Wednesday, June 4, 2008

278

ARGH! STRESS!

So, no NS food yesterday. I had a chicken salad on sliced sourdough for lunch. Sparkling apple cider to wash it down and a chocolate chip cookie or three. 

Water heater went kablooey on Sunday and despite my best efforts, I can't get it to reset, which means time to call the landlord and I know he's not going to be a happy camper. Ugh. Last night I boiled water on the stove and washed my hair in the sink, and then boiled more and took a modified shower, so at least I'm clean.

Verizon turned off the kid's cell phone today for 'lack of payment'. This lack of payment is because of a $250 error Verizon made on my account back in February, which they assured me I'd be credited for. Because I refuse to pay the $250 and then WAIT for the credit, I opted to just wait for them to pull the charges (which they've assured me TWICE that they've done, but lo and behold, the charges show up AGAIN this month. So, even though the current due is not due until June 13, they told me the past due is causing the phone to get shut off (with $15 reconnect fee per line, ugh). I paid the current, left the past due ERROR OF VERIZON'S, and called my Verizon guy AGAIN and hope we can get this resolved. I'm not even going to call Verizon corporate, because the last THREE times I did that, the first time they added all kinds of crap I didn't want and took off the text messaging block and data blocks I had on the phones, and I waited 45 minutes to talk to a real person the second time (who promised to process the credit while I was on the phone), and then went to the Verizon office the third time AND still had to talk to someone on the phone, another hour wasted because I was assured up and down that the credit was processed.
The good news? I'm not 279 pounds. I am a bit of control from stress though, so I need to rein that in and deal more appropriately with my Verizon pounds (which I'm blaming 100% on Verizon, well 90% on Verizon, and 10% on the water heater.

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