I'm grouchy
 

One of those rare days when I am cranky with the world. FedEx claims to have delivered my new (expensive) audio card on Monday, not on MY front porch. Can't get ahold of my landlord where FedEx will drop stuff, she usually leaves it on her porch. Nothing there and no return phone calls and no answer at her front door this morning. So I can't call FedEx to really kvetch and raise a stink because I don't know where the damn box is.

My ex-roomie (soon to be current roomie again) is going off the deep end and I know I am walking straight into a hornet's nest there. I feel like I might be making a huge mistake moving back in with her, however temporary. Been there, done that and I thought all the old baggage was over and done with, clearly, it's not.

I'm letting my boss know on Monday my plans (leaving) and then giving formal notice on May 5th (I want to pass my 5 year anniversary), the bad thing is, and totally unexpectedly, a patent paralegal he works closely with just gave her notice. I'm dreading the confrontation now, timing could not be worse, he's going to have a total meltdown.

Whine whine whine

snowflake in a bad mood

Everyone has one of those days. Mine happens to be every other day. :D

I say go with it. If you're in a grouchola mood, be in a grouchola mood. Embrace it.

I say this because the last thing someone wants to hear when they're in a pis$ed off mood is for some Pollyanna to say, 'Get glad, Snowflake!'

Oy.
:)

"don't worry....be happy...."

JUST KIDDING!

I hate cranky days. Mostly because I don't like being cranky towards those who have nothing to do with my crankiness.

I hear ya, I'm cranky- but I have leftover Easter candy to cushion the blows.

I'd love to embrace my crankiness and go off on somebody neutral (like a FedEx rep on the phone) then I'd feel better.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Thanks for the support. I only wish don't worry, be happy could be my motto today

"Grrrrr. Snowflake smash!" :D

I've decided to be in a grouchy mood today, too. I'm putting on my ripped Incredible Hulk pants.

"Grrrrr. GC smash!"

:mad:

'Get laid, Snowflake!' ;)

:Ricki Lake guest:
"Oh no, he didn't."
:/Ricki Lake guest:
:D

The funny thing is I had to read your post 3 times before I realized it didn't say 'laid'!

{{{{Hugs}}}

At least you didn't move from your quiet comfy cube to an area with sales guys who have no volume control or manners. Quieter down here. Ya, right.

Sorry to jump in on your grouchy. Hope your boss doesn't have a total meltdown.

Oh Man! Now that is Funny! :snap:

You slay me

I've got a good start, I'm green, my eyes are red. I'm bulky, but not like Lou Ferrigno bulky (beefy) :D

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

And where do we stand with Fed Ex? I must know if you've chewed up a rep...


Sorry you're cranky. I have a headache, and would desperatley love a piece of cake, or a donut.. oh, hell... food.

Feel better, of heck we could just trade jobs today.

BTD, you go tell that guy to shut up or you'll put dynamite in his mouth. Tell him that's the way Bugs Bunny gets results.
:D

You know who's really good at chewing people out? iSm. Donna, if you haven't done it yet, have iSm do it for you.
:D

Bigs Bunny? Bugs Bunny? :p

I did tell them to knock off their burping contests. That was just gross.

I forgot my laptop, or I would have gone back to the second floor (where I came from), and taken over a conference room. No one is happy with this move. Now the upstairs is really noisy and the downstairs is really noisy. It was only the downstairs that was noisy before because the customer service people were with the sales people and they were both noisy. Now everyone suffers.

No, not yet. I'm waiting on my landlord for a return call, if no call, then tonight I go off on my landlord, or her son who lives next door. Then I will call FedEx and rant and rave. Normally I have stuff like this delivered to my office.......but this time I thought, oh no big deal......stupid me.

I have two bags of robin's eggs (malted milk balls) here if you'd like them Po. I can't eat them, not part of my food world these days.

Oh, you don't want my job, I work for the nicest attorney in the world, but the job sucks. Soul sucking kind of job.

ooh! Great idea!:evil:

Well, no I didn't. Sorry you're having a miserable move. Quiet and comfy is a good thing. Will hearos help?

After the firm merger last year, we moved into the "other sides" office. A more surley and hostile group you've never seen. They HATE the PW legacy people (of which I am one) so I will not be sorry to say farewell to them.

