I had tried to use my credit card this weekend to buy some dried fruit stuff that Wasabubblebutt recommended. I got a call from the company this afternoon, telling me that my card had been declined (I was able to use a different card, though). I looked at my account online, and lo-and-behold, what do I see? Available credit - $0.00. So, I call them up. After 45 minutes on hold, I talk to a rep for 2 minutes. Apparently my online fax company got hacked. Instead of letting me know, they notify the Visa people, who put holds on all the Visa accounts that were used at the site. So now, I have to wait until I get another card. I'm not pissed because they put a hold on my account, I'm pissed because they didn't notify me of it sooner. I had to find out after my card was declined. :eek:

On a similar pissed-off note, I have hiccups. A friend and I ate lunch at Olive Garden after we spent the morning looking for birds. On the drive back, I got hiccups, and they haven't gone away yet. I have horribly embarassing hiccups, too. Loud and squeaky.

I LOVE olives. i esp love blue cheese stuffed olives. drop two in a dirty vodka martini. about 5 of those and i am good for the night.

Oh, yeah! Blue cheese. Olives. Booze. Mmmm. Very good.

i loves me some olives...almond stuffed or any gourmet olives...oh yeah!!

Dill pickles are a weakness too. REAL, true, dill pickles. Not Kosher Dill. Not chips. Sour dills will do! But a good, homemade dill pickle - few things in life are better. WHen I was a kid, for something to do my parents and I would go to this big swapmeet on Saturdays, and just walk around. There was always this guy there selling his homemade pickles out of big cauldrons. When I think of them, I almost get a tear in my eye.

My grandmother made her own dill pickles, from pickles (cucumbers?) she grew in her own garden. They were wonderful. She put them up in big glass jars and you could see the spices in the brine, plus each jar contained several stalks of dill. I loved to fish those dill stalks out and suck on them.

Big Spanish olives are okay.....I used to drink the juice when I was a kid. But black, ripe olives are the bomb!

when i was a kid i loved sticking the big black ones on my fingers and scare my cousin. lol