It’s a great (WTF) Wednesday…

I’m going to skip the pleasantries and get right down to it.

1.  WTF is up with rude ass salespeople?  Why is it always the hard sell?  Why can’t I ask you any questions?  Why can’t I get a word in edge-wise?  AND WHY ARE YOU TALKING TO ME LIKE I’M A STUPID, YOUNG, CHILDISH IDIOT WHO DOESN’T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING AT ALL EVER?!  Go to hell.

2.  WTF is up with people having no manners?  Whatever happened to saying “Hi, how are you?” and then actually WAITING TO HEAR THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION?!  If you don’t want to know how I’m doing, well then motherfucker, don’t bother asking.

3.  WTF is up with my fiance’ not answering his cell phone today?  Now come on, baby, you’ve improved at this skill, even (GASP!) calling me first most of the time, but why today?  Why now?  Why, when I’m already having a bad day do you decide to not answer any of my couple (several, thousand, whatever) phone calls?  ANSWER YOUR GOD DAMN PHONE.

4.  WTF is up with the housing market?  You know, not that we want to sell right now, because we don’t, but we’d really like to refinance.  Our interest rate is higher than it should be, and with the government having lowered interest rates repeatedly over this year in order to help homeowners out, and since our credit scores have improved, we would really like to get it lowered.  Only, it costs so much money to refinance!  AND, housing values have fallen, leaving us wondering if we’ll even be able to get our house appraised for enough $ to get a refinance.  We’ve only been there two years, and we lost our equity in the home when the housing values fell.  WHY THE FUCK CAN’T WE JUST GET A NEW PRESIDENT NOW SO THAT HE CAN HELP ALLEVIATE HOMEOWNERS PAIN?!  GAH!

5.  WTF is up with my boss wanting me to do 1.9 million things?!  My job description ain’t got NOTHIN’ on my actual job duties.  I was LIED TO.  I was DECEIVED.  My work load has increased so dramatically that it’s official:  There.Aren’t.Enough.Hours.In.The.Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (You:  And yet here you are, blogging on WordPress, as if that’s going to alleviate the situation.  Me:  Shut up.)

Ijustwanttogohomeandcrawlunderthecoversandnotcomeoutuntilit’s2009.  So much for 2008 being better.

It sucks balls right now.

WTF Wednesday: Surprise, Surprise

First of all, let me just say, I’m back from my vacation in Manhattan, and I am EXHAUSTED.  I really do believe it may take me a few days to recover from all the walking!  I wish I had a pedometer to keep track of how much land I covered but alas, this wasn’t the case.  I promise to update in the next couple of days or so with details and pictures (!).  I just need some time to chill out, recharge, and upload all those photos first.  I figured a WTF post would help clear out my brain a little.

1.  Why are vacations so exhausting?  I feel like I can’t sleep properly, and even though I’ve passed out EARLY the last few nights, I still wake up tired and barely able to move. 

2.  I hate it when friends “friends” lie to you.  Especially to your face.  Especially when it’s about something really simple and easy to tell the truth about.  Oh, such as, I don’t know, whether or not you’re in a relationship.  What’s with all the secrecy?  I had a “friend” tell me to my face that her and a guy were “just friends”, but she turns around and tells someone else (who had ALSO asked her this same question a few days before) that she’s been his “girlfriend” for “two weeks.”  WTF?!  Sorry for all the “quotes” but I can’t really keep the “truth” and “lies” separate from each other.  Geeesh.  Talking to her is requiring way too much thought, analyzing, and energy.

3.  Back to work.  86 emails.  Let me just give you a moment to absorb that.

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86 emails.  86 emails?!  86 emails?!    Holy mother of God, please shoot me.

4.  Gas prices.  That’s all I’m gonna say.

5.  While I was gone, B did a GREAT job of keeping the house clean.  There were no dishes laying around or in the sink.  Our pets were well taken care of.  However, what did he NOT DO at all in the 4 days I was gone?  Vaccuum.  We own a siberian husky.  Doesn’t that say enough? 

6.  Let’s get back to this work thing really quick — if someone is on vacation, you know HYPOTHETICALLY, and they won’t be there for 4 days or so…would you send them an email asking them to do something simple such as “make me a copy of this”, get the obligatory “I am on vacation” automated email response, and STILL WAIT FOR THEM TO GET BACK, you know, FOUR DAYS LATER, and make them still get you a copy of something?  You know, HYPOTHETICALLY?!  Seriously, I may have HYPOTHETICALLY had about 5 such small requests like this.  In those 86 emails.  I wanted to jab my own eyes out with a pen.

Enough bitchin’.  Coming soon:  what I think about the Subway system and those who use it; how many times I lost my MetroCard; what it’s REALLY like to view the Statue of Liberty; how to survive in a small hotel room for 4 days with someone who grates on your nerves; and finally, all those beautiful pics of me, photoshopped to hell so you can’t tell who I am.  You know, just because I like to make things difficult for myself! 

