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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Packing List for all ye world-weary travellers

Here is my little, long overdue project for today, which I will be ecstatic about when I am done...
Don't you hate travelling and using up some item from your hygiene bag and then getting home and forgetting and flinging it in a closet somewhere? Then the next time you get ready to go, you don't know what you have and what you don't. So the only way I could figure out how to address this was with one of my famous lists....as follows!!!

TRAVEL BAG CONTENTS




Shower/AM

Deodorant

Shampoo

Conditioner

Moisturizer

Razor

Q-Tips

Hair Spray

Shower Soap

Shower Cap

Hair Brush

Toothpaste

Toothbrush

Mouthwash

Washcloth



Evening

Face Wash

Retin A

Cotton Balls

Baby Oil

Night Moisturizer

Dental Floss



Hardware

Sewing Kit

Zip Locs

Plugs

Tide To Go Stain Remover

Pens/Paper

Rubber Bands

Laundry Clips/ Line

Matches/Lighter

Swiss Army Knife

Scissors





Other

Nail Polish Remover

Nail Polish

Hand Moisturizer

Comb

Hand Wipes/Purell

Emery Boards

Nail Clippers

Extra ID

Hair Bands

Kleenexes

Sunscreen

Dr. Bronner’s



First Aid Kit

Bandaids

Aspirin/NSAIDS

Antacids

Antibiotics

Antibiotic Cream

Inhaler


Now, at least that is a checklist, I can check when I get home and unpack or when I get ready to leave the next time. Please feel free to add anything you might consider critical that I have missed!! Also, I figured out that the Hardware section and the Other section can be packed separately in other small bags, so I don't have to cram everything into one hygeine bag!!

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Welcome, all  virtuous taxpayers!! Here is your reward!!!! Bank harassment through incompetence....

So the bank called today, and left two urgent messages, call right away, hurry up, or else, , etc, implied threat and so on. Same chick. There may be an unauthorized transfer from your account. Really???? Banks don't usually call me, I call them. So I called the number and lo and behold, it was BUSY!!!! So then (and I WAS busy) I had to look up the main number. They connected me to the message leaver, and I told her I received two urgent messages and her number was busy. Well it had to do with two transfers which I had made to my retirement account, like a good citizen, having completed my taxes and wanting to be able to retire by the time I am 80.

She skipped the problem that her line was busy, except to tell me that ten other tellers used that line (and no voicemail, can you believe it) and told me that I had never made a transfer like that before using the bank, and they had to check. While I appreciate that they were checking, here she left me a phone line that not only had no voice mail, but was busy, and I was COMMANDED to return the call. Further, I HAD made a transfer like that, just last year. I got a little irritable, and told her I had made the transfers and that I had indeed transferred with this method last year, and she got a little miffed. So now I get run all over creation by my bank. I suppose the truth is they didn't like seeing that money disappear from a checking account.

What is is with incompetence?? Why do banks hire women with baby girl voices? Who get miffed?????