I Hate Comcast!

Ok, this is a venting post.....

Can I just tell you how much I HATE Comcast?!

So, hubs & I have digital cable. Have had it for about 3 years now. Sporadically works. In fact, for the past 3 weeks, it's not really been working at all. Can't access TV guide or On Demand features (you know, where they claim to have hundreds of free movies?!). Yeah. So, I call on a Sunday to voice my complaint. I get told to "wait it out" and that the area is out. I'm not too pleased to be told to "wait it out", but since the person on the other end was less than helpful, I took that and hung up. Called again a week later. I was told again that the whole area was out & that if I just called when it came back on they'd re-imburse me for any lost services. They had no idea why it was out or when it'd be back on. Lovely! :) So, we call again this Saturday because it's still out & at this point, we're tired of "waiting it out". So, she sends "a signal" to our box. These "signals" never work. They stink! She wants us to unplug the tv for 30 seconds....can we do that? We sure can, but we're not going to because we've tried that 300,000,000 times already. Oh, ok, well it must be a problem with your digital box then. We'll send someone over to replace it.....how's Monday between 9-12:30? Lovely! :) And no, there was no outage in your area, I'm not sure what the other operator was talking about. Your area has been working fine. And no, I'm not sure if we can re-imburse you because there is no record of you calling. So I doubt you'll be reimbursed. LOVELY! (grrrrr!)
So, Monday, 9:30 on the dot (surprisingly!) the guy comes out to my house. He dinks around for, oh over 2 HOURS! Changes all sorts of cables & end clamps and splitters and blah blah claiming those are the problem. But when we go back upstairs.......Shocker, it STILL doesn't work! I'm so surprised. (Not). So, then he gives me a new box. Voila! Magically all of the menus and options I've paid for for the past 3 weeks come back and work properly. Hmm.......that outage in the area must have magically been fixed at the exact same moment that he plugged in the new box. Man am I glad that I "waited it out" for 3 weeks. Comcast, I'd like to thank you for providing me with incredibly sucky service for the past three years. I would also like to thank you for monopolizing the cable industry here so that, even though you have terrible customer service & outrageous prices, I have no other cable option other than to stick with your awful company. If there was a better option out there, I'd switch in a heartbeat!

BTW, have I mentioned that I HATE Comcast?

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

On today's docket..........the lovely re-imbursement phone call that I will be making to get my money back for the past 3 weeks of lousy service. Yippee. I'll bet anyone $300,000,000 that they will be "experiencing higher than normal call volume & longer than normal wait time". Yippee!

Flooring DONE! :)

I will admit when I'm wrong. So..........yes, the flooring was harder than I imagined it would be. BUT it is done now & I will also admit that it looks AMAZING! :) I'm so proud of myself! :) My mom & I picked out flooring from Lowes last week. I started putting it down on Tuesday by myself. That was a huge mistake! At one point I had a big, gluey wad of vinyl flooring in a mound and was ready to cry. But, I sucked it up & fixed it & not it looks amazing. I'm so happy with how it turned out. I had the entire upstairs floor done and when my mom came on Friday, we spent the time together finishing the stairwell & landings. It didn't look like it would take us long, but it did! We cut new stair edge mouldings and boy does it look nice. I'm so proud of us! :) I'm going to post some pics here, but I didn't take a "before" stairs pic. I'm so bummed!

The plan was to move our furniture to the new room, but since we weren't able to get the windows put in like wanted to last weekend, we have to wait a bit longer. Nick's thinking this Sunday, when we get back from our trip, he might be able to get them put in. I hope so so badly! :) I really want to set the crib up! :)

So, as of right now, the upstairs is in a bit of disarray, but hopefully not for much longer! :)

Here are the before pics:

Before:








AFTER!!!:) :

I might be insane.......

Yeah, so this might be crazy but Nick & I just bought a crib & changing table!!!

I don't know why I'm so set on having this room done so early. I'm not even pregnant yet! I just really want to have it all ready!

So here's what we have for the room:
- white bookcases
- white night stand
- white crib
- white changing table
- white dresser that we painted
- walls are dark green with white trim

Here's what the crib looks like:

The changing table matches the crib, too. It's very cute.

Here's what else we plan to do:
- white rocker of some sort
- small rug / carpet
- wallpaper border (possibly)
- sheet set for crib & changing table
We're thinking of a jungle theme because the room is green & white. Get maybe a jungle print carpet (or maybe I can make one???) and matching sheet sets.

We also want to get one of these wall quotes seen here at this ebay store:
Option #1
Option #2
Option #3
Option #4
Let's take a poll...........which one would you choose? I'm partial to #4 & #1 personally.
So exciting! :)

Now, seriously, I might be insane to be setting up this stuff. I just figure I want to be prepared ahead of time and that it's better to kind of space-out these purchases than to get it all at once! :)

Painting DONE!

