Why are you unhappy today?

And I seem to have it now too!

oh dear, not only have I and several others who attended posted here, but I have heard from a couple of other TTers who were there who also came down with something..

So now I'm not only unhappy because I have the dreaded lurgy, but also because I chose the location where it was going around Anyone got a knife suitable for hara-kiri?

cos the girl that a few months ago said she loved me, wanted to be with my forever, wanted to see how things were when i got back from munich, couldnt live without me and wanted to have kids with me... has announced she is seeing someone else.

feel like totally breaking down so im off to get shit faced

just saw this now-
i'm sooo sorry Wahoo!

hang in there buddy. concentrate on your life and rowing and everything- be as great of a person that you can.

My father just called to tell me my grandmother died today.

You should have gone to the Nuremberg curry night after all.
MichiS, I'm sorry to hear that. Hugs.

Don't be too hard on yourself. It was nice from you to organise the event. Get well soon!

So so sorry Michi.

I am unhappy because Haggis Junior is flunking chemistry and math and has failed her trial term at school. Damn. Oh, and I am furious as well.

After what seemed like a promising start to the new year I have just realised that my life is fucked up and going nowhere fast.

Because what I thought was just another bloody cold has now turned into a raging fever, agonising joint pains and a near-inability to put one foot in front of the other. And I have deadlines. And customers keep calling. And there's so much I should be doing but I just can't. I hate being on my own when I feel this ill.

As you seem to be not the only one on TT suffering from this, I reckon I've caught from here. My sympathies, I've spent the last 4 days flat on my back and not in a good way!

Oh shit. I woke up with a sore throat, and knowing what all of you are going through, I am not looking forward to this.

eat some fresh garlic, its good for when you have colds/flu. Hope you feel better soon guys.

Definitely seems to be going round at the moment. Mine was getting much better until I stupidly spent the day at a customer's offices yesterday - should have cancelled, really paying for it now. Haven't felt this ill for years! And no, that doesn't make me feel lucky and I don't want to count my blessings. I want to moan.

Edit: DDBug, some TTers have had a much milder version and thrown it off already though, so you might be ok. At least you haven't been hanging out with me!

spent friday,saturday,sunday also on my back . best thing i tried was face steam with japanisches minz-heilöl . now feeling better

What a surprise! The work I had stored in a PC at KIZ is all gone, the PC, decided to have a brain explosion and took 2.5 months of work I had stored with it. I will now choose a wall and proceed to beat myself senseless! Fecking maschine. that wall over there would look nice with some red splatters on it!

Didn't get the flat I really really really really wanted. But hey, the landlady was oh so sorry, she picked someone else - oh happy days! Flat hunting in Munich here we come...

As a hardcore movie buff I'm sad because...


_{Heath Ledger 1979-2008}

I'm glad you had an emergency remedy at home.

Because I slipped on a pool of cat-puke this morning and ended up banging my arm on the stairs and my right buttock on the floor. Now I can hardly sit, stand or lie comfortably and look like I've been beaten up.
But I learned from this incident just how fast a person can think. In just five seconds the following thoughts ran through my head:

- Damn, I am falling down
- Where is that puddle from? Did a cat pee - no, no smell. Did the steam cleaner leak -no, it's downstairs.
- Shit, I am falling towards the stairs. Do NOT smash your head against the steps!
- These slippers are crap on wet wooden floors
- That landing could have been worse

Then I lay there stunned for a few seconds before starting to swear at the cats who had gathered around to see the fun. By the way, I am proud that I managed to swerve far enough to the right to avoid the steps. Well, almost.

I am rather new in this forum, and to TT. I have, however, lived in Germany now for going on 5 months. I am not very happy living here. I know now the reason why I am here now though, other than meeting the love of my life and then marrying him! The reason is that I needed to appreciate my own country more. And now I do. There are so many things I miss...so much I can't get here. And not only that, there's SO many bureaucracies that are "full of shit" here. So much incompetency, so much rigid structure...it seems to me that many in authority in this country don't care about their citizens at all.
I find the weather depressing, and many backwards thinking people. The cost of living is astronomical. The food that you can buy in grocery stores is substandard. I guess I'm still trying to adjust, and the culture shock has not been easy, in fact; horrible.
Ok. I'm still trying to find something good about here other than my husband...it's not easy. Right now I can't seem to find anything. The only thing I really have to look forward to is leaving here in 2009. my husband and I made the decision to move back to the USA. HE has never been to the USA; but at least I know we can afford to "make ends meet" there. It just isn't very possible here. Never have much money to do anything other than survive. Well, sorry to be a downer. Maybe I'll be better on another day...

I did not get the job I wanted in Paris
I have to attend a 2 months intensive German course from 8 to 15 every day!!!
My ex bf wants to throw me out of the house
My mum is crazy and I am starting to think that I am too!!!

