Cranky Tuesday

loveislouder

What's making you cranky today?

1) The engagement party this weekend - while I'm incredibly grateful people are throwing us a party, it's turning more and more into my "problem." My sister isn't keeping in contact with the rest of the bridal party so they're calling me, no one ordered the lasagna so my mother asked that I go to her place on Friday to make them, and now I'm to go to mom's on Saturday at 9AM sharp to clean the house because everyone else has plans. We had plans too, but I guess we're cancelling them. Mom's logic is the party is for us, so we should be cleaning up for it, which I get... but we're not hosting. Am I being a snowflake today?

 2) My co-worker keeps harping on me for stuff she's wrong about. "You spelled grey wrong." ..."No, you can spell it with an a (gray)." "No, you're wrong." Kay fine.

3) My hair refused to cooperate this morning. I contemplated shaving it off.

What's making you cranky today?

ETA: 4) The Knot eating my paragraphs. When is that going to get fixed?!

RebeccaFlower

Your #1 would really piss me off. I get being helpful for the party, but you definitely don't need to be cleaning your mother's house when she's hosting. You're not being a snowflake, they're being jerks. I say keep your plans. 

loveislouder

@RebeccaFlower Right? Like, the party wasn't our idea. It was my sister and a bridesmaid who suggested it, and I said we were too busy to plan a party. "Oh you won't have to do anything, just give us a guest list and show up." Well now sister is busy until 6:30 on the day of (party starts at 6) and I'm freaking out

holyguacamole79

My husband's phone is dying, and it's before his 2 year renewal, so he'll most likely pay for a new one at retail price.

loveislouder

@sarahbear31 Can you look for a gently used one online?

Maggie0829

I would be irritated by number 1 as well.  When someone offers to throw you a party they don't then make you do the work.  That is ridiculous.  When H and I have a party at our house we don't tell the people invited that they need to come over and clean up before hand.  Your Mom is being ridiculous.

loveislouder

Maggie0829 said:

I would be irritated by number 1 as well.  When someone offers to throw you a party they don't then make you do the work.  That is ridiculous.  When H and I have a party at our house we don't tell the people invited that they need to come over and clean up before hand.  Your Mom is being ridiculous.

It's my sister too. She just doesn't get it.

Maggie0829

I would just tell your sister and your Mom that you unfortunately cannot help out. You didn't ask for the party they offered so it is up to them to do the work. Period. ETA: And add in the fact that your sister is busy the entire day and even into the beginning of the party is just crazy. She set the date so she should have probably not planned to do other things that day. I am frustrated for you and would be tempted to tell them to just cancel the dang thing since it is such an inconvenience for them.

birdybride2014

I WAS TICKED at FBIL last night and this morning for telling FI and I that we are "rude" for not giving a 25 year old guest, who btw knows 20+ at the wedding, a plus one. That apparently because she is 25 she is automatically guaranteed a date, even if she isn't seeing anyone.

I can't wait until he gets married someday and has 600 guests, and doesn't care that they don't all have somewhere to sit, and it is all BYOB. The annoying part is, that this will happen, but he won't care/notice if people act upset about it. This is why we can't win with him, he just doesn't understand these things and assumes FI and I are just being horrible, bossy, snobby people, when in reality we just want to be good hosts!!


But, he just texted apologizing. My blood pressure is now able to return to normal levels.

sarawifenow

I would be PISSED about number one as well. I would definitely keep your original plans and tell your mom that you were specifically told that all you had to do was "show up" so that is what you planned for.

flyingfoxes

sarahbear31 said:

My husband's phone is dying, and it's before his 2 year renewal, so he'll most likely pay for a new one at retail price.

Does his plan let him renew at 18 months?  That's how AT&T was for me - it would just lock me into another 2-year contract from that point in time.

raissyrais

loveislouder said:

What's making you cranky today?

1) The engagement party this weekend - while I'm incredibly grateful people are throwing us a party, it's turning more and more into my "problem." My sister isn't keeping in contact with the rest of the bridal party so they're calling me, no one ordered the lasagna so my mother asked that I go to her place on Friday to make them, and now I'm to go to mom's on Saturday at 9AM sharp to clean the house because everyone else has plans. We had plans too, but I guess we're cancelling them. Mom's logic is the party is for us, so we should be cleaning up for it, which I get... but we're not hosting. Am I being a snowflake today?

 2) My co-worker keeps harping on me for stuff she's wrong about. "You spelled grey wrong." ..."No, you can spell it with an a (gray)." "No, you're wrong." Kay fine.

3) My hair refused to cooperate this morning. I contemplated shaving it off.

What's making you cranky today?

ETA: 4) The Knot eating my paragraphs. When is that going to get fixed?!

