This makes me SO ANGRY AND SICK!!

Woman admits faking cancer, keeping cash

2 hours, 39 minutes ago

By Ciara Byrne, The Canadian Press Original link HERE

MILTON, Ont. - An Ontario woman has pleaded guilty to faking terminal cancer and keeping thousands of dollars in donations.

Ashley Kirilow of Burlington was charged with six counts of fraud under $5,000 and one count of fraud over $5,000.

In a soft voice Kirilow, 23, pleaded guilty today to defrauding Donna Michalowski of close to $7,400 collected at a fundraiser — the other six charges will be addressed next year.

Outside court Kirilow's lawyer, Brendan Neil, said his client is sorry for what she's done and wants to move on with her life.

Sentencing was put over until Jan. 27, when a pre-sentence is expected to be submitted to the court.

Fraud over $5,000 carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.

"It's a sign of taking responsibility," Neil said outside court when asked about the guilty plea.

The Crown said Kirilow's motive was attracting "attention," but Neil said his client didn't anticipate the crush of media that the case has drawn.

"I don't think this was what she had in mind," he said gesturing to journalists outside court.

Kirilow rushed from the courthouse, covering her face, to a waiting taxi and did not speak to the media.

Court heard the young woman pretended to have cancer to raise money that she promised to give to charity, but kept the nearly $7,400 raised at a Burlington bar in February for herself.

Kirilow turned herself in to police on Aug. 6.

Her father has said she told him she shaved her head and eyebrows, and plucked her eyelashes to appear to have cancer.

When allegations surfaced against Kirilow, public outrage was swift.

Angry comments were splashed across the Facebook page set up for Kirilow's fake charity, Change for the Cure, with some even saying they hoped she got cancer.

Photos on the website showed Kirilow smiling, but looking sallow as she wore a pink knit hat to cover her apparently bald head.

In the picture, she also made fists to show off tattoos on her knuckles that read in black lettering "Won't quit." Other photos had shown a pair of hands wrapped in tubes and taped with needles.

I found this facebook page as well..

http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=137241062978558&v=wall

This just makes me SO SICK!! I have no words!

Personal Space?

So I am standing in line at Target to return something and this guy IS STANDING ON TOP OF ME!!


Serious look I am in a black tshirt and my arm is peaking out.. EVERYTIME I moved he was on top of me....


I took a picture so y'all would believe me.. I can not make this shit up!


I could LITERALLY feel him breathing on my neck....

EWW!!

NEVER purchase anything from Ashley Furniture!

So to start off when the hubby and I first got married we bought EVERYTHING from Ashley furniture (7 years ago).

We loved the stuff, it was well made and lasted us 7 years. When we moved we sold it all on Craigslist (I think they should start paying me for the self promotion?)

Anyways we moved to San Francisco and we need all new stuff, we checked a few places around and then WENT 45 miles out of our way to go to an Ashley store we found the couch, chair and coffee and end tables we loved!

We ordered it and then all hell breaks loose...

1. They told us 3 weeks from the time we ordered and IT TOOK 5 weeks.

2. When the stuff arrived THE DRIVERS WERE BELLIGERENT! They cussed and were dropping f-bombs like candy. I struck up a conversation with the "lovely" young gentlemen and I was informed "Today my last day I do not get paid enough to deal with this fucking bullshit, I have only worked here 4 days"

The other guy chims in "Today is my fucking first day and probably my last"

It took them an hour to get the sofa in the door. I had to talk them out of hanging it over the balcony to get it in (serious I can not make this shit up!)


And then one of the guys says "umm excuse me but these fucking tables broken, did you still want them?"


Umm no?



So we refused the tables and as soon as they were out of earshot I called Ashleys customer service (if you can call it that) to file a complaint.

I also told them at that time we did not want the tables, cancel the order and just credit us.

I was told she would need to call me back.

4 days later still no call.

