That's my cousin (boy)! It's so cool to have a cousin as a model. He is a Gap model. So cool! Isn't he a cutie?! He's actually getting married this month after Christmas. "Congrats Chee and Hung!!! I wish you guys the best. "Monday, December 22, 2008
That's my cousin!
That's my cousin (boy)! It's so cool to have a cousin as a model. He is a Gap model. So cool! Isn't he a cutie?! He's actually getting married this month after Christmas. "Congrats Chee and Hung!!! I wish you guys the best. "
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Life is Unfair
Why is it that bad things happen to good people? I don't steal, drink, or curse. I have a pretty good head on my shoulder. I have a big heart. I care about people. I go to church and pray. I live my life through Christ. I try to be the best I can be. I try to live my life as a Christian should live. But still bad things happen. Life is just not fair. I don't understand why life goes that way. Why doesn't bad things happen to bad people? Why did God give us free choice? Because there are idiots out there that are making the wrong choices that are hurting innocent people.
I am frustrated and very upset. On Sunday night, during the rain, somebody decided to throw a brick through my husband's car window. It shattered the whole window and water from the rain got in the car and it was a mess. My husband discovered it on Monday morning when he was about to leave for work. I was in shock when he came back in and told me. It was pouring rain and glass was everywhere in his car. He had to take all his stuff in the car so it would get damaged or stolen. He had to put a trash bag on the door so it stopped the water from getting in. He called the police and they said they would send someone by as soon as they can. Apparently there was a lot of accidents that day because of the rain. The policewoman sat in her car for about 10 minutes and told my husband to get back in the house because it was raining. She never got out of the car to even look at the car. She called my husband on the phone and said she will put the report in. Can you believe that? She didn't even get out of the car. How could she even right a report? On what? The evidence (Brick) was still in the car! She didn't even care to look. And other cars were also vandalized but the cop was too busy so she couldn't make that report. She took off. Wow, isn't that great. We can always depend on our police department to serve and protect us. Yeah right! She didn't even want to get out and get wet from the rain. Unbelievable!!
So then he calls the insurance company (Mercury). They say that they are very swamped due to many accidents and cant get an adjuster out to look at the car so we will have to send a tow truck to take it to the garage where they can take a look at it to make an estimate. Okay so that sounds about right. Oh no, its not. We don't hear anything until Wednesday, the day it is pouring rain, that the estimate is going to be $450 and our deductible is $500 so the insurance is not going to take care of it. Looks like we are going to have to pay for it to get fixed, on our own. I forgot to tell you that before all this, my husband got a rental car on Monday because the insurance company told him that it would be covered too. So here we are thinking that everything was going to be taken care of and we didn't have to worry about a thing. We were wrong! Dead wrong! We got screwed. Mercury is now stating that they are not going to pay for the damages or for the towing. We have to take care of the cost to fix the car and for the towing. Now tell me where the logic is on that? It was Mercury who asked to tow the car so they could have their adjuster look at the car so why do we need to pay for the towing. I could have gotten AAA to tow it for free. If they could have just told me from the beginning that it wouldn't be more than the deductible then I would have just called someone to come out and fix the window. So why are we being screwed around here? What is going on? I don't understand what is going on here? No one will listen to us. Mercury is adamant on not paying for the towing when it was their call and their reasoning for it and not ours. We just called them and they said that it was going to be taken care of. So are we now not to trust our own insurance? Should we not trust anyone? Aren't they suppose to be on our side. We pay our premiums. Our business helps pay them so why are they not helpful to us when we need them? I don't know what to do. I feel like we are being taken advantage of and we should not have to pay for the towing.
The garage is now telling us that we need to move our car out if we are not going to have them fix it. They want the money for the towing. They don't care about what Mercury told us and they need us to move the car and we cant if we don't pay the towing fee. So now we have to fork out $100 for towing when we could have just got AAA to do it for free if they would have told us it would cost us. And the window needs to be fixed and it will cost us about $140 with an outside vendor. That doesn't even count the upholstery that will need to be done too because rain got in the car. All this is money spent unneeded. Not our choice. Not an expense we intended or can afford. This is all coming during Christmas and it is really affecting us hard. This is so not fair!
It's times like this that I just don't want to be calm, collective, cool, and christian like. I want to yell, scream, hit someone. I want to hate, hurt, and be mean. I don't deserve this and my family doesn't either. I hope that whoever did this to us, gets whats coming to them. I need prayer and need things to go well tomorrow. We will have to drop off the rental car because Mercury will not pay for the rental no longer. We then have to pick up the car in the garage and pay the towing fee. And then bring car back to the house to get the window done. And also take it to a car wash place to vacuum all the glass and take it to get detailed. I am getting sick just thinking about it. Just imagining how much all this is going to cost us and where is this money going to come from. Our Christmas is ruined and I haven't even done our gifts. How am I going to even be able to do that with all this coming at us? I am just at a lost and I don't know where to turn.
