A place to rant about things that wind you up ( keep it clean lol)

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Emx93 said:
I lost my little hammie maple yesterday and today someone I used to work with posted on Facebook asking if anyone wanted her teenagers just over a year hamster because she never bothered with it anymore, it smells really bad as never gets cleaned and she 'can't stand the thing so no way she's cleaning it' poor thing! It's way too soon after maple for us to help but do not get pets for your children if your not committed to them as well (I say that as someone with both pets and kids!) I'd give anything to have maple back and clean him out one more time and watch him making his new burrows 💔💔💔
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Aw so sorry :hug:it really hurts when you see people being so ambivalent towards their pets, when you are missing yours so much
 
@Betsy that's a good idea. Not 100% sure how much time I'll get between work and when we have to be there, but something to look into.
 
Commercial cages.

I know this is not a new rant, but they are almost universally far, far too small. The ones that I can find that aren't often have the nerve to call themselves "large" or "spacious", when they're only just scraping the bare minimum. It really winds me up.

I am currently on the hunt for an indoor cage which will fit my space and provide more than the bare minimum for my three pigs. I can't use C&C because I have a dog, a cat, and also we have nothing to put it on - and a cage that can technically collapse makes me all kinds of nervous. There is only one non-custom, non-C&C cage I can find that's bigger than ours, and it's too long for the space. Bodging two cages together won't fit the space either.

I don't know why I didn't think it would be this hard to size up, but it is not going well. Perhaps starting another round of online shopping for a cage at 10pm wasn't the best idea? I've been joking about getting my Dad to teach me how to build something custom, but...
 
My friend's dad did a 'cut-and-shut' job for her two sows by getting a smaller tray-based cage of the same width and bolting the two together. Her girls actually got on well and would have had enough space except one insisted on claiming ALL of the bedroom and never letting the other one in. Her poor cage mate used to nap with her head in a willow tube to try and hide. And top girl rarely came out in the open in case the other got the bedroom! Dad took the ends off both cages and added the extension to make a 'mirror' bedroom area at the other end. Then both pigs came out all the time ☺️
 
Free Ranger said:
My friend's dad did a 'cut-and-shut' job for her two sows by getting a smaller tray-based cage of the same width and bolting the two together. Her girls actually got on well and would have had enough space except one insisted on claiming ALL of the bedroom and never letting the other one in. Her poor cage mate used to nap with her head in a willow tube to try and hide. And top girl rarely came out in the open in case the other got the bedroom! Dad took the ends off both cages and added the extension to make a 'mirror' bedroom area at the other end. Then both pigs came out all the time ☺️
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Piggies! Who knows what goes on in their little heads!
 
Argh.

Pigs room hit 22.5C even with the blinds closed. Well okay then, open the window (which was an interesting exercise in and of itself). Open the window in my room for airflow. Except the blinds won't properly close now because the windows are open, so I've got sunlight coming in and it's annoying me.
Went downstairs to put recycling into the bin. Realised I could do with cleaning some of the window panels. Do so, come back upstairs. Temp is 22.2C.

It's gonna be a long evening.
 
I had a black out this morning whilst preparing the piggies veg. I haven't had one since August. Thankfully I was only out of it for a few minutes (unlike the one in August where I was out of it for over an hour) but I have spent most of the day in bed :( I'm up and dressed now but we're not going out tonight as originally planned
 
Claire W said:
I had a black out this morning whilst preparing the piggies veg. I haven't had one since August. Thankfully I was only out of it for a few minutes (unlike the one in August where I was out of it for over an hour) but I have spent most of the day in bed :( I'm up and dressed now but we're not going out tonight as originally planned
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Have a nice quiet night in with the piggies and cats.
 
I had to call Sky again earlier. In comparison to last time, talking to a human was the easiest part of the call. However, dealing with both website troubleshooting and the automated phone system had me about ready to break out the tobacco again. Sheesh.
 
Forget whether my hair will be nice. I've just tested positive for Covid and can't go to my awards. Absolutely gutted. 😭😭😭
 
Argh. Vertigo. Like what the hell, brain and ears. I went to close the window in the pigs room earlier and nearly fell over just from looking/reaching up. Thankfully the sill is large enough to kneel on to get it done but I'm slightly fed up with spinning rooms at this point.
 
I sometimes get just a little bit when I turn over in bed - which makes me sound really pathetic :roll: I have to wake up properly, spread arms out, hang onto the sheet and stare at something till the world stops turning, so I really feel for you if you happen to be upright at the time as it's bad enough when lying down!
 
