Arrrgggghhh!!!

I hate lazy, lieing, cheating, stealing pricks!!! About October of last year I bought a couple batteries from Batteries.com to replace the one in my phone and laptop. The phone battery worked great, the laptop, not so much. Either way, I have a new phone now so it doesn't matter and my old laptop battery lasts longer than the new one I purchased. That really isn't what makes me mad. It was the letter I received from Batteries.com a few months later that stated that they regretted to inform me but my credit card information was stolen along with many others. They notified the credit card company and also gave me two years of free fraud protection with one of the online companies, which, from the reviews I read, is more of a hassle than actually getting your card stolen. So I check my credit card activity frequently and really had not thought much about it. Today I received a text, phone call and email all warning me of fraudulent activity possibly on my card. Apparently some kind fella in England decided he wanted to go on vacation using my card! Luckily AMEX called immediately because I am obviously not in England and we haven't been on vacation in about 4 years. I just hope this lazy bastard doesn't mind the gap and his foot is ripped off as he is hauled down the tunnels of the underground. Where do people get off on using someone else's hard earned cash to do what they want. It just really pisses me off and I believe vigilante justice is warranted in this case. However, I must applaud AMEX, they were great, I am not getting charged for the flight and they cancelled the card immediately and are getting a new one sent to me right away.

Other news, Oz is turning 1 tomorrow. We are having a birthday party for the little guy on Saturday and so the added stress of a cancelled credit card does not help matters any. So I apologize if I seemed a bit violent or aggressive earlier. However, if I did ever meet this person in an alley, I would hope that I would be able to vent my anger in an effective and calm manner so that his pain would not be over too quickly. As I am sure this person has swindled many people out of their money and his just rewards should be given not only in hell but on earth as well.

That is the last I will say of it so please enjoy a nice picture of our adorable kid.

Nuff Said

 

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It has probably been about 2 months since we last put anything up on this blog. Reasons for this are many, we do have an almost one year old, Jen does not have access to a laptop while I am working and after the Oz goes to sleep, we like to have a little us time. I probably shouldn't post while I am working either, but, with the economy so bad, no one wanting to meet, I just need a few minutes of happy time. Writing about Oz and everything he is doing will be my recess for the day.

Now for some Oz. He is not walking, though he is so close. He just got new shoes, a pair of Saucony, they have very flexible soles and he immediately let me lead him around the store in them. So they could have been $500 and we still would have bought them. Of course, they weren't, we aren't that bad. Did I mention the economy. It is not easy being a full commission salesmen in an economy largely based on the automotive industry. But I digress.

Oz kind of talks now, he says dada and he crawls over everything. He has stopped harassing the dogs, so they actually come up to him and play a little. Except Coco, she is still pretty timid, but she also yelps if a stiff breeze wiggles her whiskers. Oz is going to be one year old soon. We have been looking forward to this, no more formula. We hate that formula, is stinks, it's expensive, it's messy. So glad to be rid of it. Oz has some new favorite things. He loves to bang on things that make noise, what kid doesn't. He is always trying to take things apart, including my phone, Jen's phone and the remote. He loves anything that makes music, coincidentally, he loves the Keller and Keller commercial, Stanley Steamer, Empire Flooring and the classic $5 foot long commercial. He is not a big fan of Subway's new work. And we don't just sit our kid in front of the TV all day, well, Jen doesn't, I might try to make the kid watch Batman or something, Jen reads to him and engages him in educational activities.

The kiddo likes to throw his pacifiers when he is mad. We put him to bed and he has 7 or 8 pacifiers that he shares time. If he doesn't want to take a nap he starts to throw them around his room, we can hear them hit the walls and know that at about the 7th or 8th hit we will need to head up, gather the fallen and give them back to Oz. He usually goes right to sleep after that. I think he just wants to show us who's the boss. I almost forgot one of the funniest things. Our kid hates the grass. At least the way it feels on his feet. He does not want to sit in the grass, walk through the grass or accidentally put his hand in the grass. I put him down once and he just sat, still as a statue, with one hand out of the grass. He sat like that for five minutes as I could not stop laughing. He didn't cry, he just sat there, our little tripod. Eventually I picked him up and sat him on my lap. He was fine with grabbing blades of the grass and trying to eat them but, if you take off a shoe and put his foot down, there is hell to pay. Though, it is quite funny. We can put him down on a blanket in the grass and he won't step foot off the blanket. I am pretty sure we could leave for a few hours, come back and there he would be, sitting on the blanket, pissed off. It would be kind of like a baby invisible fence. Child Protective Services, we are just kidding. I would never use a shock collar on my kid.

Enjoy some recent pics of the boy.