Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
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@tyche said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@lisse24 I am teaching the most controversial of subjects: "Racism is bad mkay."
We're just finishing the Boer Wars, more specifically.I don't see the connection between racism and the Boer Wars.
We were discussing the introduction of concentration camps, and their subsequent uses.
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@paris At the risk of being that shitty person who tells someone else how to manage their long-term health issue....
The weeks leading up to Christmas are also made entirely of ass in my house. My boyfriend, who usually does most of the housework-y tasks while I handle most of the paperwork-y/errands/scheduling tasks, works retail. At this time of year, I turn into what's known in the industry as a 'retail widow', living in a house full of his stuff and his bills and never seeing him save maybe a few minutes in passing. Dinner becomes a giant pain in the ass, too, because even if I do cook.... I have to figure out something that will cool and reheat well about five hours later.
We rely a lot on the partially prepped meals from the grocery store at this time of year. It's more expensive than cooking yourself, but it's also faster, and it's less expensive than this meal delivery service sounds, with better food. Try stuff like steam-in-a-bag veggies that you can microwave in two minutes, the family-sized refrigerated soups they usually have over in the produce/deli/salad bar section (chili being my favorite), rotisserie chickens, etc. It's not GREAT, but a rotisserie chicken, a bag of steamable green beans, and a box of mashed potato flakes will cost about $12 at most, work out to about four meals, and take you about as long as boiling a pot and stirring a bit. If you can manage it all at once, you can also reheat the leftovers just fine tomorrow.
If you have a super-fancy store like Wegman's nearby, even better. A family-sized store-made lasagna is about $18 and will feed us for several days, and all I have to do is put it in the oven and walk away. Or get a family-sized thing of 'homemade' style mac and cheese, portion it out, and pop it in the microwave with a frozen veggie burger. Done.
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I've explored some of these options, yeah. The basic issue is that I am diabetic and Bot and I are both in our 40s, so we need to really watch what we eat; and we're both disabled and winter's the lean time of year money-wise, so I can buy one rotisserie chicken or a week's worth of meat at 99 ranch market. I buy fresh veggies but what I usually end up doing is one-pot meals, so it all gets cooked in the same time anyway.
This does mean no pre-prepared lasagnas or the usual default stuff. I do pick up potato au gratin or hamburger helper or instant-nuke rice and some kind of sauce, though.
What I need to get is some kind of crockpot as my old one went missing in our move. Just throwing meat + sauce + veggies in a pot and leaving it to cook overnight so we can have it for lunch and dinner would be super duper helpful.
I've also been making a point of stocking good bread, lunchmeat, and green leafies for sandwiches. A lot of our budget goes to whole foods (the actual food, not the chain) and so far that has paid off I think in that our heart health, cholesterol, etc, has been very good despite she and I being very sedentary because we're quadri- and paraplegic.
The diabetes is from the chemo, that's just now starting to improve after two years of high numbers that wouldn't budge; before the chemo I had it completely controlled with diet and the occasional shot of insulin. My weight is starting to drop as well, though, so the diet changes we've been making have helped. Trying to take shortcuts resulted in numbers in the 400 range, so instant potatoes/too much salt/prepared pasta/etc is just too much.
My suggestion to you is that when you have more time and energy to cook, look for a 99 ranch market in your area. Their produce and meat is usually much cheaper than buying from the usual chains, as they work directly with american farms. xD
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@paris Sadly, the closest one to me is in Edison, NJ -- not far from where I grew up, about two hours away from where I live. >.<
We do have Aldi, though, and Aldi is awesome when I have the patience to wait in their absurdly long lines.
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@aria Yeah, we are in a food desert and do all of our own shopping, so we bus/drive our wheelchairs out to the places in reasonable distance-- vons, albertsons (super basic), target, ranch market; and in the opposite direction on occasion, Whole Foods. I'd love to have better access to an Aldi's or a trader joe's or a sprouts or costco, but they're all in other parts of town/places where the sidewalks are not accessible or we'd have to do bus transfers. As it is we're gonna have to do Walmart way over yonder just to get my insulin. >< So we plan carefully to shop on our days off. I need to start looking up delivery, that might widen our options.
