i am such a shitbag

Seriously.

I want so much to go out to public places and have fun but I am the idiot magnet. I am proud that I contained myself as to not end up in jail today though :)

First as we head down to this shrimp festival it said the parade was at 10am. hm.... traffic is stopped and I see the parade. It started at 930 and all these cars were stuck on the road. So we turned around and parked in a church lot about a half mile out and walked in.

No biggie and glad we weren't sitting on the road for over an hour!!! Watched some of the parade and hooked up with our friends the Moser's.

OK FOLKS... there are clothes to wear and not to wear. We all know the clothes to wear to walmart... washing your car... hanging out in your own home.... the beach.... ok ok... so

I will post the photo in a second. NEON See through shorts --- to her credit she WAS wearing a thong. I missed the money shot when she bent over... I was pissed. Anyway... why to people do this? Wear shit totally out of the box for them? I feel like such a judgmental prick but seriously. I laughed because after thinking about it... really if someone was a bit smaller wearing it, I would have been like honey, we gotta talk. If someone really thin was wearing this well wouldn't we call her a bitch? LOL well no... I actually would still have had the same thought that its TOTALLY not cool to wear even if someone was thin in this.

I really hate seeing peoples panties. Can you tell? I think this is what got me the most. Not the heaviness or the stomach hanging over the front to her thighs (which I just couldn't take that shot)... I did want to ask if she was that girls sister I saw at the DMV!  Honestly.... the fucking underwear??? a THONG??? omg. damn dental floss. OWWWW.

SO... after thinking it out I really could care less myself what she is wearing but it kills me watching other young girls looking at her thinking THIS is ok to do. Oh and yes... that is a grease stain on her right ass cheek.

So moving on.. what is wrong with wearing a shirt? or at least something that FITS? Again... If I posted the front it would have just been like a porn shot. The spillage out he front was disgusting and she kept bending over to tend to some old Qtip sitting in a chair. I did see the nip once and just about died. Paul missed it and was bumming :) The shirt wasn't even about the fat... just the entire idea you would show your nipples through your bikini top that doesn't fit... what don't these people UNDERSTAND???


From here we moved on into this so called shrimp festival.  First though at 11am were the Gator boys... I guess they are some TV gang out of Florida that do shit with gators. Found a place in the shade early and waited. Right before the show starts a mother comes up my left side with her kid. I have no issues with the kid going to the front with all the other kids but lady... you can stay put :) I have not stood here with company for 30 min for you to just walk in. So that being said... she is yelling at this kid-- Samantha Not Sam... Samantha-- saying her name over and over and finally gets her attention. OK Mind you... this kid is ONE person in front of us. Close. So... Mom hands the kid her camera and tells her to take lots of photos.

The show starts and this woman is nudging me every 15 seconds. Her slimy hairy arm is rubbing on mine and there is plenty of room to give each other space, she just doesn't have boundaries. Every 30 seconds she yells, "SAMANTHA, get the pictures, are you taking pictures? TAKE PICTURES" the poor kid is so busy taking pictures I think she missed the show. This mother is yelling this in my ear and I am about to punch her. Then she steps on my foot and elbows me because she "lost her balance". She kept saying, ''soway" like the laziest fucking sorry you could muster up. After the 13th (yes I was counting) 'soway' I had to turn to her and say, " SOWAY isn't going to work next time, Don't touch me again" She didn't know what to say and backed off a little bit. (maybe it was my tone) Still, she kept on torturing her poor kid who couldn't take pictures fast enough and then of course 20 seconds later the show ends.

Now note that I left Scout at home because it is balls hot and I had Paul with me so I figured I would be ok. After that we were on a food hunt. I found some kick ass popcorn and did have one bite of funnel cake while everyone else feasted... OH I did have a bite of a blooming onion but omg soo greasy.

I thought --- the wine tent... that will get rid of my agro self. We go down there and its muscadine wine. ugh... shit... and they didn't have beer!! HAHAHAHA beer and wine tent with no beer. nice.

They advertised gumbo shrimp all week- Tabitha never found it. There were two tents that sold shrimp. Pretty sad.

The rest of this place was a typical junkie fair. A few tents with home made jewelry and soap... some animal rescue tents set up and the military tents like wounded warriors stuff like that. We did our usual 20 dollar donations we do there....

They had pony rides and there was even a camel-- I thought of Sarah in MN and our camel ride!!! However this camel was pissed off and biting its handler so... um... yeah no thanks!!!

Just walking around was annoying as hell with people running into us and not paying attention -- the land of oblivions was just too  much for me.

Of course I am the one who invited the Moser's and we ended up bailing after another hour. I just couldn't take it.

so... what a fun day full of agro bullshit that I brought on myself instead of putting that idiot in a bubble and blowing her away. My own damn fault being hot and miserable.

Our disgrutle letter about the move.

So.. We had a pretty horrific move from Quantico to Jacksonville-- able to clear the head and get the letter done after about a bazillion revisions :)

 

To  Head of JPSO Fort Belvoir,

In June 2013, my orders were bumped up a month, and my wife and I had to find movers for a Personally Procured Move (DTY).  After calling around, I was able to find movers who said they could do the move on short notice at a reasonable price; this was not the case.

I am writing to voice my serious concerns about the service, detailed below, provided by “A Few Good Men Moving and Storage” located in Wake Forrest, NC  afgmmoving@gmail.com, 919-761-4194.

