hello everyone!!!
this past thursday robbie and i headed to atlanta. he has a seminar/class for computers during the week and we decided to go down earlier so i can go with him and see the sights. about two years ago i was down in atlanta to vist min when she lived there that year. so i saw alot of stuff but it was all new to robbie and it ment a day off of work for me! so we had a 7:30pm flight. Which got us down there arou 9:15ishy. We got the bag we checked and jumped on the Marta (their version of metro). After about 40mins on that we had to get off and get on another line that would take us to the stop near our hotel. It is now Midnight. We got off of the Marta and started walking 1.5miles to our hotel. Yes we walked at Midnight. The reason is bc the shuttel stoped runing at 10pm. Well the suitcase rolls and we took turns pulling it and carrying his laptop. So at 1:45am we get there and get the key.Which doesnt work and meaning Robbie had to go back down and get it reprogrammed. Im now tire, hot, sweaty, and hungry! Needless to say I did kind of bite Robbies head off a few times before finally going to sleep.
We woke up the next morning to some noise and decided to go to the Coca-Cola Museum. So we ate breakfast and headed down to the Marta to get down town. I had been to the old Coca-Cola Museum and was eager to see if the new one was just as good. They hurd you around like cattle in the begining part of it and its a maze through the rest. They didnt have that much stuff they had in the original one. I found out that they only brought 5% of the memobria with them to the new one. Well that sucks! So we headed back to the hotel since we were still tire. We took a nap and woke up around 7ish. To some more noise. We oredered pizza and watched TV in the room. Well at 10:45 we were getting ready for bed and the noise outside our door was so loud. We found out that there were two huge family reuions in the hotel that weekend. So Robbie looks out the peep hole and see a bunch of people just standing in the hallway talking. So I called down to the front desk and complain. In a few mins it died down. Then started up again. Ok enough! its 11pm at night and Im dead tire! So we get dressed and head down to the front desk. I explained to the lady, Daloris, about what was going on and she said she sent someone up and then they started up again. She then said let me see if she could move me. Well they couldnt find anywhere in the hotel since they were all over the place. Except the VIP floor! Sweet you need a special key to get up here. And best part PEACE AND QUIET! Plus Daloris gave us four coupons to get breakfast free. Nice! So we got a peaceful night sleep and ready to get up early the head to the aquirium.
So the next morning we went to go see the Whale Sharks! And they are sooooooooooooooo cute! I'm glad we got there early bc it was getting packed when we were in there and when we left. We headed back to the hotel and then went to see Harry Potter 5 and then to PF Changs (dont hate amberly) for dinner. After dinner Robbie called the hotel for the shuttel so we wouldnt have to walk back. The guy said he would be right over which would take about 5mins. Well after 15mins Robbie got a phone call from the guy apologizing and said he was on his way and would explain later. Ok no problem. So he got there and we headed back. He said he was on his way to get us but the people in the reuion kept getting in the van to have him take them to the liquir store! Great they are getting drunk! But we are on the VIP floor and they arent up there!
So the next morning is Sunday and we get up,eat and Robbie had to switch rooms to another suite bc of some snobby person who always getts in the room we were in. Ok no problem. The hotel staff was awsome. We get another ride to the Marta since we were spending the day dowtown before heading to the airport for me. While Wendy was driving us she said she was sorry about the stay for me and all the noise. Turns out that the first night the famlies were there, they were smoking pot in the room. Great! Then we found out thanks to her that they trashed the pool area the second night and the lobby. That they had broken glasses all over the place, stole towels, blankets, and trashed a few rooms! Needless to say they were not happy to see me go but wished it was those other people. But Robbie getts a suite out of it with out the price. He even getts into the Club room in the hotel. Score!
We got to the airport about 3hrs before my flight. After me crying alittle good bye and getting through security, I went to my gate and waited. Becasue I only carried on my camera bag, I didnt have a book or anything to do to entertain me before and during the flight. Robbie headed back to the hotel so I talked to him for a while. Then I went on hunt for some kind of book. I ended up buying the first book in the Twilight series. Thanks to Em, Amber, and Min I decided to give it a shot. Which was great. We got on the plane just to find out, by talking to the two flight attendents, that the back bathroom was out of order again (it was broke coming to ga), and that my reading light was also broke. Score! Packed flight btw. There was one open seat but it was still day light enough for me to read by the window's light. I ran out of light about 8mins before I landed so it was good. Then got off of the plane and had perfect timing with Torey (Kikis boyfriend) to grab me from the airport and take me to the apartment.
So all and all it was a fun weekend. We leave in a little over a week for the Flordia Keys! Which will be nice to have a long vacation. Robbie is alittle bored down there with out me. The hotel isnt that close to anything and he does walk to class and to get dinner. I cant wait to see him. He comes home on Friday and Im getting him from the airport and then making him dinner. Probably going to chill for the rest of the weekend.
So that is that. Pictures are on Facebook! Enjoy!
