Double billing again!

If I was truly dotty; lets’ clarify that… “DOTTY ADJECTIVE: dot•ti•er, dot•ti•est 1. a.Mentally unbalanced; crazy. b.Amusingly eccentric or unconventional. c.Ridiculous or absurd: a dotty scheme. 2.Having a feeble or unsteady gait; shaky. * 3.Obsessively infatuated or enamored.”* Thanks to Yahoo! Definition dictionary. Well, now I see that I do meet a portion of the criteria for the definitions shown, but it will be up to you to figure out which ones, okay? Gosh, must I tell you everything? Hints are the asterisks, I do believe. Number three is with Hubby of course…any-who, the reason I felt the need to explain was that once again I was almost taken advantage of, by accident so I am told and so the same story goes over and over again. You see, we have four magazines delivered to our home monthly, Southern Living, Coastal Living, This Old House and Better Homes and Gardens and for my year subscriptions I only pay forty dollars a year for all four. But randomly, I receive bills during that same year saying that I only have one more issue left and if I don’t act fast that I will miss my monthly dose of their amazing product. That’s a bunch of hogwash for whenever I call after I look up when they were last paid, since I pay online in my bank’s bill payer account which keeps the dates of my last payments… they apologize profusely and tell me, no Mrs. Blankety-Blank that you are good until November or May or what-have you! Does this happen to you or do you just take them up on their latest offer that is supposedly better than any other they have offered before? I sure hope not! Well, today it happened again but not with my favorite magazines…oh no this time with an organization that helps you enjoy life and give you access to free flu shots or did, and programs and exercise programs and free meals if a love one is hospitalized even if that love one is you! H2u, a national program associated with hospitals all over these United States anyway I checked and I paid my year membership in February on the 7th of 2012, and today I received a bill stating that they miss me and wish I would come back! And so I called them, their main office was nicely on the bill, a toll free number in Nashville, they all have them, ya know, toll free numbers that is? And so I verified that they did receive my yearly membership money, and that I knew since I had my new membership card which tells me it is good until January 31, 2013. And so I asked why they sent me a bill and the young woman said that a few went out by mistake. I said well of course it was a mistake since I told her that, but than I wondered out loud how about the ones who did not question this mistake and just paid double? Ya know, that always worries me, a mistake is an innocent accidental thingy I do believe, but how come all those magazines do it so regularly? To be fair I never had h2u do this before, but their target patrons are mostly seniors who may or may not be as astute as I was and just go on and pay it, without thinking about it… so she handed me over to her supervisor, a fellow named, Sloane. He assured me that it was not that many that it was sent to and that I shouldn’t be concerned basically….but I was, and I told him why and that I thought they should check and contact those people to disregard the double billing! He placated me and said they would take care of it, well I sure hope so! Gouging is against the law, I think? On that note of somewhat of a warning and a bit to think about… allow me to be the first to wish you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too! And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Finger prints for the FBI and to see...

Who I really am? Do any of us know that? A man of thirty-four thought that he knew that he was adopted but found out that he was first kidnapped and then he was adopted when just a baby… by that age graduation program or some such new fangled app. That showed him as an older child and he recognized himself. But alas my fingerprints via a now a way too long saga were taken by the new techno system that I was informed was not really that new that 15K conundrum machine… and it kept saying that my prints weren’t good enough! This time the other woman Kathleen did it and conferred with the other gal Betty who knew too how to operate the machine but it must be me, I kept saying. They insisted that it had happened before and that it wasn’t me. Now I ask you if it wasn’t me and it wasn’t the machine than why they were making it not work; I ask you hmm. To me it seems counterproductive, but I am just a layman not a professional finger-printer woman… In a day or two I will find out if they will have to take me into custody or let me roam free. Gosh, I hear in the BIG HOUSE, you get free food, cable TV and medical care and Geez… I did it, whatever they find out I will confess to! Too good to pass up…KIDDING folks! I am as innocent as the day is long next month on the summer solstice, but I can dream can’t I? Again, a joke. This is America and we take very good care of our incarcerated peeps, since I do believe it is the law. It’s the elderly and infirm that we are still trying to figure out what to do with… sad, but true. Treatment unless in an excellent nursing home is iffy to say the least, and they’re laws to protect that too, as in our child protective services systems that unfortunately have too many fall through the cracks and end up dead or missing…laws can also cause delays… but most are needed; definitely no joke. Rambling tonight due to again experimenting with my shoulder that also flunked the maneuverability test and is slowly but surely reaching the painful point of no return. Oh why don’t I get some medication or do something to help myself, well dear sweet readership, I did. And you know what none of the usually prescribed or over the counter meds I can take because they do not co-exist with the others that I already take to keep me alive! And so I must stop this, which seems to aggravate it more so, and use some moist compresses that seem to help temporarily. It is a common symptom of the Multiple Sclerosis and is one of the many that is NO FUN! And so to be another shorty delightful night, allow me to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly to count your blessings and share all your overages and we will too! And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

How do you get rid of...

