Flip Off Friday 9/30 edition

It's been a while since I've done these, so I'm craving my week ending de-stressor. And thanks to Kludgy Mom, this is always one of my favorite posts. Who me? Angry? Pent up aggression? No. So here it goes.

1. To the heckler on the side lines of my son's soccer game: FLIP OFF! My son, who has since quit soccer, but when he first took the field, he played soccer like it was tackle football. He didn't mean any harm. He's five. He thought it was funny. He has to learn. But the big mouth parent on the sidelines, couldn't keep their mouth shut and started yelling things at him like, "Kid, this isn't football, it's soccer." To this said parent, who mad my blood boil, keep  your mouth shut or I'll run you down like my kid did to yours on the soccer field.

2. To my son's elementary school: FLIP OFF! Closing the library wasn't cool. I know it is still open as a public library after school hours, and that you are "working on" opening it sometime soon. But, literacy is a big problem in this country and you go and close the library, "temporarily" and end library visits "temporarily" for the kids during school hours, kids still learning to read. And you don't even tell the parents about it, letting us know why you did it, what is being done to bring it back and how long it will take, you just do it and we have to hear about it second hand. You need to keep us informed, this is our children's school, the place 50% of our high property taxes go. As far as I'm concerned, in regards to my kids' school, there is no such thing as giving us "too much" information.

3. To Teething: FLIP OFF! I know I have flipped off this one before, and it can't be done enough, but my 10 month old just cut the top two teeth and  the weeks leading up to it were filled with no sleeping, crying, not wanting to eat, just wanting to be held.... and that was just me, you should have seen the baby. *smile* You know what I mean, they need to write a parents hand book, just about teething.

4. To my kids' recent hearing loss: FLIP OFF! All I have to say about this one to get you to understand is, I might as well be talking to a wall.

Thanks to Momma Kiss for hosting this weeks Flip Offs. Head on over to her blog to check out more Flips.

Ahhhh....much better, now on to Friday.

Flip Off Friday

So, I was content about not having anything to Flip Off and then I got stressed out and thought F that! I have a couple things to get off my mind after all.

To teething: FLIP OFF. My son has been teething forever. FOR.EVER. He is cranky and miserable and doesn't want to sleep or eat. It's like a party at midnight, at 3:00am and then again at 4:15am. Quite frankly I miss my sleep and I want it now, NOW.

To Whole Foods: FLIP OFF. Where do you get off charging what you charge? I went in for 5 things and come out my pockets an easy $38 lighter , for 5 things I remind you. It was close to where I was and the kids were still good and I just needed to go in and pick up a couple things and get out of there. Big Mistake. The prices were bad and so were the kids. Back to Wegmans I go, at least the prices will be good there, not sure about the kids.

To the drivers who text while they drive: FLIP OFF. Is it that important? You're going to kill someone. You're not watching where you're going. You speed up when you should slow down and you stop when you should keep going. At lights when I stop behind you I feel like getting out and shoving that phone up your you know what!

To my Dell and the Dell customer Service people, tech support personnel (or so they call themselves): FLIP OFF. I have gotten better service at Chick-Fil-A. At least they can take my order, right, call me when it is ready and even offer to take it to where I am sitting when they see I am busy. Dell, you can't call me back or help me. You tell me you can't help me unless I pay because I don't have a warranty on my 4 month old computer, when indeed I do, it's good until 2012. You tell you have fixed my problem and you have not and you tell me you will do something and you don't follow through. I don't care if you are from India, China, Iraq or Africa, I want help and I want it NOW.

And to all my friends who hear me complain when I tell them I got a Dell and say, "You should have gotten a MAC!", when it's too late anyway...: FLIP OFF! Don't you think I know this.

To myself for not sweeping good enough: FLIP OFF. My house is not messy, and it is clean, but my 9 month old crawler finds everything. This week I took out his mouth cat food and a cat hair ball, enough to make me gag!

Oh and this one is for my sister, whom I love, I'm sure although she is happy, she is having babies but she'd totally like to flip off that one egg and sperm that divided and is giving her twins: FLIP OFF! Now that we got that off our chest....let's enjoy the twins! Yay! There is always a positive spin on Flip Off Friday.

Thanks Kludgy Mom, YOU ROCK!  Flip Off Friday is like therapy.

