FED UP with USPS! - Rant

I'm having such mail trouble!!!  Yes, mail trouble and not male trouble lol I have some ranting and raving to do about our postal service.

I know it's not just me that they pick on, because other people in my town have told me that they have the same problems with the mail carrier... As I have stated before, we live in a trailer, and thus, live in a trailer park community (which I am dying to get out of, as soon as we can find a suitable house for rent!). We WERE getting our mail up front where all the mailboxes are kept, but of course, people kept getting into it. When you have a lot of unlocked mailboxes next to each other, it's easy for thieves to make a quick raid...

Now... I'm not sure if it was an actual resident living in one of the other homes here, or if it was the mailman/mailwoman... I DO know that SOMEONE has been messing around with it, though, because a whole week straight after Christmas, we didn't get ANY mail at all, and that is not usual for us. We usually get something, even if it's junk, or magazines, or bills- whatever. Then... this is the kicker: I get a phone call from the electric company telling me that our bill has been returned to them, with a note saying that we've moved. They wanted us to come in and verify that we still lived at this address. So see? I KNOW someone has messed with our mail.

After we finally had proof of it, we decided to get a PO Box instead. But now, if I have to have packages delivered, it's a catastrophe! I ordered my daughter some Monster High socks and a Monster High fedora hat from ToysRUs, and I had to put my home address because they said my PO Box was not a valid shipping address... So I put the home address, and it didn't take long for the hat to come in. It was just the hat, though. No socks... So I waited, and waited, and waited... No package. I thought - surely they would send it to my home address, if they wouldn't accept my PO Box. Surely they would send it, because the hat came in, you know? What's taking so long???

Finally, I get an email from them telling me that they have refunded my money for my returned item. I wrote them an email asking "WHAT return? I never returned my item! I never even RECEIVED my item!" to which they replied that my address was marked as undeliverable, and that they couldn't send my item back. What the heck?!?! They sent me the hat, but they wouldn't send the socks? I'm STILL furious, and I KNOW that it was because of my mailman! It was a man who delivered the hat... but he wouldn't give me the socks? What the heck was up with that?

So here I am, without my daughter's Monster High socks... and severely angry and disappointed... I thought getting a PO Box would fix things, but apparently not. And you know what REALLY gets me? The post man STILL puts stuff in our box at the front of the trailer park. I got a package today of some nail polish that I ordered. Really? You'll give me the nail polish, but you won't give me something that mattered more? My child needs socks more than I need nail polish, dude. I am seriously disappointed in the USPS, and they wonder why they're losing business? How would they feel if this was happening to them? I bet THEIR mail doesn't get tampered with. I'm so mad...

Late Night Chat with Tricity

My daughter had an ear infection a while back. Poor girl was in really bad pain! We took her to the hospital, and by the time we got home, she was a little wound up and feeling much better, so we decided to take a video. I mainly made the video for home video purposes to show how sad she was, because I had never seen my baby girl cry so hard. It was heartbreaking! But then she started in with the goofy stuff, and I had to share. This video, too, ended up being pretty long. About 20 minutes. Anyway, here's what the description said:

Just a late night chat I had with my daughter after we got home from the hospital around 12:00 at night, because she got an ear infection. She likes when I post videos of her, and soon you may be seeing some of HER videos she makes as well. She may only be 5, but she sure is my shining little star!

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No Snow?

We didn't really have snow this year! I was bummed... There were two times when we had snow for about half a day, but that was about it. I wanted to take Tricity out to play in the snow! She hasn't ever really been out to play in it, because every year when it snowed, she has been sick. This year, she wasn't sick those days, but there wasn't really any snow to play in! We wanted to go sledding at my mom's house, since she moved to a place with a nice big hill in the back yard, but that didn't get to happen... By the time we were ready to go over and play, the snow was melted.

This weather has been nuts! A few days of the week, it's so nice that you can wear shorts, have a barbeque, go fishing... and the other days, it's been so cold that you have to cuddle up on the couch with your comforter just to stay warm. Crazy, isn't it? No wonder we've been sick!

