

:hug:

:hug:

:hug:

:grouphug:

[Fridays Child]

13. Today, you got a reminder that you can take it, that you're strong.

It sucked but you made it. Congratulations! Now, go have at least one of those Bloody Marys because you deserve it.

:hug:

[davsand]

19. I am woman--hear me whimper?

LOL. Just doesn't have the same impact, does it...

Yes, that which does not kill us does make us stronger--I will agree. Too many more days like this one and I'm gonna be one heck of a tough broad, lemme tell you!


Care to join me? :toast:


Laura

[DemoTex]

22. Hi Laura!

DemoTex here saying cheer up! You could be stuck in Texas, and you are not! Life should be great.

Mac

[davsand]

23. Bless your heart!

How good to hear from you!!!

Hey, I saw your thread a while back about finding the copperhead, but never saw anymore about it--you safe now? Getting adjusted to that new place of yours?


Laura

[DemoTex]

24. Yeah, more-or-less.

Found a huge black-widow spider this morning and a ground-nest of yellow jackets. There are more stinging-things up here, per-square-inch, than anywhere in the world. The beesters and bugsters constantly do diving runs on one's ears. But, none have stung me ... yet!

[5thGenDemocrat]

25. Christ, Laura

You sound like you're going to be a shitload of laughs at FUNDAY. Or is it a bad time to bring that up?
Anyhow, get here and I'll take care of the bloodys and any one of several buddies will take care of the bale or what you can't mention here.
Annie says you and Kev are singularly and/or collectively invited to stay at her house again this year. You know you can't beat the accomodations.
Call us. Especially if you just want to talk.
John
It is now 11 days, 11 hours and 11 minutes to FUNDAY.