I call them and finally get an apology and told we would receive credit for the delivery (they also left all the garbage at the bottom of the stairs)

And they say they will call back about the tables (that I clearly stated we did not want)

So the call my husband back and tell him we can not cancel the order.

And then I call back and they try to tell me that my husband told them to order the tables again.

I was told by 4 different people we would not be refunded for the tables.

SO I spoke to the boss, the bosses boss and we received refund for the tables!! I can not believe that they would put customers through this. Only to give refund anyways?

Oh and to TOP IT ALL OFF? Yeah, what we were told we were paying for the set they are giving us a refund of $60 less than what we were told we were paying!!

NEVER AGAIN!

But the good from the bad is we really love our couch and chair!

Hello VACATION!!!

Sooo it may have come a few days early...

My last day was supposed to be Thursday however I went in for my shift this morning and I had to leave.

When I talked about hanging up my apron strings I was DEAD SERIOUS, this idiot this morning (keeping in mind its my first table of the day) I go over to greet the table this is how it goes.

Me "Good morn....."

Jackass "Coffee, and water and I need a large glass for my water" (there are already water glasses on the table"

So I get back to the table with coffee and water

Jackass "uuhhh geezz can we get some "fresh" coffee..mubble mubble"

Me "Oh the coffee that was poured 2 minutes ago with a pot that has a hold time of 6 hours is not fresh enough for you?"


Annnnddd I hand my apron to my manager and walk out.... Yep.

Done.

3 more days was not worth my sanity. And I do not even feel bad. I mean I was not even supposed to work the last week because I had given my notice 2 months ahead of time but they were so short staffed that I agreed to stay longer...

And Done.

People are so weird!

So I am a frequent shopper of Goodwill. I LOVE thrift stores! The one by my house has AMAZING books the people that work there are super cool.

Today I saw something that made me laugh so hard! I promise to get a video I was too "Amazed" to what was I was seeing that I could not think to even pull it out.

Everyday they put out new stuff all day.

Well this lady we will call her "Crazy lady" stands by the door and CHASES the people with the carts putting stuff out to try to get all the "good stuff"

The first time I saw it I thought "Well that's weird"

And then another cart comes out and she chases that guy, and another and she chases them scanning the cart and trying to grab stuff out of it while they are trying to get it to the spot they are putting it.

I have never seen anything like it.

So when I am done I tell the lady at the register what I saw and she starts laughing....

SHE DOES IT EVERYDAY! ALL DAY!! She spends 5-8 hours a day chasing people around the store...

So I will bring you videos! I know you are excited...

Really?

I loved this and had to share...

Sure you were not texting while driving...

So on my day off last week I was walking into CVS (one of my fav places) and I hear this DOZY of an accident, the lady that caused it all I could see in her car SMOKING BLACK SMOKE COMING FROM HER TIRES because she was STILL pushing the accelerator so black smoke and all the cars in front of her are staking up...

I run over to make sure everyone is ok.
And ask her "Was your text that important?"

To which she responds.. "Oh no I was not texting I was just changing the radio station, and then I thought I was pushing the brakes and it was the accelerator"
3 cars all underneath each other because of this idiot. With her real estate sticker on the side of her car.

Sure you were not texting and I did not see that.. My bad!
PS. Everyone was ok.

And I stuck around to fill out the police report and while I was giving my statement about watching her "change the radio station for over 40 seconds while black smoke is spitting from her tires" she comes running over and tries to explain herself to the officer

Who held up his hand total diva styles and told the lady "Back off lady"

So I guess he was pissed too that his day was interrupted by this IDIOT as well....

Oh and 3 cars all stacked under each other.. Not a scratch on her SUV...

Open Letters

Dear guy in front of me at yoga the other night:

You are an asshole. There I said it. I mean if you could not afford the biker shorts to go under your "sports shorts" I WILL BUY THEM FOR YOU!

