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After I last wrote, we were getting ready to go see my mom in Jacksonville,NC where she is in a nursing home...That morning we got up to a flooded basement...so, we had to stay,, called insurance, and plumber...Both came out that day and next day...with the insurance check we got we made an extra house payment..God works in mysterious ways! now we are only one month behind...but they continue to not want to help us..just this week we were again denied for the loan mod...they told us as long as we were behind and in the hole each month we would never qualify!! What??makes no sense...we were told that was why people like us could qualify for it..job loss, behind on payments,etc...That's what Obama said!! its so frustrating!! Our second mortgage co. gave us a loan mod in 2 days!!! and we were behind with them too!! what's up with that?? who do you contact to find out if your mortgage co is jerking you around??/ they have to report to someone do they not?? sigh----
Good news is I got a job yesterday...Its part time like I wanted, no nights and no weekends..and only about 3-4 hrs a day, but every bit helps..I'm on Emergency unemployment now and my understanding is that that runs out in Oct... so we are still fighting to save our house as it stands now... oh and our first mortgage told us we needed to pare our bills down since we are in the hole every month..ok, well, we went to a credit manager and He told us there was no where to cut back!! we are paying only what we have to right now-utilities,insurance,gas,food,stuff like that that you cant pare back.. other good news, my husband and my daughter got some help to be able to go to Doctor and get meds now...Ours is no cost to go to Doctor and daughter has to pay $5 each visit.Husband is diabetic, so he got his meds for free and my daughter is on a couple of meds that are free now too..that is a big help there..and our past doctor bills were covered and paid also which was almost at $1000.00.....now just owe the dentist $500.00...dont know when that will get paid...as no extra money at all. And here in NC taxes went up!! are they trying to kill us??? Our property taxes we owe this year are almost $2000.00!!!!! and sales taxes went up too... and now Duke Energy is wanting to raise its cost??? great...people are struggling..what do they want?our blood??? Christmas this year will be bleak..I just basically want my family together.. still trying to figure that out..with property taxes due right in Jan. that kills us..Christmas isnt about getting anyway..its about Christ and his birth.. we love each other and have fun as a family..that's what matters..The Black Friday list has already come out...those that have $ to spend-have at it...we don't.... yesterday in the mail we get 3 different letters from the county ..we owe $5 per cat we now have ..taxes on our animals!! I thought we came to America to flee Taxes on everything !! and for Religious freedom!! good grief... tax this, raise this, what next???
have I said enough??? No wonder I was depressed earlier this week...
I was going to leave for the beach today with 3 good friends. they were going to take care of me so I could go.yesterday evening we get a call from one of them, my really good friend(I call her my Sis!) and her Dad was in ICU.. She had to call 911 earlier as he fell twice...so weak.... he had been sick all week but thought he was getting better... he was so dehydrated that they had to use a force bag to get the fluids in him. he took 4 bags I think..anyway, the rest of us told her we were not leaving her behind to go on to the beach..She wanted us to go on..can you believe that??She is so unselfish..I told her to shut up!! we were staying to be with her and the beach would still be there whenever...She couldn't help it that her dad got so ill...they weren't even sure he'd pull through last night! and she wanted us to go on.. No way!!my husband and I went over to hospital after she called and stayed. we took her to get something to eat. she went to be with her mom last night. her mom is diabetic and confined to the house..She has to be carried several times a week to receive dialysis. And she needs constant care..my friend is an only child so everything falls on her. She is a wife, and mother to two teens herself and works.. talk about having a full plate.. she does..
anyway I talked to her about 9 this morning and her dad stablizied during the night. they want to move him into a room out of ICU and regulate his meds. he lost so much weight...Will find out more later this afternoon..
my daughter started College in late August and she has adjusted well. Its our local community college, but she is doing great!! She has already aced a couple of tests! next fall she will transfer to UNCC. She has a new "Boy friend" lol says she doesn't want to be involved with anyone right now and they are just friends. I like him he is very nice.
Son has new girlfriend this year at Appalachian. he loves his apartment and having his own room!
I'm glad they are both settling in well.
well gotta run for now..maybe I will post again before another month rolls by! or two!
