Laundering Money Through Wal-Mart...

Ok, before I totally get into this post, I want to explain something for those of you out there who don't bank with Navy Federal Credit Union. When you make a purchase with your debit card (which by the way only will run places as a credit card), they "soft clear" the money from your account right away. Basically making sure you've got it. Then, they put that money right back into your account, and then they "hard clear" it roughly 3 business days later. You never see these transactions, they don't show up on your statement, but they happen. All of this is especially frustrating if you rely on your online banking at all to make sure you've got funds before you go anywhere or really do anything. Now, keeping all this in mind, let me get along to my post.

Recently I've moved to Chesapeake, VA. My husband got stationed over here, so I moved the house while he was riding the submarine around to get over here. As such, I got here roughly a month before he will get here. Which gives me time to get to know the area a little bit, and get the house in order before he gets here. Yes, I know I'm such a good wife. ;)

One of the things on my list to do was find a place to shop on an extreme budget. We have practically no money to buy groceries and gas after paying the bills, until we get reimbursed for our travel expenses. SO, this is where the Super Wal-Mart down the street comes in handy. Not only is it right up the street from me, but I am able to go there to get everything I need to get. Because, naturally, having just moved all the way across the country I need not only groceries, but little things like a shower curtain and garbage can, etc.

So, I venture on over to the Wal-Mart. Which is REALLY hard for me to do, because I despise everything about that company! But, at this point I'm still scared of traveling too far from my new apartment by myself, for fear of getting lost; and I've got like $3 to spend on everything I need. I get there, go shopping and it was great, I saved a bunch of money and got everything I needed. I spent roughly $90.

About a week later I was checking my bank account and I noticed that Wal-Mart had deducted the $90 from my account, and then 3 days afterward PUT IT BACK IN! So, I'm a little freaked out, until I look a little further up the list...3 days after they put it back in my account, THEY TOOK IT OUT AGAIN!! WTF!?!

Now, like I said with Navy Federal they do this, but you don't actually see it happen. It doesn't clear your account twice and show up on your statement! So, I figure, I'm laundering money through Wal-Mart. Or at least I was. After seeing this happen to my account, I'm so pissed that they felt the need to keep accessing my account, that I WILL NOT be shopping at Wal-Mart any more. There's a very nice supermarket near my apartment, and a Target in the same strip mall. So, I say to hell with Wally World. They can launder all the money they want to...but not through my account ANY MORE!

Best Day EVER!

Ok, so all this was yesterday, and I should have blogged about it then, but it didn't end til about 2am. SO I'm blogging now.

Yesterday started out pretty normal. I woke up aroud the same time as usual, and then the girl that was taking all my boxes came and picked up my boxes. So that was nice, no more boxes is a damn good thing! I can actually see my living room without having to look around a box!

A little later Alice came by and we went shopping. We went to this ginormous craft store. For being so big, it didn't seem to have anything that JoAnn's doesn't have, it just had more of it. We made it out of there and on to Kohl's to get me new jeans. Mine have been practically hanging off my ass lately, so I needed new ones.

Boy did I! I didn't realize how badly I needed new jeans til I was in the dressing room with 2 pair of Levi's size 10 jeans, that FIT! The fucking fit!!! I havn't been a size 10 since I was a freshman in high school!!! So, of corse nearly in tears, I bought the jeans and some new smaller shirts to go with them! We finished our shopping excursion at the mall with new bra's.

She dropped me off at home and I did some boring stuff, and then later that night I was sitting at my computer uploading new purses to my etsy shop. And I got an email in my Emotional Bags account. I SOLD MY FIRST BAG ON ETSY!!! I havn't even had them up there a whole week yet, and I sold one! OMG! I was stoked, cause I never sold any of my purses that fast on Ebay! HAHA!

To top off my excitement the lady that bought my purse is from Seattle. She runs a site for artists, and she's thinking she wants to put my bags on it! Of corse she's got to evaulate my purse first, but I'm still excited! And I'm totally flattered! It was a great day yesterday. A great freakin day!!