Flip off Friday 8/20/2010

To my gas range: FLIP OFF. I know I read on last week's Flip Off about some one's oven not working, and now of course, because of the wonderful luck I am having this week, mine also stopped working. The top burners work but not the oven. It just gave out, checked out and went on vacation without so much as a warning.

To my Home Phone: FLIP OFF. My home phone has decided to randomly not to charge. So after being on the base overnight and you pick it up to make a call, the battery isn't charged and the phone doesn't work, because it too has decided to check out.

To Dell: FLIP OFF. I know they say stuff happens in three's and this is a big one. And I also know I read about someone having computer problems, so I must be officially hexed! I have computer problems so bad that I am writing this post with a pencil and if it finds it's way to a computer by Friday, it will either be a miracle or my dad typing in what I am relaying over the phone! (I would use my laptop, but my 3 year old broke it when she dropped it down the steps. No, I didn't know she was carrying it.) But back to my 3 month old computer, after I called Dell and was hung up on, put on hold and transferred more times then I care to bore you with in this post, I learned we have a problem with our computer severe enough to have it reset, back to the original settings when I first opened it only 3 months ago, because that is the only solution. All stemming from a problem created when another Dell tech support person installed a driver on my computer to try to fix the problem with my mouse, which in turn messed up my operating systems.

What's more frustrating then having the problem, is that I can't get anyone to help me.

The first tech F'd up my computer.

The second tech hung up on me.

The third tech told me he would call me back to start the reset after I backed up my computer files and he never did. And when I called to file a complaint with whom I thought was the customer service manager, she dumped me back to tech support without explaining anything to them about my problems, who in turn, you'll never guess, offered to transfer me, again.

I'm done with technology. I'm going to live in a dirt hut with candles, a wood pit as my stove, and soup can lines as my main form of communication. I'd probably be better off without the Internet anyway.

Ahhh....much better.

Thanks Kludgy Mom! And thanks to Pumpkin and Piglet who is hosting the Friday Flip offs this week!

I needed that.

Here is an update with my Dell problem, after sending a letter to executive tech support and the Dell corporate, yes, I took it that far, (I also threatened to post the letter I wrote to Dell on my blog), anyway, I have received  help from a executive customer support person named Sathish. If it weren't for him I would probably insist on driving down to Texas and dropping my computer at the front door of their corporation and telling them to Flip Off. Anyway.. turns out the previous tech people didn't know what they are doing and my problem is an easy fix. Thank you Sathish!!! He is sending me some replacement hardware and will follow up with me Tuesday.

Flip Off Friday 8/13 edition

1. To the Mr. Softee Truck: FLIP OFF. There is absolutely no reason you should ever be driving down my street at 9:30pm with the music on, unless it is Friday night and you are serving up margaritas! There is every reason I should have gone into my fridge and chased you down the street throwing eggs at your truck. I know it's summer, but at least limit your invasion into my neighborhood when it's light outside.

2 and 3. To the makers of the Binky: FLIP OFF. Binkies are like baby/toddler crack. Kids become addicted to them, it should come with a warning label, "The sucking motion of this binky is highly addictive. Weaning the child off the binky should start promptly the day after you give it to them because for some of them, it will take that long. Breaking them of the binky habit may include, but not limited to, excessive crying, loud screaming and sleepless nights for your child and you. Use this product at your own risk". Then maybe I should FLIP OFF myself. She was off the binky during day times and only using it at night times by 18months and then well, I became pregnant and lazy, so today, at 3 and a couple months, it was her first nap without the binky. I'm surprised no one called the cops with the way she screamed bloody murder in her bed for 20 minutes. Tonight is going to wonderful.

4. To Some of the Politicians of the State of New Jersey (I know this is risky and will put me on some type of "list" but...): Flip Off: First, you take away school funding and then you propose to close the libraries of the city of Camden. I don't live in the city of Camden but I could not imagine this would be a good thing, ever. Taking away free Internet access,free access to information and free books for people to read and become educated, is never a good thing. Talk about taking away all resources for people to succeed. You might as well increase funding to the jails because that's where some of these youngsters will now end up.

5. To Summer: FLIP OFF. I'm done with you and so are my kids. I'd appreciate that you end now, and school start before my kids can't stand me anymore. We are out of things to do and we crave the structure and predictability of  school days.

Ahhh...much better. Let the weekend begin. Thanks Kludgy Mom!

