September 9, 2007
Assorted things gone wrong
I'll just continue complaining about assorted things since various things continue to go wrong.
So this past Thursday I received a letter from Rooms To Go, which I assumed was for our financing of the new furniture that Liz bought. Instead the letter began with something like 'You made a wise decision to purchase Debt Shield...' which is some credit card insurance that will pay off some or all of your debt if you lost a limb or die (I don't think you get anything for less than losing a limb though). The worst part is it costs $.99 for each $100 of your balance each, so for $2100 in furniture they make a little over $20/month just to guarantee if my arm falls off they might pay some of that balance. This is of course something I had not agreed to, so Saturday I took that in with the lampshades (because they arrived with a ton of dents in them) and complained. Apparently it WAS on the credit application (which I didn't receive a copy of) at the bottom in a separate section that I didn't remember much about because I DID NOT sign that section after reading it over. Apparently not signing doesn't mean anything since they still signed me up for it anyways. Now I'll have to call and cancel something I never signed up for anyways.
So Friday after dinner we went to HEB to pick up some groceries so Liz could make a Bundt cake from her Weight Watchers dessert cookbook. The place is already overpriced, but at the checkout the girl asked Liz if she wanted any stamps. Liz told her yes (I need to send out some bills), and we were charged for them, but we never ended up getting any stamps. So much for that!
As for the Bundt cake itself... she attempted to make it on Saturday, but in the end it tasted very strange, like it almost tasted right, but then the aftertaste was like it was missing something, like maybe sugar. It was a bit worse than the chocolate mousse, which had a somewhat sour taste (from the sour cream in it), but at least that was edible after getting use to it.
So that's what went wrong this weekend. What went right was we had a good time Saturday night at Liz's co-workers house, and today we visited Adam and Dusty at Adam's pool. I managed to get a crapload of old junkmail and bills sorted into shred and toss piles. It's amazing how much paper piles up over a couple of months, specially for most of the bills that I pay online anyways.
Oh yes, as a reminder, I heard that if you originally registered your number on the national do not call list back when it started that will be expiring soon. You'll need to re-register your numbers again. Even though it wasn't that long ago, I still re-registered all our numbers just to be sure. http://www.donotcall.gov
Posted by Plocmstart at September 9, 2007 9:47 PM
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