... in the heartland

Cancel your credit card before you die......

My husband emailed me this joke about one month ago.  I found it hilarious at that time, and it is still funny. But idea of bailing out any corporations with our tax money isn't.  Please stop wasting our money.   Anyway, enjoy the joke. THIS IS GOOD.       *******************************     Cancel your credit card before you die..........(hilarious!)  Now some people are really stupid!!!!  Be sure and cancel your credit cards before you die.   A lady died this past January, and Citibank billed her for February and March for their annual service charges on her credit card, and added late fees and interest on the monthly charge. The balance had been $0.00 when she died, but now somewhere around $60.00. A family member placed a call to Citibank.  Here is the exchange : Family Member:  'I am calling to tell you she died back in January.'  Citibank:  'The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply..'  Family Member: 'Maybe, you should turn it over to collections.'  Citibank: 'Since it is two months past due, it already has been.'  Family Member: So, what will they do when they find out she is dead? '  Citibank: 'Either report her account to frauds division or report her to the credit bureau, maybe both!'  Family Member: 'Do you think God will be mad at her?'  Citibank: 'Excuse me?' Family Member: 'Did you just get what I was telling you - the part about her being dead?' Citibank: 'Sir, you'll have to speak to my supervisor.'  Supervisor gets on the phone: Family Member: 'I'm calling to tell you, she died back in January with a $0 balance.'  Citibank: 'The account was never closed and late fees and charges still apply.'   Family Member: 'You mean you want to collect from her estate?'  Citibank: (Stammer) 'Are you her lawyer?'  Family Member: 'No, I'm her great nephew.' (Lawyer info was given)   Citibank:  'Could you fax us a certificate of death?' Family Member: 'Sure.' (Fax number was given )  After they get the fax : Citibank: 'Our system just isn't setup for death. I don't know what more I can do to help.'  Family Member: 'Well, if you figure it out, great! If not, you could just keep billing her. She won't care.' Citibank:  'Well, the late fees and charges will still apply.'  (What is wrong with these people?!?)  Family Member: 'Would you like her new billing address?'  Citibank: 'That might help...'  Family Member:  '  Odessa  Memorial  Cemetery , Highway 129, Plot Number 69.' Citibank: 'Sir, that's a cemetery!'  Family Member: 'And what do you do with dead people on your planet???'  (Priceless!!)   You wondered why Citi is going broke and need the feds to bail them out!!

 

 

 

Wicked

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper Fiction)

Gregory Maguire

This is the weirdest book that I have ever read so far...

How did this author come up with the story like this from the famous children book.

This is really hard for me to get into. Especially the part of the story describing the wicked witch having affair with her former classmate is kind of creepy. 

Surely...

American people looooooooooooooooove smooth talkers.

 

...sigh....

 

I have to get citizenship for next election.

Their Season Is Over???

It should've been a easy win for Bears yesterday's game against Lions,

but it turned out to be a nightmare!

I never thought I would see him playing again! (T-T)

 

Bears rally behind Grossman to keep Lions winless (article)

NFL GameDay: Lions vs. Bears highlights (Video)

 

I was shock when I saw Kyle Orton got injured.  (T-T)

He isn't a super QB like Tom Brady or Tony Romo,

but he plays consistently (unlike former QB). 

I also enjoy watching him growing confidence and becoming a better player every time he played.

 

 

Next week Bears will play against Titan (they're undefeated in this season!), and Bears will probably lose anyway.

But the week after that they will be against GB!!!

I hope Orton's injury is not so severe and he will come back soon.

They said he would be out for about one month, but some said he drove home after the incident...

so I am not sure what is really true about his injury.

We don't want Good Rex or Bad Rex (though there's no any other choice); we need Orton, who is consistent and a leader of the team.

Everybody knows who has led Bears so far in this season.

 

We will miss you while you are out, but

PLEASE! 

Recover fully from the injury and then come back! 

Oct 29, 2008

We switched the Internet connection to cable one.  We used to use sattelitte, which was as slow as dial up connection.  What is worse about this sattelite company is that they limit our download up to 20000kb and if you download more than that, they slow down Internet connection for 24 hours.   C*mc*st is way faster and doesn't have download limitation.  I also notice that I havent' had so much troble using the Internet since switched to C*mc*st.  We got ripped off by the sattelite company for a long time. Duh.

 

Now, I can have more time and keep diary again! 

My Nemesis...

I woke up at 6:00 am in the morning!

It is early for me since I go to bed around 2:00 am.

I want to weed my vegetable garden,

 

but…

 

When I went outside just a minute ago,

millions of mosquitoes were flying towards me and trying to taste my blooooooood!

 

 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEwwwwwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeee!

 

My skin overreacts to mosquito bites.

The skin gotten mosquito bites will be swollen twice as much as normal size.

 

I want to kill them all…

Desire to...

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Desired to come in.

I really really want to go inside the house!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hanna, relax…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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・・・・・・

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Okay...

 

 

Having wrestled with each other in wet grass,

jumped in mud water, and swam in a creek,

 

 

you are soaked!!!

 

 

You need to be dry to come inside the house

so stop giving me the looks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ahhhh.

I feel guilty now.

Vox Hunt: Staring at the Wall(paper)

Show us the wallpaper on your cell phone.
Submitted by jacolily.

Bluesmobile01

Cool, ain't it?

QotD: Summer Solstice

Yesterday was the summer solstice for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. How did you celebrate the arrival of summer and the longest day of the year?

Chicago

 

 

Navy Pier

 

Lake Michigan

 

The Saturday was a gorgeous day in Chicago, right?

 

My husband and I hung around Navy Pier, having a couple of beer and listening to oldies being played by some local band. (They were pretty good.  I love oldies.)

Then, we went back to Randolph St to find a nice bar for having more beer.

We found a nice Irish pub and had German beer (!) and some local beer.  (I don’t remember their names.  I don’t even try to remember names of German beers.  They are too difficult to pronounce any way.)       

 

After having beer and some appetizers at the bar, we took CTA from the nearest station.

We got off at Halsted and went to Greek Town and had a nice dinner!

 

That was the most fun day infor a long time.

Strom

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I was stunned when tornado sirens went off around 1:00 am this morning.

I woke my husband up. He was sound to sleep at that time.

We turned on a radio and checked weather radar on a website called Intellicast.

 

We went outside.

It was so dark, and the wind was blowing violently.

I started to feel fear growing inside of me.

I didn’t see anybody looking outside or any lights in neighbors’ houses; it seemed like nobody else but us noticed the sirens.

 

Fortunately, nothing has happened.  Actually, the tornado warning was canceled 10 minutes after it was announced,

 

still it was a freaky morning.