I missed B.  I missed you all!  It’s good to be back

Just a thought…

Whatever happened to manners?  Whatever happened to appreciation and gratitude?  Whatever happened to people being thankful for help that is offered?  Whatever happened to showing some respect and working with others?

What has happened to common decency?

People never fail to surprise me with their total lack of respect, consideration, and humility.  They forget the value in the words “I’m sorry” or “I screwed up.” 

All in all, it disgusts me and makes me remember that sometimes, people are just rude assholes!

WTF Wednesday: Bringin’ it back

It’s been a while, dear freaders.  Let’s get right to it.

1.  WTF is up with me falling asleep on the couch every night this week before 9 p.m.?!  It’s like I’m good, I’m wide awake, then BAM, I’m out like a light.  Dozing off, waking up because my head fell backwards and hit the back of the sofa.  Thank God for DVR or I would have totally missed The Hills on Monday.  And you know I can’t be having that shit.

2.  Let’s talk for a second about my pants.  I’ve lost 28.5 pounds!  Oooooweeeeeee baby you know I’m proud of myself and happy as shit to be dropping weight and slipping into smaller and smaller sizes, but wtf is up with the fact that I can’t find shit to wear in the morning?  This morning I pulled out a very cute pair of brown slacks from the deep dark depths of my closet.  Ones I hadn’t worn in months.  Banished to the deepest darkest corner of my closet because the last time I put them on, they were so snug I couldn’t breathe.  Only this morning, I put them on and poof, they slip so far down my waist that I just laugh.  I can’t fit SHIT in my closet anymore!  Everything is too big.  Losing weight is putting a hurtin’ on my bank account — it costs a lot to keep buying new shit. (Listen to me complain, I know, I know)

3.  Have you ever seen a blossoming pear tree?  They’re absolutely beautiful!  Except there is this one particular squirrel that seems to really like our pear tree and I keep catching him eating the blossoms right off of it!  It’s made the lower half of our tree bare and ugly.  It’s like poof!  There’s spring and it’s blossoming and beautiful, then bam!  Bare and ugly, like winter decided to rear its ugly ass head.  Picture this:  Me, half-dressed for work, covered up on my bottom by a blanket.  Slippers on feet, wet hair.  Throwing sticks and branches at this squirrel, screaming “go pick on someone else’s tree, motherfucker!”

4.  Dinner tonight with B’s family for his dad’s birthday.  Ugh, ugh, double ugh. Drama drama…  Sometimes it’s just too much.  But I’ll be the good girlfriend I am, slap a fake ass smile on my face and go to it.  Because I know deep down inside, B will be cringing too.

What’s buggin’  you today?

P.S.  I had always said I wouldn’t get political on my blog (don’t want to offend anyone) but I just have to share…  This morning I saw someone’s bumper sticker that said “1.20.09 - The End of an ERROR”  hahahahahaha.

Time for another WTF Wednesday

So yesterday was really kind of rough.  I mean, all sorts of shit just spilled out of everywhere and I found myself pretty damn angry all day.  You know what they say, when it rains, it motherfucking pours.  Today is the perfect day to continue with the WTF Wednesday posts…I’ve got a lot that I’m still pissed off about:

1.  The dream I had last night about my father.  Disturbing, upsetting, and totally random.  The mascara stains on my pillow this morning proved to me that I was actually crying while I was dreaming (Ed. note:  Also?  That I need to be better about washing my face before bed!)

2.  I’m still mad about the things I posted about here.  First of all, the friend from the first situation has not even attempted to talk to me today.  Granted, I told her I needed some time before speaking with her again because I was so angry, but she really should learn how to apologize and start doing it.  She screwed up, majorly.  And after discussing it with B and my BFF last night, we all determined that I had a right to be angry.  Therefore, I’m even angrier today.  I expected her to send me a note saying she’s sorry, but it hasn’t happened.  Well, fine…  I guess we don’t need to speak at all then.

3.  And the second situation?  Well, I’m debating how to proceed.  Should I email or call with a response to the situation?  As far as I know, they don’t know that B and I figured it out.  What do you guys think?  Would an email or a phone call do the trick?  OR, should I wait until THEY attempt to speak with US, THEN go all out in a “wtf-are-you-doing-talking-to-us?!?!” kind of way?  I need opinions!

4.  It’s 82 degrees today.  This makes me very happy.   The fact that it’s foretelling of major thunderstorms and baseball sized hail do NOT make me happy.

5.  Without being way too TMI (Ed note: Too Much Information), I’m having bathroom issues.  Feeling like I really need to go #2, but then not being able to.  Seriously, wtf?!  I’m running to the bathroom every 15 minutes, then leaving 2 minutes later totally unsuccessful and frustrated (also, “backed up”).  UGH.

