The Vent - Part 2

[thetreble 19]

My fiance was working in that area just two days ago, until his company pulled him and sent him to another job site.

I don't understand people. At all. The shooting in Texas, now this.

What drives a person to that point? Sure, we all have days where we could fling ourselves off a cliff due to stress, etc, but to go out and aim to harm/kill someone else... How do you get there?

It's despicable.

It is. I was watching on the news that the gentlemen is going to try to plead mental insanity due to...STRESS.

How many of you are stressed out there? 95...99% of us? That's BS if the court allows someone to plead mental insanity due to effin stress. Stress = life. Life's tough, ###### adjust.

[Sam and Ben 2]

Is there anyone out there right now who isn't stressed? (If so, I'd love to learn their secret.)

Out of the hundreds of thousands of people out of work, his stress is so far beyond that of the others in a similar position that he feels it's his right to do something as unspeakable as that...

I just have a hard time swallowing stories like this. I can't even begin to fathom what goes on in someone's head.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

I don't know - as stressful as my life can become, I don't think it measures up to years of dealing with combat battle fatigued soldiers who he would meet upon their return from overseas, still suffering from their wounds, missing arms and legs, confined to bed, skin burns, faces smashed, minds damaged, reliving the fear and daily trauma from war while trying to soothe some of the battle scars that are in their minds and not just their bodies - day after day after day - and then being told you were going to go to the very place where all these soldiers came from. I think something would snap in me too. He is living their nightmares with them as part of his job - I can so totally understand how he would be traumatized by it as well - especially if he was good at his job.

[Malrothien 6]

I don't know - as stressful as my life can become, I don't think it measures up to years of dealing with combat battle fatigued soldiers who he would meet upon their return from overseas, still suffering from their wounds, missing arms and legs, confined to bed, skin burns, faces smashed, minds damaged, reliving the fear and daily trauma from war while trying to soothe some of the battle scars that are in their minds and not just their bodies - day after day after day - and then being told you were going to go to the very place where all these soldiers came from. I think something would snap in me too. He is living their nightmares with them as part of his job - I can so totally understand how he would be traumatized by it as well - especially if he was good at his job.

I do believe they are talking about the shooter from Orlando, not the Fort Hood shooter.

[Wyatt's Torch 45]

I hate that I have to come back "home" tomorrow.

This has been a wonderful ten days with my wife here in D.C.

I know I should be glad that I was in a position to HAVE ten days with my wife...but having to leave her here until I can immigrate is very tough nonetheless.

It also sucks knowing that I'm going home to pack up my apartment over the next two weeks and move (albeit temporarily) back in with my parents. It's very tough when you're thirty and very accustomed to your independence...even if it IS very temporary! Grr.

[JillA 2]

I hate that I have to come back "home" tomorrow.

This has been a wonderful ten days with my wife here in D.C.

I know I should be glad that I was in a position to HAVE ten days with my wife...but having to leave her here until I can immigrate is very tough nonetheless.

It also sucks knowing that I'm going home to pack up my apartment over the next two weeks and move (albeit temporarily) back in with my parents. It's very tough when you're thirty and very accustomed to your independence...even if it IS very temporary! Grr.

I did the same thing, moved back in with my Mom for 4.5 months before moving, after living alone for years... look on the bright side!! You'll save money by moving back home, and get to spend quality time with family that you may very well miss once you're gone. Appreciate every moment you have in Canada, because you'll be moving before you know it!!

[Kathryn41 3,205]

I don't know - as stressful as my life can become, I don't think it measures up to years of dealing with combat battle fatigued soldiers who he would meet upon their return from overseas, still suffering from their wounds, missing arms and legs, confined to bed, skin burns, faces smashed, minds damaged, reliving the fear and daily trauma from war while trying to soothe some of the battle scars that are in their minds and not just their bodies - day after day after day - and then being told you were going to go to the very place where all these soldiers came from. I think something would snap in me too. He is living their nightmares with them as part of his job - I can so totally understand how he would be traumatized by it as well - especially if he was good at his job.

I do believe they are talking about the shooter from Orlando, not the Fort Hood shooter.

Ah, mea culpa - jumping around in different threads too much! Yeah, the Orlando shooter I don't understand at all.

[Rhiannercakes 14]

Remember our anti-twilight vent? Ugh I just heard on the radio that the lead greaseball that for some reason many girls swoon over, is People's sexiest man alive EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Ew, seriously?

