CA Girl

I hate Verizon!  Can I just say that?  Can I also say that they suck???  Do you know that there is a FB page just for Verizon hating?  I need to go there and like it.  So what is my gripe? Well as you noticed, I missed my recap this for DWTS.  I recorded it so I could watch it on Tuesday and get it all put together Tuesday night.  I went to watch it.  The DVR said:  May 14th.  Why then, was it last week's show???  Seriously.  Last week with the current week's date.  It makes my head hurt (more) to think about that.  So don't blame me.  Blame Verizon! I do know that Maria and Derek went home.  What the French Toast!? Everyone danced two dances on Monday.  I saw one of theirs.  This was their Tango.  He came down the stairs with her legs wrapped around him.  They got two sets of perfect scores and they got sent home.  They should have been in the finals.  Not fair....

I need to get something off my chest.  I am having a real hard time loving my neighbor.  And it's getting harder and harder.  I have tried very hard to take the high road.  To be the better person.  I know I need to lead by example and lately my example has been poor. A couple of days ago, Kristin came tearing downstairs to tell me that the neighbors kids plus a couple other kids from down the street were wrecking our Christmas lights(yep we've gone redneck!).  She said they were pulling the bulbs out and smashing them.  These are little kids mind you.  No older than 10.  I jumped up to see/catch them but it was too late.  And the damage had been done. As you can see, the lights are gone.  There are many other places along the fence where they were pulled as well.  I just chose not bore you all with the pictures. This is only part of all the damage done to my fence.  On the other side is a green belt.  They g...

I didn't post yesterday.  It wasn't because I ran out of steam, or had nothing good to say.  In fact, yesterday I could have played along with Emmy and KMama in their meme for Proud Mommy Moments!  But I was in the middle of a medical mess.  I still kind of am.  So today, instead of the usual Friday Confessional with Mamarazzi , I am going to drop an F-Bomb.  This was something Mimi over at Living in France used to do.  Whether she does it or not still does not matter.  She is hilarious and you should visit her(along with all the other fabulous ladies I have mentioned!)  And now onto my rant explanation. Wednesday, we went to a local lake.  A lake we can not swim in.  It's drinking water so they don't want bodies polluting the water.  But boats are okay.  Yum.  Anyfumes...they have a water park.  I don't mean slides and pools and things.  I mean all kinds of sprinklers and fun fountains and waterfalls...

Do you believe in signs?  I do.    I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted I to post about today.  Was I going to confess today as usual, or was I going to blow off some steam?  Well when I visited Mimi over at Living in France I knew had to gripe and then I would feel a lot better. Last month I got an iPhone.  Wow do I love this toy.  Let's face it, it's more than just a phone.  It's a toy.  If it wasn't a toy, the kids wouldn't ask to "play" with it.  Something was going wrong with my old phone.  It wasn't keeping time.  The outer screen would lock but not unlock.  It would keep a charge for days, it would only keep a charge for one day.  I didn't have to get the iPhone.  But I wanted it.  I was told it would be put on the phones bill and that I could make payments.  "As long as you are making payments it is fine."  All right sounds good. After a month of enjoying my new toy, my husband has...

After 3 miserable weeks without air conditioning, I received my electric bill.  I foolishly thought that my bill would reflect that.  Well according the graph it did.  It went down.  How then, did my bill double?  What the heck?  So I did what any disgruntled customer would do.  I called them.  First how many freaking buttons do I have to push before I get an actual human being?  And what is the probability that the human I get will be of at least average intelligence.  Let's address the first question, shall we.  I think I had to have pushed 7 or 8 times not including my garden variety of voice answers.  "yes" "no"  "billing dispute"  "CAN I HAVE SOMETHING WITH A PULSE!"  See that is the mistake.  I wasn't specific enough. I got the dumb arse with the pulse.  The dumb arse who pointed out to me how hot it had been last month.  Well no sh*t Sherlock!  I would never have guessed that without ...

Have you ever just needed to sound off?  I mean really let it fly!  #$@%!  Then you need to check out Mimi from Living in France.  She does this wonderful Meme that allows you to tell whomever or whatever to ....well you get the point.  Last Friday, my dear friend Emmy hosted F-Bomb Friday for Mimi so I asked if it was too late to link up cause I had an F-Bomb I needed to drop!  She said it was still up!  Yippee! On Monday First to BLOGGER for NOT saving my original post for this!  What the @#$!  It was a great post!  And here it is 11:15 at night and I have to rewrite it!  Thanks a heap! Next... To My Bank *cough* USAA*cough* Last month when I asked if I could make a half payment for that month, you said that was fine.  Thank you.  That helped a lot.  But then one week after that half payment was made, and the day AFTER my husband's surgery you called to ask us when we would be paying the other half! ...