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  1. Well let’s see my hubby shared his cold with me so here I am at work wearing a really sexy mask so I don’t infect the masses with my cooties…..yeah the day sucks.

    • You can actually get some really cute reusable ones on amazon! I got a polar bear one for woodworking, and it’s actually really comfy 🙂

      • Well thanks for that suggestion. I need to wear one from time to time as I’m allergic to dust, etc. I’d be so happy for something more comfortable, and cute!

  4. Yes. I had to cancel our 10 year anniversary trip to Disney World for the 2nd and final time. Then I had a flat tire on a busy road that dips down into a ditch right at the road. I changed it to the doughnut and am sitting at Walmart for the next 2 hours getting all 4 changed. My phone is on 20% charge. At least I have my knitting.

  8. I’ve had some of those things happen to me. Thanks for sharing! 😀

    Otherwise my day is going well.

  9. This Christams break my 12 year old had a long discussion with me, her grandmom, and aunts about girl problems. Topping her list is the restrictive feeling of bras and the freedom felt when she gets to remove it at night. And navigating coughing, sneezing and walking when on her period to try to avoid leakage. We listened, consoled, offered her chocolate and welcomed her to the female world.

    That hang nail part of the video though, I would have been in tears and calling it a day.

    • Yeah, the hangnail! I had to look away. I know I’m being a baby, but it hurt just to look at it.

    • If you get the bra properly fitted, it’s OK. I, too, hate bras – and had a revelation when one was well fitted. It’s embarrassing, especially for young teen, but it makes a huge difference. Sports bras are more comfortable as well. There’s also probably an online site that tells you how to properly measure to get the right size bra if she really feels awkward about having it done in a dept. store or specialist store, like Victoria’s Secret. You can probably check online to get a recommendation for a good place to go in your town. Periods: could you tie it into increasing maturity with her? Later bedtime, set her own bedtime Friday and Saturday?

  10. Yeah, I’m going to be 68 this year and I just want to know, does that stuff ever quit or do you experience it to the death???????

  11. I avoiding interaction with some of the outside world (namely not answering my phone for certain people) because I KNOW they are just going to stress me.

  12. How about finding that the contractors never sealed the windows, ands your walls are coming apart like wet cardboard, and there is mildew and black mold……
    In January, upstate NY (Think Buffalo and Syracuse)

  13. Hahaha some fun to shake off the mid-week blues. I just finished re-reading the Innkeeper books and Sweep of the Blade. Can’t wait for your next Catalina book and hoping all is well with you

  17. Yesterday was a 4 FML day. #3 at almost 56, such a heavy period day that leakage despite all care taken. It’s been 10+ years since I had those days. Still it could be worse cos at least there’s no bun in the oven. Oldest natural pregnancy is scary old.

  18. The hang nail was the worst in the first segment. The flipped hair ending up all messy was funny in the second segment. Thank you for the laughs!

  19. The one tree whose pollen I’m allergic to is blooming at the moment. I also have a cold. The antihistamines are doing what they are supposed to, but still …. Ribbit.

  20. I grew up in DC, went to school (and stayed on for quite a while) in Boston, and now live in Vienna, Austria. All huge tourist cities.

    The group of people walking very slowly and all stretched out horizontally on the sidewalk so you can’t get by makes me CRAZY. Once upon a time, I had a photo of a sidewalk* in DC wide enough for 6 people to walk abreast — I knew that for a fact, because 6 people were walking abreast and taking up that entire sidewalk. It makes me want to scream “I KILL YOU” in Mass Effect voice.
    _____
    My photo wasn’t of the sidewalk so much as the 6 people spread out.

      • I had ‘leaving the workout room and have to get to the shower to return to work’ rage today when the lady in front of me was strolling along in a sort of weaving pattern. I’m glad she was cooling down and stretching etc but GET OUTTA MY WAY. Lol

  21. Spent the day with the flu, epic cramps. All the while sitting on the floor and trying to find a way to convince my toddler to poop on the toilet instead of her underwear (I am now a professional streak cleaner). She’s developed this amazing skill of letting out the tiniest, most minuscule bit, then hopping off and declaring that she did it. Only to do it again, and again, and again….you get the picture. TMI, I know, but alas I am also unrepentant.

  22. DMV on my day off and apparently it was a teacher work day so students were off too! Ugh…seven hours later…next.

  23. Omg!!! Hilarious and so spot on! I love seeing these videos because they remind me that I am not alone! ?

  25. Add to those on the video: When you’re in the middle of watching an amusing video, and the dog insists she has to go outside RIGHT NOW, and the temp is low enough that you have to suit up head to toe with several layers, and change into boots, because you know from experience how long it will take her to find exactly the right spot.

    In answer to the question: Today was better than yesterday. That is all.

  26. When people ignore the no scents allowed in this area sign because they are wearing pretty perfume and I get to go to the hospital for anaphylaxis (again).

    • Some people have never read the list of 20 most common ingredients in perfumes. Most items have to be disposed of in the toxic waste dump.

  27. I am having a pretty good day… So far… I mean there’s still time for it to go downhill… But all in all pretty good.

  28. The “slow people taking up the whole sidewalk” thing drives me insane. It’s even worse when you’re on one of those moving walkways in an airport and people do that. Or just stand there in a group, blocking passage for everyone.

    • On field trips my class used to be warned not to take up the whole sidewalk with a wedge formation. Convenient to walk that way for socializing.
      Shoves all other users off the sidewalk.

  31. That was hilarious and much needed! I’m stuck at home, cause I just came home from a wonderful holiday only to catch a cold at tail end of it. I have lunch and dinner plans all thru these few of days. Now I don’t know how many I need to cancel.

  36. I admire the spunk and courage of the young lady that this video featured!

    I would have my own tale of woe to add to the others, but I’ve found laughing at myself is the best medicine!

    I loved this video! Thank you 🙂

  37. Soooo real!! Every single one of those problems T.T (although I dont remember ever shitting because of sneezing, never say never).

  38. Every. Single. One.
    I am unfortunately the official ambassador of the clan of Joe Btsflk [from L’il Abner].
    You laugh, but the pain is real.

  39. The philosopher Senaca wrote that the source of most anger is actually surprised. We think everything is going to go one way, and are utterly unprepared when things and people do not conform to our ideas. He recommended that people spend a few minutes each day thinking about all the things that could go wrong. Of course, this leads to the idea that we should prepare for surprise, like not expecting a half-hour commute to take a half-hour, instead preparing for a 40 minute commute.

  40. Glad to know the sidewalk issue is not just localisied!!! I thought it was just the bogans in my local shopping centre in Australia!!

    Also people walking with mobile phones – need to institute new laws to remove them from the gene pool. They wouldn’t even see it coming – survival of the most aware etc

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