Today, I've been relentlessly refreshing my email. I'm anxious and expecting the results of a competition. It's my preschooler's playdough competition results. What has my life become? FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was reminded that I'd submitted a short story to a writing competition months ago when I got an email saying I'd won second place. I excitedly forwarded it to friends and family. A few minutes later, another email arrived, explaining they'd contacted the wrong person. My celebration lasted exactly eleven minutes. FML
Today, most of my day was spent repeatedly checking to see how well my Reddit posts have been performing as of late. I think I need to find a hobby. FML
Today, after I sent around 300 entries to a competition hosted by a deodorant company where the main prize is a trip to Hawaii, spending around 5 hours sending the entries, I won a deodorant. FML
Today, I'm constantly checking my emails to see if any of the jobs have got back to me, but nothing yet. There's this one place I really want to work at, and I've already sent a follow-up email for the job, and it's driving me crazy that I haven't heard anything. What should I do? FML
Today, I was supposed to hear back from a major scholarship competition. After months of waiting, during which my parents were convinced I had won, I discovered that my entry had never been received. Apparently the woman I had confirmed with had had a long day, and lied so that she could go home. FML
Today, I'm due to be packing my hospital bag to give birth tomorrow before Easter weekend. Instead I'm answering client emails, and ignoring sarcastic colleague emails asking "Have you gone into labor yet?" as I haven't been fully responsive on text. FML
Today, I went through my spam folder. I found out that I'd received several emails telling me that I have been sending emails containing essays for a class of mine to the wrong address. The term ended yesterday. FML
Today, I found a great recipe for dinner, and emailed it to myself with the subject "Dinner tonight". Hours later, I'd forgotten all about it, opened my emails, saw the subject line, and thought someone was asking me out to dinner. I got really excited until I saw the sender address. FML
Today, I was excited to hear that I received three of my grad school recommendations in the mail from a very busy professor. They need to be submitted sealed, and of course, my nosy mom decided to open them. FML
Today, after constantly checking my email for a week, I finally got a letter saying that I was accepted to take a test for a job position. The only problem is I was scheduled to test today, eight hours ago. FML
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Matt S "So it Goes." Trout 7
You're being dumb, but you know you're being dumb, and you're being dumb as a result of loving your kid. Also, you're sat hitting refresh and complaining to us, which means you're -not- bothering your kid with the dumb. Brains sometimes produce stupid, being human is like that. Noticing you're thinking stupid and not acting stupid at anybody else is about all we can hope for (and I wish I was better at it). I haven't had enough coffee yet to end this on a joke. I'm sure the other commenters will make up for that.
Yudith 28
Whatever the results, tell your child he/she did a great job. It's not easy to be competing this young.
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Yudith 28
Whatever the results, tell your child he/she did a great job. It's not easy to be competing this young.
RichardPencil 32
On the bright side, if your kid loses the competition (anything other than first place), you can put them right to work. They can start making money rather than wasting time trying to shoehorn an education into such a numbskull.
Matt S "So it Goes." Trout 7
You're being dumb, but you know you're being dumb, and you're being dumb as a result of loving your kid. Also, you're sat hitting refresh and complaining to us, which means you're -not- bothering your kid with the dumb. Brains sometimes produce stupid, being human is like that. Noticing you're thinking stupid and not acting stupid at anybody else is about all we can hope for (and I wish I was better at it). I haven't had enough coffee yet to end this on a joke. I'm sure the other commenters will make up for that.