Swap? It's starting to get pretty chilly over here in the UK, and I'm always cold!

I am so tired of pulling 10-14 hour workdays even on weekends to get homework, assignments, and studying done in college. I want some free time, less stress, and more sleep, please.

I have been hiding in my shell of being overweight for so long, that I'm completely out of the loop on the whole socializing with the opposite sex. Getting back into the whole flirting scene is being a nightmare.

I hate this time change!

That said, if I remember, I posted that I was having issues with a new co-worker.

So, I made up my mind, I was going to do my best to make this work.

I am trying, so hard. But for some reason, even though she is a nice person, hard working, good Mom, all that anyone should admire.

She drives me NUTS!

After thinking about it.

She gets in my bubble. I've had this job for 9 years. And I have dog grooming clients with certain expectations, but she, after a few months wants to horn in and help. I came back from lunch the other day and she had one of my grooms on the table, and gave me her fakey laugh and said, "I just thought I"d help you out."

It was all I could do to not slap her silly! It took me a long time to get my rep as a good groomer! If you screw it up! You will get the *** chewing, not me!

I really am trying very hard, to work with this gal, and find some common ground. But it's tough.

The "Doc" has decided she is a pet project. We did not need her. So, makes you wonder, what's going on that we don't know.

My boss does has a rep for being a ladies man, depending on what's going on in his life, so makes me wonder, since she's single, what are they doing, when, he, on most days would be gone, but now, she is still there and so is he, when the rest of the help has left for the day?

And now, she is turning into a tattle tale! 9 years for me, 15 for the vet tech, but now we have to leave our cell phones in our vehicles, while she continues to talk to her kid on hers.

We have never abused this option. We have always told all family, it was ok to call us on the work number, as long as it was important or a short conversation.

Now I guess, only the new girl can use her cell at work, given I got my butt chewed over this, today, while she was talking on her cell phone.
And I was pulling up a pic of a lost dog, so we could all see the info, so if it showed up with us, we could get it home.

So much for that!

I know that I am being really, seriously cranky, but until 6 months ago, this was the job of my dreams, and I had the co-workers of my dreams, and now, the whole darn thing has gone down the proverbial, sh***er!

And I hate it!

My job search is driving me crazy.

I started looking for a job about 2 months ago (more of an internship than a job) but companies are taking so damn long to respond! I've had a couple of interviews with a good company that I'm really hoping to work for, but they take weeks between each step of the process. I gave my second interview two weeks ago and still haven't heard from them. I don't know if they're just taking this long to select/shortlist or if I've been rejected already, and it's frustrating as all ****.

I've been staying at my parents' house for months now and I've been feeling really worthless since I'm not paying my way at all. They've never made me feel bad about it, but I'm sure they're not delighted to have their kid being unemployed and mooching off them for so long.

Long story short, I just want the damn companies to reply! It kills me not knowing whether or not I'm through, and even if I'm not, I wish they'd just send a one line email saying so, so that I can stop biting my nails over it.

@shcirerf, hang in there. I'm sure it'll get better. I'm sure your boss values you guys a lot, having been there for years.

The co worker thing is working itself out. Thank goodness.

Now the boss is on a roll.

After all the time I've been there, I know this problem is not any of us, he's unhappy with his latest choice in a girlfriend, shack up, live in or whatever you choose to call it.

Dumb thing is after all this time, she's a great lady, Boss is a dip!

71 years old, Viagra, on a good day, still thinks he can charm the girls.

He's cheating on the nice lady! His last one was a piece of work! OMG!

Boss, make amends with your kids, get to know your grandchildren, and quit being so darn greedy, and take some time to enjoy the little family you have left, if they will have anything to do with you.

It's getting hotter still and I just made a realisation that the young man who cheered out his window a few weeks ago wasn't doing it for encouragement... he was cheering at the bazookas bouncing on my chest... sigh. I really wish I hadn't watched that video of me crossing the finish line at the Round the Bridges fun run.

Oh well, time to get back on the horse...

20 inches of snow....need i say more?...how about unplowed streets? or a very little car that bottoms out on snow drifts....ughhh i can't believe there is still school today, which means i had to be here at 645 a.m. omggg

Oh goodness. Glad you got to work safely.

I have a cold and can't smell/taste stuff but my lunch is REALLY GOOD. What a waste

Nice with a place to whine

I keep falling for jerks and/or creeps fall for me... Love sucks, guess I should just focus on my diet and schoolwork and drop the hole dating thing for now :P

I'm in a moody place. Mostly because I am doing the right things and being a regainer, I know that its just because I am Featherweightish that the scale is moving slowly-combo of not burning as much as my highest and dieter's edema - Brad Pilon and Lyle Mcdonald have written about this.

