Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Indulge in lots of chocolate and be happy.
Dear Ireland: Another school shooting in the U.S. Can you please tell us what you are doing right? We can’t seem to figure it out.
You know what stinks. Meeting a friend for lunch who’s divorce is final next week. And having everyone wish us happy Valentine’s Day. Yea, Happy freaking Valentine’s Day!
So, for over 5 years we have been getting phone calls for Ernesto. We don’t have an employee named Ernesto. Apparently he registered with Healthcare.gov. So, first we were polite, and asked to be out on the do not call list. Then we told them he died. The calls started up again. I said he’s been deported. I don’t know if that will stop the phone calls.
I just had my first terrible experience with Amazon. I have had such lovely conversations and every single
little and big issue resolved in a positive manner. Tonight I ended up telling the “customer service” person to stop talking over me! It became ridiculous. In the end she asked what I wanted her to do and I told her that I did not her to
do a thing. I will call and talk to someone else. She was still yammering when I hung up.
I regret not getting her name but am guessing she had to log the call. Just down right ridiculous!
Given the ridiculous volume we order every year…we shall see.
I think it’s time to look for a new job.
Apparently, now is still not the time to have that discussion. Please let us know when it will be time - I’ll mark my calendar.
I never thought I would be interested in retiring early until just lately. This job can be so thankless. 
Some days there’s so much sadness in my life and in the world that I get out of bed only because I can’t think of anything better to do.
Yes, I know it isn’t yours, but please don’t turn around and then ask me what you can do so I don’t get stuck with everything. It’s not mine, either, but that never seems to matter.
Enough with the cliché “it is what it is.” Also, not everything is “surreal.”
Reminder to self: Do the data entry when DH orders the valentine’s things for his mom next year so that you can be certain the address is typed in correctly.
Random thanks: Whoever wasn’t there to accept delivery at that wrong address, you made today’s (or maybe tomorrow’s) delivery possible.
Hooray that the DHHS employee accepted my documentation about the 529 ABLE accounts! My son’s funds in the account will not count against him for his eligibility for SS or Medicaid. It’s upsetting that word is not getting out about these funds for disabled people. I’m off to email NAMI Maine about it…
It’s beginning. Yesterday my biller was so upset cuz her nephew attends that school in Parkland. He’s fine, but others are not so fortunate. Dozens of psychologists have gone to parks/libraries/synagogues to offer grief counseling, and now one is in mourning.
State universities are so political in merit scholarship awards. Either you have to have relatives there, go there constantly, be a legacy or be in education. So glad that those with actual financial need get it though!! Forget the rest of high stats kids, who fit none of these categories!
Need learn to let go and forgive myself for making a mistake. But I don’t know how.
They caught a girl shooting up in a bathroom in my son’s school today. Shooting freaking up.
My D has to go to a courthouse frequently for her job. She told me whenever she is there she thinks about where she would go to hide if there was a shooter. It makes me sad that my D has to think that.
Our neighbor who has a muscle wasting disease and is confined to a wheelchair said that the other day when he was at the mall for Halloween with a friend and viewed the huge crowd and all the kids in costumes said that while he was there a thought popped into his head that someone who wanted to sow destruction and chaos would have a field day at such a time and was sad and concerned that the thought popped into his head.
He also said that he read someone that wrote a compelling article about how we live in the safest time and place, even though sadly it doesn’t FEEL that way with these awful violent acts that get such media coverage.
Why didn’t anyone tell me how much that pneumonia shot was going to hurt? It’s 24 hours later and every muscle and joint in my body is aching and I can hardly raise my arm! :(( @-)