Its a little distracting trying to focus on postures in the mirror when YOUR BALLS are dangling in my face.

And it was not like carrots its made me gag a few times and I got less out of the class because I was worried about the "harrydanglingballshow"

Get some class.

I mean SOME HOW another gentleman got in front of me at last nights class and he had enough decency to cover those babies up?


Scared for life

Random

Dear Target:

I heart you. I do. You always amaze me at your unbelievable clearance and the fact that today YOU PAID ME TO SHOP! Yep I spent $0.86 cents and made $30.

I love you.

Oh and shout out to whoever decided on the FABULOUS spring fashions.

Love Random

Remember the day I was stabbed?

Remember this post?

Well following is the letter I sent and the bottom is the response that I received. Everything in brackets was not actually sent...

I am writing to advise you of the dining experience we had with your establishment yesterday (February 3^rd, 2010).

Lunch was fabulous, the food was awesome, the server was great (His name was Bob *names changed to protect the stabber) and all round it was a great dining experience.

Until I was stabbed by your server with a knife, he was pre bussing our table and accidentally cut a piece of skin off of my finger with your steak knives.

Now I understand accidents happen, and I accept that this may have been a freak accident however I would assume that if a guest is made to bleed by accident that at least a manager would stop by to make sure everything was ok? When I asked the server for a hand sink to rinse and wash my bleeding finger he lead me to the COKE MACHINE and had me run it under a stream of water from that?

Hardly sanitary I would bet. He even had to ASK ME if I would like a bandage? I mean I am bleeding, pretty bad, as fingers do! Of course I would like a bandage. I also had to request he bring me an alcohol wipe to clean my finger due to the fact that it was washed in a coke machine and there was butter on the knife?

I am appalled at the lack of attention this matter received. I was not offered any medical attention; a manager did not even stop by to make sure everything was ok?

Is this standard practice for an establishment as big as yours? Accepting it was an accident was fine but to just brush this under the carpet as if nothing had happened? It is not ok! Regardless that I was with a group of people is there a reason that this would not be addressed?

What if I was seriously injured? (I was not thank goodness)

Sincerely

Random Musings

The OWNER of the restaurant called me. I felt a little bad because he was also appalled and the fact that it was my first visit to the restaurant and I had such a bad experience.

Well he apologized profusely.

He said he was sending my husband and I something in the mail to "try to make up" for their error.

He also said until he received my letter from corporate that he still had no idea about the incident. He was in the store at the time of the accident and was upset that nothing was said because he would have been the first to stop by.

In hopes of the server not getting too much flack because IT WAS AN ACCIDENT however freaky, they are going to address the issue and use my incident as a training tool about how not to handle accidents. Also it was scary to him that the manager (if the manager was even told which I HOPE was not the case so the server does not get fired based on how angry the owner was) that it was not recorded in any logs or reported to him before the letter.

I could have been a hemophiliac and died a little dramatic I know, or as far as they know I could be HIV positive and washing my finger in the coke machine....

Anywho I am happy at the way it was settled. Even if they chose not to send anything I am glad I received a call and it was heart felt. (that or the owner was a GREAT actor) I still feel a little bad about the bunch of shit the server is going to get into.

But it was his own fault. All he needed to do was say something. Because we all know accidents happen.

Getting a little down in the dumps!

Work has been sucking the life out of me.

The other night I had an 18 top which 3 servers had to take that walked in at 9:30!!! Friggin people!! They did not even get "settled" till 10pm and thats when we close!

It was such a nightmare! Uggg

Well things could be worse I guess... I could be this lady!




These pictures are HILARIOUS I mean there were LOTS of handicapped parking spaces why "if you needed" the space would you park your car ON A FRIGGIN SNOW BANK?

Really?

If I find you I WILL KILL YOU!!

Ok maybe a bit rash.

My debit card has been compromised.

Yep some fucker, some how got my bank card info AND HAS BEEN SHOPPING ONLINE!!!

