Thursday, February 24, 2011
Friday Blog Hop
I promise I'll post a real update tomorrow, it's been a LOOOONNNNNGGGGGG week. For now, I'll post my blog hop linky!
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Ahhhhh
I would seriously like to go to the main office of Citi Bank and just smack someone. So I'm emailing back and forth with a representative b/c I don't want to get mad over the phone and yell at them. Well my balance on my card is a little less than $400. I previously had a higher balance, but my balance transfer to another card went through the day before my statement date. So this means that my interest rate is supposed to be charged based on the "Current Balance" on the date of the statement date....right? Apparently Citi Bank is pros at screwing people over, because they are trying to tell me that my late fee (I paid my bill on the date it was due, but apparently they have a cutoff time now...and it's based on the east coast.), plus the cost of the interest (which was based on my balance prior to all the payment) equals like $225. Really? I know you're already ripping me off with an outrageous interest rate, but I suck it up because they have been pretty good to me in the past...but Really???? Ugh, I swear if this doesn't get worked out I am canceling my credit card and only keeping my discover card. At least the people there are nice and friendly and willing to help you out, especially if they do something wrong. The downside is that I've had this credit card account with Citi Bank for 8 years now, in addition to a private student loan. I paid my balance of my student loan in full at the beginning of February...and now all of a sudden I start having issues with them?
Someone please smack me so I don't hurt them!
Someone please smack me so I don't hurt them!
Another Friday Blog Hop....just cause
So I'm SUPER excited to see that I have 10 followers now! Yay! Now I just need to update with an actual post...I should probably update my weight loss blog too! Which by the way, I told my husband today that I needed to use my *new to me* ice cream machine and make homemade ice cream this weekend. He follows with "I thought you were on a diet". So I respond with "It was postponed until Sunday. I had to defer a week because I didn't have my medications, which meant I wasn't sleeping, which mean I needed my beloved Pepsi to keep me awake during the day". So my goal is to cut out soda as of Sunday. I've done it before, for an entire month I drank only water with a fountain sprite (extra ice) once a week. That combined with a low calorie diet equaled a loss of 12 lbs in one month. I ended up losing 20 lbs total, but I have since gained 10 of those back by drinking my beloved Pepsi. I really shouldn't be drinking it though, it only adds fuel to my stomach problems. Maybe this time I can kick the habit for good!
Anywho...without further adieu, here is the linky to my other blog hop!
Anywho...without further adieu, here is the linky to my other blog hop!
Sunday, February 13, 2011
My lovely weekend
So let's face it, I should be doing homework right now...but I have been dealing with a headache since I woke up this morning and nothing other than laundry has gotten done. I just don't have the ability to focus enough to do my readings or discussion boards, or the two page paper I have to do for missing class last week. I feel really overwhelmed because I know I'm behind, but I just want to lay on the couch and do nothing for the rest of the night.
So Friday was my busy day. I had a doctor's appointment in the morning. Still nothing to help my back or the urology stuff, but the doctor is trying to increase one of my medications to see if it will help with my stomach problems. I assume he is trying to solve one problem at a time, instead of giving me a bunch of medications and then trying to figure out which one wasn't helping. It makes sense, but it still sucks to feel crappy all the time. Just for some background info: my urology problems is recent within the last 6 months. I feel like I always have to pee, even after I literally just went 3 seconds before. It's annoying and causes me to be in the bathroom every 30 minutes to an hour. The back problems have been ongoing since I was a sophomore or junior in college. I had some generalized back pain in high school, but it was nothing serious. Well since my sophomore or junior year in college, I went to a physical therapist for my back, I've been on two different types of muscle relaxers, I've been on narcotic pain pills, I've had an MRI done on my back, I've gone to a pain management doctor and had steroid injections directly into the nerve of my spine (which by the way hurt like a B***H!). Nothing has seemed to help. The recent problem with my back is getting a charlie horse in the muscle directly above my butt crack (ha ha I couldn't think of a better way to describe the location). I get frequent cramps in my back and have back spasms a good 3/4 of the day. The injections helped for about 2 weeks (well the first 3-4 days I was in excruciating pain from the injection site)...but that's about it. While my back pain is horrible, it's livable in comparison with my stomach issues. I've gotten used to always being in pain, so I can deal a while longer. My stomach issues are horrible. I apparently had a really bad gallbladder in 2006/2007 time frame and was not notified by the doctor I was going to at the time...but apparently my ultrasound showed I needed surgery like ASAP. Well a year later I went back to the doctor and saw someone else...all with horrible stomach problems that never went away. She looked at me and asked why I didn't have the surgery like I was supposed to. When she heard me say I never got told about it, we got me into surgery pretty quickly after that. My gallbladder was so enlarged that it had "free floating" organs attached to it. My surgeon said he had never seen one so bad in his career. This guy was pretty old too. He performed surgery on many of my aunts/uncles/mom/grandparents/etc. So it came out and I recovered from the surgery...to learn that my stomach problems are 300% worse than before the gallbladder was removed. So now I keep Imodium with me at all times because everything upsets my stomach (even water) and rushes right through me. It's amazing that I'm a big as I am, considering I don't get to retain the nutrients from my food. So I've had my gallbladder removed, I've had upper and lower GI scopes done, seen a GI specialist...and nobody can figure out what's wrong with me. Ugh!
