YES. THANKYOU MELAINA. Women are not baby-making machine guns.
... and on that note...
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YES. THANKYOU MELAINA. Women are not baby-making machine guns.
... and on that note...
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I started early menopause last year in May. I'm in my late 30s.
My Mum and sister in law (brother's wife) knows. My brother may know, but I didn't tell him directly.
Recent emails from friends and family in Singapore...
"So when are you going to get married and have kids? You're 40 years old now. Start soon or its too late."
They're not usually that brash. I'm guessing my Grandma has been asking them what and when about me. She did tell me once in Chinese, that whomever I chose, boy or girl, that she'd be happy for me.
Had to think for a day how to word it nicely but it ended up being, "My parts don't work anymore. They stopped working in May last year. I don't like anyone. They only kids I'm likely to have are either pet goats or some other four legged furry friend."
I don't know how or what they said to Grandma, but at least the marriage questions have stopped!:lol:
Then I kinda dread the thought of when I have to go back for my cousin's wedding sometime this year... She's old, so I'm hoping her Alzheimer's kicks in on that day!
chinese people are always brash :cry:
what i dont understand is why our personal decisions affect them so much.. since really it doesn't freaking involve them wtf.
Its all about giving face to the relatives. Even the so distant ones that you only see during major events like a wedding, funeral, Chinese New Year etc. That you don't even see them during Easter or a birthday...Quote:
Originally Posted by SeaGlass Siren
fuck face. that's so bullshit. why try to impress people you barely know and only talk to during important events?
I don't. Its too much hard work. If they don't accept me as I am, I don't bother trying to be friends with them.Quote:
Originally Posted by SeaGlass Siren
I think you're lucky!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mermaid Jaffa
My migraines are mostly hormonal, and all my female relatives suffered horribly before their menopauses...I can only hope.
And due to the marriage nagging (and being presented with some dimwit half my height and thrice my weight at every opportunity), I no longer have contact to the chinese part of my family :p
Paternal grandmother passed away. Not sure when but i was only informed about it this morning. a little miffed i had to find out over social media. also fairly pissed off my aunts treated her like utter shit on her final years.
tbh i didn't know her all that well because she's in vietnam, and i'm in canada, but she was the nicer grandmother for sure and treated all of her children and grandchildren as equals. she didn't beat any of us for no reason either which was uncommon.
...though i'm pretty sure i was the favourite because i was the canadian-born, first-born granddaughter. "and the prettiest, and the ideal female" she says. favouritism. well. I'm ok with that. she was my favourite grandmother even though i only ever saw her when i visited the motherland, or talked to her when she called regardless of the language barrier.
She is going to be sorely missed.
Okay, so this is my b**ch:
For the past two years I've pretty much been the sole income earner because my SO had two more lung collapses, the second requiring surgery. I hate my job; it's horrible, it truly is and I feel like shit doing it because I'm treated like shit from both the customer and my managers. But I have stayed, because of obvious money issues, and the fear that jobs are hard to come by these days.
So now I'm taking a month off to chill and figure out what I want to do. My partner had recently acquired a job, so money is slowly starting to come back in, or rather, I'm having to fork out less money. I have absolutely busted my hump trying to keep our shit together and I haven't been able to save much either.
For my sanity, I plan to resign next month and look at getting into cleaning (I'll explain later). My dad is already asking "When are you going back to work?" because that's all he cares about -money. So when I resign, I may or may not have a job to move on to, and I can hear my father already berating me over what a lazy daughter I apparently am. And trying to explain why I am leaving my job will be useless because he doesn't give a damn about anything else about me.
I'm just hoping against hope that they sell the house soon so they can move into their retirement village all the way across the other side of town and I can get some peace.
I'm sorry you have to deal with that. I don't think people realize how soul-crushing some jobs can be, and that it's better to leap without the safety net then deal with it a moment longer. I had one of those jobs once, and the minute I walked out on my last day I felt a weight come off my shoulders. I can totally sympathize with you. I'm glad you seem to be in a good enough place financially to go and do something for you :)Quote:
Originally Posted by -Annwyn-
Also hooray cleaning jobs! I've had a couple of those over the years and I've always enjoyed them.