And the scary thing? They have my address too.

Oh and my bank card? Yep sitting nestled in my wallet!!!!

Yep they got online set up a fake paypal account with my address and bank card information and ORDERED PHOTOGRAPHY EQUIPMENT!


I am one of those crazy people who checks my account about 3 times a day. Maybe in hopes that a million dollars will soon appear? Maybe I am just strange?

Anyways, when I logged in last night my account BALANCE WAS IN RED!! I may have blushed a little because I have NEVER seen that... And then I went in to see what overdrew my account?

Yeah PISSED OFF is not the right way to say the way I was feeling. I called the bank, they said because the transactions were pending they could not do anything I had to call the vendor.

So I call paypal they "freeze" the false account set up in my name and are in the process of sending me information to sigh and send back, and affidavit declaring I did not make this purchase.

And now I have to wait 7-10 days for a new bank card. What a mess!! They said at this time of year they have no idea how these criminals get all this information but its really scary they had a different mailing address then billing address (which was not mine) but paypal will not give me the information....

Ugg SO FRUSTRATING!! Has this happened to anyone else?

You may be a jackass if...

Open letters to the jackasses I have encountered in the last 2 days!

*** warning lots of bad words are going to be used!**


Dear Jackass #1:

You are a loser. The fact that you came out to dinner and left YOUR FU*KING NEEDLE, yes people a FUCKING NEEDLE on the table for the poor unsuspecting bus boy to STAB his finger on when he does not expect a fucking needle to be on the table and it impales into his finger.
Your an asshole.
You have NO CLASS and you should be shot. Really taken out into a field and shot (ok maybe not for real but SERIOUSLY!)
How do you do that? This poor man who has a family and 3 children then needed to be rushed to the hospital for rounds of SHOTS that he will have to have done every 3 weeks for the next 6 months. Not to mention the blood screening because all "diseases" can not be detected for weeks or months to come.
Its really scary.
Your a fucking asshole.

Dear Jackass #2:

Who goes out for dinner and then just announces when the bill comes "We are not paying that" Yep just like that. Ok I get that you are rather scary looking. And you probably get away with this every where you go. But you are a criminal. You ordered the food. You ate the food. You can not just, not pay. Well yes you can. And you did.

You are an asshole. I will not even get into the inner conflict I had that you HAD A FUCKING CHILD WITH YOU, and you refused to pay. I mean I guess you could have just walked out, but instead you made a sport of it. Asked for a manager and then also told them you were not going to pay. Yep. Did we call the police? Nope, because my manager (and I sort of agree) values his life more than your $30 meals. That you ate. And then just did not pay.

Your an asshole. And I pray for your child that they will know right from wrong and never grow up as an example that you have set.


Dear Jackass #3

Your an idiot. You let your child throw a rock through a plate glass window and then do not even come forward to report it. Nope you let the other children turn him in.

I mean really? You WITNESSED him do it. Did you not think that the parents in our building would not rat you out when their children were accused? They do live in our building so the assumption would be that they did it? I mean they are obnoxious and loud but they know right from wrong.

Your a jackass. Get some class.

Sincerely
Random Musings

That's Karma bitches!!

So I had this table come in last night.

They seemed nice enough. I gave them good service (or what I would say is good service.) They were a little rude but I thought nothing of it.

At the end of the meal the lady says to me "I work at sister restaurant so I get a discount"

No problem, I take her pay stub and her id and show a manager. All while grumbling under my breath because "SAID" restaurant employees that we give discounts to OFTEN stiff the servers at our restaurant.

Call it them being jealous (we are better) call it just being a jack ass it happens more often than not. And there is nothing we can do about it....

AND THEY STIFFED ME!!! After receiving a discount on their bill of over $12.

Whatever I was expecting it.