Well, as Americans, we've officially reached new heights of idiocy.
There was a story this afternoon, reported in the New York Times of a Wal-Mart employee who was "trampled to death" by crowds trying to get in the store as it opened for Black Friday.
WTF?
I, mean, could this possibly be more ridiculous? People are now so interested in getting that "special toy" or saving a measly 10% that they push and shove and break down the doors to a store to be the first one inside? That's what happened. A crowd of 2,000 people pushed and shoved the doors to Wal-Mart until they broke them down, 5 MINTUES before they opened. Five minutes! They couldn't wait 5 stinking minutes until the doors were unlocked and then filed inside in an orderly fashion? This is just so totally absurd that I can hardly believe it. And it's true.
Police were called by fellow employees and they tried to give the trampled man CPR, but the crowd (none of whom stopped to help...they just stepped over or ON him to get inside) kept pushing and shoving, preventing the police from assisting the fallen man. Eventually, they got him into an ambulance and took him to the emergency room, but he died anyway. They haven't released his exact cause of death, yet, but this man was killed because of insane holiday shoppers.
Sounds like a joke, right? I wish it were, I truly do. This is so pathetic that it makes me cringe inside. And for a moment, I am ashamed to be a greedy, self-absorbed American. No wonder people hate us. Right now, I kind of hate us, too.
Happy Black Friday! (Yes, I know, it is a pathetic excuse for a holiday...but still).
Happy Thanksgiving as well. I hope you all had a wonderful day, enjoyed the turkey, etc.
My Thanksgiving was typical....good food, lots of games. Speaking of which, found a fun new trivia site. It isn't truly trivia, like question-answer...it is more lists of common knowledge and you are timed. Like name the Seven Dwarfs in one minute--things like that. I love it. It might be my new favorite trivia site. Sporcle. That wasn't Tourettes....Sporcle is the name of the site.
And lastly, in keeping with my mission to educate the world on things they had no idea they were dying to know....here are some Thanksgiving Fun Facts. (Brought to you by our friends at The History Channel, via me).
- According to the US Census Bureau, Minnesota is the top turkey producing state in the country....yay us!
- The National Turkey Federation estimated that 46 million turkeys—one fifth of the annual total of 235 million consumed in the United States in 2007—were eaten at Thanksgiving.
- The average weight of turkeys purchased for Thanksgiving is 15 pounds, which means some 690 million pounds of turkey were consumed in the U.S. during Thanksgiving in 2007.
- Snoopy has appeared as a giant balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade more times than any other character in history. As the Flying Ace, Snoopy made his sixth appearance in the 2006 parade.
- According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest pumpkin pie ever baked weighed 2,020 pounds and measured just over 12 feet long. It was baked on October 8, 2005 by the New Bremen Giant Pumpkin Growers in Ohio, and included 900 pounds of pumpkin, 62 gallons of evaporated milk, 155 dozen eggs, 300 pounds of sugar, 3.5 pounds of salt, 7 pounds of cinnamon, 2 pounds of pumpkin spice and 250 pounds of crust.
- The cranberry is one of only three fruits—the others are the blueberry and the Concord grape—that are entirely native to North American soil, according to the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' Association.
So there you go. A bunch of fun stuff about Thanksgiving. Read more at the links above, including information about the history of the holiday and some debunked myths about Thanksgiving.
Shop well!
Unfortunately this seems to happen just about every year on Black Friday – overzealous shoppers either hurt themselves or someone else in the process of trying to secure the best deals. From Fox News: “Black Friday took a grim turn when a Walmart employee in New York died after bargain hunters broke down the doors to the store.
The 34-year-old male employee was pronounced dead one hour after shoppers broke down the doors to the shopping center in Valley Stream, N.Y., and knocked him down at around 5 a.m. Friday, police said.
A 28-year-old pregnant woman was also taken in for observation and three other shoppers suffered minor injuries during the incident, police said.”
It’s not clear what if any security presence might have been on the scene, but this seems to be the same old story. Since people can’t seem to help themselves, perhaps it’s time to make sure there is some sort of law enforcement presence at these Black Friday events to keep everyone orderly?
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