Do you ever listen to yourself when you’re bragging about how you retired at 50 25 years ago and realize that I’m still working at 65 with no end in sight because we can’t afford for me to retire? I’m exhausted with 12 hour days and 7 day weeks at this time of year and I may just explode next time I hear you giving a stranger the I retired at 50 spiel. If you’d worked a few years longer maybe I could retire at 66. Seriously, I’m exhausted and miserable. You just refuse to see it.
Man I am so pissed. Why is it so hard to make low carb pasta? All five different flour mix failed!
Contracts and Civpro? Oh my.
This is so not a big world problem. but went to Dunkin Donuts to get coffee and a donut with my daughter who was home on spring break. Asked for my favorite donut Toasted Coconut…they told us they discontinued it!!! Wow that really was disappointing! 
Dear GF, when I have answered your question please do not ask me again 3 more times.
I have decided that I will pretend not to hear you after the 2nd question in the future.
If you want to know about the people you keep asking about then call them and ask them yourself.
Thing is I am not your emissary or your town gossip so will not tell you anything even if I do know.
Otherwise it was a nice evening.
PHARMACY! If the insurance company told you they won’t pay for my son’s most important med because it wasn’t time to refill it yet [he threw out his meds when he relapsed a few weeks ago], please TELL me!! It’s a darned good thing I noticed the omission before you closed yesterday. And I wasn’t impressed with the pharmacist’s flimsy response when I told her the situation. I’ll be calling to talk to a manager on Monday.
Dear newspaper carrier,
Places you have recently left the paper that are not the location listed on the subscription: in a puddle, on top of a snowbank, under the shrubbery, in the mud, in the middle of the street in front of the house, in the middle of the street in front of the neighbor’s house, in the middle of an intersection.
But at least I’m getting a paper, which is more than many subscribers can say.
Do. Not. Make. Me. Come. There. And. Sort. This. Out. For. You.
MAINE played the LONGHORNS in women’s basketball tonight. Maine set a record! Fewest rebounds in an NCAA tournament game!
Dear sister, your two sons are in their late 20’s, both are college grads living on their own, one is married and owns a house, you are so strapped financially you needed to ask our elderly mother who’s on a fixed income to help you with your mortgage, but you are still paying for your boys’ cell phones??? You say they can’t afford to pay what is owed on the the cell phone (they both have the newest, fanciest smart phone available) but neither can you! Time for your boys to man up an pay their own bills!
I’m sorry I actually don’t want to date you, but I’m too scared to say so.
Right, so you’ve always “earned” straight A’s.
But now a teacher who hates you has “given” you a C.
Different verse, same as the first. Where have I heard this story before?
You sound like a dream student… why would she choose to hate you?
Following my daughter’s first marathon from the other side of the country can be exciting and anxiety ridden at the same time.
DH, I love you but some days you drive me nuts.
I remember you announcing your DD’s college decision on Facebook several weeks ago and now you announce a new acceptance- what was the point- that is just bragging!
Instead of complaining about your student loans when it suits you to avoid family gatherings and obligations, live within your means. We’ve been hearing about that debt for decades now. Trade in the rock on your finger, the new luxury car, the vacations, and the large home, and: Pay. Off. The Loan. (I’m having such a hard time keeping this one in…)
Glad that certain schools waitlisted that would probably not have been good fits anyway!
For anyone who says rank doesn’t matter, tell a student trying to get into UT Austin that.
Today my 15 year old daughter, the youngest of my 3 kids, starts at her first job. She’ll be working at the same Italian Ices stand as her 18 year old sister. My older daughter submitted her name and she was hired without even having to go interview— I think that speaks so well of my older daughter.
So I’m officially the mom of 3 working teenagers!
I’m a huge proponent of kids having jobs; I think it teaches them so much that school simply can’t teach.
Oh, and did I mention that my older daughter was offered a second job yesterday? We went to the diner after mass, as usual, and she was offered a job hostessing. He’ll happily work around school and her other job, probably giving her Sunday morning shifts. And with only 50 or so school days left, it won’t be a problem.
My son continues to work at the supermarket, while he takes classes at the local community college as well as classes with the fire academy. He’ll start EMT training this spring.
I don’t say it nearly often enough: I’m so proud of my kids!!!
I am tiring of the limbo - it keeps me awake at night - please make a decision