It's Friday night, and I am sitting here with my trusty friend, Ms. Laptop.
:0) Hubby is visiting his parents, daughter is running around outside
chasing the chickens, and I for one am enjoying the silence! Rachel was out
of school all week (Fall Break) and will be out Monday as well for her
ortho appointment, so a few minutes of quiet seem like heaven right now.



Okay, quiet time is over, I just can't handle too much of nothing going on
around me. LOL! I don't know how I'm going to handle it when and if Rachel
moves out and we have Empty Nest Syndrome!


I hope everybody is having a great Friday :0)

My daughter is MMR. She is on SSI, and while I really don't care about the
money she gets, the insurance is a total godsend. She has so many doctor's
appointments and has to have medicine for her epilepsy, blah blah
blah...it's just been a world of help to us, since we can't afford medical
insurance. Well, since my husband works for hourly pay, and gets paid every
2 weeks, November he will get paid 3 times instead of 2. Social Security
decided that we aren't eligible for SSI for November, but MAY be again for
December. I understand that completely, but what kills me is that we are
going to have to pay OOP (out of pocket) for her Carbatrol, as well as
doctor's appointments. We don't qaulify for emergency medical assistance
for her, not even for the pharmacutical companies for her medicine...SO
many hoops to jump through, and even if you do everything they say, you
still have a waiting list for up to 6 months. UGH!!

Just pray for us that we will get through this in November, and her
benefits start back up in December. The meds are $200 for the month, and
one doctor's appointment is $400. That's quite a chunk of the paycheck, so
I guess the gov't thinks since my DH gets an extra check in November,
that's what we can use it on. I want to live in Canada!!

*scary ghostly noise* Whoooooooooooooooo-ooooooooooooo-ooooooooo!! ;0)

Well, that's what it seems like sometimes. Are my posts THAT bad? Am I
being ignored by all the other regular PFB posters? Hell, even LEE H. won't
respond to my well thought out and researched post about the GE built in
microwave! LOL

But seriously, I guess I'm having my own pity party here in my little
corner of the world. Nothing to see here, keep moving. I will snap out of
it in a few :0)

*tumbleweeds roll by*

You know something? I have come to discover that I am just not a blogger.
Not only am I NOT a blogger, I am a lurker of the highest quality on
message boards and here on PFB. I will read to my heart's content, and
either agree with posters, or disagree wholeheartedly with what they are
talking about, but for some reason, it's just not in my nature to really
JUMP in and give my .02! Is it because I'm solitary by nature, preferring
to be alone most of the time? Or is it because I don't want my opinions
pooh-poohed as not worthy? Not sure. Either way, I will continue to lurk
here and on all my other boards, reading what everybody else has to say and
occasionally sticking my head out for air and posting myself ;0)

I know there are other people here like me, I just haven't found them...
and I probably won't, haha, because they don't like blogging either!!

that Adam W won't come here and read this!! ;0)

I am LONG time lurker on PFB. I post occasionally, but lately, I have been
sitting back reading all the letters and comments made... while keeping my
mouth shut and my fingers OFF the keyboard! But you know what? New year,
new me. Here goes!

Adam W., I realize that you think you did nothing wrong in your DVD return
to Target. Personally, you deliberately omitting the fact that you did not
BUY it from Target when you returned it is akin to stealing it and
returning it for credit or (like you did) another version of the movie or a
different title. I don't think you should have been able to do it, and
should have just sucked it up and accepted the gift as it was given. But
since you didn't, and wanted to exchange it for the widescreen version (I
understand that, I prefer widescreen myself, because I have a 52 inch TV),
and Blockbuster wouldn't take it back with no receipt or proof, YOU decided
to scam another company by taking advantage of a LOOPHOOLE in their return
policy...and then coming to PFB and complaining about Blockbuster for
following THEIR return policy! Sheesh!! And you wonder why the commenters
here jumped all over you for doing what you did.

Now, Adam, instead of being adult and just letting things GO, you egg
people on, by arguing it into the ground... and when THAT doesn't get the
desired effect, you complain to PFB about the commenters being mean and
name calling, while you do the EXACT SAME THING!! Hello, hypocrite!!

Last thing, Adam. LET IT GO. Your Netflix post was spot on, and it was well
written and didn't resort to name calling or deceit. Let the Blockbuster
thread die, as well as the one to PFB. People will focus on somethign else
soon enough without you adding fuel to the fire, so to speak. But please
stick around and become a regular commenter, I see some real potential in
you :0)

WHY do so many letters and such these days have such BAD spelling and/or
grammar? It's like people are too lazy to bother spelling a word correctly.
In my opinion (which I can give freely, because this is MY blog), bad
spelling, especially in a professional letter, makes you look stupid, and
your complaint, no matter how valid, will look less valid because of the
spelling! I weep for children that are in school these days, especially
those that have parents that couldn't care less.

I am in a Yahoo group with a young woman, she is 25, and a single mother.
She is going to school to learn to be a secretary. Oh yeah. Kudos for her
for going to school, but the girl can't spell her way out of a paper bag.
She can't even spell SIMPLE, normal, everyday words correctly! Hello, how
hard is it to use spell check in an e-mail? I was not an English major in
college (I majored in music), but I have been reading literally since I was
2, and spelling is a HUGE pet peeve of mine. I won't go correcting people
on here, though, unless it's really bad. LOL! ;0)

Okay, my after Thanksgiving rant is over. Back to reading Black Friday
complaints!!

