Have A Good Old Moan....

gosh why do people ask your advice and then do the complete opposite?

Me too! I hate it! Why bother asking, you've just wasted time I'm never gonna get back!

Ergh my lovely fiancé has insisted my son goes to his nannas today (my MIL) and it drives me mad as she doesn't listen to a thing I say and calls herself mum to my son. I liked her up until the point I got pregnant and then she suddenly turned in to some baby obsessed psycho. It must be exciting being a nan but she's taken so much in the past I feel like I lost out on my son being a baby so now I hate every second he spends with her 🙁

This weather is driving me insane, it's almost april and it's snowing, I hate the snow  *ban*

Lee's going away for two weeks 🙁

Very BPD today... big downer in an otherwise good week. 

One of my fabric options for the handmade dresses I sell is a discontinued fabric, which is getting increasingly more and more difficult to get hold of, and consequently costs more to buy than the other fabrics I use.  I just had someone message me to say 'can you make me a dress in the expensive fabric, but for less than the cost of a dress made from the less expensive fabric?'!!!  In a word - NO!  I am getting really sick of eBay!  Their final value fees for business sellers are extortionate, the entire system is designed to favour the buyer, not to protect the seller, and basically, buyers can hold you over a barrel with the threat of negative feedback because it only takes a couple of negatives to lose your top-rated seller status, which then results in being charged even higher final value fees!  So the whole thing makes buyers think they can take the p**s and be stupidly cheeky by asking things like this!  You wouldn't go into Topshop and say 'I like this dress, and I know it's not on sale, but can I have it for £20 less anyway?'!!  If it wasn't for the fact that selling on eBay opens up my business to millions of potential buyers, I'd just stop selling there, but unfortunately, the majority of my sales are still coming via eBay! 

I really hate the fact that business is a male-centric environment.  It causes blantent sexism such as the conversation I just witnessed to fly around without people batting an eye, and it makes me so angry.

While I was waiting to get my bottle of water this morning:

Senior Manager (waiting for a breakfast sandwich and disgusting coffee): Formula 1 drivers etc etc (I wasn't really paying attention, because I just wanted to buy my water and go).
Stock Boy: Yeah, Formula 1 driver etc etc
Server Woman: (making coffee)
SM: Races etc
SB: Drivers etc
SW: (goes to hand SM the chip and pin machine, it slips)
SM: Oh, see, this is because we're talking about Formula 1!  Women HATE it when you talk about Formula 1!  Hair and makeup, hair and makeup!
SB: Yeah!  Hair and makeup, or bags and shoes, bags and shoes.  That's all they're interested in!
SM and SB: (laughing)

I just stood there and glared, because I couldn't think of a comeback at the time because I was a combination of tired and disgusted.

SM ended up holding the door for me, so I said thanks and under my breath added "you sexist pig." 

It's not like us women have brains.  It's not like we're smart!  It's not like we're interested in history or literature or anything other than hair, makeup, handbags and shoes!

Disgusting sexist, male-privileged scumbags.

Ugh. Funnily enough, Formula one is the only sport I can tolerate and even enjoy sometimes. And though I see the irony or something in saying this saying as I'm posting on a message board about hair, I actually spend very little time talking about hair and make up. I talk about science, religion/atheism, medicine, history etc etc. The only time I talk about hair in real life is when I'm asked about mine OR I have literally nothing else in common with the person I'm talking to, or they seem offended by talking about anything deeper (though that's pretty rare in reality). This was something I was talking about with my brother last night. He's gay and in a software development which is a strongly straight male centric world, so he see's the same thing, but in a slightly different way. He's not stereotypically camp gay, so many don't realise he is.

Sadly women can be as bad though. Having worked in very female centric areas for years and having to put up with sexist stuff coming from women and then the cackling laughs afterwards. Ugh ugh ugh. I am SO glad I'm basically alone for 16 hours a day now lol

Lost my job and therefore my home.

So sorry to here that piestar! I hope something comes up quickly for you.

piestar I'm so so sorry to hear that, I hope something good comes your way soon. Hold on in there!

thanks 🙂 I have talked to my foster mum and I can stay at home whilst I look for a job, but I have no idea what I'm gonna do, blah.

My day has also been 'enhanced' by some serious PMT and cramps. Then I had to sit through a dentist appointment where after she asked me how I was I started crying : then she stabbed my gums 🙁 eurgh

Worst day ever.

Im sorry Piestar! Dont they have to give you notice though? it seems a bit harsh to essentially make you poor and homeless at the same time?

yeah I have been given 4 weeks notice which is good but I'm still in a massive panic that I won't find a job that will give me enough money to pay rent and stuff anytime soon, most of the jobs in the education sector aren't about right now as people usually lose at the end of terms and its currently the end of term this week so positions have been filled :

got the flu, urgh.