I have never felt like this before… Where I feel like a rag doll and I don’t want to whine or sound petty and small, but I do. Especially when my dear friend (last post) is going through her truly sad and stressful times. What right do I have to complain?
Life is grand and fun, and no major things are going wrong in my little world. But it seems like Gremlins attacked me over night, and I was unaware. Now, it also seems like I am not the only one going through this. SO, I hereby declare a meeting at nana’s house. Where nana sews pretty things for us all and let’s us chat and cry, laugh and eat treats…
Your job is to vent. You are hereby granted permission to vent here in this comment section about anything that is annoying you, no matter how petty. You see my friend who is going through all these tragedies said to me the other day, "don’t ever stop talking about your feelings and bottling them up, they are no less important, no matter how trivial." Of course, one could take this a bit too far… However, I have had several good cries over the last 24 hours. Mr. Lovee has offered me jelly beans, a Happy Meal, silly smiles and lastly he has given his Monday night with the guys up (unbeknownst to me) to make me dinner (he is at the store now).
I was sitting here thinking, other girls who visit me must feel the way I do… They don’t want to whine, but they really need to get a few things off of their chest…
From stubbing their toe everyday in the same place to the vacuum breaking for the 4th time this month. Please tell me you all have trivial annoying things that make you want to sit in the middle of your living room and cry. Please tell me I am not the only one. Tell me your mother in law annoys the heck out of you, tell me your kid thinks you gave birth to him or her just to entertain them. Tell me your clothes got ruined at the dry cleaners, but by all means tell me.
Decide which DuBuhDu sister you are and pull up a seat…
Grab some tea and treats…
Let nana make you a nice dress or bonnet or coat to make you feel better…
And, let’s start this meeting right away… Don’t hesitate!!! My list goes like this, My very expensive camera lense made a cracking noise when I turned it on and won’t work now, my printer is going haywire, my ceiling leaked in 8 places around my new skylight, my tire was flat this morning, I was on the phone for 2.5 hours today trying to get my camera fixed with no resolution, I dropped a whole bottle of fine glitter on the studio floor, and a monster is under my bed…
Your turn!!!
The good news is, my mom made me feel all better today, then my dad did, and Mr. Lovee cheered along the whole way… So, you see, I feel silly complaining. But sometimes you just have to. I am ready to listen to you!!! You are next.. Ready, set, go…
My oh my! You’re going to not like me today because this is actually one day that I haven’t complained as much as I usually do which is HIGHLY unusual!! This whole past week I was one walking complaint..My hair is awful ,I’m gaining weight, this house is a pig sty and no matter how much I clean it, it’ll always be so, my fingers are all cracked and bleeding, my other camera isn’t working either I hate driving in snow -I need studs for my tires ,we cant afford another kid, blah blah blah..thats pretty much how it is..oh and I stubbed all the toes on my left foot twice the other night (yes that was me you heard cursing all the way from Oregon). A few months back I had a toenail removed because it got infected probably due to a “stubbing” according to the podiatrist…)
We all have days like that..the printers, cameras, etc are broken..the computers crashes..it sucks when its happening to you. But like you said ,compared to your friend, its not so bad. Good health and family/friends are what matters..although when you spill coffee all over your new computer it can feel like the end of the world.
I love the photos of the girls and I’m so glad Maura made it. If I had to pick what doll I feel like it would actually be that old lady sewing. My hair is getting so gray I have to dye it monthly and I wish I had a sewing machine cause it takes forever to hand sew!
(I think that counts as my two complaints for today..hehe).
I love the photos Vanessa and am so happy the girls are living it up. I hope things get better and as my dad likes to tell me “Keep your chin up” to which I reply “Which one?”
~Christine
I already had my tantrum post, so no need to relive it here. I tried to call you, but you must have been busy with all your debacles! Brian is comming home early! I can’t complain today. I get to have my bed warmer back tonight!
I also had a bit of a gripefest on my MySpace blog (not even my regular blog) today but this time of the year, like with a lot of people, tends to bring me down. I guess because it’s the end of the year and my birthday, it’s a reminder of more time passing by where I did not get to do the things I wanted to (ie: travel).
O.K. I am the DuBuhDu sister in the front beside the lamb – she is kicking up her foot much like me when I’m disgruntled. I WAS having a good day until hubby got our snow plow truck stuck in the ditch and then had ME try to help him get it out. Guess what? It’s worse now and the snow keep falling! You did say you want some, right? …
Thanks for letting me vent!
p.s. That Mr. Lovee is a KEEPER.
nope, no whining here! 😀 the holidays are keeping me in a fabulously festively fantastic mood!
