wonderful timing, WF
You know, I understand the bank is only looking out for our best interest with our money, but to halt my debit card because “there have been a lot of charges on your account recently”, after making only ONE attempt to contact us (I wasn’t home, and I think J was in the shower), and not even leaving a message??
That’s pretty damn lame.
I mean, I was trying to pay for some stuff at Walgreens, and my card wouldn’t work as debit or credit. I had to use my credit card to pay for it, and then when I went over to the bank to try the ATM machine, it spat it back out at me. Fortunately the live tellers were still there, looked at my acct and noted the card had been frozen, but only the ppl at the customer service desk (over the phone) could help me unfreeze it.
It was really quick, all I had to do was verify who I was and verify the charges that I made today and one from yesterday, and they unlocked my card again.
But still, the timing sucks.
hide and seek
The way I hang on to stuff you’d think finding a receipt would be a piece of cake, right?
Puh. Normally, yes. But after the kitchen got a thorough cleaning a couple of weeks ago, it seems the receipt in question crawled away to hide forever.
At some point it did enter my office because I put the charge amount into Quicken.. but where it went from there is a mystery right now. Normally it would have stayed in my office in a pile of other receipts, but because we intended on returning something later with it, I thought I had put it out somewhere where we’d see it and not lose it. Ha!
And just in case we never find it, I’m sitting on hold for Best Buy trying to get through to their customer service desk to find out if they’re able to look stuff up in their computer for returns, but so far I’ve spent about 20 some minutes on hold, only to be hung up on, and now am about 15 minutes into another hold cycle. Oh goodie. I do have to go down there later to get some additional shopping done and return something else, but I wanted to call ahead of time to ask so I know whether bringing the item I want to rerturn without its receipt is going to be worth the effort or not.
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Update: Best Buy was able to look up the purchase in their system, I think mostly because we had purchased the item wtih the Best Buy credit card…
no need to rush!
Yesterday left us wondering if our little baby is even going to stay in and cook until her due date…
We spent about 2 hrs at labor & delivery at the hospital because my usual braxton hicks contractions were getting a little too close together. Normally they are about 20-30 minutes apart, when I even notice them… Yesterday, they ranged from 3-15 minutes apart before we went to the hospital, and then were between 1.5-6 minutes apart once I got hooked up to the monitors…
It was a false alarm though, the doctor thinks they were spurred by the internal exam I got that morning at my 35 week appointment. They’re back to “normal” today, at 20-30 minutes apart, which doesn’t concern the doctors. Plus, they’re not painful, just uncomfortable sometimes, since it tends to feel like someone is squeezing me with a giant piece of Ace bandage…
For those who care, I was a “fingertip” dilated yesterday (at both my appointment and later at the hospital).
Any bets on when prismaticdragon Jr is going to make her grand entrance?
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adventures in line camping
Josh and I were about the 40th persons in line at Best Buy at around 12:30a.m. The line had at least doubled by 8a.m., although it looked longer behind us than it did in front of us.
fair trade
I have a LitterMaid catbox for my two cats. I originally bought it in April 2005. It broke just before our Vegas vacation in October. The scooping mechanism just stopped scooping.
So, I called up the manufacturer, reported the trouble, and they instructed me to send them the battery compartment cover, and part of the power adapter (cut about six inches from where it plugs into the littler box).
I do so, and the replacement arrives on Wednesday. They just send a whole new unit. Cool! A free replacement!
I set it up tonight, and noted that my old one and the “new” one were different colors. No biggie, I thought. Who cares what color the box is, right?
It wasn’t until I toted the broken litterbox out to the garage in the cardboard box of the new one and saw the original cardboard box in the garage, that I realized why they were different colors.
My original one was a newer model. I got an older model to replace my broken one.
😡
I guess beggars can’t be chosers, but still, it would have been nice if they’d replaced it with the same model rather than one that’s probably been sitting in their warehouse for lord knows how long. Grr.
the day after halloween
Technically, anyway. But it’s still Halloween to me as I will be going to bed shortly.
Anyway. Carving pumpkins is tough work. Arms are tired.
Didn’t have very many trick-or-treaters this year. We have two big bowls and a grocery bag of candy left. I guess it’s going to work with us on Wednesday.
Overall a pretty uneventful evening. Off to bed now.
runnin out of gas…
I’m beat today. Tired, zonked. Falling asleep at my desk. Bah.
