30 Days
So it lasted 30 days. LOL! My break. The main reason I've "opened" the blog back up is because I'll be doing some more work with Associated Content and this is a way to distribute it especially via google. So I wanted this as an option. Also I can't tell you how much I wanted to write about, and just didn't because frankly why would I bitch about local politics in a journal?
I want to blog differently this time around. Not sure I'll actually do it differently. But I want to be able to just post stuff and not worry. With that in mind because I will probably be posting on one issue in general that has been bothering me lately, I do moderate comments. I don't do it for any other reason other than the spam. If you're down right mean, then it won't get posted. But if you're respectful it will be posted. I don't mind people who disagree. I just don't like people who don't understand how to "debate" without getting personal.
Anyhow we'll see how it goes. The post I want to write is going to take a while to put together.
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Today I went out with Brian. We saw Book of Eli (don't see it). That's all I'm going to say about that movie. But it was nice to go out.
What was funny is we left for the movie shortly after the Daytona 500 started. I returned home nearly 4 hours later and the race was still on. And it ended great as well.
Do I think Dale Jr. has a chance at the championship this year? No. But I think he'll do better. Bonus would be him winning it though. I just don't get my hopes up.
The baby is beating me up from the inside. She's especially active at night which to me means she'll have to be trained at birth to sleep at night, not be awake.
Tomorrow we're doing a Toddler Chef cooking thing. Hopefully the kids enjoy it. Then I'm babysitting for a friend, much to the pleasure of my mother. LOL! But it shouldn't be long.
I was going to write an interesting post, but nope I have nothing interesting to write at the moment.
Zee Craft
So Kaylee saw this craft on NickJr yesterday morning so I told her we could do it, luckily I had all the material needed to do it. Zee is typically a blue bird but I let her pick out the colors. She went with pink of course. It's made of felt. The directions say felt is best but you can also do it with a fabric I suddenly can't remember the name of.
What you do it go over to NickJr and print out the patterns and then just glue everything together. What's kind of cool too is if you want you can make it a hand puppet by not glueing the bottom shut. I stuffed this one with stuffing so it's a little plush animal instead.
Later today we're going to make Moose. Sadly for a 3 year old, this craft kind of is boring to do. Mainly because they can't do the cutting, only the gluing and the cutting part takes forever. So my advice is to cut the patterns out before you even tell your child you are going to be doing it so that when you do start it's simply gluing everything in place.
You can make other animals as well, I'm thinking of doing a cat and a dog as well. I'll put up pictures of our creations.
The art of being ripped off…
So back in Sept. we broke our lease on the house. Now we knew this would most likely mean the losing of our deposit and we were okay with that. But of course that wasn't enough for the property management company. They sent us a bill for $902 dollars.
Well we didn't have the money to pay that so we kind have been sitting on it. Today I sat down, because I have the money now, to write out a letter because they were charging a fee, which has no explanation. It's just some amount they put on the bill, no reasoning behind it. Frankly I'll pay for things that need to be paid for, but I won't pay for anything that I'm not legally liable to pay for.
So I sat down to write out my letter and do some research, cause I like to word these things correctly, I don't want to sound like a moron. In my research I found though that the charges for cleaning the house, inside and out, couldn't be charged. I mean they're no real law on it, but since they refused to do a walk thru with us, they gave us no ability to clean the house to their specifications. So according to the website, which I used to break the lease before, if this case was to go to court, they'd probably not get that cost because as a landlord you have to give that opportunity to the tenant to clean the house to your liking, which we weren't given at all.
So that meant 402 off the 902 because that's how much they were charging for cleaning. Then they were charging a 425 termination fee, no explanation of what it was for. Landlords have to prove damages in order to charge tenants. And since the lease itself didn't list a money amount I don't believe they have the right to just pull an amount out of their ass. I mean what prevents them from saying the fee is $1000? So I just am really wondering what the 425 covers, you know damages and loss wise.
