Why is it, when a meeting gets cancelled and it looks like you are going to get a chance to get away at 4pm so get home to do a decent amount of music playing, all of a sudden at 3.45pm people find things to ask you to do that they could have asked at almost any time earlier in the day and it's probably going to take at least half an hour to sort out. Grr.

Sometimes that's the only answer!

W

I think I'm about to snap

oh dear...



poor BB2...

Is there anything I can do to help, Babybird2. I hope it is nothing to do with our duet at Leeds?

Agh! Definitely not as stressful as a PHD, but I just got my hair cut and it looks truly awful!! I wanted my fringe and layers around my face trimmed but oh no, I've now ended up with the most horrible thick fringe that sort of bulges out at the sides I have a concert and uni open days next week, so I now need to buy a hat! And it's really not helpful that my whole family are pretending it looks nice when actually it doesn't at all! Rant over! (I'm really not a ranty person lol...just frazzled )

If you hate your hair so much, you should go back to the hairdresser's. I've only ever been back once, but they were most helpful and tried very hard to give me what I wanted. I'm sure they could sort your fringe out a bit if you explain - no hairdresser wants you badmouthing them all over the district if they can put it right for you.

I am such an idiot. I always have to run my mouth off!
The chairman of our music society broke the news today that we wouldn't be having a film of our show, because neither of his sons were willing to film it. He made it sound like they couldn't be bothered.
One of his sons is a good friend of mine, and I can usually convince him to do things so...

"Don't worry!" I said. "I'll MAKE him do it".
People expressed doubt in my ability to make my friend do anything, but I persisted in proclaiming that the boy would do whatever I asked, as long as I nagged for long enough.

Got home, spoke to him, realised he did indeed have a good reason for not filming the show, there's no way he can reconsider, and now I'm the one that's letting everyone down, rather than it being him.

8.15am Dentist for me.
10.45am Vet for Nixon-rat, she won't be coming home
11.30am In to work and hope my manager is OK with me taking the morning off due to unexpected veterinary stuff.

Oh I'm so sorry about Nixon-rat. *hugs*

Sympathies...

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh. Dentist for me on Monday ! Having had an expensive porcelain implant bottom left, I've now lost some filling and part of a tooth bottom right. Might be the same procedure again

Very sorry about Nixon-rat, Maizie.

So sorry lottie. It's awful when one loses an animal friend.

We too have vet problems this week. We have 2 apparently healthy cats and took in a third a few weeks ago - a poor little scrap. I won't post the whole story but the long and the short of it is he was ill this week and the vet diagnosed him as FIV positive. There is a colony of semi-wild cats on a nearby farm and they are perpetually attacking ours and they are obviously all infected. It looks as if we are in for a long run of visits to the vet. It strongly discouraging strays. But it looks as if it's all about to start again - expensive and sad.

Not anywhere near the level of Argh! that everyone else's is, but today I was doing the Friday morning coffee run as usual. Normally I love doing the coffee run, as it gets me away from my desk for half an hour; but unlike as usual, almost everyone was at their desk and all wanted something. So I had to carry 8 hot drinks, three rolls and a muffin back from Starbucks/place that sells the rolls, and I don't have steady hands or good balance at the best of times. I am NOT good at carrying hot liquids. So naturally, I ended up spilling one of the coffees all over my blouse (fortunately I have a jacket so no one can see the coffee stains and fortunately I didn't spill so much of it that the boss noticed his coffee was lacking in quantity) so now I smell of coffee, and I hate coffee. Starbucks also made a mistake with the order, so one person got coffee instead of hot chocolate, and she hates coffee as much as I do. So I offered her my hot chocolate instead, but she wouldn't take it, so now I feel bad that she didn't get her hot chocolate.

I also bought new boots last week, and I wore them too much straight away before they were broken in (because I wear my boots walking in to work, which works out at over 100 miles a month, my boots wear down really quickly and my old ones were falling apart so I stupidly threw them out as soon as I bought the new ones), so now I have a nasty scabby blister on my heel and it blooming well hurts: it feels like some one has taken a match to my heel!

