My bitch: Cats and smoke detectors. The battery in one of our many smoke detectors went off at 3:30 this morning. It took us forever to find it, and it happened to be in one of the upstairs bedrooms. I had to get on the 8 foot ladder to get to it because H wasn't tall enough. I almost told him we were sleeping through it. Why do they always start chirping in the middle of the night?
Since we had all the lights on in the house trying to find the stupid alarm, the cats thought it was time to be up. Layla hunted and played for the next 3 hours or so. I just wanted to sleep. I love my cats and I love it when they play and realize that it is natural behavior, but I like my sleep.
Ugg every creaking time, it's at night!! I feel your pain. We have like 10 in our house and so far 4 have woken us up in the middle of the night.
This makes me feel lucky that ours are hooked to the electrical system and have rechargeable batteries in them. Knock on wood, we haven't had a single battery die and we've been there over 5 years now.
Ugg every creaking time, it's at night!! I feel your pain. We have like 10 in our house and so far 4 have woken us up in the middle of the night.
This makes me feel lucky that ours are hooked to the electrical system and have rechargeable batteries in them. Knock on wood, we haven't had a single battery die and we've been there over 5 years now.
. I wish we would have splurged and had an electrician out them on the electrical system, but for how many we needed, it was going to be a pretty penny. I at least thought we'd get a solid year without them going out though!!
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This makes me feel lucky that ours are hooked to the electrical system and have rechargeable batteries in them. Knock on wood, we haven't had a single battery die and we've been there over 5 years now.
. I wish we would have splurged and had an electrician out them on the electrical system, but for how many we needed, it was going to be a pretty penny. I at least thought we'd get a solid year without them going out though!!
Yea, that would definitely have been spending. And it does seem odd they didn't last even a year before dying. Maybe it was just a bad batch of batteries?
Also, new Monday bitch - my dumbass phone. Plugged into the charger all night, but here it is 9:46am and I'm getting low battery notifications. Apparently it didn't actually charge.
Ugg every creaking time, it's at night!! I feel your pain. We have like 10 in our house and so far 4 have woken us up in the middle of the night.
This makes me feel lucky that ours are hooked to the electrical system and have rechargeable batteries in them. Knock on wood, we haven't had a single battery die and we've been there over 5 years now.
Ours are wired into the electrical system, so the batteries should theoretically be backups. They did use the batteries that came in the box, though.
Today is one of those days that I regret joining our HOA Board.
I have to leave work at 2:30 today to go sort through boxes and boxes of moldy old documents to determine what needs to be kept and what can be thrown out. My suggestion that we just take a big scanner down there with us and scan the documents then go through them electronically was soundly rejected because apparently I'm the only one who knows how to use a scanner...
So I should be done with that around 4pm, which gives me enough time to come home, walk the dogs and eat dinner before leaving for another meeting, this time with the Finance Committee.
... Maybe my bitch is actually at myself for volunteering for so many things. Hmph.
Totally feel you on this one. I work at a plant where everyone has piles and piles of paper on their desks. I scan nearly everything. I don't understand why that is a hard concept. Even if you need it again, you can print it out!
They also don't understand the usefulness of having a chat service at work. Like, not everything is worthy of an e-mail.
Post by diamondsndaisies on Feb 23, 2015 12:54:28 GMT -5
my bitch is that I am sore from an emergency flooring removal at my parents old house yesterday. They have already moved out and are trying to get it sold. They had a water line leak under the kitchen sink. They bought the parts to fix it and shut off the water but put off coming down and it ended up still leaking. This meant that a weeks worth of leaking ruined all of the flooring in the kitchen and the ceiling tiles and carpet in the basement. Im exhausted and sore today. My mother has knee problems with a surgery scheduled for next week and my dad is still recovering from a massive health issue that kept him in the ICU for a week last thanksgiving and hasn't recovered his strength from it so I got to do a lot of the "heavy lifting" you could say.
Another thing to bitch about! I weighed myself the yesterday and it seems as if I have gained 10 pounds... Eeek! I was already unhappy with my weight, so to be 10 pounds heavier is very upsetting.
I just had a woman I work with complaining about her weight, saying she needed to drop to 110 pounds... she is 5'6! Then goes on to say I only look bigger in my stomach and thighs..
