AAARRRGGH xmas!!! Add your vent!

ok, so the stress starts now.

Mike went to the warehouse nearly 2 hours ago, to pick up our last 2 laybys.. one with the swing in it, and the other with a slide and a couple of other little things in it. ggrrr, anyway, have had to ring him 3 times (he textd saying "call me")

firstly they could not find our laybys,
Next now they HAVE found our laybys, the boxes for the swings and slide are open.. (we made them open them when we put them on layby to check that all screws pieces etc were accounted for, and the resealed them again) but they have lost the package that had the other bits in it, so mike was ringing to find out exactly what WAS in it.

Next phone call, he had gone and gotten the other things off the shelves but could not find one of the things that i had really wanted (bought early in fact because i didn't want to miss out.)

Now, just as i was writing the post here, had to ring again.. finally they have found them, not sure if they are the same colours but oh well... finally he is on his way home.. glad i decided not to take the kids out of bed in anticipation to go see the xmas lights cos he isn't even home yet.

Stupid stupid shop people and laybys, ARGH! I knew we should have just bought them outright but have had no-where to store them (the slide etc) so left it till now. all the bits better be there to put the slide and swings together or they will be getting a visit from a very annoyed crazy lady.   

So, just a bit of a vent... add yours if you like.

not going crazy... really i'm not

Edited by mum2paris

xmas food shoping i hate hate hate food shoping and we are doing it tomorrow and pacnsave will be crowed arrgghhhhhhhhhhh i am so not looking forward to this ohh and i have too remeber to get wraping paper but i bet i forget

I HATE stupid clients who leave everything to the last minute, and I am sorry to any on here, but lawyers! Yes you may need confirmation of insurance, but so does every other blimin lawyer so you will get it when it is done, not before.

We have been really quiet for the last 2 weeks and yesterday and looks like today we are getting hammered.

james wrote: xmas food shoping i hate hate hate food shoping and we are doing it tomorrow and pacnsave will be crowed arrgghhhhhhhhhhh i am so not looking forward to this ohh and i have too remeber to get wraping paper but i bet i forget

I know I keep saying it but thank goodness for online shopping!! I popped into the supermarket to pick up one thing the other day and that was bad enough. It was a relief not to have to set foot inside the supermarket for our big shop!! (and we got some excellent substitutions this fornight!)

My only rant is that I hate malls but thankfully I don't need to go near one for ages!

Sarah Beth I've been on the other side, it's very stressful in that line of work huh?

If you have to go shopping this weekend (thank goodness I did mine on Wednesday) go as early as you can in the morning. Even if you have to get up earlier to do it, its far better being at (for example) Pak n Save at 8am than at 11am with everyone else and their screaming kids - ugh.

We went to Sylvia Park after my mw appointment yesterday - about 10.30. Heaps of parking and not too many people about, so I reckon if you get to the malls before 11, and even better before 10, you will be better off. We had no problems with queues or anything at that time.

Hugs to everyone who has to d o all the running around and organising for Christmas!!!!

ok have done the shopping and i,m quite surpriseed it was,nt at all busy and people were very laid back was quite good this year and then i got home and went arrgghhh forgot my secert sanata so will have to go back into town now right after james wakes up

I tried making chocolates in my new tupperware icetrays (like they do at the demonstrations) and they all broke when I took them out.. then I tried to make little mallowpuff Christmas puddings (look really cool when they are finished) but the white chocolate wouldn't melt and then it curdled and I had to throw it away THIS SUCKS!!

Where do I start. The care had to have its warrent, due yesterday but did it on Monday to get it out of the way. It needed $300 worth of work done to it. Fine, It had to be done so that was ok.

DH's glasses brake - he needed new ones anyway but $500 later he has new glasses.

Last night he is in so much pain with his mouth that I get Andrew up out of bed to drive him to the hospital for pain relief. Easier said than done. The triage nurse hates me so kept DH in pain for 3 hours as she put him as the lowest triage rating (i'm very tempted to complain about her and she should not be an ED nurse). After waiting an hour and half DH told me to go home so Andrew can have a sleep. He waited a bit longer and then got to see someone who told him there was nothing wrong, drugged him, told him to go to a dentist tomorrow and I had to pick him up at 3am with a script for pain killers. He slept in Andrew's bed and Andrew slept with me - never again hes a bed hogger. I rang so many dentists today to get him in to get the tooth pulled. Finally after ringing the probably 10th dentist I got him an appointment. The dentist try's to tell him he can save his tooth (at a cost of about $1000), but DH said pull it. Turns out there is a huge whole and infection under the filling that was already in it. So $190 for the dentist (quite cheap) and $50 for the pain killers. This week alone has cost us just over $1000 on things that didn't need to happen a week out from xmas.

Then I get a txt from work asking me to work this afternoon, I can't. I have Nigel who has to be under adult supervision and Andrew. The woman gets snarky with me - she is lucky I finish up the week after xmas - that it was ok to work a few weeks ago but not today. Hello I have a very sore husband, who can't be on his own and a 2 year old, do you really thing he is going to be able to look after Andrew. Some people don't understand what it is like to have a family.

Aw, Aimee... you've got me thinking about what it's really about now!  Hope you get Christmas with the family next year. 

Hmmmm... I don't even have a Christmas rant this year!!  It's mostly all thanks to buying tear fund 'gifts' for everyone and ordering Ella's prezzie on-line.  Sooo Drop Dead Easy!  Now to start the fudges and cute little truffles that look like tiny chrissy puddings... I can't even rant about that, I'll enjoy most of it!  I suppose there's the fruit salad to feed 22, but so long as I'm not the one braving the supermarket on Christmas eve for it, she should be right.  Good lord I'm having an irritatingly Pollyanna-ish moment!