The move is over and we are now officially in. The new house is wonderful and clean and I actually got to sleep in an extra 45 minutes this morning and still made it to work on time.
But moving sucks snot!!! I have become a stair master after having to walk up and down our one flight of stairs over 60 times a day for the past 5 days. My butt and thighs should be lean mean fighting machines by now, but unfortunately the fast food meals three times a day for a week have managed to counteract any benefits gained. Of course, that much fast food has a way of really messing with your body and I’m sure it’ll take at least a month to work itself all out again! Then tack on the extra stressed cause by the thankless utility services who have managed to screw up the most basic service functions. We still have no phone, and will not have a phone for at least another week, thanks to an incompetent Bellsouth agent who must of neglect to KEY IN OUR ORDER, as their only excuse to us was the fact that they LOST our request. Could they get us in within a seven day time frame? NOOOOO. It takes over 14 days for bell south to unscrew a blunder on their part. Like we truly have a choice anyway. Then there is the satellite company, whom up until now as been heavenly to us. But this go around the first day no one showed, when we called they were apologetic saying their technicians had fallen behind and we had to go, ya know, move things, so we rescheduled. Second go around, they send out an incompetent buffoon who basically tells me our setup is too complex for him. WHAT??? Climb that monkey ass up that high ass ladder and give my damn TV reception! Then the moron tries to tell his boss that I was asking for a reschedule because I wasn’t comfortable. My ASS!!!! I was willing to give this guy a little break until he tried to hide it all under the rug. I pretty much let into he dispatcher and then on up the chain till we got a reschedule within 1 day AND a $60 credit to our bill. Add on to this the fact that the electrician managed to gouge a hole in our sewer pipe when laying the wires that somehow nobody managed to catch until yours truly ran the washer for the first time and flooded out the brand new kitchen. Thankfully the builders know a thing or two about service and had a plumber out early on a Sunday morning and managed to have the issue resolved (which included picking up a back hoe) by noon that same day.
BUT the new house is BIG! And as Sarahspace says “It’s a grown up house”, though DH and I have decided big just means bigger parties… no grown ups allowed!
Ever live in Indy ?
Posted by: RGL | April 19, 2005 at 12:01 PM