Author: The Jody

Hey, I’m finally able to see the little birdies on my birdie feeder this morning! Of course, my ability to see that is based on the fact that I’m completely iced-in right now. Boy, this is fun. Not.

I’m on cup of coffee number two, have been working (on job stuff) since about 7:30 this morning, and the boy is entertaining himself pretty well. Ya, that’s right, no school today. Boy, THAT is a surprise. You mean they don’t want to send the kids out in big top-heavy busses with no seat belts on the sheets of ice trying to pass as roads? Huh. Well, that’s a good thing!

When the wind blows through the trees they smash and it kind of sounds like hail. I don’t see anything broken out there, which is good.

No, really. My sister’s gift to us was a trip up to North Conway NH to take the Polar Express train ride to the North Pole to see Santa! It was an unbelievable trip, and I think we are very very lucky they included us. Junior had the BEST time, and cried his head off when we had to part at the end of the weekend.

Me, I’m ticked at the snow. Yea, more snow. Yea. Once again, we were supposed to go buy our Christmas tree and a storm screwed up the plans. At this rate, we’ll be setting it up and taking it down on the same day. I’m not happy. But what are you going to do? I mean, I can’t make it stop snowing.

I’m not happy that we’re going to get another 14 or so inches of snow. 3-4 would be okay, really. But 14? No. Just no.

Geez, I knew we shoulda bought a fake tree.

U.S. 1, Saddam 0

I guess nobody uses the permalinks because the code has been broken for about 2 weeks now. It’s fixed, just for the record. (Next time, TELL me when something is broken, ‘kay?)

Oh, and a biggie – Santa Dump, without even reading the entry where I was all grumpy about Christmas, did the very thing I said I wished someone would do – get me a gift that I really want without me asking for it, to surprise me. Man, I got surprised but good. And the only reason I know about it is because he got nervous that come payday, I was going to buy the thing for myself. Which I was.

– Signed, T-Mobile’s newest customer

I decided to give AT&T Wireless another chance today. I want to upgrade my plan, my phone, and add a second phone to share my minutes. I’ve been with them for quite a few years, and upgrading my phone in the past has always been cake. I mean, just painless. Not now. I tried to make this happen two weeks ago and the phone never arrived and I had to call them to have them tell me “oh, ya, we can’t ship it to an address that isn’t your home address or the place of business of the person whose name is on the account.” Bastiges. This was supposed to be a quick and painless thing. I want all this stuff, and I don’t want to have to outlay any cash. Put it on my bill, people. What is so hard about my request?

So I tried to give them another chance today. While on hold I heard the following: “Our goal is to accommodate you.” and “Just ask us and we’ll make it happen.” Great, that’s what I want to hear!

So I got an awesome customer service rep (Jennifer) but she couldn’t help me exactly. I mean, she could make it happen, but not with the phone I wanted, or the service I wanted or the rebates I wanted. To get the rebate I’d have to open this as “new” service, and then there’s that pesky early cancellation fee on my old contract. So now I’m looking to maybe switching to Verizon wireless, because then I could just have my phone, DSL and wireless all on the same bill. Dude, I am SO going to go with T-Mobile. I just have to wait for payday to get the service of my dreams.

So kids, anyone out here in the Leominster area have VerizonT-Mobile? Thoughts?