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[funnygarcia]

Yep... Warm cheesecake sucks..

 

[funnygarcia]

So jealous of sarah, shawna, and our lady of the blue faces Dizzy
Sniffle sniffle. ah well, another time.

Kelly, ugh.. hope you can keep working things out in your arrangement. I'm glad the new church is working out for you, it would be good to find some great support.. new church, new people, new look at life with a fresh start.

Alison, How did PT go?
Hi to Pix, busy girl!

Things got interesting with the family dram unfolding.
MIL did NOT come visit, BIl and his gf came but we were just "hotel Garcia" as they didn't really talk to us much and ignored Eloy the whole time he was dialyzing.

We don't mind that they use us as a place to sleep. But instead of calling to say "can we come visit?" why not just say, "hey we are going to... is it okay for us to sleep there?"

Instead we have to ask, what are your plans? Because they won't tell us until we do. Makes it hard as we are thinking, how much food do we need? where should we go to entertain them?

Eloy wants to just say no, we're busy.. anytime they call (except for his sis who has yet to visit on her own).

Plus BIL was being a total butthead. We chided him on being rude to his sis, he replies "she knows how I feel" We were like what? because we don't know how you feel. He then went on to say he called her an idiot and loser because she is contemplating quitting her new job.

screeeeeeeeeeeeeeech. hold on a minute here!

Who made you judge and jury on how your sis should lead her life?

Your pregnant, depressed, married sister who is obviously going thru some rough times as she withdraws from meds and is all hormonal - crying for no reason because everything is outta whack. Not to mention, her dh has suggested she just stay home. Not that your spouse has the final say, but if he says "I would rather you stay home" .. you can't just ignore him and still have a happy marriage. right?
She has to do what is best for HER and her soon-to-be family.
And yeah, it might be a foolish thing to do. Her kidlet may very will be a welfare brat, so what?? It's not like any of them are that much better off? They all have their faults, heck BIL is a professional student and changed his major AGAIN this year. And he still lives with dear old mom at age 31, now who is the loser?

 

[funnygarcia]

Someone please strangle the lady from Domino's on the corner. PLEASE!!!!

She is yelling "wooohoooo!", calling "PIZZA!" "c'mon PIZZA!", whistling and urging people to stop in to buy a pizza (two for Tuesday). It's highly annoying, I want to go out there and smack her with her sign.

It's rush hour, the cars go ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzoooooooooooom to scurry home. They can not hear her with the windows up-- duh!

I want the other guys to have a turn, they just stand there and wave the sign, attention getting without highly annoying.

 

[funnygarcia]

I'm bored, can you tell?

I sent N to babysit as sis wouldn't be home in time to get her middle son off the bus. I was not in the mood to walk 2.4 miles to her house and sit around bored bored bored. The carrot to agree to the task was a small item on Amazon. Since I have prime right now and some GCs from Swag Bucks.. it's a small price to pay.

DH is not home from work yet.

Justin dressed up in suit and tie for a dinner date with 8 girls.
The flutes are "carbing up" at Olive Garden tonight, they have practice at the Metrodome 7 pm to 3 am (yep AM) Wednesday and then they hit the road to St Louis for the big band competition. I swear the kid picked flute, in elementary, just so he could hang out with all the girls.

Wait, is it? can it really be??

Blessed silence.

The whistling , yelling Domino gal must have got smacked with her sign.

 

[kelmac284]

Morning and Happy Wednesday/hump day!!

Wow B you had all kinds of fun last night!! LOL. I hate to say it but I think I agree with Eloy and I would say I was busy next time the BIL came a calling. He just sounds rude. Being a jerk to the sis and then coming to visit and basically ignoring you guys. But that's me. Hope you enjoyed your alone time and glad that annoying pizza hag fell in a hole or something LOL. Maybe somebody ran over her (oh that's mean, snicker).

