Rant One:
Had a coworker ask me if I have kids. When I told her no, I didnt she then asked how long I'd been married. After telling her I've been married for 8 years she then decided to tell me how dare I deny my husband kids. Its my Christian duty to provide children to my husband and how I'm being selfish.

I'm sorry, we've been trying for years to have a baby. Infertility sucks.

Rant Two:
Same coworker, different day. Was sitting at lunch in the break room with my workout buddy when this other lady decides to sit down next to us. She then proceeded to tell us about her high blood pressure and diabetes. This lady is about 5'6 and maybe 150 lbs. She asked the both of us who are about the same in height and weight (5'7 290 lbs) how we deal with it? Both of us told her we dont have any of those problems. She said "How can that be? All obese people have high blood pressure and diabetes" Next 5 minutes of conversation she had to have said obese like 20 times.



I'm ready to punch this lady in the nose.

All4meh ... She sounds like a perfect candidate for the stunned, horrified look, followed immediately by "Did your brain even process what your mouth just said???" or, "Oh my God, you must be so embarrassed that you actually said that out loud!"

I have been cold for months now. It's cold in my apartment and my heaters can't keep it at a comfortable temperature. It's cold in my office. It's cold outside. I'm only ever a good temperature when I'm in he shower or in bed with the electric blanket, and even that's a toss-up. When will it be spring???

I feel left out. Yesterday at lunch, my friends were chatting about what they had done over the weekend. A bunch of them had gotten together for drinks and had a bit of a party.

I don't think my phone is broken... I guess I just wasn't invited. Again (A few weeks ago they all went out for lunch for our friends birthday and forgot to invite me)

I hate how DH is so supportive of me BUT ~ is all, "That can't be possible/that sounds terrible/you're crazy" whenever I go on a cleanse/fast.

But then he all "ooos and aaahs" at the results!!

Also hate how we're having a Super Bowl party ~ with everyone making their own pizza in the pizza maker ~ and I have to plan around/be extra good with my food choices until then, so no one thinks I'm on a diet!

Also hate how I'm not as thin as my fat self used to be. I would kill to be 170 again!! (the first time I thought I was fat).

I hear ya there! i'm always cold....I wear layers, I wear snug hoodies, I wear my boots outside even if it's not snowing because my feet will get cold otherwise....I don't like to be home during the day because I refuse to turn up the heat and the consequence is that I freeze at home and I love to drive around because the heater in the truck makes me the warmest i'll be all day

Not too satisfied with my favorite band calling it quits for good, especially as there's a great chance that I won't be able to catch them on their last tour. I hate it when that happens!

January is so damn long!

I have the most un-neighbourly neighbours. Where I live it's totally legal to park on the street wherever you like once you're not blocking someone's drive. Someone had parked on the street outside my house so I just parked outside someone else's - no problem. I know from living here 30+ years who parks on the street and who parks on a drive, so I parked outside a house I know uses their driveway to park their cars. I figured of all my neighbours they'd need a street spot least. Being as considerate as I could...I thought.

When I came to get my car this morning the woman who lives in that house was waiting for me. She went nuts at me, literally, about how she needs the street to park her car (with her two-car driveway empty and the other spot outside her house free). She was a mature woman so I said nothing really, I figured if she keeled over from rage I didn't want to be a part of it. I hopped into my car and she grabbed the door and wouldn't let me shut it and it was only when I threatened to call the cops she let go.

And then I drove past her house on the way home...and her car is in the driveway where it always is. Madness.

Hubby's coworker invited us to lunch tomorrow. They are very nice people and we are going. They are providing lunch. I've been sugar free since the day after Christmas and grain free about 2 weeks. I feel great. Not to mention I have a nasty sugar/carb addiction and I 'd battled with binging and starving for oh I dont know 15 years. Avoiding my trigger foods completely erases my cravings.
I'm scared to death of what will be for lunch tomorrow. Sandwiches? bread...pasta salad bread with dressing that of course has sugar in it..thats sugar in everything...I'm just dreading it. I'm hoping if I pick around certain things they wont notice but I dont want to appear rude either...I wont even be able to relax until I know what I'm goingto have to eat. Ugh...Its not like I'm going to get fatter from one cheat meal, but I'm so scared of relighting all those cravings all over again, the urges to binge...detoxing again...I love sugar/carbs but I'm finally at peace(no binging) without them.

This is a long rant, but it's been building up, so bear with me.

Last week I took a week's vacation to meet my Mom down south in Reno. She flew in from her home state, I flew in from mine. We met at the airport, my plane arrived shortly before hers. I had been nervous about this trip, because my mom has been drinking a lot lately and has been on a pity-party for a couple years. It's not that she hasn't had some bad things happen (her dad died, two horses died) but that she has chosen to drown her sorrows in alcohol.

