This book club is a bust

So, you know how I was all take charge and volunteered to organize a book club for the FRG? Thinking I could make some friends? Not so.

First, I emailed all four girls who signed up and asked if today's date, Oct 18, worked for them. I asked for suggestions on times. One girl gave me a time of 11 AM because she has an infant and an 8 year old. This wasn't really a good time for me because I work during the day, but decided I could take my "lunch hour" to do this. Another girl said today would work, she didn't have a preference on time. Two girls didn't reply period.

So I sent out another email to all four girls again and said we settled on October 18th at 11 at a library. (I know, I know...totally cliche to have a book club at a library, but since I'm still unfamiliar with what's available on post and didn't have a ton of time to get to a cooler location, I decided this was OK for the first meeting). Anyways, one girl wrote back and said she was excited, she'd be there. The girl who suggested 11 AM said that she could not find available childcare at this time. (I really only did this time because it worked for her, and now she couldn't attend. Annoying). Another girl wrote back and apologized for not replying to the first email...she read it and forgot about it (thanks!) and said she could not make it because she works during the day. Still haven't heard back from the 4th girl.

Anyways, today I got up extra early to start working extra early so in case this book club took longer than my "lunch hour," I wouldn't be too far behind. (I picked out a cute, dressier outfit than I've been wearing these days (not jeans and a t-shirt), blow dried and straightened my hair, put on make up and wore a new pair of flats that eventually gave me blisters on the back of my heels). I was excited all morning for this book club and to try to make at least one friend. I got to the library at about 10:50 and sat down at a table in the back, where I said we would meet. I saw some girl also sitting by herself listening to an iPod, and wondered if she was the girl who never responded to either of the emails. (Not going to lie, I Facebook stalked the girls so I could get an idea of who they are. And iPod girl was not familiar to my stalking). So I sat down at a different table. It was 11:15 and I decided I'd ask iPod girl if she was there for a book club. Nope! So I sat back down at my table all alone. I checked my email on my phone to see if anyone cancelled or emailed me by any chance. Nope. I decided to give someone...anyone...the benefit of the doubt who was running extremely late and was going to make a bad impression on me. I stuck around till 11:30. Still no one when I walked out of there at 11:35.

My first experience with a book club and I got stood up! How lame is that?!

Now I'm contemplating if I send out an email and tell them no one showed up and try to reschedule (so I can get stood up again...) or if I tell them no one showed up, but in order to this club going...ever...I decided on a book, here's the title, here's when we're meeting next. And tell them to be there or be lame and if they choose to be lame, they're outta my book club!

On a side note, I went to an FRG meeting the other day and saw a few girls that looked cool and I wanted to talk to them. But there were like 4 or 5 of them and I was way too intimidated to go up to them and introduce myself and be all like, "hey, do you want to be my friend?" Plus, the last two FRG meetings have been held in a movie theater (wtf, a movie theater is NOT a place to have a meeting. People are all scattered around the seats, all sitting alone, kids running up and down the aisle, yelling. It's not an environment where you can really socialize with other spouses). So I walked out of there not talking to a soul and it made me miss my real friends.

Can I have my old friends from Michigan back? Please? I really miss them. Making friends is hard work.

Ahhhhhhh

• My apartment got struck by lightning and I lost internet access and my a/c blew out. Sometimes I have hot water, other times I don’t.



• My apartment office is trying to make me pay for the WHOLE month of September, even though we’ll be out of there on August 31st. (I gave them notice on August 8th, and since it wasn’t a full 30 days before the next time rent is due, they’re charging me the whole entire month. Why can’t they charge me through the 8th, you ask? GOOD QUESTION! I want to know, too).



• I’m moving offices at work. For 2 weeks only until I leave. After I was told I wouldn’t have to move because it’s not a good use of time with the mass amount of work I have to do.



• I got a chip in my windshield on Saturday.



• I broke my parent’s lawn mower.



• I move in 2 weeks and my to-do list has about 20934802398502937523092803598 things on it.



• Packing has barely started.