My boss is also miserable here, I hope that if nothing else, I will spur him on to greater things, he needs to go and I've been telling him that for months. But he is just paralyzed right now. Maybe this will jolt him into going.

Well, the good thing about cranky days is that the pass. Meanwhile, have at it. I find having foul mouth tourettes helps my cranky mood. Or just grumble under your breath and pretend your Donald Duck.


$^&*#@#$%&*

No idea what you're talking about.
:D

"$%&^$##%&, FedEx!!!!!"

That works too. But, my mood has lightened, I keep thinking about GD reading Get Laid Snowflake........

Here's my gripe. I'm trying to do a Mail Merge from Excel to Word and the Zip Codes I entered are all previewing without the zeroes at the front. ie. 02155 is showing up as 2155. Grrrrrr....

I love Mail Merge.
I hate Mail Merge.
:mad:

Try changing the cell format to number instead of zipcode.

They shouldnt be part of my food world either... but come to think of it, I have a rather large bag too. I'll dig it out and think of you.
I'd say send yours for when you're done... but what a pain... ;)
My co-workers love them. Open the bag and set it out in the open. They'll be gone in no time.

Ditto. I pay teachers all day. Might be cool to switch for a day for kicks... but I really woudlnt wish it on you.

That changed 02155 into 2155.00. :D

I figured it out. I had to change the whole file from a .xls to a .csv. Bleh.

for the grumpy set, I highly recommend heading off to a batting cage.

theres just something about swinging a large club at something small, round and head shaped that makes me feel better.

:evil:

Actually, just changing the zip code cells to "text" would have worked

Then you have to format to zero decimal places.

No, that would still drop the leading zero.

What GD said. That is the easiest and quickest fix.

I used to do mail merges like this all the time. Fun stuff.

Not if it was already text.

Oops. I missed your other post.

Carry on.

It didn't. I formatted all of the document cells to text. It didn't work. It should have, but it didn't.

I'm going to have to rip Ticketmaster a new one. I bought tickets to the MightyDucks playoffs. Ticketmaster told me that the first home game would be on Thursday, the 27th. It turns out the first home game is the 25th. I can't go, I have school! And I can't sell the tickets since they are at Will Call.:mad:

I vhemently disagree.

When grumpy, that makes me livid.
if I cant hit the head shaped object, I then become furious, which moves in to livid when I keep missing.

Well, I did what I always do, to a lesser degree than I would have normally done a month ago. I went and treated myself to a nice lunch at my favorite Vietnamese place. Hanoi grilled pork and an imperial roll. Totally not on my diet, for today I do not care. In the scheme of things, it's a small false step. I'm still now wearing clothes I could not wear a year ago and I feel better because I though I cheated, it was not like I ate a pint of Ben & Jerry's! :-)

Still no call from my landlord, so I might deduce she is not home, so I need to visit her son's house tonight. Could be that when the FedEx was delivered, the parcels were put in her house on the assumption thay all belonged to her.

Okay, I feel better, not grouchy anymore. Thanks everyone! Have a :cheers:

Snowflake

I'm grouchy today...

I got out early to catch the bus - it didn't show up...

Then, some yahoos decided to use the Orange Line busway as a race track, so I encountered another delay,
top that with a gusher of a bloody nose (with no tissue around), and it was a wonderful commute...

I got in just under 50 minutes late

Aw, see now I DO feel better, your day sucks far worse than mine! ;)

Sorry about your bloody nose and the delays, commutes are no fun at all.

Any chance you can get a quick coaster fix to brighten your day?

By annoying boss came back, today, from a 2 week vacation. :(

It days like these when I want to make a nice, soothing cup of hot tea... and hurl it furiously at the wall.

Grumpy Snowflake:



Wish I had time to add green skin and torn clothes.

ARRRRRRRRRRRGggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhh!

That was a WAY fun day. So glad I was able to make it to help sink those boats.

Thanks CP

Today I took the train to go to our main office - to sit in for a meeting my boss was going to attend. But it was cancelled and he forgot to tell me.

I went to a vacent desk to plug in my laptop to work from there, but the empty cube now has a new employee in it.

None of the outlets worked in the conference room

I got word furnature was going to be installed in my office - so I headed there - by bus.

As my first bus pulled into the major transitway, it passed my connecting bus just pulling out, so I had to sit for a half hour for the next one.

