Monday, September 22, 2008
mooonnnnddaaayyyy!!!!!
this monday is a monday to top all mondays.i had to call my gas and electric companies and sit on hold forever . . . and call back several times. and call a third party payment thingie several times . . . and cry a few times. bad news? subletters didn't pay their bills ALL SUMMER so our services are threatening to be shut off. other bad news? when i tried to pay the electric company it charged us three times (after telling me that my payments were declined) . . . the payments are pending and the company told me the bank will credit back the extra money . . . so that's good - even though all that money is frozen in our account until they do. good thing we have a little extra right now. other good news? when i called the gas company they said i had a credit of over a hundred dollars because someone made two payments last week. it wasn't me. maybe it was the subletters?
i had to do the same phone tag crap with the OLD internet company on friday. i might just let them take my money cause i am so tired of fighting all of this. i don't even WANT to get in to that story . . .
i also got the pleasure of calling the oregon DMV because the tags on our car are about to expire and we never got our stuff in the mail . . . now i get the pleasure of taking the car in for emissions testing . . . it probably wont all get done and processed until AFTER the tags expire (it takes two weeks for the OR DMV to turn all the paperwork around and then we have to wait for it to come in the mail . . . so we might not be driving for a while - which is fine cause jon and i both have bikes now!).
i also figured out how to register as an absentee voter and we have to fill all that out and fax it in . . .
wow, i've really interacted with THE MAN today. this is not like me. but . . . it does show how UNWILLING i am to become a RI local. i am clinging with all i have to my ties with the pacific northwest . . . keeping my oregon plates, voting absentee. i WILL come back to you oregon! i will!
the funny thing? everyone was so unhelpful on the phone except . . . dun dun dah! the OREGON DMV and DEQ!!! i didn't have to wait on hold AT ALL. and they were pleasant and nice and HELPFUL! they seemed surprised when i thanked them for their help very energetically. it was as if it came very naturally to them. the other NE people i talked to? completely emotionally disconnected and didn't give a crap whether you were happy with the way they interacted with you or not.
wow.
in other news: i thought this was awesome:
say it don't spray it 8:59 AM
0 i heard that