As for me I just did my normal bs round here yesterday and then ran up to walmart to look for some various items that I needed and I should have KNOWN better. The closest walmart to us is one of those "mini" walmarts and it just sucks. They never have ANYTHING I ever seem to need. My electric toothbrush died a while back and I haven't wanted to spend the money so basically I have just been using it like a regular one LOL but I am like why the heck am I bothering. I could just go buy a plain old toothbrush for this! But I DO want another sonicare cuz I like the way it cleans my teeth and I have plaque issues so it was recommended by my dentist. Plus she gave me a coupon for 10 off last time I was there so I went to Wally world and they only had the ones that have one brush not the doubles. Plus it was MORE than the ones at sams so strike one. Then I was looking for my last season of Ghost Whisperer on DVD as we collect that series and it is no longer on anymore and that is the last season I need and it was supposed to come out in Sept but they pushed it back to Oct and they didn't have THAT either. Then I was looking for a basket to put by the door to put our shoes in because we always kick off our shoes when we come in the door so as not to ruin the carpets but then there is a mound of shoes that ends of everywhere and I always end up tripping over them. I of course always put mine off to the side but Shane and the girls always kick theirs RIGHT in the middle of the walkway. Don't get me started on THAT one!!! Anyway so strike three no baskets either. GRRRR.

So I went back home defeated. Oh and I went to the mail and found out they changed our ins AGAIN. My RX coverage went up AGAIN AND now if we get hospitalized they are going to charge us 250 bucks a day!! I don't know about you but I don't know many people that have 250 much less more than that. I don't know how they expect to collect that! I mean what is the flippin point of having ins if you are STILL going to get a bill! I am NOT thrilled about that at all!

The only GOOD part is there is now no more limits on max's AND kids can stay on your ins till they are 26 no matter what. And I think that is the case with all ins. That was nationwide I believe.

So some good but a lot of bad too.

Anyway then the kids got their school pics back finally and they were pretty cute although both of them had hair sticking out and I can't help but think geez these people want people to buy pics and yet they can't see or fix these obvious flying hairs that are going everywhere? And it wasn't like one stray hair, both of them had like one whole side of their head that was sticking out like a sore thumb. But luckily they were still fairly decent. Plus we switched companies so we have different class pics this year so I am going to be real curious how it affects our yearbooks. We have gotten all color yearbooks in the past but now that we have this new company I am going to be real curious how that goes and if we get another class pic with the spring pics or no since they didn't do the normal one they have always done. Shall be interesting!

Anyway I wanted to get a frame for the pics for my desk at work so I asked mom if she was going to be home and she said she was on her own for dinner so I went and met her while shane and the girls were at soccer practice and then we ran to target and WA LA I was able to get almost EVERYTHING I needed there. The basket, the dvd, the frame AND even some turtlenecks for Katy. So it was a good shopping excursion.

Gotta love target!!

Nada going on for today. Just more laundry. No soccer tonight either so it is just kick back and watch survivor night!

Hope you all have a good day!

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

Sending a friendly good morning to you all.

 

[kelmac284]

Hi MJ!! Long time no see!! Hope you are good! Nice to see you!!

 

[funnygarcia]

Hi Mary jo!

Kelly, I have a sonicare too. I got it free from a Bzz campaign. I absoloutley love it, but flipped out on the price of the brushes
I keep saying "I will buy it later.." "wait until a sale" but the head was used so much that it was all frayed out. I also have a hard time finding the compact sized heads, I gag on regular toothbrushes.. yuck! Now I use a regular little kid size brush. Maybe some day I will splurge and replace the brush heads.

I had all sorts of frustration on my shopping trip today. I was all keyed up as it was the once a month 10 coupon doubling but got peeved to no end that they dind't have 5 items in stock that I wanted... they didn't even have a shelf space for them, which ponders this question "why put it in the ad if they don't carry it??"

And they stiffed me a catalina coupon, giving me excuses that it's because I used coupons.. uhh I don't think so! If that is the case it should say so in the ad!

