8 posts tagged “mom”

Today mom said "I don't know any of this stuff!  I'm old.  I probably wouldn't feel old if you weren't around.  Ever since you were born, you just keep reminding me!"

LOL mom!

Later on, we went to the store and she needed vitamins.  She was trying to decide what she wanted when I found the 50+ Womens Vitamins.  I showed them to her.  She gave me this shocked look (like she couldn't believe I'd suggest that she take 50+ vitamin).  Then she spoke.

"There you go again!"

"What?" I said.

"You just keep reminding me!  I never would have thought to buy 50+ vitamins if you weren't here."

LOL

"Well, you need them, they have the things you need when you are over 50." I said, laughing.

She read the label out loud.  "Helps with memory.  Hmmm, yeah I need that."

"Are you losing your mind?" I asked her, sarcastically.

"Oh yes, at work, I'm always walking into the main kitchen and forgetting what I need.  I just stand there and wonder why I went in there.  But, it's ok.  We all do it.  We are all old."

LOL mom  :D

So, she bought the 50+ vitamins.  hehehe

And, on a side note...I wonder how they ever get the kiddies fed(mom works in a school cafeteria), if all the ladies in the kitchen are 'old and forgetful' LOL

Mom and I always have odd conversations.  Mostly because she's always in her own little la-la land and never gets the whole story.  LOL

This was today:

Mom called me on my cell phone (even though we are in the same house) and began:

Mom: "The news just said you could go online and enter your zip code."
Me: "Why?"
Mom: "I don't know."
Me: "Then why do you want to enter your zip code?"
Mom: "To see what it is."
Me: "Uhm, well, ok.  What's the website then?"
Mom: "I don't know."
Me: "You don't know the website?"
Mom: "No."
Me: "How am I supposed to do this then?"
Mom: "Just go online."
Me: "Mom, there are about 3 billion websites out there."
Mom: "It had to do with space.  Just type in space."
Me: "What?  Are you kidding me?"
Mom: "What?"
Me: "Do you know how many websites I'd get back for the keyword 'space'?"
Mom: "They didn't say what website on the news."
Me: "Yes they did, you just missed it."
Mom: "Well, I did dial you up before they were done talking."
Me: "Why didn't you finish listening?"
Mom: "Because I was dialing you."
Me: "No, why didn't you just watch the whole segment, instead of calling me to ask me what the segment was about?  They would have told you why you were entering your zip code."
Mom: "They didn't say."
Me: "It was probably listed on the screen."
Mom: "I don't know."
Me: "Well, what was it about, do you know?"
Mom: "Space"
Me: "Mom, I need more than that."
Mom: "I think they will tell you when to look up to space."
Me: "What?!"
Mom: "Yeah. I want to see when Pam should look up to space."
Me: "Huh?"
Mom: "Because she lives in the country."
Me: ....
Mom: "Are you there?"
Me: "I'm not...I don't..."
Mom: "Did you look up NBC?"
Me: "Why would I look up NBC?"
Mom: "Because that's what I'm watching."
Me: "You didn't say that."
Mom: "Yes I did."
Me: "No, you didn't, mom."
Mom: "You need a hearing aid."
Me: "You need a hearing aid.  I'm looking at the NBC website and there's noting about a zip code.  What am I looking for?"
Mom: "The space thingy."
Me: "Yeah, I know...but...nevermind."
Mom: "Is it there?"
Me: "I have no idea."
Mom: "You're supposed to be able to put in your zip code."
Me: "Yeah, I got that."
Mom: "To see space."
Me: ...
Mom: "We have binoculars."
Me: ...
Mom: "Are you looking?"
Me: "I'm trying NASA now."
Mom: "Yeah, try NASA.  And the government.  And NBC News."
Me: "We just tried NBC."
Mom: "But try the news."
Me: "Yeah, mom, I did.  It's all there on the same site."
Mom: "Is it on the NASA site?"
Me: "I don't see anything about a zip code.  Why are we looking into space?"
Mom: "To see the toolbox!"
Me: "WHAT?! ????  ..... "
Mom: "The astronauts lost it."
Me: "Oh."  o.O
Mom: "Did you find it?  I wanna see the toolbox."
Me: "I thought you didn't know what this was all about?"
Mom: "Oh my gosh, you don't listen!"
Me: "If I had known about the toolbox thing before, I might have found this earlier."
Mom: "Well, I said it was a toolbox."
Me: "No you didn't!"
Mom: "You need a hearing aid."
Me: "We have already discussed this."
Mom: "I guess I'll watch the news again and see if they mention it."
Me: "Ok. Whatever."
Mom: "Bye."
Me: "See ya."

