I should probably title this I really hate cooking. Too often everyone complains and refuses to eat and I get so sick of it. My kids would love to eat fast food 24/7 and Brian always says what he fixes tastes better because he puts love in it. Don’t believe me; here’s a perfect example.

Before I left for work I marinated steak in a Chris Powell recipe and Brian fixed it for dinner. I g0t home long after they have eaten and he said what was in the marinate besides orange juice. Allyson thought it was ok while he shakes his hand back and forth in the 50/50 gesture and then says I thought it was alright. I look at him and say alright, gee that’s a real big step up from ok. Then he says, what? it was alright. And this folks is why I hate even bothering to meal plan or cook. The only reason I’m doing it now is for myself and if no one else likes it they can eat pizza rolls, fast food or dog food for all I care. This eating every three hours is almost a nightmare. It reminds me of feeding a newborn baby. But it’s working well in that I am eating fewer calories, not feeling hungry and lost weight the first week. So if the meals are only ok or alright, I’m eating them!

And that’s my rant for the day. Not much else is new. Oh wait! I had the best day at work since long before my surgery. My foot pain was not at the forefront of everything I did today. I had a blast with my patients and the girls I work with! So maybe just maybe the surgery was worth it after all!

Remember last Friday the guy on the phone said I should hear within a week about the lost claim form he filled out for me. So I decided I would give it until this coming Monday and then I would call. I still haven’t heard from them but I did get a letter in the mail about my insurance claim. I had to mail the letter back with proof of what I had bought to get my 300 dollars back. The books were purchased through half.com which meant I had to go on there and print that out as well as my credit card  statement. So I start to print that and the printer jams up. I have hated this printer/scanner since the day I got it. Of course my mom was kind enough to give it to me brand new for free so I cannot complain about it too much. It said cartridge error please consult the owners manual. First of all, who has the owners manual five or more years later and secondly nothing comes with one of those anyway. So I take the ink cartridges out and jam them back in and it finally prints the stuff. I am going to have to crack and get a new printer but not in the middle of being ready to smash it! So then I head to Imperial post office to mail it because I have decided I am paying to have it sent certified with a signature required. No way am I dealing with “it never came to us, it’s been longer than 30 days so you are screwed out of 300 dollars.” Of course I get to Imperial and they close at 11:30 and it’s 11:40. So I get back in my car, drive over to Arnold and get the stupid thing mailed out today. I told Emily order your books again and I will give you the insurance money when it comes. And she has changed the address on her credit card so the books can be mailed directly to her in Kansas City! Never again is she having anything mailed here first. Oh and if by chance something does come I will be using the brown clowns (aka UPS) from now on!

Today I got up and did what I almost always do  which is sign in to online banking and reconcile my account. Yes I still keep a check register. Ok I’ll admit I’m sort of progressive because it’s on the computer and not on paper. I use to use Microsoft money until I ditched windows and went to Mac. I know use an app for it. This way my math is always correct. This obsession with keeping track of my money all started when Brian and I met with the preacher who married us before we got married and he suggested keeping track of money so there is no argument where it went. Now if you remember my refusal to ask for help issue in a previous post, you will not be shocked to realize I took this to the extreme. I have printouts of monthly income and expenses since 1990. Yes, I use to keep track of it on paper and when I got my first computer I went back and manually entered like 10 years worth of data. See why my coworkers call me CR? (you know crazy Rachel).

Ok back to the story once I signed in I immediately noticed a charge from Sams Club and some place I never heard of. I do not own a Sams club card so I knew that wasn’t from me. So I call my sister in a panic and she says remember I’m at the lake, I told you that yesterday when you called me. So she told me who to talk to at the bank because it was before the lobby opened. So I got my debit card shut down right there and then went to the bank later to get a new debit card and sign the papers for the fraud on my account. I did learn that the credit union that the people who steal your number start with small amounts because normal people do not notice for some time. And if I were like most people these days and not even keep track, it may have taken me even longer to notice. I had a pending charge to Dollar General for 54. I said I do not mean to sound like a snob but I never shop there. The girl laughed. So the 105 dollars worth of money they stole, should be back in my account within ten days.

