Kawi Wrote:PrairieGirl Wrote:3 -- why can't I make an Amazon.com order, and have the books slide out of the computer immediately? I'm bored, and I want my books!
One word: Kindle!
YES!! It comes right out of your computer (actually, it comes right out of thin air) immediately! You get your book in seconds!
Now, if only I can get sushi like that.
Bittercat Wrote:TW, I feel your pain about making yet another psych appointment with yet another doctor or practice!
I have Kaiser, but ironically, I find their mental health services where I am pathetic. I actually go out of plan. It costs a lot, so I had to stop going over the winter.
Good luck. Finding a good therapist that you can trust is hard.
Jen M.
Thanks Jen, I have an appt with a new one in late July.
Hopefully he will understand my total frustration in all of this.
Starting all over for the 4th time really & truly sucks big time.
(sigh)
ITMT My bad foot is acting up. And I need to stay off of it
for the rest of the day.
And I am out of pain meds! My life truly sucks!
I was reading the newspaper this morning and see on the front page that a 12 year old girl riding her bike back home on the last day of school was run over by a Ford Bronco and killed. I hate to see any bicyclist killed, but when it's a kid who has been riding to school all this time, with most kids these days being driven these days, it's really sad. I hope this doesn't make the parents say my child can't ride his bike anymore.
That is sad. Did they catch/get the driver? Will he/she be charged? I feel for her parents. Losing a child has to be just horrid.
My PAM: I'm trying to pull together a series of orientation meetings for a new project officer and people are having conflicts, EVEN THOUGH I looked at all of their calendars before making the schedule.
Even worse: My boss-whom I'd work with to make alternate arrangements because of the high level of this particular new team member--is out of the office until Wednesday.
Ugh. At least it's Friday.
Jen M.
I finally broke down and decided to get EZ-Pass. For the longest time, I absolutely refused to but finally decided to knuckle in because it seems that the NJ Turnpike is whittling down their cash lanes and travel on toll roads is getting to be a PITA in general with longer lines and having to stop and fiddle around looking for change. Plus with EZ-Pass express, traveling down the shore this summer will be a breeze.
EZ-Pass is such a scam because their only forms of payment are either to have direct withdrawl through a debit or credit card OR payment by check by mail or in person at one of their service centers. I am able to pay ALL of my accounts monthly and online without having the money directly withdrawn from my account. There is no reason why EZ-Pass cannot do the same. I also was not able to apply for EZ-Pass online since I decided not to allow direct withdrawl. I had to print out the application and mail it in with a check. They couldn't accept a one time payment JUST to complete the application? GMAB.
My theory as to why EZ-Pass won't offer this type of payment is because they want to make it as inconvenient as possible to NOT use direct withdrawl. How EZ-Pass works is that you estimate your monthly toll usage. Mine is $50. When you have direct withdrawl, once your amount goes below 50% of that original amount, they take out another $50.
And if you choose to get monthy statements from EZ-Pass, they charge you $1 per statement. You receive one statement either via mail or e-mail for the first month or so and then they will send you two per month, therefore they'll be charging you $2 a month simply to receive a statement. I've never had this with another account. I opted NOT to receive a statement. I'm hoping at the very least, I will be able to log into the website to check my balance so I know when to replenish my tag. But I wouldn't be surprised if you can't do that either. But I still have not received my tag, so only time will tell.
And...because I chose to pay by check rather than by debit or credit card, I had to pay an extra $10 for the EZ-Pass tag itself that will be refunded to me when I turn the tag in.
I just hope that this doesn't turn out to be more trouble than it's worth.
The girl on the bike was killed by another student's mom on her way to pick her kid up from school. She did not have a drivers license! She has not been cited, but it has been sent to the DA's office.
Went to New York on Friday and I'm paying dearly for it now. I've spent the whole weekend in bed, only getting out to go to the bathroom, find food, and little things like that. I'm still in agony, and I have to attend that stupid unemployment session tomorrow morning! It's an hour away, and coupled with rush hour on top of that! Yeah, I'm really gonna be able to hide my health conditions. I only, you know, won't be able to walk! *screams*
Doesn't help that the place is in fucking Coatesville, either. The last time I was there, I ran through a redlight because there was a shootout right next to my damn car.
The people next door make me want to fucking slit my wrists. Every other weekend, the guy who lives there has his several kids, who live about an hour or two away, come to visit. And they all bring cousins and friends and before you know it, our tiny double cul-de-sac street with packed together houses is crawling with about 20-30 screaming children throughout the whole weekend. It never fucking stops. And the adults, about, I don't know, 100 of them, are jammed inside the house and on the balconies basically screaming all day and all night. And smoking. So their smoke comes into my house through open windows. No AC equals open windows. And there's loud music. Rap music. Not even the entertaining kind, it's the gangsta kind.
It's going on right now as I type, skateboards jumping curbs in front of my door, for hours and hours, screaming kid voices, bouncing basketballs. Kids of all ages. Every. Other. Weekend. It starts Friday night and ends sometime very late Sunday night. And now that summer's here, does that mean it's going to be every weekend? Every day? All the time?