This is why I will go crazy before I'm 35.

Show us a picture of something you would miss if it disappeared.

My family!  Here are my mom and our dogs. (I'm not sure why Annie is being so shy in these pictures. lol)

I guess I was camera happy today.  lol  Here is a picture of the church building and my mom....taking a picture of the church building.

Took the dogs for a walk on the college campus (where I work).  It was pretty deserted and the fall colors made it very lovely.  Got lots of great pictures

Show us your favorite walking path

This is actually where I work.  The college campus I work on has beautiful grounds and we walk our dogs out there.  This is my mother and Angel, walking to the bridge.

*sigh*

ok, today has been rather dramatic.  It's not anything big or horrible...just annoying little things (and aggravating things) that add up to a frustrating day with a high heart rate.  lol

The heart rate is mostly from the wasps.  Yes...wasps.  We have a few nests of wasps on our porch this year.  We keep trying to get rid of them, but they just keep coming back.  We finally got them to vacate the nest right above our front door, but now, it looks like they are nested in the rafters of the porch roof.  Great.

The really lovely thing is that somehow, they are getting inside the glass door and getting trapped between the main door and the glass door.  They can somehow get in, but they can't get back out.  So, they get all frustrated and buzzy and when we open the main door...OMG a lunatic wasp is freaking out on your face.  This has happened about 10 times in the past couple of weeks.  It happened again today.  I opened the door to let Annie outside and there it was.  This time, Annie saw it too and was curious, so she ran right up to the door and tried to sniff it.  Luckily, Annie is  pretty good listener, so when I told her to back up and go the back door instead, she obeyed and ran to the back door and waited for me to let her out.  I prayed that they wasp would not discover the living room and continue to look out the glass door, hoping to get back out.  It did.  I quickly closed the main door.  Now, I wanted to prop the glass door open with a shoe, so the wasp would have a way out, but it was buzzing about by the door latch.  Later, we opened the door and it was gone.  Not sure how they are getting in and out.  There isn't any noticeable holes.  Also, I've kept the glass door (or as some would call it a 'screen door'...ours just doesn't have screens) locked but the main door open when the dogs are out, so I can see them in the yard.  I'm rethinking that idea.  If the wasps can get in, they could just come right in my house!  So, hence, the drama of the wasps.

Events like this always get me thinking about the human body and the amazing thing that it is.  :)  I know, I'm weird.  See, when I saw that wasp, my heart rate shot through the roof.  Why?  Well, more blood flowing = more oxygen to the brain = faster brain function.  I could get away faster.  :)  I just think that's brilliant.

Even though I feel like a wreck when my heart rate goes back down...it's exhausting!  lol

So, the next area of drama is the collection agency calling me today.  First, I have student loans that I have to put in forbearance because I haven't found a full-time job yet.  (They always ask, 'are you applying?'...uh..yeah.  I send out about 20 resumes to actual job openings a month!  LOL  I'm just too green, you know?  In my line of work, they want people with 2-7 years of experience, at least.  Luckily, I got a part-time job in my field, which is giving me that experience.  It's just not at 2 years yet.  *sigh*  Eventually, I'll get a job.)  Ok, so anyway, I have these loans.  I called in June to check on the status of my forbearance, because I knew they would be coming out soon.  The woman told me that they would come out soon and I needed to fill out the Economic Hardship Forbearance form and send it in to (she gave me the address) in the MIDDLE OF AUGUST.  No sooner, no later.  If I sent it sooner, it may be denied, because the loans would still be under the first forbearance and therefore the new forebearance would be denied.  If I sent it in later, my loans would come due and I would have to pay.  So, I filled out the form and waited until August 11 (earlier than the middle of August, actually) and mailed the form.

Then today, I get a call from the collection agency.  Wait.  No, I got FIVE calls in the span of 3 hours.  In fact, they woke me up this morning.  grrr.  So, the gal, who apparently is unable to speak clearly to save her life, says that my loans are at collection.  Excuse me?  I don't EVEN think so.  So, I told "Shaynee" to make a note that I should not be called again because this is a mistake on the part of my loan company and not me.  She said "ok, i'll m *mumble mumble* note."  *rolling my eyes*  I swear, this girl sounded about 15 years old and she mumbled everything.  I had to ask her to repeat what she was saying about 20 times...until I finally gave up and just said 'whatever'.  So, I ended the call with "Thanks, Shaynee, for making that note.  I'm sure I'll still get a call though.  You have a great day."  I was civil, right?  :)  Besides, I'm upset at my loan company...they are the ones that made the mistake.

