Ask your Dad, ask your Mom

free credit report.com
Really?

So went to www.annualcreditreport.com
and got my credit report.
Its really good.
3 negative items...
1 for $174.00 from years ago when I got my wisdom teeth out....Dr charged after I had already paid, couldn't submit proof of what these charges were for. I paid everything up front, had insurance, etc... so I told him to suck it. Not paying. Tell me what they are for... I'll pay. Fine with that on there.
An old OG&E bill, I paid, didn't know existed. Paid when I found out. No big, happens accident. Like $58.00 actually. And its PAID. So fine.
And one more medical bill $29.00 seriously. Don't know what its for, will investigate.... never got any documentation on it... could be just lost in mail.

So 14 good items! Mortgage, gas card, credit cards, education loans that I pay interest on while going to school... and that really it. My education loans are about $30,000 so that's not bad comparatively. My brother in law owes 6 times that amount and my brother and his wife... well over that. So I'm good with that. Over the 144 month period it averages out to about $200.00 a month payment.
I've kept an eye on all this... knew how much LCB was going to cost. Figured it all in.

So! I'm $4,000 in the hole. This means pell and government have stepped in and given their pound of flesh. But I have $4,000 outstanding that I need to pay, um, now.
Its extra class stuff... like student teaching for meat fab. Expensive.
Fine.
But I went to get a loan... through Sallie Mae... DENIED!
WHAT THE FUCK?!!!!
I am current. Way current. Like I said, paying interest while going to school.

So I go to Pops, head bowed, 37 years old, can't get a $4000 loan... Pops please.
Pops who has NEVER been late on a bill in his whole entire life who has a credit score well over 700++++ and he is DENIED!

I can make payments on it but it has to be paid by the time I finish school... you do the math.... 4 months, $4000. No way I can eek out an extra $1000 a month to pay for that.

What now?
What do I do?

I'm running lots of options in my head.
Calls home lender... get a refinance for $4000.... may be.
Come home. Fuck this. Work as a butcher, work at the War Bar.
Finish up there at one of the lesser Culinary Schools... see what transfers from LCB.
Whine.
Whine some more.
Drink mass amounts of vodka.
Cry.
Wallow in self pity.
$4000!!!! I am so close.

None of those things are really workable options....
so whats a girl to do?
What?
Help. Gulp.
Ice clinking in glass...
I am taking option Vodka.

Fuck around.
This has been easy, I remind myself everyday of how blessed I am.
How much support and love and encouragement has come from every single person in my life, how my family has stepped way up>>>>>>I mean way up....the child, her sacrifices..... Joe and how many times he has gone up and down with me... all of you sending me love and light...
and I think:
I CAN'T QUIT NOW!
That simply won't do.

I'm 38... I said 37 up there, still hasn't sunk in that I had a fabulous birthday, and my credit is good. My mind is good. There has to be a way.

Google Chrome!

OH I love it!
I've used I Google for some time now...
got everything right on one page where I like it!
And now this gift from heaven above.

It spell checks everything I write...
and you all know from reading my blog...
Gert is not a speller.

Even my Face book posts... spell checked!
Woo hoo! I shall never, well almost never look stupid again.
Kizz... I still need you. wink

I'm feeling better. Amazing that I think I have lived with two ear aches for weeks now. Didn't know I felt bad until I felt better kind of deal.
Must raise my tolerance for suffering fools as high as my pain tolerance.

School... all I have done is write paper after paper after paper...

I have these classes left:
Garde Manger II, thanks to the German Chef I will be repeating this course.
Baking II
American Regional
International
Restaurant

Then I have a three month Extern ship somewhere.
And I'm done.
LCB graduate. Little c chef still. Vegetarian Butcher released into the wild!

Classes are three weeks a piece.
15 weeks.
Plus three weeks for Christmas vacation.
18 weeks.
Yes, I'm bad at math too. Is that right?

So that puts me at the end of February there abouts.
Right on target.
9 week delay... Meat fab teaching, Meat fab butchering and retake GMII.

The Texas sentence is almost served and I am back home by Joe's Birthday!
Makes it a year almost. My lease is up in the Middle of March.
So yeah... a year of my life.
Wow!
Woof!

Its almost over... more time served than to serve.

Gertrude likes to play games

that is why, no words here... other than just FYI and my health and how I am feeling and school sucks comments.

Facebook has sucked my brain out.
Mafia Wars... ah! The killing. I love the killing. Attacking, wars, taking over small countries... I aspire to be the Godmother. Its all there. You should see all the loot I own. Armored limos, mystery vans... its just too much.
Farmville, well, I grow things. I am just waiting for POT to show up on the crops because this game is custom designed for slow and easy and little Jimmy Hendrix's in the making. Its a tweekers paradise.
And the newest.... suck suck suck
I swore I wouldn't.
But I did..
CafeWorld. Little c chef. I am finding a grove now. A lot of my dishes kept spoiling at first. But its a perfectly pink place... named the Po Shizzle Cafe.
Stop by, grab a bite!

I know... you are all to sophisticated to play these games.
Zelda prefers to FB stalk.
I get it.

But its where I spend a lot of time.
I need a brain break from all these culinary papers I am writing and it provides one.
Plus its peer interaction.

So that's where I am folks.
Gotta go... let the killing begin!

The better to hear you....

ear infections in BOTH ears, really?
Just another trip to the Great Minute Clinic at CVS.
Actually went to talk about water pills... and how to get some...without going to black market.
No wonder I have been feeling like crap.
High tolerance for pain... yep, that's me.

So... what else?
Working.
Working.
Boring.
Yep, that's me.

Just fizzled izzle.
To bed.

#1

My Yayme!


I'll follow the theme...
I can't commit to daily.
I need to but cannot.
But I can't wait to follow you all on Naplobomo.

I'm little h home.
Ready for the week... love, in love with Fall Back!
Extra hour... thank you for the gift Zelda!
We can all get caught up on everything this month!
Especially ourselves and this funk thing....
we're just going to dig out of the hole!

And here come the holidays
and each day, every single day that passes...
I am one closer to being Big H Home with those I love.
And that is more reason than any for me to smile and dig in....
almost done!

I love you all!