None of the new cubicle furniture matches the stuff that was already there

Tonight while heading home, Not Afraid tried to call me on my cell - while I was trying to pick up her dropping calls, I managed to pass my stop. So I had to get off the train and catch the next one heading in the opposit direction

I think I'll stay home tonight

I'm a bit cranky tonight. Eric took my phone in to work to upgrade some stuff, and now it has some stupid, cheesy ass ringtone instead of my Green Day Holiday one. So, I look up the old ringtone, and I can only find it in Muzak form. (Insert barfy face here). I turned the ringer off and if anyone wants to call me they'll have to wait until I check messages, because I'll be damned if I offend my ears with the crap that's on there now.

Oh, and I got my hair cut and no one in my house noticed. I cut off six inches, and nada. ****ing idiots. Bet they'd notice if I forgot to feed their asses.

Yeah, I'm cranky, but my hair looks great.

I've been sick for about 4 days now, and the one time the weather is good, I'm sick. I hope it's not the plague.;) Somebody put me back on my bike.:decap:

Now that sounds like a lousy day. I'm sorry to hear this E, I hope Friday will be better for you.

Better yet, stay home from work today, like me! This is the ultimate in pick me ups (well, not the ultimate) but a great mood lifter, playing hooky.

So can we see your new haircut to give you appropriate compliments?

How about this for your ringtone?

You need a new avatar! I bet we'd notice!

I change my avatar almost daily. My haircut has been the same since the first season of 'Friends'. I saw Ross's hair and said, 'I can do that with my hair...'
:D

I'm getting a huuuge Dave Matthews widow's peak. But I figure, feh, I'm in good company.

Your hair looks amazing!!!!!!

Try www.3guploads.com for ringtones. It's about $5 for 6 months or $9 for a year. You can have multiple phones on the same account.

Lol- okay, I can no longer be cranky in the face of such niceness-ty all! Actually, the passive-aggressive person I'm developing into is considering dumping my phone and getting a new one with a different company. :evil: (Eric works for our present one). Just makes me cranky when I ask him to fix something and he doesn't- I don't like being dependent on anyone, or having to ask people for stuff. Thanks for the links- if I keep this phone I'll be sure to use them!

As for the hair, I just had it cut up to my shoulders with long layers. Been a while since I've had that much taken off, but I like it and as soon as I get a decent photo I will post one.

After reading €uro's post, I've decided I'm a big whiny baby. I'd a been ready to murder someone if I were in his shoes!!!

But what about his socks?

I'm not touching them.

I have gotten nothing done since they made us move cubes. This environment is not condusive to working! I really wish management would figure that out.

Your current avatar makes me laugh but I sing some stupid song after laughing. :mad:

Where'd you sig pic go? That make me laugh too. And, you know, it's all about me. ;)

Who are you talking to? :confused:

You. But, somehow all of these other posts got in there. How did that happen?

Oh, I see. I thought you were talking about Marla's avatar and was wondering which song related to that mushroom dude. :D

I got rid of the sig. I wasn't sure how Chris felt about seeing his face splattered all over LoT with my 500 postings a day.
:D

No problem - I get a royalty don't I?

The royalty's the queen in the picture with you.
:D

Do do dooo doo do do do do dooo dodododo DO. Dooo doo dooo dodododododODODodododododo. Nuh nuhhh nuhh nuh nuhhhuh. Nuh nuhhh nuhh nuh nuhhhuh. Nuh nuhhh nuhh nuh nuhhhuh. BOING BOING

Can I just say that I love that picture? You two are so adorable :)

They are adorable, but they were pretty scary to look at from my position.

Today is much better for me - a coworker is making dessert crepes in our break room. Crepes I tell you! I am currently covered in powdered sugar.

I'm back to being REALLY grouchy. Okay, an update, the landlord came home from a short Easter vacation, called me right away, video card was in her house. I got it, today I played hooky and went to Geek Squad. After hanging around for 2.5 hours and "oh he's loading the software it will be another 15 minutes" they FINALLY told me, we're having an issue with some drivers and just go home and we'll call you. We're not sure why it's not working, but loading the drivers keeps bombing out. Well, it's not like I am close to GS, but I reluctantly go home. Furious at the time wasted, if they had told me off the bat it would take time, I would have gone home with no problem. Oh wait, the other thing was, I needed to swap out a drive bay and that required a new replacement drive bay for the CD-R/DVD-R, etc. So add that and then they would charge me not only $40 for installing the audio card, but an additional $40 for the drive bay too. So, I go home, essentially waste the rest of the day as I am too furious and frustrated to get anything done around here.

