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Post by amanda s lantz on Mar 1, 2010 9:13:39 GMT -5
Last week was one of the worst weeks I have had with the boys in a long time. I wanted some Vera therapy, so I went to my local VB retailer friday. Well, they were closed because of the snow! Grrrrr! So, it's a new week. Let's see how this goes, better I hope. NOT! I have been up all of 40 minutes when Lane breaks his bedroom window-with a plastic hammer!
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Post by nmcox on Mar 2, 2010 11:38:03 GMT -5
Last week was one of the worst weeks I have had with the boys in a long time. I wanted some Vera therapy, so I went to my local VB retailer friday. Well, they were closed because of the snow! Grrrrr! So, it's a new week. Let's see how this goes, better I hope. NOT! I have been up all of 40 minutes when Lane breaks his bedroom window-with a plastic hammer! A plastic hammer? That kid must have a serious arm. My rant - Snow. I hate it.
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Post by faeriequeene on Mar 2, 2010 12:26:28 GMT -5
In-laws who seem to need to be in constant contact with me which makes me cranky and miss Nick all the more which does not help the case of baby fever that I have in the slightest(I've got baby fever like you wouldn't believe but I know that a baby is out of the question right now), and no one here at school to talk to who actually gives a rip.....my best friend is two hours away and has no cell phone reception And to top everything off, Nick's platoon still didn't get their phone privileges back this weekend so I haven't heard from him and am pretty miserable.
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Post by !Ashley! on Mar 2, 2010 14:59:02 GMT -5
my online class professor is a major B*TCH!!!!! for one thing, she thinks that all of us took the class because we thought an online class would be easy so she's going out of her way to make it more difficult. There's two things I'm worried about.
1. the midterm-she says its is the most difficult that we will take this semester and that we only have an hour to take it....most online exams would kick you off after an hour but this one apparently doesn't...so if you go over an hour, you get a 0. seriously?! she wants this class to be like an a regular class but in a regular class, the teacher will tell you when you need to stop and not give you a 0 if you go to the last minute.
2. Apparently with the papers, if you don't have 1 inch margins you automatically get a 0. I just found out that my preset margins on Microsoft Word on my computer had 1.25 margins at the bottom for some reason. I just submitted my second paper and she never mentioned the margins in the first paper but I'm worried now that I will get a 0 for it. which is the most ridiculous thing in the entire world but hey, she's the most ridiculous professor I've ever had.
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Post by faeriequeene on Mar 2, 2010 16:21:35 GMT -5
The school internet is being absolutely ridiculous right now. I can't load facebook or yahoo at all - it keeps saying that the connection times out, but I can run this site and paypal in other tabs without a problem so the connection isn't timing out. Gah! Facebook and email are my main lines of communication to the outside world (apart from this site) and I can't access them. I'm going crazy!
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Post by Sarah on Mar 4, 2010 2:03:43 GMT -5
I'm taking a spring break shopping trip next week and wanted to skip having my period then, so I just remembered to go online to CVS to refill my BC prescription, which was last filled on 2/11. CVS won't let me refill it because it's too soon since the last time. WTF. I refilled it when I was on like the last couple inactive pills because I'm such a last minute person and now it won't let me refill early? Ugh. I'm super annoyed right now.
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Post by sunshine37135 on Mar 4, 2010 7:56:11 GMT -5
Yeah, I hate the time restraints sometimes. I totally understand why they do it but still hate it. I was leaving town for a week back in the fall and was 1 day early trying to have it filled. I needed to start the new pack while I was gone and couldn't get the medicine to take with me. They told me I would have to come back the next morning to get it refilled. Too bad we were leaving at 4am for the trip.
I could make of ton of reform to the pharmacy industry, but I guess there are more important issues out there, right?