BUT on the bright side of things, I already received my birthday present from B.  Yes, I am aware that it’s last fall’s patchwork, but B has good ears.  He heard me complaining that I never was able to get one, and was afraid I wouldn’t be able to find one at all.  He managed to swing me by the mall over the weekend and snag it for me.  He really knows how to cheer a girl up!

What is pissing you off today?

WTF Wednesday: Grump Edition

Fuck motherfucking fuck.  How in the hell is it only Wednesday?  I feel like my weeks are becoming endless cycles of sleep, eat, work, shower, etc.  In honor of WTF Wednesday (started last week, duh), here is a list of things that are currently pissing me off / annoying me to no end.

1.  My boss.  I guess I’m supposed to have telepathic (right word?) abilities and be able to read her fucking mind. Well guess what?  That’s not a crystal ball on my desk, you see.  It’s just a damn computer.

2.  B and I went grocery shopping last night for a few minor things.  Since it was getting late, we decided to just grab something from there for dinner, so I wouldn’t have to cook once we got home.  Only, wtf am I supposed to eat?  Seriously, everything that he suggested was totally off-limits, or loaded up with saturated and/or trans fats.  Plus, all I really could keep staring at was a simple carton of Nesquick, my favorite thing ever in the whole entire world, hands down.  That shit has 30 grams of sugar in it per serving, and I’m sorry, but I’ve already lost 14 pounds and I’m not going back to being a fucking fat ass ever.again.

3.  Lately, every time my friends email or call me, it’s all about them.  Their latest crisis, their latest decision, their latest fight with their significant other.  Not one of them has asked me how I am, or how my life is, or what I’ve been up to.  Two nights ago when a friend called me, I just sat there quietly listening to her talk, barely speaking myself.  After we got off the phone, B asked me who I was talking to, and said “you hardly said a word.”  Yeah, no kidding.

I don’t know.  I guess it’s just one of those days.  It’s not that I hate my job, or that I’m unhappy with my friendships.  It’s none of those things.  I’m just in a funk and being a brat.  But at least I can admit it.

What is bugging you guys today?

WTF Wednesday

Seriously, what the fuck is going on with the universe lately?

As I drove to work today, thinking about the death of Heath Ledger (Ed. note:  I will miss that sexy-ass accent of his, yesindeed) I couldn’t help but just feel ridiculously angry and freaked out by things.

So guess what?  I’m gonna start a new tradition here at ChasingParadise.  From now on, every Wednesday will feature a list of things that are either pissing me off or confusing me.  Take your pick.  Sometimes it will probably be a little bit of both.

1.  Heath Ledger, dead at 28.  Seriously, I doubt it was an overdose.  He just seemed to be really genuine, down-to-Earth, and humble.  His poor daughter.  And if it’s got something to do with the pneumonia they say he’d been suffering from as of late, then WTF?  People can die at 28 years old from pneumonia?!  I think that’s bothering me the most is that I grew up having a huge celeb crush on him and he’s so close to my age and HELLO SCARY.  And sad.

2.  Driving to work this morning there was a girl in front of me in the fast lane going 70.  In a 65.  She was chatting on her cell phone, precariously balancing her steering wheel somewhere other than her hands because her other hand (the one not holding her phone) was applying eye makeup.  I mean I guess I can give her points for not driving fast WHILE doing all of this, still…  Do you have a brain?  I glared at her as I passed her.  IN THE RIGHT LANE.

3.  Guys.  Boys.  Whatever you prefer to call them.  A friend of mine had been seeing this guy recently, and he seemed decent enough.  Attractive, well-educated, and so on.  After weeks of non-stop hanging out, he just all of a sudden decides to stop returning her calls and texts.  Then, out of nowhere, just as she was judging herself, questioning everything she’d ever said and done near him, he comes out of the blue with an email apologizing, saying he is freaked out and can’t do this anymore.  That she’s the nicest girl he’s ever met but he is an asshole and he can’t see her like that.  I mean, okay thanks for admitting that you’re an asshole, but you’re forgetting one thing.  You’re also 26 year’s old.  YOU’RE AN ADULT.  So act like one and stop treating my friends with utter disrespect, you piece of shit.

4.  Last night I saw on the news a piece about Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama fighting with each other during a Democratic debate.  I got so angry.  They’re on the same side — against Bush and his policies.  So why are they fighting with each other?  Is it too much to ask for them to be civilized and play fair and be happy for the other, whichever person gets nominated?  I guess the closer it gets to the election, the nastier it’s going to become.  It’s upsetting.

I guess it’s not bad that I can only come up with four things that have pissed me off in the last 12 hours or so. 

What is pissing you off today?