Random thoughts.....

This past week has been BUSY!!!! I'm not sure where the week went, but it's gone. In between it all though, there has been some things--I can't describe them, just things, such as:
1. Lillie walking into the kitchen one morning with my recorder from 4th grade while it was sticking out from her pants....telling me "SHE has a penis too....just like Zac"--this before breakfast, people!
2. Zac telling me he was too shy to sing happy birthday to me. That, and he had sang it enough in the last week (at one friend's party) and was tired of it. Gee, thanks!
3. My birthday dinner consisted of taquitos, cheese sticks, toast and chicken nuggets. Wanna know why? I got a brand new halogen toaster oven, and I cooked everything frozen that I could find in my freezer (it was the day before my every other week grocery shopping extravaganza!)
4. Zac's baseball coach...if I haven't told you about him, that's cause I don't like him. He's an arrogant SOB and was never on time, if he even SHOWED, to the practices and games. He shows up at the picnic today and assumes we all want our kids on his team next year. Thank GOD we were at a state park where wine was not allowed....I would have been loosened up enough to tell him what everyone thought of him. Dummy!
5. Zac told his ENTIRE team and everyone within earshot today at the baseball picnic that his Grandpa has FAKE teeth! Must have been on the subject of loose teeth and converted it to "Zac's lesson in tooth care...don't take care of 'em, you loose 'em"!
6. Lillie refuses to wear clothes around the house...only panties! All the time....everyday!
7. Our hillbilly neighbors DROVE about 10 houses down the street to a party....why? To drop off the case of BUD they were bringing. They actually started a car, drove about 1/10 of a mile (if that) down the street to deliver their BEER!! Ummmm, WOW!
8. Wine goes REALLY fast when you have a "bottomless" glass.
9. This older guy at McDonalds, with his grandkids, burped SO LOUD and did NOT say excuse me....RUDENESS! I was afraid to breathe for like 5 minutes...I didn't want to smell his snack wrap aftermath! Geez!
10. The little girl across the street who is totally OBSESSED with other people's cars! Whenever anyone pulls up in their driveway and Trinity sees it, she's over there like a flash, inspecting the interior, asking questions about where the driver has been, asking to get in, getting in before getting a response, even messing with the handles that make the seats fold down. She threw one lady in the neighborhood falling into her backseat the other day...all from pulling the handle! She's 3 people...future CEO of a car manufacturer!

Well, I'm off to watch some movie with the kiddos!

World's Worst Scrapbooker

I have decided to call myself the world's worst scrapper EVER! I have just spent two houre going thru a HUGE bag of photos. They are in no order, half of them aren't even in the "Walgreens" envelope that I brought them home in, and none of them are in a photo album of any kind. I must have a thousand plus pics, and no place to put them. I have 3 scrapbooks started though! Zac's first year, which was completed hastily so that it could be viewed at his gigantic first birthday party, one that starts to outline his second year of life, which goes to Christmas of 2001 (he was born in August 2000, so I scrapped his 1st birthday party, his Halloween and his Christmas morning and that is all, my friends!) and then Lillie's first year, which isn't even finished! I put together a few pages for her not so gigantic first birthday party, but she's about to turn 4 and has not one picture to show for it. I have the materials, I have the time (if I put down the remote and walk away from the computer....as if!) and I have the pictures, obviously! So what's wrong with me?

Tomorrow I will embark on the scrapbooking journey once again. I am going to the "Stamper of all stampers" house and she is going to help me. She'll probably RUN when she see's what she has to work with...so we'll see how good of a friend she really is. Picture this....a woman that never has a hair out of place, with a 4 year old that's smarter than most 10 year olds I know, again, without a hair out of place, that speaks very well, dresses well and is as organized as a library book shelf! Her house is well decorated and always in order, her car looks better than a model in the showroom (mine has not looked like a showroom car since it left the there...mine is more like the inside of a vacuum bag!) and her scrapbooks are up to date...can you believe that? I am not lying...up to date! Have you ever heard of such a thing?

So, I will scrapbook what I must and chuck the rest back into a bag until I can find a system that works well with my chaos. I'm thinking photo boxes...easy, somewhat organized, and doesn't require much time--that is if I don't have to put my photos in chronological order!

Thankful!