They call me at 7:30 pm and tell me that there is some conflict with the RAM and the sound blaster card and they cannot get the thing to recognize the driver or the audio card. So, they want to know if I still want the new CD-R/DVD-R installed. I don't need and I say no. They tell me, come down in a hour. I do, they refund everything.

It's now 10, I get the thing in here and I can't plug in anything to the high speed USB ports because some idiot plugged it back in in such a way that it's not alinged right and I cannot fit any USB plug in because half the port is below the metal frame.

So the upshot is, I have to take the &#%^@#^@ thing back tomorrow so they can fix this once and for all. :mad: :mad:

Two really good experiences with Geek Squad and I guess the third time is the charm. I guess I will be buying a new PC sooner than I thought.

Take out the emoticon and you get

This week has been a stupid week. I'm waiting for someone to return a call and they aren't and I can't do anything until they do.

Crummy weather and general apathy.
My give-a-damns busted. TYVM.

On a happy note there is a Target opening in the Spectrum. Just what I need. Target across the street from work. Bad enough there is one across the street from my house. Good thing I'd have to drive to the one by work. Or bad. Because I'd buy more.

Target=crack. At least for me.

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:mad:

I'm in a grumpy mood today too. Started last night, continued this morning with an aggravating conference call that started at 7 AM and lasted 2 hours.

I think I'm too overly tired to deal with stress, so that only increases the grumpiness.

Oh! Sorry to hear this! Can you treat yourself (or better yet, someone treat YOU) to a nice lunch with a glass of wine or something to relax you and help your frame of mind?

Snowflake who's tired but not, surprisingly, grouchy

Hey Sam, guess what?

That software upgrade you've been preparing for, the one scheduled for the end of July?... yeah that one... the one we still haven't sent you training videos or study guides for?

Well, you see, it's like this... some planner with no discernable link to reality has decided we're going to do that upgrade over the Memorial Day weekend. Please make sure your people don't have any plans over the holiday weekend, 'cuz we're prolly gonna need 'em to work that Sunday and Monday. You'll probably want to let 'em know as soon as possible.

Oh yeah... those training vids? Yeah, well, we're not gonna be able to send those either. I can't really give you any guidance on training your people. See that's just not something movers and shakers that inhabit my level of the stratosphere have to worry about. That's why we have you.

You're doing a great job, btw

Love ya

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Oy! Yuck. You have every right to be :mad: !

Dear Sam,

Go fvck yourself!


Sincerely,
Your employer

sweet talker ;)

Stupid f'n weather. It just reminds me of all outdoor bday parties I had as a kid that were ugly like this. I hate wearing a sweater and ending up with hot weather by the afternoon, or freezing your ass off because you thought it would clear up but it doesn't. Hey, remember those painful weeks of school in May when you could practically feel summer vacation coming on?

Spring is my least favorite season, except for the bday part.

Today will be the first 100 day of the year in Phoenix. We'll probably have 5 or 6 more days in May under 100, but other than that, we'll be over 100 every day for the next 4 months, with probably 30-45 days over 110.

Same here. It's going to rain all week. Bleh. I'm ready for hot summer weather...

Hail here yesterday, for the third time in 3 weeks!

I got used to it in Texas, but that's not supposed to happen here.

Stupid fvckin office that doesn't let you remote in from your laptop while accessing the wifi on the grass outside the building.

It takes a special kind of grouchy for a brownie to fail to fix it.

I actually like this weather. Spring is always my favorite season. The flowers are beautiful the look so vibrant when it is overcast.

It's a bit muggy for me though and it reminds me that HOT is approaching. That does NOT make he happy. I really hate hot.

I took a break from stuff and sat outside in the new teak stemer lounge chair in the backyard. It was a lovely moment but I had to get back to work. That's why I'm posting here. ;)

It's been a very long, frustrating day. Not as bad as Sam the McMan, but annoying.

Dimwit in Engineering: "The Office of Research promised matching funds for our telescope and we received the federal funding and we've picked out our telescope so tell me what budget number to charge it to and who can sign."