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Post by rachmich on Mar 4, 2010 9:02:24 GMT -5
I've had to refill my pills early before because I used to travel for work. I don't know if laws are different here, but I could get it early. The only stipulation is that my health insurance wouldn't cover it early. So I had to pay full price if I wanted it before I left. Lame to pay more for it, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
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Post by Sarah on Mar 4, 2010 10:30:29 GMT -5
My issue is that I've done it before and there was no issues. Hell, I was able to get more than one month's worth of pills. It's going to come down to me going to argue with them if need be because our spring break is next week and I won't be around all week. If it comes down to it, I guess I'll call the health services on campus and see what they can do for me, since that's student centered and they should at least understand spring break.
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Just called them and she had first said it would be in the middle of spring break and then she was able to get it to go through. She seemed surprised and laughed about it. One less thing to worry about. Now if only I could stop playing phone tag with the orthopedists office trying to set up my MRI. They called on Tuesday when I was in class for an exam. I called yesterday and left a voicemail and they called this morning at 7:10am, which is absolutely ridiculous!
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Post by nmcox on Mar 4, 2010 11:12:38 GMT -5
Sarah - tell them to do a vacation override or to call your insurance company. If the pharmacist won't do that much for you, then I'd take your script to another pharmacy. I've worked for CVS before and they have so many patients that they really don't care about people as individuals. If that doesn't work, which I'm sure after a phonecall to the ins. company will probably work, call around and find out how much the b/c would be off ins and then have CVS price match to the cheapest place. Hope this helps
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Post by Sarah on Mar 4, 2010 13:00:28 GMT -5
Thanks for the information, Nicci. Luckily, she was "able to get it to go through" so I didn't have any problems, other than the inconvenience of not being able to refill it online.
So I'm apparently extremely rant-filled lately. Now, it's my boyfriend. I sold his digital camera to one of the ladies on here and he packaged it up and shipped it out on Friday. I got a message from her yesterday that it was missing the USB cord so I had him look for it to ship out today. He hates using DC because he thinks it is a waste of money and I rarely will ship without it. So he went to the Post Office this afternoon to ship it out and texted me "So I printed the postage for a first class envelope at the machine no problem. When I went to pay for the DC with a person, they said it had to be sent first class parcel post because of the slight thickness. So because of having to deal with a person for the DC, I had to pay an extra 34 cents. It's small but I'm very unhappy about it". That's not my problem - he's the one that forgot to send the cord - had he remembered this would never have been an issue. Hell, I even had offered yesterday to pay the DC because otherwise, it wouldn't be shipped with it. It's the smallest thing that he's annoyed with and it's pissed me off, big time. Yes, please blame me when this could have been avoided had he packaged everything. Argh!!
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Post by sunshine37135 on Mar 4, 2010 13:39:44 GMT -5
MEN!
'nuff said. :-P
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Post by pkaugust on Mar 4, 2010 16:26:48 GMT -5
I included part of a conversation with my dad that has to deal with what I’m pissed at. Quick background – I’m currently abroad in Vienna, Austria - My roommate was my closest friend from my home college (we honestly grew apart last semester, but she doesn’t really know I don’t regard her as a very good friend anymore, it’s just to make our living situation easier) - Sherika is my GOD SEND of a roommate from my home college who I found after two awful, awful roommates - Monica is a commuter at my home college and I’m her first roommate - Monica is extremely competitive. That’s the reason I don’t regard her as a very good friend anymore. He had just asked me how Monica and I are: Me: I didn't like something she said earlier but I should have responded more pointedly. Dada: oh Me: We had just discovered that the couch in the living room is actually a futon and can be a bed. Dad: oh Dad: what she say Me: So she goes, “When Paul comes I will sleep out there and you two can be alone.” I said – “No, that's not how it works and I'd never tell you to leave your own room.” Me: That's not what's in my head - you know? Dad: yep Dad: what u said was good Kate: Well, I tell her “No, it’s not necessary” more and she goes – “Well, I will, and when Chhai comes you can sleep out there,” in this trying to be cute/playful and I said, "Oh, so that's what you really mean." Dad: she bad juju [This is my dad’s term for bad heart, bad conscience, bad blood] Me: Which, isn't cool - because Dad Me: You don't kick a roommate out of their room for a boyfriend. Me: true Me: I never did that to Sherika, I kicked Paul out first, haha - "Paul, Rika needs to change, go away." Me: I mean, your clothes are here, your books are here, etc. It’s a bigger inconvenience than she might think, and honestly – if that’s what she meant, she should have ASKED me, not forced it on me ~ “You leave when Chhai comes” He’s coming at such a silly time too, he’s coming the last week we are here abroad – which also happens to be our finals week. It’s so stupid really, she’ll be stressed – I will be stressed (even though I don’t leave for another week after finals), and I’d like to study in my room. She’d see him in a week anyway. Everyone in college knows you don’t kick your roommate out like that; the slang term is “sexile.” Whenever Paul came I respected Sherika to the utmost; I asked if it was alright if he came over that weekend – we never played loud movies – never got in the way – we went to cheer her on at her events (She did volleyball and still does track and step dancing.) I even told him, “Don’t you dare kiss me for a long time in front of her, I respect her so much.” He never did. Here wouldn’t be any different – I would never kick Monica out of the room, heck, Paul and I are traveling after a couple days and we’ll have time together then. All I really miss is hugging him, and when I stayed over his place on weekends – he always, always rubbed my head before I went to bed. I miss that too. I worry a lot, and it helps me relax before bed. Monica has had to ask, “Are you going into the living room anytime soon” for ….. Skype sessions with Chhai. It’s really, just, so empty to me. A relationship so heavily-based on sex, and then just her behavior. I really should have been more pointed with my response but I was just so caught off but what she said, and her trying to play a cutesy stupid girl about it. Sorry, this is long…it just bothered me so much on so many different levels. It’s Finals week! It was just so rude. Ugh.
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Post by Rachael on Mar 4, 2010 21:39:21 GMT -5
I am having such people-issues at college right now, Kate, so I can sympathize. (And lead into my own rant.) Rant 1: First off, my roommate and I are a great match, which is awesome. We actually met through facebook and decided to be roommates before ever meeting (she's from Germany, I'm from Massachusetts) even though everyone told us it was going to be a terrible idea. But for the most part, it's been a great situation, so awesome. Except now that we've been living together for 1.5 semesters, I'm coming to realize that she can be a very negative person. She's fairly anti-social, like I can be, and I feel that I'm getting drawn into that with her instead of maybe hanging out with the girls down the hall or going to a free concert on a Friday night. Additionally, she's very judgmental about people and that irks me like nothing else. For example, my school is known for having a renowned dance program/major. She thinks anyone who is a dance major is wasting her time and could be doing so much more with her life and extends these judgments to her person as a whole! I'm sorry, but the dance major that I'm closest with is the nicest, sweetest girl I've ever met, extraordinarily talented, and quite intelligent! Argh! (Note: I'm not stereotyping when I say "she" for dance majors - I go to a women's college.) And now her boyfriend is coming to stay for spring break (luckily while I'm home) and she asked if they could use my dishes since the dining halls are closed and they'll be making their own food. I can't really say no, because that's mean, but I'm very OCD about people using/touching my stuff. I don't even let people sit on my bed, and for a college student, that's pretty much a couch! So basically, when I return, I'm going to have to take my neurotic self and re-wash all my dishes (because at least I know she'll be nice and wash them before she returns them). Rant 2: Unlike most students at my very residential college, I have a car here - it's only two hours from home, so I can go home for a weekend without a problem. At the start of first semester, I really felt that some of my new friends were kind of taking advantage of me for having a car and asking me to drive them places. Sure, my college is in a small town, but there's a free public bus that can take you almost anywhere, as well as a ticket you can buy for $1 that will take you to 2 different malls about twenty minutes away. Well, I finally stopped being a pushover and I don't drive people places randomly anymore. That's a back story. Flash forward to last Thursday, when I ran into this girl that I vaguely know from a club I'm in. We