Everyday Randomness

Good Morning everyone.  For once I can say it is morning when I’m waking up.

Yesterday was a weird day for me.  As usual I went to bed around 11am, so I slept all day.  I woke up when hubby came home at 5:30pm, and drug myself out of bed to make dinner.  I didn’t sit down to check my email like I would normally do because I just didn’t want to see what kind of April Fool’s stuff was in my inbox.  When I did eventually check my mail after dinner, I was right.  I had a ton of emails from various people trying to tell me this or that had happened.

I did have an e-card from Hubby though, and although I figured it was a lame attempt at a joke I checked it anyway.  It was the cutest thing.  April 1st is also the “anniversary” of the day we began dating.  It’s something we used to celebrate before we got married, but I don’t see a reason to celebrate it now.  We’ve got our wedding anniversary for that, but Hubby remembered, and he sent me a little card celebrating our 6 years together.  Awww.

Anyway, by 7 I was still feeling horrible, and I just wanted to crawl back into bed.  I was about to crawl back into bed, but my best friend called freaking out.  I’ll explain that later, but we didn’t make it home again until 10, and shortly after we got home I started having these cramps that I only feel when my endo is bothering me.  I can’t explain them.  They aren’t like pms cramps, and they normally only hit me right after my period, but for some reason they hit me last night.

At midnight I gave up on trying to do anything, took an Aleve, and went back to bed.  I slept like a rock until 5am, and I’m feeling much better now.  My schedule is flipped again, too, so that’s a big plus!

A big weight has just been lifted off my shoulders. I deposited the money a few days ago to pay our taxes, and the cash finally cleared today. As soon as I called Telebank and found that out I was off to pay the taxes. I wanted to get them out of my hands as quickly as possible.

I called the IRS earlier today and was given the 2 websites to pay depending on which form of payment I’d be using. I headed off to the debit card payment site and spent 20 minutes trying to get our payment to go through. I started with my debit card, and of course it didn’t work. I moved onto hubby’s and that didn’t work either.

Sometimes I don’t even know why I bother trying our debit cards for our checking account. My card has maybe worked twice. Hubby’s seems to work on the days the bank is open, but God forbid we try to use it on a weekend, in the evening, or on a bank holiday! Stupid hometown bank!

I’ve called the bank, I’ve gone up to the bank, I’ve talked to the managers, and they always tell me the same thing. There’s nothing wrong with the cards and there’s no hold on either of our cards. We had new cards issued, and those didn’t work either.

Times like this I’m really glad I have my Paypal debit card. I should have done that in the first place so I would get cash back for the transaction, but I wasn’t even thinking. I went ahead and transferred all my cash from Paypal to my savings account so it would pull the cash from my checking account, then I tried the transaction again.

Nope, didn’t work. At least this time it told me that Paypal cards have be go through as a credit card, not debit card. I had to go to the other site and try it all over again, but that meant instead of paying the $2.95 fee to pay with debit card I had to pay the $14.95 credit card fee.

Oh well, at least I got the taxes paid, and I’m not sitting here wondering if it got lost in the mail or not.

By the way, if you’re needing to pay your taxes online here’s the link to find all the information you need.

Canceling our trip to Pigeon Forge this weekend really has me bummed out. Hubby said we can reschedule the trip for next weekend, but it’s still just not the same. We haven’t been on a real vacation in about 2 years, and I’ve never been out of the country. I just really want to go somewhere super awesome!

I’ve got a list of places all around the world I want to visit, but I’d love to go to Australia. I watched a show on the travel channel that showcased a bunch of big tourist places in Australia as well as some nice spots that aren’t really known to a lot of tourists. I would totally love to go see those places.

Who knows, I might even be able to meet up with a few of my Australian blogging buddies for a real tour of all of their favorite spots. No matter where I go I love hanging out with the locals because they show you the real life part of the area instead of just the big tourists spots most people see. Yep I think seeing my blogging friends would be the one thing I would prefer to do over anything! I’ve met a ton of great friends from all over the world through blogging, and I’ve become really close with a good many of them.

You don’t know how tempted I am right now to price a flight to Australia, but hubby would probably say no we can’t afford it, especially if we’re going to Disney this summer.

*Gag*

The whole house smells like burnt bologna and melted plastic.

Hubby wanted a bologna sandwich, but he wanted it fried, only he was too lazy to fry it up himself.  I was headed to take a shower, so I told him he’d just have to do it himself.  He’s not helpless.

Bad idea.

He put the bologna on a plate…a non microwavable plastic plate and proceeded to heat it for 1 minute on level 10 (highest setting).  In the shower I started smelling this horrible smell drifting into the bathroom.  I jumped out of the shower and went to investigate.  The smell is so strong it has drifted through the entire house, and it smells so horrible I almost threw up when I walked into the kitchen.

There on the counter was the plate melted into a mess with a burnt piece of bologna in the middle.

I’ve got candles and tart burners going in every room, I’ve sprayed air freshener throughout the house, and the smell is still there.  It’s cold outside, but I opened the windows in the kitchen to try to get at least some of the smell out.

Never again will I tell hubby to fix it himself.