What Grinds Your Gears? :)

[Davetello]

I feel more run down today than I have in a long time. Splitting headache, tiredness, sneezing terribly, shaking, and just generally feeling awful. It must be the weather.

I'm gonna have a shower and shave in a while, take some tablets and try and get a good night's sleep. Hopefully tomorrow I wake up feeling a lot better. I got plenty of sleep last night so that isn't the issue.

[slashpieturtlemix]

Originally Posted by Lethal Lullaby

When my bf tells me that other girls try to flirt/get with him even though he's told them that I'M his gf plenty of times... >|-|< And I'm pretty sure some girl hates me just because he's with me and not with her friend, who is also my friend. I mean why else would she say "F*** Caitlyn." After he told her he was going to hang with me one day? Like whoa. I've said nothing bad about her yet she she pulls that crap AND tries to tell him to break up with me for my friend?

You get used to that kind of stuff in a relationship. When I was engaged, it was always stuff like that. People just have no respect for other couples. Its as simple as that.

[slashpieturtlemix]

Originally Posted by Metalwolf

But I am wondering though, do we really need more people in the US? It's not anything against any particular group, it's that the US is one of the largest consumer of resources and likely has one of the biggest carbon footprints on the planet. The more people, the more pollution we tend to spew into the air. Letting our population dip to a certain level (doesn't matter if it's composed of largely Latino in the future or Anglos) isn't going to harm anything.*

*I'd been reading up about global warming and environmental concerns, can ya tell

That may be true but that is all a political problem. Most politicians are super rich people who run businesses. They love the cheap labor. They are the reason why we don't recycle. They enforce almost all of our laws. The last huge flux we had was Vietnamese immigrants and it looks like our next giant flux might be Arabian. Its just something we all have to live with. No matter how much people complain about the language gap, their children are taught english and they abandon their native languages by the third or fourth generation just like our ancestors did. Everything just melts into the giant USA pot. That is how our country got that nick name. Carbon foot prints are things that we should be taught in school. No matter the size of our country, we will always have one so long as we use coal and fossil fuels.

[Jephael]

Originally Posted by slashpieturtlemix

When I was engaged, it was always stuff like that. People just have no respect for other couples. Its as simple as that.

I actually feel kinda guilty when I like a girl who's already taken, especially if she's with a really nice fellow. If he's a jerk though, all bets are off.

[kungfufrogz]

Originally Posted by pennydreadful

oh my god, the other half sold some of his comics and this group of guys came over to buy them and they've been here for over an hour talking. I'm about to break out in hives from combined rage and frustration.

My gear grind - having people in my house. I hate it. I really really hate it. I don't even like having my family over here 99% of the time, let alone strangers. The other half knows how i feel about this - why is he still talking to them? You have their money already, now kick them out!!! I swear, i'm so mad at him right now, i may not even talk to him for the rest of the night.

I'm sitting up here in my room concentrating my mental powers on encouraging them to leave and it's not working. Gah. I'm not even kidding, this is absolutely infuriating.

Take your comics and leave.

Get out of my house.

What the hell is wrong with these people.

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I know right!!!

[slashpieturtlemix]

Originally Posted by Jephael

I actually feel kinda guilty when I like a girl who's already taken, especially if she's with a really nice fellow. If he's a jerk though, all bets are off.

I feel the exact same way lol if that guys is a jerk, then it is all fair in my book

[Katie]

I'd only say all is fair if it's obvious the girl is thinking about leaving. I have guys constantly after me and it's annoying as hell when you tell someone to back off and you're not interested because you are in a relationship only to get "but I'm such a better guy than he is" response.

That's my call...and you just made yourself unappealing.

[pennydreadful]

The intruders finally left last night after being here for two hours - I calmed down pretty quickly once they were gone; told the bae I was pissed and then was over it in about 15 minutes. I can't stay mad at the big lug for long.

[Candy Kappa]

Salvador my Yellow-Bellied Slider have been misbehaving again lately, but now he's getting his ass kicked by my Red-Eared girls, especially from Lara.

I'm having him wander around the apartment to calm things down, and for him to lick his wounds. A YBS male should never thes the patience of a RES female, almost twice his size...

[Netkeeper]

Flight Rising breeding cooldowns. [Pretty sure I'm the only one here that plays this so nobody will really get it, but ugh.]