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
end of the weekend posting
hello everyone!!!
well lets see where to start....saturday robbie and i woke up at 2:30am to get ready for robbies first crabbing trip with my mom and me. we were out of the house and on the road by 3am! on the water and out to our spot by 4am! yes it is very dark out there. but thats what head lamps are for. we laid out 30 crab traps with bait in them and on the second trap robbie caught the first crab! it was awsome. new maryland laws forbids social crabbers like me to keep female crabs. the reason is to eventually hope bring the crab population up. the size of the crabs have changed also. all this is fine by mom and me. shes been crabbing since she was younger and she started taking me around the age of 4 and i would love to do that with my children (if i ever get the chance to have them. thats another post later on). we caught a bussel of crabs by 10am. would have been more or finished earlier if we could keep the females. headed back to the boat ramp to head home. after we got home and got settled, robbie and i grabbed showers and got dressed for my boss' babyshower/bbq at her house. which was back in herdon va. so yea. hung out there for two hours and robbie got to meet my bosses and one of the drs i work for. then head back to the apartment where at 730pm robbie crashed. lol i didnt get to bed till 11pm. go figure.
sunday we woke up and had a lazy morning and then headed back to my moms for crabs. after steaming some and prepping the other ones for hard fries, i checked my banking account and say that amazon.com had taken $79.00 out! WTF! so i call them and ofcourse get someone who doesnt speak english and ask them why they took it out. appearntly two months ago when i ordered two books i signed up for a membership. i told them i didnt and they said yea i did bc when i checked out i didnt uncheck a box offering a free trial membership for two months then i would be charged. ummmm yea ok. didnt see that box....and if i didnt check it, why would you all be sneeky like that? so they said the offer me a refund however it woul be 3-4days for them to do it and then another 3-5business days for my bank to repost it. UGH! not going to work. so amazon tells me to call my bank and have them do something about it. so i called wachovia,and explained the situation to them. they said they couldnt do anything with out a written letter saying that it was the merchants mistake and then they would take the check card hold off of my account and delete it. UGH! so i call amazon back and again get someone who doesnt speak english and tell them to fax the letter over to the bank, yea i have a persons name and fax number direct to him at wachovia. they tell me they cant do it, bc the billing department is closed. ok give me a manager. so the manager getts onto the phone and tells me he cant send me a letter or the bank bc they have no way. but he can email it to me and says, "then mam you can print it out and fax it yourself." WTF! now my temper is beyond words. yea i have a printer and fax machine in my house just sitting around waiting! dumbass. i said well why cant you. he says he cant bc he doesnt have the equitment. are you telling me in the whole office building you are in that you dont have a printer and fax machine but think i do in my house! so they sent me the email. big whoopie! so back to wachovia i go. i get the same guy i had before and tell him. he calls amazon with me on the line and talks to them. they said that they put a rush on my account. so the wachovia guy tells me after we get off the phone with them that he would check my account and make sure by wednesday that everything was back to normal. he even agreed that it was messed up on how they trick you into that. and suggested that i call the better business bureo. which i plan to do tomorrow. i will never buy anything from amazon ever again and have started to spread the word about it.
this thursday robbie and i leave for a weekend in atlanta. then after i come back on sunday, robbie stays down for a class for the rest of the week. then we leave august 1st for our real vacation to the flordia keys! yeppie!!!!!
ok time for bed. lol got to get some sleep!
well lets see where to start....saturday robbie and i woke up at 2:30am to get ready for robbies first crabbing trip with my mom and me. we were out of the house and on the road by 3am! on the water and out to our spot by 4am! yes it is very dark out there. but thats what head lamps are for. we laid out 30 crab traps with bait in them and on the second trap robbie caught the first crab! it was awsome. new maryland laws forbids social crabbers like me to keep female crabs. the reason is to eventually hope bring the crab population up. the size of the crabs have changed also. all this is fine by mom and me. shes been crabbing since she was younger and she started taking me around the age of 4 and i would love to do that with my children (if i ever get the chance to have them. thats another post later on). we caught a bussel of crabs by 10am. would have been more or finished earlier if we could keep the females. headed back to the boat ramp to head home. after we got home and got settled, robbie and i grabbed showers and got dressed for my boss' babyshower/bbq at her house. which was back in herdon va. so yea. hung out there for two hours and robbie got to meet my bosses and one of the drs i work for. then head back to the apartment where at 730pm robbie crashed. lol i didnt get to bed till 11pm. go figure.