I hate when that happens. It would make me so cranky too. Have a nice warm bubble bath and never forget the power of wine. Your friend.

steph861

I'm cranky because I'm waiting for submissions from two departments (due today) and I can't start the approval process for the report until I get those submissions.

larrygaga

I'm mostly in a good mood today! I nearly got bit by one of my clients but I'm a fast dodger.

loveislouder

raissyrais said:

loveislouder said:

What's making you cranky today?

1) The engagement party this weekend - while I'm incredibly grateful people are throwing us a party, it's turning more and more into my "problem." My sister isn't keeping in contact with the rest of the bridal party so they're calling me, no one ordered the lasagna so my mother asked that I go to her place on Friday to make them, and now I'm to go to mom's on Saturday at 9AM sharp to clean the house because everyone else has plans. We had plans too, but I guess we're cancelling them. Mom's logic is the party is for us, so we should be cleaning up for it, which I get... but we're not hosting. Am I being a snowflake today?

 2) My co-worker keeps harping on me for stuff she's wrong about. "You spelled grey wrong." ..."No, you can spell it with an a (gray)." "No, you're wrong." Kay fine.

3) My hair refused to cooperate this morning. I contemplated shaving it off.

What's making you cranky today?

ETA: 4) The Knot eating my paragraphs. When is that going to get fixed?!

I hate when that happens. It would make me so cranky too. Have a nice warm bubble bath and never forget the power of wine. Your friend.

I'm going to FMIL's for dinner tonight.  She always has an abundance of wine because she doesn't drink and always gets wine as gifts.  Tomorrow's discussion might be "Hungover Wednesday - what made you hungover" haha

KatieinBkln

I'd be pissed about #1. Follow @Maggie0829's advice--she is wise. #2 would make me even MORE mad, because for whatever reason, if you (the correct person) were to send an email with a dictionary link spelling the two options for grey/gray to your coworker (the incorrect person) suddenly YOU'RE the dick for not letting it go, even though she was the original dick for being so insistent that she was right. I hate that this is the case. I would like to find out what societal forces are responsible and kick those forces in the nuts.

theartistformerlyknownas

I'm hating my job. I'm a manager of a small team but a pretty big account, and obviously I was out on PTO for two weeks. Welllll some of the support people thought it was just hunky dory to make a lot of decisions that affect me and my team and our work, but not even copy me on the emails. So I'm trying to figure out what the fuck happened but it's a situation where I don't know what I don't know, so it's hard to prod for all the right answers. If I ask for a recap of what happened I just get "oh everything's fine!" Super but... WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED because I need to know in order to do my damn job. Fuckers.

doeydo

Regarding #2 send her this link http://www.greyorgray.com/

KatieinBkln

doeydo said:

Regarding #2 send her this link http://www.greyorgray.com/

I was crossing my fingers for this:

DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER, CARRY ON

holyguacamole79

april182015bride said:

sarahbear31 said:

My husband's phone is dying, and it's before his 2 year renewal, so he'll most likely pay for a new one at retail price.

Does his plan let him renew at 18 months?  That's how AT&T was for me - it would just lock me into another 2-year contract from that point in time.

No.  They do have a new plan where you can pay off the phone bit-by-bit, though.  So I think we'll just do that.  And I'll bug him to get the warranty on this one.

holyguacamole79

Okay, this is the latest thing bugging me. 

SO, I'm Catholic.  I love my faith.  I teach at my church.  I also love football.  And I saw this meme today and reposted it:


(for those of you who don't know, that's JJ Watt, our Defensive End who scored a touchdown this past week after a Pick-6).

So, one of my "Friends" posted a rant about how this is offensive to him as a Catholic because he has a devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  Here's the thing, though.  This guy is married to my super-anti Islam friend (clicky).  So, his wife can call Islam a "cancer" but I can't jokingly share a meme that depicts a sports player as our savior??

Please.

novella1186

lolo883 said:

I'm hating my job. I'm a manager of a small team but a pretty big account, and obviously I was out on PTO for two weeks. Welllll some of the support people thought it was just hunky dory to make a lot of decisions that affect me and my team and our work, but not even copy me on the emails. So I'm trying to figure out what the fuck happened but it's a situation where I don't know what I don't know, so it's hard to prod for all the right answers. If I ask for a recap of what happened I just get "oh everything's fine!" Super but... WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED because I need to know in order to do my damn job. Fuckers.

That would piss me off beyond anything. I feel like only cowards wait till someone is gone to pull crap like that. Bitches. 

birdybride2014

sarahbear31 said:

Okay, this is the latest thing bugging me. 

SO, I'm Catholic.  I love my faith.  I teach at my church.  I also love football.  And I saw this meme today and reposted it:


(for those of you who don't know, that's JJ Watt, our Defensive End who scored a touchdown this past week after a Pick-6).

So, one of my "Friends" posted a rant about how this is offensive to him as a Catholic because he has a devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  Here's the thing, though.  This guy is married to my super-anti Islam friend (clicky).  So, his wife can call Islam a "cancer" but I can't jokingly share a meme that depicts a sports player as our savior??

