pennywhistle ([personal profile] pennywhistle) wrote2007-03-15 05:55 pm

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Last night I emailed Carlette and told her we needed to get our karaoke on, as it had been far too long. We went to the usual Wednesday night karaoke place, but our favorite host, Nancy Sell was not there! She's cutting back her late-night hours apparently, and stopped doing Wednesday night karaoke. So the guy who normally does Sunday night karaoke was there, and he SUCKED. His music sucked. He didn't know how to work his own equipement. It wasn't fun.

I sang "Like a Prayer," but the screen was rolling the whole time, and by the end of the song I was feeling nauseous. Carlette sang "Bring Me Some Water," but he didn't turn off the vocal track, so it was like she was singing along to the CD. Lame. We left disappointed, but with plans to go see Nancy on Monday night.

I came back to Carlette's for a bit, but then I was tired and came home and read my newest Inu-Yasha book and went to bed.

I woke up the next morning and went downstairs to get a pill. I noticed it was freezing downstairs. What the hell? Oh, my back door is wide open. That's lovely. VERY luckily the cats were still inside, all my possessions were still inside, and I'm still alive.

I went back upstairs and dozed until Carlette called me for my "official" wake-up call. We each hopped into our respective showers and then set off for our Day of Fun!

But then tragedy struck. Carlette needed to call Planned Parenthood to make an appointment for a check up. You know, because they have other services than just killing babies. She couldn't get 411 to work on her phone, so I lent her mine. The 411 operator connected her to a church! I was so outraged. I grabbed the phone back, called 411, and demanded to speak to a supervisor. I explained what happened and the woman said that she would credit the call. I stated that I felt what the operator had done was extremely inappropriate, and I felt that the supervisor needed to speak with her about it. Silence on the other end. I repeated my statement in slightly different wording. Silence on the other end. I asked her if she heard me, and then she gets attitude and starts getting uppity with me. I bitched right back at her and told her I was done with the conversation. But OOOO, I was so pissed! You should try calling and asking 411 for the number for Planned Parenthood and see what they do.

Finally we got to the mall to get our hairs cut. I just wanted to trim off my split ends; I'm growing my hair out to donate it as part of my Mission 101. My hair needs to be between 8-10 inches to donate, and the stylist told me that my hair was right at 8 inches, so I could have cut it all off and donated it today. The thought was really tempting and exciting. But I decided to just get the split ends cut off and then grow it back out to a full length. Carlette got a really cute new style that is not too short ^_^

We went to the arcade to play DDR. We only played four rounds because we were getting sweaty and hungry. I tried on some jeans at Deb's, but I didn't like them.

Then we went to SAKE for lunch. *choir of angels singing* I <3 that place so much! Oh, the rice! Oh, the sushi! Oh, the ginger ginger ginger!! Oh, the j-pop from 1999 that brings me right back to the good ol' VA days! ^_~ Yum!!

While we were browsing Half-Price Books after dinner, work called me in early. You know I don't mind going to work. So here I am.
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[identity profile] anmorata.livejournal.com 2007-03-15 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
You might want to let Planned Parenthood know about that. They'll be all over that in a heartbeat, and I'd love to see it happen.

[identity profile] malanai.livejournal.com 2007-03-15 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a good idea, I believe I'll do that!

[identity profile] bluebuckeye.livejournal.com 2007-03-15 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh I would be PISSED. LIVID. That is incredibly inappropriate. Did they end up crediting her call?

[identity profile] malanai.livejournal.com 2007-03-16 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
They "say" they did, but I guess we'll see when we get the bill!
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[identity profile] marcelle42.livejournal.com 2007-03-15 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
OMFG, that makes me see RED. Esp. since a close friend will be using their services shortly, and is scared to death of their protesters.

I agree with the above person -- tell Planned Parenthood. Call the supervisor's supervisor. Throw a royal fit. Let me know if you need help -- I'm excellent at being a stubborn bitch. That is 100% unacceptable.

[identity profile] omonk.livejournal.com 2007-03-16 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
I've had to take several people to planned parenthood several times, and I've never had to cross any kind of protest/picketline or any of that sort of thing. It's almost disapointing because I would just LOVE it if I got to go off on someone in that setting.

[identity profile] kerinda.livejournal.com 2007-03-16 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
I need to bitchslap both the operator *and* the supervisor.

Argh!

[identity profile] saturn-grrrl.livejournal.com 2007-03-16 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
What a crock. What 411 information service did you call?

I would contact PP's state office and let them know what happened.

[identity profile] hammaboo.livejournal.com 2007-03-16 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
That is just so wrong - grr. I would definitely let PP know what happened with her call.

[personal profile] meretia 2007-03-16 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
That's disgusting. Here I was just telling someone the other day that I was surprised with how little trouble I had finding their number in the phone book, and maybe I was being unfair to think that southern Ohio would give people grief over needing those services. Guess I was wrong.

I found the contact info for the center downtown here if you still need it. And I agree with everyone else. Give Planned Parenthood a call about this.

[identity profile] box-o-spiders.livejournal.com 2007-03-17 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
RAWK ON for hollering at 411. You are totally my awesome shero :)
Doing us proud, grrrl.

[identity profile] xoraclex.livejournal.com 2007-03-18 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
It was so fun to hang out with you!!! Thanks for standing up for me! You're a hero!