So, I call my loan company and spoke with the same guy I usually do when I call.  Except for last time, when I apparently got a clueless girl.  *sigh*  I told him about the collection agency and that I was very upset that they had my information in the first place because I did EXACTLY what I was instructed to do.  His response was that "well, the originator of your loan (this place just takes over loans when they go into repayment) did that, not us."  Uh, yeah, buddy.  I DON'T CARE.  It was his company's mistake that caused all this.  I explained exactly what his co-worker told me to do.  He told me to hold. 

Then, a gal came on the line and I repeated it all to her.  (don't you hate that?  I mean...why can't they just pass the info along?  geez).  So, she says "well, it hasn't been reported to your credit report yet and we received your forbearance request yesterday.  It will take 10 days to process, but as long as we have your request, your outstanding balance will not be reported on your credit report."  So, apparently, the collection agency has access to my account and can see that I have a forbearance in process...it's just that Miss Mumbles over there can't seem to figure out how to do that or something.  Miss Mumbles told me she didn't know anything other than what her note said.  (That may have been the understatement of the year, but I don't know...I don't know the girl.).  So, anyway, the collection agency will probably harass the crap out of me for the next 10 days while I wait for the stupid forbearance to be put in effect.

Oh, and the kicker?  I didn't even get an apology out of my loan company for the bad information they gave me that caused this mess.  All she could tell me was that "the only note we have of your call in June was that you talked about the forbearance."  What happened to "This call may be recorded to insure quality service"???  grrr.

And then, my mom gets off work and proceeds to tell me all about her lousy boss.  Her boss is just negative.  She's just one of those people, you know?  She sees two minutes of a 6 hour day and assumes she knows everything and proceeds to lay down judgment.  My mom works in a high school cafeteria and today she helped on the serving line.  They were having walking tacos and corn.  They have to ask if the student wants corn.  Well, duh.  That's like 'customer service 101'.  And my mother has been in the food service industry since she was a kid...her family has owned restaurants and everything.  My mother knows how to serve the people. 

So, Miss Negative watched my mom serve from the line for about 2 minutes and then said "you need to ask them all if they want corn".  Miss Negative happened to only see the moments when the students that walked up said "I want corn" or "I don't want corn".  So, it would be kinda stupid if my mom said "do you want corn" after they just said if they did.  Can I get an Amen?  But, Miss Negative can't hear the students, she can only see my mom's mouth and swears my mom didn't say "do you want corn" to every single student. 

My mother cannot take this at all.  She gets upset and flustered and she'll quit jobs.  I've tried to make her understand, there are negative people everywhere and you just need to ignore them.  Counter them, if you can.  Prove them wrong.  If that happened to me, I would have looked at the woman and said "The only students I didn't ask were the one's who offered that information to me as they walked up.  If they already told me if they wanted corn or not, it would be stupid to ask them again.  You don't want us to look stupid to the students do you?  Especially with the principle out there, who I can tell, you are trying mighty hard to impress by acting 'all-powerful'."

Ok, maybe I would leave the last sentence off.  Maybe I wouldn't.  I might say it in jest.  Negative people figure out pretty quickly that I don't care about their whiny attitudes.  They usually get pretty peeved at me for it.  I think they somehow enjoy negativity and when they fail to make me negative as well, it really irks them.  hehe

Hopefully, my mom will be able to stick it out and ignore this woman.  She's the big boss...not my mother's direct boss (my mom likes everyone she works with in the kitchen).  This woman only shows up when they are serving and the principle is in the 'audience'.  She likes to give her "I'm powerful" performance to him. 

The only other annoyance is that my dogs have been absolutely incessant about treats today.  Whining and barking and refusing to eat their food.  Well, they are gonna have a long, tough day then....because they are not getting any treats until they eat their food.

Angel will give in tonight.  She always does.

Annie will wait two or three days.  She will practically starve herself....but then she will eat, while pouting.  She's such a baby.  lol

Show us the five people you'd invite to a dinner party.

Ok, I'm going to say that they can be people I know or don't know and people who are dead or alive.  hehe

So:

Jesus - Savior!
Viggo Mortensen - Artist/Poet
Abraham Lincoln - Leader
Mom - Mommie!
Loretta Lynn - For my mom, she loves Loretta.  :D