This is a consumer post and my sad sob story (get your hankies to wipe the tears) about being discriminated by the catalog giant, J.C. Penneys for a mistake they made.

I love to order from the catalog. I started in college when I was stuck up in the woods of northern New England where there was no place to go for shopping.  My brothers use to tease me about ordering a boyfriend or husband from the men's underwear section, sometimes they would pick one out and write a fake bio  or say "Tad called with a message" and wrote fake ones, for fun.  I worked as a cashier at the small grocery store during college.  I paid a compliment to a nice lady customer and she told me that she got her outfit at J.C. Penney's catalog. I never heard of them. She loaned me her giant catalog and I ordered myself some great fashionable fall clothing for pennies, cowl turtle necks, kilts, and a few pairs of gaucho pants, a few nice sweaters.

So the years roll on, and I order more but now with an apartment, a house and kids, I continued to order a variety of merchandise and was a very satisfied customer. Penney's never let me down.

Then it happened.  I ordered an expensive curtain rod.  It did not come with the rest of the order.  I called the company and they said they would send out another one.  They did but they also charged me a second time since the first one never came.  I called to have this fixed, get credit for the first, but I get charged a third time and the first mischarge was never taken care of.  After many phone calls and headaches that lasted nearly three months, it got resolved but I got penalized.

Penney's dropped me from their mailing list and I got no more catalogs so I did not shop there at all, even if we went to the Mall, I did not shop there.  This big business could not be trusted.

The past couple of months, I have been swapped by them with many small catalogs, the large catalog, and now, the Christmas Wish Book just arrived hot off the press at my doorstep.

Hmmmm? You want my business again because you need some cash flow after you sent me packing?

I will think about this seriously considering the original mistake was made on your end by not so well trained people who you paid with the profit from my sales.

Maybe a nice summer bonfire will cheer me up.  I can toast a few marshmallows and make s'mores.  If you are sobbing at my tale of woe, please stand back from the fire as to not put it out. Have a s'more please.

Well, this is good for here, a G blog.

I tried putting in my Scribbles blog and got an R rating thanks to all my Dr. Oz on Oprah health posts and some of the words they use.

If you haven't been by my Scribbles blog, I put Dr. Oz articles there, general stuff and personal posts and lots of Shoutpost and blog help.  Comments can only be made if you are a member though.

27 Confessions of a Former Circuit City Worker

Enough said. Comments welcomed.

I found this incredibly amusing. I tried posting it here with the URL provided but it did not work, the small was too large. Resizing it smaller, it got blurry. You will have to go to the page, with a click you can enlarge it to read.  Enjoy!

On June 12, it would have been my parent's 53rd Wedding Anniversary.
They met at the dance hall, Mosley on the Charles in Boston in the early 50's.

My Mom made it to the 50th and sadly her last anniversary celebration.  My brother had a nice little cookout for them since they were not splashy people and did not want a tony event.

Eight months later, she passed away from complications of radiation after being cured of cervical cancer (she had the rare tumor type).

I found this video which reminded me of them yet sums up any life or relationship no matter what age you are or what time period you live in and loss.

Explosions in the Sky -- Your Hand in Mine

We all miss my Mom  (Dad lost his dance partner.), especially my kids.  She was such a good grandmother to them.  I know she is still with us in so many ways.

Thanks for stopping by to my little cyber party for them -- she would have approved.

Here is a great list to study and educate you no matter what age you are.

100 Words every High School Graduate Should Know


For the multi-tasker teen, while taking a shower, you can quiz yourself or study the top 100 SAT words on this shower curtain before the big test.  Better yet, get one for the wee ones and start them early.

If you already know the top 100, you can get the Top 500 SAT Words shower curtain.

Now that you know some new impressive words, you may increase your Boggle or Scrabble scores.

Found this article interesting.  We can all learn something from this.

7 Secrets to a long -- and Happy Marriage

Ever wonder how the cursor arrow works on your computer?

Click on the link and then put your cursor over the gray circle to find out.

How a cursor arrow works.