My fears turned out to be valid. We seriously didn't even get out of the secure part of the airport before Mom sees a bar and says, "I need a drink to relax". Then she proceeds to tell me she also had a drink on the plane. And then we go to hotel and she has several more. She gets drunk, and then spends the rest of the evening complaining to me about my Dad and how unhappy she is with him and how she wants to have an affair. The next day, she drinks even more. And goes into the same crap about my dad. And then she walks up to a complete stranger and kisses him. I kid you not. The next day, I tell her she should consider cooling it on the alcohol because it doesn't help- she's very unhappy when she drinks. To her credit, she had only one glass of wine all day that day and stayed sober. The next day she didn't drink at all, but she got sick with a chest cold and so she stayed in bed in the hotel room until 4pm. This entire trip was planned around us going to a show that night, and she tells me I'm going to have to go alone. And honestly, I was just so bummed at how badly the trip was going that I nearly cried. The trip was turning into a disaster. She was unhappy with the rental car. She complained non-stop about my Dad. She gave me wise advice such as "You never get what you want." and "I've accomplished everything I was supposed to in this life, why should I take care of myself? I don't want to live to be old." I took her to one place she wanted to go and she saw maybe a 10th of it and then declared it was time to go, after driving a couple hours to get there. I ate breakfast alone every day because she wanted to sleep in. She never wanted to leave the hotel, hardly. It was just non-stop unhappiness.

Ultimately she did get up and go to the show with me, and that was nice and the show was funny and I'm glad we went. But I will never do another trip like this with her again. I will travel back to her place and visit her there, but traveling to a destination with her is pointless if she's going to drink too much, sleep in late, barely leave the hotel and complain the entire time.

To cap it off, I'm back home now and I have caught a chest cold and feel like crap.

Sorry, I just needed to get that off my chest.

That's awful, EagleRiverDee, for so many reasons. I sincerely hope your mom realizes how much her actions are hurting her loved ones and takes the steps necessary to turn her life around.

Just feeling a bit bummed lately over a friendship that has been slowly fizzling out. This was my last friend from childhood that I've kept in touch with over the years and there's been a natural drifting apart thing happening for some time now. Nobody's fault, we're just different people going in different directions.

2013 feels like it was the death knell. We typically make plans to meet up or go on vacation together once a year, but last year she cancelled and there was no response to my suggestion that we could look into another time that was better for her. There was radio silence the rest of the year until Christmas, when we exchanged cards that were...polite. I didn't know what to say and maybe she felt the same way. Things weren't clicking anymore so it was getting harder to connect.

I know this is totally normal, but I'll still miss her. She's a great person and, in a way, she represented a part of my life that now feels officially over.

i'm feeling awfully old tonight....my ankle aches, my wrist aches...in my bones...it's just very cold out for this part of Alaska....and I took my teenager to sign up for his junior year high school classes for next year and for some reason that just seems REALLY grown up...a junior next year in high school...it doesn't seem that long ago that *I* was a junior....I still remember classes that I took and the sports that I played and I really DON"T feel that much older now....except for tonight I do

My room mate started dating this guy around Christmas of last year. For reference, we are both 28. To put it bluntly she's a "taker" type of person. I enjoy her company, she's been very good to me in some ways but this is getting out of hand. I told her last year she could use my bobby pins, they are literally all gone. I went home for 2 weeks over Christmas and she drank all my wine (about $40 worth). The roomie owes me $20 that she's gonna make me ask for. She's got some serious career/financial issues but rather than deal with them, she just spends night and day with her boyfriend and his new dog. She's made some comments that she likes that he's like a dad to her. They'll go shopping together for her groceries and he pays for them. I don't think she really loves him, she just likes him alot and views him as a way out of her situation (but this is none of my business)

Anyway he sleeps over our apt 4 nights a week most weeks and stays the WHOLE weekend. I get very busy during the week and need my time over the weekend to catch up on stuff and unwind. Additionally, he bartends and usually comes in between 3-5 am. Then my roomie will cook or they'll eat takeout together, make a bunch of noise and make my stomach rumble.

This weekend was the last straw. I've been hinting for the past week or so that this is bothering me. Last night I told her that I have alot to get done this weekend. She said that the BF wasn't even coming over here last night, when he finished work they were going to go back to his place (didn't happen). Then this morning when I left to go to a coffee shop (b/c I felt awkward in my apt) to work on work stuff she told me they would be gone when I got back. 5 hours later I come home and they're both here. Now she's doing laundry and it looks like he'll be sleeping over again.

also she goes to the bar he works at infrequently and she always drinks for free. I was there once 2 weeks ago and saw him there and said hello. I really expected that since he's been staying at my apt rent free half the time he would at least offer me a drink...nope. I always thought that if you're going to stay at your bf/gf's ALL THE TIME you should at least do something to make a gesture to the other room mates (ie buy them pizza once in awhile or something).

I am definitely going to have a serious talk with her this week, but it irritates me that I even have to.