Gas Cards

Right off I'll tell you I hate Wal-Mart. My family is living proof you don't have to shop there to survive. I do purchase my gas with a gas card from there. Usually once a month or less I will reload my card and use it till it's about to run out of money.

I usually have 3-4 different cards in my purse and take turns putting money on one or the other.



My latest card has $2.83 on it, so this past Saturday I went by the Scottsburg Wal-Mart to add some more money to the balance. I went to the cashier and told her the amount I wanted on the card. She ran the card through the cash register then has this puzzling look on her face. She cleared her register then ran the card again. I noticed the register said something like 'invalid card number'

Now, had I had a hundred bucks on the card and it said invalid I'd be upset thinking I'd lost my money. I just simply told the cashier to put the money on a new card.
I usually switch the cards and get a new one every couple months just to make sure the coded bar isn't scratched or something and the gas pump would be unable to read the code. So I thought it was no big deal.

Well...the more I thought about it I thought I wanted my $2.83 off of my card! On the back of the card I found an 800 number you could call to check the cards balance. As I was pumping the gas, I had Patrick call the number and punch in the code from the card.

When Patrick got off of the phone he told me my balance was $10.00!!! As soon as he told me that I started laughing so hard I was crying!

What I had done was grabbed my Chili's card instead of the Wal-Mart card! Scroll back and look at the cards. They look the same...expect for the fact the Wal-Mart cards actually have Wal-Mart printed on them!!!!!

What was even funnier was Patrick thought I had played a practical joke on him! Guess it was a good thing I didn't get aggravated with the Wal-Mart cashier. Now that might have gotten embarrassing!

Still, it was good for a laugh for the rest of the weekend!

FFA Banquet

April 2, 2009 the Crothersville FFA held it's annual banquet to honor their members and community residents who have helped make the FFA the huge success it is. Here's a picture of the winners:



Standing in the back row are: Erica Doyle, Logan Isenhower, Dillon Maxie, Denise Maxie, Bailey Lundy, Leah Schill. Seated are: Cody Brasher, Charlie Densford, Connie Hoskins, Judy Johnson, representing Dollar General, Jennifer Wienhorst, representing Cerro Wire, and Joey Needler. Seated on stage are Patrick Sweazy, Corey Street, Kaitlyn Hoevener, Jimmy Needler and Kelsey Hoskins.

Patrick won the Golden Spatula Award, Cooperative Award, Greenhand Award and the 8th grade points award!

The most moving moment of the evening (other than Patrick winning his awards) was when the seniors speak about what FFA has meant to them during their high school career. Cody Brasher gave a moving speech that brought me and several others to tears. Cody along with all the seniors will definitely be missed!

Sad thing is in just four years Patrick will be giving his senior farewell speech! GASP!!!

Kittens

What a night! A feeding at 7 p.m., 10 p.m., 12 midnight, 3 a.m., 5 a.m., and 8 a.m. The kittens eat, but have no way to keep warm. At the feeding times they would get full, only to meow, meow, meow, because they were cold.

Each feeding, Patrick would have the milk warmed and we'd take turns feeding the hungry mouths, then try to hold them tightly to warm them up.

Neither of us is a mother cat, so cleaning them was basically impossible. The stink from the kittens would soon become unbearable, so we had no other choice than to let nature take care of the little babies.

We tried :(

I Am A New Mother!

I'm no Octomom, but caring for 3 kittens keeps you hopping!

Just like most people in our 'burg, we have wild cats. Last night one of the females that thought our home was her home decided it was time to have a litter of kittens. This morning Patrick and I checked on her to find 2 dead and 4 live kittens. By the time we returned we rescued 3 still alive. For some reason the mother abandoned the tiny newborns.



Luckily, we had a couple old medicine droppers in the drawer. They are working pretty good actually.



Not sure what this evening will bring, but for now, they are content to suck down a little milk and sleep...quietly sleep.

Check back to see how the 3 (un-named to date) kittens do!