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The thing is, my wife is feeling better on average. We went to her 20th high school reunion on Saturday and it was great to see her out. And for most of today she was organizing a bunch of stuff in the house. But it seems when she or does too much, when a headache hits it's a lot more intense, or at least it does sometimes, which she subconsciously equates it to all the time. So this make her tentative about "pushing it".

 
shuke said:
The thing is, my wife is feeling better on average. We went to her 20th high school reunion on Saturday and it was great to see her out. And for most of today she was organizing a bunch of stuff in the house. But it seems when she or does too much, when a headache hits it's a lot more intense, or at least it does sometimes, which she subconsciously equates it to all the time. So this make her tentative about "pushing it".
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Good to hear!
 
shuke said:
God I hate days like this. Had a follow up appointment so decided to come home early and work rest of afternoon from home. Was going to stop for a few things at the store which ended up being a full blown cart-filling trip. Trying to work at home, kids are arguing, wife doesn't feel good, so it's chaos. I have to make dinner, then take my son to tae kwon do with my daughter in tow, come home get them to bed, do the dishes, take out the trash, do laundry, yadda yadda yadda.

I really don't know how single parents do it. Also, days like this make me appreciate what my wife has to do when I'm out of town.

tldr. No pity please, just venting. I'll go suck a ####, tanner.
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I love you.

 
I had a really good lead on a BigLaw job in its real estate practice group. A classmate and great friend of mine was a star there and has since gone in-house. She saw some former colleagues out, found out they were hiring, sent a glowing recommendation and my info along directly to a partner in the group. PLUS my wife's uncle's brother is big time in the firm. I talk to him and give him my info. He says he's impressed with my résumé but its a bit unconventional, so it depends on what they are looking for. He forwards my stuff to the head of the practice group along with his recommendation. Today he emails me that they have other candidates who are better fits. FML. Trying to start over sucks. I'm beginning to feel like I committed career suicide when I left a big firm in 05.

 
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shuke said:
at least it does sometimes, which she subconsciously equates it to all the time. So this make her tentative about "pushing it".
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I completely understand this. There are all kinds of things in our life that don't happen all that often, but it makes Angrywife super pissed if I try to run some statistical analysis on it. If there's a situation that causes JR to flip out 25% of the time, it's 100% of the time in her head and there's no way to convince her otherwise.

 
krista4 said:
I need a vacation. And not my usual vacation where I go to a country no one's ever heard of and spend my time sledging or whatever, but the kind of vacation real people have, where I go somewhere and do nothing but sit near a beach or some other quiet spot and watch the rest of Wires and maybe start Breaking Bad. In other words, I need to stay in the US or thereabouts (islands nearby OK)--something easy to get to as I only want to go away for three nights or so.

Thoughts?
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I believe that from the ATL you can get a direct flight to St. Maarten and then take a very quick boat ride to Anguilla. Stay at Cuisinart and eat at some of the highest rated restaurants in the Caribbean with the best beaches in the Caribbean.

 
One of out cats just woke me up vomiting on the bedspread and I was all pissed and woe is me about having to clean that up... until I just checked the Chance thread. Just gut-wrenching. :cry:

 
krista4 said:
I need a vacation. And not my usual vacation where I go to a country no one's ever heard of and spend my time sledging or whatever, but the kind of vacation real people have, where I go somewhere and do nothing but sit near a beach or some other quiet spot and watch the rest of Wires and maybe start Breaking Bad. In other words, I need to stay in the US or thereabouts (islands nearby OK)--something easy to get to as I only want to go away for three nights or so.

Thoughts?
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Definitely Cincinnati.You guys should stay at the 21c museum hotel.

Easy access to some nice restaurants (Boca, Table, Nicola's, Orchids, Table, French Crust, Senate, Abigail St, Findlay Market area...), nice museums (Contemporary Arts Center, Taft, Freedom Center, Reds Hall of Fame, Cincinnati Museum Center - where some of Rain Man was filmed) and close enough to some neighborhoods that will make you feel like you're actually in The Wire with corner boys and all that.

 
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Hold up. Some of Rain Man was filmed there and they have Skyline chili? That Cincinatti is not at the top of every vacationer's list is borderline criminal.

