Random thing you loathe right now.

Cayne wrote:

Searching for a new house.

I've been looking forward to it so much and i have so much support from friends and family. Including a real estate agent uncle who says if i can find the place on my own he'll handle all the paperwork and save me the commission of the buyers agent. But i have no idea where to start looking or what neighborhoods/zip codes are starting points it feels overwhelming. I just have no idea in where/what i want in a house

My advice is to try to enjoy it and to not settle for something until you think it is (or could be) perfect for you because you never know how long you'll end up there. I personally really enjoyed the house hunting process. My only regret is that we had to locate one so quickly due to other extenuating circumstances.

yeah i've got a fairly large window in terms of settling it's just these first steps are terrifying and nerve wracking. To sum up when i play an RTS i turtle until cap tech then roll out with uber army... this process feels like a zerg rush and i dislike that.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

*hugs*

AnimeJ wrote:

*Internet Hugs*

Thank you both I feel a lot better today, I just think I'm so used to being stressed that my brain doesn't know what to do with itself right now.

Jasonofindy wrote:
Cayne wrote:

Searching for a new house.

I've been looking forward to it so much and i have so much support from friends and family. Including a real estate agent uncle who says if i can find the place on my own he'll handle all the paperwork and save me the commission of the buyers agent. But i have no idea where to start looking or what neighborhoods/zip codes are starting points it feels overwhelming. I just have no idea in where/what i want in a house

My advice is to try to enjoy it and to not settle for something until you think it is (or could be) perfect for you because you never know how long you'll end up there. I personally really enjoyed the house hunting process. My only regret is that we had to locate one so quickly due to other extenuating circumstances.

This. Also go over the seller's disclosure with a fine-toothed comb.

Even though we hate our current house and neighbors, we've decided to stay for awhile. The house itself is actually alright, but we don't want to buy someone else's turd right now, so we're fixing this one up, buying some land, and hopefully in a year or so, can start having a new house built.

St.Hillary wrote:
Parallax Abstraction wrote:

*hugs*

AnimeJ wrote:

*Internet Hugs*

Thank you both I feel a lot better today, I just think I'm so used to being stressed that my brain doesn't know what to do with itself right now.

I totally get that. I'm in largely an opposite situation; things at home aren't so stressful and over here, well, is pretty much the opposite. It'll get better though

St.Hillary wrote:

I hate feeling depressed for no real reason. Right now I'm not stressed, I'm with people I love and care about. But tonight, I just can't shake this funk I'm in.

I'd just hit this thread to say I'm sick and f*cking tired of being this f*cking depressed all the f*cking time. I've done the therapy, it's not debilitating any more, I'm not a suicide risk, I can hold down a job and a relationship now, but I'm completely and utterly tired of walking through syrup every goddamn day.

Meh. I know it gets better on its own but it's like a headache that won't go away.

I'm sure you know all the tricks already, so I'll just chime in with my agreement about how it fugging sucks. Sh*t just doesn't get done for a few days, and it feels like your losing your life. Which of course makes a person feel worse.

Bring on the good days.

Hands in people. Let's make it to spring.

Maybe this would help:

(potentially NSFW for gory imagry and language. Probably best for headphones)

I've just been diagnosed with high blood pressure - in fact the doctor did it twice to make sure that his machine was working properly. Looks like a life of taking beta-blockers ahoy.

At least two quotes in this article.

Women, lock up your daughters; New Yorkers are on the town!

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

Had to sit with my team lead for 10 minutes this morning while he chastised me for using a blank line to separate paragraphs in my checkin comments, like an educated English writer does.

Break his nose with the butt of your gun.

Also, drink heavily.

(I sympathize, brother.)

Hard Drive failures

I just found out I got another hole in my sock.

Having to tell my chorus director that I can't sing in a concert because of a stupid cough that I can't shake.

I hate letting him down like that, but I want to be able to sing in the next big concert, and the little one on Sunday needs to take the hit, at least as far as my being involved goes.

The fact that commercials on the radio have turned into something you might see in someone's email spam folder. Seriously, it seems three out of every four commercials now are for some sort of supposed sexual enhancer, a way to get rich working from home, or some company that will help settle your credit card or other debts (including some that will "protect" you from the "attacks" of the IRS). Most of the rest are strip clubs, online dating services, "free" trial offers and car dealerships. Commercials have always been irritating, but I don't remember things being this bad before.

davet010 wrote:

I've just been diagnosed with high blood pressure - in fact the doctor did it twice to make sure that his machine was working properly. Looks like a life of taking beta-blockers ahoy.

Not necessarily. Ask your doc about lifestyle changes that might help you eventually not need hypertensives anymore.

Honestly, are there really that many people playing rock band on the wii? No offense if you are one of them.

Asterith wrote:

No offense if you are one of them.

Very astute. Since I'm the one posting it in the loathe thread, maybe I might be personally invested in this news?

DanyBoy wrote:
Asterith wrote:

No offense if you are one of them.

Very astute. Since I'm the one posting it in the loathe thread, maybe I might be personally invested in this news?

While I'm not a Wii RB player, I know folks who are, and it's sad news for them. On that note, I'd imagine that there's enough people playing/desirous to play RB on the Wii that the RB2 bundle has been perpetually sold out/really friggin hard to get since it launched.

According to the article, that is not quite true. They are no longer porting the Rock Band Network DLC to the Wii. If you are a Wii Rock Band user who is into fairly obscure metal bands, then this news sucks. If you just play on the Wii and want your weekly DLC from Harmonix, you are still golden.

I really hate it when people read over my shoulder... especially when they do so audibly.

Being in the dog house for absolutely no good reason.

dhelor wrote:

I really hate it when people read over my shoulder... especially when they do so audibly.

Sorry, the way your lips were moving, I thought you needed help sounding out the words.

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Being in the dog house for absolutely no good reason.

Seconded, brother.

I hate that inevitable M&M in every bag of peanut M&M's that has a bad peanut inside. It just ruins the rest of the bag.

Eating a cinnamon raisin bagel that contains two raisin-sized stones.

My grandfather passed away last night.

It's been coming for a while, his health has been failing pretty quickly, and a couple of weeks ago he fell and broke his shoulder. He had to go in to surgery for it, and his body never really recovered from the stress of it. His swallowing stopped working -- they were very worried about aspirated pneumonia -- but they were finally able to get him to swallow pudding-consistency foods. It was just not enough to keep him going though, and his dementia got steadily worse, and he started having sleep apnea.

His quality of life was not going to improve, so it's better that it happened sooner rather than later, but still...

Ranger Rick wrote:

His quality of life was not going to improve, so it's better that it happened sooner rather than later, but still... :(

But still, it sucks. And "he's in a better place now" may be true, but it isn't what we really want to hear.

Most of us, I would imagine, have been where you are right now, so we know how much it sucks. You have my condolences.