Also, I really hate being the guy who responds to suggestions with 'that doesn't work' or any variation of 'no'; it's just that Bot and I have a few fairly specific types of challenges that come along with being very disabled and without family support or an aide. OTOH when money gets a little better, we can simply buy some appliances to improve the situation, like a new toaster oven and crockpot + liners. We should thus be in a better spot in a couple months.
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Well the salary negotiation stuff has been a success, I am going to be starting a new job in late January. It will be a huge rise in pay and title and is a job I am genuinely excited for. But.
Now to give in my notice tomorrow at work then have a frantic few weeks to arrange a move, along with renting out somewhere to live short term, also I will have the fun of selling my home and buying a new one meaning that I will absolutely not get to properly settle into wherever I move to. It is going to be a stressful new year even if it is all of my own doing.
Edit: Now as another issue? I am going to have to deal with serious impostor syndrome. I am getting a 45% pay rise even if I am moving to a more expensive part of the country, plus a more generous bonus scheme. This not going to make me one of the 1% but it is going to make me part of the 2% and whilst I am, objectively, quite sure I can do the job I have a broken chronically depressed brain and am going to have to constantly work on my thought patterns to make this work and not just freeze up.
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For the past two months (on and off), they've been replacing the roof at work. There's been a lot of noise, but nothing too disruptive, at least, until Monday morning.
For the past 3 days, they've had something with a loud motor running right over top of our unit. It makes the entire roof reverberate and is so loud that you have to speak up to be heard, even when the person you're talking to is standing right next to you. I hate noise anyway, so it's been driving me nuts!
Man, I hope they finish soon.
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The DMV/BMV. Not the office, but the people in line. It sucks to need education but these people who work here are doing their best.
This counts for everyone, really.
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That moment when a coworker tells you that your sweater is great and would have been a huge hit yesterday!
....yesterday was apparently the ugly sweater party.
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That moment when, after watching a fat guy in a red suit with a big white beard measuring your side yard and holding up blueprints for a stable with a squint, you realize you are still not getting that pony you asked Santa for when you were five.
Oh fucking well.
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@surreality Where would you even put it? Do you know how to take care of a pony? Come on, THINK!
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@arkandel I had great plans for that metaphorical pony, man.
Oh fucking well.
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He/Him
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@tinuviel So tempting right now.
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I'm a litigator, not a document reviewer. But I'll do doc review: it's easy; it's money.
My boss knows me. He knows I'm motivated by hard deadlines -- the harder, the better. It makes me edgy, which helps my performance. He knows I like a challenge.
Starting on Dec. 19, we had 90 batches of 100 documents to get through. I've pumped in ~20 hours in ~48 hours on this project so far, knocked out two briefs, and have been kicking ass.
This morning, I had go over all of the documents I just reviewed for relevance to re-code it. 40 batches worth.
And then I get told that there's 150 batches after I finish with the 90.
Yeah, this job isn't going to get done by Christmas.
I thought I could, and I'm peeved now that I can't because of other people.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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Get handed nine pages worth of liner notes booklet for an upcoming release (keeping in mind I haven't worked for said label for 21 years) and am told not to actually really edit anything in the copy aside from spelling and punctuation.
Said document is turgid and bloated and the author puts mention of his own band into it for some reason, but I cannot edit any of it out.
Find a part where I am being given a possibly incorrect authorship for a 23 year old online document that doesn't even show up in the Wayback Machine so I can't check whether it's legit. Just because I don't remember doing it doesn't mean I didn't contribute. But still.
The sad part? This is still more editing/proofreading than I got to do on documents when I actually worked there.
I shudder to think what the actual cover art is going to look like.
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These are the situations I tell people when they ask about writing professionally.
The 'could you do this and not hate everything?'
I can which is why I do write freelance (and am hunting for a prof. gig), but man it makes me wanna shake the person who allowed such copy like a polaroid.
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I swear to god, my car is fucking with me.
I was literally ON MY WAY TO THE MECHANIC'S SHOP TO DROP IT OFF and the check engine light turned back off. This is the second time this has happened in a month, and without the light on to use as a diagnostic tool, they're basically just playing an expensive game of guess-and-check that I cannot afford, hoping that fixes the problem. But it's also been the same code repeatedly popping on and off for months, making it pretty clear it's not a one-off and there's a consistent something going intermittently wrong.
There are not enough cusses in the English language for how pissed off I am right now.
ARGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH.
https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello
