Random Thoughts

Today’s thoughts
Positive anything is better than negative nothing. –From The Road to Success is Always Under Construction

What you see is what you get! –Geraldine (a.k.a. Flip Wilson)

Don’t cry because it is over. Smile because it happened. –Dr. Suess
 
The second one is/was the hardest for me! What you see is what you get! We have all heard this before and for some reason(s) there are many of us that keep trying to change into something that can never be. Why is that? For me, before my journey, it was the fear that I was never enough.
I went to school for 10 years, got a BS and a MS and still was not satisfied. I was never quite sure why but I just never felt that “finished” feeling. Of course it is great for us to better ourselves but that is not what i was really doing.
 
I always felt like I had something to prove and I kept saying “well if I just do this then I will feel worth while.” The problem is that I was/am already worth while but I kept letting my head get in the way and telling myself that I needed more! Now I have a $56,000 student loan and no job. Of course I chose to be a stay-at-home Mom right now but if you would have asked me 10 years ago if I were to be one I probably would have said “I have more goals than being a Mom, jeez!”
 
I am not putting this out there to offend anyone, this is seriously where my mind set was. I always thought I had to have all the pressure of school, career etc to feel like I was worth a darn. Since I have been on this positive energy journey I am realizing that I AM good enough and that I AM worth while.
 
I always said I would get my PhD in the past but you know what….now….no way! I am not in any way shape or form ridiculing those that have one, I am just saying that my reasons for wanting one were not right and I am not going to let myself get back into something that I really do not want to do.
 
Do I regret getting an education? Oh NOW WAY! I believe education is important. I justt wish that I would have been OK with myself back in school and the years prior. Maybe I would still have the MS degree, who knows, but maybe not. Who knows where I wold have ended up. I know that I would be in the right place regardless.
 
I see things in such a different way then I did before and I love it. I am finally starting to believe that “what you get” is just fine!
 
Have a positively positive day!
Tawna

OK so I have had nothing but a headache with my tilt 2 phone. Don’t get me wrong, I love AT&T for many reasons but these past few months I have had a hard time with my phone.
It has freezing issues and I believe this is from being a windows phone with a whole bunch of “crap” on it that is not needed. I NEED a windows phone for my new business so I do not have much choice in the matter. However, my new business is going to web based software in the summer and all I can say is Hallelujah!

The company has granted my warranty a number of times and they have actually not fought me too hard on it so I can’t complain about that either. What I can complain about is this:

I called on my 3rd tilt 2 phone and told them the freezing was better, not gone, but better when I did not install the FB or Twitter on it. She said “well your warranty does not cover those programs so just don’t install them.” OK well I guess I won’t because I like how it runs better but this is my argument. The phone it self comes with both FB and Twitter shortcuts on the today screen , out of the box. Now if you are telling me that I should not run them then can I make a suggestion?  Don’t put it on my today screen because to me that is advertising that this phone can handle it! Point!

Am I the only one that see this point? The warranty does not cover it is a little disheartening for the same reason. If this was an application that I added to the phone myself I would so totally not have issues with the warranty not covering it. This is NOT the case. The phone comes with these on my opening screen so for me this is just as good as someone saying “this phone can handle them so use them!”

Well it did not take care of the freezing problem totally so I got a new one, this is #4 and guess what….it freezes too. Did I install FB and Twitter, aw no. So will I be calling again on Monday? “YES.” I will then be taken through on the trouble shooting mumbo jumbo I have done numerous time. Will I accept a tilt 2 phone again as a replacement? “NO!” I am so not being nice again. This wold be phone 5. Do you think its me? I don’t think so! They freeze out of the box. HTC even has a service pack for it on their site but it does not work either.

Again, just to be clear. I do not dislike AT&T at all and have had the best service I have ever had talking around my neck of the woods and everywhere else including Canada. I have more good then bad to say. My biggest gripe is this warranty issue. I wish my company was gong to web based software NOW and not waiting til the summer, argh!!!!!

have a wonderful day everyone!
Tawna

Darn those girl scouts for selling cookies, at dinner time, in front of the grocery store. I am not a cookie fan except when it comes to these girl scout cookies!

