"Would you like some cheese with your WHINE?" Stress Rant Corner

[Eddie]

Good to know despite that everything is alright. I wish your mom a speedy recovery.

Seriously, I've been in a similar situation as yours, my mom had an accident very much like the one your mother had, this was a long time ago, bus hit the backside wrecked the car beyond repair, she and my grandfather had minor injuries mostly cuts from the shrapnel.  When I heard about it I was scared shitless.

Sorry about your mom Duskwalker. It's hard when a family member dies.

[Sera]

Ryth: Oh my. However there's an Italian proverb that says "guardare al bicchiere mezzo pieno", "look at the glass as half full", and I think it would be the right thing to do in that case. I'm sorry to hear about your mother's car and I understand that she's angry about that. However she's fine, and that's what matters most. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

TheDuskwalker: I, too, am sorry to hear about your loss.

[6Let]

Poverty...seems like something I can never escape.

Having your manager annoy you because working isn't good enough. Sorry to say but I won't bow down to a corporate douchebag who cut my hours at the worst time possible. Now I have a eviction record and on top of my bad credit due to my mom's greed. The only time I can buy anything for myself is income tax...if even. It's quite funny that none of my friends will ever understand how lucky they're. They got to stay with their parents for as long as they like. My only 2 choices in life was stay in school and be homeless or pay bills with minimal wage and have 4 walls+roof.

Sorry...I know that their are plenty of people who goes thru worst than me but it might come to the point that I'll end up being homeless. And where I live no one gives a **** much.

[Sera]

Poverty...seems like something I can never escape.

Having your manager annoy you because working isn't good enough. Sorry to say but I won't bow down to a corporate douchebag who cut my hours at the worst time possible. Now I have a eviction record and on top of my bad credit due to my mom's greed. The only time I can buy anything for myself is income tax...if even. It's quite funny that none of my friends will ever understand how lucky they're. They got to stay with their parents for as long as they like. My only 2 choices in life was stay in school and be homeless or pay bills with minimal wage and have 4 walls+roof.

Sorry...I know that their are plenty of people who goes thru worst than me but it might come to the point that I'll end up being homeless. And where I live no one gives a **** much.

I'm in a different situation, however I understand you and am sorry to hear that.

[Eddie]

Ok, it's not an exclusive problem here that the public healthcare system blows. I got a throat infection it first started Saturday afternoon but the symptoms hit me with everything yesterday. I went to one of the clinics expecting at least 4 hours worth of waiting, so I packed a few books and what do you know? A little over 4 hours waiting and they finally call me to wait for the doctor to see me, wait another 15 minutes and less than 5 minutes to the doctor to diagnose me and write a prescription for the meds I gotta take in the next 5 days.

Funny thing it usually doesn't take more than 10 minutes tops even for the more critical patients and yet before my turn they only saw about 12 patients or so.

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New rant to avoid teh double-post:

Ok, quick one, had to pay a little extra to fix the driver's seat in my car, but considering the cheaper alternatives would require me to either leave it either in a dubious quality repair shop, or other shops so far away that's almost out of the city limits, or it would take a day or more and considering that there's a holiday coming I would be at least 4 days without my car. So I had to pay 190 bucks to have my seat properly fixed in 20 minutes.

Oh car repairs, why u so expensive?

[Don Vecta]

Better to spend some quid rather than something cheap but dubious quality... and slow.

[Eddie]

My point exactly when I had talked to my mom about it (She's a freak about expending as little as possible). Though it's still painful to the wallet but at least they did a good job on my car seat and if there's any problem there's a few months worth of warranty.

[cactusmomma]

Last week's con... our biggest of the year.. was one of the worst that I've ever attended. Sure, I had fun with my daughter and the brief time I saw friends.. but..
- Friday:
The good: Our friends' wedding went extremely well. Mazel tov to them!
The bad: Some of us came down with food poisoning from the eggs that morning.. spent most of the day sleeping or losing lunches. I've never been so grateful for my daughter to refuse to eat something when she told me she was full before she got to the eggs. I missed half of the photoshoots I was supposed to run or supervise over, resulting in the beginning of the gathering hijacker.

- Saturday:
The good: Saw the most amazing Borgia group from Assassin's Creed 2. Got some kick ass shots out of our Xenogears shoot. My darling daughter had everyone dying laughing for things ranging in kicking our Citan's ass to going giggle OCD on a squeaky toy in a bunny plush.
The bad: Finding out that the night before, the My Little Pony shoot was loud, obnoxious, and threw confetti everywhere.. which our video programming had to pick up by hand. Had to push multiple gatherings out into the freezing rain, just because we had no space for them inside. And then.. this happened during the con's premiere event:

ACen 2012 Fire Alarm at Masquerade

Anime Central 2012 - Masquerade: Announcement After The Alarm

They cancelled the con's main event for a dance. A rave. From a financial standpoint, yes..they were pulling towards their paid help, but they were already way behind schedule. This seriously broke a lot of peoples' hearts.. especially the ones who spent nearly their whole weekend/year preparing for that one event.

