I just made a fresh cup of coffee and here I am - on Coffee Talking for the first time today. Only 12 hours late.
Been on the go since about 5:am. Another day of AL hell.
This state sure makes things difficult for you to move to and get anything done.
I just shake my head and smile or laugh now when they have issues with EVERYTHING. Today our 'morning' goals were simply to get 2 vehicles' tags and titles done and get our daughter her road test for her license.
A good indication of how it went is just one of the many 'comedy of errors' we ran into; Tags and titles here are done at the county Probate Office. So I give her our proof of address and she questions if that is really our home address? Yes. Am I sure it's 123? Yes.
Interesting that the county REVENUE DATABASE does NOT have our address in it. They do not show a home there. They show 124 but not 123. She and a coworker looked, and decided to use the neighbors house "124" to verify MY residence since our house doesn't exist in the county database. Interesting when the house was built in 2007/2008 and we are the 3rd owners.
And we drove 50 extra miles trying to get the daughter's license paperwork done because that AL driver's permit she got transferred last month to 'make it easier' to get her license paperwork done now? Not so much. That old permit they hole punched and gave back to her as a joke to "frame on your wall" instead of throwing in the trash? NEEDED IT. The AL permit dates made it look like she JUST got her permit last month and you have to have it at least 6 months before you can get a license. So another 50 mile round trip back to grab her old one (which she saved... thankfully) and made it back JUST in time before the lady went to lunch. But guess what? The other person who hole punched her old permit PUNCHED THE DATE. So it was useless.
AND THAT IS JUST TWO OF 50 THINGS THAT WENT WRONG TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My husband didn't get his registration. My daughter didn't get her license. I DID get my trucks tags today - on January 31st but guess what? They are due for renewal... TOMORROW! Bah ha ha ha ha.
True Story.
It's all renewed by alphabet here and tomorrow is my name's renewal month. I could either drive back again tomorrow (remember, it's a 50 mile trip) OR I could go ahead and get it transferred today and then I could do a renewal online (after I call in to get my PIN number from them, which have been mailed out to everyone already so I didn't get one).
I said: "Do what you have to do today. Let's get this done. I'll renew online later."
So in 5 hours we accomplished 1 of 3 goals.
That's pretty much my life down here.
One sobbing, red, burning eyes, snotty nose, collapse in a heap good cry later I washed my face, put my make up back on and went on with the rest of the day (which included updating our address and letting the school know we are no longer in their district - and what do I have to do to try to fight for my daughter to stay in this district at least until the end of the year?) But I'm waging that fight tomorrow. I was too busy today.
Prom dress shopping from 3:30 - 6:pm.
Scanned documents for emailing to my Dad re; bill of sale and vehicle transferring for the grand daughter.
Whipping up dinner in a hurry.
In the middle of all: Brother had surgery. Cutting off and reattaching all muscles and major nerve from shoulder to hand. Bad news. Aspirated during. Got lungs cleared about 3 hours later. Now in hospital longer watching for pneumonia.
Now... where is my coffee?
1.31.2012
1.30.2012
Monday Morning Coffee Time!
You guys have been with me through this entire relocation and all the bad luck since moving here... and I just have to laugh when I tell you why I'm late to the kitchen table this morning.
Another service call.
After we had Directv installed, the second their post went into the ground (right next to the corner of the garage where ALL the lines come into the house) the phone got static and internet started to go out at will. Sometimes for 10 seconds, one time for 2 1/2 hours.
Long story short, I demanded Directv come out and check if they installed the post on top of the phone line - which would directly affect the phone and the DSL.
He showed up today. Nice guy - I really liked him.
He said contrary to what Directv told me on the phone... they do not have the gadgets that they hold over the ground to see where lines are. And yes, he thinks the line was probably knicked. But the first step was checking the filters on the phone lines inside the house.
That would be the filters the installation guy NEVER installed. :)
So then he finds 1 phone jack is broke and lose.
The second line upstairs was installed backwards.
The third Directv receiver didn't even have a phone line running to it like it was supposed to.
He said the phone company is going to have to come out and run a line from the street to our home (about 1/2 acre) and we'll have to pay for it. Then we'll have to submit a claim to Directv to be reimbursed.
Ahhh. Joy. My truck. The heat. The refrigerator. Let's add it to the list. LOL.
Bring on more coffee!
Another service call.
After we had Directv installed, the second their post went into the ground (right next to the corner of the garage where ALL the lines come into the house) the phone got static and internet started to go out at will. Sometimes for 10 seconds, one time for 2 1/2 hours.
Long story short, I demanded Directv come out and check if they installed the post on top of the phone line - which would directly affect the phone and the DSL.
He showed up today. Nice guy - I really liked him.
He said contrary to what Directv told me on the phone... they do not have the gadgets that they hold over the ground to see where lines are. And yes, he thinks the line was probably knicked. But the first step was checking the filters on the phone lines inside the house.
That would be the filters the installation guy NEVER installed. :)
So then he finds 1 phone jack is broke and lose.
The second line upstairs was installed backwards.
The third Directv receiver didn't even have a phone line running to it like it was supposed to.
- This means the phones were incorrectly installed when the house was built.
- The Directv guy installed the Directv wrong.
- The line is most likely knicked when they dug the hole for the post.
He said the phone company is going to have to come out and run a line from the street to our home (about 1/2 acre) and we'll have to pay for it. Then we'll have to submit a claim to Directv to be reimbursed.
