I'm so glad this week is over..
This is the story of just how the past few days have managed to suck so freaking bad I’ve cried a few times and have this overwhelming desire to destroy something… I’m pretty sure everyone that follows my LJ knows I’m not thrilled to be living around Pittsburgh and that as much as I used to love my job and actually looked forward to going to work things have changed… well they haven’t changed back and the current project I’m working on has gone from a “we’ll both work on it and get it done faster” sort of thing to just me working my ass off doing my normal stuff and this new stuff while dealing with new clients and everyone else taking random time off and leaving me alone in the office to try and hold down the fort… so that is the background for the current time period.
Whining and complaining follow...
This Wednesday something failed in the local water supplier’s system and they issued one on those don’t drink, brush your teeth or wash dishes with the water warnings on Thursday night. They called a number of their clients and it was even on the 11:00 o’clock news… for those of us that rent and go to bed without watching the news I guess we’re S O L, I found out via a friend’s face book post early Friday morning. I’m glad it wasn’t something too horrible as their methods to call attention to the issued didn’t work out very well, it also turns out they don’t expect the water to be “good” until sometime Tuesday so huge run on bottled water and such.. Just perfect… the two of us from the office that live in town split the case of water we keep in the supply room so we had some.
I was already cranky, stressed, depressed and PMS’y while this is going on and it’s Friday and I was almost in tears just from being lonely and depressed so I figured I’d go grocery shopping and then curl up on my couch for the weekend and try to distract myself from all the crappy emotional stuff I seem to have going through my mind at the moment… I get half way to the store and decide I need human interaction so I’m going to quick go home put together some sort of costume and go to the iCandy party in the strip… it’s going to be primarily lesbians but I’m not adverse to that at all… So I get out the black tutu, corset, fishnets and an adorable glittery red collar with a silver bell on it and get ready… I find my cat ears and tail and I’m off to the party. It started out slow but the guy at the coat check was sweet and the one bar tender was hot and finally things started to get busy and by 10:00 the dance floor was filling up so I danced a bit and one of the girls there decided I needed a round of introductions so I got absorbed into their little group for a bit and we danced and had fun, so overall not a bad night.. Until the drive home… Pittsburgh is about a 45 minute drive with no traffic so I get about 5 minutes from home and as I come up over a hill there is a fairly large doe standing on the side of the road, I slow down and it takes a few steps away from the road and then in a wildly suicidal move it turns and leaps into the front of the car. It was a good thing I had seen it and slowed down because at 35 it did some decent damage I’d hate to have seen what would have happened if I was still doing the speed limit.
I pull over and turn on my hazard lights to make sure everything is OK… and to get my heart rate back under control and the stupid thing manages to get up and run off into the brush. The car has a broken headlight and the quarter panel is broken, there are pieces missing and there are hunks of deer hair stuck all over the front and passenger side of the car. As I’m looking at the car someone else comes whipping over the top of the hill at an excessive rate of speed almost hit’s the back of the car and really from the top of the hill to where I had pulled over there was plenty of room to either swerve or slow down and this guy waited to the very last second to react and there goes my heart rate right back up. I determine the car is probably safe to drive since I don’t see anything dripping and the damage is mostly cosmetic, so off I go… I take a few pictures after I park so that I can document the damage and to post on FB ‘cuz I know dad is going to want to see it.
I report the claim on line and then get ready for bed… it’s like 3:30 am now and I just want to get some sleep and hope that in the daylight the damage still looks minimal… I get my makeup off and crawl into bed and at about 4 am the smoke alarm starts chirping, it’s the battery low indicator thingy so I hit the hush button and figure on getting more batteries in the morning but no the damn thing won’t shut up and I don’t have an extra 9 volt battery so I have to get dressed, drive to the store with one working headlight to buy a freaking battery to shut up the damn smoke detector so I can finally sleep. So as I’m going up the hill there on the side of the road is a buck I’d say maybe about 8 points just looking like he wants to make the driver side of the car match the passenger side, he starts to run and I just stopped in the middle of the road and waited… it’s 4 am there is no one else on the road and I can wait while this dumb animal makes it’s decision… I’m not going to hit two of the fuckers in one night. It finally decides it’s going to wander off into the woods so I drive by really slow just in case it freaks out and charges the car or something.
I get to the store, get my battery, install it and finally get to sleep… just to wake up a few hours later when my neighbors’ dog starts barking… have I mentioned this building has a no pets allowed policy? So yeah I’m really freaking happy to be awake but I can’t get back to sleep and I can’t even make coffee because I don’t want to have to wait while I boil the water to safely wash out the pot… My mom calls because she saw the FB post about the car and the deer and I have to assure her I’m fine and the car is drivable and that it’ll be fixed long before I have to drive back to NY for the holidays. I did get a look at the car in the day light and it’s not that bad.
I am just so happy this day is over and I’m hoping that nothing else goes wrong tomorrow as I’d like to have a nice relaxing day before I have to go back into work. I even boiled a batch of water to wash my dishes so I can make coffee in the morning… Yeah so this week sucked… I do sometimes wonder if God hates me or something… I’m trying to be positive about this but I started off at a low point emotionally and right now I’m bouncing between depressed and angry… I’m going to read a happy fic take one a melatonin and then try to sleep, it’s not going to be easy though because as tired as I am I’m wired too and the Moose lodge is having some sort of party with a really loud live band and they don’t have to close down at 2 like most bars because they are a social club and that rule doesn’t apply…
Please let tomorrow be better…
Whining and complaining follow...
