Kitchen2u
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First of all, it's been a crazy week. Trying to chase down a JULY fundraiser, which ended up to be a dud...less than $400 in sales! The fundraiser chair is a good friend of mine. She had high hopes since there's over 220 members in this HOGS groups. But found out the President was not supportive at all. Only 4 people turned in orders. I made 75 packets, only 10 were returned to me! Oh well, that's how life is sometimes...move on to bigger and better things! Got a booking, but my friend (fundraiser chair) did not want the organization to get credit for it! LOL She all excited, making her list, etc...the show's not til Nov 9! She's emailing me or calling me just about everyday about how excited she is to be having a party..I hope I can keep the excitement up for her! I'm thinking every week, I'll be sending her tips how to have a GREAT show.
So Thursday, Robyn (daughter, 16 year old) has a consultation with the oral surgeon ~ 4 BADLY impacted wisdom teeth. She's got a REALLY small jaw structure and to protect her teeth ~ these puppies had to be taken out. (She's barely a 100 pounds, 5'3", size 00 ~ the joke I tell her is I was born a size 10! They just added the 1 infront instead of a 0!) Anyway...consult went fine...well if you call $1,764 fine! After what dental coverage is remaining for the year for her, out-of-pocket for us was $1,094 ~ divded by 4 teeth...OMG! Just before she was given the laughing gas...she was asked if she wanted to have the teeth...she said, "I think I better framed these teeth for this cost!" She came home with the teeth and they are humongeous! (spelling?) Robert and I said, "good thing these WERE taken out!"
So Robyn's sugery was Friday morning...she was really nervous (I was too. With Ryan, my 22 yr old son, having to go through 7 eye surgeries before the age of 18 months...I freak out now when someone has to be put under ~ that wondering if he/she will come out of it...scares me to death...right before Ryan's 1st surgery we lost a vERY GOOD friend to a routine hysterectomy due to over mediation, never woke up ~ that surely didn't help me!)
{Are you still with me? LOL}
So I told my team the only way they would be able to get ahold of me is via my cell phone. I wouldn't be calling them like I normally do each month on the last day (any trouble shooting with getting shwos submitted...they're all fairly new folks). I even put a reminder on my phone to "send in shows at 8 PM" since I always have customer who don't want the credit card transaction to go through until the 1st...
We get home about noon from surgery, everything went okay...was told the bleeding would stop in about 2 hours...but they had to really "dig" at them to get them out...she's going to be pretty sore and hurting. The meds didn't wear off til about 3 PM...pain? Not too bad ...yet. I was changing gauze every 20 minutes (like we were instructed) ~ ice packs on for 20, off for 20. This went all day long...she got hungry about 4 PM...we tried Jamba Juice...not good. Jello worked best since it was a "glob" that she could slide down her throat. She didn't want ice cream or yogurt. Good thing we made 3 different flavors of jello Thursday night! The heavy bleeding didn't subside until about 8:30 PM! I was told the gauze they sent us home with should be enough...uh, no...try 3 more boxes! I had to call Robert to stop by the drugstore and get 2 more boxes on his way home from work. I only bought 1 thinking "she said a couple of hours, uh, 1 should be good." When she went to bed at 9:30, bleeding not completely stopped either. I think the hardest part for Robyn was taking the meds (3 of them) when we got home. She was stil numb and couldn't "feel" the water to swallow...ended up choaking, etc. But she managed. So when 5 PM rolled around to take more, she was a bit aprehensive to say the least. But this time was better since she could "feel" everything (and more!) by then. My nephew called and asked if everything went okay since he just had this done about 2 weeks ago. They talk a little ~ he was amazed she hadn't slept all day..."I slept right away for about 6 hours!" Nope, Robyn went to bed last night about 9:30 PM...so I expect her to wake up in pain since we're getting close to 12 hours without any meds. Especially since the pain came back a bit quicker come 9 PM...really uncomfortable between 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
So imagine this...while I'm tenign to Robyn changing gauze & ice packs (every 20 minutes), jello, working through the pain, etc...my phone alarm goes off at 8 PM..."send in shows" ~ oh yeah! Forgot about those! See? All I had to do is transmit....everything was ready to go. First try, "transmission failed", 2 try, same thing, 3rd try, same thing...after the 5th try, I thought I better call HO now...what if it takes the next hour and a half to get these through? OMG!
So I call...Jimmy (Tech Support) goes through EVERYTHING...finally..."are you wireless?" (yep) Oh the last gal I helped, same problem..."
After manually updating, installing a NEW P3 program ~ to no avail...STILL not going through. I was on the phone with Jimmy for over an hour! So he tells me, I'm going to have to go through the same things we did, but install a new version on my desktop computer... call us back (at this point I didn't want to hang up the phone!) if it doesn't work...it's 9:15 PM now...after installing, updating and restoring from my backup...guess what....it's 9:30 PM and ticking! --> --> --> NOT WORKING! ! !
So I call Tech Support back ~ my mind is going a mile a minute (mind you, every 20 minutes I'm changing gauze, timers, ice packs) I DON'T NEED THIS STRESS RIGHT NOW ! ! ! Wait time for Tech Support..15 callers ahead of you...what? CRAP (a nicer word than what I was thinking ) ~ am I going to get these shows in before 10 PM (California time...2 hours ahead of HO time!)...waiting...waiting....waiting...
9:52 PM ! Tah dah! I get a REALLY nice guy (didn't cach him name) ~ told him the situation...okay yada, yada, yada, you did this, and this and this....yep...TRY this:
Walahhh! It worked!!! All shows in...guess what the time was...9:59 PM when the last show was transmitted! I would have KISSED him if he had been in reach!
