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I watched an episode last night, one wife worked in Westerville, a suburb of Columbus. I live in the metro, so I continued watching, trying to figure out the locations. No way did that realtor show them those homes originally. One was on the west side of town, which would make the commute to Westerville a real bitch, even if only 2 days a week. The other house I think was more on the south side. Made zero sense. I went out to home sites and there were plenty in their price range, older homes is what I looked at since they wanted character, etc. I found the house they chose. The pictures on the site were stunning. The show had it as a major fixer, but it was all redone on pictures posted in the sale shots in August 2019. The wall colors were different so maybe the HH couple had repainted; I would have left it as it was in the pictures as it was truly stunning. The kitchen had state of the art appliances, was obviously remodeled. I don't understand why they need the fakery. I started to watch tonight with the guy and his girlfriend of 6 months. She was ridiculously demanding. Wanted to turn a small bedroom into a closet for herself. I did not get the sense she was contributing to the purchase. Turned it off as I wanted to punch the tv.

Ramona putting all that food out onto the patio when everyone got there - why? None of these bitches really eat that much. I guess some way to justify the drinking? Oh I'm eating cheese and crackers so I can have a glass (or two) of wine. Then when she had a hissy saying oh she'd not hired anyone for two days (as in maids). So wrong. Any hostess would pick that shit up herself and not make a big deal over it. Not classy at all. Tinsley and Leah were like oh no problem, we can help clean up - except all Ramona did was drink more Pinot. Then because Tinsley had a bunch of stuff she was carrying, some utensil fell out. Ramona made some snide crack about it. You can't pick up a fork, you lazy bitch? Then she said something about these girls had no idea about how to act as a hostess? They are NOT the hostess. You should have been the one to pick it all up - or hire someone to do so. You do NOT make your guests clean up and then bitch at them because it's not to your liking. Lu would have bitched no matter what room she got. It was for two nights? Big fucking deal. I would have been glad to get away from the craziness. Plus, if Lu is really drinking on the sly - perfect place to exit or sneak in a drink. Maybe the producers were setting her up - seeing if she would try to sneak in a drink down in the lower level. Tons of people have tattoos and it's not a sign that you're trashy. You can act trashy, as evidenced by the old broads on this show, without having a single tat. My boss, a SVP has tats all the way up his neck, and 'sleeves' on each arm. Co-worker has just about every inch of her arms and legs in tats. They need to get out of their bubble (Ramona, Dorinda, Sonja). And if Leah isn't bothered by it, then no need for anyone else to care. Probably got it in her younger days, thinking it was so cool. Dorinda is jealous of Tinsley. Tinsley can change the course of her life, while I think Dorinda feels trapped. She wants her old life back, and is realizing that ship has sailed. And Tinsley needs to tell Dorinda to stop with the inquisition now. If Dorinda gets all teary and blah blah blah renovations - I'd just sorry you're having issues, but no reason to take out your frustrations and anger (and jealousy) on me, so stop it now. And doubtful that Dorinda is having to pinch pennies to get the place fixed. As someone asked, what is the renovation keeping her from doing in her 'normal' life? Naps? Drinking?

I'd watch this show if they brought in Jen (had the young daughter at home), the mermaid wanna be chef, or the stew who was sick 90% of the time (and left early) on Below Deck to work with Jenna. Madison is a star employee compared to those three. It would be must see tv. Honestly, from the small bits I've seen thus far, no one has the professionalism of the Below Deck crew (even with their crazies).

Saw a repeat of the toilet licker on OWN today. Clearly did it for attention, but she's an obnoxious twit. Only old people get it, it's fake news, cancelling my graduation (graduating from Rutgers??). She said no one in Miami had it anyhow. Yeah, Miami, as of last evening, has the majority of cases in FL. Read that a huge spring break party is one area where the stuff spread like wildfire. So many people who were vocal in saying oh it's nothing, I won't get it, yeah tested positive weeks later. Karma, she does come calling. Good luck Toilet Princess.