Please.

I can't stand people who can't relax about things. I work in a very PC environment and sometimes I want to rip my hair out.

KatieinBkln

sarahbear31 said:

Okay, this is the latest thing bugging me. 

SO, I'm Catholic.  I love my faith.  I teach at my church.  I also love football.  And I saw this meme today and reposted it:


(for those of you who don't know, that's JJ Watt, our Defensive End who scored a touchdown this past week after a Pick-6).

So, one of my "Friends" posted a rant about how this is offensive to him as a Catholic because he has a devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  Here's the thing, though.  This guy is married to my super-anti Islam friend (clicky).  So, his wife can call Islam a "cancer" but I can't jokingly share a meme that depicts a sports player as our savior??

Please.

I'd be all, "Welp, I guess you can hide me, then. In fact, that might make both of us happier." I see offensive stuff on FB every day (I mean, mostly crimes against grammar and logic, but hey, that's as close to religion as I get) but I don't pop on people's walls just to tell them so.

theartistformerlyknownas

novella1186 said:

lolo883 said:

I'm hating my job. I'm a manager of a small team but a pretty big account, and obviously I was out on PTO for two weeks. Welllll some of the support people thought it was just hunky dory to make a lot of decisions that affect me and my team and our work, but not even copy me on the emails. So I'm trying to figure out what the fuck happened but it's a situation where I don't know what I don't know, so it's hard to prod for all the right answers. If I ask for a recap of what happened I just get "oh everything's fine!" Super but... WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED because I need to know in order to do my damn job. Fuckers.

That would piss me off beyond anything. I feel like only cowards wait till someone is gone to pull crap like that. Bitches. 

Oh and it gets worse. My OTHER account is working with just a really awful person. She constantly asks for something I've explained to her is a garbage metric. My chair hadn't even stopped spinning yet and she went to one of my employees and had her put together an entire presentation based on this garbage metric. I was SO MAD. It's our job to consult the clients on good and bad analytics. I don't give a rat's ass if the client keeps asking for it - she should have given her the answer I gave her about "this is why that's bad, and here's the better metric I can give instead." Ughhhhh.

Sugargirl1019

Nothing making me cranky today, just a little tired. I'm at the hospital sitting in the surgery waiting room for my mom.

Edit - I'm a little cranky that I still can't go take my ring in to get fixed.

beethery

We were supposed to have an appointment with a customer this week. I informed the customer via email and voicemail two weeks ago. Got no response, which is typical.

So I call today to inform them of a slight time change, and the guy tells me he will not be there, and he can not have anyone open the room for us because HIS JOB is to have the key for that room. Also how dare we pick that day. We don't, the state does. Which is why I informed them on 9/18. Also lol motherfucker won't let the receptionist open the door at all. What a peen.

So now it gets to go back into the state's system. The state guy is totally relaxed about it, it isn't a huge deal, but now my dad is raging and wants to send the customer a contract cancellation letter at the end of their current setup with us. "Because life is too short to deal with assholes all the time."

Everyone is an asshole. If we did not deal with them, we would not be a family right now, and we would each live on individual mountaintops glaring at each other and reminiscing on asshole things the other one has done.

I want a burrito and a margarita.

FutureMrsN3312

This sums up my day:

labro

1. I forgot to drop off the "thank you" tags for my favors when I ordered my favors at the vendor this afternoon.

2. White House Black Market wouldn't take back a dress I bought online because it didn't have the tags and they said it had a weird smell. Considering I had literally just pulled it out of the plastic bag it came in...of course it had a weird smell. I'm pretty pissed. I went home to try and find the tag and couldn't so I'm going to try and return it at another store tomorrow. I have my receipt and the purchase was made within the last 30 days (their return policy is 60 days..) so I think I got someone on a bad day.

3. I returned a bra I ordered from Linda the Bra lady back at the beginning of August. I got a confirmation email August 27 stating they had received the bra and my credit card would be refunded in three weeks. Well, it's been 5 weeks now and still no credit on my credit card. I emailed customer service today.

4. I have a headache.

5. I keep coming up with more things I need to spend money on in the next 18 days before the wedding...ugh...I wish my next paycheck would come early and be extra big so all this stuff wouldn't hurt so much.

holyguacamole79

KatieinBkln, I told him just that.  I said if my posts offend him, then he should unfollow or unfriend me.  He posted something else, and I deleted his comments.  I just find the double standard infuriating.  I can make a joke, but his wife can call Islam a "cancer that must be eradicated" and it's okay? Nope.

KatieinBkln

sarahbear31 said:

KatieinBkln, I told him just that.  I said if my posts offend him, then he should unfollow or unfriend me.  He posted something else, and I deleted his comments.  I just find the double standard infuriating.  I can make a joke, but his wife can call Islam a "cancer that must be eradicated" and it's okay? Nope.

LOVE IT. You tell him, sistah.