Anyway, with that being said, I wanted to post an old video from last year, when we DID have enough snow to go sledding. Tricity loves this video, so it's nice to watch it now and again. Here is us sledding at the Perry Park Center last year. Enjoy! :-D

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2012 New Year's Tag

I had done this New Year's Tag on YouTube that I had taken from Jess at theeasydiy, and I made a video response to hers, to kick-start my new YouTube channel. It ended up being about a 30 minute video. I didn't mean for it to be, because I know some people don't like lengthy videos, but that's just the way it went... so if you're interested, here it is. Here's what the description of my video said:

Happy New Year! This is a re-upload, since I am now able to upload files bigger than 15 minutes, so I put all three parts of my video into one big one. I'm answering 11 questions of 2011, and the three parts were:
1. 11 Highlights of 2011
2. 12 Resolutions for 2012
3. and 11 questions about 2011
I know I talk a lot, but that was basically 32 questions I answered in total... I'll try not to make future videos so long! lol Hope you enjoy.

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Where have I been?

It's been a while! But I'd never forget about you  ;-) My first priority today is to catch you all up and let you know where I've been, what I've been doing, and what's been going on. Most recently? I've been sick. We all have. I got it first, gave it to my daughter, and then to my husband. Of course being the first one sick, I got the worst of it, and theirs was less severe down the line... We're all getting better now though, so yay!

During this busy time, we had also sold our female ferret that we had gotten, whom just couldn't replace the role of our previous beloved family pet Phantom, so hopefully she's with a family who can better appreciate her. She just couldn't take his place, and therefore I couldn't stand having her... She bit me and Tricity all the time, and Adam didn't want to play with her, so we sold her and her cage to another family. I didn't think that neglecting her was a better option, obviously. Also, we'll be moving soon (hopefully) and didn't want to worry about the "no pets" rule that most places have. A ferret is pretty much in between a dog and a cat, so it was better this way...

We also got two new pets. These are smaller, and they stay in cages, so it doesn't really matter for them when it comes to the pet rule. We got a little finch. Adam wanted to name it Valkyrie, but I told him the finch is male (hence the orange cheeks), so we named him Horus instead. We DID have a teddy bear hamster that we named Fuzzbutt, but he only lived for a week and then died :-( He was probably already pretty old when we got him... I was sad... He was so soft and cuddly! Tricity was sad too, of course... What made me mad, though, was that we paid $16 for him! Maybe next time we'll just stick to the CHEAP hamsters again... lol At least our little dwarf hamsters lived a long time... (Do we have bad luck with pets, or what?)  O_o

We also got our income tax, which of course meant spending. We got Tricity a new PC since her laptop went all screwy, and we got a new desk for Adam, and he's giving his desk to Tric, but we're not putting it together until we move, whenever that'll be... I got a new vaccum cleaner, a new floor cleaner, and tons of Monster High clothes and accessories for Tricity! We paid our truck off, and got it a tune-up, so it should be good for a while (I hope). I splurged and got some satin sheets, some nail stuff I've been wanting to get, a sprouter to make healthy greens, and other little things here and there... It's been fun shopping! lol

Oh! We also got a Nintendo 3DS that is supposed to be for the whole family, but apparently I have taken over... I know- bad me, when I should be writing here or making videos for YouTube instead! But I can't help it... I'm so addicted to it's 3D magic, and playing Zelda's Ocerina of Time! It's so much fun and so magical, like peeking into a whole new world through this tiny little box... lol Tricity got a Monster High game to play on it, and Adam and Tric both have about 4 Scooby-Doo games to play. Let's just hope I get though my game soon, so they can finally have their turn with it? :-D Yes, I put that in the form of a question, because let's see if I ever get done... lol

I've also been busy going to school with my daughter every week. One day a week (when I'm not sick like this week, that is), I go to school and I'm a volunteer. It's been so much fun. I know all the kids in her class, and they call me Mrs. Craft, and I get to color things for the teacher to use in her lessons, and it's just been such a blast. I wish I had started going sooner, but I don't know... I guess I didn't have the nerve before? Now it would be weird if I didn't show up on my days :-D I LOVE it! It's totally what I was meant to do!

Other than all of this, I've been trying to pack and clean, and get things ready to move. We haven't found a house yet, but we're looking for a house with a basement, and preferably a place that will let me grow a small garden, maybe a flower bed, let us have a pool out back... Some place that wouldn't be too strict, but not too expensive, either. And not some place that is for sale, looking to bring customers by your house when your lease is up. One place would have been perfect, if it wasn't for that... We had to turn it down. I don't want strangers coming in and gawking at my things! Hopefully we'll find a place soon, though, so maybe I can start planting things for the garden? I just want to get out of this trailer! It was good for our first home, but it's time to take a step up on the ladder.

Well that pretty much sums it up. I've also been trying to get a YouTube career going, but we'll have to see how that turns out...