Have A Good Old Moan....

I'm sorry your mother is acting that way Mouse. You just have to remember that it's your life! Parents always seem a bit squiffy about alternate lifestyles but you learn to ignore their criticisms - I got very good at "selective hearing" and still am as my family live a totally different life to me. We usually stick to safe topics to avoid conflict but they still say weird things to me a lot of the time.

You'll work out a balance between work and studies - I found it easier trying to get shifts as early in the day as possible so I'd be up and could get started on studies as soon as I finished, then socialised in the evenings when I could - yes it was very regimented but that's the only way I could fit it all in comfortably. I'm sure you will find a way that works for you.

My mum does that too mouse but to a lesser degree, I often think its because she's constantly trying to improve me so that my life in the long run will be better than hers? I'm not sure it is very strange :/

Bleurghhh work sucks!

Mums are funny, my one is a raging alcoholic and we never talk 😛
I guess you need to sit your mum down and explain to her how she makes you feel mouse, because it's not fair. If she doesn't get it then at least you tried :

Piestar - I had a go at telling her earlier, it was a disaster! But one (very...) large plate full of chips and many cuddles with my tiny gerbil later, and I'm feeling a bit better. 🙂

One thing to remember with parents. They generally want what's best for you. But they're normal flawed people and generally go about it all the wrong way.

It's not always that much easier when they're the opposite like mine. My mums never really pushed me and is (outwardly at least) happy with what ever I do. I have very little drive and ambition and probably lazy partly because of it. Granted, I am happy, but also I don't really care about having money and a good job, kids etc. There's never a right way 🙂 parents, for the most part (unless there's other issues like piestar's mum) just want to make their kids happy. Most think that's encouraging to do better at everything and many push it too far. I think many see it as some kind of smack in the face when it's not appreciated. Most humans aren't good at seeing something from another's point of view.

My moan. I've been moody and angry for 3 days and I want it to go away.

Chips and gerbils would make anyone's evening better 😛

I always wonder what sort of mum I would be...

bleh, parents don't seem to think about what you want most of the time, it's what they want for you and think you should do. which, to a degree is good i guess it shows they care but, yeah, just keep doing what you're doing you're doing good for yourself from what we see from your posts anyway 🙂

my moan is i bought some yummy chips from the chinese last night and i got impatient and kept eating them even though they were roasting hot, like, hotter than venus and the sun's spawn and i've woke up with a burnt tongue. ouchas...

I'm really sorry mouse, I hope you can find a way to try and ignore her but I know that's easier said than done. My mum's mother was like that and she's now overly critical of herself and everything she does - she lives in this assumption that what she's doing isn't good enough and she's stupid so everyone can do it, she's constantly surprised when she does something creative and people are amazed by it. I guess you've just got to put it down to some sort of misguided interest and care in your life but it does sound very obtrusive 🙁

AAggh! I'm really beginning to lose it! The guys I sit with are so irritating! They're lovely people to know but to sit with it's just frustrating! One of the guys is constantly singing he can sing but it's this really weird high pitched strained sound which really grates, he also beat boxes but you can obviously hear the spit in his mouth!! The guy next to me can't eat without opening his mouth so I get to hear him moving it all about in there, he also does Flight of the Concords style songs but they're s**t! Both of them sing, make stupid noises, talk about their bumholes, pretend our line manager has rung them and they have some sort of relationship with him.

Normally I'm alright with it, well not alright but I'm not irritated but today I'm trying to learn code. I'm trying to work out C++ and image shaders (yeah, tell me about it, wtf?) and these guys have nothing to do so they're singing, spinning, chatting, pretending our line manager has rang etc etc and through out all of this I'm trying to learn! I'm not a fast learner, I have a bad relationship with numbers which means I instantly get a headache and think I'm stupid and can't do it.

Oh well, off to get the most amazing lunch ever to cheer myself up.

Are you allowed to put on headphones? One of my housemates is an audio programmer and he loses himself in various forms of music while he's doing it. It shuts out all the noise of the office.

Where's the logic in cutting off my phone because I haven't paid my bill, so that I can't now contact customer services to pay the damn bill!!??

I have a sore throat again 🙁

I hate filling in forms/paperwork!!

Trying to get everything together for my working holiday visa, so when the applications open, I just have to fill in the application form and send everything off, but the work permit form is giving me a headache!!

I've been waiting for an important parcel (well two actually, but one doesnt have tracking) for about two weeks,it was posted 1st class recorded. The main one that had tracking suddenly changed to 'We tried to deliver but you were out so we left a delivery note'. The time and day they stated we were out, we were in all day, waiting for the parcel. In fact, we were even taking shifts to wait for it! We have a front gate, which was never even opened, so we know they didnt try to deliver. Obviously no note was left either, and the time they 'tried to deliver' we were sat at our dining table which is near to the front window, and no post van was around at all 🙁 I contacted royal mail and they said they'd contacted the sorting place where my package is and it would be redelivered yesterday or today at least - But what a surprise, no one came :'(

I'm so angry! So now I've tried to do the redelivery thing on their website the best I can (because they lied about leaving a card) and it says my package wont come til tuesday. (And that's if they actually come this time) I'm upset because the parcel contains a load of my pendants and chains and such for my shop. Without them I have nothing new to make because the other parcel that's missing contains all my resins too.

There is a big problem and (possible?) strike going on within the bristol royal mail service, but we've been told it wouldn't effect our postcode region of bristol, but now I think they're fibbing on that :'(

Ive woken up to a VERY swollen under upper lip 🙁 my smiley positioning was pierced threw the gum not the lipnwebbing & ryan tried tontake itmoutnas ive been to busy to see mynpiercer 🙁 i look like a duck 🙁

Second kidney infection in 3 weeks 🙁