And then after 5 minutes the guy comes running into the restaurant and asks the hostess if someone has turned in a cell phone. I can see this going on and the hostess is pointing at me and THE GUY REFUSES TO COME OVER TO ME!! (cause he knows hes a jackass) I ignore this finish cleaning the table and walk into the back.

I wait a bit.

Then I come back out and with his tail between his legs he is standing at the table asking "Did you happen to find a cell phone?"

"Sure didn't" Without skipping a beat or even looking.

He climbed under the table (because there was no way I was going to)

Nothing.

A new table is sat and the guy leaves.

His phone rings and the new table hands it to me......


The moral of the story is always tip your server.......

It is not ok!!! Version #3

1. To sit in at a table, at a restaurant WHEN THEY ARE ON WAIT for 4 hours. And only leave a 3$ tip. Yep and when I LEAVE TO GO HOME FROM MY SHIFT YOU ARE STILL SITTING THERE!! Y'all are assholes. If you tip accordingly and ARE AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT PLEASANT by all means take your time. You realize you cost me money seeing how no one else could sit there MY WHOLE SHIFT!!!

2. To snap, wave, clear your throat to get my attention. If I see you waving your hands, snapping your fingers, TALKING REALLY LOUD while I am at another table. I will walk away and make your dumb ass wait.

3. Oh and if you shake your empty glass at me while I am across the room because you consider it a sport to DOWN your drink the minute it is placed on the table AFTER HAVING 5. Yes I am ignoring you and I am doing it on purpose. You wonder why other servers are dropping stuff off to my tables? Its because your an idiot and I am MAKING YOU WAIT!

4. It is NEVER acceptable to put gum under your table or to BLOW YOUR FU*KING nose into the LINEN napkin. You are a gross, classless pig.

It is not ok!!! Version #2

1. To BE A BITCH when you go out to dinner. And then to suggest THAT YOUR SERVER MIGHT SPIT IN YOUR FOOD!!! And when your friend agrees that "She should spit in your food" goes to say that you have been a total bitch this entire dinning experience!!

2. To let your kid SCREAM THEIR FACE OFF and just sit and enjoy your dinner like nothing is happening. Nothing at all. Its so loud EVERYONE in the restaurant is asking if the kid is ok and you continue to eat like you can not hear it. Its rude.

3. To MAKE A HUGE mess and then not even attempt to clean it. At all. I mean did you REALLY need to THROW YOUR SHIT ON THE FLOOR? Thats for penuts at some restaurants but certainly not ours. They are CARPETS you losers get some class.

4. To tip less than %10. Really. Really if the service is bad TELL THEM but still it is not ok to leave less than %10. I would NEVER leave less than %20 but the rule is AT LEAST %10. If you can not afford to tip do not go out to dinner.

5. To have an attitude when I ask you for ID. I do not care if you are 90 years old, its against the law in my state to serve you if you physically do not have your id on your person. And its a MISDEMEANOR on my permanent record. I'm not sorry, your NOT WORTH IT TO ME!! And when you cause a BIG stink and YELL at me because I refuse to serve you, and then my manager COMPLETELY backs me up and you leave in a huff.. We all laughed at you. Yes everyone in ear shot laughed at your stupid ass.

End Rant

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I HATE insurance companies!!

**Now before I start this rant I must say I am VERY blessed to actually have insurance (albeit a TERRIBLE company) I still have it**

I get a call last week from my new Dr. She said I have to come into her office to discuss my migraines and something about the insurance company.

Well turn out ASSHAT insurance company DECLINED paying for my prescriptions for my medication for my migraines because they claim its a "Pre-existing condition"

Well dumb asses of coarse its a PRE-EXISTING condition!!! I have also ALWAYS (since I was 14) taken birth control too to CONTROL my headaches but you have NO PROBLEMS paying for that?? (because a baby would cost them LOTS of money)

So the Dr had to fill out 101 forms and stuff so that the insurance will cover my medication.

