I am no expert or anything, but the way I look at it, it’s not making any sense to me.
Some rich dude tells lots other not-so-rich dudes that they can make lots money if they give him all their money to invest. The rich dude then spent all the money and now has no way to pay the other dudes back. Now the US governmet is asking us, the taxpayers, to pay of all the debts of the rich dude so he can get off free and clear and leave all the debt to us. Why? Why are people even considering it? No matter how you work it, the debt has to be paid. The government want the taxpayers to pay for it saying it’s good for the economy. (BTW, it’s not like we have any money anyway since we are way in red. So they are just going to pay for it by printing money out of thin air… Way to go!)
If your friend max out his CC to the point where he can’t even make minimun payments, would you get another CC with a higher limit to pay it off, under YOUR name??? (Your friend tells you it will be good for the both of you in the long run!)
Last night we rushed home from work just trying to make one of Lorelai’s MyGym classes during the week. Rushing back was tiring, but staying in class with her for an hour was even more tiring! She didn’t really want to follow directions and just went around in her own way. After we got home I think I literally passed out on the floor for a 15 minute power nap.
Yesterday we went to a Chino Firefighter Chilli cook off that we saw on the newspaper. The thing was from 10am to 4pm, but we had to wait for Lorelai to take her daily power nap before we can leave. By the time we got there, all the chilli were gone :( (We got there around 2pm) The BBQ sure did look good though, too bad I was already too full from lunch to try any.
The fair wasn’t that big, as we expected, but there was a station for pony riding. We put Lorelai on to give her a try, and she loved it. Fun times. After riding 4 times (we didn’t know how else to spend the tickets), we stopped by Joghurt again (only because it was on the way) to get some sugar injections.
Finally had some time this weekend to do some picture processing, so here it is. We decided to take Lorelai to the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana just to walk around on Labor Day Weekend, and hey, Jeannie gets Teacher’s discounts! Good deal.
As usual, Lorelai wasn’t too interested in the stuff there, but she had fun watching all the kids running around. (Click on the picture or here for the Gallery)
Well, I said earlier we were dealing with wild animal problems, so here it is. A while back (maybe 1 or 2 week ago) Jeannie got rid of some overgrown bushes and saw something ran out from under it right as she was doing it. A couple days later we started to notice a lot of rat poops everywhere in our backyard. Super gross… We were pretty sure that they were from our lovely neighbors with a messy backyard (we can see their backyard from upstairs, thanks neighbor!), thus started the operation.
We employed both the spring-loaded traps and lots of poison. These things are expensive… $8 for 10 little packs.
Time seems to get shorter and shorter everyday now that Jeannie’s school started up again. Since Jeannie is teaching a new grade this year, there are a lot of class preparations that she needs to do from scratch, which takes a good amount of work. House works are piling up and we are also dealing with some wild animal problems (more on that later). I guess things are just chaotic, thus the reason why we haven’t been updating.
Things haven’t really slowed down, but I guess we should do a quick update on what Lorelai has been up to:
All lanes of the westbound 60 freeway, near the interchange with the 57 freeway, were reopened after being shut for nearly four hours while a Caltrans crew cleaned up animal fat that spilled from a big rig.
And it didn’t help that this was Jeannie’s 1st day back to school and she was basically freaking out about being late. Thanks to some lucky local shortcuts, we made it to Jeannie’s school 3 mins before school started.
I am not sure our string of bad luck is over yet… But at least the car is fixed, phone’s replaced, and we are getting our replacement DishDVR today.
The summer is finally over as Jeannie started working yesterday, and what an unluckly last 2 weeks of summer it was (which was why I didn’t really feel like blogging for a while). Now that most of the ordeal is over (hopefully), I guess I’ll do a summery recap:
The Murano got read-ended one Sunday morning on our way to Costco. It wasn’t bad and no one got hurt, just that there’s a little hole on the rear bumper. The driver, a middle age Asian man, was driving a loaner car because his car was in the shop due to an earlier accident (Figure That!) He was very apologetic (good) but then offered us $50 for the “little trouble” that he had caused. I chuckled and shaked my head, then asked for the insurance info.
Seeing that we are not taking the $50 bait, the guy upped his offer to a whopping $75! We gave him the “Are you kidding me?” look and continued taking down the info. Seeing that he’s not going to get off easily, he then asked if we can bring the car to his body shop so he can get an estimate. Trying to be nice, we said yes.
The next day Jeannie brought the car over to the guy’s suggested body shop, which turns out is owned by his friend. Seeing that Jeannie was there by herself (sorry, I had to work), they basically tried to scar/scam her into settling for $200~$300. Good job for Jeannie for seeing through their schemes and standing up to those bastards, she left the place not taking their deal and angry (we were trying to do a nice thing for the guy but he ended up trying to scam us).
We immediately contacted State Farm (that guy’s insurance) regarding the whole accident. A whole lot of phone calls later, we got approved for the repair and a rental when the Murano is being repaired. Jeannie dropped the car off to the body shop and called Hertz to get picked up. She ended up with a red RAV4 (brings back old memories) with a tired pressure light on. She told Hertz about it and they said it’s ok…
Well, obviously it’s not ok. Turned out there’s a screw in one of the tires, so we either had to drive it back for exchange, or fix it on their dime. We chose the latter, but that still took more than an hour of our time…
A week later, the Murano was finally ready with a brand new bumper. Jeannie called Hertz to arrange for a pickup/dropoff, but ended up getting a very rude dude (Chris) at Hertz Montclair, CA telling her that “We are too busy, so why don’t you keep the car for another day and we will charge you for it?” Terrible Hertz service. I ended up leaving work early so we can drop off the rental ourselves.
Unrelated to this whole car accident, I think our beloved DishDVR is failing. It’s freezing up for no reason and requires frequent reboots. We are in the process of calling Dish to get a replacement.
Oh yeah, and Jeannie Centro simply just refused to turn on after 2 months of use. Apparently others have experienced this after 2 months of use, and you simply need to get a replacement phone since there’s no way for you to fix it yourself… Had to talk to Palm’s India Customer Service, and they sucked.
I guess it’s a whole string of bad lucks all bunched up in a 2-week period. I guess the only positive thing was Caliber Collision Center in Chino, where we got the car fixed. A very nice/clean/high tech facility with a friendly staff and did a good job on the bumper. (The total repair + car rental cost was about $1,000) Other than that, we are hoping to put these whole 2 weeks pass us and move one (and get our replacement DVR before the new fall season starts).