Today is one of those days that I regret joining our HOA Board.
I have to leave work at 2:30 today to go sort through boxes and boxes of moldy old documents to determine what needs to be kept and what can be thrown out. My suggestion that we just take a big scanner down there with us and scan the documents then go through them electronically was soundly rejected because apparently I'm the only one who knows how to use a scanner...
So I should be done with that around 4pm, which gives me enough time to come home, walk the dogs and eat dinner before leaving for another meeting, this time with the Finance Committee.
... Maybe my bitch is actually at myself for volunteering for so many things. Hmph.
Totally feel you on this one. I work at a plant where everyone has piles and piles of paper on their desks. I scan nearly everything. I don't understand why that is a hard concept. Even if you need it again, you can print it out!
They also don't understand the usefulness of having a chat service at work. Like, not everything is worthy of an e-mail.
Oh man, I can't imagine not having our chat service here at work. Especially since 80% of the people I deal with daily are on the opposite side of the country. I'd be on the phone all day or answering emails for hours on end. Eesh.
To their credit, my fellow board members are all well past retirement age, so these types of things don't always occur to them. I've made it my mission to start bringing us into the 21st century.
I'm bored out of my mind and so sick of not having a job to go to. I'm going through an agency to help me find a job and so far no luck. I wish something would come up already! I'm losing the rest of my marbles just sitting here.
Boo! I'm sorry @led! I would hire you in a heartbeat
Post by easilyunamused on Feb 23, 2015 13:14:13 GMT -5
Fucking delayed flights! We have our first appt at 2:40, giving us plenty of time to grab our rental car and now our plane is delayed an hour. I hope we can still make it. We have a ton of houses to see today and I'm praying the flight isn't delayed any longer than this. I really dislike spirit airlines.
My boobs are hurting so much this cycle since ovulation I can't believe that it might actually prevent me from exercising. I also found a lump underneath one of them and my nips are discharging so I'm freaking the fuck out right now. I got an apt. tomorrow to have it looked at. I also found a lump on the same side on my abdomen but it hurts so that might be just a strain. I really hope it's all nothing and that I'm getting worried over nothing. I get anxiety attacks quite often and this isn't helping.
I've been an emotional mess the last week or so. I just want to feel better and be well. I haven't told my husband yet about the lump I found this morning. I'm trying to get it ruled out first. He knows about my crying over every little thing though. I told him I can't help the hormones. My boss jacked up the coffee machine this morning. She didn't put the pot underneath all the way and it leaked coffee and grounds all over the back of my workstation. I ended up having to clean it up because she had a meeting first thing this morning she can't be late for. To add to this, when I got back from cleaning the coffee machine out, one of the nurses, who is a kid that you can't take serious most of the time, tells me that my boss wanted me to deliver her coffee to her meeting. I don't know if she was serious, but I draw the line of being anyone's coffee bitch. If you want coffee that bad you can make the trek across their building and get your own coffee. I'm not going to clean your mess and fetch your coffee. She ended up coming back and getting her own and thanking me for cleaning up the mess, and apologizing for making the mess. Nothing was mentioned about me not delivering her coffee.
I guess I had lots to bitch about today so early this morning. I kinda feel like it's a dear diary entry. Sorry for the long post(snicker).
Big hugs!! I will be praying that everything goes well for you at your appointment!
I'm bored out of my mind and so sick of not having a job to go to. I'm going through an agency to help me find a job and so far no luck. I wish something would come up already! I'm losing the rest of my marbles just sitting here.
Boo! I'm sorry @led! I would hire you in a heartbeat
This thread made me realize that we are nowhere near code with smoke detectors.
It must be different here. I'm pretty sure one in each level is all that's needed. I might be wrong though. I guess I should figure it out before we buy a house.
This thread made me realize that we are nowhere near code with smoke detectors.
Neither are we... And I was even just telling my husband I thought we needed another one. Make that like 5 more, lol.
Although we live in a very small 1 story house and all the bedrooms are right next to each other in the same small hallway. So I am wondering if we really need one outside of each bedroom door as that would make them like two feet apart?
"Cold" days!! I am ready to snap - these kids have been out of school for a week and had a cold day the Friday before vacation and now today. My house is a wreck, my nerves are a wreck. They are bored out of their minds. These temps are killing me. Winter why do you hate me so much?!