One alternative could be to carb-up but I am sensitive to carbs and I don't care to go over calories because I also want to maintain my protein/nutrient levels from my Paleo diet. Plus I should take advantage of my discipline and absolute no carby/high cal food cravings when I have it and I know that the overall net-cal deficit will be even higher - and I also know from the past, that even when I never carbed up or did anything special, the weight did eventually come off.

So I'm just grumpy and I feel like I'm at a standstill because the most practical thing to do in this position is to just keep up what I am doing. Its not the kind of unhappiness that would even make me think of binging or something (this isn't a binge trigger for me lol) its just more that nothing really would uplift me on this issue other than a move in the scale. I look in the mirror and want to roll my eyes but I know that its only been a month of being "back to normal" after over a year of going nutso diet/exercise/lifewise.

Summary - I feel like I am running up a very fast escalator going in the opposite direction. Losing "old weight" never feels as triumphant as first-losing weight.

Totally random here.

The DH has been on vacation all week. Got his teeth fixed, his back cracked, his hair cut, woo hoo!

Today, he decided he should tackle vacuuming.

I got home from work and he is telling me all about all the problems with my vacuum.

Duh! I knew that. Not rocket science. It's a bagless, I've had several before this one!

This particular model, literally does not suck in a vacuum sense.

But all of a sudden he's a vacuum expert. ROFLMAO!

Go back to work on Monday, and leave me and the vacuum to do battle!

You washed the paper filter with water, *rolls eyes*

Wow, I had a huge rant but I deleted it because it wasn't appropriate to send (based on principle). I feel slightly better, but I'm really getting sick of a lot of my friends. I need new ones, I only have trouble finding and keeping them. Maybe I'm too picky, but I haven't found the right ones yet -- the type who want to hang out with me and who are at the 'before first pregnancy' stage, so I have someone to relate too. I'm probably too old for that now anyway (29-years-old as an average age is old for a first time mother, right?).

Oh well, thems the breaks.

I love my boyfriend. He's smart, kind, handsome, a gentleman...everything I've always wanted. But over the past 8 months, I have found a potentially relationship-killing flaw with his personality that I can't seem to rid him of.

When we met, he seemed ambitious and on top of things. But now I can't even get him to clean around the apartment without telling him to. It's like he doesn't notice the huge pile of dishes in the sink, like they're invisible to him. Last time I did the laundry I noticed a sizable number of boxers... So I asked, "Babe, do you even have boxers anymore?" "Not really, no." So he knew he was about to start wearing already dirty boxers and said/did nothing.

As he uses the sugar for his coffee and we get ever closer to running out, it never occurs to him to buy more. This holds true for almost everything in the apartment. I'm thisclose to keeping a private stock of food just to see how long it takes him to go buy sugar or bread or coffee.

The worst part is his homework. He was supposed to finish all classwork by August. Here we are in November and he's still got one large project to finish. He's about 50% of the way through, maybe more, but he treats it like a joke. If he doesn't finish by December 18th at the latest, if not sooner, he will lose his job and not complete his degree. We're already living check to check, we can't afford for him to mess this up. Literally. But I've had to tell him to do his homework time after time. When I finally get fed up and yell at him, he cries and says he'll do better. Within a week he's back to being a bum.

What agitates me further is what he's wasting his time on. Video games. Watching YouTube clips of other people playing video games. Obsessively checking Facebook for activity in a group he joined. Reading io9 which is only marginally better than the addiction to reddit he used to have. What absolutely infuriates me is when I say, "Babe, aren't you supposed to be doing homework?" And he cops an attitude and says, "I am". But I just freaking looked at his screen and saw FB or io9 or YouTube. When I say this, he says, "I just switch between tabs." Well, how about you don't? I don't believe you are focusing enough and given that my own future depends on you not behaving like a 9 year old, I feel I have a say in this.

I look at this behavior and think, "How could this ever amount to anything? He has no future like this. Without me, he'd have no clothes, no food, and would flunk his classes." As much as I love him, I feel I should be prepared to jump ship within the next month...

I don't like to whine or complain but I waited over a half hour outside in the bitter cold for a bus that was late, didn't come and the customer service number was of no help. I finally walked home, boy am I glad to be inside with my heater.

I'm a bit nervous about the forecasted weather in the Northeast, there is supposed to be a storm. I hope it doesn't delay my travel plans or my family's plans.

Come on weather, warm up!