Are You Doing It

The April A-Z challenge is a great way to meet new bloggers and a good way to learn how creative you can be.
I have signed up for this blog as well as my yummy stuff recipe blog.

I am a bit more prepared than I was last year.
I still don't have it all planned, but I know about it ahead of time this year.

Feel free to make a theme
Or just wing it.

Certain letters are tough
But, that is what makes it a challenge.

You post Monday through Saturday during the month of April.
The first is a Sunday so you DO post on that day
No other Sunday though.

Go on over and sign up!

I Have a Funky Heart!

Yesterday, I started my day by going to the ER.

When you mention chest pains, it is amazing how fast you get a room.
Try it!
You won't be disappointed.

And than I got to chew 4, count'em-4, baby aspirin.
Just enough water to get them down.

Next, I got the inside of my elbow gouged out by the nurse, who could not find my vein.
If she were a cartoon, the bubble over her head would read
" I'll dig just a little bit more and I'll find it."

She had to give up and drill another spot.
Honeyman said it was painful just watching.
Imagine how it felt.

Next came the EKG and blood tests.
Than an X-ray.

No heart attack and they can't find anything.

They sent me to get a stress echo test and to talk to a cardiologist.

They wanted my heart rate up to 180, but it didn't want to go past 170
so they went with that, because I was seeming to need to stop
Maybe they were afraid my heart was going to explode.

It was normal.
Yay!

I figured that it would be.
But, one never knows.
It really felt like they were trying to kill me.

Apparently my heart skips beats sometimes and when the next beat comes it is harder and gives me some pain and can make me lightheaded.
It also can give me cottonmouth.

It isn't dangerous, but is annoying.
And funky!

I'd Like a Vacation

A nice, long vacation would be so nice.
Maybe a year of no crap would be enough.

Quite lovely, in fact.

But, first I need to win the lottery
or, at the very least, a visit from Dave Sayer.

Publishers Clearinghouse has a new winner February 29th.
I have a feeling ....



...he's not coming this time either.

Money might not bring happiness, but it sure would make me happy to know that if I needed to buy new tires for the truck I wouldn't have to wait until the student loan people deem to send me my interest form so I could file my taxes so that I could afford the tires.

Update on my daughter- I will be taking her to the gynecologist as soon as I can.
How sad that I had to take her to the ER because her primary didn't think I knew what I was talking about.

In other news, my phone company pissed me off today.

Starting on Friday, my phone kept ringing and no one was ever there.
No matter whether you picked it up or let it go to voicemail no one was there.
Just beeps. It even left voicemail beeps.

A phone call to the number that called us led us to a woman saying it wasn't her and she didn't know what was going on.
Windstream was gone for the weekend. Yay me!

I found how to block the call.
It didn't work, apparently.

I got a hold of Windstream today.
I had to call them 4 times.

Than they wanted me to sign up for trap and trace.
The first lady said I would have to do this through the police.
So, I tell this last woman that I am going to talk to the sheriff's office first.

She wanted me to sign up for theirs first, which I would have to pay for.

I told her I was getting mad.
I wanted to use stronger language, but customer service people do not like it when I say pissed off. They tell me they won't talk to me if I say that.
So, damn or hell or shit is really out of the question.

Not sure if it was mentioning the sheriff or being mad or Windstream calling the number that was calling here, but the calls stopped right after the last phone call I made.

And it is really quite pathetic that it takes two minutes of pushing buttons and listening to an automated voice before I actually get to talk to someone. Even if you know the button, you can't push it early. You can, it just doesn't matter.

Thank you, Iowatelecom.
Thank you for selling to Windstream.
I love crappier customer service and more internet outages!