So, my mom came over Monday and helped me finish some odd painting jobs around the house. We got everything done, believe it or not! :) We even had time for a lunch together and a trip to Lowes to pick out some flooring for my upstairs bedroom. The flooring is our project for Friday. Never tried to put that stuff down before. We'll see how it goes! :)

Weekend Update

I had a fun weekend.
4th of July we had Jake & went up to my parents' house for a BBQ. It was fun and lots of yummy food. We played with the nephews, talked with Gma, Jackie, sisters, brothers-in-law, and my parents. It was a beautiful day & I enjoyed myself. Mary gave me a big tub of her old maternity clothes & some good books on babies. Can't wait to read them & wear the clothes! :)

Saturday we cleaned the whole house, it's spotless right now! :) We went to Gibraltor Trade Center which was pretty terrible......it gets more white-trashy every time we go, I swear. This time some people had gotten into some kind of fight & the security (an older, white guy with a belly & an american flag shirt on) had to come "take care of the situation". I felt so safe. (NOT!) After Gibraltor, we came home & relaxed for a bit. Then our friends Cheryle & Craig came over to watch a UFC fight. Craig & Nick watched the fight while Cheryle & I scrapbooked. I got a lot done. I worked on Jake's album. It's cute so far! :)

Sunday we woke up too late to go to church. I hate rushing to get ready, so if I don't have enough time to get ready at my own pace, I don't like to get ready. We hung around the house. Nick mowed lawn while I made a huge lunch of pancakes (some chocolate chip and some blueberry & strawberry! YUM!) with bacon and scrambled eggs. DEEEEELISH! Not the most healthy, but I don't do that all the time! :) Then Nick took Jake to his mom's and we went for a motorcycle ride with Nick's friends Barb & Al. We went all the way up to Harbor Beach. It was a long ride, but a really nice one. On the way home, we stopped and ate at the Dorsey House. Nick & I have been wanting to try it since neither of us had ever been there. It was pretty good. I'd go again! :)

What a fun weekend. The weather was warm & sunny. Felt like summer had finally arrived!!!

Happy 4th of July! :)

Today we went to a BBQ at my parents' house. It was a lot of fun. We tried to get there in time for the annual Port Sanilac parade (you can only imagine how huge it must be, right?!) but we were a bit late & the roads were blocked off with no way for us to get to town. Bummer! So, we just went to my parents' house & relaxed until everyone else got there. It was a delicious day.........hot dogs, burgers, kielbasa (sp?), tuna salad, fruit salad, veggies, chips, desserts, YUMM-O! :)

I always enjoy going to my parents' house for these types of get-togethers. When all of my sisters, our husbands, and our children can come together and relax. I love how close our family is and how much we try to get together. It can get hectic, especially around nap-time when everyone (including the parents) gets cranky and impatient, but it's still a memory to keep close to my heart forever. :)

After the BBQ we went on our friend Jeff's boat to watch the fireworks in St. Clair. I've never taken a boat that far on the St. Clair river, so it was a lot of fun. Except that it was at night time which is kind of scary, I think. But, other than that, it was great fun. We got a great spot on the water, right in front of the barge that had the fireworks on it, so it was almost like the fireworks were right over top of us, it was incredible. The best firework show I've ever witnessed! :) The best part was that Jake was able to come with us. He played with their daughter, Hailey, a ton and they had a great time. The cutest part was when we were going really fast on the river & Jake huddled up next to me. He didn't want to admit that he was scared, but I'm pretty sure he was a bit nervous. (In fact, I was, too!)

Happy 4th of July everyone! :)

Projects & Stuff

So I've begun my projects for the summer. Here's what I've accomplished so far:
- Painted the bathroom (new coat of white KILZ to kill any mildew possibly growing),
- Re-Caulked the tub after ripping out old caulking & bleaching the heck out of the tub.
- Started painting stairwell to the upstairs.
- Measured floor upstairs to prepare for new vinyl flooring.

What I still need to do:
- Paint bathroom door
- Finish stairwell painting
- Purchase & install flooring upstairs

Nick thinks the flooring will be too difficult for me, but I want to give it a go. My theory is if MM can do it (and shittily at that), I can do it. I can at least do it as well as he did. It can't be that damn hard.

After we install the flooring, we are moving our furniture upstairs and turning our room into a prospective nursery.

And, in case you read a previous post of mine & was wondering what the heck was going on with the whole nursery thing, here it is.....

We have white bookshelves and tables from Nick's mom to put in there which will be cute because the room is an dark green with white trim. Then we'll just need to purchase a changing table, crib, and rocker of some sort. I plan to take the dresser from the upstairs & put it in Jake's room, taking his white dresser & putting it in the nursery. We'd also get a little rug for the nursery, too. It's kind of exciting.

Although I'm not pregnant or anything, I've always been a "plan ahead" type of girl. Nick & I are hoping to be pregnant by the end of the summer, which would work out perfectly with my job. I know it's completely out of my control if / when I will get pregnant, but I'd like to think that I won't have any problems. We'll see! :)

I've been reading lots of books on pregnancy and conception and they mainly just freak me out and make me think that this thing is darn near impossible to happen. It's crazy to think to actually WANT to be pregnant. For so long you try everything under your power to NOT be pregnant and then when you actually want to be, you find out that it's actually quite a difficult thing to do. It's a strange feeling.

I like thinking about being pregnant and hope I am a cute pregnant girl. I don't want to be some bohemith that looks like I'm just SUPER overweight & not pregnant at all. Again, I guess we'll just wait and see. And I still feel completely incompetent about the whole pregnancy thing. Yeah, I've read some books, but people I know that are pregnant seem to have way more knowledge about it than me. It freaks me out. I don't want to do tons of "wrong" things if I ever do get pregnant. But where do these people learn this stuff? I can't find it!

And, I am uber-excited at the prospect of wearing maternity clothes. My friend Colleen said they are like wearing pajamas all day & we all know how much I <3>