Thread: Rant and Rave, Cry and Complain

Originally Posted by littlezoe

Despite the friendly nature of DV, i gotta keep an ignore list... meh...

You can add me to your ignore list if you like.

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

You can add me to your ignore list if you like.

You didn't earn a place there yet...

Dakotah and OldSparta. How frustrating!! I've not done that one before but I have gotten games for my PC before knowing if they'd run or not... and they didn't

LittleZoe. That sucks I've never had to add anyone... but then again I'm not very social except for this thread lol *sigh*

My rants:
Took pup outside and she peed. While I was putting Coke into my cup I saw her sniffing around the (still) empty living room so I took her back outside. She did her business but had a dangler which I had to pull out (with a paper towel). She found another stinking baby wipe. It was very unpleasant for her and now I'm afraid she might associate crapping outside to pain
My other dog is miserable because she gets really dry skin in warm weather. She uses furniture as back scratchers lol and you can hear her moaning or whimpering at all hours of the day or night.

And I still have my UT discomfort. Only now I'm barely peeing when I wake up and I'm getting lightheaded. My ears have had that clogged, strange feeling a person gets before passing out... but it's been bothering me for almost 20 minutes.
Once again, I'm going to have to suffer severe pain and/or outright pass-out before hubby will "let" me see a doctor. He said that other doctor would be fine but he was so hesitant I hesitate myself lol
Oh well. Ain't nothin but a thing. Maybe it's a stone and will pass in its own time. I've had kidney "sand" before, maybe the sand accumulated into an actual stone.

Blah...

I sent an e-mail to my Academic Adviser for Biochemistry/Biophysics about not meeting the degree requirements for a Biochemistry major. I told them, with the long syntax and fancy wording, that I want to pursue the double major route in Biochemistry and Genetics.

There weren't that many people in the Introductory Course in Biochemistry/Genetics combined, 80+ or so, and not a lot of people went for the double major route. So based on the class size, and how most students are too lazy to take the extra push with the double major, the likelihood of me transferring to the double major route seems to be high. If not, I'm going to cry.

This is the first time in months where I'm practically urging the adviser to switch me to the double major route. They are nice people, VERY nice people, AWESOME people. It shouldn't be too bad since there have been people who switched their majors a lot anyway, so I shouldn't be an exception.

I hope.... And I also have to find those other loans to pay off for tuition. Sigh, Interest rates are so wonderful aren't they? But it must be done. At least 61% or more of my tuition was paid off with grants and smaller unsubbed loans, at least that's better than paying all of it through a loan.

Originally Posted by littlezoe

Despite the friendly nature of DV, i gotta keep an ignore list... meh...

Oh god! I hate the ignore list. Because you still see that the person post, it only blocks their content. So if your like me then you end up clicking the "view post" button to see if they are still being stupid. And that just leads to more arguing. I hate arguing, but when you get me going I can't stop!

Originally Posted by littlezoe

I was sorting out some of the old pictures in my folders, when i unintentionally stumbled upon a folder that was named "no"... i had no idea what it was, so i checked and turns out it contains the photos of my old love....

I couldn't help but look through all of them and now i feel so sad I should just delete that folder... but that would be hard...

Ah this is stupid...

Transfer them into an external harddisk or thumbdrive and that will give you a reason to delete it and keep it at the same time.

Last edited by GavinGill; Today at 09:56 AM. Reason: drunk Canadians

Originally Posted by OldSparta

I take offence to that!

Originally Posted by Solarflare

Aww I'm not at the Canada Day concert in my city

I didn't know we have that many Canadians till the 3 of you make consecutive posts.

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

Looks like we're keeping our power after all. The lightning was awesome! I've never seen lightning as impressive as tonights before.
Right before the storm arrived, I went to Wal-mart. I have to rethink the whole Zombie-apocalypse thing. Wal-mart had scant supplies since the outage Friday night. Bread was molding on the shelves. There was no meat, milk etc. Can goods were dwindling.
So this is going to be a thin week. I only had $50. left and hubby refused to give me more. I bought peanut butter, 3 loaves of bread,2 cans of kidney beans, a large thing of rice, some cheese slices (which they surprisingly had an abundance of), some margarine and mayo, dog food, TP and paper towels and that's it. Oh yes, I got 2 cans of Cream of Mushroom soup for the rice.
That's it for the week.
We still have a lot of eggs from last week though.