The next two weeks are going to be hell. I just want to be in Washington with my husband. Is that too much to ask for?

It has been one of THOSE weeks.

On Monday morning at like, 9 AM, I said to my coworker, “is it Friday yet?” That’s always a good sign, right? This seems to be the longest week of my entire life. Nothing is going right, pretty much everybody is annoying the hell out of me, I’m super stressed and I’m done dealing with it. Except I can’t really be done, so it continues. It’s just one thing after another and I really want to give up right now.

My sister moved back to Oregon this week, and I miss her but I like not having to put on a happy face on stupid days like this whole dumb week. My apartment is still not in order to how I’d like it and I’ve had a busy week of getting things cleaned and the way I want.

This week can go F itself. Anyone with me?


Oh, it’s Chuck Norris’ birthday today. What’s your favorite Chuck Norris joke? Maybe that will cheer me up.

Happy birthday to Molli too :)

Zero to Bitch in -2 seconds

For some reason, I've found myself having not a lot of patience during this deployment. I don't know why it is, but I get very irritated VERY quickly. And it's over stupid stuff. Lately, it's when people do not use manners. I get work emails all day long asking for this or that. It pisses me off SO bad when people are not polite in their emails. I'm talking about not using "please" and "thank you." Or not addressing who the email is to. Is it really that hard to address the email as "Stacy," or "Hi Stacy," before they ask for the favor? No, it is not that hard. Those go a long ways in my book. When people write me emails that say, "can I have this piece of information?" it goes to the bottom of my list to be answered. Sorry, but it's true. BE KIND and BE NICE TO ME IF YOU WANT A FAVOR FROM ME.

And while I'm at it, it pisses me off when they spell my name with an E. Pay enough attention to spell it correctly...at the very least, look in the TO box and see how Outlook has spelled it.

It's going to be a really long fucking day.

FRG complaint

I have a small complaint about "our" FRG. Seth added me to the list, so I get all their emails, but I've never attended a meeting (it's really difficult to attend -- and expensive!!--when I'm in Michigan and well...his unit was stationed in Germany!!) Anyways, I've been getting their emails for about 7 months and I do find them helpful and informative and in the loop. They send me the "dispatch" newsletter which is usually a weekly thing. There's a section titled, "sprechen sie fun?" and it lists fun things to do in town for the weekend: plays, concerts, sports events, museums, etc. Here's my complaint: they send it out usually on Monday morning or afternoon, after the weekend, after most of the events take place. It seems rather pointless. I guess the rest of the information is still good, but the events are typically expired.

Here's an example: Someone creates the newsletter, and sends it out to the FRG leaders. Then the FRG's forward it to us, the families.

From: Creator
To: Kim
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 4:13 PM
Subject: {City} Dispatch & Community Calendar -- Thursday, September 9, 2010 (UNCLASSIFIED)

(This email is forwarded to a lady named Kim - I have no idea what she does, to be honest - and she forwards the email to the individual FRG's)

From: the Kim lady
To: FRG leaders for the unit
Sent: Fri, September 10, 2010 9:14:27 AM
Subject: FW: {City} Dispatch & Community Calendar -- Thursday, September 9, 2010 (UNCLASSIFIED)

As noted in the Subject line, it's for Thursday, September 9th, but was sent out to the FRG leaders on Friday, September 10th at 9:15 AM.

Our FRG leader then forwarded it to us on Sunday, September 12, 2010 at 11:30 AM.

It doesn't really impact me at all that it's sent out late because obviously I'm not even there to partake in any of the fun outtings, but it still annoys me, and I'd be even more annoyed if I were in the city, missing out on these fun events because it wasn't sent out in a timely manner.

This is the only FRG I've been "a part" of (I use the term loosely, because I'm only a part of it via email), so I don't know if they're all like this or what. I would like to think not, but who knows.

Anyone else have an FRG that sends outdated emails??