Thank you everyone.
The dentist, I was there for less than five minutes, and don't need anything doing.
The vets, my appointment turned out to be with the really really really nice vet-lady, who is happy for me to stay while 'it' gets done and she's very caring and sympathetic (and worth absolutely every penny for the fact she treats my rats as Proper Pets). They were running a bit late but still took loads of time with me and Nixon, to make sure Nixon was given proper general anaethesia (and I was cuddling her as she drifted off) and making sure she was properly definitely under before the Big Nasty Injection went in her tummy (with cats, dogs, etc, it goes intravenously and works very quickly; with small animals intravenous is impractical, so it goes in the tummy and takes longer - so it's nicest to make sure they are sedated before it gets done). [I never mind the vets running late or shunting me out the way for an emergency; because I know that if I need them in an emergency, or I need time, then they will find the time to fit me in].
My manager also had no problem at all with me taking a half day.

false_harmonic - smelling of coffee and having blisters from new footwear is defintely worthy of a Great Big ARGH! in my book!

I'm feeling very nervous about a visitor who is due here in about half-an-hour. My husband should be home in about an hour so I won't be on my own too long... but I'm feeling jumpy

I'm sure he'll be okay really but I don't think I'm that great with strangers....

*hug*

The worst is often the waiting and the anticipation - once they're here you can play it by ear. I am sure you'll be fine.

Just tried to order food from Tesco and didn't realise if I didn't want it to be sent to home I should have done something at the start and can't seem to amend address :bah:.

I'll have to do it all later.

My favouritest person in the company my dad works for has been made redundant.

And my uncle broke his wrist and needed surgery today but no-one told me.

My friend's baby is still in intensive care and she's barely been allowed to hold him.

It's Saturday tomorrow...

Grrrr. I've just been dumped on. Can't go into too much detail, but I'm very, Very VERY Cross.

pigeons are horrible... the same thing happened to my uncle

Hope things improve

Thanks... I guess none of them really affect me, so I'm just arghing on behalf of the others. Bad things come in threes though, right? So if I'm the unlucky charm, nothing else should happen.

Hmmm. Things were quite as bad as I thought - no one's fault, except the person who let me down at the last minute. And it's one of those situations where you've got to be polite, you can't just say what you think.

I can't cope with being back in this college today! A boiling hot day, loads of work to do, exams coming up, being surrounded by people yet having no one to talk to, the person I hate most in the world kissing the behinds of lots of people I used to spend time with... !!! I love it really, of course.

Without meaning to cause all out debate on the topic, is it me or has the Monday morning sweep occurred yet again with no communication to anyone? Feeling slightly Argh about the dead silence and apparently uresolved issues.

If someone knows something I don't, perhaps they could PM me? Perish the thought that our Argh thread would have to get the chop!

I feel like 95% of my friends just use me when they want me Everyone got together for a BBQ on Sunday, and no-body even mentioned it to me, let alone invited me...I don't mind not being included in everything, I don't expect to be...I just feel like, I'm only wanted to be a part of the group when it's ok with them on their terms...for example, if they need somewhere to go they'll suggest we do something at mine, or if someone needs picking up, I'll be invited...I'm sure they don't mean it to come across the way it is...well, I hope not...I just feel so lonely, and so miserable and fed up with it all... sorry, ramble over

I'll always be there for you

Thanks Nic Nic I feel so stupid but, it's just getting me down

It's not stupid. MSN?

Will be on in a second



Thanks

Best years of your life, sweetie. *cuddles* xxx

Maybe I could help... (Maybe not, but worth a try? We always get sidetracked when we speak about it!)


In 2 months time, the exams will be over. Yes, you'll still be at college, but not for too many more weeks before you'll have a long, glorious summer stretched ahead of you. You can cope with the work - I know it often feels like you (anyone) can't. Trust me - you knew me through 5th and 6th year, and I worked myself to the bone and made myself ill etc but I'm still here to tell the tale. And I don't regret it. I actually wish I'd worked harder and not complained about it. That's not to say that I don't think you should complain.

As for that person, she is not worthy of your thoughts, so please erase them. She is part of the past and in just over a year you will never have a reason to see her again. I know she caused a lot of damage, but that's her problem. And she seriously didn't achieve her ultimate goal over the last year now, did she?

How about you go and talk to Freddie for a bit now he's walked home? (I didn't know fish could walk!) Relax a bit, make sure everything is ready for tomorrow - including the afternoon's voyage - and enjoy the nice weather (which we don't have here today ).

xx

Awww, thank you darling. I guess it all finished up being a shock to the system following a pleasant couple of weeks.

I think I reached burnout a couple of years ago with it all somehow, and now I even have your retrospective feelings about myself just with regard to last year. I guess I'll get back into it all. I'm really looking forward to the summer - think of all the lovely things that will go on.

