Thursday 13

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Irritant les Choses de Cette Semaine

1. My boss is making me nuts. Scratch that: I'm allowing my boss to make me nuts. This must stop. The things she's been doing this week could fill have this list...but I'll refrain from enumerating them.
2. Seeing Psycho Boss's name in my emailbox this morning, thanks to Linked In. No, I didn't add her to my list. Tempting as it was. Not.
3. Beast is determined to kill himself with stress. There are numerous things I could do to relieve a great deal of that stress. But he's unwilling to a) ask for help, and/or b) let someone else do anything that he can do [better] himself.
4. My brother. I wrote a question on his Facebook wall a couple of days ago. No answer yet. But he has commented on our nephew's "relationship news" on Facebook.
5. Impatient people who email and then IM me, within 5 minutes. *
6. Beast insists on texting me from the road with EVERY single thing that's going on with him: "Going into my meeting." "Stopped for gas." "Going to lunch." "There are a bunch of pigeons on the roof of the hotel." While I'm at work. Trying to, y'know, work. Really. SHUT.IT.dude.
7. Politicians. Too much of Teh Stoopud, though fortunately no local candidates have made national news. Still, we have no choice whatsoever in our senatorial candidates, and one of the guys running for county sheriff is a complete asshole who outed an undercover car this week on his private blog, and refuses to understand how dangerous that is.
8. Health management companies whose websites are misleading with basic information (like phone numbers, hello?), byzantine in their answering machine situation when you do get the right number, and staffed by people who "don't know" but will check. +
9. Myself for things left undone. Most of which I can finagle, but some of which have sailed without me.
10. Sparky for having to be reminded every day to feed his pet. So freakin' annoying. #
11. My state. It has no money. It owes the cities, schools, social service agencies, libraries, and probably the king of Tongo millions of dollars in funding to keep things running. Mostly, I just try not to think about this, but when I can't avoid it, it wigs me out a bit.
12. I've gained back all the weight I lost last year.
13. Some (new) chick at Walgreen's doesn't know how to use the computer to look up names. Even when I spelled the first part of my last name she couldn't find me. Because I "didn't say there's a hyphen. I need to know it's hyphenated." First time in ten years someone hasn't been able to find it. She then asked me if I wanted her to CHANGE MY NAME in the computer in order to match my name. Uh, no, because that IS my name, and YOU shouldn't be authorized to change names in any case! O . M . G . Stupid dingbat.

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* This was a very good friend, but it happened when I was right in the middle of something that required concentration, and between idiotic texts from Beast. Camel + last straw = you know the rest.
+ The actual people I spoke to were doing the best they could, and in most cases were brilliantly helpful, but the non-human parts of the interaction were ridiculous, especially being directed to call another number to make an appointment...the number I was given was for the County Health Department.
# In most other respects, Sparky has been fabu this week. He even made 6 dozen cookies on Tuesday pretty much without any input from me.