That’s what five hours of sleep will do to ya I suppose. Although in a few short months, five hours will seem like paradise I’d imagine…
neglected…
This poor little blog. I’ve been neglecting it.
I always tell myself I will update this thing more often, but I never get around to doing so.
I mean, look at it - it’s been two whole months since my last post. Makes for a pretty boring place.
So, the last two months in a nutshell:
* Took the truck to Saturn, they did replace the sending unit for the gas tank at no charge to us. Unfortunately, the minor crack we had on the windshield that snaked around the rear view mirror (thus rendering the crack nearly invisible to us from the inside), “grew” after they washed the car. Three arms sprouted off of the original crack, so now we have to replace the stupid thing before we can drive it again. Yeah, we’re putting it off for now. So the truck sits, and we didn’t even get to test it to see if the gas sending unit was the cause of they mystery engine problems.
* Work is the same old crap. Nothing new there.
* Went to Vegas with Josh’s brother & SIL. Spent first night at the Best Western Mardi Gras. Checked out the next day and moved to the Luxor because the beds at BW were terrible. I do NOT recommend anyone ever stay at that BW. The ppl were ok, but the beds were crap.
* Baby growing ok. Only three months left! Got spare bed taken out of the room that will be the nursery, but have yet to begin decorating nursery. Crap! Only three months left! Better get busy with that!
* Crib on layaway at Baby Depot. $250 for a bed that will convert to a toddler bed, a small daybed, and then to a full size bed later. Will probably use Josh’s old dresser rather than buy a new one to save some money. I think it may need some new bottoms in the drawers though.
Um, that’s all that really stands out in my mind at the moment.
As for this weekend… On Sunday I am going to go stand in line with dozens of other ppl to wait for a flu shot. I should’ve gotten one sooner since I qualify for the “high risk” category, but I was debating it, and after seeing one pharmacy that was packed to the gills with old folk, I opted to wait. I almost wasn’t going to get one since I hardly ever get the flu, but then I got to thinking, it would be just my dumb luck that I’d get it this year when it would be very dangerous to both me and the squirt.
While I’m at the store and after I get the shot, I am going to buy a couple of pumpkins and some carving tools. I’ve never carved a pumpkin (that I recall, anyway), and wanted to try it this year. Plus, since we’ll most likely be home on Monday night, a couple of pumpkins will help decorate the porch for the trick-or-treaters. I’ll probably carve them on Monday afternoon since it is supposed to be in the 80s on Halloween, and they probably wouldn’t fair too well in the warm air. Now I just need to decide whether to do some simple carving, or go right for the complicated stuff and do a two-sided carving. Meh. Probably will do the simple stuff this year.
So there you have it. All caught up!
frickety-frackety truck!!
It’s been a while since I’ve had to complain about our truck (Saturn VUE), but that’s because with the price of gas skyrocketing, we haven’t been driving it! Plus one other reason that cropped up recently, but I will get to that shortly.
Today, because we do try to drive it on short trips* on the weekend, we took it instead of my ION when we went to go look for a Mi*ghty Mouse at Comp*USA, and to pick up lunch.
The gas gauge was low, but not enough to turn the warning light on. When the light comes on, there should be about two gallons of gas left before the point of no return. We assumed, since it was a short trip (maybe 15 miles one way), and the light had NOT come on, we were safe.
You know the old saying about the word “assume”, right?
That’s MS. Gimpy, to you.
My right hip started aching the other day. Only when I would lift my leg (for instance, as if to high step, or lift it to get into the car). At first it didn’t really bother me.
Then it started to get worse. Lifting my leg to get into the car is extremely painful, and even walking has started to hurt.
I’ve had this before, so it’s not pregnancy related. Last time, my doctor ended up handing me some samples of Celebrex. They worked rather well.
However, in light of two things, 1) I’m pregnant now, and I don’t think Celebrex is good for a pregnant woman, and 2) at this point I don’t think Celebrex is good for anyone, wasn’t it one of those drugs that they tried to take off the market because it caused heart problems or something??
Anyway, all I can do at this point is take some tyl*enol and and slather some icy hot on my hip and try not to move very much. I got some rather shitty sleep last night since I coulnd’t seem to find a position that would be comfortable for long with my poor, achey hip. I really hope this goes away soon.
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