Crazy Craiglist People, wtf...?

I know that CL can be like taking a shot in the dark, but sometimes you find really cool stuff. So my sister found some teak furniture that looks really great in the pictures, so we arranged to go see it. The lady she speaks to on the phone is all, you aren't that far at all, well we google maped it and DAMN! We were like half an hour away.

So, we make the trip, and they have a gate, so we call, and no answer, leave messages, no answer. Finally, there's some dude wandering around outside the house so we like flag him down and he clicks the gate open for us. And like, seriously, he doesn't say anything, we're like uh we're here to look at the furniture... He's like 'oh, over there' and points then lights up a ciggy and disappears.

Fine, ok whatever, it's like nice furniture and all, but it reeeeeeks like fresh stain or something, I mean I didn't really think that you were supposed to stain teak, but besides that. Then, we look closer, it has like major flaws, and the stain is still kind of sticky. This lady comes out and is like, well I am selling this for my daughter, and we're like, um... ok... She won't take less than what it was posted for, even though we had asked about flexiblity on the price before going out there. We're like this is just weird, and we're still looking at the furniture at this point, and notice it's not smooth like teak should be, and some of the boards are warped. So, we're like, we're out, forget it. I can smell the CL scam now... time to depart.

Well, then she won't click the gate to let us out. We're waiting to get out and she's just doing whatever... I'm like clicky clicky... click... hello? And she's like well I can go cheaper, how about this or that? We're like no, clicky clicky... let us out, she's totally still trying to get us to buy it, I'm like CLICKY CLICKY NOW! And she's like oh whatever, and finally clicks us out.

I swear, I thought I was gonna have to dial 9-1-1 and be like, we're trapped because we went to look at furniture on CL... ugh... lesson learned, do research ahead of time about what you're buying, and #2, bring mace and running shoes or some big muscular dudes.

Are you seriously arguing with me barista?

So... I went to Starbucks this morning, and I order: iced, vente, decaf, americano, light room. So I pay and I hear the screechy barista call out some random americano with light ice, and I'm all, um, I ordered a decaf with light room, nothing about ice. And she starts arguing with me, well it says light ice on the cup she says. It so does not... it says 'LiteR' which apparently in her world means light ice. So then she proceeds to argue with me, and I'm like forget it I have to get back to work and I don't have time to argue with her. So I have this like half filled cup of coffee because there's like a quarter of it not filled up with ice nor water, she asks me if that's enough room, and I'm like, it's fine. She's all, no, tell me what you want, and I'm like, I want my coffee, I have to go. She's like NO, just tell me what you want, it says light ice on the cup. I'm like, just give me my coffee so I can go, she seriously won't give me my coffee... I finally reach over the counter and I'm like, please give me my coffee it's fine, I have to go. She's like fine... ok... you can just tell me what you want... God almighty woman, don't argue wtih a pregnant woman who can't have caffiene in the morning when you're obviously wrong. Anyway, I took a picture of the cup so maybe you guys can tell me if it says light ice and I'm a total bitch.

Is AT&T that stupid? Yes my friend... yes they are...

OK so I'm trying to pay the AT&T bill online so I don't get charged this $5 fee any more for paying on the phone, and being anti-checks when it comes to paying I try to do everything online. So, we already have paperless billing, I can login and see my bill, great right? No... you can only login and SEE the bill, you cannot PAY the bill. To pay the bill you have to login using an account number, which I hear is on the paper bill. Well, we do NOT get the paper bill.

So I make Mike call, and they refuse to give him the account number, they're like we can send you a duplicate bill, and he's all, well we have paperless billing. The lady then says we can charge you $5 and take the payment over the phone, perhaps, she forgot that he had called to avoid this fee and just pay the bill online... So round and round it goes...

I want to pay my bill online, which requires the account number, which I do not have since I have paperless billing and the account number is on the paper bill, they refuse to give me the account number because it's 'policy' but still want me to pay the bill for $5. My summary of the whole experience is that they simply want their $5 from us people that choose to go paperless.

In the end we let them send us the paper bill, hell, it's the only way apparently that I am able to get the account number which I need to establish online bill-pay. I hate AT&T and if there was another option besides Comcast for internet I would take it in a heartbeat.

So I took my break and had a chocodile...

Have you had a chocodile, I have to say I didn't have one until like this month, maybe like two weeks ago. My friend and I went to the Hostess Bakery Thriftshop, and Mike had been on and on about how they have chocodiles. Now, I'd never heard of a chocodile, but there they were, in all their glory. It's a chocolate covered twinkie, http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chocodile.

So, I notice the price for a box of 10 chocodiles is like a buck more than the other snack cakes, so I'm all, oh I dunno... that's like a whole dolla. But I buy the chocodiles, total fattie move, I scarf one when I get into the car. And it's freakin' delicious. I'm not a huge fan of snack cakes, but there's just something about a hostess treat.

I googled Hostess Chocodiles and I guess you can't get them on the East Coast, and they don't really sell them in stores or anything, they make them at a couple factories on the West Coast, so I feel sooooo lucky. Needless to say weeks later the box is gone, and I'm gonna go get some more, baby likes them, yeah... it's the baby... she's the one that likes the chocodiles.

Hey guess what jerky dr mcjerk jerk

I just got my glucose test back and it was 80, awwww... look at that, it was normal...

I feel like shoving my face full of donuts now.

Totally annoyed with the 'temporary doctor'

I have to say it was most likely the most unpleasant prenatal exam I've ever had, EVER. Our regular doc is out on vacation and I had to see this other doctor, never met him, don't know him and it's just a check up so I figured it would be a quick in and out. Well, first they call to reschedule me to earlier in the day, it was like an hour from when they had called and 3 hours before my scheduled appointment. There was no way that I was going to make it, much less Mike be able to make it all the way back up here. So I had to reschedule to another day, fine, whatever. Wednesday rolls around and they call again, to reschedule me to EARLIER in the day again! I'm like no, I explained this last time, and she's like oh yeah that's right, I remembered as I hung up the phone. An hour passes and I get ANOTHER call, they want me to drop everything I'm doing and come in NOW... I'm like wtf... enough is enough. I'm like I already spoke to someone and she said it was fine that I keep my scheduled appointment. And she tells me, oh well no one told us, and he has a 2 hour gap and you're the last appointment, it's like what am I supposed to do about that? I tell her I'll get there as quickly as possible but I'm going to wait for my husband who's driving from like 2 hours away. She's clearly displeased, well, sorry, not my fault.

So we get there, and I'm pretty prepared for major attitude, and I was not disappointed. The nurse tells me how I shouldn't worry because she kept the doctor busy for the 2 hour gap, wha... why do I care? And then she starts telling me how I should watch what I eat and not eat sweets because I have a loooooong way to go still... basically she's lecturing me about being overweight, real nice. For some reason she starts telling me how the doctor can't remember who his patients are or when they were in to see him... I'm like, god, get me out of here. Then, I get a lecutre about how I'm obviously not drinking enough fluids, and it just goes on and on about how I'm unhealthy. I'm sorry, but I'm healthy, I may be a bit on the chunky monkey side, but I'm healthy.

Doc shows up, total jerk. He says, you probably have gestational diabetes because you haven't gained any weight, and you should stop eating all those sweets. WTF people, I don't eat sweets because I can't, because they make me sick. Not like he listened to that though. He proceeds to blow off my questions, like about waking up on my back, kick counts, etc... Interrupting me and telling me how I need to contact my actual doctor for anything I need, gee, really, like you've been so helpful.

My friend said that he's going to be the dude that delivers our baby, I bet she's right. It would have to be him wouldn't it?