RANT AGAIN: called to make sure my appointment was still on* and because I changed insurance companies, my appointment isn't for the butt cam, it's for a consultation. I need to have another consultation with the same doctor, in the same office, for the exact same fucking procedure!! Which means I probably won't be able to get another appointment for several months. *I bumped it back a week due to it being close to grandson due date.
Rave: We got an egg donor. Next week I blow a load in a cup and then science does its thing, and hopefully we wind up with a kid. Plus all the hormones Jägerette is on is making her boobs grow like crazy. Rave: In-laws finally moved out of our house today. Rant: they insisted on paying for all groceries, so now back to paying for them ourselves.
Rant: Fuck home depot. They didn't deliver my original online pipe order, twice, just didn't load it on the truck at the distribution center. Been waiting for two weeks for something I can pick up from Lowes this afternoon after placing the order a few minutes ago. Home Depot would have me wait until the 19th before they will reorder, even though tracking says the whole order was shorted on the truck.
Rant: I got a letter from my insurance company saying one of my cars was in an accident. I was puzzled as none of my cars have been in any accidents. So I called them up and apparently when my father in law borrowed it last week he bumped into someone in a parking lot while backing out, despite the 360 degree parking camera. At a police station. Which has constantly rolling cameras. Which show him driving away without leaving a note.
Rave: Recently some documents and stuff turned up from my grandfather's family ( from Austria/ Hungary/ Carpathian region ) including birth certificates, death certificates, baptism, naturalization papers... there was also a cloth wallet with a picture of a ship. Inside was pictures of my great-grandparents, including a color pic of my great-grandfather. Never seen anything like it. Then there was a pic and in it was my grandpa as a little boy. I've never seen him at that age. He and I were close, until he died at age 47. I got a little teary eyed. Then I pulled out a REALLY delicate little booklet, bound with a piece of string. It was my great-grandfather's passport from when he came here about 100 years ago. I completely lost my shit. I never knew them, and their story is kinda a hodgepodge of second and third hand memories, stories, etc. All I knew was he came here to escape the Bolshevik Revolution but would never speak of it. He'd only say those days were "...bad times." And in my hand was the one hope, the one chance he carried and had for a better life. And I held it. I'm still completely...I don't even know the right word, but I'm that.
Rant: Was woken up this morning and saw my gate was wide open, thankfully before I let my dog out. Power company decided it was fine to send a crew to tree trim early in the morning unannounced into my gated back yard. Rave: I got to tell someone to get off my lawn. I understand old people now.
Rave: I like my job and my coworkers and have historically accepted that my compensation is lower because I'm not bouncing between jobs and not working in a high powered tech company. After a lot of soul searching, I declined an internal position (and large raise) that I was offered because I didn't like the team as much. My manager told me she wanted me to take whichever job made me happier, but if I stayed she'd figure out the compensation difference. She just called to award me, quote, "the single biggest and most-deserved raise I've ever handed out." Feels good man.
RAVE: I just got an envelope from CRA, Canada's IRS. It's usually not a good thing, but I opened it up, and i got a letter in it saying "hey, so yeah, we checked your last few years of returns, and it turns out that we owe you more money, so here's a check for just under $20k for tax year 2021." WTF? For reals? Fuck yeah! RANT: I paid big money for my accountant, KPMG, to do my taxes, and they left $20k on the table that the government found and gave back to me? WTF?
Rave: Jägerette was just impregnated by a group of people. Rant: the next two weeks until she can take a pregnancy test will be long
Rant: Looks like I'm being press-ganged into HOA leadership. Not your typical association that tells people they can't paint their house a certain color or the trash cans have to be off the curb or the cops will be called. Just collect and handle funds for dock and ramp maintenance. The older couple doing it have just grown sick of it, and I can already see why and who the problem people are. We had a small tornado tear through the neighborhood Friday. It damaged the community dock. I told everyone to pull their boats because there is literally one 2x8 holding the entire end, 8 slips, to the shore. There's still five boats out there. I'm only saving one, the couple mentioned above, they haven't been here because the man had back surgery. If it doesn't survive the cold front today, I'll be sure to post pics for you all to laugh at.
Rant: Thank you US postal service for sending me multiple anniversary mailings addressed to the girl who used to live here with her new last name 6 years after the fact. My poor fridge has dents in it now.
Rant: FFS 72h strike notice issued, starts about 8am on Sat july 1st. Strike isn't the issue, we are getting fucked in these contract negotiations, but why help the company out and do it on a stat, start on monday. The US union just a huge raise and a covid cash bonus, they dont want to give us anything up here.
RAVE: Going to see the new Indiana movie tonight but that's not the true rave. The true rave is that my cancer friend is a HUGE Indy fan and we weren't even sure if he was going to make it to the release date but he's still alive and kicking and pumped about tonight.
Rant: I really hate my union. We are in strike as of tomorrow. No one came down/call us(to the maintenance shop) to tell us what is going on, what we have to do, etc. We just hear it from people talking about what our duties are during the strike.
Rant: Was excited to go up north for a long weekend to have some quality friend time and better quality air, but our barfy toddler is trying to ruin our plans. My short term happiness is resting on the healing powers of Bluey and rice chex.
Rave: Had to run to our lake house and saw people at the volunteer fire dept so I stopped. Grandpas plaque is still up and prominent. Had people shaking my hand on his behalf. He died in 95. Man left a legacy.
Rant: It's been brewing for a while but as of last night I'm single again. Rave: It's reasonably amicable, we're better off not together, and I've got the emotional support furballs with me at the new place for the moment.
Rant: It is amazing how doing nothing makes you tired. Sitting doing nothing from 8am to noon, then I need to go home and nap.
Rave: Just joking. Rant: I bought the car I had been looking at and posted about in the auto thread. It broke down on the way home. Triple A took hours because they didn't submit my first call to the system. I have a (very pretty) 15 thousand dollar rolling statue. I can do the work myself and let it just sit around for 5 years like the my other "project car" or take it to a local specialist in my car and pay 3k+ to get it back to running. Fuck My Life edit: Always end it on a rave: I do have a sleep study scheduled this week and I hope a Cpap, or whatever they find, turns my life around as much as Ive heard people say they can. Im tired or being tired all the time.