I still got some great deals, but both sis and I were uber frustrated. I don't want to go to that location any more, they are always doing dairy and frozen restocking on the busiest day of the week.. super frustrating as they leave pallets parked right in front of product, you can't even get your cart thru the dairy. In the frozen they parked the stock carts right up to the glass doors.. umm guess I won't be buying any of those today.

Sis thought they were all vendors, nope.. it was one vendor and a whole bunch of employees, rude talkative bunch in my way! and then they only open one lane to ring up..ARGH! I would rather go to the slummy store, no one is there on doubles day.

 

[sameyeyam]

Hi Guys...well I survived the Physical Therapist. But I'm not going back. They knew my insurance covers 20 visits a year, I did 2 visits and guess what? They have decided that I should come back for 6 weeks, 3 times a week! Interesting how that adds up to 20 visits, isnt it?

They gave me the information I needed. I just need to massage my abdomen and chest regularly to keep the scar tissue down and my pains will stop. Then I can do any exercise I want except for lifting weights and squat type exercises.

So why do I need PT? Oh, I know, so they can have me do stretching exercises 3x per week, charge my insurance company big bucks, make me pay the 20% co-pay. So I figured I already pay for satellite tv and I get the Fit TV channel. So I will just record some of the stretching & aerobics shows and get this....exercise for free!

Besides, I was not impressed with the pilates exercises she was having me do. I didn't feel real comfortable with them and I have learned to listen to my own body before I listen to any medical professional.

Seriously what I think I need to do is be in a senior citizen exercise class. Lots of stretching, low impact type exercises and just taking it slowly. It's not like I'm out to train for a triathalon or something.

 

[funnygarcia]

Do you have a warm water pool at the local Y? They have water exercise for people who have arthritis, gentle stretching. Or they have the "silver sneakers" exercise program in the fitness classes.

I've heard, if you don't have a good instructor, some of the Pilates moves can hurt you. There is a certain way to accomplish each move, it's not suppose to hurt.

Eloy got a letter from his dialysis dietitian, he only sees her once a year when they update care plans.. frankly he has been doing this long enough he can tell her what he should be doing. (Not that he follows his diet anyway)
She sent the super dorky report card format of his labs. Apparently dialysis patients can't read lab reports, they need the numbers with smiley faces, sad faces and disembodied hands making the "OK" sign.

And she sends a cute little note about if he took his phoslo with every meal.. yadda yadda yadda..

I wonder how they would feel to be given a report card with sad faces on how crappily of a job they do caring for patients?

Just give him the regular lab sheet.

Reminds me of the grocery store frozen foods dept.. highly pisses me off as they have line drawings of vegetables, pizza, fruit instead of written labels. They are arty drawings, all graceful pretty flowing lines on wooden boards.. makes it harder to see from a distance. I'm glad you made it easy for the two year olds to find the frozen foods they want. However, words would really help here for the grown ups... you know, the ones that BUY the food.

I had an oh so wonderful rolling eye "FINE!" spazz moment with Justin as we pushed him out the door to go to his band competition. I'm going to miss him sssssssssssoooooooo NOT much for the next four days.



He waits to the last minute, I hate waiting to the last minute.. Eloy hates last minute rushing. So we asked him, did you pack?, do you have this? what time are you leaving? Shouldn't you be getting ready, it's 5 minutes before the bus comes? We didn't nag, it was gentle reminders.. and then it was Hey you kid, your bus is going to leave without you.. go!
He spazzes on us, he finally walks out and he waits less than a minute .. ta-da there is the bus. Now see, your parents were right. HMPH!

He does this every time.. pisses me off.

 

[sameyeyam]

Do you have a warm water pool at the local Y? They have water exercise for people who have arthritis, gentle stretching. Or they have the "silver sneakers" exercise program in the fitness classes.

I've heard, if you don't have a good instructor, some of the Pilates moves can hurt you. There is a certain way to accomplish each move, it's not suppose to hurt.

