Maybe it will make more sense to you.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Goodbyes
Caly is heading off to camp this morning. I'll be leaving here in an hour to take her. Meanwhile Zaven is already gone for the summer and Zoe is spending the week at Grandma's house so that she can visit her cousin and go to VBS. That just leaves me and Scott and Quinn. This is sort of a dry run for the fall. Zoe will be in all day kindergarten, and Quinn will be home with me. I both look forward to it and dread it. It will be nice to have some time to connect with him when no one else is around, but the mornings will be rough. I am not a morning person.
I can't help but think that this is also what our family will start to look like on a full time basis. Five years from now, Zaven and Caly will both be in college. Five years is a long time... isn't it?
I can't help but think that this is also what our family will start to look like on a full time basis. Five years from now, Zaven and Caly will both be in college. Five years is a long time... isn't it?
Sunday, July 12, 2009
New colors
I've been messing with the colors again. Did I fix the comments button, Tara? It's hard to tell when I'm editing the html, but it should be more visible. Now all I have to do is update the pics. Although I rather like seeing the old ones because it's nice to see how the kids used to look. They're changing so fast. Sigh.
OK. Bedtime. Or maybe the late, late movie.
OK. Bedtime. Or maybe the late, late movie.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Staples back to school sale
2 packages of Photo Plus Paper (60 sheets of 4x6 paper) at $9.99 each
2 8-packs of pencils $0.01 each
2 packages of Copy Paper (500 sheet ream) at $3.69 each
2 packages of Bic Velocity Fashion Pens at $1 each
Use the $5/20 coupon on the front of the ad
Use 2 $1/1 Bic pen coupons at coupons.com
Spend $22.38 plus tax out of pocket
Get $25.32 back in rebates **
$2.98 moneymaker after rebate!
Now you can also TRY to get wal-mart to match the sale. Some will and some won't. They'll match the pencils for $1 and the Bic pens for $1, but they probably won't match the rebate or $5 of $25 coupon from the front cover. I say probably because on computer stuff wal-mart is supposed to match the sale AFTER all the discounts and rebates. This isn't a computer, but it's worth a shot.
**I did the math wrong a minute ago. I thought the photo paper was $0.01 after rebate, but it's a buck after rebate. I've updated my post to reflect that. For the rest of the flyer, go here and click on sneak peek, then enter your zip.
2 8-packs of pencils $0.01 each
2 packages of Copy Paper (500 sheet ream) at $3.69 each
2 packages of Bic Velocity Fashion Pens at $1 each
Use the $5/20 coupon on the front of the ad
Use 2 $1/1 Bic pen coupons at coupons.com
Spend $22.38 plus tax out of pocket
Get $25.32 back in rebates **
$2.98 moneymaker after rebate!
Now you can also TRY to get wal-mart to match the sale. Some will and some won't. They'll match the pencils for $1 and the Bic pens for $1, but they probably won't match the rebate or $5 of $25 coupon from the front cover. I say probably because on computer stuff wal-mart is supposed to match the sale AFTER all the discounts and rebates. This isn't a computer, but it's worth a shot.
**I did the math wrong a minute ago. I thought the photo paper was $0.01 after rebate, but it's a buck after rebate. I've updated my post to reflect that. For the rest of the flyer, go here and click on sneak peek, then enter your zip.
The phone company
I made this post just over a year ago about dealing with some customer service issues I was having at the time. I was fighting with my bank and my insurance company about a missing payment. That problem was never resolved.
I was also arguing with the phone company. A year (and several dozen phone calls) later, I may have just won the argument. The service technician that I've been asking for since February of 2008 has finally actually made it out to the building and discovered that Holy Cow! The phone service was never hooked up! Actually, I'm fairly certain that this is not the same installer or repairman who didn't come in Feb of '08. They've probably hired and fired a half dozen different guys since then. It's been 17 months after all. And the guy who came wasn't even the business-lines installer or repairman or whoever. He's supposed to do the residential service. He was actually covering for someone else.
But the exciting (excruciating?) part is that this guy told us that not only was our service never properly hooked up to the box on the outside of our building, the line coming in from the pole isn't even active. The box that splits our line from the main bus is defective.
What does this mean? And why do I care? Well, it means that in theory I can get a copy of his official report and have proof that we were never provided with phone service. And I care because I had refused to pay for my non-existant service and now I have this black mark on my credit saying I don't pay my bills. I didn't pay the bill. But I didn't pay because they didn't do the work. I'm not in the habit of donating money to large corporations just for the hell of it. I actually want something for my money.
