Administrative

      Do you ever have those days where you spend the whole morning on the phone taking care of stupid stuff that needs to be taken care of, and then having nothing to show for it?  I’ve talked to 4 different companies today and pretty much nothing has been resolved.  I called our bank to find out where in their confusing website they’re hiding our 1099-MISC.  This was actually my most successful call because I located the statement, but couldn’t print it out, so it’s just saved on the desktop.  After that, I called Subaru to try to fix a nasty service issue we’re having.  I talked to somebody that told me to leave a voicemail for somebody else.  Which I gladly did!  Because I hate talking on the phone!  The bad thing about leaving a voicemail, though?  You still have to wait for that person to call you back.  Then, I called Washington Gas to try to resolve the fact that we paid our bill to the wrong account number and could I please get our money back?  The guy told me that a check had been cut and that we should have received it- which, of course we haven’t.  I asked if the check had cleared since we didn’t receive one and he put me on hold…He came back and started his sentence with, “I’m afraid I can’t give you any more good news.”  Wait… what?  That seemed like a very dramatic way to tell me that the “system” they use to look up checks is down.  I said that I’d call back tomorrow (because I seem to enjoy this particular brand of torture) and he said that I could try, but that the “system” might not be up, also insinuating that the “system” might never be up, which makes me think that there is no “system” and that he just put me on hold to ask his supervisor what to tell the stupid girl who can’t read account numbers, and the supervisor said, “use the ‘system is down’ line.”  And that wasn’t even the end of it yet because then I had to call our HOA in Colorado to see if I could pay our bill over the phone and was told that I couldn’t.  Why won’t businesses just take my money?  I seriously have this problem all the time.  Like waiting at a counter to pay for something because the employee is too busy talking or folding shit to ring me up.  Take my money!  Aren’t we in a recession?  Don't you need this green stuff?!   Those four calls wasted two hours and one pot of coffee.  Mornings like this make me want to sleep all day. 

      So it's almost 10pm.  I wrote all of this this morning and have been waiting by the phone (the beauty of cell phones) all day for Subaru to call me back.  I just saw that Cox, our cable company, charged us twice this month for internet.  So tomorrow morning will be much like this morning- full of phone calls, caffeine, and misery.   I promise not to write about it though!  I'm sure everyone else out there has days just like this and doesn't need to relive the pain.