had a lovely conversation over lunch for about two hours, and during the conversation, she mentioned that she had been desperately looking for someone with a car to help her transport a large heavy object from the library to a cultural house (both still on my very tiny campus, but on opposite ends). I mentioned that I had a car, and next time to call me. (Kind of joking.) Well, on Sunday, she called me, asking if I could drive her to the grocery store (about a mile away) to pick up flowers for a guest speaker. She was very nice about it, said it was no problem if I couldn't do it since it was such late notice, and she would even pay gas money. I said fine, not a problem, I've got some time. We went and got the flowers, dropped them off, whatever. Except then she follows me back to my dorm room and proceeds to have a three hour conversation with me, leaving my door open and, I'm sure, irritating my easily-disgruntled neighbors with her outrageously loud laugh. I could not think of a polite way to get her to leave! Finally, after the 3+ hours, she had somewhere to be, and left. Thank goodness. When I see her on Tuesday at our club meeting, she mentions that we should have dinner together some time. At this point, I'm like, ehhh, maybe, just facebook me. She does, and we somehow end up having dinner the next night. (I dragged my roommate with me so it wasn't just the two of us.) Now, tonight was the final straw: she facebooked me again, saying how she has two meetings tomorrow that she scheduled too close together, and can I drive her from campus to her meeting (at least 15 minutes away in a different, unfamiliar town) and back? I'm sorry, but it's one thing for me to drive a mile to a familiar store so you get flowers for your guest speaker, but a whole different thing for you to not plan your own life better and need to beg me for a ride (like I don't have stuff to do) to an unfamiliar area. And the message was finished with, "Dinner was great, let's do it again!" Umm, why are you becoming this fixture in my life? I have been talking with you for about a week! The cherry on top? Several of my friends are fairly sure she's interested in me, and I'm afraid they're right. I mean, don't get me wrong, it doesn't bother me, per se, but she's just really not my type, and I can see this headed somewhere unfortunate fast. Why is this all happening at once?!? EDIT: Wow, didn't realize how long that was. Sorry to anyone who reads that.
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Post by faeriequeene on Mar 8, 2010 1:59:29 GMT -5
Ok, so as a college student who is having issues dealing with the in-laws at the moment, I broke down and did some much needed laundry in the campus wash hut instead of going to the in-laws house. I did three loads - reds, towels/hoodies, and a twin sheet and queen size comforter. Washed them, had to take other people's laundry out of three dryers that had already stopped (two of which had been stopped when I put my clothes on to wash) so that I could dry my laundry. Between working on homework and housework I lost track of time and didn't go back to get my clothes until two, maybe two and a half hours later. This is usually no big deal, especially because it is a Sunday night and this is a Christian school so most of the on-campus population are at church, and I have left clothes in there longer than that on occasion and never had a problem. I ask my friend to pull out the comforter and sheet while I put the other two loads in the laundry basket - she tells me it's not there. Someone stole my comforter and sheet!!! Now granted, it's a twin sheet that I only use on my air mattress when I have company and the comforter was only $25-$30 at Walmart - so we're not talking amazing quality stuff here - they were broke college student purchases from a year or two ago. But now I am without my extra comforter (the one that was supposed to be for our new bed that I am getting for graduation) and a sheet that makes things a little more inconvenient in regards to company now. This is a Christian school for crying out loud - I shouldn't have to worry about my stuff being stolen from the dryer. Yes, I took other's clothes out of the dryers, but I put them in the available laundry baskets and on the laundry tables right by the dryers. I have no clue who took my stuff, but I went back with a dry erase marker and wrote a note to the tune of return my stuff to my apartment which is literally only steps away from the wash hut. I'm going to student services first thing in the morning, but will probably be told that there is nothing they can do about it. This made me so angry I was actually screaming about why someone found it so amusing and convenient to steal my bedding - and I mean SCREAMING, as I walked back to my apartment. Gah! I am so pissed right now I doubt I will sleep tonight which isn't good because I have a quiz, mid-term, and final draft of a paper due tomorrow. I just can't catch a break!
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