This Wednesday something failed in the local water supplier’s system and they issued one on those don’t drink, brush your teeth or wash dishes with the water warnings on Thursday night. They called a number of their clients and it was even on the 11:00 o’clock news… for those of us that rent and go to bed without watching the news I guess we’re S O L, I found out via a friend’s face book post early Friday morning. I’m glad it wasn’t something too horrible as their methods to call attention to the issued didn’t work out very well, it also turns out they don’t expect the water to be “good” until sometime Tuesday so huge run on bottled water and such.. Just perfect… the two of us from the office that live in town split the case of water we keep in the supply room so we had some.
I was already cranky, stressed, depressed and PMS’y while this is going on and it’s Friday and I was almost in tears just from being lonely and depressed so I figured I’d go grocery shopping and then curl up on my couch for the weekend and try to distract myself from all the crappy emotional stuff I seem to have going through my mind at the moment… I get half way to the store and decide I need human interaction so I’m going to quick go home put together some sort of costume and go to the iCandy party in the strip… it’s going to be primarily lesbians but I’m not adverse to that at all… So I get out the black tutu, corset, fishnets and an adorable glittery red collar with a silver bell on it and get ready… I find my cat ears and tail and I’m off to the party. It started out slow but the guy at the coat check was sweet and the one bar tender was hot and finally things started to get busy and by 10:00 the dance floor was filling up so I danced a bit and one of the girls there decided I needed a round of introductions so I got absorbed into their little group for a bit and we danced and had fun, so overall not a bad night.. Until the drive home… Pittsburgh is about a 45 minute drive with no traffic so I get about 5 minutes from home and as I come up over a hill there is a fairly large doe standing on the side of the road, I slow down and it takes a few steps away from the road and then in a wildly suicidal move it turns and leaps into the front of the car. It was a good thing I had seen it and slowed down because at 35 it did some decent damage I’d hate to have seen what would have happened if I was still doing the speed limit.
I pull over and turn on my hazard lights to make sure everything is OK… and to get my heart rate back under control and the stupid thing manages to get up and run off into the brush. The car has a broken headlight and the quarter panel is broken, there are pieces missing and there are hunks of deer hair stuck all over the front and passenger side of the car. As I’m looking at the car someone else comes whipping over the top of the hill at an excessive rate of speed almost hit’s the back of the car and really from the top of the hill to where I had pulled over there was plenty of room to either swerve or slow down and this guy waited to the very last second to react and there goes my heart rate right back up. I determine the car is probably safe to drive since I don’t see anything dripping and the damage is mostly cosmetic, so off I go… I take a few pictures after I park so that I can document the damage and to post on FB ‘cuz I know dad is going to want to see it.
I report the claim on line and then get ready for bed… it’s like 3:30 am now and I just want to get some sleep and hope that in the daylight the damage still looks minimal… I get my makeup off and crawl into bed and at about 4 am the smoke alarm starts chirping, it’s the battery low indicator thingy so I hit the hush button and figure on getting more batteries in the morning but no the damn thing won’t shut up and I don’t have an extra 9 volt battery so I have to get dressed, drive to the store with one working headlight to buy a freaking battery to shut up the damn smoke detector so I can finally sleep. So as I’m going up the hill there on the side of the road is a buck I’d say maybe about 8 points just looking like he wants to make the driver side of the car match the passenger side, he starts to run and I just stopped in the middle of the road and waited… it’s 4 am there is no one else on the road and I can wait while this dumb animal makes it’s decision… I’m not going to hit two of the fuckers in one night. It finally decides it’s going to wander off into the woods so I drive by really slow just in case it freaks out and charges the car or something.
I get to the store, get my battery, install it and finally get to sleep… just to wake up a few hours later when my neighbors’ dog starts barking… have I mentioned this building has a no pets allowed policy? So yeah I’m really freaking happy to be awake but I can’t get back to sleep and I can’t even make coffee because I don’t want to have to wait while I boil the water to safely wash out the pot… My mom calls because she saw the FB post about the car and the deer and I have to assure her I’m fine and the car is drivable and that it’ll be fixed long before I have to drive back to NY for the holidays. I did get a look at the car in the day light and it’s not that bad.
I am just so happy this day is over and I’m hoping that nothing else goes wrong tomorrow as I’d like to have a nice relaxing day before I have to go back into work. I even boiled a batch of water to wash my dishes so I can make coffee in the morning… Yeah so this week sucked… I do sometimes wonder if God hates me or something… I’m trying to be positive about this but I started off at a low point emotionally and right now I’m bouncing between depressed and angry… I’m going to read a happy fic take one a melatonin and then try to sleep, it’s not going to be easy though because as tired as I am I’m wired too and the Moose lodge is having some sort of party with a really loud live band and they don’t have to close down at 2 like most bars because they are a social club and that rule doesn’t apply…
Please let tomorrow be better…