I normally don’t eat much fast food, however, KFC makes Wednesday nights easy with their chicken fried steak dinner for $1.99. I don’t stop there a lot, but I didn’t feel like making supper so I stopped at KFC with the intention of grabbing 4 chicken fried steak dinners (double mashed potatoes instead of cole slaw) and a side order of baked beans.
Kentucky Fried Chicken no longer sells baked beans. Green beans, yes, but no baked 
Bummer.
Add comment February 4th, 2010
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Charged my son’s phone $9.99 twice.
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Charged my son’s phone $9.99 twice.
After I read my kid the riot act for accepting charges to his phone, I mean, what the heck?! I called T-Mobile to have the charges reversed.
The rep (Tameka – excellent) let me know that most of the time this happens when answering a quiz on facebook or myspace and to receive the answers, you have to enter your phone number. Doing that subscribes you to some bogus service and they’ll charge you MONTHLY until you cancel.
Here are the numbers to cancel the subscriptions:
SendMe Mobile – 1-877-402-3687
Do NOT Choose the Speak to Live Customer Service choice, it’ll put you in voicemail. Just hang on a sec and choose the other option, that will send you to the right place where you can enter the sub’d number and unsub from the nonsense.
Media Breakaway – 1-866-616-6076
Pretty straightforward. Talk to the rep, tell them your 12 year old kid did it.
Please note.. Neither of these scams will refund your cash, just go through your cel phone provider. I’m sure they’ve seen enough of this to help you out.
Good luck.
I sorta owe my son an apology. Sorta
1 comment January 22nd, 2010
When we bought our house (in 2001), the kitchen/fireplace/den room had peel and stick tile flooring. I’ve wanted to replace the floor pretty much since we moved in. I really wanted to use terrazzo tile, I just love the look and the forever-ness of it, however, the cost per square foot is really more than we want to spend until we’re ready to rip out and remodel the kitchen completely.
At first, on recommendation from my father in law, we were going to use a Trafficmaster Dimensions Glueless Hardwood flooring, but after doing some research, I found that it’s not recommended for homes with pets (we have 4 dogs) because it scratches easily AND since we were going use it in the kitchen, I was kinda freaked out about the kids spilling, or dropping ice and leaving it to melt, (the Trafficmaster site says to clean up spills as soon as they happen), and general kitchen cleaning.. The Trafficmaster site specifies no soap, water, cleaners, oil-soap or liquid cleaners can be used. So there went that bright idea. Glad I did a little research before I made a huge mistake.
So, we decided to just go with more peel and stick tiles. I figure they’ll last a good 5 years (with a 15 year warranty) and by that time I’ll have figured out what I want to do with the kitchen and I’ll have enough cash saved up to put in the terrazzo floor I want.
Peeling up the old flooring was a breeze in some places and crazy hard in others. I’d read somewhere online to use a blow-dryer to loosen the old glue and that worked like a charm.
I’ve gotten the majority of the tiles down now, just have about 15 more to do to finish the major traffic areas, B has to cut tiles to fit around the edge of the kitchen. I thought it was going to be pretty easy, overall, and it has been. The only real issue I’ve found is, when the previous owners put the floor in, they didn’t fit the tiles exactly (butt them up next to one another) and there are some weird gaps (where dirt and other yuck has accumulated over the years) so I’m not able to peel one, stick one. That’s a bummer.
Oh.. and I haven’t told B yet, but.. When I was moving the stove, I lifted it by the handle (DUH) and broke it. Ugh. Gonna make his fave supper and break the news to him tonight.
I’ll post pix when it’s done.
Add comment January 6th, 2010
are you the person that left the 1/2 banana sitting on the counter? If not.. feel free to ignore this..
If you ARE that person, I want to ask you to PLEASE NEVER DO THIS.
