Well that kind of sucks but at least you can realize and acknowledge that work was the main binder of you two. Friends make the best lovers, so one day it will come to you if it is meant to be. Cheesy, but true. Glad you got to see him and catch up, even as only friends.

I saw Boss. It was all good but nothing exciting. We've joked that we talk to each other less when we're in the same room than when we're working from home. We were there because some folks that work for us were in town for a project, and we wanted to say hi, since we're never met some of them, even though we work together (we're all remote). So I saw him, but we were with other people the whole time. We had like 15 minutes when we first got there, and that was it. And we mostly talked about work stuff for the day, because we had to. Joked around a little, which we do a lot, but nothing exciting. Still nice to see him though.

Meant to add that if he left, and we did call each other, we would kind of have to admit that we're not just talking because of work, KWIM? I mean, we know that now, but we can use the excuse that we work together, so we have to talk. It may not seem like it, but we really have never crossed a line. Never said anything inappropriate or even remotely suggestive. If it's the last day before a weekend or holiday, and we haven't talked for whatever reason (not unusual when we're busy), one of us will always shoot an IM to the other telling them to have a good weekend or a wonderful vacation or whatever. I'll always tell him to take time to relax, since he works all the time. He'll sometimes respond with a heart reaction. No one ever uses that heart reaction at work 'cause it is kind of weird/personal. But he'll use it when I send a personal note to him.

I'm just here to say that I'm sick of my husband's shitty moods and I told him so. He has a problem at work that is due to a mistake he made and he's been grumpy all weekend. His bad mood hangs over everything. Meanwhile I've filed a formal complaint against my boss, which comes with a genuine fear of retaliation, and I'm fairly chipper. Yes, it's stressful, and yes I'm venting about it, but I don't have a dark cloud hanging over my head that is making everyone else stressed out. He's down there in the basement right now cussing at something that I'm certain is fairly minor. When I ask him what's wrong he will say "nothing" in a snotty tone. I am OVER IT! Thank you for letting me vent.

You are amazing. Great work, and keep it up!

Spent the day at work with my boss. Went to lunch with him and some other folks. Noticed that he wasn't wearing his wedding ring. And now I can't help reading way too much into that. He probably just forgot it or lost it or whatever. But now I have all kinds of thoughts going through my head. Next meeting where we turn our cameras on, I'll have to look. Surely, if he was going through some marriage issues, he would have told me. Not even for any romantic reason, but just because we're friends and that's the kind of thing we would tell each other.

And anyone who voted Biden, the innocents who died in Afghanistan, that blood is on your hands. See how that works? Oh but no you’re perfect and right. If the blue team loses that’s your fault for villianizing everyone who doesn’t think like you. The population getting sick of your shit.

My dog is going to a new hair person today. I really hope she's good because the last one really wasn't and we ended up doing his hair at home for a couple years. But it's gotten out of hand. Our clippers just aren't handling the under-fur. Maybe this new woman has a set of sheep shears. Plus, I nicked his ear last spring trying to give him a haircut and I don't know who was more traumatized; me or him. Aaaaaaand I'm at work and won't get to meet the new lady, or see my goofy boy until I get home. The hubs is dealing with it all. Getting pretty sick of this whole 'going to work' bullshit.

Ever have one of those days where everyone/everything irritates the shit out of you? Yeah, having one of those. DD17 is driving me nuts because she discovered she has not used as many school absences as she thought, so she's basically making up reasons why she can't go to school. Someone at work, who is normally great, is being frustratingly dense - got an email last week saying request for XYZ has been submitted. Asked for the ticket number (one is automatically generated when a request is made). Says there is no ticket number. Asked if the request was submitted, how is there no ticket number? Crickets. Still waiting for a response. Getting a message from the bank that they need to verify it's me b/c I'm logging in with a new device. Same computer I've had for years. Annoying. Even more annoying is that those texts only go to my DH, even though it's a joint account. And, of course, DH isn't checking his texts to send me that code. Ugh, Going to lose my shit.

My sciatica is BAD right now. Every day at work I average 6k steps and 12 flights of stairs. Please send healing vibes my way because I've had this off and on for a couple of years and I feel like it just isn't getting better this time.