| Friday, February 09, 2007 |
| One of four reasons I continue to get up every morning |
Coming home to this...
 
What's missing from the pictures is the karaoke microphone she was singing into when I walked in the door. That girl is going to be a star, I tell you :) Go Scooby, go Scooby... |
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| Thursday, February 08, 2007 |
| Brrrrr! |
Still no hot water. I had to sponge bathe with water I boiled on the stove last night. And wash my hair in frigidly cold water.
Still no resolution on the cell phone thing either. Which is really inconvenient when your car decides not to start in the Albertson's parking lot, where you stopped for only 10 minutes on the way to work to pick up a couple things for lunch. This has never happened before. Even though the random-not-starting has been going on for a couple of months, it has only ever happened in my own garage and only after a period of 8 or more hours of non-operation. Further evidence that this problem is worsening and will soon deteriorate completely. Probably at the least fucking convenient time possible.
And it was really, really embarrassing to be standing in the parking lot banging on my engine with a stick. I'm sure the guy who wandered over to see if he could help the "little filly" thought I was a complete idiot. Until it worked and my car actually started.
I did manage to get the payment for registration paid online today - the last day possible before getting hit with late penalties. So, yay for me on that one. But I still have to get it smogged and I cringe to think of the endless possibilities for life to suck even more once I visit the smog shop.
At least everyone seems healthy again. For now. Oh, and Bookem is taking the kids Friday overnight for the first time in the 4+ months that he has been gone. And it's Pokeboy's weekend at his dad's. I'll have a whole evening all to myself. Not a whole weekend, mind you, because he's claiming he has to work Saturday night (yeah, I'll buy that for a dollar). Still, I'm excited and I'm not sure what to do with myself.
Maybe I'll soak in a tub of freezing cold water :\ |
| posted by *******DIANE******* @ 11:27 AM |
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| Wednesday, February 07, 2007 |
| The fun just never ends |
I have no hot water. Since Monday night. And my cell phone is disconnected again.
The hot water situation came to light Monday evening when Queenie and Stanky wanted to take a shower. The water just ran and ran and never heated up. After a short panic, I decided it could just be the pilot light on the water heater. So, I called PG&E and arranged for them to come out Tuesday. Of course, all they had was an all day appointment, so I had to miss work and ended up waiting until 2:30 p.m. for them to show up. And, of course, it was more complicated than just the pilot light. Something needs to be replaced. Not the whole water heater, but still. I shudder to think how long it could be before I get a hot shower in my own damn house. My hair hasn’t been washed since Saturday. Gross.
And the cell phone situation…well that just has me at the edge of my sanity. My cell has been shut off 4 times (4 TIMES) since Bookem moved out in October. See, we share a family plan (the two of us and Pokeboy). It’s the one bill we still share. Of course, share = I pay it and it’s in his name. My phone is the one of the three that is still under contract, so I have considered myself stuck. Anyway, at the end of September, Bookem’s work cell broke and he was forced to use his personal phone, which he normally clocks 30 minutes or less per month on, for business purposes. In addition to sucking up most the 1,000 shared minutes on our plan, he used an additional 1,200 minutes. Yeah. Nearly a $600 bill. Needless to say, it was his companies responsibility to pay the bill.
T-Mobile cut me off at the end of October, before the billing cycle was even over, because they were so freaked out by the overage. That pissed me off totally. They wanted me to pay the bill and the bill wasn’t even out yet. Of course, the company wouldn’t pay until they saw the bill. Grrrrr. I finally spoke to someone with some sense and got myself back on. Once the bill came out, the company mailed a check immediately. Two weeks later, T-Mobile said they still hadn’t received it and cut me off again. We got the B’s company to call in with a check by phone and all was good again. Until that check got returned by the bank! So I was cut off AGAIN. Pissed doesn’t begin to describe my mood at that point. And Bookem was being far from proactive because, frankly, it wasn’t affecting him. Finally, the company called again, and this time paid with a credit card, including an additional $106 to cover fees resulting from all this nonsense. That was mid-December.
So Monday, we’re pulling out of the driveway and Pokeboy tried to use his phone only to find out it was disconnected again. I knew I paid my bill, so I was livid. Turns out, the $106 extra dollars? Was rejected by the company's bank. Talking to T-Mobile is like talking to someone in the psych ward. Their records are completely screwed up. I don’t know what is what, but I am ready to say Fuck T-Mobile and take the $200 early termination hit just to be done with it.
Also, I just realized my car registration is due and I need a smog this time around.
I am just so fed up. I mean, seriously, sick.to.death. of things going wrong. I can’t stand it anymore. What did I do to deserve this shit storm? Maybe there really are karmic repercussions for not forwarding all those chain emails. Maybe I was a mass murderer in a past life.
Will my luck ever change? Will my optimism be able to stand in the face of all this misfortune? Stay tuned. |
| posted by *******DIANE******* @ 8:40 AM |
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