Tawna

Here are a some for today…

“Once we hold a belief, it tends to stick with us for the rest of our lives, unless we challenge it.” –Dr. Richard Gillett, Change Your Mind, Change Your World

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” –Abraham Lincoln
The mind is a very strong thing isn’t it? We have so much power and control so why do we let ourselves be so unhappy? We are our own worst enemies!

I heard someone say the other day “Victims never go anywhere in life.” I don’t know who said it, I herd it in passing a couple of days ago. I heard part of the conversation and he was not talking about victims of a crime so please do not take offense to that. He was talking with someone else about someone he knows that always portrays herself as a victim to “society.” This person always has an illness, it’s always someone else’s fault, and everyone always lies to her but of course she never lies. I think everyone knows someone like this don’t they? I have to agree with his words that being a victim will never get you anywhere.

Have a positively positive day everyone!
Tawna

OK so here is my very eventful day and why I will not do lay-away at this store again. Just a little plug first: I do not dislike Toys-r-us by any means, in fact I love that they have been lowering their prices over the past couple of years to keep up with Wal-Mart but today I seriously about lost it! I will go back, or course I will but I will NOT ever do layaway again and here is why.

We wanted to buy my daughter a barbie doll house for her upcoming birthday in April and I was wanting to do layaway for the main purpose of not having to store it and have her find it. I called around and Sears, Kmart and Toys-r-us all did layaway so this made me happy. I have done layaway in the past at Kmart, the last two years for Christmas and I love it. No one finds the toys this way and I have never had an issue. I like Kmart layaway as you can pay at ANY store, just as long as the pick up is at the store the merchandise is, well that makes sense.

I put the doll house on layaway a couple weeks ago and I needed to go and pay for it today. Well the store I put it on layaway is a little further then the store I would prefer, but only because I was at my in-laws the day I did it and just thought in my head “well I can make payments at the closer one, no big deal.” Well…I should have asked about this first.

One thing that this toy store does is that they do not actually have to have the merchandise in the store to layaway, in fact they won’t hold it in the store. They have it held in their main warehouse which is not even in our state. Again..no big deal, I don’t blame them here, saves on clutter. So you can only layaway certain items through them and the barbie doll house is one of those things. I have attached the doll house we purchased to this post. It is cheaper on Amazon and seriously next time I am buying amazon! I paid $159 and now it is listed as $179 on toys-r-us web site.

You would think that since the company holds it in their warehouse that it would not matter which Toys-r-us store you make the payment but NOOOOOO, they care.

I went to the closer store and could not get them to take the payment because “this is not the delivery location.” ME: “can I change the delivery location?” THEM: “NO.” ME: “Seriously?” THEM: “Sorry, but you have to go to the other store,” (20 miles away). ME; My thought “WTF!”

So I head over to the other store 20 miles away, mind you I just spent 15 minutes in the car going to the first store, packing the 2 kids in and out of car seats in the rain, so ask me if I was happy…Hell no!

I get to the other store and pay my bill and ask a few questions.
ME: “Can I change my pick up location?”
THEM: “NO.”
ME: “Why it is not out for delivery yet?”
THEM: “That’s our policy.”
ME: “Well my Mother-in-law lives real close to here if I GIVE her this receipt and give you her name can she pick it up?”
THEM: “NO.”
ME: “WHY?”
THEM: “You have to sign for it.”
ME: OK can I sign something now that gives her permission?”
THEM: “NO”
ME: Thinking, I seriously want to jump over the counter about right now but I keep my composure!
ME: “you offer free shipping for this barbie house on you web site, can I have it shipped to my home?”
THEM: “NO.”
ME: “WHY?”
THEM: “It has to be shipped here?”
ME: “HMM, doesn’t this come from the same warehouse whether I buy it on line or from you in layaway?”
THEM: “YES.”
ME: “That makes no sense!”
THEM: “That’s our policy.”
ME: Thinking…I know where you can put your policies!

I then decide to go buy my son another pair of shoes because I bought some for $6 that are toy-story and the light up and I decided to buy the next size up since the price was so good.

I did find the shoes and they were still the awesome price of $6. “Whihoo this is getting better!”

