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My Stalker

October 29, 2006 by Tricia

My little old lady neighbor is at it again.

We took our window air-conditioners out about two weeks ago. When the living room / dining room air-conditioner was in the window Sofie couldn’t see me if I was sitting at my desktop computer. Now that that air-conditioner has been taken out and put away she has a clear view of me from her dining room window.

It’s an even clearer view when she moves her curtains aside and stands in her window staring at me.

I’ve taken to waving at her when I see her. She backs quickly away from her windows and the curtains close again. LOL Sofie- If you can see me, I can see you too!

If Chris and I are going out she’s often in her front window looking out or on her front porch. She always asks where we are going. Unfortunately my husband often tells her the truth – and often the truth is we are going to yet another doctors appointment for me. If she hears I’m going to the doctor she gets all worried and often gets teary. Why on earth does my husband tell her where we are going when he knows it makes her cry? Anyway, my doctors appointments are usually just routine appointments, it doesn’t mean I’m deathly ill just because I’m seeing a doctor.

If she hasn’t seen me sitting at my desktop computer she’ll often come to our back window and knock on it. She scares the crap out me every time she does this. I’m just never expecting a knock on the back window even though I should be by now since she does this every second or third day.

She’s nice little ol’ lady, and I know she’s lonely and that she worries about me, but her devotions really creeps me out.

Does anyone else have any overly friendly or overly nosy neighbors?





Filed Under: Humor, The Neighborhood Tagged With: devoted, friendly, lonely, neighbor, neighbors, nosy, sofie, stalker, window

Garden Sabotage

October 29, 2006 by Tricia

My crazy little old lady neighbor is at it again!

I think she’s been trying to kill my garden piece by piece.

This year she’s attacking the little plot at the end of our shared driveway. She’s putting cement crumbles on it.

Her son did a lousy repair job on a hole in her walkway last year where she was convinced a mouse was living. Needless to say, after some cold weather the whole thing is a crumbling mess and she keeps throwing the chunks in my garden.

Now she’s putting all the little green keys from our other neighbors huge maple tree into this tiny garden bed. I found about two feet worth of maple keys there today. It was really fun getting them out from around the two roses that grow there.

Is it garden envy? Senility? Dementia? I don’t know, but I do know she’s really starting to tick me off. Remember my garden scraps post about here? And the stalking? Uh huh.

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, The Neighborhood, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: crazy, garden, Garden sabotage, neighbor, neighbors, plants, roses, stalking, weather

Search Engine Optimization Blog

October 28, 2006 by Tricia

Some of you are startled when you find out just how many blogs and websites I own and manage. For those that don’t know – I have five blogs, and two major websites and I might add a few more blogs or websites to my network in the coming months.

Yes I am a geek and I’m not too proud to admit it.

Over the years I’ve learned a lot about Search Engine Marketing (SEO), page rank (PR) and many of the other aspects of promoting a website and getting it to the top of the search results so that people can find my sites easily and come visit and see what I have to offer.

I know all of the things that work best for my sites and have a lot of experience with creating and promoting sites but I don’t have a lot of interest in writing about it. However, I’ve recently come across the SEO Blog that has a lot of very useful information on it that I know many of my readers will find useful.

Do you have a niche blog or website? A popular blog that you want to take to the next level? Why don’t you visit the Search engine optimization blog and learn what you can do to get your site to the top of the search engine results?

Filed Under: Web and Technology Tagged With: Search engine optimization, SEO, website marketing

Tricia Needs …

October 28, 2006 by Tricia

This is something I saw on one of my visitors sites (Thanks Mary). The idea is to do a Google search “your name needs” and see what comes up. Here’s mine:

1. Tricia needs affection, stability and devotion, not charm and empty words – she’s made the right choice. Always!

2. Tricia needs Carlos more than ever and he leaves! Carlos, Carlos how could you do this to me! Wait, who is Carlos anyway?

3. Tricia needs to take a bathroom break. How did you know?

4. Tricia needs help, needs therapy, not the electric chair. Well, some might have differing opinions on that one.

5. Tricia needs to bring me out of the clouds. Does that mean I put you there?

6. Tricia needs the forms that were in your mailboxes last week. Don’t tell me you didn’t get them?

7. TRICIA NEEDS YOUR PRAYERS! Can’t hurt.

8. Tricia needs you. And you, and you and you!

9. Tricia needs your final payment by Monday. Please don’t give me the line that the cheques in the mail, I’m not stupid you know.

10. All Tricia needs is to have her favorite music and things around her. True, very true.

Filed Under: Humor, Meme, Recreation Tagged With: idea, Meme, Music, stupid, therapy, Tricia needs, visitors

Almost switched my cell phone provider

October 28, 2006 by Tricia

I’m a little upset with my cell phone provider right now. I’m supposed to have a package that includes a certain number of text messages that I can send and I think a ridiculously high number of text messages that I can receive free of charge. Unfortunately every time I send a text message or receive one I seem to get charged, and it’s not like I’m texting companies that do charge a fee for a text message. No, I’m trying to text some friends.

On top of that we’ve pretty much told anyone that is calling us long distance not to leave a message on the cell phone. We get extra roaming charges on the call when we check the message. We even get roaming charges if someone from out of town happens to be in our city and they call our cell phone with their cell phone. They are in the same city that we are in and we get roaming charges.

I’ve called my cell phone provider about this and they’ve told me that the text messages are included in my package and that I shouldn’t be getting charged for them. Fine, I end the call and the next time I text someone I notice a text message charge on my bill. Same with the roaming charges. They can’t give me a reasonable explanation.

I ended up calling them again yesterday about these problems. I finally pulled out the big guns even though it made my stomach Churn a bit to do it. I threatened to switch providers. That got some results. You see I’m a good customer – my bills are always paid on time and I get my cable, digital channels, internet and cell phone services from them. They took me seriously and gave me a small refund for all the roaming charges I’ve been getting and they’re going to try to fix my problem with text messaging.

Finally!

Have you had problems with any of your service providers? Cable, cell, internet or any others? What did you do about it?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle Tagged With: cell phone, churn, roaming charges, switch provider, text message

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