Post by Sammich_Cat on Feb 23, 2015 14:08:40 GMT -5
A fool was handing the monkeys popcorn through the netting at the zoo yesterday. Self-centered idiot. You are the reason we have to have animal enclosures so far away that we need binoculars to see the chimps.
MH woke up at 1am to throw up. He's rarely sick, but he was up on and off all night to puke. MH is such a loud puker that I'm sure everyone in a 3 block radius heard him.
When he came back to bed, he would whimper everytime he moved. Then he'd apologize. Then he'd turn over and whimper some more. Then more apologies. STOP TALKING TO ME WHILE I'M TRYING TO SLEEP. So needless to say, I got zero sleep last night and I'm dead tired. I'm not mad that he's sick, it happens. I just wish I could have gotten some sleep.
Oh my god, you can sleep through puking? If my husband gets up to puke in the middle of the night, I'll be awake the whole night wondering "okay, when am I going to start puking??"
I'm not good with puking. Or being near puking. Or really anything to do with it.
Once, my husband drank too much and told me he was going to be sick. I grabbed my shoes, keys, and coat and went to my sister's for the night.
#wifeoftheyear
No, I can't sleep through puking. I try, but it never happens. I just lay there waiting for it to happen again.
I should have gone downstairs to sleep, but that wouldn't have helped. Our roommate who's room is down there, was also awake all night, cuz my husband apparently screams when he pukes. I should call all our neighbors and apologize for him.
When I responded earlier, I did a little googling. This came up. It has the code for all 50 states. There may be tougher requirements for where you are, but this is a start.
This thread made me realize that we are nowhere near code with smoke detectors.
Neither are we... And I was even just telling my husband I thought we needed another one. Make that like 5 more, lol.
Although we live in a very small 1 story house and all the bedrooms are right next to each other in the same small hallway. So I am wondering if we really need one outside of each bedroom door as that would make them like two feet apart?
OH. I just read Philly's smoke alarm code. We are (almost) to code on smoke alarms and fully to code on CO detectors. Woo!
Our house is 800 square feet with a living room/kitchen downstairs and two bedrooms/bathroom upstairs.
We're required to have: 1. One on every floor and 2. One in the immediate vicinity of bedrooms. As our upstairs is so tiny, the upstairs one is in the immediate vicinity of bedrooms. Honestly, the downstairs one is in the immediate vicinity of the bedrooms... haha.
EDIT: This is the code for houses built before 1988. It is different for those after and new builds.
Neither are we... And I was even just telling my husband I thought we needed another one. Make that like 5 more, lol.
Although we live in a very small 1 story house and all the bedrooms are right next to each other in the same small hallway. So I am wondering if we really need one outside of each bedroom door as that would make them like two feet apart?
OH. I just read Philly's smoke alarm code. We are (almost) to code on smoke alarms and fully to code on CO detectors. Woo!
Our house is 800 square feet with a living room/kitchen downstairs and two bedrooms/bathroom upstairs.
We're required to have: 1. One on every floor and 2. One in the immediate vicinity of bedrooms. As our upstairs is so tiny, the upstairs one is in the immediate vicinity of bedrooms. Honestly, the downstairs one is in the immediate vicinity of the bedrooms... haha.
EDIT: This is the code for houses built before 1988. It is different for those after and new builds.
I was right, in Alberta, it's one per level, no matter when the house was built, and they weren't mandatory until 1984.
Huge hugs ttcminicofer, you are such a strong lady and I hope you get the medical care you deserve! rufus426 I'm sorry your brother is being a jerk and I'm praying for the health of your grandma. NariaDreaming, so sorry about your doggie ohinvrtedworld, hope you feel better soon! I wish you the best at your appointment and that get some answers wowcheezits! Back injuries are the worst getzystark, I hope you can stay off your feet as much as possible.
My bitch is the fact that we quit DD's bottles cold turkey last night, and she is VERY attached to her bottle. She usually has one overnight. Well, she woke up at 2:30 and got a sippy cup with milk, threw a fit and didn't go back to sleep until 4:30. DH's alarm woke me up at 5 and I didn't go back to sleep. I am so exhausted. But the bottle has to go. I sure hope it gets easier from here.
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