My immediate concern is all the SPAM that comes in like clockwork daily? It has been happening for years, with offers that make me blush and things that I really don’t need. I just wonder why all these sites chose me, ya know. I have never once mentioned that I had a male sexual organ that needed to grow larger or that I wanted any sexy women of all different ethnicity or do I care to have my Hubby to have them, and far as the other item mentioned, none of your business, so there! Free this and that’s are mine for the asking and clicking on and gosh I won things I never ever entered a contest to win! And no I did not play the lottery in a faraway land or near one either! Thankfully, all my dollars are earmarked for non gambling concepts that are tangible to Hubby and me to eat or look at or wear, or hold onto, got that? Dejevu again, it’s as if I visit this annoyance fairly often, or at least a few times a year; I suspect. The only way I seem to take care of this problem is to not open them and just delete them, what do the rest of you do? My life is rather simple compared to many… although, my health issues that I am sure that no one would ever care to emulate. And that’s another thing that I hate is the ones that come in with the way to cure my ills, i.e. is in some cases as just mind over matter or secret healthful methods, usually supplements or gosh praying to the proper deity! I am tired of these people thinking they know what I should do. I do what has been proven methods to work, and that does not mean I stop trying for new ways to help myself it just means I do not believe in Charlatans who proclaim miracles! Perhaps, this blog has brought on some of the SPAM and Facebook too, could be a bit responsible. Playing dominoes online I am more than sure has been a cause and a clutterer some of this misfeasance! I will possibly be removing my email address from most things, except the ones I want for people who I care about to access. Sounds complicated, maybe not. But what would you do? To top this all off, my shoulder is definitely not cooperating again it is acting up, pain is causing me to once again bid you all a very early good night and to ask you all to count those blessings and share those overages and we will too! And next time please be here or be square, ya hear? Gosh, and I thought I was all better, one never knows, does one, hmm?

Inside a private conversation...

You are happy? That's good, glad to hear it. I guess you were feeling better this morning and your days is going great. Enjoy :) For you; not me. I am fine until on this thing and then I am in pain again. So short replies I thought would be better.:-) I guess not. PS You were not the only one I was elaborating with my conversations to yesterday, they're three others! One is a woman a couple of years older than us with MS, originally from NY, actually, Long Island, and she now lives in Fort Lauderdale, a FB friend for the last couple of years; she was very depressed since she feels some days very badly as we all do with this albatross around our necks. The other was another young gal of 37 that lives in Texas who survived Leukemia and has had MS right along, she is very uplifting and positive and I wanted her to talk to the other one so I suggested they talk to each other and become FB friends and so they did. And the last one I found out was an FB friend of mine from Australia who thought she was talking to a different person with my name, but we started chatting anyway she was helping the other the person with my name in some way, which I was not quite clear on. But she enjoyed reading my About, me and talking too. Now I have once again ouched myself into I don't know what...sorry about this, and 'complaining'... and all this other junk... We did go out most of the day and I got two dresses for work one from Marshall's and the other a two piece from Sam's club! The gas there is down to 3.74.9, the best price around; we ate at TGIF and stopped at Walmart and Target too. We needed chlorine and Sam's again had the best deal, and so we got it there, and strawberries were now two pounds for $3.98 and so we bought some more! Ta da! OUCHY!

Tonight, I will give you a break...since...

All my writing ability has been used up on messaging people I care about most of today and my right shoulder has suffered in that process of… not resting it… and my right hand is presently swollen. I did try a short stint as a lefty, but it didn’t work very well… So hopefully, tomorrow I will be better, since this shoulder thingy is keeping me from sleeping too! As so many things do… Good night to all and you all know the rest; if not read all my previous blog endings since I am a creature of habit.

When we ask questions of people do we always hear/listen to their answers?

