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[Chris_S]

well one of my damn cat has pinched my bed covers and he is way too cute to move him off it they get so badly spoilt it's unbelievable. The other cat is on the other side of the bed so I basically have the same amount of space as a single bed but it's a double and a few minutes after posting this I lost another foot of width space because they just love to spread out

My main gripe though is that work are being a pain with me and I'm possibly going to have to take legal action against them they are being less than helpful and certain members of management have caused me to be off sick for over a year basically bullying and targeting me dispite them knowing full well I was already severely depressed

 

[msunnerstood]

FedEx said my 50# pail of LYE was to be delivered today. I sat around all day waiting
Now I get notification that it will be TOMORROW !!

Yes I called and complained. Seriously, you "missed getting it on the truck" when your email said it was out for delivery ??? You MISPLACED a Corrosive Chemical ????
Can't even begin to tell you how p.o'd I am.

Funny how when I asked for the Manager at the facility to call me... has NOT.

Same thing happened with my Mica order today. I swear between that and waiting for my Lye order, Im having withdrawal symptoms.

 

[KimT2au]

My gripe is at myself, my own stupidity in particular. I was running a recipe through soapcalc and was wondering what selection to use for Frymasta Cooking Oil, our most common veg shortening here in Australia. I was going to use Crisco and then I realised there were two Crisco's, one with and one without palm oil. OK, next thing was to see if I could find out if Frymasta contained palm oil. Long story short, I ended up ringing the company they originally thought I was asking in there was olive oil in Frymasta (arghhhh),then had trouble identifying the product on their system (bang my head on wall). Finally they "assured" me it was 100% palm oil. OK, selected palm oil on soapcalc and am a happy little vegemite. Next I think I should warn other Australians on SMF it is 100% palm oil and that is what they should select on a lye calculator and am about to make a fool of myself by posting this information when I have the brain wave of searching on here to see if anyone has ever mentioned Frymasta before. OMG, there must be zillions (well a couple of dozen at least) posts about Frymasta being 100% palm oil. Why did I not simply come on here and search in the first place, I could have saved so much time. Grrrrr. Lesson learned.

 

[Relle]

Ask, Kim, and you will find out , it's old info here, like most stuff.

 

[BattleGnome]

Gripe: spousal hypochondria

There’s a nasty sounding stomach bug going around my husband’s work (by that I mean 2 coworkers but he does work at Walmart). Today he’s asking me to pick up DayQuil when I go shopping. We leave for vacation on Sunday. That plus a miscommunication/petty fight last night and people at work being difficult.... I wish I had other job options

 

[SoapAddict415]

I'm so sleepy today. And I'm pretty sure I've been at work for just over 2 hours but the clock says I've only been here for a little over an hour. Lol, I don't like that clock.

 

[Lin19687]

LOL


Gripe... online with Fedex chat... still po'd about not getting Lye yesterday.

Also last night talked with Animal Control about neighbor and his dog going after my hens.. Guy got arrested last night for a Warrant. So you know there will be back lash. I can't wait I am sure I will be calling the police later today when he gets out of court...

 

[SaltedFig]

That sound scary Lin! Padlocking the chickens door for the night might be a good idea, if you think he's likely to cause trouble at your place. Stay safe.

 

[Lin19687]

gripe... STILL waiting for Fedex with my LYE

The second he (neighbor) gets home I will be listening for him making any fuss. If he does I will be calling the Police...... he is still not here so I am thinking his case is not heard yet. NOT my problem idiot, you should have taken care of it and kept a low profile here.

 

[KimT2au]

Well today has been very "interesting" and it is only just 3pm. A while ago I applied for a phlebotomy course and I was asked to attend an interview at 10am today (yes, an interview to go on a course I am paying for) Anyway at 6.40am I am just about to step into the shower and there was screaming like you would not believe coming from the other end of the house. Hubby and I shot down to DD1's room (she's 18) to find her laying on the floor. She had been dancing in her room (in her socks) and had fallen / popped / twisted her knee. Did I mention she was dancing in her socks, something I have warned her about before as she could slip and hurt herself. Anyway, we got her on the bed and applied frozen sweet corn (all the frozen peas had been eaten) to her knee. It was decided Hubby would take her to A&E to have her knee checked as this is now the 4th time she has popped/twisted it. In the meantime I shower, dress and toddle off to my interview. I think the interview went OK, there were more than 60 applicants for a 14 place course, so it is clearly not a shoe in. I think they said they would ring tomorrow if I got a place on the course and receive an e-mail next week if I did not, although it could be they would ring on Monday, I can't remember. Either way, interview over so I headed back to Midland as I had intended to see Hubby and DD1 if they were still in A&E and then to visit a friend Tracey X who was in the same hospital. DD1 saw the Dr at the hospital and he said she should see her GP for a referral for an MRI and then an orthopedic surgeon as each time she damages the knee the worse the damage is going to be. Hubby said that DD1's face just dropped when she heard she needed to see a surgeon. DD1 has another Cheerleading competition this weekend (the 3rd competition in 3 weeks) and the Dr said if she is still in pain she should not compete but if the pain has gone she should show "common sense"; what a thing to say to a teenager, I suspect she will still compete. Anyway, apparently the knee is too swollen for an MRI at the moment and so she has an appointment for next Friday. So, onto visit Tracey at the hospital..... Tracey texts me she is on floor 4, ward 44. I look at the board at SJOG Midland and it says floor 4 is ECT and mental health! Okaaaayyyyy, so they have Tracey pegged then, but I thought maybe they simply used all available beds. The signs say wards 4A, 4B and 4C, no sign for a ward 44. While I am wandering around looking for someone to help me (and hoping I do not get swept up for ECT) and I can hear someone screeching down her phone at someone asking where she is meant to be and saying that the person has sent her to the Loony Bin. It turned out the lady's son had told her floor 4 but she was meant to be on floor 2. I toddle down to information who inform me they have no Tracey XX in the hospital. Why is that you ask? Yes, I am sure you asked why that was. It is because she was in SJOG Subiaco, not SJOG Midland. Arghhhhhh. Home I toddle.

