Fun way to start the day!

Every now and then, I relive Susan Boyle's audition for "Britain's Got Talent." She makes me smile every time I watch it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk

Also, my mom forwarded an e-mail to a blog that has the most amazing amateur video of a church choir! It was posted on this person's blog in May of 2007, and has over 5 million hits, but I'd never seen it before. Like, Susan's performance, you can't help, but to be touched by this performance.

http://www.mychurch.org/blog/30635

Enjoy!

Truman Seizure

Hmm…  Truman’s last seizure was November 04. 

I can’t believe he just had another one.  It was a short, fairly non-violent one.  He “told” me about ten minutes before he started having it that it was coming on.

Bless his little heart.

Here he is mid-seizure.

Error 0x80070052 (quick & easy fix—Feb. 2010)

Background:  I bought digital picture frames to give as Christmas gifts this year.  I was able to move several hundred photos to flash drives, but eventually got this same error message on three separate progressively larger capacity drives.

I researched the error message, and found numerous references to faulty registry files and a very sick computer.  That totally freaked me out (but that’s a whole other something to blog about).

Anyway…  how to fix that error message in two easy steps:

1. Create a new folder on the flash drive
2. Copy the files to the new folder

Yes.  It’s that easy.

The first couple of hundred were “allowed” just “loose” on the drive, but the rest of them couldn’t be moved until I created a new folder to put them in.

So…

Obviously, it’s been a l-o-n-g time since I blogged.  I used to enjoy throwing out my .02¢ for the world to read (or not).  It used to be FUN to blog.

But now, I’m like… 

 

WHO THE HELL CARES???

 

But, I can’t seem to help myself, and I’ve put together a short little list of crap to blah, blah, blah about over the next month or so. 

In no particular order:

• Hermitsville, here I come:  Why I hate Facebook with a passion.
• Clipart review:  Art Explosion 800,000
• Clipart review:  ClickArt 1.5 Million
• Clipart review:  IMAGE Revolution 500,000
• Clipart review:  ClipArt&More 3.5 Million
• Clipart review:  www.iclipart.com
• Error 0x80070052
• RegDefense Review (DON’T BUY THIS PIECE O’CRAP SOFTWARE!)
• My new $1 Studio G acrylic stamp storage
• www.6pm.com
• Make the Cut software review
• The Haan floor sanitizer
• The new crate liner/cover for Annie and Stuart
• My new Xyron Design Runner
• New shoes I’ve bought in the last couple of months!

 

OMG!!!!!!

OMG!!!!!! NO FRIGGIN' WAY!!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!

For the VERY FIRST TIME IN MY ADULT LIFE, I have found a pair of blue jeans that fit!!!

BLUE CULT 28 X 33

#1. I'm 5'6", but I guess I'm out of proportion to other women my height since my legs are two inches too long for average length pants and two inches too short for talls. I have spent my ENTIRE LIFE fighting this; I hated back-to-school shopping because I had to try on a hundred pairs of pants, none of which ever fit, and mom or Mema ultimately had to hem for me.





#2. While I like jeans with a low-to-medium rise (I can't stand jeans/pants that come up to my belly button and squeeze me to death when I sit). Fortunately low-to-medium rises are "in" right now. However, I absolutely HATE the "in" styles of jeans that have been available for the last several years. I absolutely do not like flare-legged jeans and I don't even like bootcut jeans (which is the most commonly available style of jean which is stupid considering boots are NOT the most commonly worn women's shoes!).



#3. While I am thin enough to pull off the skinny/cigarette-legged jeans that are the rage this season, those are just not my style.



So... by complete fluke, I ordered size 28 and 30 Blue Cult jeans from Overstock.com (they were out of 29s). I had no idea what size was going to fit and I can return whichever (or both) doesn't fit.



I simply cannot believe the 28s fit--and actually, they have just enough give that a 27 would have fit without me having to hitch them up ever so often.

StuidoG $1 stamps!