NOBODY WILL EAT THE OTHER 1/2!! IN THE HISTORY OF OUR HAVING CHILDREN AND BEING MARRIED, NEVER, NOT EVEN ONCE, HAS SOMEONE GONE BEHIND YOU AND EATEN THE OTHER 1/2 OF THAT BANANA! NOT EVEN ONCE!!!! JUST THROW IT AWAY OR EAT THE WHOLE THING.
I love you 
kisses
Add comment October 30th, 2009
and I’m not happy.
I lean heavily on my DVR to keep me entertained.
Apparently, it’s a common occurance, it took all of 10 minutes for the Dish guy to authorize a new DVR be sent to me.
I let my daughter know what happened via txt message and this is her response:
“What! That sucks, what are you gonna do without it? That thing is your bff”
The child knows me.
Btw.. My DVR is a Dish Network VIP722 – the symptoms were: fan running constantly, rebooting and never getting a signal from the dish, the green light on front panel turned on, then off, then I saw white vertical bars on the tv screen, all the lights on the panel would flash, and nothing else happened. A continuous cycle.
Add comment October 7th, 2009
and I’m still in a WTF state of shock.
That’s it.
Add comment October 7th, 2009
Today is my mom’s birthday. It’s also my best friend’s birthday. Completely dropped the ball and didn’t call my best friend. Took flowers to my mom.
fubar day.
Add comment August 23rd, 2009
Okay.. So, awhile back I wrote about Secret Deodorant/Anti-perspirant not working anymore and apparently it’s not just me.
After experimenting with dozens of products I’ve found that Dove Anti-perspirant works pretty well if you’re bone idle. My husband prefers Dry Idea Roll on.. His opinion is that it works better than any of the solids, but it takes awhile for it to dry. (ICK)
Looks like they’ve lowered the active ingredient in what we’ve bought for so many years so we’ll buy their “Clinical formula” at a higher price.
1 comment August 10th, 2009
Vacation was nice. Port Aransas, Tx. We’ll probably go back one more time, soon, before it goes totally corporate and is ruined, like South Padre Island.
We stayed at Holiday Inn Port Aransas, nice hotel, great pool, close to beach, awesome breakfast. No balconies. We ended up hanging the clothes hangers from the closet on the shower rack to get our towels and bathing suits dry. Not a huge ordeal. The hotel provides pool towels so it was mostly beach stuff and we washed/dried it at the hotel (2 bux a load).
We ate at Shells (it’s right across the street from the hotel), pricey but worth it. Port A Pizzaria – Good pizza, all you can eat, they have issues keeping up with crowds so go early or late. Crazy Cajun – don’t waste your time, seriously overpriced for crappy food. Fins – nice view, food was awful.
For me, it’s all about the beach. Mustang Island is still wonderful. Drive down the beach away from everybody and just chill. The kids and B had a great time in the water. We bought boogie boards, a skim-board (B HAD to get the circle one instead of the easy to use one, so it spent most of the trip in the back of the truck. Live n learn), kids bought shirts, sunglasses and more crap. We ended up driving into Corpus, proper, hitting a K-mart on the way (no K-marts in North Tx), and went to the souvenier shops by the Radission (USS Lexington). Better prices, better selection.
All in all, I’d say the trip was a success.
Gonna start planning for next year’s.
Add comment July 20th, 2009
When you heard about Princess Diana’s death?
Saw it on the news in the middle of the night. Yes, I cried.
When you heard about Lucille Ball’s death?
I was living in Waco with my ex husband. Yes I cried.
When you heard about John Wayne’s death?
I was at my grandparent’s house at Lake Lavon. My grandma cried.
When you heard about Elvis’ death?
At my parent’s house, I had just finished my first embroidery sampler and the date is memorialized on that sampler. My mom cried.
When you heard about Michael Jackson’s death?
I was at the dollar store. It’s a huge loss to the music world. He was a brilliant performer and contributed so much, but strangely enough, I don’t think anyone I know will shed a tear. 20 years ago it would be very different. Sad.
I think Jon and Kate’s divorce affected me more.
Add comment June 26th, 2009