Eloy got a letter from his dialysis dietitian, he only sees her once a year when they update care plans.. frankly he has been doing this long enough he can tell her what he should be doing. (Not that he follows his diet anyway)
She sent the super dorky report card format of his labs. Apparently dialysis patients can't read lab reports, they need the numbers with smiley faces, sad faces and disembodied hands making the "OK" sign.

And she sends a cute little note about if he took his phoslo with every meal.. yadda yadda yadda..

I wonder how they would feel to be given a report card with sad faces on how crappily of a job they do caring for patients?

Just give him the regular lab sheet.

Reminds me of the grocery store frozen foods dept.. highly pisses me off as they have line drawings of vegetables, pizza, fruit instead of written labels. They are arty drawings, all graceful pretty flowing lines on wooden boards.. makes it harder to see from a distance. I'm glad you made it easy for the two year olds to find the frozen foods they want. However, words would really help here for the grown ups... you know, the ones that BUY the food.

I had an oh so wonderful rolling eye "FINE!" spazz moment with Justin as we pushed him out the door to go to his band competition. I'm going to miss him sssssssssssoooooooo NOT much for the next four days.



He waits to the last minute, I hate waiting to the last minute.. Eloy hates last minute rushing. So we asked him, did you pack?, do you have this? what time are you leaving? Shouldn't you be getting ready, it's 5 minutes before the bus comes? We didn't nag, it was gentle reminders.. and then it was Hey you kid, your bus is going to leave without you.. go!
He spazzes on us, he finally walks out and he waits less than a minute .. ta-da there is the bus. Now see, your parents were right. HMPH!

He does this every time.. pisses me off.

Y? I can only dream that we have a Y in my town. They have been raising money for a community swimming pool...since I was a little kid. Over 40 years later and they still don't have enuf money!

E's smiley face labs remind me of the idiot nurses in the doctors office labs. Because my veins were damaged with chemo I always tell them exactly what they need to do to get blood samples. Yet the insist on doing it their way every time, only to fail and eventually they do it my way and it works! I'm at the point to where I'm about to start grabbing the needles from them and doing it myself...I can just imagine the look on their faces if I did that.

 

[funnygarcia]

Eloy's are shot as well.. he asked if he could just bring his own dialysis needle sets and they can draw from there.. the clinic freaked and jabbered on and on about OSHA standards. Not sure if they understood, considering we do labs oursleves once a week.

 

[kelmac284]

Ah the incompentence of our health system. So glad I am not the only one dealing with it! LOL.

Alison I SO know what you mean about the PT. I could def use some for my back either that or chiro but I REFUSE to go because I know their scams. Same deal, oh let's see HOW much ins coverage do you have??? Oh ok let's use it ALL up in 2 weeks then your're screwed and have to pay for it yourself if you need it after that. Uh NO!

And B that is funny what you mentioned about the store. In my opinion I think ALL stores should do stocking at night but that is me. WHY is it that they always seem to do that crap during the BUSIEST times of the day. I am always practically falling over those pallets or forklift things. Then like I mentioned I went to the walmart and they get new movies on Tuesdays and I was there at like 11 and they still had the boxes in the middle of the aisles with all the movies in them. Unacceptable as far as I am concerned. If they truly want to SELL them they should have been stocked the night before so that people could actually BUY them. I doubt they got them THAT morning!

And I know what you mean about the procrasinators. I live with 3 of them LOL. Drives me nuts. I have gotten to the point where I get in my car and threaten to leave their butts behind. Sometimes it works sometimes I actually leave them. LOL.

Same ol same ol for me today. More housework and boring drivel. Girls have soccer tonight and the good thing is it is my fav night of tv!! Otherwise nada! We were going to do a kids night out thing at church but I think it is too late to get in on that so I am thinking of going to a movie maybe tomorrow night. We shall see. We both really want to see that movie reds.

That's all of my excitement o plenty. Have a good day all!

 

[sameyeyam]

Just got back from my Thursday shopping trip to Walmart. I've been doing price matching since July at this particular store with absolutely no problems...UNTIL TODAY!