HATE the Sheba cat food commercial. Mom is staring at the cat and can't even both to ask the kid how badly are you hurt? Yeah the kid is talking, but we wouldn't even say squat to our mom growing up if it was a little cut or scrape, we'd grab the ointment (whatever that pink/red stuff was in the bottle with a wand), smear that around and maybe put on a bandage. If it was bad, we'd be asking for mom. And not all of the time were we screaming. Sometimes it was like it hurt so bad you didn't really scream, maybe partially in shock. Like my brother fell into a couple of rose bushes, his back all scratched up to hell. He came in and barely spoke just said the gate to the fence swung back, hit his bike and he went wham into the bushes. Mom gingerly took off his shirt, I think maybe a thorn or twig was in his shirt. She then cleaned his back carefully, and put an ointment on it (soothing antibiotic). So not every time does the child have to scream like a banshee when really hurt. A friend fell and broke their arm, no screaming. A neighbor fell asleep and hit her head on the arm of a chair that was wooden, gash across her head. No screaming. Her parents did not just keep staring at the pet, tell her to get a bandage, but were actual parents who took her to the ER to get the stiches she needed. The mother doesn't even ask the kid how they are. All she cares about is her fucking cat. She should have just had a house of cats and no kids.

I watch this very rarely. The WFH and being cooped up has me watching shows I normally do not. Where to start. Lisa telling Ariana (think it was her), after Arianna said some days she just feels like driving her car off of the road, oh you'll be ok. We all care about you. Ok, but she needs to see someone if she's having thoughts of killing herself, even fleetingly. She also said there were days she could barely get out of bed. Lisa was like oh stiff upper lip, carry on! That shit went out eons ago. (Maybe she is seeing a therapist, but yeah she needed to make another appointment STAT). Brittany. Ugh. Not a fan at all. I'd prefer Crazy Kristin over this duplicitous chick. She basically was on the prowl to latch onto a 'star' (or her mother was encouraging/prodding her). She acts like ya'll I'm such an innocent southern girl. Sure, Jan. The whole I want a princess party, and people on SM are being mean to me! I saw that like a 4 year old - or maybe Nellie Oleson - stomping her foot while dressed in her finest party dress, hair in ringlets. What in the hell did she think was going to happen on social media when she posted pictures? If she was so dead set on it, then screw anyone who didn't like it. (I actually agreed with Stassi). No she has a meltdown. Give me a break. The whole pastor thing. The whole he lied to us. No, he didn't. He didn't change his stripes, I'm sure he's held those views and been public about it for some time. Brittany just wanted him for her wedding, and didn't give a shit about what he'd said. I know she had posted (and deleted) questionable tweets herself. Who you choose reflects on you. Jax was probably drunk or maybe they both were and didn't care or looked the other way. Lisa or production found out, and no way Lisa would risk having some homophobic person on her show, so of course, they changed the pastor. Jax, there are "bad" people in every profession. There have been horrible popes throughout history, who were corrupt, in it for the money. Has he not been aware of how many pastors/priests/preachers who have been in serious trouble throughout the years. Oh wait, probably just too busy partying to read or be an informed adult. Then Brittany hoped Jax would beat up Tom. Tom may have been trying to stir the pot, but that was the gentlest 'stir' I've ever seen on a reality show. I just had a question about......kaboom! I also wonder if production said hey, we're not paying a dime for this wedding unless you get a different pastor. Because this extravagant (guessing it's tacky AF, too) wedding wouldn't be possible on a bartender and poor lil' old country girl's salary/income. Wait until Jax cheats on her. Even Helen Keller could see that coming. Cue the water works. Keep hydrated Brittany.

I couldn't edit the above post, but the whole error that was found - fixed and the two twats who 'reviewed" did not make any comments - just ignore and it will go away I guess. Boss had call to go over a few things, and asked how everyone was doing - day 1 of mandatory work from home today. Did we have any questions? Dip - immediately asks - when can we go back into the office? I do not like this at all. She didn't know how to hook up all of the equipment she took home, which is not a shocker. We were told indefinite, could be 8 weeks or more or less - no one knows. Have to get approval to even go into the office to fetch anything now. She then complained how bars and restaurants were closed! Can't even get food (this from someone who has a freaking JUMBO sized freezer at her house). Us mere mortals are getting by with a standard fridge/freezer. There are some on the team who also have their kids home, so they have to do work and watch them - and they complained less. I mean, times are tough, so put on your big girl panties and deal with it. Hope everyone is staying safe.❤️

