STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

avalon21 · BCBG

RE: A little whine with my cheese

sydney · Kate Spade

In all the misery of life, this thread makes me smile - always nice to know you have company.

jettie · Kate Spade

- The weather has been so warm here that I haven't gotten a chance to wear any cute sweaters. I always seem to buy them even though I know it rarely gets cold enough to wear.
- Someone in my office made a comment about me not being in the office when my client isn't in the office (and hinted at the fact that we were having an affair!!!). I took real offense to it. Not only am I so not sleeping with my married client, whenever I have meetings offsite, I leave a little note on my monitor stating where I am and where I can be reached. I think someone is just trying to start some office drama.
- My job is going to change and I'm not going to travel very much anymore, which was a lot of the reason I stuck around. I'm ready to look for a new position but I've been with the same company for 8 years and don't even remember how to interview. And I'm sure I'll have to take a paycut since I want to change industries.
- I haven't met any cool/dateable guys since I moved to california. I'm starting to feel the I want to get married and settle down vibe for the first time. I feel like I'd need to move back east to meet someone.
- I got back in contact with three ex's through facebook. two are married and one is in a serious relationship. When did all this happen?!
- I met a really cool guy a few weeks ago when I went up to SF. Hung out with him both nights I was in town and he never called. Boo...
- I have grey hairs too and I pluck them and they keep on coming back.
- My house is a disaster and I have no motivation to clean.

-- Edited by jettie at 01:22, 2008-11-19

clothes_horse · Dooney & Bourke

gingembre1 wrote:

clothes_horse wrote:

1.
i just spent two weeks planning a party, almost a week organizing and cleaning for the party and yesterday and today cooking, stressing, cleaning and setting up for the party, only to have 4 people show up. (i invited 20 with cards, about 30 more through email.) to put it mildly, it was a complete and utter waste of my time, money and energy. i was so embarrassed/upset/ornery and it was hard to be a happy hostess to those that did come. now i'm of the mind that "nobody likes me, everybody hates me,.."

2.
i hate talking politics and that's all we talk about. husband comes home from work every day with "bad news...", "more bad news..." "guess what else happened today..." all these new items he hears on the radio about how the economy is going under, the world's going to end and we're all going to hell in a handbasket, basically. this went on for probably 3 weeks until i finally told him yesterday that i don't want to hear anymore of it. i can't do anything about it, so why dwell on it, is my theory. he is still mad at me for saying that.

3.
we've been trying to buy a house for 8 years now, going on 9, and we will probably have to put it off for another 8 years because of this eff-ed up economy. i'm so tired of renting, i could rip my eyeballs out of their sockets.

4.
i want a puppy so badly that it hurts sometimes but we can't have one until we buy a house, which leads back to item #3.

Clotheshorse - If you and your husband both have steady jobs, and don't fear losing your jobs in this economy, I would think right now would be the perfect time to buy! It sounds like you probably have your ducks in a row to buy a house (low debt, savings set aside, good credit, etc). I never thought I'd be able to buy a house where I live, but I just closed Escrow about 2 months ago now, and I have a number of friends who are looking to buy now as well. Anyway, just thought I'd give you a little encouragement. Also, have you looked into an FHA loan??

thanks, gingembre, i'll have to look into the FHA loans. we searched again online for houses and i was shocked how much the prices dropped in one year! many of them are 50K+ less than they were last spring! maybe there's hope for us yet...

Kel · Coach

clothes_horse wrote:

thanks, gingembre, i'll have to look into the FHA loans. we searched again online for houses and i was shocked how much the prices dropped in one year! many of them are 50K+ less than they were last spring! maybe there's hope for us yet...

You should defintely look into it. We are in the process of buying a house in a neighborhood I thought we would never afford.

KaffeeKlatsch · Marc Jacobs

I'll join in...
1) the guy I started dating comes with a shady past and I find it really hard to trust him
2) my family has officially disowned me...thanks in great part to the manipulation of my brother
3)I feel stuck right now...having moved out of Ohio and away from all our friends
4) I'm just not looking forward to the holidays at all because we're kind of all alone in a new place.

-- Edited by leah_leanna at 11:39, 2008-11-24