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I love my mom, but I don't always understand her.  She's an unemployed, bored, middle-aged woman who lives on facebook 24/7.  She'll sometimes have this weird, obsessive behavior and I can't help but look down on her.  Right now she's dealing with a psycho ex-boyfriend who's been stalking her for the past several months.  He drives by her house all the time and tries to follow her everywhere she goes, he'll constantly send her letters and flowers.  Instead of nipping this in the bud and taking legal action, something she should have done six months ago, she has become obsessed with the stalking.  It's almost as if she wants him to stalk her so she can run and tell someone about it.  I'm guessing that she's so bored that she thrives on the attention she's getting from it.

Working in a small office certainly has its advantages and disadvantages, but this is about a disadvantage.  There is no privacy at all so any sounds such as chomping on food, rolling around in your chair, typing on your computer, phone vibrating, sneezing, sniffling, you name it, is all out in the open and within an earshot of my coworkers.  I have been able to get used to such small annoyances because they're going to happen, we're all human, it's impossible for us to be completely still.  I just can't stand it when my of older, crankier coworkers make me feel like I can't breathe without irritating them (these are all women).  I guess since I'm practically the child of my shift (I'm 29, the others are in their 50s and 60s), I haven't quite reached their level of maturity so I'm automatically going to be annoying to them. 
Thanks to the huge crash in our economy, these old biddies can't retire yet since they lost thousands of dollars from their retirement plan.  I guess I can't blame them for being cranky. 

My aunt said to me earlier 

"If it weren't for you moving here, she would have been heading for adult day care." Her as in my grandmother.

I replied 

The last time I checked in was quite a while ago. I had three jobs, one full time, one a hobby, and the third as a sort of 'complete the image' of a hard worker. I quit the last one since it cost me more money to get to (and because my co-workers were jerks), and got a few more hours at Doc's.

This one is kind of funny... Ever have to deal with contractors? The majority of the time they are meaningless boobs that only have the position because it is a throw away position that doesn't require a full-time knowledgeable person to do. Well we have a lot where I work...

Yeah, all you folks that "need extra time" to board an airplane.  Families with babies and toddlers...and the 450 lb woman that needed to be wheeled down the jetway.  I understand that you have special needs...that it takes you longer to make your way to your seats.  I politely defer to you for this reason. 
So why, oh why, don't you do your fellow travelers the same courtesy when the plane arrives at the arrival gate, and STAY SEATED until those who can exit without needing extra time or assistance get off the plane and on to their connection?  I mean, has something changed during flight that allows you to leap up nimbly and quickly, when you couldn't do it when you boarded?

I don't know what the President has proposed and all the contraversy about it, but we do need a reform, not on insurance but the training of our so called health care professionals. I work in a medical center and I work with a bunch of idots. 

so Feb brings around hour cutbacks. OH JOY. this is the part where we all get to work for 3-4 months with half the hours we normally get. I'm used to getting 40-45 hours a week. now I get 24-27 hours a week. ARG. I need a new job ASAP.

Why is it ever project needs to be done at the last minute? About each project is worked on for about 6months or longer, and hardly nothing is accomplished and then someone is like oh shit, we have a week to do this now! And now its balls to the wall work..which should have been done little by little months ago! Not all at one time!

PLEASE people!!!  STOP saying the word Like after every other word in every sentence.  It's irritating to listen to and makes you sound like an imbicile.  "Um, like, ya know.  Um, like, ya know, um, like, ya know..."  JUST SHUT  UP ALREADY!!!  Seriously.