After having some lunch I unmoulded my first batch of soap (yayyyeeee) and cut it up. I also stamped it with Tracey's paw stamp that I had taken to the hospital to give to her I purchased one stamp for Tracey and one for me but I put mine "Somewhere safe" and still have not been able to find it again so I thought I would give her stamp a trial run.

My soap is now laying on a rack, where it has to dry out for about 4 weeks before it is ready to use. DD1 is tucked up in bed, I have my fingers crossed for the phlebotomy course and Tracey XX should have been discharged by now and be home with her lovely husband. I wonder how cooking tonight's dinner will go.

 

[Lin19687]

@KimT2au (Ohh post a pic) nevermind I see where you did , Hope DD is ok ! Sounds like Ligament issues. I had that in High school where my knee would dislocate and then pop back in.

Gripe, DD said she doesn't have to get into school (senior) till 8:30 instead of 7:30. I have things to do today, so she will get dropped off at 8.

 

[DS_Kiki]

Ugh, so I put a small batch of shreds in my crock pot to rebatch and totally forgot about them! Came home from picking the kids up from school and my entire house smelled like severely burnt soap, so gross.

 

[BattleGnome]

I just bought a digital camera for vacation next week, like an hour ago.

First they didn’t have the model I wanted. Whatever, it was on sale. Next model up with a $20 difference, doable. Get home to charge up the camera to play with it before we leave on Sunday, no battery. Double check everything just in case, it’s the model with included rechargeable battery. No battery. Now I get to take an extra trip into town at some point to excange it. It’s almost 25 miles and over an hour of my time, if I can find the time before vacation.

 

[Dahila]

My gripe today is Beef tallow, I need an advice, I know Carolyn is using beef tallow from store, Maybe
Deanna can check it up too. Ingredients; Beef tallow , BHA, BHT, Citric Acid, and Dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) is that one good for soap? Is it the one you ladies use for soap. I do not feel like rendering my tallow anymore........ ?
I do not know what to do, which does not happen to me very often
BHA, BHT, CA they preserve it, but this antyfoaming agent , will it work in soap?

 

[amd]

Gripe: In August I received a letter from the state IRS that I had not paid my sales tax at the end of June. I called them with my confirmation number showing that I had paid it, discovered the problem was that at the end of last year when I submitted my new last name change to the LLC, that instead of applying the new name to the existing, they created a second account. They told me don't worry, they would take care of it, disregard the letter as I'm all paid up. Today when I went home for lunch, I had a second letter from the state stating that I was delinquent on my sales tax. I made a second phone call, same story. So help me God, if I get a letter next month I will seriously lose my mind.

Second gripe: because I was on the phone with the state, I did not get to unmold my soap, enter my morning's purchases into soapmaker and adjust recipe prices or print out recipes. I barely got to eat my lunch.

The only thing holding me together right now is the bag of Dove peanut butter dark chocolate on my desk, and that when I go home tonight I am kid-free and if I want to go to bed at 7pm the only person who will make fun of me is my husband... and he plans to be in bed by 7:30.

 

[msunnerstood]

Landlords who dont give proper notice to do a walk through. When I have strangers in my house, I want it clean clean, tweaker clean. I want all my private belongings put away. I take care of my home and my yard so thats not it, its just the fact that someone invites themselves into my home and I cant say no. its invasive. They dont need to seemy things. We have had to rent because of my husbands health issues. I thought this land lord would be different because he lives 100 miles away but apparently not. Guess im scrubbing floor boards this weekend.

 

[Misschief]

Landlords who dont give proper notice to do a walk through. When I have strangers in my house, I want it clean clean, tweaker clean. I want all my private belongings put away. I take care of my home and my yard so thats not it, its just the fact that someone invites themselves into my home and I cant say no. its invasive. They dont need to seemy things. We have had to rent because of my husbands health issues. I thought this land lord would be different because he lives 100 miles away but apparently not. Guess im scrubbing floor boards this weekend.

Really? Here, landlords are required to give you 24 hours notice if they want to enter the premises. And you have the right to say no.

 

[msunnerstood]

Really? Here, landlords are required to give you 24 hours notice if they want to enter the premises. And you have the right to say no.

He gave us 24 hours notice it's just Rewaitinguntil Friday when we already had plans for the weekend we are expected to drop everything to accommodate him. It might be within his rights but it's rude.

 

[Misschief]

He gave us 24 hours notice it's just Rewaitinguntil Friday when we already had plans for the weekend we are expected to drop everything to accommodate him. It might be within his rights but it's rude.

Agreed.

 

[msunnerstood]

My grape today, migraines. Flashing lights in my field of vision along with blank spots that I cannot see, aphasia, confusion and pain