The Navy Wife Network

For those of you who didn't read my post about building a network for the navy wives, I'm building a network for Navy wives. I'm putting it up on the net, and the site will have reviews of each base. Good places to eat, good babysitters, good places to get your nails done and so on. My goal is to make it be a navy wife driven site, with reviews on each base and place listed for that base, complete with a star rated system.

Any way, I've been begging for information from ladies and everyone thinks that it's a GREAT idea, but noone is giving me anything. Except for one person. So one more plea Navy Wives!! I need info on the base you're living on, and bases you've been to! Email me for a survey if you need to, or simply write me a review of your most favorites and worst favorites and why! Thank you.

Now, without further adeu I give you the link to the under construction site...

www.navywifenetwork.com

Simple to remember, and hopefully will become a staple of every navy wife's online bookmarks. Feedback is welcomed, so bring it on! Give me ideas, I need all I can get.

Thanks!

Tamara Rosas
LogicallyLocked@aol.com
www.navywifenetwork.com

May I please buy MY home video from you!?!

Normaly I'm right on board with just about everything Apple has come out with. Their company has excellent ideas, and their products are finally progressing into the new millenium in leaps and bounds. However, I've just read the most ludicrus article about iTunes and their video streaming EVER.

To read the article you can CLICK HERE.

Now, not owning an iPod, and having never used the iTunes web site and software, I'm not entirely sure how this works. But please, allow me to take a few quotes from the article and analyze them out of context...

"As soon as you record that precious footage of your daughter's first steps, you'll be able to buy it right back from iTunes and download it directly to your computer and video iPod."

I'm sorry, but as soon as I record my "precious footage" I'm going to download it into my computer and then burn it to a DVD. Don't you have to upload your stuff to iTunes for them to "own" it? If I don't upload it, they don't own it. The way this was said, sounds like they own all footage recorded and you're going to have to buy it back from them.

"No more searching through your movies folder for that footage of your 50th wedding anniversary. Now all you need is a 768Kbps broadband connection and your credit card, and every timeless personal memory you've ever shot will be right at your fingertips."

ROFLMAO!!! This is seriously a quote from the article. And this is the dumbest quote I've heard all month! I'm sorry, but if you've got so much footage that you can't stand to "search" through a computer folder to find it perhaps you should utilize the handy dandy little right click option and ALPHEBATIZE your folder so you can find shit!

"Thanks to this revolutionary new software, all your clips—from your son's bris to your father's dying message—are available to you, your loved ones, and the 20 million iTunes users, who will be able to view them on up to five different computers."

I dunno about you, but I don't want my "father's dying message" to be available to everyone.

"No more disappointment for Cynthia Hamill of Hartford, CT when she realizes she can't find that tape of herself singing 'Sweet Caroline' in the bath as an 8-year-old," Jobs said. "For only a couple of bucks, that cherished moment can again be hers."

Ok, if she can't find it in the first place, how the fuck did Apple get a hold of it? Are they planning on breaking into my house and stealing all of my home video's and then putting them on the net and charging me for them? Seriously.

"It's just a matter of convenience," Mansfield, OH resident Samantha Davidoff said. "Why should I sift through the dozens of unlabeled DV tapes in my closet to find that submission tape I made for Extreme Makeover when I can just do a search on iTunes? Repurchasing my own stuff has never been this intuitive."

Here's a thought....LABEL YOUR DV TAPES AND IT'LL BE EASY TO FIND WHICH ONE YOU NEED!

"We were all excited to watch [daughter] Tabitha's birth when we got home from the hospital, but we could only view a 30-second clip before we had to buy it," Harvey Gaddis of Tulsa, OK said. "All we could see in the preview were some of the initial contractions."

How does this software work again? You put it up on the site and then automatically it's theirs and you have to pay to see it again? Sounds great! Where do I sign up?

This sounds like the dumbest idea ever. And the funny part about it is that they're blatantly telling everyone about it right to their faces and people are just ok with it. I'm sorry, but I'm not. There is no way in Hell that I would upload my video's to your site if I'm going to have to pay ANY amount of money to get them back from you. Weather that amount is $1.99 or $0.05, their MY VIDEO'S!