I know it is the only way to get where I’m (hopefully) going…BUT flying just sucks.
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Ds1 and his wife and her family worked so hard to make me love the snow in northern Wisconsin. The trip would’ve been more of a success if I didn’t currently have a 103.7 fever now that I’m home. 
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I swear, it’s one thing after another. This evening, I noticed our sweet Aussie licking his leg a lot. When I looked closer, I saw a cloth band, about 1" wide, around his leg. What the heck? The skin around the band was VERY red and angry-looking. Louie wouldn’t let me get near it to take it off.
DH took him to an urgent care vet (these things ALWAYS happen after hours), who called me and asked if Louie had been to a vet recently for a blood draw. Uh, yes? The band was a tourniquet they put on sometimes in order to draw blood. #(&$ Really? The vet was pretty concerned, but later called and said it wasn’t as bad as she feared. The wound is just on the front of his leg, not all the way around. But they had to sedate him to clean it all up, plus he’ll be taking antibiotics and pain meds for awhile. We have to take him in again on Tuesday to have the wound rebandaged.
SO, vet’s office, you’ll be getting a call from us tomorrow, requesting that you reimburse us for the $745.77 bill! Some vet tech obviously made a mistake and we shouldn’t have to pay for it.
MTA: The “band” was actually what’s called “vet wrap.” Whatever, it’s what caused the wound. Poor Louie has to wear a cone for two weeks and not move around much. Ha, an Aussie?!?
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Someone stole my primary credit card number and went on a spending spree at Ticketmaster yesterday. Now it’s deactivated and they’re sending a new card by FedEx. They told me it will take five days. I asked if they’d ever heard of FedEx Overnight.
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I am more than happy to support your child so that they can play in a band concert. In fact, it’s my pleasure to watch him play in the band. He has come so far. When I first insisted he be allowed to play an instrument in band, my co-workers thought I was crazy, and I’ve had to support him in band class since then, as no one else felt “qualified”. I know that it is part of your culture to give me a gift of appreciation. However, a bottle of facewash seemed a bit odd. Not sure what to make of that.
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So a little frustrated at Synchrony J.C. Penney credit card. Rcvd an email that said I had a digital letter about my account (no balance) and to access the letter click the link in the email. I never click links in emails so I logged into my account and there is no letter anywhere that I can find so I opened a chat about it and the AI (not a human) was there is no digital letter on my file I must click the link in the email. I can’t tell if that is because that’s what the instructions in the email say and the AI bot doesn’t know anything except to follow orders or because that is actually a true link. What company would not put the digital letter about my account, in my online account? Regardless I have no balance and I’m not clicking!
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The expletives aren’t here but the attitude is. No doubt it will continue. The media doesn’t help either.
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What brilliant mind decided that today would be a great day for major software updates?! 
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Dear Apple or Verizon, it’s hard to manage a group through text thread when you stop getting texts.
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I have decided I need to find a self-help group, but not sure if there is such a thing for my lack of self control regarding political commentary that is just stupid and ridiculous and evil. Really, not kidding, evil stuff. I need to walk away without saying anything but I have trouble letting it go because I live here! Especially when listening to people while they wear religious regalia around their necks on their wrists, etc. i am of the same faith and can’t begin to comprehend why you say and act the way you do! HONESTLY, what is WRONG with you people???
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So, brand new/messed up fancy espresso machine service person I waited 2+ weeks for shows up today and confirms we have a problem, but of course he can’t fix it. Now I need to wait for parts to arrive here, and then someone will contact me again, and it will probably be another 2 weeks before someone else can come out. I called customer service, and was not a pleasant person. Apparently “I’m lucky” they are escalating my complaint to the higher ups before more torture. I am generally pretty nice, but I can be scary too.
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We had just enough snow last night for Sabadog. She still loves playing submarine and watching the kids on their sleds. Still my best girl.
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Academic elitism is alive, well, and making uninformed assumptions.
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WTH?
Aunt K, you sent TWO Advent calendars and you have THREE nieces/nephews.
So which child isn’t supposed to get one? Are the twins supposed to share one calendar? Or is your nephew the one not getting one because the calendars received are both girl themed?
Not cool. Very, very not cool.
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I have no clue what to do and I’m struggling.
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Ooops - I think I just “hung up” on the people calling about my fancy espresso machine issues. I thought they were telemarketers, and I said “I’m not interested, thank you.” Hopefully they will call back, or email me.
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When I walk into the store and say “I don’t want BRAND X” and the first thing out of your mouth is “You should take a look at BRAND X” and then I tell you exactly the features I want and you keep recommending things without those features, I might just leave. Which was really unfortunate for you, because the shop is owned by one of my friends who I then had to call so she could answer all of my questions.
(My husband thinks I was rude. Sorry, I have no tolerance for this garbage).
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I wonder if the Gen Z & Gen Y generation understand what a pain in the patooty wallpaper really is? I honestly can’t understand why this is coming back except to drive me CRAZY! Almost got divorced over selecting wallpaper for our first house, over removing and pasting in new wallpaper in 2nd and 3rd house….why on earth is this coming back??? And, next year I bet I’ll post aggravation about picking the correct wallpaper for a bathroom - mark my words, I will end up inside this new cultish behavior ~
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Oops, yesterday forgot to celebrate 50th anniversary of the day we met. For the first 10 years, we would go back to the fondue place that was the site of our first date. Then we married and recognition became much more sporadic. I started to forget if it was the 6th or 7th; would just say the one that wasn’t D-Day.
Still, I did mean to acknowledge it. At least we had that great 40th anniversary road trip!
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Gotta love it. I received a check today - we have an association up at our cabin to collect money to repair the gravel roads. There was a scribbled note with the check - “These dues should really be titled Association dues not road fees.” Well, I actually call them “road dues” on the invoices but whatever. A “Thanks!” or something would have been nice. Maybe somebody to keep in mind to tag as Treasurer in the future…
Oh, and lady? The previous treasurer did not send out invoices at all. And so people didn’t send in money at all and it was a mess. I use QuickBooks Pro and do a darned good job or keeping track of 43 lots. 
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