Why are you unhappy today?

Because I have to work this weekend and can't watch rugby. Poop.

awww Beegee That does suck! Anyone else missing the days where you "tape" stuff and watch it later! I totally missed all of the american football season this year but watched what I could of the superbowl on the internet
next year I am going to divise a plan to watch it!! I swear I missed out on My Raiders getting their Arses Kicked all over the field over and over this year!

After thinking that going out for a couple of drinks would make me feel better after dying all week, i retired to home to mess around on TT.

Job done, i was about to log off and was hit by a sudden sneeze.

Fuckin ridiculous! How on Earth can one sneeze cover your top, jeans and arms in snot in one go?

Perhpas they'll film another ghost busters movie and you can be slimer

Because some stupid f*@king idiot decided to dig a big hole right behind my car (on a shared drive) without thinking to ask if I'd like to move it first. Aargh, I'm so mad!

Headache, headache, headache - if only I had had the fun of drinking to deserve it! I want cold, gray, rainy, foggy weather, the sun is too bright.

I have had a chest infection since christmas that will not make up its mind.

I wish it would either just give up and die or get worse so I can take a week off work getting better.

Indecisive illness, pain in the, err, chest (in this case).

Did you spot it before you started driving?

Because my daughter was due to fly to Mexico today with a stopover in NY (in transit for 3 hours). Unknown to me/her her passport isn't machine readable and they refused her boarding in Munich... Had she booked over UK / Spain it would not have been an issue...

Because I'm stuck in bed with a couple of million viruses doing rave in my blood stream, I'm written off sick for the week and generaly havnt slept well since Thursday.

I was going to put this in the "Why are you happy today?" thread to show what a thick skin I am getting, but since it happened I have kept thinking about it and it is a crap start to a day.

I know you all are tired of hearing about these sorts of things, but, believe you me, I am even more sick and tired of experiencing them. Here´s what happened:

6:50 a.m. I take Tobi out for his morning walk. He can´t wait to walk all the way around the fenced off "Stadtwald" (five trees, fenced off due to all the construction), so he squats in the grass at the side of the path and has a good long pee.

While he is peeing, I start hearing this weird, slow, rhythmic "Tsch...tsch...tsch..." I look around, don´t see anything, and assume the pheasant that lives in the "Wald" is making new sounds...maybe some kind of false-Springtime mating call.

Anyway, Tobi finishes and we start to walk to the park. This white-haired man up on a balcony gets my attention. He points authoritatively to where Tobi peed and says "Hey, du, Scheisse wegräumen".

I say, "Da gibt´s nichts weg zu räumen, er hat nur gepinkelt".

White haired man "Scheisse weg räumen"

Me, "Arschloch".

Ah, it´s always nice to meet one of my new neighbors.

(English translation: "Hey you, pick up the shit" -- "There is nothing to pick up, he only peed" -- "Pick up the shit" -- "Asshole")

I'm filling in for a coworker this week - which means going into the office. Well, would mean going into the office if my oldest hadn't have come down with a fever. Juggle Juggle Juggle.

Am attending a funeral today - of an ex-colleague from my early years in Hamburg area. A Professor of Physics - she died the previous weekend.
Am collecting a friend & ex-colleague from Max Planck Inst at Hamburg airport & we (& I guess a number of "old" friends) will attend.

Fitting weather: its raining...

I am unhappy dealing with the Arge. My husband (German citizen) and I are trying to move to Buchholz. We have to deal with the Arge because he no longer has a job. We are suppose to move next Monday, and they do not have our papers ready at the Arge. Every time he tries to call them, he gets some idiot on the phone who can tell him NOTHING. They give your message to someone else and say that they have 48 hours to call. They are open such short hours, and within those hours, you can't come in to ask any questions. Only at a 2 hour time frame. They try to block us at every move. GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE???!!!

They are a brick wall, and there seems no getting through to them. They give wrong information, they're lazy and don't want to work, they try to block you from getting any help. (Hell, aren't they suppose to be a social SERVICE organization?) Christ!!

If anyone out there, could please give me some advice of any Social Action organization here in Germany who can act as an advocate or "go between' between a citizen in Germany and the Arge, I would really appreciate it. Thank you for reading. Take care everyone.

The car had been on our drive overnight and they started digging at 8am on the shared part of the drive, about three foot away from the back of our car. (Our drive is at a right angle to the shared bit.)
Fortunately I live next door to the girls kindergarten and even more fortunately, they've filled it in now!

because its raining and i cant stop chucking up

I just had visions of you scrambling out of this huge hole all covered in dust having driven the car in.

because im starting to pack boxes...the time to move back home keeps getting closer and closer, and i dont want to go.

because i collapsed at work, and got sent back to my hotel ( 3rd time this week lucky first 2 times no one was about)
tip for IT contractors, never get serious dental work done while on a contract

or just don`t over do it... you can work, but extra stress is not needed, an neither is anything too physical like any sports for about a week. Take care of yourself.

coz im about to break up with someone i really really feel for, but it just no good... i deserve more!