It’s my father-in-law. He makes me cringe. But, I can’t help but add the happy note that I got a package today from you Miss V. and so it is impossible for me to whine because it was so un-believably fabulous in everyway.. the little .. to die for. I said to C. “C have ever seen anything so wonderful as this card that Miss V. has thought up her very own self.” And you know, he really couldn’t think of a thing. From the card on the top wrapped with cute twine to all the little extras postcards that you packed inside (thank you!!! THANK YOU!! I love them!) And, then the cards I ordered were just cute, Lovely & WONDERFUL! I can’t wait to share them with friends. I’m so excited that I’m going to have to come back and whine, (which I certainly can do with the best of them over trivialities that you really would not believe they are so inane) another day! I am too ecstatic over my cute Miss V. package at the moment! Thank you!
I meant to say the “the little card” you know the little business card.. It’s so elegant!
Well this is a bother! My post is going to follow Tiffany’s who I’m glad to see has actually had a good day! So now I’m going to seem super whiney! 😉
My post should follow Christine’s because then I would only have to say “Ditto”!
Pretty much all of it from the gray hair that needs constant coloring (like right NOW!), to the house that seems to be getting away from me a bit more each day, to mood swings that I just can’t seem to shake, to hating the cold weather that has arrived much too early….pish posh, maybe I just need Cher to come over and slap me and tell me to “Snap out of it!”!
I do want to add though that I am sorry that evil gremlins have been wreaking havoc on your life Miss Vanessa. Any one of your problems by themselves is not good, but all of them together….you deserve to be able to sit down in the middle of your floor and cry! I hope everything gets better/fixed really soon, and give Mr. Lovee a hug for me too for taking such great care of my dear friend! Big HUGS to you Miss V., I’m thinking of you! 🙂
Get ready here I go! I have spent my day looking for shoes for an eight year old! You would think this wouldn’t be so hard but you would be wrong! First she informs me this morning that her shoes don’t fit and she can’t wear them anymore. Now the only reason she was given any listening time is because I knew they were getting small and definitely were worn out.BUT, she did wear them without a problem on Friday. So I go to the store, bring home a pair. She like them, perfect! Then upon examining my receipt I discover they were twice as much as I thought, more than I usually pay for shoes for me! So back they go and I bring home another pair. These aren’t very fancy so of course they get a thumbs down and tomorrow I get to start all over again!AAAAAArgh! Thank you, I feel much better now!
oh honey did you ever pick the wrong day to give me a venue for venting. 🙂
So… I have decided, although the girl in the black and white skirt has my hair, that i am the girl on the floor in the blue coat with the mushroom. She is most definitely the spirit of me!
ok, here goes
I am so angry at people who put their children down, and tell them their dreams are worthless. Who make them feel small and insignificant and worthless and like a perpetual screw up. Who treat them as if they are bad little children always. That make them so broken that they don’t understand grace or love or understanding or the value of creativity or beauty. Parents who are more emotionally immature than their kids and make the kids be the mature grown up and take care of the parent. Parents who use guilt and manipulation and other despicable methods to make their kids meet imaginary needs to make them selves feel better. Parents who crush their children because they are so insecure that they believe they are bigger and better and more right by doing it.
I am angry at the cultural value that says progress and long work days and long work weeks is more worthy than enjoyment of life and time with people. And the value that says people who have money and work tons are better and upstanding and those who value people and creative things and time spent on enjoyment are lazy and worthless and lame.
I also loath the cultural “norm” of having to have a career and that being a wife or mom is not a really job or ambition.
As well as the norm that if you are married you should have kids. And if you don’t, then you must be saying that everyone else who has kids is dumb or something must be wrong with you, like you are afraid, or emotionally cold, or are selfish.
Aaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggg!
well, i’m sure i could vent about more things in life right now but that’s enough for the moment.
Thanks sooooooo much for the venting venue and the sympathetic ear. you are the best!
Hey, what if I’m a guy, huh? Can I vent too? Do I have to choose to be the dog? 🙂 Or maybe I’ll be the hand in the background. Or the mushroom. Yeah, the mushroom. (and I chose that forgetting that Trina picked the girl holding the mushroom, too) 🙂
Ok, I would like to take a moment to vent about the lame-ness of men, in general. If you are better than what I describe here, please don’t feel offended.