I'm learning more and more everyday to count my blessings and be thankful for all that I have. I hear so many things, see so much sadness and have had some pretty horrible times myself, but I made it through and I'm happy and things are well and I'm content. My sister on the other hand, is having the opposite happen to her right now. Aside from getting divorced after a short 5 month marriage, she decided to get into a specialized field of investments and has since been fired from her last job. Do you know that specialized jobs are hard to come by at this day in age? Hers is! So she married an alcoholic asshole in 2003, to which I toasted them at the reception and made a comment or two (or more, I can't remember!) about how he better treat her right and realize what he gained that day. She ended up leaving him and losing most of her brand new stuff, including her new house in exchange for the dogs that they adopted while they were together. She loves those dogs with all her heart and afraid that they would be abused, she gave up lots to this guy. What she forgot to do was follow through on their joint, open credit card accounts that he was to pay off and close. Meanwhile, she moves on in her career after the divorce, finds a new path, decides to give it a go with a new company, and whammo, gets fired 8 months later. You are now at February in my sister's life. She has been interviewing, looking out for the perfect opportunity and nothing has come along yet. She has been hanging out at the pool this summer and helping a friend run his bar. What a life! Until a few weeks back...on her way to help her friend, she gets rear ended by a uninsured driver, who wants her to lie to the sheriff and say that it was his Mom driving the car. My sister didn't lie, but now's she's stuck with a messed up rear end and has no money to pay her deductible to get it fixed. What is WRONG with this picture? Why isn't the uninsured in JAIL? I bet he would come up with the money damn skippy quick if he was faced with jail time. Makes me want to cancel our insurance and pocket the money. I mean really, if nothing happens to these losers, why not ALL drive around uninsured and just stick to prayer as our insurance? Fast forward to yesterday....sister gets a collection call. From a company that ex-husband was to pay off and close. Guess what the butthead did? He went out and charged a few thousand more $$$ in his and my sister's name! And didn't pay the bill! So now, she's being called upon to fix it! The unemployed girl, divorced from a jerk, hit by an uninsured driver and now, hit again in the gut with her ex! How far exactly is rock bottom and when will my sister arrive? Soon, I hope...we need to see her LIVE again. The worst case scenario....she has to file bankruptcy and lose her career forever and move onto something else. Best case scenario, ex pays this bill and she find a job and can get her car fixed AND find a good man. I'll settle for somewhere in the middle.

All that said....THANK YOU GOD FOR ALL WE HAVE, ALL WE ARE, AND ALL WE DON'T HAVE!

Bank favorites!

I have discovered that although I don't like going to work 4 nights a week, even though I'm only part time, sometimes, the evenings have to make me giggle. Take Sunday evening, for example. This past Sunday I worked 5 hours, took 96 calls and here's a random sample of the things I had to deal with:

---Customer says, "That's all I need"--I reply, "Thank you for calling .....bank, we appreciate your business" and JUST as I'm ready to disconnect the call, I hear, "OH, one more thing..."--people, if you aren't really done with me, don't tease me!

---About 15 of those 96 calls were idiots that lost their debit card. A holiday weekend is upon us and people lose all ability to keep track of a small piece of plastic. If that's not bad enough, they all feel like giggling about it and giving me the same story....and when you've had 3 calls like this in a row, you just want to tell the next person that they are too stupid to have one and you cannot reorder one for them.

---Customer says, "Why can't I withdraw funds at the ATM?" I reply, "You don't have enough funds in your account" to which customer replies, "You usually let me overdraw my account up to $500, so why is now different?"---After looking at the account it seems that everytime payday comes around, this idiot overdraws ON PURPOSE around $500, and then pays loads of overdraft fees until the next payday comes along. The bank has since decided not to let this customer overdraw any longer and she's mad! Are you kidding? It's a CHECKING ACCOUNT, NOT A LOAN!!!!!! Get a grip!

--- My personal fave of the evening....a customer named Frogy. That's his first name...and no, I can't make that up!

Ahh, the joys of working for a bank. And while you all are enjoying fireworks tonite, I will be taking your calls...whether it be lease calls or online banking calls, or "I lost my check card" calls, I will be there, missing all the action. No need to feel sorry....I only have to work 2 hours! LOL! And for good measure, I called in sick last night and our family went to Coney Island for loads of rides, pizza, a hot air balloon glow and fabulous fireworks....and it made me feel much better (HAHA!)