I know you guys don't care about this. I'm trying to make myself stop. But honestly, this was the most frustrating process. I tried for months to get phone service and they kept telling me it was on already. On but not actually connected via a wire, apparently. And I gave up trying to get the service for almost a year. We needed it because Scott was trying to start a business, but then he was offered a teaching job. When the teaching job ended, he wanted to start his business back up again and needed the phone. So I started calling them back up and trying to get service. They are the only company that provides new service in our area, so I had to go through them. And this time around it was even more frustrating. I couldn't get new service until I'd paid for the old (never functional) service. I couldn't get a service call for the old service because it had been cut off for non-payment. I basically couldn't do anything unless I coughed up $300 for services which were never rendered. Finally, I asked someone to look up the record of their last service call. If they could show me where their own tech ever said it was functional I would just pay the $300. I waited on hold for 3 hours while she looked. She kept coming back and saying that she could just call me back. I said that I'd fallen for that line before and was not hanging up. So she finally found the old service record which said that someone had come out (but didn't say it was functional) and was of course followed by a phone call the very next day from us saying that it still wasn't working. And she couldn't find any record of anyone ever coming back out to fix it despite the dozens of calls we made requesting repair. So she set up the new line for me. I had to make a $100 deposit but that's supposed to be applied to the new service, not go towards the old line that never got hooked up. We'll see.
Anyhow, I may yet have a phone line down at Scott's office. Maybe. I think.
I was also arguing with the phone company. A year (and several dozen phone calls) later, I may have just won the argument. The service technician that I've been asking for since February of 2008 has finally actually made it out to the building and discovered that Holy Cow! The phone service was never hooked up! Actually, I'm fairly certain that this is not the same installer or repairman who didn't come in Feb of '08. They've probably hired and fired a half dozen different guys since then. It's been 17 months after all. And the guy who came wasn't even the business-lines installer or repairman or whoever. He's supposed to do the residential service. He was actually covering for someone else.
But the exciting (excruciating?) part is that this guy told us that not only was our service never properly hooked up to the box on the outside of our building, the line coming in from the pole isn't even active. The box that splits our line from the main bus is defective.
What does this mean? And why do I care? Well, it means that in theory I can get a copy of his official report and have proof that we were never provided with phone service. And I care because I had refused to pay for my non-existant service and now I have this black mark on my credit saying I don't pay my bills. I didn't pay the bill. But I didn't pay because they didn't do the work. I'm not in the habit of donating money to large corporations just for the hell of it. I actually want something for my money.
I know you guys don't care about this. I'm trying to make myself stop. But honestly, this was the most frustrating process. I tried for months to get phone service and they kept telling me it was on already. On but not actually connected via a wire, apparently. And I gave up trying to get the service for almost a year. We needed it because Scott was trying to start a business, but then he was offered a teaching job. When the teaching job ended, he wanted to start his business back up again and needed the phone. So I started calling them back up and trying to get service. They are the only company that provides new service in our area, so I had to go through them. And this time around it was even more frustrating. I couldn't get new service until I'd paid for the old (never functional) service. I couldn't get a service call for the old service because it had been cut off for non-payment. I basically couldn't do anything unless I coughed up $300 for services which were never rendered. Finally, I asked someone to look up the record of their last service call. If they could show me where their own tech ever said it was functional I would just pay the $300. I waited on hold for 3 hours while she looked. She kept coming back and saying that she could just call me back. I said that I'd fallen for that line before and was not hanging up. So she finally found the old service record which said that someone had come out (but didn't say it was functional) and was of course followed by a phone call the very next day from us saying that it still wasn't working. And she couldn't find any record of anyone ever coming back out to fix it despite the dozens of calls we made requesting repair. So she set up the new line for me. I had to make a $100 deposit but that's supposed to be applied to the new service, not go towards the old line that never got hooked up. We'll see.
Anyhow, I may yet have a phone line down at Scott's office. Maybe. I think.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Today sucks.
Technically, I think I'm talking about yesterday. I don't know. I'm tired and can't make my brain turn it all off. Stupid little things are getting to me. I don't know why. Maybe it's the lack of sleep. It's stuff like how Quinn sleeps only when I'm awake, but the second I lay down he wakes up. Or the fact that Zoe wants to be ON me whenever I lay down. Not snuggled up beside me so tight that she almost pushes me out of bed. That's a typical night. I was referring to the atypical sleeping literally on top of my chest or side or legs or head. So maybe I'm actually annoyed because people are actually quite annoying today. Yesterday. Shit, I can't think. I'm going to go to bed and see how long until someone lays on top of my head and smothers me. Hopefully by the time I wake up it will actually feel like tomorrow (today?) and I'll start fresh.
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