I know this seems funny coming from a guy, as it’s usually women who are complaining about men. But hear me out, anyway. Also, keep in mind that I am a straight, married guy. I have no desire for a romantic relationship with a guy, but I feel that it would be good for me to have healthy relationships with guys. Here has been my experience with the men in my life. All too often, they have been primarily focused on work, career, etc, and this is the primary motivation and activity around which their life centers. Now, I’m not saying there is anything wrong with a career, but I am able to work and have a career and support my family, and yet the focus of my life is not my work, my job. The focus of my life is living, and my job is a means to that end. My problem with this behavior in people is, when your focus is your work and career, you put it ahead of time with other people. This is a major problem because especially in America, I feel like people who are really into their careers or jobs let them overtake everything else in their lives. Not everyone, but a lot of people. So, to begin with, my experience with men is that they have just not been willing to make time for relationships. Secondly, they have had a major tendency to be flaky. They say they want to get together, that they want to do something, and then they back out of it over and over and over again. You make plans, and they always agree to them, and then back out at the last minute, or simply forget. I feel like in my relationships with other guys, I’ve had to pretty much be the entire motivation to get together. If I don’t write or call or whatever, then there is no relationship. Also, I think there may be a tendency to feel that time spent with another guy is time they should have been spending with a woman, that female relationships take absolute precendence over male relationships. So, that’s it. I don’t know if I’ve ever had a really good, deep, lasting relationship with a guy except for my dad, who is wonderful.
Stupid men. Bah.
We have gremlins living in our ‘new’ house too- they turn the power off randomly- sometimes five times a day, sometimes once every two days- there’s no pattern to it- they must be watching me now because there it goes again! IT’S REALLY STARTING TO GET TO ME!
How fabulous! Just as well I didn’t seee this yesterday evening after I got in having failed to be able to connect to the internet in any of the wifi cafes here, caved and gone to Starbucks where they served me an over-sugared hot chocolate and CHARGED me for wifi, then the connection expired without warning, making me lose a blog post and finally I made it to the expensive internet cafe to which i should have gone first in an post-over-sugared fit of depression to call my long-suffering husband and then ignore him while I updated the blog.
This morning is much better! Porridge, coffee, internet connection working at home… who could ask for more?
I just spend a very relaxing half hour over at Nana’s house. I feel new 🙂
Thanks.
Okay you asked for it – the central heating / water boiler has been “playing up” for the past 6 weeks. First plumber turns out the same day tells us it will take approx a week to get the new part. 2 weeks later he saya he will come to repair it on Saturday at 10.30. Phones at 8 in the morning, no it’ll be 1pm. Doesn’t turn up. Can’t get him on his numerous phones, several days later we leave a message telling him to forget it.
New plumber comes out, have to wait about a week for this he replaces two parts, £95. Still won’t work so he goes away to speak to the manufacturers comes back and says it must be the pcb board which will ne another £250 plus labour but suggests we might want to get the manufacturers in.
So we phone the manufacturers 40 mins hanging on the phone only to be told to phone yet another plumber.
Phone him, leave a message. Doesn’t get back.
Days of phoning and leaving messages with no response.
Eventually get to talk to his wife and he phones us back – nothing really wrong with the boiler other than whoever fitted it didn’t clean the central heating system through first so all the build up of sluge is causing the problem, he has seen this many times. Didn’t need the replacement parts he’ll phone in a couple of days to let us know when he can fix it.
Don’t hear a word so have to phone him again, eventuslly get the wife who gets him to call back.
Wednesday, he is coming on Wednesday – so why am I gripping?
I’m not but my bloody husband hasn’t stopped moaning about this for weeks and if the boiler isn’t fixed on Wednesday there might just be murder here!
I want to be the du bu du with the blue coat and red and white skirt and pony tails on the floor!! I love all of them but that one is most like “moi”. Everyone should have a nana tea party…sounds so much nicer than “pity party”. Do I ever sit down and cry about the small things in my life? Absolutely. Except that having come out the other side of cancer, I view life differently as you know. Doesn’t mean I don’t still have small annoyances (like stubbing my toe in the same place all the time…how did you know?!), and I have frustrations that can mount and need to be let go. I know better now…I don’t let things pile up…I can still weep over something small and get on with it. But I know this…we all need to take time to re-charge, to acknowledge all parts of who we are and what happens in our day-to-day lives…to do less is to treat yourself as “less” and is a most unhealthy thing for the spirit. This is a good post V…you are expressing yourself in your usual artistic manner, and I’m glad you were being pampered and taken care of. When someone is very ill, going through something very difficult in their life it affects family and friends and there is not really an accepted way to deal with that…focus is on the patient/person as is necessary but others in the person’s life need special tlc too. Big kiss and hug for you from me.
OH pooo….can I vent because I was to late to vent!!?
I’m awfully sorry you had such a crummy day, Sweet Vanessa.
Lets see…..I’m mad at my printer…it waisted 5 sheets of expensive paper yesterday, I feel tired all the time, I can’t ever get the kitchen floor in this odd rental house to stay clean, I wish it would snow, it will not snow, for once, just once, I’d like things to work out for us….with jobs and moving things, and I’d love to get out of this limbo and find a place to settle.
There we go….I still don’t really feel like I have a right to complain, but having Nana stitch me a bonnet certainly makes me feel lovely…..and so does buying new shoes….which I’m off to do now! 😉
I hope your day is going better and Mr. Lovee’s jelly beans and Happy Meals have done the trick….how sweet! 🙂
I have nothing to complain about today (give me time) I just wanted to say Hi, love you….and hope you feel better.
