Wallaby Dan
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I am so glad i don't have these kinds of issues anymore. You all try and have a Merry Christmas anyway
Same here. I wish everyone a happy Christmas. My family is coming over to our house for Christmas so hopefully we will have a good day.Just wanted to say Happy Holiday to everyone, no matter what you celebrate, and may your new year be prosperous and uneventful!
Lol I definitely would not have kept the peace, had the mom confront her about the lie, and more importantly ask for the money up front. I've gotten to the point that there's only 1 or 2 people I will do something for without asking up front. Family or extended family, no, and most friends definitely no. Venmo me first or I'm not moving. Especially if I knew said person made more money than me, generally lies, barely spent any money compared to what I spent, and defined how much they wanted to spend. I remember some of the complaints you've made about your sister before and I woulda blown the whole thing up over 30 measly bucks.
So far my Christmas Eve has gone like this. Overslept, woke up and realized my work phone went off 16 times and did not make a noise (thanks fucking Android), and my step daughter came home smelling like pot.
Got a couple of hours of sleep then work phone went off at 6. Some servers went down, yay me.
Yea nah, I definitely would have made a fit no doubt. Especially if my sister was always that way, mom be damned shit would hit the fan. Then again if she was spouting off how she was about to drop 10k in a new kitchen it'd happen all over again starting by mentioning how big of a narcissistic hypocrite she was lol. The older I get the worse I get when it comes to calling people close to me out. Honestly my mind set right there would be, if mom wasn't the way she was maybe my sister wouldn't be the way she is so I wouldn't hold back. I'd be like we're all adults here, here's the deal.I would have kicked off more, but my mom is a super sensitive person and it would ruin Christmas for her if me and my sister had a big argument. She is the kind of person that hates arguing, so if it's not something major, she would rather let it slide and just internally be disappointed but keep it to herself and keep smiling.
Anyway i've had a good Christmas since then, had a good time. Good food and good gifts, nice to see all my family even if my sis is a pain in the ass. Later that evening after refusing to give me $30 she was specing out her new $10,000 kitchen she's ordering in the new year.. man I had to bite my lip so hard. lol.
Ha it got worse, it was an entire environment that went down and I basically just had to stay up the whole day. Then a few hours later our entire Austin division went down. I don't really mind it for the time being. Now that we have a full team it'll be once every month and a half, with the schedule being 2-midnight where basically all I gotta do is make sure systems stay up and take care of after hour deployments. On top of that it's full remote for the week, the following Monday off, and I use it as a time to have me time for a week straight sleeping in the game room. My wife and I have had our differences and disagreements when it comes to how we raise the baby in terms of feedings, handling midnight wakings, etc. So he still wakes up 1-2 times a night which makes it difficult for me to get any sleep. I catch up on sleep, games, media, server work, or anything else while having the house to myself most of the day. I also get to stay up way later so I have uninterrupted time to do things with nobody bothering me. When doing tech stuff sometimes that is invaluable. I will say that sometimes I do feel like I get the worst weeks. To the point that the rest of the team feels bad for me the following week because I had so much shit to do or so many things went down. I just deal with it.RIP. I did bi-weekly on call when I worked at Motorola, and I honestly hated it. I didn't think i'd mind and i'd just appreciate the extra money. But when it's 3am and your work phone rings, no amount of money short of a million bucks seems worth it.