So subtract that amount and it drops it down to like 75 bucks. So I'm finishing up the letter and putting together a table to explain better what I did and why and realize they're charging us for a month of rent, when it was vacant. No problem, I fully expected that. But wait, the rent is 1808.33 instead of what we were paying 1750. I'm not sure where they got their rent number. I looked at the paper, it says that it's unpaid rent for just 1 month. The paper says we were out on the 30th of Sept. So there are no days that are over so why 1808.33 and not 1750. I don't know why they did this, whether it was a mistake or just another attempt at getting more money. So I adjusted the price to the correct one.
So once all is said and done, if they take my arguments, even if they hate it, and realize they really have no standing on these things, I'll owe them 17.25. I'm sending a check that says paid in full. We'll see if they cash it, I'm hoping they do so.
I don't ask much, and I certainly don't want to take advantage of anyone, but just because I'm a tenant doesn't mean I get to be taken advantage of myself. And often property management companies do that to their tenants and it's not right. I know the law, and I know how it applies, so the best they could do is at least follow the laws with me.
So we'll see how this turns out. Should be interesting.
Bullying
So on Dr. Phil he has people on who were bullied and so forth. So it got me thinking.
It's been ten years this year since we graduated high school. For me it was uneventful. I remember certain things, I was manager of the Volleyball and Track teams. I loved doing that. Sadly I couldn't continue to do that past the one year I did due to some issues I had with one person and trash talking to the coaches. But whatever, I got a free period instead and went home early, so you can't beat that.
I didn't have many friends. Did nothing special. I don't know if I was teased. I know this one girl did hate me, not sure why I didn't even know her and she may have mixed me up with my sister. But she would say crap, but most people in that class where she harassed me thought she was a moron anyhow (cause often she said things loud enough for them to hear her, no one ever laughed in agreement) I remember that much. I don't remember her name, her face yes. She's not a friend on Facebook for that reason. She'd be the one person that I'd avoid in general more so because I'm not sure why she did what she did.
I mean there was another person who treated me like crap, but I know why she did that, it was just teenage crap basically. So that person is easily forgiven and the whole situation forgotten. But when you have someone attack you, someone you don't even know at that, it's just odd and kind of makes the person seem like she was emotionally unstable. Perhaps one day I'll be enlightened as to why she hated me. LOL!
Anyhow I didn't have a bad high school years, I remember nothing from before high school, so those must have been alright too. And the hard things, had to be let go and move on because as Dr. Phil would say, why give the bullies the power? Everything is in my control. Only I can let words hurt me. And I chose not to.
While The Doctor Is Away…
Kaylee will play. She struck a pose while waiting for the doctor this morning. Small update on the doctor front: AC1 level: 5.1 Insulin level: slightly elevated. Doctor says not to worry. Anyhow here's a picture:
My life is WONDERFUL!
I suddenly understand how some in the infertility community feel when they hear about pregnancy all the time. I mean could you imagine, you spend years trying to conceive and the girl down the street accidentally gets pregnant, or finally a friend has success, you can't help but feel a bit jealous and angry at your own situation. And it's like rubbing salt in the wound when people talk about it constantly. It's why I personally try not to talk too much outside of online about my pregnancy. If I'm not asked, it's typically not brought up.
There's been an influx of "my life is great" posts on my Facebook page. It's kind of stupid to be angry over those types of posts. I'm more than sure these people are loving life, I wish I was loving life. And I guess that's what is angering to me. That I wish I was loving life. And I'm not. Not at all. There's no break, no fun, just typical everyday mothering stuff. You know, feeding the kid, making sure she's happy, dealing with the crying, hearing the heartbreaking things she says, trying to get her to do what I ask, etc. Life just revolves around Kaylee.
I know I've posted about this before, that my life is just Kaylee and more Kaylee. I never thought I'd be one of those mom's that say I wanted some sort of other identity other than Mom. You know to do something fun, that doesn't cost money at all. LOL! But what the hell do I like in general that doesn't revolve around Kaylee as well?