I know the crying for no reason thing, yesterday I banged my elbow and burst into tears, my bubs looked at me like I was nutso!!
Come to Shabby’s house and we’ll get all the monsters out from under all the beds!
Our water heater is out and we are waiting 4 days now for a plumber 🙂
Our dog won’t stay home…I gained 2 pounds! (How am I doing so far?)
My mommy is hurting with arthritis really bad and I can’t help her…
Check this out! Mrs. G tells us how to deal with the blues: http://derfwadmanor.blogspot.com/
Oh dear!! You are definitely not the only one going through one of these less than stellar periods in life!! :p I think there is something about this time of year–admist all the joy and holiday preparations, it gets more stressful… (at least for me!)
I’ve had several good cries the past couple of days myself–mostly the kind where I bury my head under a pile of pillows. And then go make a cup of peppermint tea afterward to cheer myself up. 😉 So far, the only really, horribly bad things that have happened was a fight with my mother over the weekend, and that my dear boy is gone until right before Christmas (he’s in the Navy). The latter is probably what is making me rather down-in-the-mouth the most. :p
Sending you lots of virtual hugs, chocolate (chocolate is *always* good for what ails you!), and happy thoughts!!
I’m a late venter (and stalker)and I guess that is good since I was also having such rag dolly day yesterday and would have ranted on too much. I was all teary and emotional all day yesterday and didn’t understand why I couldn’t shake it off. Everything just seemed to take on a larger than life size that became too big a mountain to climb and I just kept puddling up and felt completely incapable of coping with anything and everything and had neverending thoughts of running away but had no where to run.
All I can attribute it too is seasonal emotions–seems I may not be the only one and I hope we all get centered back in our worlds soon if not today. Thanks for listening and I’ll keep reading. Love your blog and I’m so glad we have so many kindred souls out there.
So sorry you are feeling down…me? I am one big complain machine (but, no hurdles cannot be climbed over at the moment). Assignments due, not enough time in the day, can’t concentrate…they are minor things right? So glad you are surrounded by people who love and care for you. Be happy!
Ah, let me take my black coat off and brush the crumbs off of my striped white & black skirt! Ah…nope, still not ok…you see – my turn – I am so out of shape. I haven’t played tennis or walked/ran in ions so none of my clothes fit me. I, the last few weeks, have been wearing black sweats which means I have been looking mighty dumpy lately 🙁 I just can’t get motivated by myself and the friends I walk with have been busy themselves. Why am I such a twit about taking care of myself?
And don’t get me going about my “Lovey” who has been more of a stinkpot lately. We just can’t seem to use a kind tone toward each other. I can’t muster even a fake one – oh he bugs me soooo much right now!
And I can’t put myself into a creative mode. I’ve started little projects but can’t get into a rhythmn. I have all these sewing projects in my mind but can’t get motivated.
I need to snap out of this. Please pass me another cupcake and Nana you’ll have to let out some of my fashionable clothes, please!
Okay, my vent is the opposite of Dave’s (above). I think he would LOVE my husband, as my husband spends any free time he has with his friend Dan. He spends a bazillion hours at his job and then spends free time with Dan! If wife or children complain, he gets mad. It rained this last weekend, so he couldn’t spend time with Dan, so he went to work!!!!! His vacations are even spent with Dan and wife and children are now spending vacations together without him. This has been making me very blue lately, probably because it’s holiday time, so thank you for letting me vent.
p.s. If Dave would like a man friend, tell him to call my husband. He will not let him down.
your post with nana reminded me of my great grandmother who we called nana. and that reminds me of my grandfather who passed away a little over a month ago. i think about him all the time and even though i was very lucky to get to know him as an adult i still wish he could have hung around a little longer.
and i don’t like that there aren’t more chase banks in denver. i used to have one around the corner from my apt. and next door to my office.
that’s it.
everything else (pretty much) is fine & dandy.
You crack me up. I don’t really have much to complain about today, normally I could find a nice big list, he hee. But I do have something — I want to vent about a person who will remain nameless that sent me a really RUDE email! I think there are some people in the world who should be venting in appropriate ways, like this special gathering, and not taking their jealously, stress or frustration on other people that they don’t even know!
Thanks for providing a venting place. I feel better now.
xo
i see there’s only one short-haired blond — that’s me! but my rants would make all the girl’s hair stand on end. i do know how healthy it is to vent but i have to be to work in 45 minutes and SOMEbody thought it would be fun to tease me and stall his shower…
grrrrr!
XXXoooXXoxoxox!
Oh, I enjoyed sitting around Nanna’s listening to the girls vent.
