We Figured It Out

All because of one of Ella’s medical bills. I swear OHSU creates a million different accounts and one of them was mailed to our old address. Therefore, it never got paid. Then it got turned over to Oregon Department of Revenue and we got a letter from them regarding the hospital bill. Norm offered to pay Ella’s medical bills, as that’s why there’s a trust. The trust is for college, a down payment on a home or medical bills. Per Norm, I wrote all of Ella’s medical bills out of his checking account, which I am an authorized signer for.

Norm’s bank has nothing better to do than watch his accounts. They saw a check to Department of Oregon Revenue and called in the authorities. They lady who’s investigating me told my grandma on the phone today that I wrote Oregon taxes out of his account. Guess what State of Oregon, I have backup that it wasn’t for fricking taxes. It was for a medical bill! I can’t wait to throw it in their stupid faces.

UGH.

I think I should sue his bank for harassment. I’m happy that Norm will be taking his stuff out of that bank, however, this just shows me that crap that comes along with Norm. I’ll still be there for him and I’ll do his accounts receivable, but I don’t think I want to have to worry about every thing I do. I’m going to have to turn the bills over to Norm and hope that my Grandma can help him with them.

Blah!

I’m a little less irritated today, but still pretty pissed. I didn’t go to church this morning, and not because of all this drama going on, but because it’s just too hard without Gino. He has to work today. I’m supposed to go on a picnic with some friends from church, so I’ll probably still do that…… just to get out of this house and get all of this crap off my mind.

It’s hurtful that I would be accused of something so shallow when I love Norm and have ALWAYS looked for his best interest. I’m the one that’s told him I don’t want a penny from his will. The only thing I’ve ever wanted is for an education, which has been promised to me since I was a little girl. I don’t want anything other than that…. and I’ve made sure that he and everyone else knows that. I don’t care about his money. I have him here so that he can be around the wonderful medical that Medford has to offer, and a beautiful place with low elevation so he can breathe. The funny thing is he’s not captured here, he’s only waiting for a major surgery, then he’s going home. Home to a place where not one soul will take care of him. He’ll end up in a care center and it will be a sad, sad thing. Here at least he’s in a beautiful retirement community, I take him out to eat, my Grandma takes him to her home to watch movies. There’s so much we do with and for him. Yet, we’re accused of wrong doing from people who don’t even care about him?!?!!? Money does disgusting things to people. Beyond my comprehension.

Talk about DRAMA!

Boy, I can’t catch a break lately. My Grandma called me today to tell me that I am being investigated by the State of Oregon for elderly whatever. You HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!! There’s a lot of greedy, money hungry assholes in this world, and unfortunately Norm (my Grandpa that I do books for) is surrounded by them. She is just as pissed off as me right now

A social worker showed up to his room and told him that it’s a secret and he has to keep it, because they’re going to come to my house and seize all of his books. He gets reports of EVERYTHING I do. He is not in any way in the dark, but unfortunately, his executor (who we will be getting rid of) likes to play games because we took his name off of the signature card at the bank. Norm told that social worker absolutely not, that is my family who takes care of me and everything that she does I have approved.

I’m so mad. Why in the hell do I have to be the one to be picked on, when I’m the one that’s here with the man taking care of him. I feel bad because my Grandma has been the one that has been attacked and accused, when she’s always only cared and taken care of him. Now it’s me. What’s sad is that it’s like his current executor is trying to make Norm have no say ~ why so he can just take over things and have a field day with his money????

Okay, so I know this was so personal and all that, but I’m pissed and I needed to write about it. This makes me just want to hand over all of his books right over to the vultures, but it’s not in his best interest. I guess I just take a deep breath, suck it up and deal with it. I’m glad that they could at least see that he’s not in any way senile, or not with it. He knows what’s going on, and I know that’s upsetting to him for people to assume that he doesn’t.

You know what’s sad? His current executor is LDS ~ probably the most un-LDS person in this world…. he’s a disgrace to my religion.

Not a Sac Girl Anymore

I know, there’s still no pictures. It’s not as easy with this new camera, because I have to resize them for the web…. I promise it will be soon.

I however needed to come on and elaborate on a few things going through my mind. First of all, I really think I don’t like Sacramento at all. I promise it has gotten so much more ghetto than it was before. I couldn’t stand looking at all the ghetto. Besides the fact that I have a very dysfunctional father that lives here, I’m really happy we made the decision to move here. I will never live back in Sacramento if I can help it. I will always be a Cali girl at heart, but it’s so not the place to raise your children.

I believe my brother just might have a job. Done in 1 day and w/out the help of any of my family here. I’m sad, because he really did want to have the plumbing experience from my dad, but the job I believe he got (they already drug tested him and he passed it!) is a great one. They’ll even give him a bus pass, which means I DON’T HAVE TO TAKE HIM TO AND FROM WORK! Very pleased with this one…. please cross your fingers and pray with me that he indeed got the job.