sunday we woke up and had a lazy morning and then headed back to my moms for crabs. after steaming some and prepping the other ones for hard fries, i checked my banking account and say that amazon.com had taken $79.00 out! WTF! so i call them and ofcourse get someone who doesnt speak english and ask them why they took it out. appearntly two months ago when i ordered two books i signed up for a membership. i told them i didnt and they said yea i did bc when i checked out i didnt uncheck a box offering a free trial membership for two months then i would be charged. ummmm yea ok. didnt see that box....and if i didnt check it, why would you all be sneeky like that? so they said the offer me a refund however it woul be 3-4days for them to do it and then another 3-5business days for my bank to repost it. UGH! not going to work. so amazon tells me to call my bank and have them do something about it. so i called wachovia,and explained the situation to them. they said they couldnt do anything with out a written letter saying that it was the merchants mistake and then they would take the check card hold off of my account and delete it. UGH! so i call amazon back and again get someone who doesnt speak english and tell them to fax the letter over to the bank, yea i have a persons name and fax number direct to him at wachovia. they tell me they cant do it, bc the billing department is closed. ok give me a manager. so the manager getts onto the phone and tells me he cant send me a letter or the bank bc they have no way. but he can email it to me and says, "then mam you can print it out and fax it yourself." WTF! now my temper is beyond words. yea i have a printer and fax machine in my house just sitting around waiting! dumbass. i said well why cant you. he says he cant bc he doesnt have the equitment. are you telling me in the whole office building you are in that you dont have a printer and fax machine but think i do in my house! so they sent me the email. big whoopie! so back to wachovia i go. i get the same guy i had before and tell him. he calls amazon with me on the line and talks to them. they said that they put a rush on my account. so the wachovia guy tells me after we get off the phone with them that he would check my account and make sure by wednesday that everything was back to normal. he even agreed that it was messed up on how they trick you into that. and suggested that i call the better business bureo. which i plan to do tomorrow. i will never buy anything from amazon ever again and have started to spread the word about it.
this thursday robbie and i leave for a weekend in atlanta. then after i come back on sunday, robbie stays down for a class for the rest of the week. then we leave august 1st for our real vacation to the flordia keys! yeppie!!!!!
ok time for bed. lol got to get some sleep!
Monday, July 6, 2009
DEBT FREE!!!
ok so lets start at the begining.....
about 8yrs ago i had a really good friend named kathy. kathys family was pretty i would say poor. they had hardly any money and at that time i had no debt. so i would help her family out with stuff and everything. until one day kathy decided that i wasnt helping enough and helped herself to my credit card that was a $6,000.00 limit. by the time she was done and i realized it, the bill was $7,500.00!!!!!! when i took her to court with a lawyer with charges of idenity theft, plus she bought two brand new dell computer using my credit score and ss# and other stuff, the judge ruled that she had a right to it because she said it was out of charity. that since i had helped her family out many times before this that i did this also for her. so after two whole months of her paying about $600.00 total (not including intrest since it was over the limit as it was), she stoped paying. and left me with the bill. isnt that nice! so at that point i had two options: 1) declare bankrupce or 2) go into debt consoludation. which ment giving up my other credit cards, which at this point i was falling behind on payments bc of the stupid big one she messed up. so i decided to become debt free. i went into debt consoludation and worked towards paying off all the credit cards. as of last month June 16th 2009, THEY WERE ALL PAID OFF!!!! i was so excited. my cedit score has gone up and its imporving. i however have learned a lesson. one is that i will never lend alot of money to anyone if anyone...and that i no longer have a credit card. i have a debt card and thats all i use. sure i still have a cellphone bill but thats no problem. i now will be saving my ass off for robbie and mine future. he was so excited that i had done it all by myself and never asked for help to pay off the bill.
so i just thought i would say the great news. i do want to start saving however for a new car. my car hit 100,000miles last week and it kind of got me worried. granted i have an acura and its in great condition according to my mecanic. but still. i want to be able to get a svu soon and want to be able to pay for it all in cash or put a big down payment on it since robbie and i will mostly likely have a house at that point and other bills.
so thats it! thought i would share!
about 8yrs ago i had a really good friend named kathy. kathys family was pretty i would say poor. they had hardly any money and at that time i had no debt. so i would help her family out with stuff and everything. until one day kathy decided that i wasnt helping enough and helped herself to my credit card that was a $6,000.00 limit. by the time she was done and i realized it, the bill was $7,500.00!!!!!! when i took her to court with a lawyer with charges of idenity theft, plus she bought two brand new dell computer using my credit score and ss# and other stuff, the judge ruled that she had a right to it because she said it was out of charity. that since i had helped her family out many times before this that i did this also for her. so after two whole months of her paying about $600.00 total (not including intrest since it was over the limit as it was), she stoped paying. and left me with the bill. isnt that nice! so at that point i had two options: 1) declare bankrupce or 2) go into debt consoludation. which ment giving up my other credit cards, which at this point i was falling behind on payments bc of the stupid big one she messed up. so i decided to become debt free. i went into debt consoludation and worked towards paying off all the credit cards. as of last month June 16th 2009, THEY WERE ALL PAID OFF!!!! i was so excited. my cedit score has gone up and its imporving. i however have learned a lesson. one is that i will never lend alot of money to anyone if anyone...and that i no longer have a credit card. i have a debt card and thats all i use. sure i still have a cellphone bill but thats no problem. i now will be saving my ass off for robbie and mine future. he was so excited that i had done it all by myself and never asked for help to pay off the bill.
so i just thought i would say the great news. i do want to start saving however for a new car. my car hit 100,000miles last week and it kind of got me worried. granted i have an acura and its in great condition according to my mecanic. but still. i want to be able to get a svu soon and want to be able to pay for it all in cash or put a big down payment on it since robbie and i will mostly likely have a house at that point and other bills.
so thats it! thought i would share!
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