Ugh...

Hubby always pulls though for me if worse comes to worse.

Bad as the situation seemed to be, it sounded a teeny weeny cool to me. To look at diminishing stocks and worry about food in our current century because there is actually a lack of it in your supermarket. It'll probably make us appreciate food much much more.

Originally Posted by littlezoe

Despite the friendly nature of DV, i gotta keep an ignore list... meh...

I'm not intending to keep an ignore list. I believe every member here is sensible enough to explain their point why they are against you, that itself is a good enough reason for me. I get hated on other forums because I was innocent and naive and they can't even be bothered to tell you why just because they are that great.

And Link made a great point once, that since he likes DV as a community, he would believe everyone has their point in whatever they said and he'll try to reduce friction with people here as much as possible.

Originally Posted by Linkzelda

I sent an e-mail to my Academic Adviser for Biochemistry/Biophysics about not meeting the degree requirements for a Biochemistry major. I told them, with the long syntax and fancy wording, that I want to pursue the double major route in Biochemistry and Genetics.

There weren't that many people in the Introductory Course in Biochemistry/Genetics combined, 80+ or so, and not a lot of people went for the double major route. So based on the class size, and how most students are too lazy to take the extra push with the double major, the likelihood of me transferring to the double major route seems to be high. If not, I'm going to cry.

This is the first time in months where I'm practically urging the adviser to switch me to the double major route. They are nice people, VERY nice people, AWESOME people. It shouldn't be too bad since there have been people who switched their majors a lot anyway, so I shouldn't be an exception.

I hope.... And I also have to find those other loans to pay off for tuition. Sigh, Interest rates are so wonderful aren't they? But it must be done. At least 61% or more of my tuition was paid off with grants and smaller unsubbed loans, at least that's better than paying all of it through a loan.

You sounded better than before. Much more calm. I hope things go along as you want.

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Carrot's Small Rant: I'm rather tired and sleepy because I didn't sleep well yesterday night although I had sufficient hours. I think I was worried I'll oversleep for today's interview so I ended up waking multiple times during the night.

I get pretty aggressive when someone mentioned about job finding too long with me because I get moody if I listened to that topic for too long. I hate that endless cycle of sending resumes, waiting for an interview, waiting for the company's reply and back to sending resumes again. I told my ex-teacher (because he's my friend's boss and I went to his workplace today because it was pretty empty) that I used to apply for over 10 jobs in a day and he told me that's not enough. But I did that every other day. Now I'm just sick of it because I kept seeing repetitive jobs that I had seen before on the job portal site.

I got so bothered by my rant I couldn't even rant.

Pfffftttttt.....!

Originally Posted by Carrot

I'm not intending to keep an ignore list. I believe every member here is sensible enough to explain their point why they are against you, that itself is a good enough reason for me. I get hated on other forums because I was innocent and naive and they can't even be bothered to tell you why just because they are that great.

And Link made a great point once, that since he likes DV as a community, he would believe everyone has their point in whatever they said and he'll try to reduce friction with people here as much as possible.

Even if i like the community overall, that doesn't mean that there are no people that i dislike. I won't just put up to it to be nice to someone who isn't nice to me.
It requires certain actions to get someone on my ignore list.... there are only 3 people on it so far... while i had arguments and problems with others too, but it turned out well in the end. There are just some people that never change.

Originally Posted by littlezoe

Even if i like the community overall, that doesn't mean that there are no people that i dislike. I won't just put up to it to be nice to someone who isn't nice to me.
It requires certain actions to get someone on my ignore list.... there are only 3 people on it so far... while i had arguments and problems with others too, but it turned out well in the end. There are just some people that never change.

If only I could like this multiple times. I agree.


Dream Views is a good community, people have a general respect for one another, but there's just going to be someone that pisses me off. And it's best to just ignore them completely, because I sure as hell do not want to get an infraction or banned just because I was pissed off at one person (or a few) that could destroy my stay here.

