Secret Confession

This is in no way the secret I referred to the other day that I cannot reveal until September 9th. No, no. This secret is much more personal & one that I am a little disturbed by, so I've decided I must get it off my chest. It's really pretty embarrassing.

I cried a little last night as I sat at home watching Inside Edition (because, darn it, I missed Katie Couric's big debut-and consequently, little Suri's crazy mound o' hair. Seriously, did TomKat get one of those odd "headhuggers" someone was selling here at my work??). Back to IE (because I'm all about dorky abbreviations & acronyms). They were talking about Steve Irwin's grieving wife & the parent who said "what will I tell my kids?" & Kelly Ripa's little boy that was deeply saddened & just couldn't believe that he was gone. So sad. Lesson to all the little mates: stingrays don't speak Aussie. And that feminist Greer needs to go jump off a cliff.

I am also saddened to see that there are no immediately accessible news reports on the crazy Croc Hunter... he's already been trumped by the Mound o' Hair on Yahoo! headlines. Now I actually have to delve into the News link to search. Still nothing. Still looking. The Potomac's "intersex" fish is one of the most-emailed of the day?? What? Oh, wait... Here is what I'm looking for... Ms. Greer & all of her compassionate self:

Outspoken Australian feminist Germaine Greer has labelled "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin embarrassing and said she hoped her compatriot's death brought an end to exploitative wildlife programs.

Greer accused Irwin of provoking the stingray that killed him with a tail barb to the heart Monday, saying such behaviour was typical of the 44-year-old naturalist's documentaries.
"I really found the whole Steve Irwin phenomenon embarassing and I'm not the only person who did, or indeed the only Australian who did," the British-based Greer told Australia's Channel Nine television via satellite Wednesday.
Asked whether she felt out of touch with most Australians given the wave of mourning that has swept her homeland since his death, Greer replied: "I don't care what I'm being called, I hope I'm out of touch with what idiots are thinking."
Greer's remarks follow a column she wrote for Britain's Guardian newspaper in which she said the animal world had finally taken its revenge on Irwin.

This mention of Yahoo! & their somehow inherent need to make me work to find things. In April I signed up for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. It, however, worked like crap. & I'll tell you something I'm not the only one who things crap works like, well, crap. Stick that to your ear & try to get a connection, Yahoo! So, after being billed automatically for it again in May and June, the Husband tried cancelling it 3 times. 2 months pass & no more charges. You'd think maybe the multiple attempts at cancelling the account had worked, right? Wrong-o, Bobby-o! "Purchase Yahoo! Voice ($2.99)" shows up on my bank statement OUT OF THE BLUE for August 29th. Yahoo! Voice...you suck! This charge, on an account that we no longer use & closing the account has just been on my list of things to do that I haven't gotten around to lately. So, that means I had NO money in the account & a subsequent $35 NSF fee!! Yahoo! Voice is really ticking me off now. I, along with my dear patient mother, spent nearly 2 hours yesterday morning trying to figure out how to access the credit card info Yahoo! apparently still has on file for me, some sort of customer service, anything through the Messenger with Voice area of Yahoo! for account options, any clues in my profile or Yahoo! account, so-called "Premium Services" that I might be signed up for, etc etc. & NOTHING is listed or found that would allow me to either a) cancel the subscription or b) conk-on-the-head anyone at Yahoo! that could aid me in doing so. So screw you Yahoo! I'm officially disputing the charge. Which adds yet another thing to my list of "to do's" since, with a now-negative balance, I cannot close the account like was previously next on my list of great accomplishments. This throws a cog in the wheels of my anger restraint.

Well, now that I've divulged my old bank account woes & my newfound disgust with yet another entity I must depart for the day.