Sometimes my very best is not good enough

Because they are offering some really interesting sounding classes next semester in Heidelberg, and where am I? In f***ing Barcelona! Some prof is teaching a seminar on Kurt Vonnegut. I would love to take that! Argh! Also another class where you read an Auster novel. Argh again! Why do they teach all the good authors now? The winter schedule better be good as well!

When will you graduate?

I understand that sentiment all too well.

At some point. I think in about two years, May 2010. Finally.

Is this typical in Germany? I was 22 when i graduated from university

Well, I switched one of my majors after a year, studied two years abroad (well, I will have by the time I graduate) and what I am getting is a graduate degree, not an undergrad degree, so yeah. I am not the fastest student, there are some who are done sooner, but not all that unusual either. I think the Regelstudienzeit for my majors is 9 or 10 semesters (Fachsemester). I will be done after 10 in one and 12 in the other (though I am already done with one, I just need to finish the other one now).

But now that they have changed the university system, you graduate with a BA/Sc after three years, so at 22 on average. And with the G8, the graduating age will be 21. (Add a year for those who started school at 7, not 6.)

My youngest just discovered gravity and now has a night in the hospital as he landed on his head.

He seemed more in shock than genuinely injured but obviously I'm still somewhat worried.

I graduated with a BSc. at 21 (which was normal - no great deal) - and that was in 1973! Different country...

21 Here too, plus further 2 years mechanical instead of aeronautical but i have to say that my most important one i got was the Aeronautical Diploma at 19.

Sorry to hear about your little one, Pas.

I am unhappy because the mind is willing, but the body unable. I am sick, and have so much I should be doing (including being at work!)

Pushing my EC card into maschine, this morning, I was surprised to read "Karte ungültig" Oh well i thought and tried again! no luck! Now lets be honest my bank balance is always at a low-ebb, so I thought this is a cunning plan to stop me overdrawing too much on it! So into bank, told nice lady my problem! She runs it through her PC thingy and says "Es ist kaput" and cut the fucking thing in half saying to me, who´s jaw was banging off the floor, "You´ll get a new one next week!"
Now my problem is, I now have to go to the counter every time I need cash, not easy at 03:00 in the morning! And I have visions of a repeat of my Nov 2006, Venice debacle where, armed with new card which I had never used, I promptly entered the wrong number 3 times.
Now Venice is a lovely city, but I wanted to get back to Munich after spending 2 weeks repairing a yacht on my own. 15 hours later, Western Union finally paid up the money wired to me. I had to pay double the train fare for a sleeper and arrived in Münich in a very pissed off mood and very hungry as I hadn´t eaten for over 24 hours. Apart from that I´m pretty happy to be going skiing on Friday where I am competing against someone who very unwisely challenged me to a race! Dinner is on the loser by the way!

My husband's assignment was extended another month and he won't be back in Europe until another 5 weeks .

the business lounge at brussels airport is full of screaming french kids, need I say more

Take your teeth out and smile at them.

LOL I just pictured Scogs waving teeth and snarling to hundreds of screaming french kids.

keeping teeth in untill 3, so i can gate crash GNO with a hope of pulling a wench using my hollywood smile, (having put my new teeth back in)
one of the nice kids just chucked up...why do i pay extra for flying bussiness class

Because when I wear my favorite ring (from Gibraltar) on my left pinkie finger it cuts off the circulation and puts my whole lower arm to sleep.

I'm told there's very nice jewellery in Brussels...

Because I am just fucked off with people who are suppose to care and love you!

I wanna cry!

SP- I know how you feel, and believe me, I need a really good cry too.

I am super homesick. My "guy" has basically forgot I existed.. and I seemed to spend most of the day making a crown for my stupid carnival costume and crying my eyes out for I don't know what!

Hey, the Faschings do or Carneval will all make it worthwhile i hope for you.

I'm friggin babysitting this evening and overnight a very bratty, whiney, and precocious 6 year old and her 3 year old sister. They both left their listening ears at home. I had to spank their butts to let them it's my house and I'm in charge. Now they both know and understand the bed is not a trampoline and the bathtub is not a swimming pool.

I finally got their little arses to go to sleep! Then I have to get up and cook breakfast at 0630 as the 6 year old is a insulin dependent diabetic and I have to give her insulin and breakfast at 0700. No sleeping in for me tomorrow and I definitely don't feel up to going to the playground to run around with them at 0830 .

Now I fully realize why I don't have my own children as this is friggin hard work to take care of children.

Because my eight month old still hasn't gone to bed, every time I lay her down, she cries again and I'm soooooooooo tired!

Now I do like a good spanking myself. I find a little spank adds a little spice to ones love life.

However I'm not sure if it's a good idea to punish children with a spank. I would be extremely careful of spanking someone else's kids. I'm not totally sure but I think spanking children is illegal in Germany.