And sometimes, there's just a feeling of knowing people don't like you, and there will always be people that won't like you. It's better to ignore them, which is why I mostly go towards that path of believing that if I were to be mad at another person, another person is going to replace them, so it's better to change how I react towards them instead of using anger.

@Carrot, yes, I made a point about that a while ago, but with people making alts because they don't care about how long they'll stay here in the future, it's just best to ignore these people before they lead me to the same path of being banned.

Seeing the good in people isn't going to work all time, because if that person was gone completely, another would take their place, and you'll have to constantly see the good in the replacement. And if it keeps going like that, there's only so much energy you can take going through that.

There have been good people who've gone completely nuts because of the community, trying to maintain a positive attitude, trying to take the person's insults, and then they reach the breaking point and.................ploop.

littlezoe & Link:

I've been through a long hating stage towards certain members at another forum because of their personal attacks. I fight back, I tired to get sympathy then I created a whole lot of chaos and people concluded that I am an attention seeker when I am just extremely frustrated that posts of their personal attacks were deleted by the mods and I had no proof that I was the injured party. Those posts targeted towards me are like nothing I've ever seen on DV.

I was told to ignore them, to let it pass and some members offered comforting words. But ignoring never worked, in the end everytime I see a post made by them, I want to go bonkers. And time passed, the two members who I was extremely unhappy with, one went inactive, the other got banned because of some ridiculous acts but he came back again with a new account. I even went to his welcome thread to post a non-offensive reply and I am no longer bothered by his posts now. In the end I realised ignoring is just a silent treatment of hate, and the one who suffered the most is ultimately you.

But I wouldn't stop the both of you from doing what makes you feel better. I just hope that what you see as an issue now will be nothing significant as time passes.

Originally Posted by Carrot

littlezoe & Link:

I've been through a long hating stage towards certain members at another forum because of their personal attacks. I fight back, I tired to get sympathy then I created a whole lot of chaos and people concluded that I am an attention seeker when I am just extremely frustrated that posts of their personal attacks were deleted by the mods and I had no proof that I was the injured party. Those posts targeted towards me are like nothing I've ever seen on DV.

I was told to ignore them, to let it pass and some members offered comforting words. But ignoring never worked, in the end everytime I see a post made by them, I want to go bonkers. And time passed, the two members who I was extremely unhappy with, one went inactive, the other got banned because of some ridiculous acts but he came back again with a new account. I even went to his welcome thread to post a non-offensive reply and I am no longer bothered by his posts now. In the end I realised ignoring is just a silent treatment of hate, and the one who suffered the most is ultimately you.

But I wouldn't stop the both of you from doing what makes you feel better. I just hope that what you see as an issue now will be nothing significant as time passes.

Keep that in mind that different people deal differently with these situtations.

It's hard to get me mad over the internet, since i just don't take insulting posts seriously. But when it succeeds, when someone is just too ignorant for me to disregard him, then it's different. If i keep checking his posts that just makes it harder to get over it. If i ingnore him, i just don't have to care about him anymore.
I won't just say sorry to someone who started it all, so i won't go begging to get over our problems when i'm not the one who started.

Anyway, ignoring here on DV works that way that you don't see their posts immediately, you can just decide to open the post and see what they wrote. If i see that an ignored person wrote something, i just don't care about it, since i can't read it anyway. When i'm curious or it was part of a discussion that i was interested in, then i might check it out, but ultimately in the end just helps that i don't have to read those posts all the time.

...and if the ignored person is someone who was always just negative towards me, why would it be bad to ignore him?

My rant today is about how irritating it is that my niece and nephew are such bratty monsters. My daughter loves them, so we visit a lot so they can play together, but every damn time she picks up bad habits from them. She'll back-talk and throw tantrums and stomp around, which isn't like her at all. I feel like I have to spend at least 2 days de-programming her after every fucking visit. I hate it. I've tried talking to their mother about it, but she either blows me off or says there's nothing she can do about her children's behavior, which is absolute bullshit IMO. I'm beginning to wonder if I should just slowly start cutting down on visits until we see them only once a month or so. I know she loves them, but it's fucking torture for me, and they're horrible role-models...ugggh I don't know what to do.