Me: "(sigh). As the award letter stated, these funds are collected through the budget office. Please contact Janis Campbell in the budget office and reference award number 260-something or other."

Dimwit: "I want to know the budget number to charge the expense."

Me: "That is not how these funds are dispersed. [because giving dimwits like you the budget number for the 7.3M matching fund isn't a wise idea] Please contact Janis in the budget office who will help you transfer the funds to one of your own budgets."

Dimwit: "Okay, but I want to order the telescope and I need a budget number. The Vice Provost promised these funds last year. Give me the budget number."

Me: [beats head on desk.]

Turned in my final and was looking forward to coming home, slipping into my jammies, and beginning my vacation.

And while I was gone today one of the cats threw up all over my jammies.

:mad:

It was Boris.

I didn't see it, but Sasha's the resident purger.

Boris is ours. He's bulimic, actually. Or part goldfish- I can't decide.

Oh duh. Your Boris.

My Boris doesn't like to throw up. He makes the hurking noise a few times, big swallow, and walks away. When he does throw up, it's usually Sasha hair.

No, you were right the first time- I know it wasn't my Boris, because he's been here working on furball production. I just figured that your Boris probably did it, because around here it's always Boris who barfs.

Now, Natasha, his sis, peed on everything. And I mean everything.

KA-Freakin'-BOOM!

Not a good day to dump on the ol' Cricketmeister... Bad day if you're his immediate supervisor. Feedback is your gift to enjoy over the weekend...

:mad: :evil:

Workers Crickets of America, throw off your chains!

I'm grouchy....my two brothers-in-law planned mothers day activities for my mother-in-law without consulting my wife and she's all pissed off now which means that no matter what the hell I do she's going to have a horrid mothers day. If we go, she'll be ticked. If we don't go, she'll feel guilty. What a great freakin' day Sunday is going to be.

Didn't you have that *suprise* trip for her planned months ago? ;)

I'm going to do something on Mother's Day that is just about as appropriate as you can get for a person who is a mother of fuzzy things. I'm going to the Haute Dogs Mother's Day Bull Dog Beauty Contest. YAY for me and....poor Chris.

Why would you want to participate in the humiliation of the most awesome dog known to man, the English Bulldog?

You meant to type American Bulldog, didn't you...?

Well, I'm in total agreement with you abdou the awsomeness of the English Bulldog. I am in LOVE with this breed. So, having a street filled qith 100= bulldogs - even if they are in finery - is possibly one of the more thrillings aspects of my recent life.

I keep wondering how the cats would feel about having a pet.:evil:

I have some friends with an English Bulldog and a poll with a beach entry. The dog will walk into the pool and walk around on the bottom. Can't swim. Stinks like a rock. Pretty funny.

The pinnacle of human evolution is the ability to dress bulldogs in frilly dresses and tea hats. I feel a sick day coming on.

I think I really am grouchy today.

Bulldogs are cool. One of my dad's patrol officers named his bulldog after my dad. Clarence the Bulldog. :D

If you can't find joy in bulldogs in dresses and hats then it's time to go back to bed - or get drunk. ;)

It's funny to post grouchy things next to my smiley avatar.

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God damn fcking bullsht I have to deal with everyday...where's my shotgun??

Maybe I should have had coffee.

Maybe you could photoshop some sort of yin-yang avatar with a smilie Jennie on one side and a grumpy Jennie on the other.

Hey CP, Hard work good and hard work fine, but first take care of head.

Okay, how cool is this? Today someone in HR decided today was Ice Cream Sundae Day. So we all got free ice cream sundaes today. I just ate mine.

I'm not so mad anymore... :D

I was very grumpy yesterday (as everyone in the Political Thought thread can attest to). I hate my boss. :mad:

So guess which venue Sam will choose

New Orleans, here I come!!

<hic>

I just heard the aquarium is back open, as is the zoo.

*Sam wills his clothes to dry faster so he can get on the road already*

Did that last night :D

I'm jealous... ;) :evil:

Huh? I'm confused. SM doesn't smo.....oooooooooh.





He meant my penis.

I'm not so grouchy anymore ;)

Work is far far away. My hotel room is old world beautiful. I could sit in this hibiscus draped courtyard forever and a day. But the French Quarter is coming back to life, and I'm going to dive in.

:cheers:

I'm so jealous. I LOVE LOVE LOVE NOLA.