WHAT MADE YOU GRIMACE & GRIT YOUR TEETH TODAY?

Soz said that she was sitting around in her overcoat today. That bothered me.

Aw, well, at least kids seem more immune to colder indoor temps......

hey, so, I've been on hold for well over an hour with etrade. They told me at the start that it 'might take up to a half hour' to respond to my call. When they say the call may be recorded, do you think they'd record me while on hold?

Oh, I'm not freezing! Don't worry about me. That was just when sozlet was at preschool and I turned it down even lower. I tend towards cold if I'm sitting, too, even if it's not super-cold.

Got some insider info there, little k?

eoe - inside what?

oops. I thought etrade was a stock market site???

oh! it is. I'm there to close my ridiculous account. don't ask me about trading.... it'd just lose you money.

they actually DO record while you're on hold. or so i've heard. they can hear you, you can't hear them.

I've heard that too. I like to curse about the company in the hopes that someone's listening.

I was taking a timed test at a job interview this morning when the lady across from me decides to ask me a question about her test....
Is she crazy?! I had 2 questions and only 2 minutes left to answer them ..
and on top of that my eyes were starting to cross

It's a timed test lady ...Timed. geez.

OK, so, update to this post and this post, cause I was grimacing again on this one tonight ...

So, right, this is this girl who was all best-of-friends like (but explicitly only that), inviting me to things and meeting up every week, twice a week, for two months ... and then she goes missing for two months. Emails and sms's get exchanged but plans to meet up never work out - busy, busy, its just been crazy you dont wanna know!

OK, so same girl is the one I spent NYE with (her and a bunch of her friends), and she's the one who started kissing me at point midnight, when we were watching the fireworks from the wintery Fisherman's bastion (aww, yeh). Came back for more (kissing) later, which was very nice (tho otherwise unspectacular), but going home we went our own ways (there were three of us, friend of hers and she both living the other way so going off that way together - never was any doubt, really. Pro forma I did ask whether she wanted me to walk her home, but answer kinda obvious and mutual, laid-back).

After that, again, nothing, except for a jovial exchange of "hey you survived the night OK?" sms's. Which is fine - I mean, it'd be nice to meet up for movies and stuff again like before, but this is ok too - except that now for two evenings in a row, I was in my favourite mellow-time read-the-newspapers sip-a-latte be-by-myself-after-work cafe, and she come in there too, with one friend, with another friend, guys I dont know. Which is fine, her favourite cafe too - except for the kinda grating awkwardness in the face of two months of "no, life is just too crazy to meet up, I'm so unbelievably tired!" stuff. Yeah, right.

So, what's up with this? Weird succession of behaviour all in all, no?

Grr, anyway. I am def. not into getting anything going with her - I mean, I like kissing, but no interest in any kind of, like, relationship - my head is still full of A. Plus, yeah, not her, anyway. I mean, pretty body - fun and sweet to be with, smart too, but - no - plus, all of this is just really weirding me out. Kindof reinforces my previous impression that this is a girl better to keep some distance to (issues..?) ... but yet I cant help be a bit miffed, either.

Grr also simply cause the reason I go to that place in the first place is to just let my hair down, be by myself and get away from any drama - I'd deliberately gone there rather than check my mail in order to avoid any drama ... but the tenseness is following me, I suppose.

WMMGGMTT <nods>

I feel ya, nimh. That's a funky place to be. But this too shall pass. Things had not become too heavy between you two, thank goodness.

If it bugs you too much, don't be too proud to find another quiet cafe.


I got into it with my business partner/friend again today. She was speculating about someone, badmouthing them, not knowing anything as fact or truth, but insisting, as she often does, that her gut is on target and her speculations are correct. That drives me crazy and I tried to be cool, reminding her that she doesn't know the facts but she kept going on, making up more and more to substantiate herself and I finally lost it.

Well, where do I start?



Is it the $600 plumbing bill for fixing a washer (had to call out of hours plumber, cos I work all the damn time, ok? Then, the washer in question is in the loo, and comes ATTACHED to the flushing apparatus, so you have to replace the whole apparatus, which is rare and has to be hunted down, causing TWO after hours visits, plus the goddamned new apparatus....plus the plumber couldn't get tha apparatus out...but he fixed my insinkerator), or the $200 bill for fixing my air conditioner in a heat wave?


Or was it opening the fridge this am to have the shelf with the exes' bloody beer on it in the fridge (I hate beer) break and hence smash 3 bottles of horrid beer all over the floor?

Or was it missing morning tea and a nice staff lunch today (I still need to bons with my new team, too)


Or was it having to take the cat to the vet and the car wouldn't start so I called the RAA then the car started and I was on hold to cancel the RAA for 15 minutes illegally using my mobile phone in traffic then they yelled at me?


Well, that's a few of the incidents over the last 24 hours.

My condolences on a shitty day.

The sun will come out...tomorrow

Good god, bunny, you're due for a blissfully peaceful weekend. I hope you get one!

Oof oof and oof to the oof power about all of this stuff. It's a wonder that you can compose a sentence after agita at that degree, dlowan... though I guess with you, the ability to compose a sentence would be the last to go... ;-)

nimh, weird. Nice to see you ID'ing weird and not wanting anything to do with it, though. Could be any number of things, but two scenarios that make sense to me are 1) she thinks you're cool as a general concept but isn't sure whether she wants to be in a relationship with you, and when midnight struck she thought the thing to do would be to kiss you just 'cause, you know, it's the thing to do, or 2) she genuinely likes you a LOT but is scared of that for whatever reason -- that she has a bad history, or that she's enjoying being on her own and suspects that a relationship with you would be a cap R Relationship, or whatever. In that scenario, being in that uber-romantic situation she just couldn't hold back -- but then once out of it, the shields go back up.

That was not a good day, Deb.
Tomorrow, on the other hand ........

Awwwww youse folk be sweet.




Tomorrow, indeed, the sun will shine.......































and SOMETHING ELSE WILL GO BUNG!!!







Just kiddin'.......I hope.

Thanks for the feedback, Soz <nods>

I'm betting 9 out of 10 that its 1) rather than 2) ... fa' sure.

I just dont get the avoidance, thats the part that bothers me. Why not just hang out, laid-back, no fuss (or hanky-panky) like before, if anything beyond that is only skin-deep anyway? Thatd be cool, anyway...