Okay so back to my story. So went to the doctor and came home to get ready to head out for my busy afternoon and evening. We left town around 2:30pm, even though we were supposed to leave at 2. We went to drop stuff off at my sisters house 2.5 hours away, and got to play with my evil little niece. I swear that child is pure evil. She looks cute as a button, but rest assured she is pure evil!
I'm not sure when this picture was taken, but I think it's a year or two old. She just turned 5 and has an attitude of a 16 year old. She's constantly grounded from her playroom because she doesn't like to listen. Kyle and I played monkey in the middle with her and she tried to bite me, she pinched me, she kicked me, she hit me. I probably shouldn't say this, but I pinched and hit her back. I didn't hurt her by any means, just a little swat to get her attention. She stopped...but then again she knows I don't play those games with her. She is the QUEEN of rolling her eyes...and does it on a regular basis just to annoy the adults around her!
This picture she is about the age of 2 I think. I made the mistake of letting her honk my horn one time and she tried to take off in my jeep on a regular basis. She figured out that if she hit the gas pedal when I wasn't sitting in the car, it made lovely noises making her think she could drive off. Thankfully she never knew how to put the car in gear!
So we spent about an hour with them and then headed out to my friend's birthday dinner. I got to catch up with some of my sorority sisters, and then I got dirty looks from other sorority sisters. Not that I care though. I gave up trying to impress them a LONG time ago. As much as I regret leaving KU the spring of my Junior year, it was the best decision I could have made. I would have been hospitalized for hurting someone if I would have stuck around. There was a lot of unnecessary drama and hurtful things said by myself and several other people...and I was borderline insane by the time I left there. So I see my friend Becca, who's birthday dinner we were at, about 1-2 times a year now. It's funny b/c she and I were ready to kill each other when I left KU...and she was the bulk of my problem. We can laugh about it now because we are both happily married, and over the drama. I talk to some of the other girls every now and then, but for the most part I don't talk with many sorority sisters. I think I'm outcasted because I didn't finish out and graduate with all of them. Plus many of them come from money and I don't. I'll be honest, we were poor growing up and I'm okay with that. I have a great sense of where my money goes each month and what it takes to make a dollar. So I don't need money and possessions to tell me that I'm worthy. Anywho off that rant! So Kyle finally got to meet Becca and several of the other girls that I still talk to. He did really well with his anxiety and didn't freak out. I could tell by the end of the night that he was spent and ready to go home. We got home around midnight and he went straight to bed. I felt bad because our dogs had been in the kennel since 2 pm, so I stayed up till 2 am just to give them 2 hours to roam around.