Thanks, Theta :) I figured at least with cleaning jobs its wayyyyy less stressful, and if I apply myself, I can get a reasonable amount of work for more pay then I'm getting now. Seriously, I DO NOT get paid enough to take the crap I take. And yet, when I mentioned the idea to one of my work colleagues, she looks at me and says "...but you speak English!" Ohhhhhhhhh! Grrrrrr!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Theta
The part about speaking English is obnoxious. I really hate the way cleaners are lumped into a lesser class because they a) clean and b) don't often speak English. Those people are a godsend, frankly. Anyone who cleans up after someone else deserves a medal, and English speakers clean too! Arrgh.Quote:
Originally Posted by -Annwyn-
Side note, what kind of cleaning are you looking at doing? I cleaned houses and offices, and always thought that if I went further into that field I'd be really interested in heavy cleaning (crime scene, industrial hazards.)
Ok, I am sorry to be going on about this again for all those who have read this a dozen times but I am absolutely fuming with Jesse from Mermaid Creations. Today I had an opportunity to do a TV show but because my tail is now 8 months late I have missed out again! He said he had started my tail three weeks ago and promised me pictures, he then did a 2 1/2 week vanishing act.
NYE he miraculously appears after seeing a refund invoice i sent him on paypal and said my scales have been pulled an he would send a picture. It is now Tuesday and I have has no pictures and no word. I am this close to flying to Ohio and kicking his fishy ass! Agggggggghhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Rant over, thank you for reading. xxxx
I think crime scenes would be too disturbing for me.
Bring Theta along, she is the cranky mermaid after all and she knows how to clean away all the evidence.Quote:
Originally Posted by Samantha Siren
well played.
Hahaha Flyer2002 you are awesome! Though I don't wanna kill the guy cause then i'd be a murderer and still without a tail. but a good kick up the ass would make me feel better!
True or you could get your money back and pay someone else and give them all the supplies from him so it doesn't cost that much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Samantha Siren
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If he wasn't paying people back refunds in dribs and drabs I would but i don't ave the money to get a tail from anyone else. Not right now at least. I still have hope that he'll pull through but it is looking bleaker and bleaker by the day! :(
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Of course there will be. I have literally the entire outfit, the top, the circlet, the tiara everything, just not the bloody tail. I know its gonna take another 5 weeks but all I want is a picture or two to prove he's started and for him to ask for my measurements. Is that too much to ask for?
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Didn't Chris just have a horrible experience with Mermaid Creations? To the point where the finished product didn't even come close to fitting?
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Originally Posted by Adalira
Agreed. How do you make something without measurements.
Noooooo idea!
I go for walks with my daughter, whom I carried in the womb for over nine months and yes, she's biologically my child. And people ask me almost every day... someone just dropped off her new wheelchair and asked:
"Is that her real hair?" Her hair is real. In spite of the fact that many people walking around with this color and texture have paid for it, she's FIVE years old, do you really think it's not real?
Usually it's:
"Is her mom's hair red?" WTF, do you people think I'm the nanny? It was me she just called mama. Her eyes are the same color, her lips, ears, facial shape, most of her resembles me, but her hair doesn't so suddenly I'm not the mom. My coloring is different from hers. This happens due to this thing called GENETICS, and the fact that not every family has some super neat blue-blood family line. My blood is multi-national, and so is my daughter's. She's enrolled in my tribe and also descended from two Highland clans in Scotland (which shall remain nameless here for privacy). It happens, esp in the USA.
"WOW, where'd she get that red hair!? OH, she didn't get that from you." And, "Does she take after her dad?" She does get it from me, since my dad's Scottish and Irish blood came through strong and her hair is exactly like his aunt's in color and texture.
