Friday, March 14, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
update
Apparently Lamar Petry and Jonathan Walker enjoyed a wonderful trip on us to Las Vegas from Seattle. It was a one way trip so I don't think we will be seeing them anytime soon. They purchased the tickets online and flew on the 6Th of this month.
I have called both of our credit card companies and have closed both accounts.
I have called both of our credit card companies and have closed both accounts.
Fraud!
As a way to protect Brett and my credit card accounts, I have set up an automatic alert that whenever we spend more than $100, the credit card company calls my cell phone and lets me know that a transaction has exceeded the approved amount. Well they called me the other day and I thought it was kind of odd. I didn't remember going shopping recently, or Brett coming home with lots of stuff. So today with my downtime, I went online to look at the recent activity on my credit card. Low and behold, it looked like Brett and I purchased 2 tickets on Southwest airlines for $239.50 each. Now I know Brett and I are traveling soon, but he is flying with American and I am flying with Northwest. So this peaked my interest. I called the credit card company and they told me all they could pull up from that purchase was that it was bought for Dallas. Now Brett is going to Dallas Texas for a school thing. So I told the nice people on the phone that I will call the airline company to see what that was about.
When I called Southwest, they were able to look up the tickets with my credit card number, and they asked me if I knew a Lamar and Jonathan. Too bad I don't know who they are. But I bet they were planning a great trip, at least I hope it was to a nice place, maybe Hawaii, Florida, or maybe it was to see their sick and dying parents. Who knows. All I know is now they won't be taking the trip.
I called the credit card company back and we have now disputed the charges and canceled the account. They were really nice about it. So now we get to be one of those people with that on our report. YAY!
We don't know how they got the information needed to purchase the tickets, we both have our cards still. So we feel really violated. The only thing we can think of is they got a hold of those convenience checks that they mail out. Everything else is done on the Internet for us with the company. So if you are getting those in the mail, you can call the credit card company and have them stop sending them out. I would say do it today as soon as you are done reading this!
This is such a hassle and I don't want anyone else to have to go through this.
When I called Southwest, they were able to look up the tickets with my credit card number, and they asked me if I knew a Lamar and Jonathan. Too bad I don't know who they are. But I bet they were planning a great trip, at least I hope it was to a nice place, maybe Hawaii, Florida, or maybe it was to see their sick and dying parents. Who knows. All I know is now they won't be taking the trip.
I called the credit card company back and we have now disputed the charges and canceled the account. They were really nice about it. So now we get to be one of those people with that on our report. YAY!
We don't know how they got the information needed to purchase the tickets, we both have our cards still. So we feel really violated. The only thing we can think of is they got a hold of those convenience checks that they mail out. Everything else is done on the Internet for us with the company. So if you are getting those in the mail, you can call the credit card company and have them stop sending them out. I would say do it today as soon as you are done reading this!
This is such a hassle and I don't want anyone else to have to go through this.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
thought you might enjoy this
This was sent to me by a friend:
THE NEXT SURVIVOR SERIES
Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks. Each kid will play two sports and either take music or dance classes
There is no fast food.
Each man must take care of his 3 kids; keep his assigned house clean, correct all homework, and complete science projects, cook, do laundry, and pay a list of "pretend" bills with not enough money.
In addition, each man will have to budget in money for groceries each week.
Each man must remember the birthdays of all their friends and relatives, and send cards out on time.
Each man must also take each child to a doctor's appointment, a dentist appointment and a haircut appointment.
He must make one unscheduled and inconvenient visit per child to the Urgent Care.He must also make cookies or cupcakes for asocial function.
Each man will be responsible for decorating hi sown assigned house, planting flowers outside and keeping it presentable at all times.
The men will only have access to television when the kids are asleep and all chores are done.
The men must shave their legs, wear makeup daily, adorn himself with jewelry, wear uncomfortable yet stylish shoes, keep fingernails polished and eyebrows groomed.
During one of the six weeks, the men will have to endure severe abdominal cramps, back aches, and have extreme, unexplained mood swings but never once complain or slow down from other duties.
They must attend weekly school meetings,church, and find time at least once to spend the afternoon at the park or a similar setting.
They will need to read a book and then pray with the children each night and in the morning,feed them, dress them, brush their teeth and comb their hair by 7:00 am.
A test will be given at the end of the six weeks, and each father will be required to know all of the following information: each child's birthday,height, weight, shoe size, clothes size and doctor's name.Also the child's weight at birth, length, time of birth, and length of labor, each child's favorite color, middle name, favorite snack, favorite song,favorite drink, favorite toy, biggest fear and what they want to be when they grow up.
The kids vote them off the island based on performance. The last man wins only if...he still has enough energy to be intimate with his spouse at a moment's notice.
If the last man does win, he can play the game over and over and over again for the next 18-25years eventually earning the right to be called Mother!
After you get done laughing, send this to as many females as you think will get a kick out of it and as many men as you think can handle it. Just don't send it back to me.... I'm going to bed
THE NEXT SURVIVOR SERIES
Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks. Each kid will play two sports and either take music or dance classes
There is no fast food.
Each man must take care of his 3 kids; keep his assigned house clean, correct all homework, and complete science projects, cook, do laundry, and pay a list of "pretend" bills with not enough money.