I get into a pretty large line at the check stand, mind you they had one girl checking out and another lady approached me and said “I can check  you out at the service desk.” I was very happy again and feeling a little less pissed at this time. Cool, I got checked out rather quickly. But….the service desk is directly in front of the “IN” door. I then asked the lady, “Instead of going all the way around again can I just go out the IN?” THEM: “NO.” Is this the stores favorite word? I said OK why? She said “it probably won’t open.” At this point I can feel the heat in my entire body and I am thinking “OPEN THE FREAKING DOOR YOUR DAMN SELF!” I have actually seen them do this in the past so I know it can be done.

I then head around the front of the desk and the line was still really long, I had the cart because my 18 month old was in it and had my 4 year old holding on to it too. Some people are really rude and I have to say that I have had many instances with very rude shopping Mothers. No one would move and let me though. I said “excuse me” to a couple different ladies and go a look that could have killed. Why is everyone so freaking bitchy today, I thought.

I finally made it outside and to the car. I was happy I got the house paid off and the shoes but I have this aching nerve of pissed-of-ness that is eating at me. I am not in my happy place and that is not going to benefit me, I know.

In the end this is what I will do.

If I want to store presents I will pay for them int he beginning and store them at the in-laws, If I do layaway again I will do that at Kmart again, they are so much easier!

I am so glad to be home!
Have a wonderful stress free day everyone!
Tawna

UPDATE:
Well…I just did the survey yesterday afternoon and it is 9:30 in the morning and I got a call back from toys-r-us just a few minutes ago. I have to say, that was fast. I was not even real sure they read the surveys.

The guy said “I can cancell your order and put the purchase price on a gift card and then re-purchase it as a pick up to the store you want?” I said “Does that mean I have to drive the 20 miles and pick up the card and then go do that at the other store?” He said “No I can do it all right now without you having to go anywhere.”  ME “YES PLEASE!”

So as he was doing that I asked him why their policy was so dumb that they could not take payments at other stores and you know what he said……..”Mrs. Richard, the associates should have been able to take your payment at another store, I apologize for all your problems.” ME: SPEECHLESS and….”seriously?! “Is there anyway you can let you associates know this?” Him: “Yes mam I will and you purchase will arrive in 7-12 days at the store you requests.”

All that headache and I KNEW that I should have been able to pay for this at another store. Do I still feel like i should be compensated more…YES, BUT….I am getting the pick up location changed so I am going to choose my battles. If I let myself continue to be upset about this then I am only attracting a negative aura around me and is it seriously worth it….NO! I will get the doll house, where I wanted to get it, my daughter will be surprised and excited, and this will be all worth it!

Thanks to all my readers and their kind and wonderful support. I am glad toys-r-us resolved this, for the most part. I am still not using their layaway again, but I will still shop there for things I want to pick up in the inventory already at the store.

I am posting this on all my blogs today because I am seriously thinking about making a change but need advice first.

How many of you have moved from Blogger to Word Press? If so I have questions!

1.  Do you GFC followers come with the export of the blog or do you start at 0 followers and if not how hard was it for you to get your followers over with you? Did you get a decent amount to join the new blog?

2.  Is the advertising incentive better then AdSense? I may a few cents a day on AdSense but it is not great.

3.  I know that comment luv works better on word press (I had to uninstall mine) but what other features make it worth it?

4.  It’s not like I am only blogging for money, seriously but it would be nice to make a little profit off of it, Since we are a one income family. Everything on my blog is honest and from the heart and I just think there has got to be a better incentive out there.

5. Last but not least, tell me everything and anything that will help me decide on whether or not to stay with blogger or export my blog to a word press blog!

6. OK so this one is really last: Was it hard to learn the new word press things for template, posting etc?

Thanks!
I know I have the best readers in the world and know I will get lot’s of great input for my decision. I don’t dislike blogger at all, I justt want to compare and make the right decision!

Oh and don’t forget that I am part of a 75 blog March Madness giveaway, I hope you will enter all 3 of my giveaways and many others. Only open til March 20th! Visit my march Madness TAB on my blog!!

Cheers!
Tawna