r/FML

So...

2 of my main kitchen lights went out ..

Followed by my bathroom lights.....now the lights in my room are going out and now my last kitchen light.

Time to adult up and be around ppl and go buy a crap ton of lightbulbs for my house hahahah

WHYYYYYYY AND ALL AT ONCE TOO 😂

I had many photos my dead pets on my account I can’t get back.

I (24 F) my husband (27 m) and my brother in law ( 30 m) went to the US 40 yard sale. if you don’t know what that is, it’s a highway that stretches coast to coast with yard sales lining the street. i love yard sales and thrifting so i dragged them to go with me just to have some company and i genuinely enjoy hanging out with them. for some back ground, there is an on going joke in the family that i am the best at bartering to get things lower in price. in reality, im not that good, but i just like to keep up the image because my grandpa was. i usually just ask for $5-10 lower than the asking price and tell people that i talked them into lowering the price.

so anyway, we drive up to the first yard sale on the highway. it didnt have a lot of stuff, but since it was the first stop i was excited to get out. we got out and i found a cute pink knitted blanket and a golden candle stuffer. they were cute but they were pretty pricy. it was $3 for the snuffer and $6 for the blanket. just not garage sale prices. they also had a lemonade stand and a bunch of signs with writing on them that i just didn’t read because it usually says “garage sale” on it so i just skipped it. i walked up to the lady selling the stuff and said

“would you do $5 for both?“

the lady gave me a puzzled look like i was an asshole and said

“i’ll do $8.”

i smiled and said “okay thanks!” paid her cash, got my bag of stuff and started to walk up to my husband. i turned to him and said ”man their prices were pretty steep for a garage sale.”

he looked at me confused and said “what do you mean?”

i said “well it was $8 for just this small blanket and this candle snuffer. it was originally $8 but she at least took $1 off.”

“babe. that’s a sale for their child with cancer.” he said.

i literally wanted to call the whole day off melt into the grass with embarrassment. #fml

I feel evil even typing this out but god I have to vent somewhere. I’ve been wanting this watch for a long time, and it’s not very expensive only like $40 and shipping, but I’ve had a rough go of it the last couple years and so I’ve just never gotten it for myself because I had other financial priorities.

At the end of last year, a few months after meeting my boyfriend, my friend showed me this app that helps you organize wishlists. Right away I put the watch on it.

My boyfriend is very sweet and takes good care of me (again why I feel like the biggest brat ever writing this) but I think sometimes he tends to not fully absorb the things I say? Because I’d shown him the watch myself a few times and told him how much I liked it because the watch face is a painter’s palette and the watch hands are paint brushes. I’ve gushed about it to him so many times it feels like…

So anyway, when he asked what I want for my birthday, I just sent him the link for my wishlist, with the exact watch I wanted linked AND written in the description beneath the link. I thought I made it pretty foolproof.

Today he surpised me with the watch and I was so excited y’all oh my god… but then I looked closer and realized he got me the one that has regular watch hands, no paint brushes. The watch face is a palette still but I have to be honest when I say my heart literally sank when I realized the watch I was holding wasn’t quite the one I’d been wanting for so damn long.

Since I have the link to buy the watch, I messaged the seller (eBay) to ask if there’s anything I can do, maybe exchange it myself without him knowing. But of course the seller is being an asshole and is telling me A) I can’t return it without going through my boyfriend even though I have all the order info and obviously the brand new watch in the package B) that I might as well not even bother returning it (because of lengthy and expensive shipping to send it back I guess) when I could just get another one altogether! Like gee pal if that was so easy I’d have just gotten it for myself years ago, with all the money bags I apparently have lying around. Also the whole point of a gift is that I don’t have to buy it and spend \*my\* money on it? So the seller obviously doesn’t give a shit about the mishap or sparing my poor boyfriend’s feelings, only capitalizing off the situation and potentially selling more product.

So now I’m stuck with a cute watch that is just so damn close to what I wanted that it’s actually irked me to the point of laying awake in bed to type this out. I cannot stress enough how childish and petty I feel admitting this, but I’ve been trying to let it go all night and I just can’t stop stewing in this shitty feeling it gave me. I feel like the most ungrateful partner ever because clearly he did something very thoughtful for me, and yet I can’t get over something so small. It’s almost exactly what I wanted, so why can’t I just get over it? But maybe that’s why it’s bothering me so much, \*because\* it’s almost exactly what I wanted.

It was such a sweet gesture for him to get it for me but I just can’t help but feel a little sad that it wasn’t the one I was envisioning all this time. And now it looks like it’s gonna be a bitch and a half, in more ways than one, to actually get the one I do want. So close yet so far. FML

For fuck's sake, you've gotta love how life always seems to know exactly when to pile on.

Last night I got woken up by the thunderstorm. The power went out the second lightning struck, and in the middle of everything I heard water. Not the normal "it's raining outside" kind of water. The "something is very wrong" kind of water.

I opened the basement stairwell door and found water actively POURING from the seam in the ceiling. After some investigating, I found it's also leaking into the basement and is probably the reason behind the water damage on the basement floor I've been trying to figure out since last year.

The best part? I spent all this time thinking I must have screwed something up and failed to properly waterproof the concrete wall.

NOPE!!!

Turns out it wasn't the wall.

It's the fucking roof.

The same roof that was replaced after a hail storm 2 years ago.

So that's fun.

Nothing quite like waking up in the middle of the night to discover that one of the most expensive repairs you've already paid for has been leaking into your house for 2 years. Apparently life looked around, saw I was barely keeping my head above water, and decided to make that statement a little more literal.

Fucking wonderful.

One year ago my dad left out of the blue.

He met his new partner a week after he left.

For the last year my mother, my sister and i have been hanging on with the money he send us.

I have learned how to repair our cars , including he took with him and left it abandoned in his sisters back yard after he crashed it while drunk driving.

I learned plumbing because our shower broke and soaked half the house .

I learned that because money is tight but we managed to scrape on by .

My college started to ask questiones when i showed up covered in engine grease and my grades plummeted because i worked every minute i could in the local gas station.

And today he decided he will no longer send any money to us .

Without his money we will have to bring our dog to a shelter and our horses and rabbits will have to be euthanized.

The cars i painstakingly fixed will be sold.

And the house he wanted more than anything else 24 years ago will be sold since we can no longer afford the mortgage.

I am 25 and i might me a bit of a snowflake and a little bitch for it in some peoples eyes, but i can not imagine not living in this house or not even being able to go inside and see the rooms that hold so many memories.

I love this house , it is my home and i cannot bear the thought that i can never go back here ever again.

Edit: yes we could sue him for some money but for that we would need a lawyer and we cant even afford that

The Tuesday before last my period decided to come back (I got off of Depo-Provera last year) and it's still going on a week and a half later

Then my grandma who already has leukemia got put in the hospital on the day my mom left for vacation and now my grandma is at home, on hospice, and will likely die soon (like, AT MOST, she's got MAYBE a couple weeks left), and last I heard she had a blood infection, is at high risk of a stroke, and is at high risk for an aneurysm

Then a week later my mom was in the hospital, two days after returning from vacation, because she had a mini stroke (luckily she seems ok and is back home)

And now both my mom and I are sick and I'm behind on cleaning.

EDIT: early this morning my grandma passed away.