"It's not like they'd have any way of knowing. They'd have to take her at her word that it's just the one fucktard. I mean, it's not like there's some sort of mandatory Chronic Fucktard Banger Registry folks can go look up online..."

Oh, but there should be. There seriously, seriously should be.

The larger of our two cats is named Erika, an odd name for a cat as many have commented. We call her that because the fur on half of her calico face is black in a roughly Phantom of the Opera shape. The Phantom’s name was Erik and our kitty is female. Goofy to be sure, but significantly less of a mouthful than the “Mungo Jerrie and Rumpleteazer” we ( Read more... )

...or how I learned to quit being pennywise but pound foolish and and love my home warranty company ( Read more... )

I am so tried of my family's dynamic that I want to scream.  I have tried to change it and have succeeded up to a point, but only up to a point.

Long story short, once again my sister called trying to either get me to say I unquestioningly support a decision that isn't very well thought out or to pick a fight.  I could not do the former, so she ( Read more... )

 ...I managed to survive the weekend.

I was so stressed out from my work situation, the car I creamed in the parking lot, my generally screwed up current dealing with my sister, my mother’s reaction to them, developments in my health, and my husband’s reaction to them that I was literally in pain from all the stress from Friday afternoon on. I was ( Read more... )

Friends, you choose. Family, are assigned to you.

Most of the time this still works out alright. Just because you don’t choose your family doesn’t mean there isn’t a bond. You share DNA and that usually guarantees some traits and interests in common. Failing that, you have shared history and experiences to build a bond. And, barring any of that, ( Read more... )

My sister and her fiance have been engaged for exactly 22 days.  The wedding is, in theory, well more than a year away.  And, yet, my sister and my mother are already at one another's throats over wedding plans.  Trust me, this surprises no one who is familiar with the parties involved.

I love both women very much but, in this particular instance, ( Read more... )

The air conditioning at my office building is out again and evidently has been all weekend.  My building is a convection oven to begin with and this certainly does not help matters.  At 10am we were told that the facilities staff would not be able to fix things today and possibly not tomorrow either.  At 10:30am, after the temperature inside hit 89 ( Read more... )

This morning I thought that I was so cool.  I worked a twelve-hour shift yesterday with no breaks rewriting a stack of another department's very badly written call scripts for the next phase of our marketing campaign.  So, this morning, I entered the building swelled with pride by my achievement.  Alas, my manager took an extremely large pin to the ( Read more... )

It's never fun to turn on the office computer and find that the first e-mail in my inbox is a meeting 'request' for a "Mandatory Meeting" concerning the priorities of our super-division and changes within my sub-division.  This is especially so when I notice that everyone in said subdivision, including the VIPs, are required to attend this meeting ( Read more... )