Here’s my goals of the day: If I come back and cross them off that means I accomplished them ~ I wouldn’t expect too many cross offs, but you never know!!!

  1. Print Checks and mail off for work
  2. Prepare deposits and mail off for work
  3. Statements sent out
  4. 3 loads of laundry folded & put away
  5. The toilet fixed ~ maybe I’ll just pour Draino down the drain and leave it up to Gino
  6. Room cleaned up ~ it’s a mess since coming back from this trip.

Okay I’m off to go and try to get the work side of things and 1 load of laundry started.

One more thing!!!! Today is day 5 with no coffee. I am passed the migraine part (YAY!) and my anxiety is better and I’m replacing coffee with breakfast and vitamins. Huge accomplishment for me. I wasn’t just making my coffee at home, either ~ I was spending $5.00/day having it made for me. So, with the amount of money I’m going to save this month I’m buying myself Wii Fit.

It’s Fixed!

After 10 hours of being on the phone with Dell, my company files for Quickbooks being lost then found and many tears shed, I am happy to say that my computer is fixed. I’ve been using my Grandma’s in the meantime, so technically it wasn’t like my life crashed along with the computer. I was still able to waste all my time online and pretend like I’m working hard.

Highlights of today: I will get to take pictures of a brand new, precious baby girl.

I will post pictures up when I’m done along with her birth announcement that I’m designing.

A little of this and that

My computer is on the outs. It all started with that minor little printing problem, which turned into a total between 2 days of 6 hours on the phone with Dell and a laptop with nothing on it. Luckily, I went and bought an external hard drive and put everything that’s needed on it. I went and picked up my Grandma’s laptop and now I’m back to work.

I anticipate another few hours with Dell today, and if they don’t fix it I’m demanding a new computer. That’s what warranty is all about, right?

Changing subject here:

Last night I was going to go to the first book club meeting at our church and was sadly EXTREMELY excited about it. However, we’re at the store and Ella throws up all over herself. I feel her head and I swore she was burning up. So, we’re off to buying pedialyte and pediapops and stuff to make her feel better ~ preparing for the flu. So, I call Miss Amy Hill and let her know that I will not be showing up and we’re off to home to deal with a sick baby. So, we get home and guess what ~ no fever and she’s not sick. Lovely.

New subject again…………:

My birthday is on Thursday!!!! And I’m getting a new camera!! I’m going to pick it out today and I’m just not sure yet what I want to do. I could either go with a Nikon or a Canon Rebel. Right down the street from my house is a camera shop and I’m going to go and have him explain them to me today. Pretty soon you’ll see beautiful pictures of my babies (not that you haven’t already LOL)

Never go to the bank again

I don’t know if I’ve talked much about my job, but I work at home. I am an accountant and currently am managing my grandparent’s books for their businesses in Nevada from my home in Oregon. I love it! I love that I am able to stay home my kids and still do the job that I love. There are many downfalls to the system that we have going on here. I would have to say that the most major downfall of our system is the banking. We have checks that are flowing in all throughout the month. The banks for these companies are in Nevada and the income is being sent to me in Oregon. The procedure that we’ve been using is I send deposits off to Nevada. It can sometimes take up to 5 days for the deposits that I send off to clear the accounts. That can be frustrating. Especially when people are calling asking why their checks haven’t cleared.

I came across a solution and I think it is definitely something that can work wonders for us. I had no clue about this, but there has actually been an amazing system online with a company called DepositNow since 2004. What they can do for you is make it so you no longer have to leave your house to go to the bank, or in my case wait up to 5 days for my deposits to clear. You simply scan your checks with one of their check scanners, which they sale for 1/2 off of what they retail for, and they deposit it electronically.

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Watch out little kids – a Security System is coming to YOU!

I have an opportunity today to talk about a company called Barcode Discounts. I went to the website for a quick review and was pleased to see that they sell security systems!! I was just talking with my Grandma about getting a security system put in the mobile home park that I manage, which is located in Nevada…. and I’m in Oregon. We’ve had situations where the park has been vandalized by kids and a security system is exactly what we need.

This company offers things from wireless hand held computers to zebra thermal labels. It’s a fun little website to check out. They offer same day shipping AND low price guaranteed.

Inspriation from Gordon B. Hinckley….

“I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure, I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know how. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.”

I came across this quote from the late President Gordon B. Hinckley and I think it’s exactly what I needed to read today. I have an entire kitchen table with files and papers and a ton of stuff that I need to do and a part of me wants to turn the other direction and RUN, but I need to not set a goal of accomplishing everything. I need to go and set a timer for 15 minutes and start there. Whatever I get done in that 15 minutes I will be satisfied with. I will feel like I have conquered something and I will feel good about it. If I have it in me I’ll continue on, and I bet I will. Tomorrow morning I will wake up and I will read this quote again and then I will go with a positive attitude and conquer what I’ve put off.