Originally Posted by brokedownheart

My rant today is about how irritating it is that my niece and nephew are such bratty monsters. My daughter loves them, so we visit a lot so they can play together, but every damn time she picks up bad habits from them. She'll back-talk and throw tantrums and stomp around, which isn't like her at all. I feel like I have to spend at least 2 days de-programming her after every fucking visit. I hate it. I've tried talking to their mother about it, but she either blows me off or says there's nothing she can do about her children's behavior, which is absolute bullshit IMO. I'm beginning to wonder if I should just slowly start cutting down on visits until we see them only once a month or so. I know she loves them, but it's fucking torture for me, and they're horrible role-models...ugggh I don't know what to do.

Get your daughter some new friends other than her cousins?

Originally Posted by Carrot

Get your daughter some new friends other than her cousins?

I don't know anyone else with children her age. =( My husband and I are pretty anti-social...

Originally Posted by brokedownheart

I don't know anyone else with children her age. =( My husband and I are pretty anti-social...

Erm... School? Kindergarten? Playgroup? Or she's too young for that?

But I know children can enter kindergarten at the age of 2.

Originally Posted by Carrot

Erm... School? Kindergarten? Playgroup? Or she's too young for that?

But I know children can enter kindergarten at the age of 2.

She's almost 3. She can't go into pre-school until next year, but we are planning for her to attend. I'm a stay at home mom, so she doesn't go to daycare or anything. There's just a lack of people around us with children in her age group. I know it will get better as she gets older and goes to school and everything, but for right now it's sooo frustrating. I cannot stand bratty, disrespectful, whiny kids, which is exactly what her cousins are.

Originally Posted by brokedownheart

She's almost 3. She can't go into pre-school until next year, but we are planning for her to attend. I'm a stay at home mom, so she doesn't go to daycare or anything. There's just a lack of people around us with children in her age group. I know it will get better as she gets older and goes to school and everything, but for right now it's sooo frustrating. I cannot stand bratty, disrespectful, whiny kids, which is exactly what her cousins are.

I don't know how bad it is for a child to have no playing mates when they are young but if you spend time with her, maybe it's fine for her to have a year without meeting her cousins because she has you. After that she'll go to school and meet new friends. But it's hard to rule out the possibility of meeting someone like her cousins when she goes to pre-school.

Melanie and BrokeDownHeart

lol Dakotah, I would do the same thing!

My rant/anti-rant is that I finally received my new Child Support Credit Card... but the number is different. I have the worse memory in the world. It's going to take me ages to memorize it.
On a similar note, my son was wanting me to send him stuff on Facebook from one of my gaming accounts (Shhhh) which all use the same password. I couldn't remember the password to save my life until I typed it out from the keyboard. I'm that way with phone numbers too. It's like my fingers remember what my brain doesn't rofl

At least we'll have more food to eat this week!!

**EDIT**
Oh yeah... my youngest son cooked a sweet potato in the steamer earlier and it was delicious. I'm going to have to remember to buy some more.

Originally Posted by Carrot

I don't know how bad it is for a child to have no playing mates when they are young but if you spend time with her, maybe it's fine for her to have a year without meeting her cousins because she has you. After that she'll go to school and meet new friends. But it's hard to rule out the possibility of meeting someone like her cousins when she goes to pre-school.

Its not necessary but children can develop many skills from a young age if they learn to communicate with each other. Children can learn manners, language, basic social skills, how to share, schedules, adjusting to other people's needs etc etc. You'd be surprised how much children can learn when they are young.

@Tommo:

Just wanted you to know I wasn't ignoring what you said. I actually typed out twice a reply but both times I got preoccupied with something else and left it up for an hour and then deleted it because I wanted to start over. lol. Ever do that?

So just a quick one for ya. Basically, you're right about everything. Like I said, they were broad ideas and I didn't think everything through. I especially liked your idea about everyone having equal hours. It seems like a legit way for everyone to live equally. However, it also sounds like it would have flaws. Wouldn't people be making less? I don't know. I have nothing more to put forth in that discussion unfortunately. You did open my eyes a bit there.

