After 20 years of working at the same company, I'm being laid off. They're sending my job to India. How annoyingly stereotypical ( Read more... )

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I'm home in my apartment, though it's a mess. On Friday, the walls between my apartment and my neighbor's apartment were 50% gone. As it was the lower half of the wall, that was an issue... My cat could get through without pause, their kids kept waving to me... The same day the repair crew fixed the neighbor's side, which at least took care of some ( Read more... )

So the AirBnB place is nice. The outside isn't very good looking, but the apartment is a two bedroom one, all for me. I left my stuff and my cat there this morning.

First thing Ellie did: Tried to eat the fake tree. >< It had brown moss/straw stuff around the bottom, and she got a mouthful before I realized it. I hope she doesn't throw it back up ( Read more... )

Today has been one of the most stressful days of my life ( Read more... )

So turns out I will have to temporarily move out. Apartment complex is paying to put me into a pet-friendly hotel, starting Monday night. Unfortunately there are still tons of issues, like that I can't bring my desktop computer (I'm trying to make an old laptop work), and I guess I'll be eating out every meal? That's going to be hell on the budget ( Read more... )

2:30 AM. I was sound asleep. Heard a crash and woke up with a start. Jumped out of bed to a really odd sound -- water running? In my kitchen ( Read more... )

Monday: We discover a massive problem at work. Every single one of our company's tools in customer hands stopped working. Customers pay hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for our software licenses. I worked a 19 hour day ( Read more... )

In hopes of getting my deposit back, I've been cleaning my apartment from top to bottom for a couple weeks now. I've cleaned the ceiling (really, I dusted it and made sure no cobwebs were on it). I cleaned the floor. I cleaned every little thing in between.

And yet I still won't be getting my full deposit back. Not unless I pull out the fridge ( Read more... )

My back isn't broken yet, but I'd really appreciate it if the world would stop piling straw onto me ( Read more... )

Know what's worse than doing your taxes once? Doing them twice ( Read more... )