I am a very organized price matcher. I bring post it notes and write the prices & store name & stick it on everything I'm price matching. I bring the ads and also print out the internet grocery list (cuz I know ahead of time what I will be buying). I staple it to the ads. I even separate the price matching things and put them at the end of the conveyor belt, so I can pay attention & assist them with questions if they have any.

Well the clerk today decides that I don't know what I'm doing. She refused to price match generic items. She told me I couldn't price match meat, produce or anything by the pound. She even tried to tell me I couldn't price match Safeway's $1.49/bag Fritos because the picture showed Fritos & Cheetos and I only bought Fritos!!!!

So I start arguing with her and it's getting louder and louder...she is adamant about everything she is telling me. I finally yell at the top of my lungs "can we get a manager over here" Because she is refusing to call a manager.

A manager arrives (I think a neighboring clerk called). She starts telling the manager that I'm giving her a hard time and trying to incorrectly price match. She won't let me get a word in edgewise. Finally I almost have to yell "do you price match on generics?". The manager gets a funny look on her face and says "yes, of course". This clerk then starts arguing with the customer service manager. It was hilarious!!!! Then the "big" store manager walks over. She instantly shut up. The customer service manager, the manager and I are all talking and of course everything I did was correct. They both apologized to me, while the clerk is trying to say she must not have been trained correctly or missed that training session...talk about trying to save your rear!

Anyway, they help me load my groceries into the cart and take me to another clerk who rang me up, no problem. Seriously, they didn't even tell the 2nd clerk what was going on, they just said she has some "price match" items.

The 2nd clerk was very nice and very knowledgeable, her name is Lisa. I asked if she worked on Thursdays and she replied, "yes, I'm always here on Thursday's". So from now on, I will be going to Lisa's line with my groceries.

I tell you I was almost ready to walk away and just leave all my groceries there for a while! Oh and the lady behind me sees what I'm doing, sees the outcome with the manager's telling me I was correct...so she comes down to my line when she's done and starts asking me how the price match thing works, cuz she wants to start doing that (of course avoiding crazy lady's line!).

 

[funnygarcia]

I asked if she worked on Thursdays and she replied, "yes, I'm always here on Thursday's". So from now on, I will be going to Lisa's line with my groceries.

Oh and the lady behind me sees what I'm doing, sees the outcome with the manager's telling me I was correct...so she comes down to my line when she's done and starts asking me how the price match thing works, cuz she wants to start doing that (of course avoiding crazy lady's line!).

Awesome! But yeesh what a hassle to need to train your own cashier!
And what is with the refusal to ask for a manager? Odd!

One time we used a bunch of coupons and it completed flustered the cashier "you use too many coupons!" , we asked for a manager.
Manager sighs and goes "what is your problem? just scan the coupons" .. shoves her outta the way and takes over the order. Next time we came back, we were looking to see what lane to pick. That cashier saw us and said "You can't come to MY line" and glared at us. That's fine lady, we don't want you anyway.

Found out via posts on A Full Cup, that I should have got my $10 catalina coupon on Wednesday even if I used coupons. Obviously something is not coded correctly because others posted it was working/ not working at random locations with small after coupon cost.

It pisses me off that the cashier said no right away, told me to go to CS desk.. while there the CS person was about to add up and make sure I bought the correct amount needed for the promo, pauses to pick up the phone says "okay" on the phone, hangs up and then tells me "it's because you used coupons". Look back and the cashier has this smug look on her face.. no way, she did not just call and tell her to not give it to me??
I didn't have the time or energy to ask for a manager.

Being the coupon deal loving junkie that I am, I don't want to stop going to Rainbow. But I feel maybe it's time to move back to Cub or Super Target. I get mad every week with stock issues and lazy cashiers. Super Walmart is too far away, not to mention the closest is NO fun for coupon users ("you can only use one coupon.." uhh excuse me? I bought 3 , I can use 3 coupons. "you can only use one coupon"... sigh, idiots. ) and in a crappy neighborhood.