Anyhoot.
The rain is falling sideways…
I love the rain, but don't venture out in it. Especially with how it is today. It's blowing sideways! It's insane out.
So I went out and took some pictures. It's insane out. The wind is really blowing but on the porch it's protected so you wouldn't even know if the wind was that bad. You just have to look out though and see the rain blowing sideways.
Did I mention that I bought Kaylee a ZhuZhu pet. It's actually an interesting thing. It is kind of funny as well. It could get annoying but you know it really entertains Kaylee, for like hours, so it's worth it.
And here for fun a few bonus pictures.
Bold Blogging
No people I'm not jumping on this bandwagon. This "Bold Blogging" stuff is just plain crap. How's that for Bold Blogging. LOL! Seriously though, what the hell is Bold Blogging anyhow. I'm of the believe that most people blog boldly, and if they don't it's because they don't feel it's important to make comments on social issues or politics. So this push for Bold Blogging is just plain stupid. And so far all the Bold Blogging I've seen is nothing bold at all. Actually found a lot of it annoying mainly because they call it Bold, I just call it doing what you've done for years, blogging.
I do have to comment on one issue that's bothered me. The state passed two bills. I don't know the gist of them, but know they were passed hastily so as to get some government money for our schools. You'd think this is great. I don't. Why? One of the bills basically punishes low performing schools. I understand giving parents the right to remove their children from a low performing school, but don't people realize that when you do so you remove funding and that school has no chance in hell to improve. Every law we pass punishes low performing schools by taking away money. They need to be given more. It's not always bad teachers, most of the time it's lack of funding. Education priorities in this state are just shitty.
On a side note Kaylee's school was cited and fined this week due to some issue with it's overflow parking. Some idiot complained to the city about it (who the hell would complain it isn't anywhere near anyone else's property) and now we can't use overflow parking. Sadly the school doesn't have a ton of parking, not even enough for the parents to drop off in the morning. I don't know what the hell the city expects the school to do. It's just damned annoying because one damn person couldn't mind his/her fucking business. So if whoever caused the issue is reading, thank you for causing more issues, for causing traffic hazards and causing us to probably back traffic all the way out to LA Ave. Hope you're fucking happy.
I’m having one of those weeks…
I think it had more to do with the fact that Kaylee wasn't able to go to school this morning so she's been itching to get outside. Also it didn't help that Daddy changed his mind and decided not to come over today to visit. This has always bothered me, because I don't get a choice, I have to be here. But whatever. I'm just worn out.
Of course I've not been sleeping well, and this isn't a result of anything other than being pregnant. Ever since I stopped taking all vitamins I've been getting to sleep better and my anxiety is all gone (sometimes it's an issue but I'm able to think my way out of it). But sadly I wake up between 2 and 3 for a bathroom run and sometimes am either unable to get back to sleep right away or I fall asleep again but am up at like 5am and then up every half hour or so until Kaylee wakes up.
Next week though I have a doctor's appointment. I always do this thing before appointments, prepare myself for the worse. It's perhaps not the best thing to do but it prepares you although I've never had to be prepared like that.
We learned this morning that Kaylee did break her finger but it's healed so we just have to wait for the swelling to go down. He said this is one of those situations where you don't run to the ER over it. Since she was using it and able to function normally it wasn't worth panicking over. So that's good. Now I don't feel so bad.
Then the Uverse guy came over and hooked us up with high speed internet, TV and digital phone. Let me say Kaylee was hilarious. She talked his ear off the entire time. I came home with Pizza while he was here and Kaylee goes, "Hey do you smell that?" and he was like, "Yeah, what is it?" She's like, "It's pizza, it smells great!" LOL! That's her latest thing. That smells great or good. Clothes, food, outside air.
Now she's mooching off of Grandma's dinner. You'd think I never fed her with how she acts.
She's been getting on my last nerve though because she's just screaming a lot and insistent on everyone doing everything for her or else she throws a fit. Hopefully she'll get over it.
