Made in China

I went through my daughters toys a couple of weeks ago to take out all her Polly Pocket toys that are on the recall list.  We explained that these toys were dangerous because of the magnets and they may have lead paint.  She remembered that a few months ago there had been  problems with the dog food from china and the toothpaste.

Today she was doing homework.  After she finished we were going to sit down to have pizza and she said "I better go wash my hands, my pencil might have been made in China".

I just about lost it.        How sad that an 8 year old is concerned that something is made in china and it might harm her.

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:05:00 -0700

I’m having a cow

I was going to bbq on thursday.  The weather has been really hot (heat index around 110) and i took the kids to the pool.  We were there for about and hour and then came home.  I had taken out a steak to defrost and figured we'd shower and have dinner.  The kids were having leftover pizza.

I could not turn the bbq on.  It's quite old and the ignitor just would not work.  I tried everything and it just did not want to lite.  My husband called right around that time and of course i was so 'happy'.  As i walk back into the house i'm just bitching about the grill, he's telling me to relax and i tell him that i'm having a cow.

My son sitting at the dinner table hears me, then says "Oh mommy can you put one on the grill for me too?"

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:43:00 -0700

As Luck would have it

I was on-line today ordering the HiSpeed Cable.  I had called customer service and they had told me that i could get it for $33 for 6 months and then the regular price.  I checked on-line and they had it for $19.99 for 6 months and then the regular price.  So i go through all the steps and when it's time to check out it would not go.  I tried it 3 more times and the same thing happened, it would stall on me and not finish.  So the next time i did all the steps and the one before finishing was "To finish checking out by phone call 1-800 blah blah blah"  so i figure ok, let's try that.  Well if you call on the phone they can only offer the 33$ deal and you have to have a service call instead of the self install which is another 30$.  So i'm like "NO, i want the self install and the 19.99" and the guy is like, well i can't do that for you, you can pick up a self install at a local office, but it's not going to be the 19.99.  So i tried it one more time and it went to check out to a Live Chat where someone on the other end confirmed that it was me and that i wanted this service.  It took close to 15 minutes just for the live chat to connect.  When i complained, the girl is like, well that probably happened because your connection is slow.   And i was like DUH,  which is why i'm trying to get HiSpeed from you DumbAss.

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:32:00 -0700