WTF is with all these people complaining about rude service, and then
getting all irate at the posters here on PFB because they have *gasp* a
DIFFERENT POV than the OP (hey, was that enough abbreviations for ya?)?
Maybe this horrid heat has gotten to them, who knows. Or could it possibly
the 'customer is king' mentality is spreading? Hmmm...

I got my beloved laptop back from service yesterday! I can't believe I went
a whole week and a half without it ;0)

Walked out of Best Buy with it cradled in my arms like a baby, and as soon
as I got in my car I had it up and running. Man, I'm pathetic!

Oh, the guy from the Geek Squad, when I got to Best Buy and picked up my
computer, had me thinking they LOST my computer. He couldn't find it in the
back! So he went back and forth, back and forth until another guy finally
went back to look for it... turns out the original guy was looking for an
iPOD. HOW can you mistake a LAPTOP for an iPOD? Yet he apologized to me for
the mistake, and as I walked off, I heard him tell the other Geek dude that
I (!!) was the one who told him that I had brought an iPod in! Whatever! I
don't care who he put the blame on, I'm just glad I got my computer back.
Word.

I have been reading the older top 20 letters... like the one about the
children that were singing in the dressing room at the dept. store? Holy
hell! Now, I am a mother of 2. My youngest is MMR, and she has no concept
of what is appropriate behavior inside a store... but she will walk with
me, not run around like a madman, and if she yells or starts acting up, it
is dealt with right then and there, or else we leave. Period. I know that
people will side with the mother, thinking that the kids weren't doing
anything wrong, but in a small space like a dressing room where everything
is amplified and can be heard down to the whisper of a fart slipping out,
singing and dancing CAN be annoying to other people, whether they are
parents or not. I think that the MOTHER should have known better than to
let her kids make so much noise in such a small space.

To all my fellow Americans, have a great 4th! Enjoy the day but stay out of
the 100 degree heat... oh wait, that's here, LOL ;0)

I hope you all have a fun and safe holiday!

I'm slowly wading back into PFB. :0) It took me longer than I expected to
deal with things here at home, and I think I just skipped the entire month
of June, LOL! My 17 y/o turned 18 (I refuse to ever leave the 30-something
age I have achieved, no matter how old he gets) and left home for culinary
school via Job Corps. Things have finally been settling down and I can get
back on here! Looks like a lot has been going on... WTF is up with these
idiots on here who just swoop in and leave a stupid moronic comment and
leave again? Drive thru jackassery, my favorite thing!

Thanks again, everybody for the nice comments. My grandmother was 83 and
had lived a long, exciting life. Not only was she a stripper when she was
younger, she was a spitfire and would tell you so in a minute!!! ;0)

I'm going into hiding for a bit... my grandmother just passed and I have a
lot going on IRL right now. I'll be back when things settle down. Have a
good weekend, everybody.

I just got through reading the letter to TRU about the guy's girlfriend and
the Xbox... one poster stated kind of the obvious, saying she didn't have
to buy it if she didn't agree to the terms, and the OP right off the bat
got defensive and started name calling! Why do people get all defensive and
start calling names? Man, that just makes them look like they are back in
middle school! Way to get your point across!

All I have to say is, if you get your feelings hurt or get all defensive
when people don't agree with you immediately, there is no need to call
names. Next time, make your letter private, or take a step back and calm
down before spewing out things that make you look like you're 10 years old
again just because you can't think of something 'witty' to say back.

I just noticed that my blog is in the top 10. How that happened, I don't
know, but it's kinda cool in a geeky way :0)

Hopefully one day I can hit the big leagues like Icon, Brenny, and
dragonfly, although without the stalkers. Ha!

That people come on this site, go into someone's PERSONAL blog, and just
won't leave them alone? I admit, I read the blogs on here, simply because I
am interested in what the other regular posters here on PFB have to say.
But, what certain posters are doing is borderline harassment and STALKING,
especially after they have been told to leave the other person ALONE! Gee
whiz, do you have a life outside of this site? What is it about these
certain posters, who you more than likely don't even KNOW other than from
this site, that you dislike so much? So you get your spelling and grammar
corrected. Big deal! If you are THAT worried about being corrected, why not
run your comments through spell check before posting them? Or is it because
you WANT to be confronted about how atrocious your spelling and grammar
are, just so you can reply with something snarky? Hmmm...

My daughter's college is only an hour away, but she has to live on campus
because she's in a conservatory that requires constant work. I almost died
the day we moved her in, and now the four years are up and I'm dreading her
moving back with all her stuff...haha! I understand that raising your
daughter is a challenge, but with your son leaving for school, she will be
what gets you through it. You'll see.

Even though my son is in denial, I think he might be headed for a career in
the food industry. I see him as having a chain of restaurants, not
necessarily cooking but somehow knowing what the public wants. He has
always had an unusual interest in food and beverages, and he's a little
shrewd and business minded, so maybe I'll be getting free meals for the
rest of my life!

I don't watch any of the ghost shows on television, except Medium, but I
truly believe in John Edward and Sylvia Browne. I've gone through a lot of
death in my family, and they have helped me literally survive it all, and
with a positive attitude.

I think Sylvia Browne is awesome. I have read all her books and she just
seems so down to earth and REAL, you know? John Edward, I'm still on the
fence about, I haven't seen much of his stuff so I can't say one way or the
other :0)