Sit Down Already

Well, my VORTEX is not saved ...

So all day yesterday -- outside of an hour long conference call for NB -- I spent on the phone with Verizon (four different operators ... my trying to get new info so I could make up my mind) and then trying on phones at one of their retail stores.

Let the fight begin!!!

I ended up going with the LG Spectrum.  Since they had approved my early upgrade -- because of all the problems I have been having with the VORTEX -- I had to do all my business online. 

I still was unsettled (even after another hour phone call to get things set up).  So, I chatted online with "Hector" at Verizon (pretty helpful but not correct in all his assessments) and THEN called 800-922-0204 again (see?  I now know the number by heart!!).  This time I got THE MOST HELPFUL advice in the form of an email from some wonderful woman at V. 

She sent me info on both the LG Spectrum and the Droid RAZR. 

LG Spectrum Simulator

DROID RAZR Simulator

NOW I was able to play with all the features the phone have and with MotoCast (stream data straight from home and work computers to my Droid RAZR) I am going with the Droid RAZR.  I could not find a like app for the LG Spectrum. 

Which means I need to reject the LG Spectrum package when it arrives on Monday and figure out WHEN I will be able to get the Droid RAZR.

It's gonna be hard not to open that box!!

I Know You Are Waiting On The Edge Of Your Seat

My LG Vortex has been saved!!!!

Spoke to Verizon and after they offered me a free upgrade to the LG Enlighten or the LG Spectrum (both of which I covet), I was told I could add a memory card to my Vortex.  8 MGs here I come!!

I love Verizon.  I even got free next day shipping ($12.99) out of the deal.

Back In Time

Going back ..... back back to red ....

Going back ... back back to 34.
 

It's a nice trip.

Time to simmer ...

What is Chronic Fatigue?

You know how it feels when you are JUST coming down with the flu: muscle aches, fever, mental confusion, exhaustion, headache, stomach ache?  That is what I have all the time.

I need easy jobs at which I do not have too long of a TO DO list.  I volunteer for my neighborhood community relations group and have decided to help with the newsletter advertising, however, in the beginning I was only supposed to go and pick up checks for ads from local businesses.

It soon turned into me being the AD MANAGER!!  Now I need to:
prospect new clients;
stay in touch with current advertisers to see if they want to advertise again;
send out emails about advertising;
keep a spreadsheet of current advertisers, past advertisers and payments;
take phone calls and emails from interested businesses;
collect all ad material (usually the companies business card) via email or in person;
send out newletters with:
*thank you letters
*invoices.

It is the spreadsheet that is killing me.  My brain just does not operate that way anymore.  It is frustrating to say the least.

I am confused and flu-esque all the time.  And I haven't even begun to tell you about how Fibro affects me.

Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue

Maybe this is what my blog should have been about all along.

I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -- which sounds like so much bullshit (Chronic Fatigue!!  If the medical community took it seriously they never would have called it such a wimpy, accusing name).

I was first dianosed with Chronic Fatigue in 1989 -- when it was called Epstein Barr Virus (wish it still was).  However, they discovered that people can have high EPV titers but not have the disease so they changed it to the insulting "Chronic Fatigue."

I was so scared.  I have this flu that never went away.  I would rest all week long and then go back to work and the last time I literally crawled out -- on my hands and knees <<embarrassing>> -- to the elevator. 

I was working at Paramount Pictures in International Marketing for Features at the time.

I had a great boss, the VP, and an abusive senior publicist.  John R was awful -- and awful to me.  He just hated me ...

Not sure why.  I think he was just miserable himself ...

John R was NOT good enough to be a cat.

I was in an abusive romantic relationship with K, was abusing alcohol and was abused by John at work.  I had no respite.

So my body took over and collapsed.  It was all too much.

This is just a brief intro to CFS.  I will write more when I can AND include Fibromyalgia.

The Devil I Know

I have been researching phones as well as calling friends who have different phones than I and they are having really bad problems (in the middle of calls all of a sudden the person on the other end of the line cannot hear the caller, though the caller can hear them; keyboards freezing, etc).

So, what do I do?

Well, nothing today.  I had horrible nightmares last night where I was super fighting with my Mom because she said she was going to start letting lil miss coco chanel and Max Factor outside!!  (No idea where Armani was ...)

I went to work during the day so had no way of stopping her.

This is a bit of a recurring nightmare where my cats have been getting outside; in one Lolita was captured by an animal abuser and we need go no further than that.

Well, I hope Hope reads you today.  If so, "HI HOPERS!!"

I chatted with Verizon about phones last night online and am still as confused as I was before.

IF ONLY I could find out how to stop this LOW ON MEMORY/TEXT REJECTED problem once and for all ... I would be so happy to keep my Vortex.  It mostly rocks.

Phone Phun

No More:

Soon to be:

Covered with: