what a day ! ( or it;s my blog and i'll vent if i want to !)

i hope this doesn't come across as a post that is full of complaints but as i said in the title this is my blog and I'll vent if i want to !  1st march 2012 what a bloody day !

got mom off to the hospital for her chemo therapy no problem . mom even went in a little earlier then last Monday . as she was getting ready to go out mom heard on the radio an add for Tesco that stated 3 bottles of quite posh wine for 15 euro . she asked me to go to to get them . i went to one that was a bit closer to the hospital . yes my mom is allowed a little wine  though she is having chemo therapy  . her oncologist said it is fine in moderation .

 when i got to Tesco merrion centre first thing happened  was both of my trolley  tokens that i have on my key ring wouldn't go in the aperture on  small shopping trolley . it was too big . ai had to use a euro coin instead . this meant i had not got the money to buy dad the newspaper .i forgot to get some more cash . as i had the family credit card to pay for the shopping . all i had was 2 euro coins and a bit of small change . 

just before i went to the cash desk to pay i remembered i had a load of extra Tesco point vouchers in my cash bag . i went to get them out and found out  my cash bag was not in my pocket .  remembering the last place i had my cash bag was at the shopping trolley area by the main entrance at the car park i left my shopping at the customer service desk and ran back there . no cash bag .  just as i went back to the customer services . just as i was asking about my missing cash bag a man came up with it in his hand to hand it in . nice to see there are still some honest people left , although there was nothing of value in the bag ! .

 when i went to pay for my shopping the credit card i use was refused . i had to ask the guy behind the cash desk to cancel the sale and leave without my shopping . that had me really pissed off as i had no idea what happened to the card  as i had used it in tescos the day before and it was fine .

sitting in my car just before leaving the shopping centre  i tried to call the bank form my mobile phone .  they couldn't deal with the visa card problem . i had to ring our banks  visa centre . i did'nt have the number to hand . mom has it at home on the visa statement . on the way home i remembered i was given a receipt for the cancelled sale in Tesco . which made me wonder had the same gone through and was it an error on the Tesco computer system . i pulled in and rang Tescos . no clear answer was given to me. i was shitting kittens as mom has a credit card on the same account as my one also . if i had to cancel the card it would mean moms would die as well .  the last thing i wanted to do was give mom more stress on her chemo day .

 i drove home and decided to try another branch of tescos for the same shopping to test if the card was the problem or if it was a fault elsewhere . same result card refused . i went home again without the shopping . i rang mom  and told her what had been going on , she told me where i could find the visa centre number and then my mobile phone ran out of credit . i had to top up online as i had neither credit card or money ! that meant i had to get the credit card sorted out first .

 when i got home i rang the visa centre . dad had to speak to the person on the phone as the visa account is in his name to answer a couple of security questions  . my dad is very hard of hearing .  i had to talk to the lady and ask her to tell me what she wanted dad to tell her   , pass the phone to dad tell him the question and let him answer it . once she got the security information she them spoke to me . i told her the story of the credit card being refused at 2 different branches of tescos . turns out there yahoo were to blame .  the day before i had sent 44 dollars to yahoo to pay for keeping my Flickr account a pro one . to test out whether the credit card was real yahoo made a charge of 1 Euro on it . apparently internet fraudsters do the same .  a security alert was put on the credit card either on the morning of the first of march or the evening of the 29th february . that meant the card couldn't be used . the lady on the phone admitted they should have phoned my house the second the security alert was put on to check if the one euro charge was correctly made .  they did'nt get round to it .  the lady i was speaking to on the phone was really nice and patient but i could have killed her . the stress i had gone through was unreal . she was able to confirm  that the 2 refused transactions in tescos had not gone through , she told me about the last few transactions on the card to see if they were OK  and she asked me if i would accept the 1 euro charge form yahoo .  when i said i would the security alert was taken off the card and  my stress level  got back to normal .  i shouldn't have been so uptight as this happened before .  i bought as song off i tunes for 99 cent and that caused the same thing to happen .

i took a little rest topped up my and my moms mobile phone form my online account  then we went into tescos in Bloomfield shopping centre . the wine my mom wanted was gone . just 2 gaps on the shelf . i had to wait the best art of 20 minutes to find someone to ask .  then i had to check if the wine he bought out to me was the wine on the offer . by running to customer services . i had no time to eat anything at all during the day and i was like a bear with a sore arse . ( i am always totally grumpy when really hungry) although i couldn't get the wine mom wanted me to get i got her and Dad some wine i know they normally like . the thing that might make you laugh is i hate wine ! Jack Daniels  or lager is my alcoholic beverage of choice .got mom from chemo . came home ate a double portion of sushi and that was it for the rest of the day i parked myself in front of this computer , helped mom with the dinner  and took it easy.

 thankfully one thing went right . moms chemo therapy .  moms porto cath which had been causing  her pain when the phlebotomists were trying to take blood from it ( and failing ) worked today . hopefully no more struggling to find veins in her hands for a cannula .