A busy yet fun Saturday...

My oldest daughter and I went over to the rental first thing this morning. We brought over 6 loads of garage stuff. The entire house and garage are empty now! Tomorrow is all about cleaning it up so I can get some of my $950 deposit back. It will be so nice to concentrate on only this house for a change.



I was on the Live Chat with Comcast for an hour and a half last night. The only thing that got accomplished is that they are saying I didn't order Internet, and that I haven't asked for my previous service to be disconnected. I printed out my 'request for service' after I submitted it on October 16th, so I know for a fact that I did order Internet, and request that my old service be turned off. After an hour and a half I was still told that I still have to call Comcast to arrange for them to turn off my service and pick up my extra cable box. That is another hour of my life I'll never get back. I am so thoroughly frustrated with them. Never in my life has it taken over 5 hours to get a service transferred. This makes 3 online chats (that were over an hour), 3 phone calls and two emails. And all I have for it is cable. I cannot use my VCR or remote. Usually, the tech will hook up the VCR. (I only have basic cable this time, so it's a different type of setup then I'm used to) Comcast is making me crazy.



I'm just going to keep using the library wireless Internet as it works perfectly fine from my own living room! Yay for free Internet!



The movie was awesome last night. Gerard Butler is a great actor. He makes a very convincing crazy killer. As soon as the movie ended, my daughter said 'great movie, I'd still marry him'. lol



For helping me today, she and I went to Fresno to do a little shopping. I gave her some money to spend against her many protests. I am so grateful she is such a giving, caring person who loves me so much.

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