Sunday, September 29, 2013
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Just a note, I have started my blog devoted to being the spouse of a transitioning FtM husband. If you are interested, you can find it here: http://transspouse.blogspot.com/
It is important enough to me that I am going to sticky this for awhile. New posts will appear below.
It is important enough to me that I am going to sticky this for awhile. New posts will appear below.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Monday, September 23, 2013
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Friday, September 20, 2013
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
365 Project August 2013
August 2013 365 Project oh and reminder moving over to this channel with the weird Youtube channel renaming fiasco!
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Crazy Lady Write Up!
CRAZY LADY!
I am not even sure where to start with this. Yesterday Wolsey needed to pick up some work out clothes. We drove by a Wal-Mart and pulled in (I hate Wal-Mart but with being unemployed it is hard to shop somewhere else. Once we pulled in, all hell started to break lose.
It started with two cars in front of us being trapped in the car aisle (one trying to back out of a spot, another just trying to move forward). A car in front of all of us had stopped and some lady had ran over to the driver side window and was just chatting with him.
Here is a shortened video of the incident (after she attempted to punch Wolsey and shoved me):
The parked car honked, then the car in front of us honked and the car that was blocking us started flipping everyone off. It’s true, at this point we shouldn’t have become involved, but we also participated in the flipping off. The car that was blocking us off pulled into a parking spot further up (we shall call this the “brother’s car” for future revealed reasons).
We continued to move forward and the lady who was also holding us up started walking behind our car screaming that the car was her brother and damn it she would kick our asses. She even threatened to pull a gun and shoot us. Now, if you look at the video/pictures I wasn’t very worried about this, but we did return words.
We ended up parking (crazy lady disappeared) and we got out to head in. I notice ahead of us the husband/boyfriend (shall hereafter refer to him as husband) saw us and called to his wife. She immediately stomped out and was screaming at us. The husband fell back and had a weird look on his face (he must have assumed that I wasn’t going to get involved as the crazy lady was focused on Wolsey).
Crazy lady stepped forward and threw a punch at Wolsey. I stepped forward and put myself between the two of them and told her to back her ass up. She shoved me. She isn’t a small lady and it was a pretty hard shove but she must have realized that I am 6’4” and 280lbs and it didn’t move me. She began screaming at me.
This entire time I was staring at the husband. I was more worried about him and so I watched him as I told the lady to back off and I was calling the cops because she assaulted me. I honestly never respond that way usually (if it was a guy and I acted like I used to, it might have resulted me popping him in the face). It was a woman in front of me and I wasn’t going to do anything physical to her so the only thing that came to mind was calling the cops.
We continued walking towards Wal-Mart (I wanted as many witnesses as possible after the issue with ziggy stardust a few years ago I don’t want someone to lie about me). The husband immediately kept trying to get crazy lady to leave, but it was difficult.
We continued walking towards Wal-Mart (I wanted as many witnesses as possible after the issue with ziggy stardust a few years ago I don’t want someone to lie about me). The husband immediately kept trying to get crazy lady to leave, but it was difficult.
I ended up calling the cops, and the lady went into Wal-Mart. The 911 operator told me to wait there and said she would send a cop (I wasn’t sure I wanted a cop to come, I didn’t need someone to arrest her, I just needed a way to de-escalate her). The operator said to have to cop talk to me anyways.
So I ended up outside Wal-Mart waiting for a cop while Wolsey got his workout clothing. The crazy lady came out and screamed some more, we acted like we were filming her and I explained a cop was on the way and she was welcome to wait for him. She then threatened again that I would regret it, but her husband rushed her off into the parking lot.
The cop arrived, talked with me for a bit and I explained I didn’t want to press charges (I don’t need that drama) and he agreed it was fine to let it go. I just wanted to make sure that crazy lady was on record so she couldn’t do any accusations later. Wolsey came out with his clothing and we went home.
I hate drama, and I need to once again work on not engaging the crazy people.
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Crazy lady at Walmart! 9-14-13
Crazy lady at Walmart! Tried to punch the spouse and ended up shoving me before freaking out.
