Sometimes I hate life!
@jewelenterprises (1996)
Australia
November 14, 2008 2:42pm CST
I'm in a bit of a peeved mood today.
You see, I've just had one of those days that you'd rather not have.
I'm in the process of having a new kitchen installed. While that may seem like a good thing (which it is). It has uncovered a couple of problems.
First of all there were those pesky little design issues that you always expect so they really aren't all that big a deal
But then yesterday they had to disconnect my heater because the gas line leading to it has a leak. Thankfully I live in Australia so it's coming up on summer right now so having the heater disconnected isn't going to make me freeze. In a way I guess I should be thankful it was found since gas leaks can lead to dangerous situations (explosions etc)but it's just the thought of 'yet another thing that is going to cost money' especially in these hard financial times.
But then on top of that, the wall oven I wanted in my new kitchen can't be installed because it's a gas wall oven and they can't get gas to the place where it is supposed to be installed 
. So I had to ring the company I bought it off to arrange an exchange. The new electric oven will arrive on Tuesday and the driver will take the other one back.
And this is just a couple of the problems... guess you could say I've had enough 
Oh well, that's life. I'm sure many people who read this post are facing much more serious issues so I shouldn't be feeling sorry for myself LOL.
Anyone got any stories of one of 'those' days? Where nothing seemed to go right for you.
. So I had to ring the company I bought it off to arrange an exchange. The new electric oven will arrive on Tuesday and the driver will take the other one back.
And this is just a couple of the problems... guess you could say I've had enough
Oh well, that's life. I'm sure many people who read this post are facing much more serious issues so I shouldn't be feeling sorry for myself LOL.
Anyone got any stories of one of 'those' days? Where nothing seemed to go right for you.2 people like this
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@highflyingxangel (9225)
• United States
14 Nov 08
I've just had one of those really long days. I've had to work at the preschool all day. On top of that I had to set up a new play room for the kids and that took me all day. And you know those things you get told that come on randomly that just make you feel like crap and ruin your entire day? I had one of those and I'm still feeling kind of blah and I heard about it about 4 hours or so ago. It's just been one of those really long days.
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@jewelenterprises (1996)
• Australia
15 Nov 08
Know exactly what you mean. I work in customer service and all I need it one customer to chuck a hissy fit and it can spoil my entire day.
You would not believe the way some customers behave. The way they will abuse us for things that are outside of our control etc.
People can be so darn impatient these days
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@kdhartford (1151)
• United States
14 Nov 08
I used to work in construction. I can tell you that I lived by the saying that no plan survives contact with reality. This is commonly a problem with renovation. Hey, at least you did not have to write performance appraisals all day.
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@jewelenterprises (1996)
• Australia
15 Nov 08
Yeah, as I said, you expect these little hiccups when you're doing a renovation.
As far as writing performance appraisals all day... thank goodness I didn't LOL... that would be soooooooo boring
The other good thing is that the kitchen looks great. Once it's finished I'll take a photo to show.
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@SandynPaul (171)
• United States
14 Nov 08
Well I can understand Your frustration, and I know the feeling of being told You can't have a item moved where You feel is best for it. Don't let it beat You down though... like You said at least the leak was found and will be a expense to have fixed but far better than a problem worse than the bill? I can say My day has been awful to. For the very moment I have not only spent up all the money my Mother has entrusted with me 3,900. However if that wasn't the worst thing I am so mad about how she spoke to me last. She doesn't know by the way anyways but I imagine it's (sh_t) about to hit the fan. She said about how She hadn't intended to pay for the first (session, quarter, semester) of my son's college which is why she gave it to me to begin with. I said I told Her which I did. She said well I thought You would pay for the first one. I said so so so sorry but I told You. So if She has forgotten whatever. She said You could have paid but She knows I am broker than the horses who have been broke already. So I am scrambling to figure a way to put the money back. I already knew it was going to be a slim Christmas, it has been since 2004 because of a house we own. It apparently was the cause of a child being lead poisoned. When we got over that by late 2006 My mil tried to steal the property from us. We hadn't quite gotten over that and we got a bad renter out of it. We got rid of her and just this summer got rid of the renter she bestowed upon us. Then we ended up having another bad renter. I just got the property rented this summer on the top floor rented to a new paying renter and now I have rented again to another but I haven't caught up from being behind and then today hubby says... My boss was fired today. He wasn't taking that well at all. If that isn't, wouldn't be obvious. Anyways then this evening before he leaves to do volunteer work I mention to my son that the clean "forks" are in the dishwasher because his sister didn't put the dishes away this morning before she went to school and of course hasn't since she got home..... He (hubby) about blows his top stating that he didn't like that last comment. Well all I can say is ughhhhhhhhhhh. btw there is no way I could have afforded to pay for my son's first bill for college and I will pay for the next but I probably won't be able to do it unless either of 2 things happen. 1 either all 3 renters pay or I just give a house to the mortgage company. I would rather die than live on most days as it is.... I do know mostly however that my child wasn't poisoned with lead from my house and that I have been lucky for that but if I have to give much more up I cannot and if my hubby is fired next I know we will give all 3 houses back to the mortgage companies. Then I will begin to die literally. God Blesses! Sandy
@jewelenterprises (1996)
• Australia
15 Nov 08
Thank you Sandy
Your response is just the type of thing I mentioned about people having much worse issues.
When you hear something like that it really puts these little issues into perspective.
I understand how you feel though. I've been there and done that with the wanting to die business. Sometimes life can be so darn stressful you just wanna curl up in a ball and hide under the table where life won't even touch you.
It sounds like you are suffering depression... you on anything for it?
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@jewelenterprises (1996)
• Australia
16 Nov 08
I was lucky. I went to live interstate for three years. While we were there we rented the house out and all of our tenants were good. Well, we only had two families. Apart from a couple of broken door frames on rooms that had sliding bolt locks there was very little damage. At least the renters always paid the rent. Actually, the last ones got peeved with me when I moved back because they wanted to stay in the house for another two years.
But if you're on the medication you should start feeling better. It usually takes a few weeks to really kick in but then you find you're able to cope. When it happened to me it wasn't like I was suddenly full of boundless energy and feeling happy as a lark. It was a case of being able to cope again instead of feeling like I'd fallen into a deep, dark pit that was sucking me down no matter how hard I tried to claw my way out of it. That feeling really sucks!
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