Once again, it's Double Duty Friday

Ok.Let's take care of business....

First things first, my first participation in the Flip Off Friday hosted by Kludgy Mom was last week and I had to do it again. Last week, I flipped out what was bothering me, left it all out on the table blog and it felt oh so good, so here we go again. 

1. To the deaf ear my kids turn toward my voice: FLIP OFF. I don't even know if this is going to sound right, but I wish they would listen. I might as well be talking to a wall. If I tell you not to do something, I mean it. It's not that I don't want you to have fun, I don't want you to get hurt. So, Sophia, after you have a normal ct scan and then spin around in circles and I tell you to stop, and you keep going, get dizzy and hit the back of your head on the corner of the wall creating a serious egg and almost splitting it open, maybe you will listen to me next time. But, probably not.

2. Again, to the cat: FLIP OFF. I stepped in the present you left me in the hallway this morning and cat pop between the toes is not a good feeling at 5:00am, while holding a baby and wishing you could go back to sleep. Seriously, keep it up and the poop is gonna hit the fan.

3. To my mailman: FLIP OFF. You are nosy. You talk to much and you put in your 2 cents where really they aren't even worth 2 cents. I don't care that you don't like the University of Texas, my Alma Mata, so please refrain from writing on my mail and yelling through the mail slot during football season when we kick your teams butt. Yes he did that. And sorry but I really don't care about your views on NJ's high property tax rate, what is going on with the neighbors, politics and I don't want to debate with you on why I support same sex marriage. Get over it already! Know when to shut up. Put the mail in the slot and keep walking. That sounded a little harsh, but if you met him you'd understand.

4.To my stubborn baby weight: FLIP OFF: I know I did this one last week, but I flipped it off and lost 3 more lbs so, it may just become a ritual.  That deserves a double flip off FLIP OFF!

5. To Friday: FLIP OFF. I wish it were Saturday.

Thanks Kludgy Mom, Flip Off Friday is the best thing since dark chocolate.

Ahhh...much better. And now, because I can't make my mind up, on which one to do..more good stuff.....

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Double Duty Friday

I love Kludgy Mom and her Flip Off Fridays are right up my alley. So after reading the Flip off Friday post written by Go Pop Go, I couldn't help but participate and join the ride. I have some things I want to Flip off, why not start the weekend stress free and leave it all on the table (or the blog)? After all Saturday is my birthday and who wants to carry that mess over? Right. So here we go.

To the Sand man: FLIP OFF. You haven't sprinkled effective sleepy dust in my son's eyes for a couple weeks now. I don't know if he's getting what's left over from the night before or the lower grade dust you give to teething infants but we need the good stuff and pronto before mommy loses it. You deserve a double FLIP OFF.

To my cat: FLIP OFF. I know you are old, lazy and fat. But how are you're worse than the kids? When they stop whining you start! And in your old age you've become a Diva, pooping on the floor when I don't clean you liter box the minute a drop of pee hits it. And thanks to you, my husband and I have had our share of poop between our toes first thing in the morning. And why do you eat so much and follow me whining around until I top off your bowl?You better watch it or your next ride will be to the Vet.

To my stubborn baby weight: FLIP OFF. I work out, jump, run, lift squat and lunge and you hang around moving slower than an inch worm in a pile of mud. But I'll be damned if you're here in 2011!

To my neighbor: FLIP OFF. I know you are a nice old man but you've never had kids and mine don't get your sarcasm. So when you tell my kids you are going to have a party with Mickey Mouse, candy, dolls and trains, they believe you, especially my 3 year old. Then I have to tell her this isn't true which sends her to into serious breakdown mode that I have to deal with, so thanks.

To age 36: FLIP OFF. I know you will be here tomorrow and I will officially be closer to 30 than 40, (but still younger than my husband). FLIP OFF. FLIP OFF. FLIP OFF. You're not going to get me down with your slower metabolism and increase in gray hair. I feel good, look good and just watch in 4 years, 40 will be my best age yet. Life is good! So again..FLIP OFF!

Ahhhhhhhh.......never felt better!

Now onto that I'm stress free, onto the good stuff, or wait maybe that was the good stuff. So ok, onto the other stuff. I love everything about blogging, including reading new blogs! Join me and the other blog hops in Follow me Friday. Add your name to the list and pick a new one to follow or at leave leave a really nice comment on their blog and mine. Spread the blog love.