 

[sameyeyam]

Seriously, what is with these people? Honestly, you could tell this lady was just annoyed with me for price matching in the first place. Yes, they do need to train them better. But sheesh, she was starting to act like I was taking money out of her pocket.

Now that I'm calmed down, it really was quite hilarious. Every single item she picked up she started inventing her own rule about it. Seriously, my Safeway ad said Cheetos or Fritos, varying sizes 8-9.75 ounces for $1.49. She decides I can't have the Fritos for that price because there's a picture of a Cheetos package also.

She also didn't want to sell me the petite top sirloin for $2.98 a pound...because their was a sticker on the meat package that said Steakhouse Select. She told me that was a brand that only Walmart sold and that they didn't have to price match anybody's meat because of that. She also said that their top sirloin was $5 something a pound and price matching wasn't meant to take that much off and that I was being unreasonable. I said, oh did you work at Walmart Corporate and know the reasoning behind price matching and personally know that it wasn't meant to take that much off?

 

[sameyeyam]

Just got a phone call from a real estate professional in Seattle. He called to tell me thank you very much for sending me the financial statements, we got both VANILLA envelopes today.

I almost said "how interesting, did you taste them?, because I'm pretty sure I sent the information in manilla envelopes and they are not nearly as tasty as the vanilla envelopes".

 

[funnygarcia]

Just got a phone call from a real estate professional in Seattle. He called to tell me thank you very much for sending me the financial statements, we got both VANILLA envelopes today.

I almost said "how interesting, did you taste them?, because I'm pretty sure I sent the information in manilla envelopes and they are not nearly as tasty as the vanilla envelopes".

Cute!


The caretaker's wife is originally from Columbia, she occasionally mixes up words. Tonight I told her how my little nephew had mono, she lit up and said "hermano? he's going to have a brother?"

HAH! in the middle of typing this at 9:30 pm I get a phone call, it's "private name, private number" on caller ID. hmmmm? Typically we get unknown name/ unknown number if it's a telemarketer.. and besides it's after 9 pm, you know after the appointed legal hour of when creditors and businesses can call. I contemplated ignoring it, but Justin is in St Louis with band and what if it was someone calling on their cell that he is sick?

Well the lady launches into her spiel about some readers service company, I ask her "so what are you trying to sell me?" She says we are calling to ask if I am enjoying my magazines. "well I get magazines for many sources, which ones in particular?" (I get all my magazines free thru various programs and offers)

She then tells me she is calling to ask if my magazines come to me in good condition??

I'm thinking.. hmmm.. sounds fishy to me, but hey I'll play!

I ask, "why are you calling at 9:30 at night?" And she blabbers on how it's on an auto dialer. I then say "isn't it illegal for 1-800 services to call after 9 pm?" She gets snotty and says "well we're no trying to solicit anything" and then huffs a bit.... And before I have a chance to ask her more questions (because you know I am enjoying this little conversation now) she hangs up on me!



Darn, she wouldn't play.

 

[funnygarcia]

Just as I thought "Magazine Readers Service" is a scam company that lures you into buying a bunch of magazines at a really high price. Or makes claims that you won....but first they offer you a "free trial" of magazines, you have to give your credit card number before you get the prize. NOPE! No way!Totally illegal!

The magazines I do get are totally free, no auto renew. They don't have my credit card number, because why pay for something that is free right?

 

[staley7580]

WHAT an afternoon!!! We leave the house to go to the toy store.. I wanted to check out what they have, trying to get a jump on CHristmas, see what is out there, what the kiddos want.. All that jazz. WELL... My kids had other ideas. Julie, Kaylee and Alex spent about 10 minutes arguing in the car.. DH turned around, went home, pulled up in front of the house.. and told the three older kids to get out! He gave them our groceries.. told them to get along, OR ELSE.. He said we were going to the toy store, and when we got home.. We expected the house to be clean!!

So we got a trip to the toy store in peace and quiet.. got to get some ideas for what to get them.. AND we came home to a clean house.