The whole deal with service calls and connecting utilities is kind of silly. They need access to your home and they make an “appointment” to come out and complete the work. The appointment times usually span the entire day which is just silly. When you are moving from one place to another you are seldom hanging out in one place so the 5 hour middle of the day “appointments” are a pain because you can’t leave your new home to tie up loose ends at the old one cause you might miss your technician.

It would just be much easier if they would schedule a smaller appointment window, say between 2pm & 3pm. It would be even better if they would call you on a cell phone or something before they were headed to your home so you could rush back over to meet them..

Last night the dish network technician came to hook up my satellite 1 hour after their 5 hour appointment window they booked us for, at 6pm which also happened to be right in the middle of dinner time. this is irritating because I went through the trouble of making sure someone was home all day (instead of helping move stuff) and they didn’t even come when they were supposed to.

to me that is the equivalent of us going out for a meal during the scheduled appointment time and demanding that they stay put and wait for us to return at our earliest convince…

I am just ranting because I have a headache (didn’t drink enough water during the move) and my feet hurt from standing/ hauling junk so I needed some “sitting down time” and that happens to be how I write my blogs.

Thanks to everyone for your well wishes and positive comments about our move! We are so glad to be in and to have the majority of “hauling crap” done! Now we just have to sort through things and get it all put away. Here is what my house looks like today:

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Last month we paid $55.39 for 40 therms over the course of 2 months, this was November & December. Our new bill is for $208.61!!

Apparently we used 170 therms in 32 days… That’s 5.31 therms per day folks So now we have to pay over 3 times what we paid last month and I don’t know where that money will come from.

How is your gas bill this time of year? Have you ever experienced a major jump in usage like ours? Any ideas about this insane increase in our bill?

So the gas bill makes me sad but this video of the president makes me laugh! http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=148214&title=bush-truly-happy

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