Reasons to frown
Posted by Charbot Kimzoid on Oct 01, 2009 · Member since Feb 2008 · 3769 posts
Ok, so we have a smiling thread. This thread is for all of the little dumb things that make you frown, or angry, or sad, etc., etc.
I'll start. I had chili for lunch today. I brought some crackers for the chili and a banana for breakfast. THE CRACKERS ABSORBED THE BANANA FLAVOR THROUGH THE BAG, SO I HAD BANANA FLAVORED CHILI FOR LUNCH! >:(
we got our case officer today and they need me to get my qualifications assessed formally. To legally practice as a pharmacist in the UK you need to have done a four yr degree which means it's classed as a masters.
Because my degree is masters that is not preceeded by a bachelors, NZ immigratin are assking me to get my degree formally assessed by NZ people.
If I only had a bachelors (ie having dropped out after the third yr) they would have accepted that as a qualification, but because I completed my degree they won't recognise it.
This is gonna take 6 weeks to get formally assessed which means our move date of end of March is not gonna happen. >:(
Ugh, Shelloid, that's a pain. I've been looking at immigration stuff lately and the categories all seem so specific, don't these people have imaginations? Anyway, given the nature of your degree I'm fairly sure that they'll accept it. The delay sucks but I'm crossing my fingers for you :)
oh no that is a pain in the arse! like catski says, I'm sure you'll be approved no problem, but it's a bitch to have to wait six weeks to find that out!
booo New Zealand immigration!! booooo!
I'm pretty much broke and have half a bag of beans left food wise. My mom went to the store without me. She told me I told her I was going to the movies tonight? I don't go to the movies, I don't have money for that. So she left without me. And, my job hunt is just a complete downward spiral. No one is hiring. I might have to apply to be a person that dresses like the statue of liberty and waves on streets all day. Ugh.
And now my roommate is continuing to be psychotic.
She apparently refuses to share basic things like cabinet space and dishes, but never straight up told me that. When I first moved in, I put all of my stuff with hers, because that's what I've always done with the old roommates, which made sense to me, since kitchens typically have only one silverware drawer. So a few days later, she started hiding her silverware and can opener in her room. Today, I checked the drawer, and her silverware was back, except now she had a label there with her name on it, and moved all of my stuff to a different drawer. WTF? What is wrong with her?
I think she has OCD. Probably other issues too, because she doesn't go out or socialize. I feel bad for her sometimes, but I still think she's a bitch.
OMG! Thats is what my mother-in-law did to us when we moved in for a month. At first she was all cool about everything. Her bedroom is the living room at their house, it started out we werent allowed to watch their tv, okay I could handle that I don't like TV. Then we weren't allowed to use their bathroom, okay I understand that. Use the bath upstairs, then we complained we were too loud going up the stairs, so we were only allowed to go to the bathroom at certain hours. Then she said we werent suppose to go up there at night at all. My husband actually went outside to use the tree one time, I thought I would pee myself at one point.
From there it went to pots n pans for the kitchen, she said I didn't wash them correctly (but refused to show me how) so I had to buy my own to use. After I bought them, about 4 days later she complained they "smelled bad" so she emptied a cabinet in the store room for us to use. Mind you I had NEVER used these pans before and they "smelled bad". Then she got obsessive about the food, we already agreed not to eat each others food, but they were still eating our food. I started to label our food in the fridge, she told us that it was rude not to share so we weren't allowed to us the fridge anymore. We couldn't have anything refridgerated because of no where to put it. We had to keep all our canned food in our bedroom.
From there it went to the coffee machine (I kid you not here) she said it "left a funny taste in the machine" when I was using the same brand of coffee, so we had to buy our own coffee machine. We werent allowed to use the laundry machine, their bathroom towels.
By the end of it all, we had to come in the back door because it was closer to our room, which was in the basement. Ontop of all this crazy bullshit she pulled, she wanted us to pay rent when we KNEW the only reason we moved in was because we had no money, and were trying to get a job and a place to live. She let us move in under false assumptions.
We lived there little more then a month and I seriously cried when we got our first apartment I was so happy. She got pissed off at me because we moved in the same day we got approved. We were moving until 1am, so happy to be gone.
Seriously, if shes that crazy, don't stick with it, shes got problems!
I'm so sick of other parents thinking that because I'm a single mom I have extra time to do all the driving for our kids meetups. In what world does being a single parent = more free time than a married couple?
>:(
In the same world where childless couple = you have no expenses to speak of, and plenty of time.
In the same world where childless couple = you have no expenses to speak of
True statement?
Foundmagazine.com is on the fritz yet again. And of course the admin never responds to email nor even sends out an automatic acknowledgement that they got it. Nada. I know it's a free site, but come on! I guess they only respond to orders of their merch.
cramps....
My roommate just came home drunk from a party, and she's sobbing about her family issues. :-\ My other roommate is consoling her.. I wish I could do something to help.
i just found out that kel from kenan and kel is DEAD!! :[ i loved him
never mind. they tricked me. he isnt dead. :D
My oma is 88 and has really bad circulation issues, she bruises if you even think about touching her, and she struggles to heal wounds. She's had a wound on her leg for the last two years that she's basically been told will not go away/heal completely.
My dad found out on Friday that his sisters have known since before Christmas that she's had a new doctor take a look at it, and apparently she's got cancer. Our whole family is soooo pissed off right now, there was totally no reason for them to keep this from us. The only reason we found out even now is because she had to go into hospital...
Bigtime frownage.
In the same world where childless couple = you have no expenses to speak of, and plenty of time.
I wasn't saying that but there is this thing called "sharing" the responsibility....especially for your own children.
to do all the driving for our kids meetups
The wind waking me up at 3am from a sleep that didn't start until after midinght is not making my day happy.
In the same world where childless couple = you have no expenses to speak of, and plenty of time.
What I was saying is, I often get this from people here. If I dare complain about the economic situation, or being short of money, I get, "But you don't have any kids!" Like that means anything. Yes, I know...if we had kids we wouldn't even be eating. But that's not the point. People treat the childless as if we were just selfish and complain about nothing. Well, YOU make it work on 600 Euros a month, with a mortgage to pay.
If I dare complain about the economic situation, or being short of money, I get, "But you don't have any kids!" Like that means anything. Yes, I know...if we had kids we wouldn't even be eating. But that's not the point. People treat the childless as if we were just selfish and complain about nothing. Well, YOU make it work on 600 Euros a month, with a mortgage to pay.
Oh,I see now. That would chap my ass too.
<-----misreads things sometimes
OWW~
I'm sorry to hear about your Oma and the way you and your family had to find out about it. (((hugs)))
Lauren
sorry oww. :[
thanks guys, I *think* she's doing ok, it's just a crappy situation...
oww, I'm really sorry to hear about your oma.
my trivial reason to frown.....I lost my mobile phone at the weekend. I'd only had it about 2months, so it had a good few years of life in it still. Luckily because I had just switched phones I still have my old one with all my numbers in, as long as it will turn itself on long enough for me to access them.
It's really crap timing with all my immigration stuff happening and I've been appllying for job.
that is pretty sucky. Did it get stolen or did you just leave it somewhere?
I don't know whether this will make you smile or frown, but phones in the UK are crazy cheap, we got one from ASDA for less than 20 pounds, and you basically can't get any kind of phone here for under $100, and even then only on a plan. If you are going to get a new one to bring down here though, just make sure you get it 'unlocked' for any network, because I don't think you can do that here and otherwise it won't work!
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