[BubblyShell22]

My gear grinds the sinus problems, but that won't end any time soon. Just keeps getting worse with all the weather stuff. Had rain today, low pressure system tomorrow, snow on Tuesday and snow on Thanksgiving. Looks like my week will be crap.

[Sage Ninja]

reposted from earlier that snipped off:

My health insurance and editing software gripe

Learning new audio editing software is what is stressing me out right now. I have to do a podcast for an assignment due on Friday and I am struggling with nearly every stage. I had to down load the software onto my laptop so I could work from home. It was a pain when I found out the audio I had recorded was not supported by system and I had to convert my audio files online into a format that the editing software would accept. Lining up and arranging all the other audio tracts so there is cohesion and structure while adjusting it so the other tracts are not over powering each other and be heard is quite difficult. Right now my podcast sounds like a garbled din of sounds.

I also am about to lose my health insurance because my work will no longer be providing it. As of January 1 2015 I will have no health insurance. And since I live in Massachusetts where it is mandatory to have some health insurance (or be penalized) I will be doubly screwed over by my state for being ****ed by my job. Yay! My job (the lovely company known as Satan-Mart) is screwing me and several of their employers by ripping their health insurance away unless you work a certain amount of hours. When I asked if I could raise me hours to meet the benefits bracket they said no...not until 2016

And this is the real funny part. I looked back over the last several months to see how many hours I worked a week on average, and going back as far as early spring of this year, I have worked just thirty minutes shy of the hours one has to work weekly to be eligible for health benefits in the new year!

[BubblyShell22]

Yeah, that sucks about the health insurance but you can thank Obama for screwing everybody over with the whole mandatory insurance thing. Is there any way you can look for another job that'll give you good insurance?

[plastroncafe]

Obama had nothing to do with Massachusetts insurance law, the politician you should be blaming is Governor Mitt Romney.

sage, have you looked into the healthcare marketplace website? It's open enrollment between now and January you should be able to find comprable private insurance through the website for not much more than you're paying now through Satan - Mart. And the good news about something like that, is that it's not tied to your employment.

[Jephael]

Looks like the War on Christmas is starting up again. I was checking my mom's e-mail to see if she got anything important from her job and this christian group she got subscribed to sent an e-mail whining about PetSmart using the term "holiday". WHO F**KING CARES?! I used to really look forward to this time of year, but now it brings up nothing but stress because I dunno whether I should say "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas" out of fear of offending somebody.

[Dirty Blond]

Originally Posted by Jephael

I actually feel kinda guilty when I like a girl who's already taken, especially if she's with a really nice fellow. If he's a jerk though, all bets are off.

Don't feel bad at all. Most folks meet their 'currents' while still in a relationship. There's so much overlap in dating it's a joke.

[pennydreadful]

Not getting results in things in life as quickly as I'd like grinds my gears.

[BubblyShell22]

Originally Posted by Jephael

Looks like the War on Christmas is starting up again. I was checking my mom's e-mail to see if she got anything important from her job and this christian group she got subscribed to sent an e-mail whining about PetSmart using the term "holiday". WHO F**KING CARES?! I used to really look forward to this time of year, but now it brings up nothing but stress because I dunno whether I should say "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas" out of fear of offending somebody.

I always say "Happy Holidays" because it sounds better to me since I'm not religious or a believer. I don't get offended if someone wishes me a Merry Christmas though. I just say thanks and move on. I think you could use either if you really wanted to. And if someone gets offended, you could always apologize or whatever. That's what I would do. But, yeah, that does get a little out of control. There is more than one holiday during December anyway. You've got Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, and The Winter Solstice. So saying Happy Holidays is more inclusive, and that's why I like to say it myself.

[Jester]

Working 40+ hours a week, often on shifts where I have to work with people who make me wanna pull all of my hair out, only to have the money I make vanish before I even notice. Just when you think you've kinda made it through...here comes another week of barely making it.

Doesn't help that my health insurance (which I really only carry for my wife. I'm fairly healthy....all things considered.) is nearly 1/4 of my check. I'm pretty sure I could take that money (or even a little less, to be honest), put it in a special bank account that I use only for health issue, and be better off.

[kungfufrogz]

What grinds my gears is no new episode this week...