29 May, I called an spoke to Lou who after hearing that we had a home approximately 2000 square feet, and had three bed-rooms, a living room, dining room, kitchen, two and a half-bathrooms and a garage, quoted me $4700 for the whole move and stated that they would pack us on the 3rd and move us on the 4th, which worked well with our timeline. I briefly spoke to Mrs. Lowe in person in the TMO office who said that sounded about right for a Major moving from Quantico to the Jacksonville, NC area.

On the 3rd of June the crew showed up to move us at about 1100 (two hours late) in a much shorter truck than we were anticipating, but the crew leader assured me that he would make everything fit. The crew leader shortly thereafter told me that the packing materials would not be the $1000 quoted by Lou, but $3000 for a flat-rate for everything and assured me that this would save him time in counting the materials used. I called Lou and asked why there was suddenly $2000 extra in packing materials, to which he replied that he had been just estimating and really couldn’t tell without doing a walk-through, which at no point did he try and schedule or recommend.

My wife and I had purchased $300 worth of plastic bins and had packaged much of the smaller items up into sixteen bins and another ten plastic crates prior to the movers’ arrival. I spent the day filling over a dozen boxes to include all the closets and clothes. My wife came home from work and packed the entire kitchen. By 10 p.m., they were still not done packing. The bill for the first day came to $5288 and that was before the move to Jacksonville or the off-loading and with our pre-packing and combined help. The crew leader then estimated that the final bill would be over ten thousand dollars.

Because they brought such a short truck, I had to rent an additional truck to move all the things they could not fit; this cost us over $700. We were lucky to get the truck at all on no advanced notice, and could not find a car trailer anywhere in the area. We had planned to rent one truck for what they could not take; not two. The additional truck had 4320 pounds of what they could not fit in the short truck after assuring us that they would make it fit. Additionally, I had to rent a car to drive back to Quantico to get the vehicle I had to leave behind because I was driving a truck, and pay the one-way fee and gas, to say nothing of driving over five hours each way.

I spoke to Lou the day after the pack-out (4 June) and expressed my concerns that the move quoted at $4700 was now looking like closer to well over double that. He called the owner and called me back. He repeatedly emphasized that he was doing us a favor, and said he got the transportation and off-load capped at an additional $3300. So at this point the $4700 quote was now up to $8688. Lou added that because he had done this, he wanted me to write a hearty recommendation in exchange; a recommendation of their services.

I had to remain in Quantico to conduct the final home inspection with the housing office and my wife went ahead to our new home and supervised the off-load. The movers arrived late again, three hours this time, due to the truck being overweight and being stopped at a transportation scale. The same crew leader immediately went to my wife for the final payment; before anything was unloaded or unpacked. He then immediately brought up the tip. My wife handed him $180 cash for the four-man crew as they were beginning work. He became upset and expressed his dissatisfaction with the tip, but then added that he would still do his job, as if we should take comfort from that. He said something to the effect of the tip wasn’t even 1% of the gross; which, in fact, was over two percent, and that he had expected ten percent of the gross: over eight-hundred dollars. I want to re-emphasize that; he told my wife that he expected over eight-hundred dollars for a tip before he had even unloaded the truck.

My wife explained that because the company had so grossly underestimated the charges, we were way over-budget for the move, and that this money was coming out of our pocket on top of all the other expenses incurred from the move. They were on sight for about half an hour when my wife walked over to a neighbor for information about getting delivery for food for them, the crew leader yelled at her at a distance to get back in the garage and continue telling them where the boxes go despite the boxes being clearly labeled. This was forceful enough that the neighbor remarked the next day about how rude the crew leader was to her.  The attitude from there on in was clear; apparently they resented the tip and their resentment was readily apparent. My wife was very uncomfortable as they continued and this was exacerbated by them speaking to each other in a language she could not understand. After several hours of this, my wife had had enough and told them to just leave everything that was left in the garage.

I arrived the next day in the moving truck with the two tons of what they could not move and put it in the garage and began moving the rest of what they left in the garage to the appropriate rooms.

To say we are frustrated and disappointed would be a vast understatement. They charged us $3988 more than estimated (84% higher), didn’t bother to do a walk-through though they had at least a limited opportunity to do so, immediately tripled the cost of the packing materials, and took longer than any of the several moves we have done our time in the Marine Corps, and charged accordingly. We incurred over a thousand dollars of additional expense in renting the truck and car. We had to move over two tons of material ourselves, and we had an aggressively rude crew leader who made my wife very uncomfortable because he didn’t feel that dinner both nights and $180 dollars cash was sufficient reward on top of the hourly rate $125.

I will forward this to the Inspector General, Quantico TMO,  the Better Business Bureau, Angie’s List, and whoever else I can think of, but these guys should not be moving military; they seem to me to be rip-off artists.

I would recommend taking them off the eligible movers that you use for TMO moves immediately.

Sincerely,

Test

Heading out to a new doctor today after a shitty morning of running around, getting lost and no work out on top of it all. Doesn't help the anxiety.
I really just want to be in bed with my kitties and Scout watching something mindless and eating kale chips.
Of course now the clouds are around, rain but no thunder and lightning so I bet the pool is now open. grrrr...

This really is just a test post on the new blog page. I closed my old account- well the email to it and forgot all my entry things and have no way to access it. Great right?

so Test.