Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Come on Friday....mama needs a day off....already.

This pretty much sums up how I feel today............yesterday and everyday lately.

Is it bad that from the time I crawled out of bed today I've been looking forward to taking a nap after work?? Hey, we all need something to get us through the day. Could be worse I guess. I could find myself in this situation.

Monday, January 11, 2010

DAY TWO!

So recap from yesterday.

Bad people took my money.

Fast forward to today.

I was at the police station by 9:30 a.m. (For future reference my local cop shop closes PROMPTLY at 4:30 p.m. and reopens at 9 a.m. good to know) filed my report, joked with the chief about obits and how both of ours could be summed up in 5 lines (always comes up when I tell people what I do) informed him that NO I did not LEND my card to an ex-friend, roommate, boyfriend, girlfriend ( how pc of him) or anyone who might have charged these things, and them left. When I got home I still hadn't heard from the credit union about these "numbers" they were going to give me to call, so I called them. I think they think I'm a pain. Oh Well. She tells me there are no numbers and I can just write that on the form and hand it in. THEN she tells me it'll take 10 DAYS till I get MY money back. GREAT. My car payment comes out in 5 days. I've never been good at math but even I know this is going to be a problem. Then she precedes to tell me that the card they canceled (the card I have in my hand) isn't the card that made the purchases, and am I sure I don't have another card. At which point I say, I'm positive I only have one card but even if I did wouldn't the numbers be the same? (this appears to be less and less my fault).

So now everyone gets all like "I don't know whats going on". and I'm like "this better not affect me getting my money back".

so long story short. I'll have my money in 10 days (i think). I have no idea if this will happen again, I have no idea how this happen to begin with, and I have no idea what REALLY happen. so I have nothing. SUPER! lol.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Scum suckers 1----McMean 0

I'm on the verge of just giving up. This letter should explain everything.

Dear Low life scum suckers,
Good one random low life scum sucker. Jokes on me. Imagine my surprise, Friday when I checked my bank accounts only to learn I had NO money. I hope whatever you spent MY money on malfunctions and BURNS YOUR FUCKING HOUSE DOWN!
My deepest hatred
Amy McMean!


Back story.
First i thought It was a computer issue with the bank, because I KNEW my check had been deposited 2 days prior and there was NO way I spent my whole check in 2 days. NO WAY. So I called the office and spoke to a very nice women who informed me my accounts were frozen because I had made more purchases then I had money for.

Interesting. I knew I paid about $300 worth of bills and that was it. Maybe $70 on little purchases like food and gas. But there was no way I SPENT my whole check, which was the largest check I've had in a long time (100 hours). She precedes to read off all the charges i made the day before, which i knew was NONE.

$500 at Home Depot......uhmmmmmm. NO. I didn't spend any money at Home depot. I haven't been to Home Depot to buy anything in at least a year. $200 at Walmart.........uhm....NO. I NEVER go to Walmart. $13 at Exxon Gas station.......uhmmmmmm. No. We don't even have an exxon gas station in my town.

I precede to explain to her that I did not make those purchases, then she informs me that they were all made in Chicago! CHICAGO! Well that really wasn't me then. She tells me there isn't much they can do until all the things clear out of my account, but they froze my card and that will insure these people don't spend any more of my money. It also insures that I don't have an access to my money either. If i need cash, which i don't have anyways because these LOW LIFE SCUM SUCKERS TOOK IT ALL, I would need to go to the bank and get money out. GREAT.

At 3 o'clock she informs me that the charges have cleared out of my account and I'll need to go to my local branch and fill out the paper work then I'll need to go to the police station and file a police report. After this is all done they will process my paper work and give me ALL my money back. GOOD NEWS......Right? HHMMM. I go to my branch where they inform me that No i must FIRST go to the police station, because they need to police report to fill out the forms.

