Trouble at the Bank

After ten years of co-habitating, my bf decides to add me to his checking account. So off we go to the bank on a Sat. During the process the teller asks if I need online banking access. He says no, I say no. I don't really want to get into his business too much. And a bank account is a very personal thing.

A week later I get my ATM card and need to go into any branch to get the PIN set up. So I go to a branch near my house and the teller goes to log-in to my online banking and asks for my password. And I say, "Oh we didn't set that up, I just need a PIN number." She insists that indeed a I did and pulls it up on the monitor.

After we had opened the account, someone had made a bogus email address and password up for that account. The teller said it had to be the person who opened the account, but that woman who opened it sure didn't look like the shifty type. So now I'm getting worried. The person who opened the online account took my first name and my year of birth and tried to make a gmail account. I think the only reason they failed was they mispelled gmail and spelled it gimail instead. So Jennifer at the branch I was at helped me change the email and password, and today I'm going to go see the bank manager to see if he can shine any more light on just what happened. When someone inside a bank does something shifty, either on accident or on purpose, it's very disconcerting.

Anti- War Rant

War
I rarely speak out about politics, but I’m going to make an exception today. Feel free to just skip this post if it’s going to ruin your whole day.
This morning Phil Donahue was on Good Day Live (a local CA show). He called the war in Iraq ‘a massive blunder.’ I really haven’t paid much attention to Phil Donahue, but I swear every word out of his mouth this morning echoed what I have said to friends and family again and again. That you’d think we would have remembered from the Vietnam War that going to a war is just not the brightest idea.
Now before you start hollering at me, I should say I grew up in a military family. My father was in the Vietnam War when I was in the sixth grade. It totally upturned my life. We had to move from an air force base in NM to live with relatives in CA. There was a good chance that our family of five children could have ended up fatherless. So I thought America would be slow to ever go to war again. I thought we had protest songs in our blood. I thought we would demand that our government makes smart choices with foreign policy from now on. We didn’t even attack the right enemy. Imagine a bully next door on the right beating up your kid. So you blow up the house on the left. No matter how I look at it, it makes no sense.
Phil talked about how unpopular it was to speak out against the War in Iraq when it first started. It nearly cost him his career and he was accused of being unpatriotic but now the tide is turning the other way.
On blogs I wrote at the time, I called it the never-ending war. I knew it wouldn’t be a quick clean up job like the government wanted us to believe. I’m not even surprised this thing is dragging on and on. George Bush can’t call it off because he’s going to look like he led us down a suicide path.
One thing Phil Donahue did point out was how sugar-coated this war is. The press was told not to photograph coffins or maimed soldiers. No one wants to take off their blinders and see this for the atrocity that it is. Mr. Donahue said that if even one more person dies in this war, it’s inexcusable. He has a film coming out that interviews soldiers that have come back in bad shape.
I feel like part of the rational of war is how you believe in your own mind about it. People that believe war equals glory or war equals freedom are much more likely to want to wage war.
Personally my two beliefs are war is stupid and war is death.

A big surprise for my big 5-0!

You know what trumps turning 50? Finding out a week later that you are going to be a Grandmother. Well, that's something I've never done before. I'm predicting a girl. Woohoo!
It's actually my younger daughter, who also got married first.

New websites

I thought this being a new year and all it was a good time to get back to business and to do things in a newer and better way. So I purchased 3 domain names. http://www.zenchantress.com for my hypnosis work, http://www.luckyharper.com for my spiritual work, and http://www.spankytease.com for my new line of T-shirts. I barely got the webpages up and running this week. I'm learning to use my new host's webpage builder, and it's not flowing as easily as when I used Front Page in the past. Evidently in my last computer overhaul the tech removed Front Page much to my dismay.

So I'm going to have to learn this new system by trial and error and hope I don't lose my patience.

Spirit Guide Dream

Last night I had two very spiritual dreams. It took me ages to write the second one down in my journal. I met a spirit guide in the dream named Stephanie. At the end of the dream a man said, "Stephanie is no longer with us. Now you will be working with Auggus." The name was even written down on some of the supplies he gave me. Curious isn't it?

In the dream I also saw a ghost of a woman that would wander the halls carrying a small glass bowl with a goldfish in it.

Lost and Found

It took me nearly an hour to remember how to sign in to this blog. Ugh. Now it's 1 AM and I can't remember what I wanted to write about anyway. But at least I wrote down the password and so forth so I can start writing in here again.

Sad but true

There was a reporter on the news just now who filmed his very own home burning down in San Diego.