You're right about The Nose (which is now pierced...), but it's sometimes so hard when I see her going round the place with loads of people I used to be closer to. Ah well, I guess it's just life. She'd better not follow me to uni! She'll never achieve that goal - no one will.

The other fish have been tidying the pond up today, but Freddy takes after me and can't stand such activity. I guess he needs some stimulation!

xxxxxxx

It's hardly surprising. The last 3 years haven't been great! I reached burnout with my SG's too, so you're not alone in that.

She won't follow you - for a start, don't tell her your plans! (Duh. ) And anyway, I think she's a bit scared of me now and I'll be visiting you if we're not in the same place!

Oh no, not a messy fish. This won't do.

Stupid Student Loans website!!! Every other time I click on something it gives me a server error and it doesn't seem to know about my course It won't even let me sign out of the stupid thing!

ARRGGHHH

Lucky? *hugs*

Oh thanks Miss R. I'm just being silly, but you know you get really attached to societies you're in? Well my music theatre society is putting on a show, my friends are in it, and I've been loserishly going to all the rehearsals to watch, I can't be in it, because I was at uni while everything was set.

Well, tonight was the dress rehearsal, and it was terrible. I know, it's supposed to be, but whatever ###### you think of, it was worse, not a single scene went right. So I was upset about it, on behalf of my friends, and then, I don't really know why, but like I was hanging round trying to comfort the cast afterwards and I just felt like a total outsider. There are people who came back specifically to do this show, who I don't know - one girl in particular was really rude... And basically I felt like a total idiot for even being there to show my support, which I probably am...

So then I went up to one of my best friends, really upset, for a hug, and he wouldn't hug me because it'd embarrass him in front of his stage crew friends.

Oh hun, that's awful. I know exactly how you must feel. It hurts, doesn't it? I wish I had some advice to offer... but I think I'd just crumble if it was me.

I guess, really, that things were bound to change and this is just proof of it. But that doesn't make it any easier. It's the bit about your friend not hugging you that's bothering me tbh.

You're not an idiot. I think it's so great that you found the strength to do go and show your support.

Thanks Miss Ross... I won't crumble, I'll just feel sorry for myself, maybe have a cry, eat some ice cream, and go and do my refreshments/backstage/make-up bit tomorrow, as though nothing happened.

To be honest, though the atmosphere of unhappiness, and the rudeness of that one girl, probably didn't help, I'm mostly upset about my friend too. He got embarrassed when I went to talk to him in the interval too, while his friends were there, and I don't know why. I don't think I'm an embarrassing person to be associated with... I don't know. I mean, if he was a casual acquaintance sure, but he's supposed to be one of my best friends.

I know. One of my best friends is a bit like that now too. We were always very close but then she started mixing with a totally different group of people (they're into heavy rock music, buying swords, having tatoos etc...). I'm still friendly with her, but only when it's just people from our old group. As soon as she's with the new group and I happen to be there, I feel very out of place and in the way. It's strange how things change.

It is... and I don't want them to change. The sad thing is, all the rest of stage crew, and his friends were absolutely lovely to me, talking to me, taking an interest, and generally having fun, and accepting me into the group, it's only my friend who had the issue.

I think I'll sleep on it, decide if I'm over-reacting or not, and if not, try to have a proper chat with him tomorrow.

Had a rude awakening at about 20 to 6 this morning by the alarm company ringing to say the alarm had been activated at work. So I get here to find that it isn't even a false alarm - the alarm hadn't even gone off


Lucky, I hope you have a good outcome today

Sorry this just made me laugh!

Lucky - I can't believe that your friend didn't hug you Will you get to talk to them about it?

I think I'm about to have a bad week

Got home from teaching last night about 10.00pm and within minutes, felt absolutely "b" awful

Very sore throat - only on one side strangely, ache all over as if I've been kicked by one of Petrat's donkeys, and a thumping headache.....and in bed, I thought I was going to combust spontaneously. Temperature ok now.

Got to go teaching today - first day of new term for adult education and local radio are coming to record us.

and a lunchtime concert in Manchester tomorrow

Is there a forum doctor in the house? (preferably not Roger )

I'll live

well I see you haven't lost your sense of humour D !!

My OH and I felt somewhat similar over the weekend, and we concluded it was a virus. Hope you soon feel better, and your week is better than you expect.