Leiha's rants and raves

Leiha has decided to do a new feature whenever Leiha has a few things Leiha wants to rant and rave about, hence the title. Leiha watched last week's Grey's Anatomy and thought it was funny when Alex and Izzy talked about each other in the third person. Leiha thought Leiha should give it a try.

RANT: Leiha had to get her gas turned on. Turned out Leiha did not have a gas meter so she had a meter installed. While setting up that appointment Leiha told the lady what price plan she wanted. Leiha was told that she had to wait until after her meter was installed before Leiha could choose her plan. Leiha gets a letter in the mail saying that she has been signed up for the fixed rate 12 month plan. Leiha was planning on getting her gas turned off in the spring to save money. She is not happy. Leiha calls and has to spend a half an hour getting this changed. Leiha gets ticked because she did what she was told and now she has to check her bill and make sure she does not get a $50 penalty for cancelling the one year plan. On top of that, she wanted to sign up for a special that was going on. Now she has to call back to see about that since she was in the car when she made her call today and had no internet to check.

RANT: Leiha is using her veteran's benefits for her health insurance. Leiha had her information switched over from Oregon as well as recevied a new VA ID card. The new ID card says Leiha Mann. Leiha called to try and set up an appointment the day she signed up for her local VA benefits. She was told that they would mail her info then she would have to call again. 5 weeks later, nothing. Leiha calls today. They do not have her name in the system. She is transeferred to the business center. They look her up by her SSN, she is in the system with her old name. Leiha finds that interesting that she would receive a VA card with her new name. Leiha is not happy. Leiha is then transferred to the clinic to try and get an appointment again (using her old name). Leiha is told she does not have a primar care physician and it will probably take 4 to 6 weeks. Leiha argued that she called 5 weeks ago. Leiha thinks she has a UTI (TMI?) and wants to see someone. They are willing to put her on the list. Leiha is mad. They tell Leiha they will have a nurse call her. The nurse called Leiha within minutes which makes Leiha feel better and after a few questions it was recommended that she go in the next day to the walk in clinic. Leiha is not happy that she has to get up at 6:30am. Leiha wants you to wish her luck in not waiting a long time.

RANT: Leiha wants to know what celebritys owe us. She was reading about accounts of Tom Cruise and Katie's marriage and many many fans in Italy were upset that they did not get to see the wedding after stnding otside in crappy weather for a peak and how dare they not at least wave to the public. City officials were quite upset. Were they upset when they raked in the cash that their wedding brought to their city? People were renting out rooms for thousands of dollars. Businesses were making money hand over fist and people were upset? While Leiha believes the whole relationship is for publicity, she also believes they have the right to as private a wedding as they wish. FYI, TC started spouting off about Scientology after he fired his long time publicist who kept him in check and hired his sister as his publicist who is also a Scientologist. Needless to say, he has since hired a new publicist.

Speaking of celebs, did you hear about former Seinfeld alum Michael Richards (Kramer) who received a lot of press this weeked for spouting off all kinds of racist remarks at a comedy gig in LA? Unfortunately for him, someone videotaped the tirade. He is a serious comedian. He takes his craft seriousely and apparently he was getting heckled and lost his temper. It was not pretty and the fall out has been very public. Should he be held accountable? Yes he should. Just like if someone you worked with acted like that he or she should be held accountable. Seinfeld was on Letterman last night and he used his time to have MR on the show via satellite. Most people thought it was a bit and were chuckling as MR is trying to apologise (rave within a rant) Seinfeld told the audience this is not funny. He also later thanked Letterman for having MR on the show. It's nice to see someone stick by his friend.

RAVE: Leiha does not want this whole post to be a rant. Where would the rave be? Leiha loves potatoe chips. Karen gave Leiha a bag of her favorite chips that are not sold here. They are called Husman's and she had her dad bring them to town. For her to give Leiha a bag is true friendship. They are light and crispy, barbecue flavored. Leiha swears, once you start eating it's almost impossible to stop. They're nice and greasy. Leiha is happy again.

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About Leiha

I love to eat and sleep. One thing is more fun to blog about than the other. In between eating and sleeping I love to travel, spend time with my family and talk about myself. :)