So first working weekend is done. Nothing too awful. In fact, midway during my shift the project manager sent an email, all done. LOL. Dip tried to stick me with the bad shift, and she ended up having to log more hours than anyone. We were told Friday - WFH effective 3/16. Dip and some other person had a cow. Dip took home, two monitors, mice, and her laptop docking station. I was asked you have everything you need. I believe so - just my laptop. She cannot use her laptop screen as it's too small. Then bitched about having to haul all that tuff home. Your choice. Not sure if anyone else in or group did the same. Then I see someone asked a question why is this line blank for xxxx. I said I'm looking at that email (to Dip - kind of asking did she do anything with it). No she didn't know who the person was addressing. It was to the entire team, but once again Dip just ignores and figures I'll handle it. I reviewed the stuff and one group was updated no problem. Same utility tool updated another group, same data, and skipped random accounts. I had ran scrapes of everything, which I normally check with a fine toothed comb, but missed it. My two stellar reviewers (Dip and QB) said oh it's all fine (they put their electronic John Hancock's on it). Boss saw all of the chatter and said was qc bad again? They'd messed up another system checks a while back and the originator let them both have it. That originator now asks me to check their stuff. We'll see how it plays out tomorrow. No impact to end client as it was caught by someone else way ahead of time. Just reinforces what I'd told boss again and again that their work is sloppy at best. .

Management is just hoping Dip will retire and go away. She was demoted years ago when she had a female boss who had more balls than any of the male managers around. How do I know this - Dip told me. She's not sleeping with anyone; nearly 70 and not a femme fetale o maneater at all. Well I had a discussion with boss and he agreed, it was unfair. I'd also listed out some major shit she'd done - not errors but foot in mouth stuff, and he was just stunned. Like saying we can give a new client code 101 when 101 is the HUGE client we're working on now. Then tried to throw me under the bus saying it wasn't recorded in the client list - hello you get stuff EVERY day for this client with that 101 notation, try again dumbass. Anyhow the schedule WAS changed. Even the other person on the team was rolling their eyes, because Dip did not understand what I said. I wanted one day - daytime hours - where I wasn't changed to a laptop so I could do my errands, etc. We also have days marked off by management - like ones where you have to get permission to be off, then blackout days. Blackout is supposed to be only for emergencies or you're given the day off by an Act of God. Yeah a team member who is supposed to help out with overflow emailed today saying yeah I'm off, he finally approved it (boss). I was like WTF. It is during a blackout time, so we won't get any extra support or help. The reason why - college visit with her son. Hello - all colleges here have suspended classes on site for at least 3 weeks. What are you going to see - empty buildings? I almost emailed something back, but I think the old Dip will. Let her step in it, and I'll sit back and watch the show. I am really irate, but I am going to see how this plays out.

I've had the displeasure of working with individuals who will take advantage of everyone, but the latest Dip shenanigans take the cake. We have been told we have to support a client event over 3 separate weekends (two in a row - coming up soon). As in round the clock being online , at the ready, even if they do not need us. We are hourly, so the OT has been approved. Dip took it upon herself to write up a schedule for all weekends. All the same hours, with me during the day for 6 Saturday and Sunday combos. I never agreed to that schedule. I was so irate today, scheduled an overdue meeting with boss. I refrained from responding to her, but who in the hell does she think she is? I typically avoid conflict, but no, I'm not standing for this crap. Granted, I will be the one they reach out to, as Dip can barely log into any system. She's proven her inadequacies many times, and I even said now honestly, who are they going to call? She's not been involved even though she protested when meetings initially excluded her, then came into meetings with a pad of small sticky notes (everyone else had notebooks or binders). She eventually stopped going. It was all about how she wasn't on the invite. I've also been working on another project, automating some new way to get tasks done. She needed something from me right then and there, even though she didn't need it for another week or more. I said fine, let me drop everything for you. She backed off big time. I told her how to get the data, and was asked is it hard? No, it's something you should know already! I just had zero time for it. I then said I had to do 3 or 4 other things, plus this automation thing was only updating one line, not multiple. Her response, "great so now we'll have something that only works off and on". I wanted to smack her. I'd asked her and another person to log into this new system and test some I already had done. She just logged in today. 5 months later. She then told me she'd need to be trained. I got one document with codes, and was told have at it. Yeah, don't expect me to spoon feed you. I tried to calm myself down and said no, I'm only marking those as completed or ok, once they totally work. I really should have said, fine, I'm done working on it. Since you know how it should work, you can finish all this crap. I'm going to write it all down for boss. Even the PM handling all of the scheduling was like this is for every day? He knew it was beyond wrong. His team is alternating. Dip always likes the early hours so she can do stuff with her hubby - who works in a completely different metro area, so he's gone for an entire week at a time. She was asked, why don't you move there? Nope, not doing it, he can just drive it. (We're talking a 3 to 4 hour drive each way). So everyone should just bend to what she wants. I wrote so many emails to her today, then deleted, wanting to think over my response. I am so upset with her crap, that I've been working remotely a LOT. I might need bail money.