I am trying hard not to complain and really have nothing to complain about….just trying to help dear ones that are in pain…
art and ghosts rant list
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1) vanessa must quit hogging all the dubuduh dolls right this minute!
😉
2) i hate this town where i live. it sucks. one day i shall leave it, and possibly burn it prior to doing so. haha.
3) vets bills are disgusting. there ought to be a natonal health service for pets and all other animals. humans have all but destroyed the natural habitats of many species, so we owe it to them to pay a little back.
4) fox hunting makes me passionately murderous.
5) Every man i ever meet screws with my head. but i love them.
6) The royal mail service in the UK is a joke. if they spent more time actually being a postal service instead of trying to sell us internet and cable tv we would all get our parcels quicker.
That will do for now.
thankyou for turning this post into a vent session. you rock!
xxx
vanessa
I have been crying for two days. If someone looks at me the wrong way-I cry. I feel so stupid about it, it is all my female hormones..I know this, as “Aunt Flo” is due to visit me tomorrow. I really don’t mind her visits, because when she gets here, I feel somewhat normal again. Then we are on a positive upswing until 26 or so days from now…
But! I also just realized (again, for the seventh time in my life…) that I am vitamin b deficient. So! As soon as I remember to start taking my supplements again, my crying should subside to a minimum.
We really aren’t monsters, we just feel like them.
Besides, some monsters are really, really cute. So, I am the girly with the red & white striped skirt on.
Sending you love, love, love my friend! Thanks for the outlet, and much love to Carolyn too. Always remember to pass the love on when you see her…
xoxoo
Gillian!
Greetings – I adore your blog and your work. It’s a lovely distraction from the four loads of laundry, full sink of dishes, and Christmas storage container mahem that awaits me. Sending “happy thoughts” from Oregon.
Kimi
OK…you asked for it (and boy do I need it!) I awoke yesterday morning stressing about my 20th high school reunion, which is odd because it’s not all the way until July…I am so pissed about where I am in my life…I am going to tell everyone that I am a contortionist with the circus…plus, I figure if I go on an entire hunger strike…I shall make it down to my High School weight of 100 by then…AND, the song Thriller was playing a loop through my head…Michael Jackson…go away.
Dave, I blow kisses in your general direction, you are spot on with your discussion of some men…I have been worrying about a lot (the shop is befuddling me…as business is down…and I feel as if it is time for me to move far away from everyone…by myself) My sweetheart asked me if I was bothered last night? I tried to talk about my stuff…and then if became a general discussion about HIS stuff…and then OUR stuff (my stuff got stuffed again) He’s having major health problems (just like your sweet friend) and I don’t know if I’m up to the challenge, and he’s not sure he wants to put me through it, or stand in my way if someone else walks into my life…he said it’s OK if I need space for a couple of days, as people keep abandoning him. WHA? We talked more by phone…and still the focus was not on what I really wanted to talk about, and I finally admitted to the fact that I was darned confused by our entire situation because I wasn’t the one doing the pursuing…IN THE FIRST PLACE…and can someone just make up their minds before I decided to walk away and give up?
He texted a good morning message and called 3 times before he left for work to check in and chat…
ack!!
I…I…I…I have decided that I will indeed take a 3 day long weekend in January…I am coming to visit everyone down your way…I don’t care if I have to close the shop for a day…I really don’t. We shall discuss details later…or sooner…and then we shall tea and thrift and play.
On the flip side…I did find 2 vintage Santa candles to go on my mantle yesterday…AND I do feel better about being able to at least clear the air with Mr. Sweetheart…I mean, at least he’ll talk to me about the rough stuff…oh, and I made a damed tree skirt finally…although, it took me 4 hours.
i am the dubahdu hiding behind the hand in the back on the floor banging my head and feet…ouch…i hate pitt for beating wvu…i dislike stupid people who cannot get it right the first time…i hate the economy…i hate having to pay the bills…i hate worrying about paying the bills…i hate worrying about making enough money topay the bills…but i heart you…blessings, rebecca
1. I’ve just used a wretched growling voice telling my youngest children that if the play room isn’t picked up, it will all be heading directly to the trash! 2. Why don’t 5 year olds like Christmas songs? I have no holiday spirit this year so I’m trying to coax it along with some music. But the kids keep whining, “I don’t liiiike this music!” And I’m thinking, “I don’t like spending money on toys you’ll break and toss around the playroom!” As I type this my daughter is right at my ear saying, “20 days until Christmas. 19 days until Christmas Eve. When can I play on the computer? It’s etoys.com and there will be a little slot and you just have to type in Shining Stars. That’s all so can I get them?” YIKES! I need nana!! Blessings… Polly
Ok, I’m back. I can really vent now. Dacor appliance customer service rep Robert. Rude, mean, distorts the truth and is the worst rep I have ever met.
There.
