Just one of those days…
It has been an eventful day to say the least and I’m not talking about in the good way. Lets take a look at what all I’ve had to do today. My morning started by cleaning runny messy toddler poop out of my carpet. My son still refuses, and by refuses I mean screams bloody murder as if someone is killing him, to poop on the potty. He is 100% “#1″ trained. Peeing on the potty we don’t have problems with. The problems start when he refuses to poop on the potty. I try to catch him right before he does it because he usually runs to his bedroom to do it and I’m always 2 seconds too late! This is so frustrating. I’ve tried and done everything to get him to poop on the potty but nothing has worked.
Come lunch time the mail arrived. Great! I got a package today!!! Upon opening it was the Active Point What Can Elmo Count Interactive Bookthat I had ordered over a month ago. I had forgotten that I had ordered it for Pnut’s valentines present so I decided to give it to him early. First I had to get the demo tab out of the back of the book. No problem usually but this one required that I take off the battery back. That is where the problem began. Maybe it was because of my awful morning I don’t know but I could not find the right screwdriver to save my life. Then when I did find something that would fit it, a wrench fell on my toe. I was pretty mad and upset by this point so I gave the book to hubby began to cry and told him I couldn’t do it and asked if he would fix it. Hubby always fixes stuff anyways so I don’t know why I even attempted to do it myself. Anyway, I know most of my emotions were because of my pregnancy and frustration. Once we got the book working we actually LOVED IT! It is really good book and much bigger than I anticipated it being.
When I asked the fam if they wanted to go out and play in the snow that we got yesterday this is the response that I got…


So needless to say, we did spend our day playing in the snow.
Come mid-day pnut is down for his nap and I get a call from hubby. “Bay, you are going to be mad at me” He says. This can’t be good, I think to myself. Hubby then so graciously informs me that Uncle Sam is taking ALL OF OUR TAX RETURN. Great! I think to myself. I try not to let him hear how frustrated and angry I am because lets face it with his dad passing, work problems, and now this he doesn’t need to hear me upset. I had plans with my half of the return of buying all the stuff to teach myself how to make my own jewelry to sell over at Craftique but alas that dream has been shattered. Thank you, Uncle Sam, thanx alot.
I’ve been trying to resolve my Paypal/Ebay account for almost 2 weeks now. I can’t ebay nor can I get paid from all the posts I’ve been doing. It has seriously put a damper on my blogging lately if you haven’t noticed. I am so angry with Paypal I could scream. You see, hubby forgot to pay for an ebay item or something it was a joint account that we had nearly 3 yrs ago. Well I have my own account and wanted to put my bank account on MY account. Little did I know that it was linked to the other account. Push comes to shove and paypal locks my account and orders me to pay hubbys fee of $50 bucks. Sure, ok no problem. I call paypal and they refuse to take the $50 out of my current paypal account that has well over $150 in due to all my lovely work with . No, paypal wants to be difficult and wants me to mail them a check. Fine whatever if it resolve things and I can get my money then ok. I mailed the check LAST MONDAY along with a check for an item I purchased on ebay. Now I’m sure they have received the check by now because the ebay seller contacted me Monday and told me that she had received it and was waiting for it to clear. I’ve checked my bank account everyday this week as well as my paypal account and they still haven’t resolved the issue. What is taking them so long? This infuriates me because I’ve lost nearly $150 of work that I did last month with due to the fact that when your paypal account is locked you can’t send nor receive payments. So that is $150 of free work that I basically did. It isn’t fault AT ALL nor is it even my fault. It is all PAYPAL’S FAULT. Right now, I hate paypal. Tomorrow I’m calling again to see what their deal is and what is taking them so long. I want the issue resolved as soon as possible so I don’t lose anymore money.
Now just moments ago I had to clean dog vomit out of my rug under the kitchen table. I don’t know what that dog ate but it was gross and I gagged the whole entire time!
What is going on with all the messy messes, pain, lost money, and terrible news? Can I catch a break, please? Am I being tested?? If so, for what?
Now today pales in comparison to what has happened over the past month but in all seriousness what is going on? I believe I’m at my breaking point. I have no desire to do anything anymore. I’m absolutely sick of losing hard earned money. And I’m just generally tired of everything now a days. I want a break!!!!

















A mother of 2 boys and wife to a needy husband, life in the Diva's household is never stress free. Utilizing all of the wonderful benefits that the 'net has to offer (and avoiding housework if at all possible), the Diva is trying to make a name for her self through her product reviews. Join the Diva on this journey called life as she attempts to become a respected writer or at least pretty darn close to it. 





























Ugh… what an ordeal with Paypal! That company can be incredibly frustrating. I hope it all gets resolved soon. On a lighter note, what adorable pictures of the doggie and Pnut sleeping!!
February 1st, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Drea…
I know he is scared to poop on the potty because he will cry and scream as if I’m trying to kill him but yet he isn’t scared to take his pamper off, squat and poop on the floor? It is so strange. I’ve tried every method out there and asked every mother I could find on what to do about this and they all give me the same advice that he will eventually figure it out for himself. I encourage him all day long, it isn’t a lack of encouragement. I truly think that he really is terrified but I dont know how to conquer that fear for him or how to get him to figure it out for himself.
Uuuggh, I’ve had it up to here with Paypal. I had hubby call them today and he said they said it takes 7 to 10 business days to process. I’m giving them till next Friday before I call and get ugly because this is rediculous and I can’t stand being out $150.
Oh my goodness, payperpost totally rocks! You see all the post I post that say they are sponsored. Those are the payperpost posts. I get paid anywhere between $4-$10 per post depending on whatever it is worth to write for that advertiser. I’ve seen so many bloggers jump on the payperpost bandwagon lately it is insane. PPP is totally spreading like wildfire and the money is soooo good and soooo easy! I look at it like I’m writing little mini essays like I did in highschool. You basically just make stuff up that sounds good about a companies product or website. You don’t have to write if you don’t want to. You choose which ads you want to write about, I usually pick all the $10 ones. December was my first month with them and I got paid $300 total. I wrote 2 paid posts a day for most days in that month. That is a pretty good chunk of cash. You have to have a blog for at least 90 days which I know you have and a paypal account so you can get paid. My mom even wants to sign up now after I told her I got $300. I started her blog last month so two months from now she will be a PPP postie. One of the perks about is that it basically makes you blog. Like you have to write a normal non-paid post in between each paid post. So if you are allowed 2 paid posts in a day you have to write 4 posts for that entire day. 2 paid and 2 unpaid. And in all seriousness, it really does only take like 10 extra minutes a day to whip up a paid post. No biggie. If you have anymore questions about them let me know. And if you want to sign up can you click the linky button on my site, please, so I can get credit. thanx.
Look at that, you are trying to sell me on a moby and I’m trying to sell you on Payperpost. Speaking of mobys, i think you’ve done a good job trying to convince me. I think my next big purchase from ebay will be a moby, that is once this paypal mess is straightened out.
Night
JP…
I know it is is such an ordeal. Paypal sucks in my book right now.
Thanks for the comment on the pics. I thought they were very cute as well.
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:43 am
Oh no, so sorry to hear what a stressful time you’re having. nothing like a little cute sleepiness to cheer you up though!
February 2nd, 2007 at 1:26 am
I had a hard time getting my 2 year old to poo poo on the potty too. We finally tackled it with bribery. I feel so silly I bribed my two year old daughter with candy and Ice cream to get her to poop on the toilet. Every time she went #2 on the potty she got to pick out a sweet treat. Soon she would just go to the potty and she didn’t even worry about the candy anymore. It worked for me it might work for you!
February 6th, 2007 at 8:14 pm