Because I think my boss is trying to sabotage be based on personal vengeance.

are you sure that this is the right thing to do ?

no, but theres also no point hoping for something thats never gonna happen

The telekom sent me a bill over 800€ since I stupidly changed the pay scale without knowing exactly what I was doing. Bummer.

Wow cyn,
Sorry !!! i know how you feel!! you have no idea.

... i just wish my heart would start to shut the f up and let my head do the thing!

Because I think I will forever think of President Bush when I read or hear the phrase "make no mistake".

Because some smashing folk moved away. Won't be the only one to miss them.

because i just saw a cat get killed by a car

Because I feel like I am having a weird strain of bad luck: random strangers being aggressive to me, things getting stolen from me, etc etc. By the rules of Karma doesn't this mean something good should happen to me soon? Or maybe I have to live with this because things at work are good and I am happy with my dog...grrr

Because My best friend in cologne is being jerked around by his German landlady who he met here on Toytown.. I hope she realizes that where as he can't understand and read fully the contract she gave him. He is not without people who care enough about him to consulte a lawyer on it and what she is doing is not only morally wrong!! But legally questionable.
Not only that it makes me angry that someone would take SO advantage of someone, who came here to an English speaking forum to ask for help in finding a place to stay and she swept down on him like a vulture and took advantage of the fact that he did not speak the language or know the german Laws.
That makes me pretty mad!

Because my man is a jerk.

We made dinner plans Saturday to celebrate my birthday and he sat around in his pyjamas until it was too late. Everyone was gone or called to say they were leaving.
He played soccer all day Sunday, then came home to pack for a business trip then had the nerve to ask me to write an essay for his homework! Then when I said no, he told me that I would be sorry for that!

Then he hid my present (which I didn't want to open until today...being my b-day and all...) in the basement. Then left on his trip without saying goodbye.

Was this after he learned that your family is visiting in May?

Because my cousin just died of a heart attack aged just 23.

I really am sorry to hear that! 2 of my nephews died of some sort of epilectic fit and they where 23 and 25. really sorry for you!

Jesus that's bad, sorry for you and the rest of the family.

Ruthie- i'm having a string of bad 'luck' recently too. hopefully this means there's something amazing around the corner that we're not aware of

Is it me? The TV I borrowed a couple of weeks ago seems to have stopped having any sound! Or is it a network thing?

Because I just realized it is 2:30am. And I have class at 10am tomorrow (or today actually). Should not go to the movies at 10:30pm anymore, that messes up my internal clock. Also, sleeping until 1pm on a Monday is not helpful at making me feel tired at an appropriate time.

Because I am bored.

Because I have a terrible and low paid job(office job). No friends in Bremen (haven't had a chance to settle in)
And a partner who has no job at the end of the month(We cannot live on my peanuts and whose fault we are in Bremen in the 1st place) His solution to this is lets move to Mallorca and work on a boat. You (i.e. Me) can do the cleaning and serving and he could be the caretaker...I do not think so!! Sad, sad, ...I didn't go to university to go to cleans boats and I am getting too old for stuff like that Not sure what to do...
Shouldn't be sad but I am

Because my tv died
Actually, the tv seems to be ok, but it's ancient and has no scart thingy so everything had to run over the video recorder (which was fine since I still have a ton of videos) and the video recorder died.

Because I finally realise that the only sensible option left open to me is to leave my wife. There are kids involved so this is not a decision made lightly. In fact it’s taken me over two years and a shrink to arrive there.

Jeez, aprilfool and Tartarus, you make a career as a hermit sound attractive. Look ahead and be strong.

A sad day now but get it right and there are far brighter times ahead. There's no shortage of people around here who'll testify to that.

Thanks, I certainly hope so. Any advice on how to get it right?

There is no text book on this..

Just do what you think is best for you and try not to hurt the others that are involved..

why am i unhappy, cause of the massive hangover I have, and that i will be stuck at home all day tomorrow cause of the KVB strike!

As I said, there are a lot of people with painful experience in this area. I got a lot of great advice and support from people.

Put the kids at the centre of it and try and do whats best for them.

Don't be afraid to talk and ask advice, it's not the time of clearest thinking and emotions will run high.

There are no shortage of threads on TT that could well be useful for you to read first.