I am up. It is 2:20am. My heartburn is killing me. Doesn't matter what I do or don't eat or how much or how little. The minute I lay down in bed it starts attacking me. If I only drank water it would still get me. I take a few antacid, drink a little milk...but it still comes full force. The baby sits high leaving me out of breath and with that indigestion that crawls up your back. OUCH! Right now he has the hiccups. kind of cute. Cuter if it were in the middle of the day and I was sleeping at night.
I read tonight in a book Elder Groberg wrote, "Some of life's greatest challenges come from waiting for something we have no control over". That sure is the truth today.
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Best advice I have for children, young adults and adults everywhere is be nice to everyone, get to know lots of people and keep in touch every once in a while with them. You never know when that contact will come in handy. They say in a job it is not how much you know but WHO you know. I am kind of glad it works this way AT TIMES, because it means that we as a society still value character and relationships over qualifications.
Here is the story. A few months ago my credit card company raised my credit limit. I didn't need it but I didn't ask them to lower it either. Then last month they lowered it to $50 above what I owed on the card. They called me to tell me but only AFTER the fact. The day after they lowered it a $200 charge went on the card for my yearly car insurance. It was an automatic charge. And now I was over my limit on my card without even knowing! When I did find out I called customer service and asked them to lower it back down. After 2 hours on the phone of me begging and in tears telling them I had been a loyal customer for 10 years and always paid it off every month until the last few months, but even then I had always paid the minimum and I was fully capable of doing it. After asking to be transferred from supervisor to supervisor we mysteriously (or not so!) got hung up on. Basically their excuses all went back to saying the computer said they can't do anything about it.
I waited 2 weeks, made 2 large payments and called back. They had a whole other slew of excuses this time that were different then the first time. Mike then remembered I knew someone who worked at AMEX. I sent him a short email describing what had happened and asked him to point me in the right direction. Long story short, his co-worker called me yesterday and apologized profusely for what had happened. They have now raised my limit back up, lowered my APR back to where it was, waived all my fees, AND put me on a 6 month VIP override list...meaning anyone at AMEX can't touch a thing on my account for the next 6 months. AND after that 6 months if anything funky happens I have his personal phone number and cell phone number. If only all other customer service was like that!!! He said that after looking at my records I was a valuable customer and they didn't want to lose me as one. Also he admitted that they couldn't train their customer service fast enough to deal with the failing economy and they were not trained to explain things to me...even though it was my right to know. Well we kind of guessed that anyhow when talking to them.
I got lucky this time. phew!
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So I had a baby shower this morning. Yeah! My first one. That was fun. I had to wait till everyone left so I sat around and heard a bunch of mommy talk which of course I cannot contribute to much because I am not a mommy....yet. The things I learn at these functions. Anyhow a few of these girls have gone to these Love and Logic classes and apparently they told them about "Mable" the mean babysitter. She is a fictional character but you can tell your kids, when they are being unruly or disobedient that you are going to call Mable and you don't pay her money but you pay her with their toys.
I have never heard of this. If I told something like that to my first graders...they wouldn't buy it for a second! I learned long ago in the power of intrinsic motivation. But I digress...so one girl got very frustrated with her daughter last night and started calling this circle of friends asking them if their husband would mind dressing up as the mean babysitter and come and set things straight. Are you kidding me?
Granted I have never been a mother and have only slight clues about the challenges and frustrations I will face on a daily basis. But will I be forced to stoop to this? I hope not. The more I hear from these ladies...the more I want to just live in my own world with my husband and a close friend or two. We'll see how my opinion changes or not in a few years I suppose.
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Well I only meant to delete most of my postings but ended up deleting all of them, however, not before I ordered a book. Now I can have a fresh start.
I think I will keep this blog simple...change the background every few months but that is it. I haven't decided if I will keep it small (as in readership) or go more public. Most people keep track of me on facebook now so I might keep it small.
I will change the background every few months but otherwise just sticking to the basics here.
Baby is coming soon now I need to free up my time for other things.