I love the Chantrix turkey. He's so chill. It's cute and funny. No yelling or hitting you over the head with their product. Love the raccoons in the Geico ads. I liked the first one - rummaging through the garbage, and it's something even the raccoon didn't want to eat. Then they've hijacked the freaking garbage truck - wait there's half a cheesesteak back there! The food stand is ok, but they're still funnier than a good majority of ads for me. The woodchucks ads always take me by surprise. They're an ok. There's only so many places you can go with chucking wood.

I'm sure it's been mentioned here, but I HATE that freaking Emu and Doug. Pinnochio is getting a bit old, too. The first one as a motivational speaker, yeah kind of cute. But it's a one joke deal - we get it he lies, nose grows. Hardy har har.

Wow the History Channel is actually airing shows about - gasp - HISTORY! Watched part 1 of Washington last night. It was ok, but I've seen better documentaries. They had some really great commentators/contributors, so not sure why it was teetering on being very dull. I see they are also doing a mini series on Grant. Today, probably because it's President's Day, more history shows. They had The Presidents on early this morning. Listened up to Monroe, then that was it. WTH. Then 9/11 shows, now The World Wars. Not stellar shows, but I'll take it over the usual programming. I will watch a lot on AHC, watching the same shows over and over re: WWII. They have a few shows on the Civil War and revolution, but it's WWII, conspiracies, or the mafia over there. Still better programming of actual history related shows than the History Channel on most days. Hopefully, the History Channel is going back to its roots?

So Wendy, if men are to leave dresses and heels for women, does that mean women need to leave flats and pants for men only? Is it a ratings period now? Was this just a ploy to get into the news anyhow possible? In any event, show needs to be cancelled like yesterday.

There are so many shows that do DNA tests, so it's nothing new Nev. I noticed one thing that annoys me with Nev, while watching a mini marathon today. When someone explains why they did this or that, what is supposed to be a serious moment or revelation, Nev will half close his eyes, and do some sort of small shrug, move his eyebrows, almost an eye roll but not really. I see it and I want to reach through the tv and shake him. What's up with the new crime show Nev is promoting/introducing? Branching out in case this show keeps on it's downward spiral?

Reading back a few pages, where it was mentioned the murderer killed the pets, made me flash on a local case. I was reading about how this woman didn't go into work (pharmacist at a local grocery store - where I shop). Co-workers were concerned, had police do a welfare check. She was found deceased - stabbed to death I believe. She also had a small dog, who was all killed. Turns out she'd been the person who waited on me many times, so kind and thoughtful. It was her drug addled son, who came from CA to OH, wanted money, guess she said no, so he killed her and her dog, then took her car. Yeah they caught him in a day or so. I believe he just pled guilty. Adios asshat. Mary Jane Fonder - what a nutbag. I've seen a couple of shows about her. I think she did kill at least her dad or mother, too. Yeah, the preacher was secretly lusting after you. All of the Murder for Hire people - who are shocked that they were caught. You're trusting total strangers in most cases. Then one woman was shocked she was arrested because she watched all of the true crime shows. Uh, most of those shows are about people who were caught for being stupid, leaving a clue or talking too much. Today I was watching a Snapped rerun, where the soon to be ex-wife enlisted her firearms instructor (ex serviceman of some sort who thought he was really a special ops guy - not) to kill her soon to be ex - over custody dispute. This was in Southern CA. Mr. Special Ops wannabe had diarrhea so they have DNA evidence all over. He left a towel with the 'specimen' all over it at the scene. They found other stuff, too that implicated him. He testifies at trial saying he didn't mean to shoot the guy, but if he had, he'd be dead now. Yeah, enjoy that 50 year sentence. The soon to be ex wife got around 30 some years. So much for winning custody. Morons.