Ahhh. Joy. My truck. The heat. The refrigerator. Let's add it to the list. LOL.
Bring on more coffee!
Don't buy a dress through Tidebuy.com - Not a good Experience
I'm going to do a 'normal' Coffee Talking post but I want to post this too as I believe in spreading the word when a company is completely unreasonable and has shoddy marketing practices.
This week my 16 year old daughter and I have been online looking for prom dresses. It reminded me to ask my older daughter (in college) how she ever came out with trying to get her money refunded on a dress she ordered online from a site called Tidebuy.com.
She found a dress she wanted to wear for a very special New Year's Eve date. She is a college student with very little money but she spent the $75 on the dress from Tidebuy.com (plus shipping) and was SO excited. She waited for it patiently as she was flying to our home 1000 miles away from school for Christmas, and then would be flying directly to Washington state to see her long distance boyfriend and celebrate New Year's. The day before she flew here the package came. She was so excited!
Until she put it on. The dress was beautiful until a human put it on. The roushing was pretty, but they had ripped the fabric and there was a spot where it hung down and was not sewed in the seam. That was fixable with a little thread and needle but the top. Oh my.
The top of the dress was CUT POORLY. Someone cut the top completely crooked so that a good 4 -5 inches were missing from the side of the bust. One side was fine, the other cut off so short that half of a boob hung out. Since I sew, she asked if I could fix it. We debated many different ways and even thought about buying a lace half top to wear over it, but nothing worked.
Their site promises returns and disputes if you contact them within 7 days and take pictures to prove your case.
They LIE. It ends up they are out of China and make the 'copy cat' dresses you see on the site. I'm sure they normally do a good job, but on orders like this where the product is so badly made it's unwearable, they DO NOT STAND BEHIND THEIR PRODUCT nor their website promise.
Actually, they hide behind their sudden 'lack of understanding English' and answered emails with "we are sorry you do not like your dress." They answered every one of her emails this way until she finally gave up (which I'm sure is what they plan on people doing.)
It's ripped, it's cut wrong. It's missing an entire piece of fabric. But they wouldn't return her money even though she would pay the shipping to send the dress back to them to see for themselves.
In the end it was almost $100 wasted for a dress that is unwearable. We spent two days in a rush, shopping to find her a new dress the week of Christmas.
Feel free to order if you wish, but be WARNED. Tidebuy.com is a website we will NEVER buy from again.
And - although I almost never, ever do this - as a Mom who saw her daughter taken advantage of and money pretty much 'stolen' from her, I decided the least I could do is warn others about prom dresses and homecoming dresses and wedding dresses from that site. You may not get what you were promised... and the dress might be so badly made it's unwearable.
This week my 16 year old daughter and I have been online looking for prom dresses. It reminded me to ask my older daughter (in college) how she ever came out with trying to get her money refunded on a dress she ordered online from a site called Tidebuy.com.
She found a dress she wanted to wear for a very special New Year's Eve date. She is a college student with very little money but she spent the $75 on the dress from Tidebuy.com (plus shipping) and was SO excited. She waited for it patiently as she was flying to our home 1000 miles away from school for Christmas, and then would be flying directly to Washington state to see her long distance boyfriend and celebrate New Year's. The day before she flew here the package came. She was so excited!
Until she put it on. The dress was beautiful until a human put it on. The roushing was pretty, but they had ripped the fabric and there was a spot where it hung down and was not sewed in the seam. That was fixable with a little thread and needle but the top. Oh my.
The top of the dress was CUT POORLY. Someone cut the top completely crooked so that a good 4 -5 inches were missing from the side of the bust. One side was fine, the other cut off so short that half of a boob hung out. Since I sew, she asked if I could fix it. We debated many different ways and even thought about buying a lace half top to wear over it, but nothing worked.
Their site promises returns and disputes if you contact them within 7 days and take pictures to prove your case.
They LIE. It ends up they are out of China and make the 'copy cat' dresses you see on the site. I'm sure they normally do a good job, but on orders like this where the product is so badly made it's unwearable, they DO NOT STAND BEHIND THEIR PRODUCT nor their website promise.
Actually, they hide behind their sudden 'lack of understanding English' and answered emails with "we are sorry you do not like your dress." They answered every one of her emails this way until she finally gave up (which I'm sure is what they plan on people doing.)
It's ripped, it's cut wrong. It's missing an entire piece of fabric. But they wouldn't return her money even though she would pay the shipping to send the dress back to them to see for themselves.
In the end it was almost $100 wasted for a dress that is unwearable. We spent two days in a rush, shopping to find her a new dress the week of Christmas.
Feel free to order if you wish, but be WARNED. Tidebuy.com is a website we will NEVER buy from again.
And - although I almost never, ever do this - as a Mom who saw her daughter taken advantage of and money pretty much 'stolen' from her, I decided the least I could do is warn others about prom dresses and homecoming dresses and wedding dresses from that site. You may not get what you were promised... and the dress might be so badly made it's unwearable.
1.29.2012
Just Tired... Wish I Could See More for The Hours of Work
Standing at the base of the hill with my hands on my hips, I realized that yes, I was tired. And... the longer I stood there the worse it got. I could feel my legs turning to lead.
I called it 'done' for the day. But oh... how thick those briars are in some places. Like small trees. No one has done much yard work down there since about 2008. Oh my.
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