God, I'm in a bad mood. What's ruining your weekend?

-- Anonymous, August 21, 1999

Answers

You have my sympathies with the doggie with the runs. Howard had them for three days last summer, and had to be watched carefully and worried over for more than a week.

We live in an apartment, do not only did I let him out but I walked him. Then I got to try to pick up the poop. (ick ick ick ick) I ended up hallucinating from sleep deprivation.

At any rate, what's ruining my weekend is that G. is out of touch due to family visiting. Apparently they are a little over curious when he talks on the phone to me. And I woke up at 2:30 this morning, got back to sleep at 7. Got three more hours in, but feel icky even though all thenumbers add up to a full night of sleep.

-- Anonymous, August 21, 1999

Nothing's ruining my weekend. It's gorgeous out there and I don't have any pets or children to worry about, and I'm happy, and I can do whatever I feel like doing, which isn't a whole heck of a lot other than being outside enjoying the scenery and the sun and the ocean and the bay.

Makes for boring journal entires, I know, but I'd rather bore other people with happiness than with unhappiness. Either way, most of our lives are not that interesting, but it's interesting that people want to read about them anyway. :)

-- Anonymous, August 21, 1999

Beth:

Give Doc some rice, and plain yogurt, with a little dog food. The rice is gentle to his stomach and will bind him up a little, the yogurt will restore his intestinal flora. Usually 3-4 tablespoons of yogurt at each feeding is enough.

Poor pup. Poor Beth. No fun being/having a sick puppy.

-- Anonymous, August 21, 1999

We had a case of kitty-runs a few months ago, and we found that syringes of kaopectate down the throat, acidophilus capsules broken over food, and the metronidizol (sp??) from the vet seemed to help it. (And while we didn't have to take them outside, imagine living in a house with four cats who have difficulty reaching the litterbox and finishing once they decide to leave it. Yuck.)

Actually, I got this pet acidophilus stuff at Petsmart that has yucca and cranberry and a whole bunch of other stuff in it that really seemed to help when it came back a few weeks later. But it smelled gross.

My weekend is being ruined by just feeling icky, and by Cinsand being a brat and refusing to rest when he's hurt. He just wants to go outside all the time, maybe to go and get whoever chomped him. And of course I decided to drop my Saturday morning class (what was I thinking???)

-- Anonymous, August 21, 1999

Well, I just broke up with my ex boyfriend. Finally. I told him he was driving me nuts and that I didn't want to see him for two weeks. Actually, that's making me feel pretty good about myself - I finally made him hear me, finally took steps to disentangle myself from the wreck that our relationship had become. I have hope again. I feel free.

It's still scary. He's still my best friend, which is why the break is necessary - to save our friendship. I get flashes of gut-sinking fear, but for the most part, I feel good.

Heather

-- Anonymous, August 21, 1999

My boyfriend just went to the pub to be with the rest of our friends, instead of staying at home with me (I have flu) and tending to my every need and whim.

-- Anonymous, August 21, 1999

Lack of money. Oh shitfuck goddamnit lack of money I am so tired of being broke especially with invoices due and no sign of cash for at least a couple of weeks why the fuck didn't I get a regular job like everyone else then maybe we could afford a house or I could buy K. her own computer so she can start her book or maybe a vacation for the both of us. Shit.

Actually, it's not so bad. Some friends are coming over this weekend for dinner and K. and I had a nice day sitting around reading and I've done some good writing this week so it ain't all shit.

But ask me next week.

-- Anonymous, August 21, 1999

I wouldn't say my weekend is ruined, but it took a different path than planned.

I was driving my sweetie and his daughter to his parents' place last night, a four hour drive. We pulled off the highway after an hour and a half to trade drivers, and found that there were big transmission problems. Ended up staying with some family friends of his in Ellensburg, Jack's daughter in the spare room, and Jack and I in the friend's fancy motor home, which was rocking like a boat in the wind over the prairie.

My car is marooned in ellensburg, we are now (Saturday) at Jack's parents place and Jack is trying to fix his own old motor home so we have something to drive back.

I still have the problem of retrieving my car, getting it fixed there, junking the whole thing...I hate making decisions!

Anita of Anita's Book of Days

-- Anonymous, August 21, 1999

My wife and I looked at each other and for the first time uttered some pretty important words: "Moving to Detroit was a mistake." And getting out of this mistake is going to be difficult...

-- Anonymous, August 21, 1999

My college deciding to drop my American Sign Language class due to lack of enrollment. This in turn means they are literally dropping my major a week before classes begin. Thus I must transfer to another school which won't end up happening until spring semester which means I will have to be in college for an extra semester. So I will basically be sitting on my ass from now until January.

Fuck a goat.

-- Anonymous, August 22, 1999

A sick wife on antibiotics and a friendship that seems past the breaking point.--Al

-- Anonymous, August 22, 1999

A fricken hurricane ruined my weekend at the coast...I do say we are in for a tad bit of weather.

-- Anonymous, August 22, 1999

The state of the apartment. Must clean.

Pearl (the stray we picked up a month ago) is in heat and won't SHUT UP -- wants to be let out and stuff, but if she even so much as puts a foot outside the bedroom, our cat Shara goes into action to beat the crap out of her.

My parents are in Ithaca settling my younger brother in at college so I can't call my mom to find out how things are going at the house (sold last month and they have to be out by next Friday) so I just keep fretting about it. (silly, I know, but there ya go)

Glumly brooding about all the recent changes at my workplace and the somewhat shaky status of my relationship with my fiance these days.

There is far too much stress in the air.

Oh.

And woo, my period just started.

Great.

-- Anonymous, August 22, 1999

My weekend wasn't ruined, but it was dissapointing. Pat had been all "I'm looking forward to spending the weekend with you", which I was looking forward to as well. So Saturday we went to garage sales together which was fun as usual, until he got all grouchy from not eating breakfast and finally had to rush home to get food, skipping various sales that you just know would have had fantastic stuff.

Then a buddy of his called and wanted to hang out so he went and did that. I entertained myself in various ways like doing garden stuff but it wasn't what I'd had in mind. He didn't call or show up for a long time, which meant that I got started playing solitaire on the computer and kept playing it obsessivly until it got dark, which always leaves me feeling kind of hungover. Yet I couldn't stop and go do something more interesting.

Finally he turned up but we were both tired and just went to sleep.

Sunday we had actually made plans to do things separately so it wasn't as annoying as his unexpected absence, but he went to the baseball game with a friend and then hung out with him for, again, hours and didn't come home till like 9:00. I got more done that day but I was lonely.

-- Anonymous, August 24, 1999