Yes, there's an HOA. Yes, I've complained, as have a couple others, but since they're basically just concentrated on my doorstep, no one really seems to care as much as I do. We're just renters so it's not like we have any weight. On a street of 18 houses crammed together in a circle with no yards and tiny little driveways, these are the only people on the whole street who do this, who make any noise at all. They moved in about 3 months after we did last year and it's been nothing but pain and suffering ever since. I won't even tell you what they did to their poor dog, a pit bull puppy acquired for pure ego. It'll just make me more angry. Dog's got a new home now, hopefully not suffering anymore.
I can't even let my dogs out to pee because the kids harass them and they end up barking and running around. No we have no yard, just a tiny green patch shared with the assholes next door, unfenced. So I have to wait for a lull before I can let them out for a quick pee.
I hate these fuckers. I wish they would go the fuck away, maybe they will run out of money, the rent ain't cheap. I know they didn't buy the house, they got it in a rent-to-own situation. The street was pretty peaceful until they came.
Nadleeh and Anastasia, I feel for you both!
Nadleeh, I'll be thinking of you today and hoping that you have a successful session.
Anastasia, keep complaining. If the owner of that home gets enough citations or letters from the HOA, those people won't be around for long.
Jen M.
OMG Anastasia. What a nightmare. Crappy neighbors are THE WORST.
My PAM is having to spend the next two weeks at my old job. I am NEVER EVER giving 4 weeks notice again. Fuck that.
My boss is just being amazing. He's not replacing me and he's acting like he's going to do my job, although he doesn't even have the first clue what it is that I do... he's just being a total @%#$*&.
When I first resigned he made a BIG SHOW out of how he was going to have to reduce his three week vacation in August. Seriously, who the hell takes three week vacations... anyway. So all that's off the table now - he's taking the vacation as planned and dumping all my work onto our part-time secretary. Good luck with that!!!!
I know I can't let myself care about all this, but it's hard sometimes!!
Oh, Cats. You'll be out of there before you know it! Just be sure to get away from your desk a lot. Deep breaths help, too.
My PAM: I'm nauseated, probably from the cleansing herbs I'm taking. Blech.
Jen M.
I had a cd of my ex boyfriend's at my house. I figured it was cheaper to just mail it to his house rather than pay for the tolls and gas it would cost to deliver it to him in person. And besides...I don't want to see the jerk again...but I digress.
I mailed it certified mail with return receipt. I tracked the package online and thus far, no one has come in to claim it. I even sent him a courtesy text message (which went unanswered) to let him know the cd was coming. Let's just say I covered all of my bases. But I wouldn't be surprised in the least if the cd comes back to me unclaimed.
But I can see my ex trying to contact me
after the cd is returned to tell me he wants it back. If that happens, I'll say "Yeah? Well come here and get it yourself and bring the $6.75 it cost to mail it to your loser ass the first time. Oooh, but that's right. You're on probation and not allowed to cross state lines. Sucks to be you."
Uggggggh. I have SO much cleaning to do, and I don't even know where to start!
I sent out my EZPass application almost two weeks ago. They deposited my check on Saturday...
Where the hell's my EZPass tag?????????
I can't believe that I still need to rant about that guy in my karate class. I don't talk to him that much, yet he say things that just don't make sense. Last time, when we where waiting for the second class to start, he told that there was a man who was staring at me. He was saying that that man was licking his lips while looking. I looked and it wasn't true. If he wants some attention from me then he's not doing it well. I don't know why but I find him digusting.
Then I talked about him to my mother and grand-mother. My grand-mother couldn't believe how stupid he was for telling something like that. At the same time she say that I might end up dating him, because I never know. I know that she said that just to tease me. I still get that even if I say that I don't want to date him.
I have a class today, I can't wait to hear the brillant things that he has to say to me.
Idiots on freecycle.
Some woman is trying to get rid of her cat. She says her landlord is telling her she has to. Well, she has a new baby, wouldn't you know, the cat ISN'T SPAYED and goes outside. WTF! I sent her an email asking her to please keep her cat inside until some responsible person can rescue it from her crappy care.
I fucking hate that. What an asshole!
Next thing you know, she'll be whining that "my cat is preeeegnant!!!! WahIshouldneverbeallowedtohaveanimalsagain!!!1111oneoneeleventy"
Or something like that.
Jen M.
While the flooding around here has not been as bad as the east side of the state...heavens, it hasn't been as bad as the poor folks on the east side of town ... I still had a yucky basement to get cleaned out.
Last night we finally got motivated to tear out all the carpeting/padding. And toss a batch of leftover drywall. Added bonus, we are going to have to redo the drywall on the south wall since it got wet and has mildew and mold starting.
THEN I looked under the stairwell where there is a small closet. I thought it was raised up off the floor. Nope boxes of my stuff just SOAKED. So I lost about a dozen small books and various knickknacks. Luckily some was just paperwrapped crystal pieces (I use to collect glass figurines.) and those just needed to be wrapped in fresh paper.
By the end of the evening I was covered in carpet dripped water, exhausted, and since we had a fan going, thought I was getting chills.
Again, all that said, REALLY thankful that it wasn't worse.
Gingerzing, I'm also glad it wasn't worse, but I'm sorry for the trouble you are having to go to.
My PAM: Dear lungs: I HATE you! WORK, damn it! No love, me.