 
I don't want to bring this thread down any more than the lot of you has in the last month or so ( ;) ), but I really thought getting the Chance news at home, in bed this morning was going to be easier. I haven't slept since and came into work an hour early to try to take my mind off of it. I can't and am sitting here with tears just brimming, wiping them away so as not to be busted by coworkers.

And you know what? I don't even know bigbottom that well. At all. But the thought that anyone should have to go through something like this is just brutal.

 
YSR said:
I don't want to bring this thread down any more than the lot of you has in the last month or so ( ;) ), but I really thought getting the Chance news at home, in bed this morning was going to be easier. I haven't slept since and came into work an hour early to try to take my mind off of it. I can't and am sitting here with tears just brimming, wiping them away so as not to be busted by coworkers.

And you know what? I don't even know bigbottom that well. At all. But the thought that anyone should have to go through something like this is just brutal.
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Head firmly in the sand on this one. If I let my guard down even a little and start to actually think about it and what he must be going through, I would be a weepy, sobbing mess.

 
Yesterday morning when I got Little 'Zooks, he gave me a couple ties and a birthday card that he made himself and he asked me "what do you want to do today for your birthday?" I immediately thought of BB and Chance and how unfair their situation was. When I read the update this morning, I lost it.

This may sound stupid and probably isn't the best comparison, but it makes me think of the ending of Saving Private Ryan when their on the bridge and Tom Hanks tells Matt Damon to "earn this". After reading what BB's had to go thru, I am truly lucky to have a healthy kid and I will not take that for granted. Not for one second. BB's story makes me want to be a better father and never have any regrets. BB is truly remarkable.

 
Gadzooks said:
Yesterday morning when I got Little 'Zooks, he gave me a couple ties and a birthday card that he made himself and he asked me "what do you want to do today for your birthday?" I immediately thought of BB and Chance and how unfair their situation was. When I read the update this morning, I lost it.

This may sound stupid and probably isn't the best comparison, but it makes me think of the ending of Saving Private Ryan when their on the bridge and Tom Hanks tells Matt Damon to "earn this". After reading what BB's had to go thru, I am truly lucky to have a healthy kid and I will not take that for granted. Not for one second. BB's story makes me want to be a better father and never have any regrets. BB is truly remarkable.
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Great posting zooks. I can't even imagine what he's going through. No parent should ever have to go through something like that. #### cancer, takes way too many good people.

 
krista4 said:
I need a vacation. And not my usual vacation where I go to a country no one's ever heard of and spend my time sledging or whatever, but the kind of vacation real people have, where I go somewhere and do nothing but sit near a beach or some other quiet spot and watch the rest of Wires and maybe start Breaking Bad. In other words, I need to stay in the US or thereabouts (islands nearby OK)--something easy to get to as I only want to go away for three nights or so.

Thoughts?
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Won't it take you 3 days to make the several trips back and forth to get your cats there with you?

 
UOFI_316 said:
krista4 said:
I need a vacation. And not my usual vacation where I go to a country no one's ever heard of and spend my time sledging or whatever, but the kind of vacation real people have, where I go somewhere and do nothing but sit near a beach or some other quiet spot and watch the rest of Wires and maybe start Breaking Bad. In other words, I need to stay in the US or thereabouts (islands nearby OK)--something easy to get to as I only want to go away for three nights or so.

Thoughts?
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Won't it take you 3 days to make the several trips back and forth to get your cats there with you?
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She needs to travel with something like this: http://assets1.razoo.com/assets/media/images/000/042/596/images/size_550x415_cat_condo.png?1319234124

 
I can't go in there. My wife and I were lying in bed bawling the other night when I showed her the JJ Watt video and I'm losing it just typing this. So sad for BB and his family.

 
Probably will delete this post in a bit, cause I don't want this to be a look at me post.

edited after lunch to reduce sadness in the thread

 
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So sick to my stomach. I took an Ambien and still was up all night. Left the office because I feared I would start bawling. Nothing to add really but the rest of you aren't alone.

 
strykerpks said:
I just showered for the first time in 56 hours.
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I just went 96. Took one Friday before work, had to hit the dentist Friday afternoon to put on a temp crown after I broke a damn tooth, wife left town on Saturday, and I spent the whole weekend plus yesterday self-medicating to sooth the pain from the gum digging they did and hanging out with my daughter. At the point you can no longer stand to be in a room with yourself, it's probably time to do something about it.

 
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