I am frustrated and very upset. On Sunday night, during the rain, somebody decided to throw a brick through my husband's car window. It shattered the whole window and water from the rain got in the car and it was a mess. My husband discovered it on Monday morning when he was about to leave for work. I was in shock when he came back in and told me. It was pouring rain and glass was everywhere in his car. He had to take all his stuff in the car so it would get damaged or stolen. He had to put a trash bag on the door so it stopped the water from getting in. He called the police and they said they would send someone by as soon as they can. Apparently there was a lot of accidents that day because of the rain. The policewoman sat in her car for about 10 minutes and told my husband to get back in the house because it was raining. She never got out of the car to even look at the car. She called my husband on the phone and said she will put the report in. Can you believe that? She didn't even get out of the car. How could she even right a report? On what? The evidence (Brick) was still in the car! She didn't even care to look. And other cars were also vandalized but the cop was too busy so she couldn't make that report. She took off. Wow, isn't that great. We can always depend on our police department to serve and protect us. Yeah right! She didn't even want to get out and get wet from the rain. Unbelievable!!
So then he calls the insurance company (Mercury). They say that they are very swamped due to many accidents and cant get an adjuster out to look at the car so we will have to send a tow truck to take it to the garage where they can take a look at it to make an estimate. Okay so that sounds about right. Oh no, its not. We don't hear anything until Wednesday, the day it is pouring rain, that the estimate is going to be $450 and our deductible is $500 so the insurance is not going to take care of it. Looks like we are going to have to pay for it to get fixed, on our own. I forgot to tell you that before all this, my husband got a rental car on Monday because the insurance company told him that it would be covered too. So here we are thinking that everything was going to be taken care of and we didn't have to worry about a thing. We were wrong! Dead wrong! We got screwed. Mercury is now stating that they are not going to pay for the damages or for the towing. We have to take care of the cost to fix the car and for the towing. Now tell me where the logic is on that? It was Mercury who asked to tow the car so they could have their adjuster look at the car so why do we need to pay for the towing. I could have gotten AAA to tow it for free. If they could have just told me from the beginning that it wouldn't be more than the deductible then I would have just called someone to come out and fix the window. So why are we being screwed around here? What is going on? I don't understand what is going on here? No one will listen to us. Mercury is adamant on not paying for the towing when it was their call and their reasoning for it and not ours. We just called them and they said that it was going to be taken care of. So are we now not to trust our own insurance? Should we not trust anyone? Aren't they suppose to be on our side. We pay our premiums. Our business helps pay them so why are they not helpful to us when we need them? I don't know what to do. I feel like we are being taken advantage of and we should not have to pay for the towing.
The garage is now telling us that we need to move our car out if we are not going to have them fix it. They want the money for the towing. They don't care about what Mercury told us and they need us to move the car and we cant if we don't pay the towing fee. So now we have to fork out $100 for towing when we could have just got AAA to do it for free if they would have told us it would cost us. And the window needs to be fixed and it will cost us about $140 with an outside vendor. That doesn't even count the upholstery that will need to be done too because rain got in the car. All this is money spent unneeded. Not our choice. Not an expense we intended or can afford. This is all coming during Christmas and it is really affecting us hard. This is so not fair!
It's times like this that I just don't want to be calm, collective, cool, and christian like. I want to yell, scream, hit someone. I want to hate, hurt, and be mean. I don't deserve this and my family doesn't either. I hope that whoever did this to us, gets whats coming to them. I need prayer and need things to go well tomorrow. We will have to drop off the rental car because Mercury will not pay for the rental no longer. We then have to pick up the car in the garage and pay the towing fee. And then bring car back to the house to get the window done. And also take it to a car wash place to vacuum all the glass and take it to get detailed. I am getting sick just thinking about it. Just imagining how much all this is going to cost us and where is this money going to come from. Our Christmas is ruined and I haven't even done our gifts. How am I going to even be able to do that with all this coming at us? I am just at a lost and I don't know where to turn.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Meaning of Christmas
I have been in denial for awhile that Christmas was coming. I have stayed away from the malls, the department stores, any where else that crowds were scrambling for presents. I am not one of those people that enjoy being smothered by others in a crowded aisle looking for anything that might be a possibility of a present. I hate waiting in a line for longer than 10 minutes so I can give my money away for something that probably doesn't even cost half the price to make it. I know I sound like the scrooge but honestly Christmas isn't what is should be anymore. Christmas has turned into nothing but money. The economy feeds off of holidays so they can take all our money and all we care about is what bargain or best gift we can find. What happen to the true meaning of Christmas. The word itself has diminished. We cant even use the word "Christmas" in some places. Stores have to say "Happy Holidays". It was never an issue before or people never made such a big deal over the word "Christmas". How can we stop using the word but still celebrate the day? The day was made to celebrate the birth of Christ, therefore, the day was named Christmas. No one is made to celebrate holidays if they do not want to so why change the name so you can just celebrate on a day for celebrating about the birth of Christ. For example, people who don't celebrate Hanukkah don't make a big deal about it and want to change the name and celebrate on that day. So why is it such a big deal that we say "Merry Christmas"? It has been a holiday that was named that for centuries and now we have come to a point that we cant even say it to one another. I am so sad and disappointed in what this world has come to. What will be next? I fear that this world will end up in a horrific ending. I just hope that me and my family will be passed on before it happens. "As for me and my family, I will serve the Lord".
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