In addition, each man will have to budget in money for groceries each week.
Each man must remember the birthdays of all their friends and relatives, and send cards out on time.
Each man must also take each child to a doctor's appointment, a dentist appointment and a haircut appointment.
He must make one unscheduled and inconvenient visit per child to the Urgent Care.He must also make cookies or cupcakes for asocial function.
Each man will be responsible for decorating hi sown assigned house, planting flowers outside and keeping it presentable at all times.
The men will only have access to television when the kids are asleep and all chores are done.
The men must shave their legs, wear makeup daily, adorn himself with jewelry, wear uncomfortable yet stylish shoes, keep fingernails polished and eyebrows groomed.
During one of the six weeks, the men will have to endure severe abdominal cramps, back aches, and have extreme, unexplained mood swings but never once complain or slow down from other duties.
They must attend weekly school meetings,church, and find time at least once to spend the afternoon at the park or a similar setting.
They will need to read a book and then pray with the children each night and in the morning,feed them, dress them, brush their teeth and comb their hair by 7:00 am.
A test will be given at the end of the six weeks, and each father will be required to know all of the following information: each child's birthday,height, weight, shoe size, clothes size and doctor's name.Also the child's weight at birth, length, time of birth, and length of labor, each child's favorite color, middle name, favorite snack, favorite song,favorite drink, favorite toy, biggest fear and what they want to be when they grow up.
The kids vote them off the island based on performance. The last man wins only if...he still has enough energy to be intimate with his spouse at a moment's notice.
If the last man does win, he can play the game over and over and over again for the next 18-25years eventually earning the right to be called Mother!
After you get done laughing, send this to as many females as you think will get a kick out of it and as many men as you think can handle it. Just don't send it back to me.... I'm going to bed
visitors
I didn't want our being sick to over shadow our wonderful visitors. I will write about their visit when I am feeling a bit better.
Sick
So my poor baby has been sick for about 5 weeks now. She first got sick when I started watching Cadence full time. She was getting better until Kaeli came down for her visit. She got sick again and it was worse. More coughing, almost croupy sounding at times, and then she got a little better. I lowered the bed back down so it was no longer at an angle, I put away the humidifier, and I thought I could put that stinking nose sucker away. Then my mom came down and she got sick again! As well as my mom, Roberta and myself. Who knows who gave it away this time.
So today I took Chloe to the doctors for her booster flu shot. Come to find out that she has an ear infection in at least one of her ears, the other had too much wax in it to tell. Her lungs sounded clear though, so all the flemmy cough noises are coming from her nose. Now she is on antibiotics for 10 days and hopefully it will clear everything up.
Throughout her entire 5 weeks of being sick, you wouldn't have even noticed except for the cough and continually runny nose. She is such a happy baby. I am so fortunate to have such a good baby. She has an ear infection, not just red ears, but she has yellow puss in them! She never cried or really ever pulled at them. Poor thing.
So now I am sick with a really bad sore throat, feeling like I am swallowing a mixture of rocks and glass, head congestion and a cough. All I want to do is sleep all day and eat soft foods. Better yet, have my mom take care of me like she used to. But I am a mom of my own now with a sick baby and another baby that I take care of full time. So I get to suck it up, eat whatever food I can force down my throat, get my usual 3 - 4 hour naps in between feedings and nose cleanings and try and not go crazy with two little ones wanting to be held all day long because they are not feeling well as well.
Brett is doing an amazing job helping take care of us. He runs to the store to fill the prescription after a long day at school, and goes back to the store to get the cough drops that he forgot to get while he was getting the prescription. He is putting his studying off until really late at night so he can help with the kids. Then when Cadence leaves, he takes over with making dinner or occupying Chloe while I cook. Usually it is the later of the two. I am so grateful to have him.
I hope we will all be feeling well very soon!
So today I took Chloe to the doctors for her booster flu shot. Come to find out that she has an ear infection in at least one of her ears, the other had too much wax in it to tell. Her lungs sounded clear though, so all the flemmy cough noises are coming from her nose. Now she is on antibiotics for 10 days and hopefully it will clear everything up.
Throughout her entire 5 weeks of being sick, you wouldn't have even noticed except for the cough and continually runny nose. She is such a happy baby. I am so fortunate to have such a good baby. She has an ear infection, not just red ears, but she has yellow puss in them! She never cried or really ever pulled at them. Poor thing.
So now I am sick with a really bad sore throat, feeling like I am swallowing a mixture of rocks and glass, head congestion and a cough. All I want to do is sleep all day and eat soft foods. Better yet, have my mom take care of me like she used to. But I am a mom of my own now with a sick baby and another baby that I take care of full time. So I get to suck it up, eat whatever food I can force down my throat, get my usual 3 - 4 hour naps in between feedings and nose cleanings and try and not go crazy with two little ones wanting to be held all day long because they are not feeling well as well.
Brett is doing an amazing job helping take care of us. He runs to the store to fill the prescription after a long day at school, and goes back to the store to get the cough drops that he forgot to get while he was getting the prescription. He is putting his studying off until really late at night so he can help with the kids. Then when Cadence leaves, he takes over with making dinner or occupying Chloe while I cook. Usually it is the later of the two. I am so grateful to have him.
I hope we will all be feeling well very soon!
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