Free Ranger said:
I sometimes get just a little bit when I turn over in bed - which makes me sound really pathetic :roll: I have to wake up properly, spread arms out, hang onto the sheet and stare at something till the world stops turning, so I really feel for you if you happen to be upright at the time as it's bad enough when lying down!
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it feels like I could fall out of bed except I sleep on a mattress on the floor, lol. I know I've gotta ride it out but I hate it when it's long spells like this, feels unending.
 
My doc showed me a manoeuvre once as I'd started to get the whirlies when getting up in the morning. I bounced out of bed one day then danced sideways and fell over a pile of washing in a very ungraceful fashion. I can remember hub's face peering over the edge of the bed saying, "What are you doing..?"

Anyway it was essentially sitting on the edge of the bed, turning my head to a certain angle, lying down, adjusting, sitting up again, repeating the other side etc. After about 3 days of doing it things had improved but I don't know if that would have happened anyway? It wasn't a miracle cure but at least I got a bit of 'me time' before getting pestered to make the tea...
 
Free Ranger said:
My doc showed me a manoeuvre once as I'd started to get the whirlies when getting up in the morning. I bounced out of bed one day then danced sideways and fell over a pile of washing in a very ungraceful fashion. I can remember hub's face peering over the edge of the bed saying, "What are you doing..?"

Anyway it was essentially sitting on the edge of the bed, turning my head to a certain angle, lying down, adjusting, sitting up again, repeating the other side etc. After about 3 days of doing it things had improved but I don't know if that would have happened anyway? It wasn't a miracle cure but at least I got a bit of 'me time' before getting pestered to make the tea...
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I know what you mean, but in my case it's never worked. I remember begging a GP for something for it at some point and he made the case that if I could safely (which I generally can) it's usually better to just ride it out rather than adding medications or exercises in, especially considering what I already take.
Although I remember my mum saying she had it at one point and seemed confused as to how because she was taking amitriptyline (for migraines) and I had to pause for a second before explaining that a medication might be used to treat an illness but that medication won't work for everyone, which is why there's a few different medications for vertigo out there. There's no one size fits all.

It'd be really nice right now if the amitriptyline did work, lol.
 
Confession time. I had bread and cream cheese (and red onion!) for lunch and really enjoyed it. It was a really nice malted and seedy bread. Yesterday I had a slice of different really nice white bread and jam with a cup of tea and I really enjoyed that too.

The problem is that I stopped eating bread a few months back because I realised that even one slice makes me fart like a brass band in such an alarmingly loud way that son think I'm deliberately trying to offend him. I can do crackers, even croissants, and scones seem OK most of the time. I can also eat that German rye bread which I do like so it's not really a big sacrifice. If someone makes me a sandwich I'm appreciative (although I do have to leave soon after!) but I do miss a nice fresh loaf and every now and again I convince myself I've imagined it...

But I didn't imagine it and spent dinner time hiding in the kitchen while he rolled eyes and told me I'd been totally busted! It was delicious though...
 
A friend text me excitedly to tell me that she had been to visit a local nursery and they had 20 guinea pigs. 🙄
I get that I love pigs and you see a pig and you want to share that with the crazy pig lady in your life…. But it’s hard to not upset your friends when you don’t react back the way they expect!

I can’t help but wonder how on earth you can properly take care of that amount of animals and also run a business, but I think I know the answer to that. ☹️

-Edited to say she’s not a close friend, and actually more my husbands friend. So I’ll forgive her for not knowing me very well I guess-
 
I am not anti-insect. I'm really not. But I haven't seen a millipede in years and tonight, there was one in the cellar, two on the front doorstep, and I put my hand through a spider's Web in the cellar when I needed to catch my balance and every. Single. Skin twitch is skeeving me out right now.
 
This has really wound me up today and for all summer. I saw a fox in my garden in the daytime it was hiding in the bushes which means I can't put my piggies out for long hot summer days as I don't know if the fox is going to be there or not. The runs I have are "predator proof" but I'm not willing to try it out! I'll have to cut them grass instead. It's not the same as being out on the grass and popcorning cos your happy to be out there, but it's the best I can do.
 
Not so much a rant but anxiety.

my tooth beside the main front teeth has a veneer on it. The veneer kept falling off and I’d go back to the dentist to have it put back on. A few months later it was off again. This happened so many times that after the last visit and the damn thing was put on sideways (looked like a pointed fang) it fell off and I got sick of going back constantly. So I left it off.