September 14, 2013
Oh, that is not me in the foreground, I believe that is her husband/partner as he tried to keep her away from us as well.
September 14, 2013
Oh, that is not me in the foreground, I believe that is her husband/partner as he tried to keep her away from us as well.
Friday, September 13, 2013
September 13, 2013.
Playing Betrayal at the House on the Hill with the Wolsey (spousal unit), Rachel, and Drew.
I got home from Bellingham and needed to hang. Trip went well but was emotionally exhausting.
I got home from Bellingham and needed to hang. Trip went well but was emotionally exhausting.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Spousal Unit 9-12-13
Took a quick video of the spouse, a humorous incident. I am in awe that the spouse hasn't divorced me yet.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Monday, September 9, 2013
September 9 2013
Taking some time out to get some Dick's Cheeseburgers... best cheeseburgers out there.
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Daily photo and Call of Cthulhu
Today we played call of cthulhu and I took a couple of pictures of the group. It was a great game and awesome to play with my friends.
Friday, September 6, 2013
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Student Loan Annoyance
Today I decided to check on the possibility of changing up my student loan payments. The jobs I am looking at seem to be paying significantly less then what I am used to. In order to be able to accept it, I decided to look into "Income Based Repayment" payments for my loan.
The idea of IBR is that a person who is not making enough pay to easily cover the standard payment, can make payments based on 15% of their discretionary income. You qualify for this if the IBR payment based on your last year's tax return would be less then a normal straight payment. This means if you are stuck working a low income wage job after school (say 20k a year) your payments can be only $70 a month, even if they would have been $600 normally. It is a way to help offset the problem of students not being able to find work, or a recession or any other various issues. The IBR is staggered over 25 years and can result in the remaining being forgiven at the end (but you are subject to the taxes of that forgiveness).
I knew about this, and with the fact I am probably going to a take a 30%+ pay cut I decided to look into it. I went to Sallie Mae's website and looked around. They have many options for payments, but none of them IBR (all of the options really didn't change how much you had to pay). After about an hour of looking for it, I ended up calling Sallie Mae. Fast forward another half an hour of menus, holding, etc I finally got through to the customer service rep.
I won't use the CSR rep's name, he was very polite and I wouldn't want to bring anything on him. However, he balked at getting me the IBR information. I asked why it wasn't on the website and he said he couldn't comment on that. He volunteered to send me the info and get it set up now after I had to wheedle with him a little bit more. I was thinking about it (currently I am deferred due to unemployment) and just as I was about to say yes he mentioned I should wait until the end of the year.
Since it is based on the prior calendar year (not on what you are making currently) he suggested to wait until end of the year, since my 2013 tax return AGI will be significantly less, my payments would be less then using 2012. I have to give him props for trying to save me money.
I guess the whole purpose of this post though is to express my frustration that Sallie Mae (and I assume the others do it as well) intentionally hide the information on their site and don't make it easy to get to. The funny thing is, its not like Sallie Mae actually loaned me the money, it was the Federal Government, so I don't understand why they get so pissy. I realize they loose a bit of revenue (they don't actually lose any money as they didn't loan me anything). However they are legally bound to offer this. Typical corporate greed.
This is just me complaining about it, and if anyone reads this and needs the info but can't find it. Talk to a CSR and demand that information. It is a legal form of repayment and they deserve it.
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Monday, September 2, 2013
Sunday, September 1, 2013
It's a new blog
Here we are on another blog. I do have an older blog, over 12 years old, but it is time for a change. My life is one incredibly big change, work, social, mental, marriage (no, not divorce), and just myself in general. Maybe it is because I hit the magical age of 42, after all Douglas Adams thought 42 was the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
I can't even really identify why I need to change, except I need to start my blog over. I will have my old blog linked from here, you can read where I come from. This blog is about my life, the little things like movie reviews, to the big things about how I want to present myself to the world.
This will mostly be boring, but if you are easily offended by someone with tattoos, socialist tendencies and a bit genderqueer then maybe this isn't the place for you.
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