A Well Deserved Whinge???

Is there really such a thing as a well deserved whinge or should we just be sucking it up and getting on with life??? You see I feel the need for a bit of a whinge as it's not convenient at the moment (or really any time soon) for me to sit down and really chat with someone about how I'm feeling at the moment.

You see I have an ear ache, which is really a jaw ache (TMJ) and pain killers don't help. Basically only sleep helps and well I already had pretty much a week off with a nasty throat virus thingy. So I'm in a small amount of constant pain and every now and then (when my jaw is moved in a certain way) a lot of sharp stabby pain. Now pain I can pretty much deal with. However when I'm already grumpy...it just makes me feel worse.

Why am I grumpy you might ask??? Well...basically it started this week when my computer at work stopped functioning properly and had to be taken away. It was behaving itself while on holidays, but as soon as it was back at work, it started misbehaving again. So no computer for me. To be entirely honest, I could use another computer in the office, but only for Monday as a new girl was starting on Tuesday. Now there are a lot of upsides to this new girl:
* she has done accounting before so she doesn't need much training there
* she's a Christian and that makes me feel generally comfortable and also not
* she is getting William organised around the office (he needs nailing to the floor or he loses his train of thought)

But then thats where some of the 'good' stuff seems to go bad... she is changing a lot of things. I was trained by one person and she was trained by another so a lot of the training she has had over the last few days had contradicted training I received. So I was just getting comfortable and was eager to learn and take on the role of Office Manager, but a lot of those new tasks I was to learn, were taken away from me. So basically I'm left with the same old roles as before and all these new things are being introduced.

Now I'm not someone who freaks out about new things, but I generally need some transition time and I feel that after only 4 days, that the new girl is being a tad pushy with everything. She's eager to learn yes, but at the same time, she's coming across as over-eager and hard to approach.

On top of that my mind is occupied with Summer Camp band and the fact that I'm singing with someone whose style I dislike (it comes off as more of a performance to me) but who I also think has better vocal range and control. So I have respect for her, but I also feel a bit green in that I'm not sure if my motives for disliking her style of singing are valid.

On top of that recently I felt that more than one of my friends has been really distant and cold towards me and I feel like somehow it's my fault, even though after chatting with several people, they seem to think that it's all just a misunderstanding and bad communication.

Add to that the frustration of organising internation communications and money transfers, a very busy weekend (with an estimated 3.5 hours sleep on Friday night) and my parents and sister going away for the week.

But after all that. Life is good to me. I might struggle sometimes, but it only makes me stronger and helps to build character and if I can help change one person's life for the better than I have accumplished something wonderful.

Oh and at the moment I have the hiccups :D