So yesterday (Saturday), I felt like crap. My stomach was acting up really bad and nothing would help. So I sat here in my office (right next to the bathroom) and read a blogger friend's blog. I literally read it all day long b/c I'm trying to get caught up from the beginning. I only have a year and a half left to go! ha ha. So last night...I was trying to go to bed around midnight and I kept hearing noises outside. Apparently our city decided to do some construction work in our neighborhood from about midnight till noon today...nonstop. All I heard was a jackhammer 2 doors down all night long. It was RIDICULOUS. I got maybe 2 hours total sleep all night long. I woke up not being able to sleep still and had a migraine headache. I've had the headache all day now and it sucks. I had to miss my friend's baby shower because I just couldn't handle leaving the house and being in the sunlight, around loud people, and doing anything other than lay on the couch. So that's what I've done all day (minus laundry). I have officially gotten nothing done for school or practicum. Ugh tomorrow night is going to SUCK.
So Friday was my busy day. I had a doctor's appointment in the morning. Still nothing to help my back or the urology stuff, but the doctor is trying to increase one of my medications to see if it will help with my stomach problems. I assume he is trying to solve one problem at a time, instead of giving me a bunch of medications and then trying to figure out which one wasn't helping. It makes sense, but it still sucks to feel crappy all the time. Just for some background info: my urology problems is recent within the last 6 months. I feel like I always have to pee, even after I literally just went 3 seconds before. It's annoying and causes me to be in the bathroom every 30 minutes to an hour. The back problems have been ongoing since I was a sophomore or junior in college. I had some generalized back pain in high school, but it was nothing serious. Well since my sophomore or junior year in college, I went to a physical therapist for my back, I've been on two different types of muscle relaxers, I've been on narcotic pain pills, I've had an MRI done on my back, I've gone to a pain management doctor and had steroid injections directly into the nerve of my spine (which by the way hurt like a B***H!). Nothing has seemed to help. The recent problem with my back is getting a charlie horse in the muscle directly above my butt crack (ha ha I couldn't think of a better way to describe the location). I get frequent cramps in my back and have back spasms a good 3/4 of the day. The injections helped for about 2 weeks (well the first 3-4 days I was in excruciating pain from the injection site)...but that's about it. While my back pain is horrible, it's livable in comparison with my stomach issues. I've gotten used to always being in pain, so I can deal a while longer. My stomach issues are horrible. I apparently had a really bad gallbladder in 2006/2007 time frame and was not notified by the doctor I was going to at the time...but apparently my ultrasound showed I needed surgery like ASAP. Well a year later I went back to the doctor and saw someone else...all with horrible stomach problems that never went away. She looked at me and asked why I didn't have the surgery like I was supposed to. When she heard me say I never got told about it, we got me into surgery pretty quickly after that. My gallbladder was so enlarged that it had "free floating" organs attached to it. My surgeon said he had never seen one so bad in his career. This guy was pretty old too. He performed surgery on many of my aunts/uncles/mom/grandparents/etc. So it came out and I recovered from the surgery...to learn that my stomach problems are 300% worse than before the gallbladder was removed. So now I keep Imodium with me at all times because everything upsets my stomach (even water) and rushes right through me. It's amazing that I'm a big as I am, considering I don't get to retain the nutrients from my food. So I've had my gallbladder removed, I've had upper and lower GI scopes done, seen a GI specialist...and nobody can figure out what's wrong with me. Ugh!
Okay so back to my story. So went to the doctor and came home to get ready to head out for my busy afternoon and evening. We left town around 2:30pm, even though we were supposed to leave at 2. We went to drop stuff off at my sisters house 2.5 hours away, and got to play with my evil little niece. I swear that child is pure evil. She looks cute as a button, but rest assured she is pure evil!
I'm not sure when this picture was taken, but I think it's a year or two old. She just turned 5 and has an attitude of a 16 year old. She's constantly grounded from her playroom because she doesn't like to listen. Kyle and I played monkey in the middle with her and she tried to bite me, she pinched me, she kicked me, she hit me. I probably shouldn't say this, but I pinched and hit her back. I didn't hurt her by any means, just a little swat to get her attention. She stopped...but then again she knows I don't play those games with her. She is the QUEEN of rolling her eyes...and does it on a regular basis just to annoy the adults around her!This picture she is about the age of 2 I think. I made the mistake of letting her honk my horn one time and she tried to take off in my jeep on a regular basis. She figured out that if she hit the gas pedal when I wasn't sitting in the car, it made lovely noises making her think she could drive off. Thankfully she never knew how to put the car in gear!