Now I am calling his supervisor.
BLECH.
Ha my husband had complained that I was complaining too much this week and I have good reason! Work was making me crazy, My engagement ring broke but I got to get a new setting. My car’s back hatch is broken, my house is a mess and the kids had another day off from school today and they are driving me nuts! My brother’s getting married Sat and I still have to finish shopping to finish the outfit for rehersal dinner, and then take my niece out to get nails done. Humm well I guess my complaints are not bad ones! So I guess I will just shut up for now!! Ha
Mama told me there’d be days like these…it’s just life, all the up and down, in and out, good and bad and everything in-between. It’s comforting to know that everyone else has similar issues. We’re all in the same boat, bailing water and sinking fast in some cases. This is actually my second attempt at a comment. The first time I was all full of platitudes and easy-breezy answers. Then I hit enter and my post vanished into oblivion. Do I have reasons to complain? Oh Hell yes! DO I complain?? A visit to my blog any day of the week will answer that question. Besides my disappearing post, the only real complaint I have right now is that wonderful fruit crisp recipe you listed a while back. Do you realize I make one of those every couple of days? And that I eat almost the whole thing myself? *groan* You have turned me into a Fruit Crisp Pig! *burp* Pardon me. I love the girls! I would like to be the one with the owl on her lap. I covet her shoes. I hope you feel better soon, Dear Heart.
Kids, cars, rain, bad kitty, Christmas shopping,and much more so far. My kids are gonna drive me crazy. My 14 year old son thinks that the world revolves around him, after all he is the son. My 13 year old daughter is not any better. I am a mean mom who makes them do their home work and clean up, and just never let them have no fun.
Christmas is coming up, and I am the grinch! I never have had much holiday spirit. When your parents work for the post office, Christmas is not a real happy time of year. It has always been stressful, and now as an adult, I still feel that stress. Don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, it is just every thing that leads up to it. I hate to shop! To many people, and I never feel like I know what to get everyone. With the kids getting older it is getting harder. Plus I always end up doing it all the week before Christmas because that is when I do Birthday shopping for the oldest boy. So I am sitting here, making a list so I can go shop for these little monsters and make them happy, for 5 min. The car needs new hoses, lot of fun there. The truck never wants to start. The kitty who was once so loving and sweet has had enough of the kid and took it out on me. I have some nice scratches now. About the only thing I can complain about is my Hubby, who has always held me together at this time of year. So now I am off to drag the Christmas tree out of my closet and get it set up!This will be fun, thank goodness that it has the lights on it, and I don’t have to mess with that!!
Love Erin~
That should say I can’t complain about my hubby. Sorry! AAARRRGGGG!
Love Erin~
I’m a day late, and a dollar short, but is the party still crankin’ or what? I want Nana to let me sit on her lap. I want to eat six large chocolate chip cookies and and three pimento cheese sandwiches, then if it could be arranged, could I have a glass of champagne?
My contribution:
I was overwhelmed yesterday, starting with waking up in the middle of the night and realizing all that I had to do! It made me feel like crying. I felt a tightness in my chest. like I couldn’t handle it. Today, all is well in the land of Rochambeau. I made it through the weirdness.
Cyper HUGS VV. Fun post. Thanks for including me.
Loved your interview by the way.
Well I am over worked and underpaid!
Over sexed and under loved!
No body appreciates me
think I’ll go eat some worms.
I hope things are looking up honey – I think its something in the air.
I’ve been miserable too – leaking kitchen, broken freezer, broken dryer, & SOOOO not ready for xmas
c’est la vie
time for chocolate
or booze
or both!
you should try hot buttered rum. perfect winter remedy for crappyness. maybe some will have to be in order tonight. yeah.
Gurl!! Oh my gosh, that sounds a little like hell-day, but you survived! Of course you did 🙂
I miss you like hella crazy, but everytime I pass my paintings from you I smile!!
You remind me of…
Thanks for posting this…I needed somewhere to write down what is bothering me.
Last Tuesday, out of the blue, my friend of 11 years sent me a scathing email ending our friendship. It cut me to my core (made me cry several times and i NEVER cry) and she hasn’t given us a chance to actually talk it over. So for a week now it has been eating away at me.
I shouldn’t complain too much though…I get to go on vacation next week.
Thanks for listening. 🙂
Ok, I’m IN! And just in time too! Here goes, I HATE my copier/scanner! It is just the worst! It’s a 3 in one and doesn’t do any of the 3 very well! I have now resorted to “tricking” the %$#@*&%^$# scanner, (pardon my French) sneaking up on it and putting the page in really fast, closing the lid and hoping for the best! It has a mind of it’s own! And not a good one! Sometimes it will just scan a small portion of the picture, or only one letter, or only ONE eye! It drives me nuts! If any one out there has any suggestions on a good 3 in one, please let me know!