I tell them that's not what I was told and is there anything i can fill out now. They ask me if I've contacted the merchants where the money was spent. NO. I didn't know I was supposed, no one told me that. Then I inform them that the women I spoke with said no numbers or addresses had appeared with the charges. They contact the main office where she informs them they don't have any numbers for me to call, but they should have the numbers by MONDAY. So I can't do ANYTHING. They tell me to go ahead and go to the police station and fill out the report and take care of that, they'll call me with the numbers for these places in CHICAGO on Monday and I'll have to call them then. ??????? Why do i have to call Home Depot in Chicago and ask them if they are going to give me my money back? Doesn't my Credit Union have a department that handles this sort of thing? Guess not. So I leave and head to my local police station.

Side note- My Credit Union is across town, so getting there at 4 p.m. on a Friday is a hassle. But trying to get back across town to my local police station, WORSE.

By the time we get to the cop shop.......Their closed. CLOSED! CLOSED! So I can't get the report filed. So I'm nowhere with the whole issue. Now it wouldn't be to horrible bad however, Monday I work 9am to 8:30 p.m. How am I supposed to get anything done. I need to file the report, get the information so i can call these places (which they said they'll have for me by 9 a.m.), finish the paperwork, drop it off across town, and be at work. I guess I must be SUPERWOMEN. My mom said If i call her with the numbers in the morning she'll call the places while I'm filing the report and that she'll run it across town because she's off. HOWEVER, I'm pretty sure I need to be at the credit union to sign the affidavit. this SUCKS! Lucky for me my boss is understanding and If I'm here by 11am at the latest it'll be ok. This sucks!

So that was how I spent my fun Friday off. Frustrated, in tears, and pretty much just hating my life and everyone I encountered that day. It was a BAD day. And to top it all off my PARENTS yelled at me about how it's my fault because I pay bills online and I buy things online, and blah blah blah blah blah. Great thanks guys, because that's what I really needed on top of everything else. To be yelled out. Yeah. that was definitely what I needed not a hug, or a it's going to be ok. Instead I got, "well we tell you not to do stuff online, but you know better" THANKS!

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Enough already!

BAD NEWS: Here is the pile of bills I have
WORSE NEWS: Here is the pile of money I have
Now what?

BEST NEWS: I finally (after 3 years of nothing) got a raise at work. An almost $2 raise. Which I was rather thrilled about and TOTALLY deserved. My thought, how do you NOT give me, the person you've been MAKING work 6 days a week since SEPTEMBER, a raise. I should be thankful, and I am, but to work someplace where they've given me more, and more, and more work, but haven't given me a raise in 3 years, COME ON. But I finally got one now. I just hope maybe i have a little left over at the end of the month to get my self a massage. This will be the first week since September that I have a 5 day work week, that didn't involve vacation time or a holiday. The plan is to work 12 hour days Monday so iIcan have Friday AND Saturday off. We;'l see how it goes.

P.S. As of last night Big Brothers girlfriend has not popped out baby Sarah yet. My mom plans to take us to Red Lobster tomorrow and stuff her full of seafood, so she'll go into labor. I don't know. It worked when my cousin was preggers. We stuffed her full of seafood and she had the twins a few hours later.


Monday, January 4, 2010

Chirstmas in photos

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas / PC Holiday and Happy New Year.

I'll share a few of my favorite photos.

The Nephew with his AWESOME (not so much) voice changing toy. Which he decided to use while yelling in my face, "Please get my remote control car out of the box! (Repeat, repeat....I think you get it). Like it's not hard enough to get toys out of the box with all the twisty ties, tape, and SCREWS they use to hold them in. Needless to say this was Aunt McMean's least favorite toy


The super YUMMY dinner we had Christmas Eve at my best friends house. She flew in from Denver and I hadn't seen in her in a YEAR! It was the best gift ever (she reads this)


BB's girlfriend about to POP! We are officially on baby watch. Any day now the Doctor said little Sarah can come out and play. Come on kid, get here already I'm tired of all the hype. Please I can't wait to see your mom's head explode when she takes you home!! LOL.


And it wouldn't be a post with a picture of heart breaker. This was him in the first snow we had this winter. Preggers and i laid him down in the snow and tortured, I mean took his picture.