This may be long. I really should know better by now, but I keep stupidly thinking that the family situation will improve. Not the case, although there were some nice moments, but not nearly enough to make this Christmas a good one. Started out on Tuesday, fog in the area, but the weather guy said it'd burn off by 10 a.m. Fine. I'd been told I had to leave early by Mom as they (she and my brother) were planning on going to a specific church for a priest they love. Leaving at 2 pm for a 4 pm service. Yep, 2 hours early. So I was on the road for real by 8:30 a.m. packing all the presents the night before in the car. Fog wasn't great, but doable on the highways - big old divided highways. No burning off by 10 a.m., fog advisory extended. Great. When I get into the non-divided highway portion where it's in BFE, I can barely see road signs. There are driveways, cross roads (county roads that intersect with this US highway). I was like this is bad, they can go along to the service, I'm not going to be a traffic statistic to meet their deadline. I wanted to pull over into some small town/village's church parking lot, but I couldn't see the drive. I went on about 5 to 6 miles where I knew there was a small truck plaza/gas station/mini mart. I could not see the traffic light at the actual intersection. Made it into the lot, where off to the side state police were doing paperwork for a fender bender. Called Mom and promptly was yelled at - I told you this was a bad travel day! You need to take more time off, you let those people walk all over you (office folks). I tried to explain that I cannot take every holiday off, just because she wants it so! The bad travel stuff was news readers saying it was going to be a busy travel day - which there were so few cars on the road where I was anyhow. Traffic or busy roads wasn't the problem. So I waited it out, with nothing improving much. I decided to get to the next town, 11 miles away, which wasn't awful driving, then made it to Mom's. She was all happy happy. We go to church and the priest is in really bad health. Bad. It was a travesty to have him be the sole priest. Mom loved it. It was all wonderful. I was stopped by some teenager do-gooder asking me had I taken communion. What the hell skippy? I told him I had to go, be gone. It was very weird. Mom and brother are out by the car when I made it through the crowd. Mom all of a sudden starts to go down into a sitting position - very slow motion - where I blocked her from going any further backward, but she just sat on a curb, saying oh I just lost my balance. WTH. It was like she was going to sit in a chair. She was ok. Brother made a joke out of it and she was laughing (had I laughed, the tears would have started). Rest of the night was blah. Brother is basically anti-gift, but caved to Mom because waterworks and pouting won out. So he'd gotten me a gift cards and he had one bag for Mom. I'm like gotta be electronics (I peeked and saw a charger). Sure enough, a cell phone. This is #3 from him - all of the other ones were 'stupid' along with the iPhone I got her - you guessed it, 'stupid'. I was like good luck chuck. I also got her two tables (Amazon) and they were 'stupid'. She bought herself a laptop and it sits gathering dust. I've not shown her enough. I have nothing left to show her; it's dumbed down to enter a pin, click on an icon to get to the internet, and all of her favorites are saved as favorites. She's a technophobe. So I had gotten her a ton of stuff -- sheets, beauty items, clothing items, one gadget for the kitchen she wanted. She'd also said she would've preferred the new air fryers that have the racks that look like a small oven. It was on sale, so I ordered it. HUGE MISTAKE. We opened the big box later, and she asked me so can I fry eggs in it? She thought it was part griddle? She has a collection of small appliances she has never used. I may have used some once or twice. All are scattered around her dining room. For the air fryer, I thought it could go on an auxiliary cart with a butcher block top, but there is no outlet available. I then said she needed to donate some of the small appliances as they are dust catchers. Yeah icy stare. Then I said why don't we store away your Kitchen Aid mixer (not used in over 5 years). Yeah, no. I then said well this was a mistake, stupid, stupid me and boxed it back up. She just saw it was good looking food coming out of it on the demo and had zero clue how it worked. Today I was up earlier, having the kitchen floor, guest bath cleaned, and some laundry done before Mom was up. She'd told me oh she'd been up earlier, with pain (arthritis), and again telling me I don't know what pain is (I have a chronic back injury but that's not painful). I kept up the cleaning, then Mom says I need to go to the store to get over the counter pain pills. Ok, so you want me to go? Nope she wants to look at stuff. I told her I wanted to leave no later than 3 pm. As I'm finally done with cleaning, and ready to step into the shower, couldn't I go check her mail? Mail is in one of those group mailboxes outside. She is obsessed with mail. Obsessed. She has 7 people on her Christmas card list from whom she'd not received a card yet; one was from me. Brother got my card - same city, so that was validation I did send it out. I go to mailbox and should've said nope, no mail. Stupidly, I brought it into her house One was my card, one from an ex-neighbor kid (she was always close with her), and my cousin. Ka-BOOM. Ex-neighbor kid (who is now well over 40 with kids in high school), said she'd stopped sending out holiday cards, but she'd continue to send to Mom. Ok, nice of her. Mom was close to tears saying I bet they're in debt! She is so jealous of this woman - her husband is a CFO, she's a teacher, just got a big new house, trip for anniversary, kids doing well. Her mantra - I bet they're in debt! She'll have to work the rest of her life! This woman loves teaching. Mom cannot understand that one bit. Her goal was to be a housewife, so that should be every woman's dream goal. Cousin had said offhand, years ago, oh maybe I'll visit. Mom took that as oh she's coming to visit. Nah, it was a throwaway comment to appease her. Cousin wrote she's going on an long trip to the far east. So Mom does what she does - she pouted. Might as well forget me like everyone else! I said c'mon we're either going or not going. Venom then directed at me. We get back from the trip, then I start packing up. It's almost 3. Oh can we eat? Sure. Leftovers it is. I continue to pack up and hurry around. I re-arranged the leftovers into more manageable containers, washing the old ones. She gives me the death stare at the washed containers sitting in the drying tray. Oh you want me to put them away? Well I cannot reach. (She reached up to use the container to make the Jello concoction - so not true). Then I hear what did you do with the instructions for xxxx - one of her appliances that has never been used - never used. I didn't move the papers. You had to, you had to......nope, they were in a drawer and I know she put them there. I finally leave and I forgot the box with the damned air fryer. Then she called me again, saying you forgot your bags. WTH. It was ONE gift bag where I'd put stuff for my brother (bought for her to give to him, and I put in gift bag for her). You said you'd take care of it! Nope, never said that at all. I drove back and forth between the box and the bag4 to 5 miles each time. Then on the BFE stretch, a group of about 6 to 8 deer ran in front of me, which I barely missed. I cannot tell you how glad I am that the holidays are over. Epilogue: Mom is not answering my calls (I call to let her know I made it home). I am sure she is pouting; the last trip back to get the bag, she said what did you really get me for Christmas? I said well, you said you wanted that air fryer, but you really didn't. Not my problem, plus I had plenty of other stuff for her. I'm sure it all pales in comparison to the new wonder cell phone. She's only using it to play solitaire, plus to read news/weather updates from a local station. I give it two to three months max before that one is, yes, stupid. Thanks for letting me vent. I think next holiday I will be ill. Something that will not allow me to travel.