Phew!
I do feel better!
Sandra Evertson 🙂
Since I’m the NANA around here, why do’nt I just give you all a cuppa and a big hug and tell you the secret of the universe??? (it will all get better and Nana hugs are magic, like prozac in a hug!)
friends with dave and trina. this is not my complaint, but just the explanation that i saw your blog because of theirs.
i claim red headed girl with sweet ass tights.
i have one sole little complaint right now.
i just wanted to order some nice take out thai food for dinner tonight after a fairly stressful work day which included a ‘uh, no that’s not normal you should come in to the doctor’ trip in the middle… and this thai food i’m having for dinner is THE WORST THAI FOOD I HAVE EVER HAD! ever ever. and i’ve been to the place before and it’s been good. which seems to make it EVEN WORSE!
thanks.
niki
oh, my!
aren’t we so very fortunate
that tomorrow is another day…
that said,
i had a flat tire this week, too,
and got bad sick
and plugged in my heating pad
and it flamed
out the electric wires in my house
so for Christmas i had electricians
come spend the day
for
$$$$$$$
and
then i lost my voice
and could not even answer my cell phone
and then burnt the nuts
when making spiced pecans
for a gift
for a friend…
🙂
thanks for letting me vent…
can nana make me a new heating pad?
one that won’t blow a fuse?
was just wondering…
Oh gosh! Can I really?! Ok! You asked for it lol…I hate computer programs and computers in general which made me cry yesterday…I don’t like being sick…again!…I have hot flashes and grumpies…plus pms all at the same time…drives me nuts when no one takes out the garbage…which the cat got into…TWICE… Arthritis sucks big time! I don’t like living in SC…I don’t know anyone here…I don’t have my own car…And desperately need a tropical vacation that I will never get…with a cabana boy bringing me endless margaritas!! Will Nana make me some chicky soup? I don’t feel any better(cuz of a stupid cold) but I am so glad I had someone to vent to! Thanks Vanessa!
Isn’t it always the little things…love the “meeting at Nana’s house”…we have a nana in our family and she is very special…kari wants to be the girl in the orange stockings….kijsa is still thinking!
Have a very blessed day…
kari and kijsa
sorry kiddo…
I am all wacked out too and too much stuff to do to grab a bag of cookies and a bottle of champagne and sulk PROPERLY!
I do suggest this if you can squeeze a moment of time. Trader Joe’s Candy Cane JoJo’s and prosecco with candied ginger.
I will cheer ya.If you have time.
Oh vanessa – I just read your last 2 posts and am in tears – your wonderful, brave, friend – she sounds an incredible person and you are so lucky to have each other.
I am too late for tea at nan’s house I think so I shall just sit here quietly in my own thoughts. I wish I could write my worries in tiny script so no-one can see or whisper them so no-one can hear. We are so lucky in so many ways but some things are so difficult too.
I hope your last couple of days have been better. Few things stress me more than equipment and camera and computer worries. I have shed many a tear in techno tantrums!
Jury Duty! Need I say more? But today I might be dismissed from the list. Thank you for the marvelous suggestion,Vanessa! Tape dolls to my clothing and then have a doll in each hand to speak for my two personalities! I am definitely the blond Du-Buh_Du sister. I cannot relate to another hair color.
Christine
This is good!!!
Very good!
tears…
ok some more…
I feel better.
Thank you for this very much!
ok now I have a funny looking nose and eyes.
I hope the people in this office notice and think that I may be hormonal 😉
P.S. THANK YOU to let me vent!!!
I meant I hope NOT or better said they don’t notice me Today at all.
LOL
oh V~ i am so sad to hear about the woe’s and worries and gremlins….is it too late for me to come by nana’s for tea? i too so need it myself these days. i try to keep a smile and a happy countenance as much as possible, but the holidays can be rough sometimes. i am spending the first holidays without my sweet gramps…(he passed away in April) and i miss miss miss that sweet dear heart. he raised me and so it is like missing a dad.
thanks for letting me say it out…:) here’s hoping things look up for all of us 🙂
Crying to let it all out is GOOD! i love a good cry every now and then although my man laughs and thinks ‘here we go again…’
work is the only thing in my life that gets to me but its been fine lately as I dont LET it get to me…easy peasy
I am a little sad as I introduced a wonderful guy to a wonderful girl recently and they hit it off but now things arent looking too good so they might be parting ways…i feel bad as my friend is aching…thats made me sad lately…oh well life moves on….
tommorow is another day!
1) I have a cold – but I took some medicine after the Wolfgang Puck chicken soup…
2) more to do – but really good stuff – 2 walls in my friend’s gallery to cover…
3) my windshield squirter doesn’t squirt – hubby will check or the gas man…
4) I complain all the time about time and money and things that don’t work…
5) BUT – now I have just one word – a name in fact or rather a place – and a sad sad sad thing that happened there…
OMAHA…
a sad person did something very sad…
that said…
xox – eb.