Today is a bust

Today started off bad at work. And it's gone downhill from there. It seems like I've been here for 203402398423 hours already but unfortuantely, in reality, I've only been here just under 3 hours. How can that be??? Nothing is going right today. I would call a do-over, but I just want the day to be overwith. Jimney crickets.

I am so ready to leave work, mail Seth's care packages, and get my frustrations out at the gym. Ahhhhhh

Dang it!!

My one (so far) gripe with Blogger is that often times I will write up and work on a blog a few days before I actually post it. Apparently there is a time stamp on it somewhere that I cannot find, and then when I actually do post it, it gets posted on the day I started it. This has happened twice, and it's annoying. I want to post them on a particular day, such as this one and this one were intended to, but they posted on the original dates that they were drafted, making me look look like I don't know my dates! Oh, I just remembered another gripe: when I'm putting in my labels, after I enter the last one, I press enter (habit, maybe), and it automatically publish's the post. This too pisses me off. I wish it would not automatically publish it, I would rather it just save it. I've accidentally published things.

Does any more experienced blogger have any ways to fix this, or do I just have to be more careful about the early posting, and the invisible time stamp?

Aches and Pains

I have not been sleeping well lately. I don’t know why, but it’s been annoying. I have been going to bed at around my usual time of 10, and I’m just not tired. I’ve been reading, and usually reading puts me to sleep pretty fast when I’m all cozied up in my bed, but I’ve been reading for almost an hour lately. I’ve been awake reading until after 11, which is really late for me. I’ve also been waking up with a sore neck…like I feel when I’m under a lot of stress. This too is annoying and I’m about ready to call my friend Laura and book a massage with her (she went to massage school). I don’t feel more stressed than normal , so I don’t know why I’m not sleeping well, and waking up all sore.

I do know that I am so over this. And I’m also my wisdom teeth that are coming in on the top and bottom.

Ugggghhhhhhhhh

Today I'm in a weird mood. By "weird," I mean everything is pretty much pissing me off.

Examples:

• Today at the post office, I was waiting patiently for a lady to turn. If I would have known she was going to go 2 f'n mph, I would have turned in front of her. I waited to turn to be safe, but my gosh, she should have been going to the damn speed limit. I've been very impatient with slow and/or stupid drivers lately. I find myself yelling obscenities at people in my car....ohhh, pretty much every time I hop in the car.
• I hate doing the dishes, yet I hate having dirty dishes. I will never live without a dishwasher.
• I stepped on the scale the other day at the gym. It was up 6 pounds from since Seth deployed. This should be backwards theoretically. I chalked it up to that I weighed myself after a work out, which they always tell us not to do. Then I realized what I ate when I got home from work today and is all contributing to that 6 pounds. Of course, he has lost at least 15 pounds since he deployed. God, I SOOOO wish I had his will power when it comes to food. It is NOT fair. I also wish I had his motivation when it comes to going to the gym.
• I mostly enjoy Cake Boss on TLC, but Buddy drives me crazy. He's so egotistical and I hate it. I really only like watching the cakes he makes. I do NOT like his personality and I could never work for him. He's an ass.
• Also at the post office, I got my least favorite clerk. His name is David. Or Douchebag. (He is the one that really made me mad a few weeks ago. I had made a care package for Seth and included deodorant. He asked me if it had alcohol in it....and I kind of hesitated to answer cuz I didn't know the honest answer, and then I told him no. He then said somewhat threatening me, "you know, if there is alcohol in there, and it catches a spark in the belly of the plane, and takes it down, you will be held responsible." Now, I understand they have a job to do, to keep the military safe, and the postal people and all that, but really, do you think deodorant is going to catch on fire and make a plane the crash? No. Do you really think when a plane goes down, the first thing they think is , "oh, who was shipping deodorant?" No. You suck, David. Don't threaten me.) Anyways, he is always unfriendly and not pleasant to work with. Figures his window was open at the post office today. I'm not nice to him either. So there.

I'm going to go for a bike ride now. Then I'm going to come back, hop in the shower, then paint my nails. I'm just annoyed at everything right now. I'm ready for this deployment to be over.