Have some tact. What if she WERE adopted, at this age, perhaps she would not know yet? Do people think at all?
As for mentioning the dad when he's not around, that's an understandable, innocent mistake, but my child's biological sperm donor is not involved, and she's never known him, he's dangerously psychotic and I've reported him for child porn on his computer, and hope he ends up in jail or a psych ward permanently some day soon, which is entirely possible. I'm extremely grateful that the man in our lives loves her like she's his own daughter and hopes to be her dad one day.
GAH!
Just. People need to think before asking questions, esp in front of the child.
I might have complained about this before. lol
Ahahaha, bleach denatures *ALL* the DNA!Quote:
Originally Posted by flyer2002
my county was the only one in the area who didnt close for school. ok so i dont want to get too into it but it was really bad. ok the snow wasnt it was just 4 inches BUT HOW THE ROADS WERE HANDELED MADE IT FEEL MUCH WORSE in northern VA we dont have real snowplows, we have dump trucks with shovels infront witch will do for 97% of our snowfall but the roads were terrible. buses crashed. what took 10 minuets to drive would take 2 hours. its soooooo bad that the tag #closefcps is trending world wide on twitter. if you googled close fcps you wil hear abunch of stories where the bus would crash so the students elementry-highschoolers would have to walk to school.
again i dont want to go into much detail but the weather outside is terrible and dangerous. so if any Northerner decides to give us shit about this THEN i will tell you bout how 18 students were hospitalized and how 48 buses crashed and how bad it is. i was lucky because my school is right across the street. if you want detail just google "close fcps"
I don't know which is worse...the amount of violence or that two movie announcements are getting more attention.
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I wish I could disable Facebook trending...it gets depressing to see what more people are talking about.
What? Facebook trending is a thing? I've never seen it. Does AdBlock stop it?
no it's a new thing they added. personally i dont mind it. lets me keep track of all the movies coming out.
Ah, I appear to be blind.
Just need to let myself let this out just so I can let it go and hopefully sleep :'(
Yesterday my throat was sore and today it turned into a sore throat, acheing sinuses, and being lethargic. I have felt horrible this entire day, and I am pretty sure this will continue for a day or two more. The thing is, my husband has a daughter from a previous relationship and this weekend is his weekend. However he works 2pm-10pm so I am the one whom will have to drive to go get her (oh, did I mention I hate driving and it makes me feel severely anxious? And I won't even mention exactly how I feel about the mom whom I will HAVE to interact with when I go pick her up.)
So, the mom cannot drop her off but feels that I am not sick enough to not watch her so I will have to drive feeling this way. Also, she will have to be put to bed before he even gets home because of school and he works Saturday and she goes home Sunday so while sick I am fully responsible for her and I will have to drive to get her several times which is upsetting enough as it is. (It goes without saying I don't blame my step daughter or anything like that.) It just sucks that I have to do all this stuff while I am sick.
This all happened and was found out today and I am just very upset and, well, crying when your nose is already stuffy just sucks SO. VERY. MUCH.
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I think just saying that would be fine, along with a simple apology that things couldn't be resolved the way the customer wanted— not that you did anything wrong, really, but but just for the sake of good customer service.
On the upside, you'll have her off your back now. Hopefully your next customers will be much easier to handle, and this woman will have learned to pay more attention to what she buys. :P
You can - I do using Social Fixer (http://socialfixer.com/) which is a browser extension. When you use it, you can customize your FB feed, and there are little Xs next to various sections. Just hit the X on the upper right for Trending and choose 'Hide Trending Topics'.Quote:
Originally Posted by flyer2002
That trending topics section gives my depression a depression. And anyway, if it's important enough and I need to see it, one or more of my friends will post it. No one needs that section.
OMG OMG *runs around in a circle screaming* OMG OMG.Quote:
Originally Posted by deepblue
THIS
IS
AWESOME!
Thank you thank you thank you thank you!
*runs around in a circle again*
THANK YOU!!!!
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