@Carrot,Link,LittleZoe:

I'm glad you guys had that little discussion about ignore lists and troubles with other members and how you handled them. I knew I wasn't the only one who felt that way too. I don't ever want to see like an attention seeker, because I'm not. I just hate it when somebody makes me look bad in front of other people that I like. I guess that's why I got mad with Warheit. But as easily as I get offended, I also get over it quickly, once it's been out and open for a bit.

Unfortunately, there are some here, that I know think of me as some kind of little girl drama la la la, lol. I don't even know. I wish I could take back that impression. If anyone met me in person, I don't know, I'm quite different than that. But maybe I am more myself on here than I am in RL. I think that's the case. Anyway, you guys made me realize that anyone can feel that way. I'm glad I haven't quit DV because of a few misunderstandings. I ignored Warheit for maybe a day before I got over it completely. I feel nothing towards him now. Like I said, I get over things as easily as I get offended. I couldn't hold a grudge if I tried.

@Carrot: Once I saw your name today I remembered I actually had a dream about you last night! lol. I love how that would seem creepy in any other situation except for on DV. Don't you guys? lol. Anyway, You called me up from wherever it is you live? Asia I'm guessing? lol. Anyway, you called me and were asking me which town I lived in Kansas because you were coming to my state for some reason and we were gonna meet up and hang out. haha. I remember I was totally excited in the dream that I was gonna have a DV friend here in RL. I was also telling you that we could go get some tea somewhere. I normally wouldn't ask you if you wanted to go get tea, it would've been coffee, but I don't know. Weird, huh? I suppose I should've posted this in the member dreams area, but whatever.

Anyway, my rant, finally. My son's diaper rash went away but as soon as it did, guess what? Yeast infection!

Poor kid. I wanted to take him to the doc today but I have to wait til Thursday and I really hope I can make it better by then. Desitin wasn't working, so I switched from it to baby powder and instead of wipes I've been using warm wash cloths. Baths and letting him run commando lol. I don't know what else to do. I hate it when there is anything wrong with him. I wish I could take any pain he ever feels away from him, any sickness, ANYTHING. I think I'm more miserable than he is.

Also, my car's battery went capooey and we need a new battery, which I think we can't afford. Aren't car batteries expensive? I don't know. Not to mention, our other car's tire was blown and now we're broke and can barely afford food til foodstamps come in. I told my sisters I'd come see them on Wednesday, but it looks like I won't have gas money or a car. Sucks, because I really wanted to see my 2 month old niecey, and the other two girls. I hardly get to see my family.

That's it. I think this is a really lon post anyway. sorry guys lol

i think having an ignore list on DV is unnecessary, as most childish behavior would be ignored anyway.

DAMN YOU AMAZON PRICE FLUCTUATIONS! I put something in my cart at 11 dollars. I checked today, it was 9.99. While searching for a second item (to get free shipping), the price changed on me, bumped up to 16 bucks!

GAH.

Got a really nice dress the other day, zipper doesn't work when I'm wearing the dress >___>

It's perfect when it's off my body, but when I put it on it gets stuck at my waist D:

Gentle for Suena's little guy. Hope he gets better soon and that your transportation problems are quickly solved. I LOATHE being without transportation. My ex-hubby always kept me at home. I couldn't drive, couldn't go anywhere (between the fire ants and mosquitoes it was miserable just being outside lol), I had to depend on other people to go anywhere and be in their debt
Miserable. You have my sympathies and then some!!

Hubby's finally giving me some antibiotics. It's a dangerous game, I know, playing around with those things, but it's just amoxicillan (however it's spelled). I know I have chronic strep throat. I'm curious to see if the bump on my throat will go away. And IF I have a UTI, chances are amoxil will get rid of it (something like 25% of such infections are antibiotic resistant though- BUT, I've not had a UTI for a good 12 years or so, so it should work).
NOW, I can take my meds for 10 days and see if there's an improvement. If not, I'll see a doctor.

When I took a nap earlier, it finally occurred to me what the UT discomfort feels like. It feels like a catheter going from the inside out which was placed by a nurse who's not exactly gentle in her work. It's not the most painful thing in the world, but it's far from pleasant