That guy can't even change his facial expression.

It's botox'd in place.

George Clooney and others are way sexier.

[minnew 4]

Got some bad news last night... My great uncle John passed away yesterday, funeral is probably this thursday I don't have my AP yet, my chances of getting emergency AP in time and not for an immediate family member... Pretty slim . My mom and her siblings will make it, doubt most of my cousins will go either, they rarely saw John.

I was worried this would happen without my AP, think what bugs me most is that if I had the means to go to Canada for a funeral I can't right now! Well... I could then i would have to start all over again.

Just wish I could be there, he was such a sweet man, would see him every other month when we went to visit my baba... He would always go check on her... When he could still drive, and his Ukrainian cooking.... Mmmmmmmmm

Baba's passing was hard on him.... The last time I saw him...

RIP John S.

[thetreble 19]

Sorry to hear that, Minnew. Always hard when things like this happen and you can't go home. I feel like that now, even as a Permanent Resident. Some times it just isn't possible.

I'm sure he knew that you cared and loved him.

[Wyatt's Torch 45]

I hate that I have to come back "home" tomorrow.

This has been a wonderful ten days with my wife here in D.C.

I know I should be glad that I was in a position to HAVE ten days with my wife...but having to leave her here until I can immigrate is very tough nonetheless.

It also sucks knowing that I'm going home to pack up my apartment over the next two weeks and move (albeit temporarily) back in with my parents. It's very tough when you're thirty and very accustomed to your independence...even if it IS very temporary! Grr.

I did the same thing, moved back in with my Mom for 4.5 months before moving, after living alone for years... look on the bright side!! You'll save money by moving back home, and get to spend quality time with family that you may very well miss once you're gone. Appreciate every moment you have in Canada, because you'll be moving before you know it!!

Yeah, that's exactly why I'm doing it. It'll be good to save a bit of money for the move, and it's very true: I'll barely see my family after I move down here. I'm not planning on abandoning Canada per se, but I'm making a pretty clean break. Well, my father enjoys NASCAR, so I'm sure they'll make it down to visit me and see a race at one of the two tracks in the general area!

[thetreble 19]

I moved back with my parents, too. It sucked but I had to do it. Just look at it as short term...you will be with your wife soon enough and telling her to stop bothering you

[Carlawarla 1]

Got some bad news last night... My great uncle John passed away yesterday, funeral is probably this thursday I don't have my AP yet, my chances of getting emergency AP in time and not for an immediate family member... Pretty slim . My mom and her siblings will make it, doubt most of my cousins will go either, they rarely saw John.

I was worried this would happen without my AP, think what bugs me most is that if I had the means to go to Canada for a funeral I can't right now! Well... I could then i would have to start all over again.

Just wish I could be there, he was such a sweet man, would see him every other month when we went to visit my baba... He would always go check on her... When he could still drive, and his Ukrainian cooking.... Mmmmmmmmm

Baba's passing was hard on him.... The last time I saw him...

RIP John S.

Awww I'm sorry minnew. I'm glad your Mom and her siblings will be able to make it. If you've applied for your AOS/EAD/AP, you may be able to get an emergency AP if you live near a local office. If you have the reciept for your applications they'll then know that you paid for it.

[minnew 4]

Sorry to hear that, Minnew. Always hard when things like this happen and you can't go home. I feel like that now, even as a Permanent Resident. Some times it just isn't possible.

I'm sure he knew that you cared and loved him.

Thank you thetreble! I've been thinking of that too, even as a PR I won't be able to go home for stuff like this all the time, i guess that's the con of living far away

[SapphireDreams 71]

Sorry to hear that, Minnew. Always hard when things like this happen and you can't go home. I feel like that now, even as a Permanent Resident. Some times it just isn't possible.

I'm sure he knew that you cared and loved him.

Thank you thetreble! I've been thinking of that too, even as a PR I won't be able to go home for stuff like this all the time, i guess that's the con of living far away

I'm sorry for your loss Minnie. The same thing happened to me as well, my Uncle passed away just a week before I was already scheduled to visit and so the timing just didn't make it possible for me to go to the funeral. I sent my Aunt a really nice card and then we went saw her when I was visiting for Thanksgiving.

It really is one of the major cons of living away.