- Sunday:
The good: Worked with Funimation and pulled some work for another convention I am staff at, had a blast! Got to introduce some gentlemen to LittleKuriboh and his wife, Marianne.. seeing their faces light up made it worth it. In fact, that's the whole reason I do staff at conventions..to see people enjoy themselves, maybe they'll find something new that they'll love.. they'll be able to bond with their family and friends. Ended up making some nice industry connections that day too.
The bad: Met the -rudest- bellhop ever. He cared more about his tip than helping out someone who is recovering from major spinal surgery. His manager wasn't happy in the least. I do understand that tips are largely their bread and butter, but please show some courtesy, tact, and compassion. It will go much further towards you as a person and organization if you do that instead of pointing out where the nearest ATM is.

All-in-all.. so happy that it's over. I'm currently dealing with the gathering hijacker (a guy who took over photoshoots because he thought _I_ was running all 216 of them instead of the people that were there. They thought he was staff that was bullying them around and felt intimidated enough to not fight back.).. I don't think he'll be back next year.

[Ryth]

I'm at the end of the rope with one of my internships. I was transferred to another school. I spent an insane amount of time driving and searching for it today after only getting rough directions of where it was, and nothing. No one even knew about it.

[Don Vecta]

Okay, this day off was ruined by some fucking neighbors who have been doing construction since 7 am every morning... but this time these fuckers added to their construction noise (which i *still* can handle) extra horrible music! Today i got fed up, opened my windows, put my own speakers facing towards their window and blasted my own music to top volume (something soft, you know... Nirvana, Sepultura, Blind Guardian, Demons & Wizards, Iced Earth, Avantasia, Cannibal Corpse, etc.), I know Chinese don't listen to this music so i'm sure it was hell for them.

Seems it was working partially since they turned off their shitty music after some minutes with mine... but then 20 minutes later they played it again, so i went with mine once again... and so we went into this war like 3 or 4 times until the house keeper came up to see what's going on. He's a pretty cool dude and he addressed the problem propelry after I showed him how these cunts have been doing extra noise all morning long and that I won't tolerate it. So yeah... seems he fixed the problem since those bastards didn't play their music again afterwards.

I know if I have gone and asked them to stop their music they'd have ignored me and tell me the pretext it was daylight and that they can do as much noise and they want... so I had to go to a more aggressive method to put my point clearer. And i won! Take that, fucking noisefags!

[OrochiLeonaUK]

^ I have the exact same problem in my flats, also becomes a long standing battle of wills. People are damn selfish.

[Eddie]

Well it may not seem rather childish, but I kinda need to get this off my chest this last week started off really bad, things weren't so good at work and I was worried I might have done something to screw things up with the lady i've been seeing for nearly a month now. But the worst and the reason i'm writing this is the death of my cat, who died last tuesday, it happened really fast, it had a kidney infection and high fever which was dangerous for his age (He was 12) and most unfortunately a common sickness.

His death came too quickly I had barely left him at the vet when I got the call saying he had passed and quite frankly it left me broken for the rest of the day but along the week things kinda started looking up, the situation at my job got better and so did the with the lady i've been seeing. But it's really hitting me now that my cat is gone and the apartment feels so strange and empty, usually at times like this he would be laying on my bed sleeping peacefully in which i'd always stroke it's light gray fur and watch him yawn in it's usual cuteness after i've stroked him so, at weekends such as this where I would be all alone here it would always follow me around to the sofa, the bed or the room where my PC is at.

I guess the whole point is that I miss that cat, he's been with the family for so long I could never really fathom how strange it would be not having him around, it's gonna be a while until I get used to it.

[Ryth]

People who think the death of a pet is nothing should be hung. It's always sad to lose a pet... I'm sorry for your loss.

[Eddie]

Thanks Ryth, it was really hard back on tuesday and wednesday because it had just happened. But yeah ... During this weekend ... these have been the days that showed how different things are without him around.

I'm in better spirits but noticing all the little things, that brought me down a bit. But it's good that my friends have been supportive, when I told them what happened it also left them really bummed as well which really goes to show how much everyone loved him, he was a good cat that deserved all the love he got.

[Sera]

Well it may not seem rather childish, but I kinda need to get this off my chest this last week started off really bad, things weren't so good at work and I was worried I might have done something to screw things up with the lady i've been seeing for nearly a month now. But the worst and the reason i'm writing this is the death of my cat, who died last tuesday, it happened really fast, it had a kidney infection and high fever which was dangerous for his age (He was 12) and most unfortunately a common sickness.

His death came too quickly I had barely left him at the vet when I got the call saying he had passed and quite frankly it left me broken for the rest of the day but along the week things kinda started looking up, the situation at my job got better and so did the with the lady i've been seeing. But it's really hitting me now that my cat is gone and the apartment feels so strange and empty, usually at times like this he would be laying on my bed sleeping peacefully in which i'd always stroke it's light gray fur and watch him yawn in it's usual cuteness after i've stroked him so, at weekends such as this where I would be all alone here it would always follow me around to the sofa, the bed or the room where my PC is at.

I guess the whole point is that I miss that cat, he's been with the family for so long I could never really fathom how strange it would be not having him around, it's gonna be a while until I get used to it.

I understand you, I lost the oldest of my cats (she probably was over 20) a couple of months ago. Needless to say, I was very sad and it seemed so strange not to have her around. I still think of her quite often.
I suppose all I can do is join Ryth in saying that I'm sorry for your loss, Eddie. I hope you feel better soon.