Oh Vanessa! I had a day just like that yesterday. I was crying buckets but the daughter came and took me to Starbucks and gingerbread lattes and sweet daughters change everything. I’m the only daughter with four brothers and guess who has sole responsibility for the cranky mother no matter what. Me! And that’s why some days I just cry.
well i tried to get my three kids and hubby to have a little outing last night, to see the HARLEM GLOBE TROTTERS for free … but we had to wait in a long line in the rain with the baby already having a nasty cold! when we finally got in the building e had to sit on the floor , right next to the court… thats ok… we were some of lucky ones who got to get water thrown on us….(um we were already wet) then my baby wants to breastfeed really really bad half through the game/show! well anyways we get home really late with nothing to eat and no clean towls to take a hot shower! ack!
Boy! You opened up Pandora’s box! WElll… I am losing my job come January…I have $71 in my bank account…my car is falling apart,I am running around on expired car tags, Bills are all due….I am so tired of never having any money. But, I am feeling WELL, the animals are well, and if I have to , I can always live in my VW bus! I want to move to Oregon and I haven’t the slightest idea how!!!! Last night I just broke down and cried. waaaa. Merry Christmas! None of my sorrows are life threatening and can and will be remedied somehow. THanks for listening. It helped to get it out! I know we all have our troubles and your friend is so right….no matter what the toubles or how trivial,, they mean something to each of us. WE hurt. Thank you Vanessa ,for being the awesome person that you are!!!!
I have allegies so bad, I have to have shots two days a week! What a pain!! The worst part is having to stop what I am doing, drive for a half hour to the doctors, get the shot, wiat 15 minutes to make sure I don’t go into shock, and then drive a half hour back home. It takes up most of the morning….whine….whine and stopping my feet!
Thanks for the post so we could vent!
Penyn
ViVi if you and Nana have finished the tea and you have a moment today, pop over to Esprit as I’ve left something there for you. xoxo
I guess I have a lot – and nothing – to complain about all at the same time. Nothing little; lots of big things. I’ll leave it at that.
Yes, I often feel like sitting in the middle of the floor and crying and it often helps. Coffee helps me too. 🙂
Love you dearest. xoxoxox… 🙂
Okay, now you just have too much to read, don’t you? 🙂 Well, I am the lady on the left of the photo with the cute bob-like hair cut, b/c I just got a really great cut that works with my curls. Didn’t know I had curls…oops, not kvetching..okay.
Well, I was told two days ago my dissertation topic was not going to work because no one here is expert enough to read it. I cannot stay on another year to finish cuz of the med insurance issue and I cannot go without it. And, I just had my oh, let’s see 12th change in diabetes meds and my tummy has hurt for two days. Hmmm, oh and stupid people saying my nephew will be “gay” because he loves Tinkerbell and Little Mermaid tick me off. I bought him a LM doll and he LOVES her!! Whew!! I feel so much better now– thank you for listening- you are fabulous. I do hope your days improve- hey glitter on the floor looks like snow, right? 🙂 (((hugs)))
Oh, my! I just wrote an entire post complaining about things going wrong in London. I think these annoying things tend to go in spurts – they happen all at once and sometimes the best thing to do is cry – and then everything is fine. Hope your world is much better by now. xoxox
My rant today:
My pants are soaked from the slushy snow and my feet are like blocks of ice after walking Lulu Belle and the sidewalks were like ice, i was slipping and sliding and thought i was going to break my neck.
Ugh, can’t wait for spring! Walking the dog is very treacherous right now!
and
i have to go to a Christmas party next Saturday that i hate going to, my fiances’ childhood friend. Alot of people there end up watching hockey in the rec room and they are true sportos, i hate this party!!!
The food is really bad too, frozen no name chicken fingers and other bad food, Ick!
I don’t want to go but if i don’t Steve has to go alone, and hates it! Besides i look rude not going. What should i do? Be rude and stay home or go and waste my Saturday night being bored and uncomfortable?
p.s. i never get to go to fun parties…wah!
Oh, that was fun!
Can Nana make me a blue wool coat with red buttons by next Friday?
Meeting at Nanas…
Bookmarked your post over at Blog Bookmarker.com!
Hi, Miss Vanessa
I saw this old post with the photos of your Du Buh Du doll collection made by Christine, so I went to her blog and low and behold, on Dec. 20, 2013 she had an update for ten ornament dolls in her Etsy shop…alas! I was too late to purchase one of them. She hasn’t posted many dolls this past year. I am just so happy she is making dolls again, as to me, her dolls are perfection and the finest handmade ones a person can find!
love to you,
I adore viewing your older posts!
Miss Teresa