I love how Eddie didn't even go to see what was wrong with his wifey. Maybe he doesn't know either! Why does Shannon always say the entire last name of the person she doesn't like or is feuding with? It was Heather Dubrow - always Heather Dubrow, never just Heather. Now I noticed it's the same thing with 'Kelly Dodd'. Not like there was another Heather or Kelly in the cast. I don't know what Kelly did or didn't do, but she was seeming like she was being cordial and minding her own business, then old drunk Tamrat decided she need to have a hissy (and secure her orange for next season - probably producer egged her on as well). Running into the shrubbery is a new one. She always acts like she's such a bad ass, but she acted like a scared widdle girl with that move. The crying was fake or just because she was drunk as a skunk. So you get a party and a big wedding even for #3? Yes, I know it was the event for the finale, but why do I think Vicki would have a big to do regardless of cameras being around? Slow tv night, so I ended up watching. Not a regular viewer, and I realize why (again). Used to be where you'd have someone to root for or hate-view. Even the old 'villains' - Tamrat, Vicki are tired, tired, tired acts. Been there, seen it. Boring.

I saw the alert come across my phone (from TMZ - yeah, I know but when it's something major they seems to get the scoop - they had the first reports when Michael Jackson had passed plus others reports). Anyhow I was like ehhh, slow news day? Like who didn't see this coming?