So we spent about an hour with them and then headed out to my friend's birthday dinner. I got to catch up with some of my sorority sisters, and then I got dirty looks from other sorority sisters. Not that I care though. I gave up trying to impress them a LONG time ago. As much as I regret leaving KU the spring of my Junior year, it was the best decision I could have made. I would have been hospitalized for hurting someone if I would have stuck around. There was a lot of unnecessary drama and hurtful things said by myself and several other people...and I was borderline insane by the time I left there. So I see my friend Becca, who's birthday dinner we were at, about 1-2 times a year now. It's funny b/c she and I were ready to kill each other when I left KU...and she was the bulk of my problem. We can laugh about it now because we are both happily married, and over the drama. I talk to some of the other girls every now and then, but for the most part I don't talk with many sorority sisters. I think I'm outcasted because I didn't finish out and graduate with all of them. Plus many of them come from money and I don't. I'll be honest, we were poor growing up and I'm okay with that. I have a great sense of where my money goes each month and what it takes to make a dollar. So I don't need money and possessions to tell me that I'm worthy. Anywho off that rant! So Kyle finally got to meet Becca and several of the other girls that I still talk to. He did really well with his anxiety and didn't freak out. I could tell by the end of the night that he was spent and ready to go home. We got home around midnight and he went straight to bed. I felt bad because our dogs had been in the kennel since 2 pm, so I stayed up till 2 am just to give them 2 hours to roam around.
So yesterday (Saturday), I felt like crap. My stomach was acting up really bad and nothing would help. So I sat here in my office (right next to the bathroom) and read a blogger friend's blog. I literally read it all day long b/c I'm trying to get caught up from the beginning. I only have a year and a half left to go! ha ha. So last night...I was trying to go to bed around midnight and I kept hearing noises outside. Apparently our city decided to do some construction work in our neighborhood from about midnight till noon today...nonstop. All I heard was a jackhammer 2 doors down all night long. It was RIDICULOUS. I got maybe 2 hours total sleep all night long. I woke up not being able to sleep still and had a migraine headache. I've had the headache all day now and it sucks. I had to miss my friend's baby shower because I just couldn't handle leaving the house and being in the sunlight, around loud people, and doing anything other than lay on the couch. So that's what I've done all day (minus laundry). I have officially gotten nothing done for school or practicum. Ugh tomorrow night is going to SUCK.
Email to news stations
So a couple posts back I mentioned how our family is trying to get some publicity for my cousin's murder last March. Well I finally got around to writing out an email last night around 2 am (I'll explain in another post why I was up so late). I copied the email that I sent to to about 3 or 4 news stations below. Do you guys think this will do the job, or should I do something additional?
To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing this email in hopes that you will help bring some attention to the unsolved murder of Crystal Fisher. March 2, 2010 was the last day anyone spoke to or saw Crystal alive. Shortly before midnight on March 2nd, Crystal was shot multiple times as she sat in her car outside an apartment complex in Junction City. Multiple media venues, including yours, picked up the story with the headline all saying something similar to “Woman Found Dead in Running Car”. Sadly this information was provided to the media prior to Crystal’s parents or children were notified. Our family has requested information from the local police department on a regular basis and continues to get conflicting information.
The one year anniversary of Crystal’s murder is only 2.5 weeks away, and we still have no answers. Her three young boys have all been separated and now live in three different states. Two of the boys will never have the honor to know their mother and how much she truly loved them. The oldest will forever have the memory of his mom’s last words to him “I’ll see you in a couple days” as he left that evening to stay with an aunt and uncle for two nights.
Our family is begging someone to help us find answers to her murder. We ask that you please help us by bringing her case up in the news again. Our hope is having media attention to her case will encourage a witness to come forward or to help get some answers from the police department. Any family member would be more than willing to speak to someone to help solve this case.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Rachelle G. on behalf of the family of Crystal Fisher.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Friday Blog Hop
So I know it's Thursday, but if you read my last post you'll see that tomorrow will be uber busy. So Friday Blog Hop is being posted now! Feel free to join in the fun and meet some new bloggers!
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