All was fine for a year then last night I bit down into a wrap and suddenly I felt a hardness in my mouth. Half of the tooth had come off with a perfect snap down the centre vertically.

i am extremely terrified of The dentist - like severely and I spent last night panicking and freaking out, shaking and barely able to breath out of fear. I was supposed to meet a friend this Thursday and she wanted us to go out to eat together. This friend lives up north and I haven’t seen her since 2019 so I was super excited and now I’m just embarrassed of my broken front tooth.

it would be fine if I could chew on the rest of my teeth but I had to have a deep filling the last time I went and since then I can’t chew on the right side of my mouth. She also drilled a little on my back left tooth and I can now no longer bite down there. So now with the front gone….

I'm not sure how to eat anything that isn’t soft.

I'm too scared to go back to the dentist as my teeth seem to go from good to worse every time I go :( I didn’t have any problems before those things.
 
Julesie said:
Not so much a rant but anxiety.

my tooth beside the main front teeth has a veneer on it. The veneer kept falling off and I’d go back to the dentist to have it put back on. A few months later it was off again. This happened so many times that after the last visit and the damn thing was put on sideways (looked like a pointed fang) it fell off and I got sick of going back constantly. So I left it off.

All was fine for a year then last night I bit down into a wrap and suddenly I felt a hardness in my mouth. Half of the tooth had come off with a perfect snap down the centre vertically.

i am extremely terrified of The dentist - like severely and I spent last night panicking and freaking out, shaking and barely able to breath out of fear. I was supposed to meet a friend this Thursday and she wanted us to go out to eat together. This friend lives up north and I haven’t seen her since 2019 so I was super excited and now I’m just embarrassed of my broken front tooth.

it would be fine if I could chew on the rest of my teeth but I had to have a deep filling the last time I went and since then I can’t chew on the right side of my mouth. She also drilled a little on my back left tooth and I can now no longer bite down there. So now with the front gone….

I'm not sure how to eat anything that isn’t soft.

I'm too scared to go back to the dentist as my teeth seem to go from good to worse every time I go :( I didn’t have any problems before those things.
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It's not exact, but I have no teeth. It's a long complicated story but I also couldn't wear dentures for long enough that I can no longer wear dentures (the gum line has receded too much). So I don't have anything to chew or bite with - and I get it because I dislike eating in front of people I don't know well, too, except I also know nobody notices. It's just anxiety on my part.

It can take a bit of practice, but small amounts on the fork are key. Not tiny tiny, but just enough that you don't really have to chew it. Nuts are the only thing I've had to give up entirely. Depending on where you end up going, if it's italian food go for pasta (something like a bolognese or carbonara), if it's indian something like keema - basically anything rice, pasta, noodle based where it can almost be immediately swallowed.
 
Lorcan said:
It's not exact, but I have no teeth. It's a long complicated story but I also couldn't wear dentures for long enough that I can no longer wear dentures (the gum line has receded too much). So I don't have anything to chew or bite with - and I get it because I dislike eating in front of people I don't know well, too, except I also know nobody notices. It's just anxiety on my part.

It can take a bit of practice, but small amounts on the fork are key. Not tiny tiny, but just enough that you don't really have to chew it. Nuts are the only thing I've had to give up entirely. Depending on where you end up going, if it's italian food go for pasta (something like a bolognese or carbonara), if it's indian something like keema - basically anything rice, pasta, noodle based where it can almost be immediately swallowed.
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Thank you. Yes at home I am planning to try and eat mostly pasta, noodles etc.
I definitely want to get my teeth sorted out as I like to do cosplay and have photos taken but if my front tooth is ruined I won’t have any confidence to do this :(

I need to try to figure out a way if I can get to a nervous patient clinic. I don’t want to avoid the work done… but bec of how severe my fear is I can’t go to my normal dentist for this amount of work. I usually need diazepam just for a general checkup.
 
Ok so I'm on day two of feeling back to normal and yet I'm still getting strong positives on the lateral flow tests. I know I technically don't have to self isolate but I couldn't bring myself to go out and potentially spread the germs so still stuck at home
 
Lady Kelly said:
Ok so I'm on day two of feeling back to normal and yet I'm still getting strong positives on the lateral flow tests. I know I technically don't have to self isolate but I couldn't bring myself to go out and potentially spread the germs so still stuck at home
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I'm also still testing positive. I felt much better on Saturday. I really don't want to knowingly spread it but it's so disappointing to still have the line - I'm worried I'll have to cancel yet another weekend.
 
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