@mbaywife123, I almost did the faint thing today. I was up early, straightening up the house, hanging up coats (Mom can't hang up her clothes or so she says now), etc. I then get the chicken ready ("we don't like turkey" - Mom and her golden child, my brother) and also a turkey breast. Because the golden child decided, due to her crabbing about the ham one year, to buy Honeybaked Ham, she thought it was only right for me to buy the turkey breast. "After all, you're the one who eats it". Uh, I'd be ok eating just chicken, but ok. I'll be having turkey for a week. I then proceed to get everything else together: dressing (made that yesterday - most of the day - just needs heated up today), green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, applesauce, mashed potatoes, plus setting the table, ad all of the other crap. Golden child came over earlier than usual, around 10:45 or so. He's been rolling in now around the time just to sit and eat. So, I'm like wtf. He does offer to carve the bird up (because he does it so well - uh, ok, whatever). He'd also bitched that the house wasn't all dusted - here's a thought, grab a dust cloth and have at it? Nope. So we start to eat. I found my throat closing up, and was like oh no. I run up from the table, grabbing a Kleenex, running to the bathroom, barfing - just a little. I'd not eaten a thing today before dinner. Didn't the other day either, as I as so busy getting shit done. They continue eating. I finally come back to the table and Mom did ask if I was ok. I said what had happened, it just up so quickly. "Oh, just the same thing when I can't get to the bathroom in time". No. She will sit, like last night until the very last minute, then dash to the bathroom. I could hear her stomach rumbling, along with farting. I even said, oh you need to go to the bathroom. No, not yet. Sure enough, her pants got wet (just a little). She's always doing laundry due to accidents. I think some are avoidable, like last night. She now said she probably won't get her "hands" done because that's what the Lord wants her to have (carpal tunnel). Okie dokie. Assholes then went into the living room, leaving me to clean up the entire mess. Mom had said how wonderful the GC is because he washes off his dishes and puts them by the sink. He could actually dry as I wash, but no. Then, I finally get done and go into the guest bedroom to lay down. I hear GC get up and leave - way early. He thanked Mom (wtf - she didn't do a thing); she asked if he was coming back this evening (usually we do a second dinner/lunch with leftovers). Nope. He'd also said he couldn't eat that much any more earlier. My thought - he's got somewhere else he's going today. I've thought that for a long time; every holiday he disappears for hours or just does the main event and leaves. Tomorrow I could play the sick card, but I know I'd hear "many times I was sick years ago, but I had to just work and do it". I may just get up early and get it done. She sleeps until 10 or 11 most days, so if I got up early I could get most of it done. If it's in place, she might grouse, but it'd be done. Two and a half days left for me; really doubting I'll come for Christmas. I'm sick of doing the entire dinner and clean up. Mom always says she did it for years, but no. I had to help, plus her mother did a lot for many years. She never did it solo like I'm doing. I hope everyone has had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Mom didn't go to that school, no college as she was "just" a girl. Her dad "got" her a clerical job (he brought home the application and they just said oh sure, you can start on xxxx, no interview, nothing). Part of the reason she doesn't understand the workplace now. Her brother, the golden child of that family, went to that school. Her family adored that school, so that is where her love, favoritism originated. She actually told me that my school, she didn't know why 'boys' would go there. She thought it was kind of being a 'sissy' to major in business (she thought it was secretarial stuff only). There are literally hundreds of majors at my school, but to her it was more of a girl's school. She really has zero clue, which I try to keep in mind. Then she will say (totally contradicting herself) that she thought I'd find a guy in college. I found several but tossed them back. I think she thought I was getting that old time "Mrs" degree. Nope.

Well, made it through the day. Frustrating, but I let her have her meltdowns, just walking away. She's been crying at the drop of a hat. True, I could leave, but I really think she's kind of going downhill, so this could be a final or one of the final years. Seriously thinking I may beg off or be sick at Christmas (cough, cough). The worst day of the lot is typically Friday of this week, the dreaded putting up of the tree and decorations. If I dare say how much I hate it (because I will have it set and she'll say no it goes like this, don't you know anything!), then she doesn't understand why she has "kids" who hate Christmas so much. Brother tried to say, he hates getting presents and crap he doesn't want or need (he wanted to get out of buying presents for me, which I could not possibly care less). Mom had a cow, so he relented and I got a gift card. Ok, whatever. I got an earful yesterday how she doesn't like gift cards one bit (I will have to relay to brother as that is his go to gift). I'm kind of like him - I came in to find two older gifts in 'my' chair, meaning she doesn't want them. So whatever I get, it's basically returned to me at some point, so explain to me why I'm getting you presents? I think it's because it's what you do, it's what everyone does, etc. I got a Grinch t-shirt that says something re: decorating to wear on Friday, plus a light up necklace. Going to try and make it fun. We'll see how that goes. Mantra is "I'm a duck, everything is running off of my back like water"