Everytime I'm in Michael's or Joann's I like to dig through their bargin bins and see what kind of cute StudioG stamps they have. The other day, I started talking to a woman at Joann's while we were pawing through the box of of $1 stamps. She told me CraftWarehouse also has them. I wasn't going to go until that lady pounced on a set of spider stamps I HAD to have (and of course, that was the last one Joann's had).


So... WOW! CraftWarehouse has MORE stamps than Joann's and Michael's combined--not just in sheer number, but also in the number of designs!!! I picked up several of the Halloween acrylic and wood-black sets (including the spider set that lady at Joann's beat me to!).

I posted a comment on a forum about liking these stamps sets--because the designs are cute and the fact that they're cheap! OF COURSE... someone had to offer a negative opinion about the quality and what a waste of money they are and, get this, "they turn yellow after you use them." What the hell? Who cares what color the turn? Can you ink 'em up and stamp with 'em? You bet.

Oh, yeah... and this is my favorite: "Stampin' Up! stamps are made from the highest-quality rubber with deeply etched images. They are an investment that will last forever." Huh? Is that a joke? An INVESTMENT?????


Here's the deal: I have spent a small fortune on SU! stamps (I have two rolling carts FULL of them). I'm not sure what the average cost of a set of stamps is? $30? Anyway, the majority of what I've bought is still sitting, uncut, in their pretty little plastic boxes. And those that I HAVE cut apart and stamped with, I've only used a handful of times. So, when it comes down to it, I'd rather spend $1 on a set of stamps that, ewwwww... turn yellow after I use them a couple of times, and if I NEVER use them, then I'm only out a buck!


All that said, I found an online stamp store that's going out of business. I bought the entire "Bohemian" collection for $12! Pretty much the designs all look the same, but this is a collection that's been out since August, and nobody around here has them.

Northridge Media subscription complaint saga continues...

Okay... In a nutshell: my credit card was incorrectly charged THREE times by Northridge Media. (See my previous post for all of the details).

On 09/21/09, I called and asked to speak with a manager because I had a customer complaint. I was forwarded to Nik Bruce who listened to my problem, told me they had a computer "glitch" that caused the problem, and that he would credit my account on Thursday 09/24/09 for the $44.95 charge from May 11, and the $39.95 charge from September 12.

Well... on FRIDAY 09/25/09, the $39.95 charge was credited (NOT the day he said, but at least it got done). Still haven't heard a word about the $44.95 charge from May.

So... I called back again today, and asked for Nik Bruce... again... And once again... he didn't even apologize for what was going on.

You know, I've worked in retail, and I DON'T agree that the "customer is always right." However I DO believe in great customer service, and THEY (Northridge Media) TOTALLY SUCK! This is THEIR problem, and I have every right to be totally pissed off that they basically STOLE money from me, and I'm having to beg to get it back. In this case, the customer (me!) IS right. With that said, though, I very calmly told him I was pissed off, but I didn't yell and scream at him like I felt.

So... I tell this Nik Bruce guy that I'm STILL waiting for the $44.95 refund from May. And his response? "I didn't know we were supposed to credit your account for that charge." Which is a load of crap; he was fully aware of it when we spoke a couple of weeks ago.

He goes through this whole rigamarole of checking my account, and he lets me know the $44.95 charge in May was for a renewal charge for Simply Handmade. I'm not sure why he didn't tell me that when I spoke to him a couple of weeks ago, and that does explain why the charges are different. And I DID have a 6-month subscription for Simply Handmade, but it expired with the June/July issue (and I know that because that's the issue my baby bib was published in). So why would they charge me in May to renew a subscription that didn't end until July? And, if they charged me because of some oversight and have never bothered to credit my account as they should have then why haven't I been receiving "Simply Handmade" since they charged me for it???

Because. They. Are. Full. Of. Crap.

And, here's the real kicker. He asked me if I just wanted a credit to the same credit card I used to place the order. What an ass. He told me when I spoke with him in September that he was going to "personally make sure" that my credit card number was removed entirely from their database so that I would no longer be enrolled in their Platinum Subscriber Program. Obviously, that didn't happen, but the card expires at the end of the year so they can't use it anyway.

Shesh! Just had to get that off my chest, too!