Its really disheartening to have to deal with this. I am glad my Dr is a trouper and says this happens ALL THE TIME with insurance companies which just really boggles my mind.

Oh and I have a MAJOR sinus infection. So I am barfing my face off, fever, oh yeah a great day! And I am on antibiotics for the next 10 days.

Is it so wrong?

* To job hunt for a new job while still working at a job you will be at for another 2 months?

* To daydream about your new job. Whatever that may be?

* To call all crazy/slow/bad drivers F&*Kers?

* To lie to everyone when they ask "Are you going to the Christmas party?" and tell them all "Well I am not sure if the hubby will be in town" Knowing full well that there is no way I am going.

* Tuning out people as they gloat about "my kids this" and "my kids that" I DON"T CARE.. I know that sounds selfish and bad but serious I do not want to hear for 2 hours a day "the cutest thing" your kid did. Or how well they did on test, at swimming ECT ECT!! ** note to self, need to work on looking less interested to be nice.

* I secretly want to gouge out my eyeballs if one more person asks "Your married, when are you guys having kids" Which my response (in my head anyway) is " I can't have kids so back off f&*kers" But I just smile and say "We have not decided" I am not a big "sharer" of personal information, especially when it comes to colleagues. Also I do not want the "pity party" and the "Oh have you tried" or "What about adoption" I came to terms with this when I was 15. I have no control over the situation. It is what it is. I do not look at it as a negative thing anymore. I am at peace with it. Almost as if it was really my own decision.

* That I blog at work?

Is it just me?

Have you ever noticed when you go grocery shopping as you are finishing up you size up all the lines and choose the one you think will go the fastest?

And then you have actually gotten into the line with the little old lady who questions EVERYTHING on her bill (before leaving) and then pulls out her check book and starts to write a check?

Or the 1 person in front of you "forgot" something and will be RIGHT BACK?

Yeah it never fails. No matter what line I choose its always the slowest.

One less thing to worry about...

About having a job. Or not being able to find a job...

Well because I can do basic math.

Conversation had at lunch today.

I am at the sub shop.

My change due to me is $3.97 the lady at the cash yells out "I need quarters"

Manager says "Well it will take me about 10 minutes to open the safe"

Both look at me blinking eyes.

Me "Umm Ok here is 3 cents."

Stupid lady at the register "What is this for?"

Me "So you can just give me $4 change"

Stupid lady at the register "But I do not have any quarters?"

Me "Right but if I give you 3 cents then you owe me $4"

Stupid lady at register **blink** "But how does that work??"

I have no filter..

So umm yeah. If I do not like you, you would know.

For instance I worked the PT job tonight at the restaurant, and I am not saying I am a super star server or anything but I can certainly hold my own.

Well they hired this new guy. He is old. And he is HORRIBLE! For the last 3 shifts I have worked with him I have been "required" to pick up one of his tables.

Tonight one of his tables sat there for 15 minutes!! When I finally (they were eyeballing me) went over to get their orders and to throw in a little jab "How long have you been waiting?"

10 minutes people!! That is not acceptable, so I approach said server and inquire..

"Are you going to talk to table 37?"

""Umm yeah I am going there right now"

"Well don't worry about it, I already served them their drinks, salads, and their appetizer should be out in a minute"

**blank stare from horrible server*** ***Blink**** Blink****

AND THEN HE HAS THE NERVE TO GET MAD AT ME!!!

Dude serious, if I have had time to

a) Get their drink order
b) Bring their drinks
c) Get their food orders
d) Serve their salads
e) Order their food

So I told him as much and he was PISSED. I have to add that I took get pleasure in watching him squirm (you knew it had to be a guy, too proud to ask for help)

And then he yells out "I AM A BETTER SERVER THAN YOU EVER WILL BE"

Which much giggling ensued on my part, as well as anyone else listening....

I did what any other self respecting adult would do and asked him

"Would you like a tissue? Are you going to be ok?"