At Mom's house, God help me. She was ok last night, but today nothing but whining about her aches and pains. I get she has arthritis but so do millions of people. We were to go out and about today, leaving early for breakfast. I was up and ready to go. She got up an hour or so later, sitting in the bathroom saying I don't think we can go to breakfast. She had to sit a while. I think it's her way of "punishing" me. Honestly doesn't bother me. But she's still dicking around, now watching the price is right. She probably does the whole delaying shit to annoy me. When she goes with my brother she is ready well ahead of time. I am not male, so she does whatever with me. Males are "the boss" in her head. I wore a t shirt with my college logo yesterday. You'd have thought I ran over a basket of puppies from the look I got from her. My school plays brother' s school on Saturday. I was ordered not to wear any school clothing nor mention it. His team stinks this year. But he can wear whatever and whenever. He is the male after all. She feels compelled to give me every little update about his school's teams. I told her a couple of years ago I don't care about them. She was aghast. Didn't get that. Now she is asleep in her chair. We may leave after noon - maybe. TBH I really feel like packing up and going home,but I have to stay at least thru Thanksgiving. I will be so happy when this week is over.

Floor plan doesn't really fit our office - it's got open cubes on our side of the building - IT peeps mainly, and some are remote a lot. But the headphones line got me laughing, as we used to have the phone headphones to be used for endless conference calls. So many clueless people would come by and then say, oh are you on the phone? No I'm directly planes on the landing strip, asshat. I'm sure I'm pissing off the twosome as I've 'had' to work remote more often lately. Honestly, I really am in the land of I don't give shit. It's slow-ish right now, so there's no reason to be in the office, just waiting on a random request. The Queen Bee has taken over some other stuff (supposedly) from another person who got a remote job in another division; QB is away from her desk for a good 30 minutes (or more) at least every 1.5 hours. She disappears. One day she had to leave early to pick up a bar receipt for a manager, who'd lost it and thus couldn't turn in his expense account. The thing is - that place does email receipts (she really thinks we're stupid). Today, I'm at home, and the twosome is gone for the day already. I'm got days off next week, but I will have to login to do some stuff, which I totally do NOT trust them to get done correctly. Sad. Then just now, another group sent out congrats to someone who is a hard worker, who got promoted to some manager position. While they're a hard worker, I honestly do not see them as a manager one bit. Amazing how some areas have promotions while we're kept as mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed shit. Time to browse open positions - internal or elsewhere. Definitely buying a lottery ticket in some little podunk town on my way home over the holidays (always seems like a ticket bought in the sticks seems to win). I don't need mega bucks, just enough to retire now. One person saw I had been part of the early retirement email (couldn't do it as no health coverage was offered, so I'd have to get another job), and was like OMG you're not leaving are you? We'd be sooooo screwed. Nice to hear that from another department, but that is my dream - come in and say well, I quit - effective today. Not realistic, but it's a nice dream.

If this is the cast they ended up with, can you imagine the rejects? I saw part of the last season, where Nilsa washed Kortni in the pool. In the pool. Does Kortni wait for her mama to wash her? It seems like her mama does everything for her. Without this show, what exactly would she and Amy do? I think the others would somehow manage to have some sort of income. Kortni would rely on her mama, mooch off of her. Amy? I agree she's dumber than a hoe handle, and she thinks it's cute. It's not. They trashed that cute house in PCB. This gorgeous house doesn't stand a chance. Did they really move locales due to being kicked out of so many places in PCB or was it due to the hurricane that devastated the area? I've watched just parts of the show as it's like Jersey Shore without any of that show's original charm. They make JS look like geniuses, too. That cast had some common sense. I don't recall them puking and peeing all over so much nor were they kicked out of almost every place in Seaside.