I'm not buying things in Austria...

I read today on the blog of one of my friends about her online shopping experience and how she ended up getting 2 orders of basically the same thing on accident. The last couple of days I have been doing a little bit of online shopping. I searched 3 or 4 sites and finally went with one that I never thought would've been the cheapest. I then searched some bookmarked sites for coupon codes - yes! I love my bookmarked sites for deals... (side note: I found a 'contest' on one of my daily sites that I check where if I was one of the first 1000 people to sign up for the mailing list at 12am eastern time, I could actually receive a free Shutterfly photo book! I took advantage of that one!!!!)
Anyway, I ended up making my purchase and I was so stinkin excited. I went to check my inbox for the receipt and guess what... here came 4 emails right in a row saying that I had won 4 different items on Ebay... The catch - they are all in Austria??? WHAT! I about started crying. 3 of the items were types of phones and 1 was something to do with stereos. I am currently freaking out cause I'm not sure what to do. I reported the emails as being a spoof. Ebay has been sending out a lot of information about spoof emails that are sent out. Hopefully I can get this taken care of soon because I'm not sending Euros to Austria!!!!! UGH!
-Jenn

UPDATE: Yay, this has been fixed! It was a spoof email - I changed all my passwords and Ebay has restored my account. So, as of this moment I think things are okay again. wow, that was pretty scary there for a bit!

Mady and her first Molars???

So, today was absolutely crazy. Now I know that babies have phases where they start acting completely opposite of how they usually are... maybe not sleeping well, getting up earlier, skipping naps, learning something new, etc. I have been through many phases but I always need encouragement that we'll get through it. Mady normally works like clockwork so I tend to get stressed out when she changes something about her routine. Anyway, today was a day of fussiness, no sleeping and lots of crying - all which are very abnormal for little Mady. I knew right away that something was wrong. She wouldn't lay down for a nap for more than 45 minutes and she would wake up crying really hard. She has also been pulling on and poking at her ears. Finally I decided to take her to Convenient Care tonight hoping that I could get some relief for her and I both! The nurse practitioner said "nope, her ears look fine." Great. Now what?! I drove her around for a while to help her relax and rest. We came home and took some tylenol. I got online tonight and started looking into the teething process to see which of her teeth would be coming next. At her 1 year appt this week, the dr said that he could tell she was starting to get her molars but that it might be a little while before they poke through. Sure enough those google experts said that pulling on ears, fussiness, lack of sleep were all signs of teething and that the first set of molars usually come in between 10-14 months. Yep, I think that's what we're dealing with. She's never really had this much trouble with teething so I didn't even think about it until this evening. She's also gotten all of her teeth really early so maybe she's on track to get her molars early too. It'll be fun in the Bettinger house for a few days it looks! Poor Baby Mady!

Applebee's

We went out with our good friends last night to Applebee's. Had a splended time. Before we left, I ventured back to the restroom before Jenn headed home and let's just say "Bob" and I went to Circuit City. As I walked back to the restroom, right before I pushed through the door, a sign at the end of the corridor caught my attention. "Please Seat Yourself." Like I need help at that point seating myself. I laughed out loud.

Day after Thanksgiving

It's the day after Thanksgiving. Ugh. I just woke up and Jenn is sound asleep on the couch. Mady is sound asleep in her room. Good football on today. Went shopping this morning. Now, I'm not the crazy type that gets up before the crack of dawn for Black Friday. Funny thing is, we vowed not to go out early. Go out maybe mid morning. I was sitting on Fred (my easy chair) and Jenn comes down and sits down on the couch and looks at me at 6:05 am this morning. Hmm, I thought. Why is she up? So I asked the obvious question.

"Why are you up, Jenn?"

She looked at me and with all the seriousness in the world says, "People are out there buying things that I want to buy."

That pretty much ended our hanging out together. She got dressed and headed out. By 7, I was sitting on Fred buying things on line for the same amount as I would pay at Best Buy, Target or where ever else I might wander.

She got back about 8:30 with all kinds of goodies. Don't know what she got, she won't tell me. My response was "whatever you can do, I can do better..." (can't you hear the music, now?)

My first escape was to Staples. Don't know why. I just thought, hmm, I'll start with stocking stuffers. Then I walked in and got that kinda excited feeling in my shins. You ever get that? Your shins get excited? I dunno, maybe I'm just weird.

Found one really cool thing that I wouldn't have even thought of getting Jenn when I'm sitting on Fred.I'll tell you after Christmas.

Then I mosied down to Michael's (blah! - I was there for like 45 seconds. I couldn't breathe because of all the blue hair's perfume. I've never sucked fresh air so deeply as I did when I left Michael's. Of course my pace quickened as I worked my way down to Best Buy. Course, then I started hyperventilating thinking about Best Buy, where I ended up staying for over 2 hours.) Let me just say that I love Best Buy (By the way, a cashier at Best Buy told me that people started lining up at 6:30 YESTERDAY MORNING to stand in line. There was a tent outside on the parking lot for crying out loud. Someone slept in the Best Buy parking lot!) I think they pump pure unadulterated oxygen into Best Buy. I walk in stand there and take in (another) huge lung full of air. I look around, raise my hands and send up a little prayer of thanksgiving. I usually let out a little yelp or boast, "this is MY house! My House!" Usually at this point a security person [male or female] tells me to "Settle down. There's enough Best Buy to go around for everyone. "Best Buy is pretty much the most amazing thing I've ever seen in blue and yellow. And although I can't think of anything else in blue and yellow besides the Michigan Wolverines, I'm sure it's the best color combination ever. Ever.



Ok, so why do I catch myself looking at refrigerators at Best Buy? I could look at GPS' (my new obsession), PS2 (a previous obsession - actually I shouldn't say obsession, that's not very Jesus like. I should say, um, a quest, or an edeavor, no, no, I got it, "a journey." That's very christianese.). So, I'm on a journey right now. And I end up in appliances. Stainless steel goliath's that I could move into and stay cold 24/7. HD TV on the door and you get ice cubes at the push of a button. People drop like 3 grand to keep granny's casserole cold and I complain when my water bill goes up 4 bucks over the course of 2 months. My first car was 400$. Sheesh, what will they come up with next? A car that flies? Oops, it's already in fabrication.

So I wander over to the GPS units. Very cool stuff. I think I'm going to go with the Tomtom.

Has some fun features. I've been searching for days now. Magellans, Garmins, Harmon Kardons. I think I'm having about as much fun researching which model to get as actually owning one and putting it in my car. When I get one I'll probably save the exact location of my fridge. "Only 5 more feet to the fridge. Take a left and go up the stairs. You'll see the fridge on your right hand side." That would rock. I can download James Earl Jones' voice to tell me where my bathroom is located. I'm not opposed to ebaying it. Craigslist would be nice to avoid shipping, but probably won't find what I'm looking for on there. We'll see, I'm sure over the course of the next couple weeks, I'll end up with something.

So, Jenn gets back this afternoon after being gone for 2 hours and all she's bought is the movie "Happy Feet." For herself. It's all good. She deserves it. She was excited about it. She couldn't find anything or she didn't want to stand in line. She took 2 trips up north Prospect and I took one and then we find out this afternoon that we're almost out of formula. Argh..."hi ho, hi ho it's off to Sam's we go..."