In conversations that I keep trying to figure out, have you found when being the asker or the asked do you listen to the answer to the question set into motion by yours or the other party’s request? Now, this is a touchy subject because most will say if they are discussing something of importance of course they do and will…but in small talk I do not believe that many people really listen to one another, could I be onto something here or just blowing smoke into the wind? Actually, I will answer my own question as if you asked it of me, and I will say NO! Some may believe that is rather harsh… but the truth can be that way, and to that I say GROW UP! We went to the Home and Garden Show at our local Charlotte Harbor Events and Conference Center in River City AKA Punta Gorda, today and the same displays were there from local or semi-local venders from all over the tri-county or more area. In my mind I wanted to see something new and inventive, but alas it was nothing like the ones the networks show in major cities, but to be fair I should know better since we go every year. No, it was not disappointing at all, they all were very happy to try to get your attention except for a few that annoyed me… they ignored me as if I were not there at all. Not nice, and I rode, faster on my blue beauty as I passed just insolence, since they hurt my feelings being that I was not accosted by these hawkers of their modern day wares to sell to anyone who may buy them, but me? I was dressed appropriately in my denim dress and white blouse atop it with my Beall’s stone jewelry on each ear and necklace too. Many don’t know that it is an outlet product, but I am a great shopper. A jeweler once told me that she could not make it for what I paid for it, and that she liked it every much and so I have good taste too with built in shop-ability! Any-who, listening, to people is where I was heading, but our day was actually only about and hour and half at the show and then lunch at Dean’s South of the Border restaurant we had tasty morsels of Mexican food which is becoming harder to find on their menu, it appears they have just as much American cuisine…! The day did prove to be very warm and we had to park in Osh Kosh, my reference to faraway, although our sons did wear that brand as toddlers… the reason I mentioned this is Because I left my cooling vest in the car but rode fast to the entrance while Hubby understood and thought I should wear the vest, but it was borderline hot, and so I declined. Lately, I have been getting what almost looks like frost bite on my exposed skin from when the cold touches it and so I will have to figure that one out… Oh yes, LISTENING! I am still working on that and we did bump into our new neighbors’ from across the canal to the right of the Canadian ones that left to go home and this year I was sort of happy about that… These new neighbors are year round ones and originally from Las Vegas. Hubby has been talking to the woman’s Hubby and I did not remember them from the get together a while back…oh well, but they were friendly. I must be the one and only person who doesn’t listen so well? But I am seriously working on that as we all should… Sadly, my shoulders are not any better and it has been quite difficult writing again this evening, if I didn’t love this writing out loud thingy so much I sure wouldn’t torture my body as I am doing and so on this self misery of stupidity…allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too! And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Ole chum and Miss Clara have arrived home with Larry (the dog) safe and sound...

The surgery was done yesterday with two stents installed in dear sweet ninety-one year old Miss Clara. Next week additional surgery will be done too. Dear ole buddy was just happy to be home with her Mom and her dear canine pal, Larry. Dear ole chum was also thrilled to see the shuttle Enterprise going overhead in NYC while they were there to see it arriving at its new home on the Hudson. How jaded us Floridians became shortly after the beginning of the program with taking all those flights for granted and then on January 28th 1986, the day after my Father's 79th birthday, our wake-up call, when the Challenger exploded shortly after take-off, things changed…We never ever took those majestic birds flights for granted ever again. We lived on the east coast of Florida from August of 1986 until January of 1995 and we were only one house from A1A the Ocean Shore Blvd. We were literarily less than six hundred feet from the Atlantic Ocean there. And when any shuttle took off all we had to do was walk up to the corner of our street Ocean Terrace and Ocean Shore Blvd and we got a great birds-eye view at all those take-offs of the shuttle missions… Here in south west Florida our view was considerably not as clear, due to our angle, but the supersonic noise could give you a big surprise if you didn’t realize what it was, not to mention the big lightening type glow that we could see when the ship would take off… Then Columbia on February 1, 2003 on re-entry, disintegrated, and more devastation… and then we Americans became concerned about the program. I sure hope that isn’t the reason it stopped, I truly believe it was a sign of the downturn in the economy, like so much else. But private enterprise has taken over and some will have the time and money to do whatever they want with the way they want the program for men and women to travel into space once more… and where to, an era has ended, but many of these majestic ships have roosted in fine locations all of these United States. Copy and paste to see for yourself their future or already landed retirement locations: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/13/uk-space-shuttles-idUSLNE73C02H20110413 Tangents, I seem to go off on them regularly, but that is the way stream of consciousness works the best, my writing style and sadly my thinking and talking way too! Moving on… Tonight, and today we were back into our normal weather temperatures of high eighties, dare I say though, for a good part of this week the weather was downright cool if not cold on some mornings, a few in the fifties and I think one even in the forties, Geez if it wasn’t for us warming into the seventies we would have thought, Gosh I have no idea, oh yeah that we were up north again! I hate to tell you this but, in my heart I do know that you will understand if I quit early tonight due to my right shoulder causing me quite a bit of pain right now and so, let me just say for you to have a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all or your blessings and share all your overages and we will too! And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?