My arms are burning with hives and I have no idea why.
Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Sneaky sweaty nighttime cuddles.
I've been in the "looking for work" situation in the last year. It sucks ass! Interviews are both the best and the worst, since you got "that far" in the process (success! hope!), but then it is all the more crushing if they reject you.
It's not the end of the world. I have a job, just looking for something a little better. Like you said though, the roller-coaster of the process sucks.
*looks at his gadget with a big red button*
Huh. I didn't think that'd actually work.
That'd be me. We're dead TV brothers now!
Our air mattress got a hole in it and deflated during the night while Aussie & I slept on it.. I am so exhausted right now.
Lol my parents started yelling at me when I said kneeling for the national anthem isn't disrespectful so I hung up on them. And they wonder why I don't want to move back closer to them.
And then my mom texted me and said I was brainwashed. LMAO. Please spend more time watching Fox News and thinking Trump is a smart guy with good business sense and leave me out of your craziness.
And then my mom texted me and said I was brainwashed. LMAO. Please spend more time watching Fox News and thinking Trump is a smart guy with good business sense and leave me out of your craziness.
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I had a weird one recently with my mother. She and my dad are part of a local group that isn't art related, but they have an annual art show as a social event. It's not judged or anything, but it's still an art show, so I applied art show rules concerning copyright etc. The art show I entered last year was very strict about what the adult participants could submit. No fan art, nothing that you drew from a lesson or course and nothing that you didn't either draw from your imagination or have the rights to the reference image. It was my first show, but apparently those are pretty standard rules.
I did a lesson and my mum loved an early work in progress that I showed her, so I gave it to her when I was done. That's totally fine because I gave it to her rather than sold it to her. She wanted to enter it in this show and didn't understand why I said no.
Even worse, she got mad and tried to argue with me about it and pressure me into letting her show it. I offered to let her show as many of my photos as she'd like. She said that it wasn't a show that allowed photography and continued to pressure me. I was concerned that she would show it anyways, so I tried to work on an original piece and I made really good progress on it. Unfortunately, I wasn't well over the weekend so I couldn't finish it. I tried though.
She called this morning. Guess what? She mentioned my concerns about my drawing to the organizer and he supported my position and asked about my photography. The show does in fact take photos, she just wanted to pressure me into letting her use the drawing last week. So with less than ten minutes of effort, I had several pictures uploaded to be printed close to their place and now they have a bunch of my work to display. Work that I think is a lot better honestly.
Super weird situation all around.
I did a lesson and my mum loved an early work in progress that I showed her, so I gave it to her when I was done. That's totally fine because I gave it to her rather than sold it to her. She wanted to enter it in this show and didn't understand why I said no.
Even worse, she got mad and tried to argue with me about it and pressure me into letting her show it. I offered to let her show as many of my photos as she'd like. She said that it wasn't a show that allowed photography and continued to pressure me. I was concerned that she would show it anyways, so I tried to work on an original piece and I made really good progress on it. Unfortunately, I wasn't well over the weekend so I couldn't finish it. I tried though.
She called this morning. Guess what? She mentioned my concerns about my drawing to the organizer and he supported my position and asked about my photography. The show does in fact take photos, she just wanted to pressure me into letting her use the drawing last week. So with less than ten minutes of effort, I had several pictures uploaded to be printed close to their place and now they have a bunch of my work to display. Work that I think is a lot better honestly.
Super weird situation all around.
Just like the good ol days when you didn't even have them!
I seriously wish I could schedule times to meet with teachers for parent teacher conferences for high school, instead of having to get in line at each individual teacher and hoping for the best. Especially because I have to run my daughter around after school and will definitely not have enough time to make the rounds for three - four hours, which tends to be the norm. As it is, I have an hour, then I have to leave and get my daughter from math club and drive her to gymnastics, then come back to the high school to either squeeze in another hour before I have to pick her up again, and then I won't have enough time to bother coming back before it's over again, unless my husband can skip out of a work meeting early to get her at 6:15. I also woke up with an awful headache today, so yay. I'm also terrified/stressed about having to go to conferences alone already, because my son is struggling very badly with a lot of things this year and I hate having to listen to teachers talk about it and potentially have to start arguing with them. At the same time, having my husband with me generally makes no difference because he never speaks up anyways, even when I get to the point of frustration tears and everything gets awkward.
I agree. This sounds a lot more important. Also, I’m sure that if you ask many teachers would be willing to schedule longer parent teacher meetings on a different day. Our kids school offered to have me come in on a different day for ours so I didn’t have to worry about getting trampled trying to walk with my cane with all those people around. They offered. I think they wanted a bit of extra time too because they were worried about how my health was impacting our daughter.
She's missed two weeks of gymnastics because of scheduling issues already and I have to get her from school regardless, so it's not really the issue at hand. The issue is honestly one of hating to talk to teachers because it stresses me out. As it stands, his special ed coordinator hunted me down as soon as I got to school and talked to me for 45 minutes and we even managed to ambush his English teacher (the convo I was dreading the most) so I didn't have to talk to her alone. So I feel better already.
The case of the missing cheque at school has been solved. There had been some confusion though because they thought our son had filled out his own hot lunch order form....no that would have been me. I guess being off work this long hasn't done anything for my handwriting.
Chestnut tress. I once lived in a house with half a dozen chestnut trees in the yard. Ugh.
Ooh, chestnuts and black walnuts, no thank you.
Hey at least black walnuts smell nice...and kill all the other nearby vegetation.
—Patrick
So I only recently added that Memoirs add-on for Facebook. And the memories I'm getting are...a lot of depressed, down, or borderline suicidal statuses. Or when I was in hospitalized two years ago.
The way I've been feeling lately, it's sad to see that recurring pattern and how I'm kidding myself that anything really changes or improves for me.
The way I've been feeling lately, it's sad to see that recurring pattern and how I'm kidding myself that anything really changes or improves for me.
Trees still green here.
Facebook portrays their "Memories" feature as a great way to wax all nostalgic about your past, but it was probably pitched by people with happy lives to people with happy lives, and neither group could see what possible harm could come of it. Meanwhile people with depressive/suicidal histories have their past histories heaped upon them harder than a convicted felon filling out job applications.
In your case, I recommend disabling the add-on, and possibly using your writing skills to send them a polite note about how their good intentions will most likely pave a path straight to Hell for people in your situation.
--Patrick