The moral of this mole story, it pays to be a freak!

Yesterday Emily was harassing me about her books again so I shot off an email to the post office stating I wanted someone to call me. The same guy from Arnold post office (even though I mailed the stuff from Imperial post office) called me back. He was like didn’t I talk to you before. I said yes and he said he forgot to make a note. I told him I filed an insurance claim over a week ago. He was shocked that I haven’t heard anything. He asked me if I filed a lost package claim. I said nope, never heard of it. Because according the tracking it is till at the Imperial post office although when I called them first, they swore it wasn’t there. He said someone should be calling me. I said how long should I wait before I call again if no one contacts me. He said a week. So come June 30 if no one has contacted me about my insurance claim or the lost package I am going to go off. I told him the 1-800 number always says speak to a customer service rep not available and hangs up. So if I get that ######## again I will have to go to Imperial in person and demand they get someone on the damn phone that can take care of this. On a positive note, Emily has better grades these last three weeks without books so who needs them. Hahahaha. Totally kidding. But she only has 7 weeks left so at this point it’s almost a waste of money! Oh and I did tell him if these books are in St. Louis I’d be happy to go get them and mail them through UPS. (Or as Brian has nicknamed them, the brown clowns!)

I have been following the drama of the C-6 school district for the past two weeks. I knew Rich Simpson from high school so I was very interested in the law suit. I ran into one of Emily’s friends mom on Sunday at Target (yes, before I locked my keys in the car) and she told me the whole thread that the lawsuit was about is still on the website. Now the news had reported that some of the comments were not be able to be said on the air. So since I have nothing else better to do I looked up the thread and started reading. It all started back in 12/12 and runs up until the present. There are over 2700 comments and since I have nothing else better to do I started at the beginning. I am around comment 900 at the present and have read the comment they couldn’t say on the news. All I have to say is I hope Rich and Michelle bleed which ever one of the four bozos said it dry. I also can’t believe grown adults attacked each other the way they have. I have almost come to the conclusion that no one ever grows up past middle school. Ha ha ha. I also cannot believe highly educated people did not realize that IP addresses can be easily traced. Perhaps they never saw the episode of Forensic Files in which a killer submitted a yahoo map (I think) to the St. Louis Post Dispatch showing where a body was hidden. This dude was quite surprised when they showed up his house in St. Louis to arrest him. Although it is easy to hide behind social media and pretend to be someone you are not, it is not a wise idea to libel people in that way.
Ok back to reading this craziness.

While driving home from dropping Allyson off at art camp I made the decision to start a blog. My counselor suggested it a few years ago but I have always been one slow to listen. I came up with the perfect name “life with moles.” As I learned to accept a long time ago, my life is always a comedy….of errors.
I decided my first post will be about yesterdays adventures. I signed Allyson up for art camp. I have wanted to for the past couple of years but didn’t because of the cost. This year I threw caution to the wind and signed her up for four different weeks. I will have to beg for extra shifts when I return to work. So I pick her up and ask how it went. She said our first project was to take clay and show texture and I rolled it out flat and wrote TEXTURE in it. Then she said I won. I was impressed with her cleverness. I would have tried to make the clay lumpy or something stupid like that. It is why I am a nurse and not an artist.
While working on this Kayla attempts to take her antibiotic for her tonsillitis. She puts it in her mouth, takes a drink of water, starts choking and then it flew out of her mouth nearly missing the table. And that folks is life with moles!

I have been unable to access my blog for well over 24 hours. I did some research and found that blog.com is down all the time and for long periods of time. I had two choices, deal with it or bite the bullet, move my blog and pay to call it lifewithmoles.net. So I choose the second option and decided its only money. This time I did major research and the new domain got rave reviews. If this tanks, then I will say forget it and just write notes on Facebook. Ok those that really know me, know this is a total lie. I cannot leave this stuff alone until I figure it out and get it working. I seriously need an intervention. Anyway, now to mess with the site to get it to look the way I would like. More tomorrow!