"Para hablar espanol make uno."I see your calling from 123-456-7890. Is that the number listed on your account? Okay, in a few words, please describe the reason for your call...I'm not understanding...Can you say it another way?...Ok, You can say things like, I'd like to pay bill, or technical support....I'm sorry, I'm having difficulty understanding...Hold on, let me get someone who can help"....


This insanity goes on for about 5 or 6 minutes every time I call some call center who do not have any employees here in the United States!  I have not problem with the actual operators,,{sometimes I don't understand a word!}, I would like to just talk to someone in the first few minutes of my call.  They try to make the "system" have a personality. The automated system cannot ever understand a New York accent and I will never converse with an answering machine!
I just keep pounding 0 until I get a live operator, then try as I might to understand their "dropped l's, w's......Give me strength....(:-/

More Paperwork

Sooo...BANK OF AMERICA is doing a little back stroking..It has started "dumping" mortgages this past week. With the looming lawsuit at hand, THEY are cutting their losses and running...
My mortgage has been with this Bank since 2007 with the ADVANTAGE accounts. I did not have to pay for checking, etc. as long as I kept a $15,000.00 debt with this bank...

Now, they want to charge me for everything.. Well I think I found a way out without doing all of the paperwork to change banks. (did I mention, I hate change?). Switch your checking account to a MY ACCESS account and as long as you have a direct deposit of atleast $200.00 per month, there is no fees.
Bof A has also decided not to make people pay to spend their own money! WOO HOOO

Those Bastidz....

Traffic

"Get outta my way!'.."These people!, I dont't know where they got there license from, maybe out of the 'Cracker-Jack' box"
"Make the light you boob" "Awww come on...!!!""No No No, don't do it! 
Don't even think of getting in front of me!" "I swear! @#$%.."

Some morings I got through these scenerios. Rushing about over analysing traffic, traffic patterns, I even know traffic light patterns, (if you can catch this light, it is smooth sailing for at least 20 blocks)!
But if I get caught; I fuss then do a quick make-up check in the visor mirror or re-shuffle my iPod.
Then I'm off zooming about, watching the time on my dashboard clock (making good time).

Finally I have arrived! I am at my desk on time. I have put my pocketbook away, set my home-made coffee, in my pink insulated mug, on the desk, and get ready.....wait for it....wait for it....to do mostly nothing for the next two hours...
Then repeat step one at 1700HRS in the opposite direction......=/

I borrowed this from somewhere else in the "Internet Galaxy"....

I Choose.....
         to live by choice, and not by chance.
         to make changes, not excuses.
         to be motivated, not manipulated.
         to excel, not complete.
 I choose self esteem, not self pity.
 I choose to listen to my inner voice, not random opinion of others.
I choose life...

THE PERILS OF WEARING THE WRONG BRA

You pull, you tug, you try to remember "just what were you thinking?" when I bought this thing...Who was it that said that we really have to "lift and separate"?
There are days I am incognito and want to be comfortable, letting the girls free..{under my shirt} and don't care if someone notices.
There is the issue of color and cup fit...So do I want a "deep plug", "tuxedo cut", "wonder", "sports","cami" or "balconette"bra..{WTH}. 
We as women, young or old should have some type of universal code that says "it's my day off from society" {a red hat or something}..so when we see this, she can get a "pass" today....She's just NOT feeling like she wants to be bothered or that she cares today...

So...BANK of AMERICA is having second thoughts? I called my bank to confrim the fee for using their cards to access my money.  this is what I was told.." oh that is a rumor that was leaked out. We cannot confirm or deny this information!..but if we do it will not be until the first of the year!...then they reminded me, if you keep a debt of more than $15,000.00 there are not fees..{I'm a preffered customer}...
I applaud every American who has stood on the protest line {occupy Wall Street} on my behalf taking over Wall Street! If I could I would stand with them.


This post was started a few weeks ago..Please forgive my tardiness...=)

This new atmosphere of protests will create change...for the better, I hope.
   The "Occupy Movment" is reminisant of the 1960'S and 1970'S, where we marched for change. We were "flower children, Afro-American, NOW {National Organization for Women}..Out of the protests did come change.  It took rallys, sit-ins, walk-outs, strikes, boycotts.
The Police in these cities shoild have more patience. These people have no jobs because of the financial environment in America; directly or indirectly affected, and they are marching, sitting, protesting for all of us.
Now the city officals are showing their "horns" giving the "green light" to dispurse the masses...In every city where there is an "occupy" they were moved on by the police of that city the same time in other cities. Hummm
Something is got to give...I'm tired of seeing my grown children struggle....I do the best that I can...my little money can bearly feed myself...