So today, Saturday...I'm CHILLIN' ! ! ! No, I'm actually going to get on the phone and get some bookings!!! Have a great 3-day ~ woke up with a headache...wonder why? LOL
A day in the life of ME! Ugh......
So Thursday, Robyn (daughter, 16 year old) has a consultation with the oral surgeon ~ 4 BADLY impacted wisdom teeth. She's got a REALLY small jaw structure and to protect her teeth ~ these puppies had to be taken out. (She's barely a 100 pounds, 5'3", size 00 ~ the joke I tell her is I was born a size 10! They just added the 1 infront instead of a 0!) Anyway...consult went fine...well if you call $1,764 fine! After what dental coverage is remaining for the year for her, out-of-pocket for us was $1,094 ~ divded by 4 teeth...OMG! Just before she was given the laughing gas...she was asked if she wanted to have the teeth...she said, "I think I better framed these teeth for this cost!" She came home with the teeth and they are humongeous! (spelling?) Robert and I said, "good thing these WERE taken out!"
So Robyn's sugery was Friday morning...she was really nervous (I was too. With Ryan, my 22 yr old son, having to go through 7 eye surgeries before the age of 18 months...I freak out now when someone has to be put under ~ that wondering if he/she will come out of it...scares me to death...right before Ryan's 1st surgery we lost a vERY GOOD friend to a routine hysterectomy due to over mediation, never woke up ~ that surely didn't help me!)
{Are you still with me? LOL}
So I told my team the only way they would be able to get ahold of me is via my cell phone. I wouldn't be calling them like I normally do each month on the last day (any trouble shooting with getting shwos submitted...they're all fairly new folks). I even put a reminder on my phone to "send in shows at 8 PM" since I always have customer who don't want the credit card transaction to go through until the 1st...
We get home about noon from surgery, everything went okay...was told the bleeding would stop in about 2 hours...but they had to really "dig" at them to get them out...she's going to be pretty sore and hurting. The meds didn't wear off til about 3 PM...pain? Not too bad ...yet. I was changing gauze every 20 minutes (like we were instructed) ~ ice packs on for 20, off for 20. This went all day long...she got hungry about 4 PM...we tried Jamba Juice...not good. Jello worked best since it was a "glob" that she could slide down her throat. She didn't want ice cream or yogurt. Good thing we made 3 different flavors of jello Thursday night! The heavy bleeding didn't subside until about 8:30 PM! I was told the gauze they sent us home with should be enough...uh, no...try 3 more boxes! I had to call Robert to stop by the drugstore and get 2 more boxes on his way home from work. I only bought 1 thinking "she said a couple of hours, uh, 1 should be good." When she went to bed at 9:30, bleeding not completely stopped either. I think the hardest part for Robyn was taking the meds (3 of them) when we got home. She was stil numb and couldn't "feel" the water to swallow...ended up choaking, etc. But she managed. So when 5 PM rolled around to take more, she was a bit aprehensive to say the least. But this time was better since she could "feel" everything (and more!) by then. My nephew called and asked if everything went okay since he just had this done about 2 weeks ago. They talk a little ~ he was amazed she hadn't slept all day..."I slept right away for about 6 hours!" Nope, Robyn went to bed last night about 9:30 PM...so I expect her to wake up in pain since we're getting close to 12 hours without any meds. Especially since the pain came back a bit quicker come 9 PM...really uncomfortable between 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
So imagine this...while I'm tenign to Robyn changing gauze & ice packs (every 20 minutes), jello, working through the pain, etc...my phone alarm goes off at 8 PM..."send in shows" ~ oh yeah! Forgot about those! See? All I had to do is transmit....everything was ready to go. First try, "transmission failed", 2 try, same thing, 3rd try, same thing...after the 5th try, I thought I better call HO now...what if it takes the next hour and a half to get these through? OMG!
So I call...Jimmy (Tech Support) goes through EVERYTHING...finally..."are you wireless?" (yep) Oh the last gal I helped, same problem..."
After manually updating, installing a NEW P3 program ~ to no avail...STILL not going through. I was on the phone with Jimmy for over an hour! So he tells me, I'm going to have to go through the same things we did, but install a new version on my desktop computer... call us back (at this point I didn't want to hang up the phone!) if it doesn't work...it's 9:15 PM now...after installing, updating and restoring from my backup...guess what....it's 9:30 PM and ticking! --> --> --> NOT WORKING! ! !
So I call Tech Support back ~ my mind is going a mile a minute (mind you, every 20 minutes I'm changing gauze, timers, ice packs) I DON'T NEED THIS STRESS RIGHT NOW ! ! ! Wait time for Tech Support..15 callers ahead of you...what? CRAP (a nicer word than what I was thinking ) ~ am I going to get these shows in before 10 PM (California time...2 hours ahead of HO time!)...waiting...waiting....waiting...
9:52 PM ! Tah dah! I get a REALLY nice guy (didn't cach him name) ~ told him the situation...okay yada, yada, yada, you did this, and this and this....yep...TRY this:
Walahhh! It worked!!! All shows in...guess what the time was...9:59 PM when the last show was transmitted! I would have KISSED him if he had been in reach!
So today, Saturday...I'm CHILLIN' ! ! ! No, I'm actually going to get on the phone and get some bookings!!! Have a great 3-day ~ woke up with a headache...wonder why? LOL
A day in the life of ME! Ugh......
