Busy days

Today was a flex day and I had a lot of errands to attend to: clean the house, mail off soldier boxes, pay my AT&T bill with the rebate cards I got in the mail yesterday, wrestle with Sprint to get my account paid off, buy some new books, grab lunch, a quick stop at the grocery store, finish my book, eat dinner with my son, and meet up with friends. I’m relieved to say that the friends thing fell though. It’s not that I didn’t want to see them and hang out, but I was ready to be done for the day.

By far the most daunting item on my list was wrestling with Sprint. I spent an hour on the phone yesterday trying to figure out why they were charging a penalty for ending my service early, since I was pretty sure I was past my contract date. I was told I had to go the store where I bought my last phone. I ended up visiting two different Sprint stores to discover that the error had occurred a year and half ago when I contacted them, by phone, to correct an over billing problem on my account. After almost 3 hours at two different stores they finally dropped the penalty and agreed they had billed me wrongly. I felt about 50 lbs lighter when I left knowing I was done with them forever. Well, “forever” may be a little too hopeful, since I’m fairly sure they’ll have it all screwed up again by next month and I’ll see another bill in the mail. The one totally consistent thing you can depend on with Sprint is that once they’ve tortured you as much as they possibly can, they’ll come back and do it some more. Sprint customer service, and Sprint account services, are total oxymorons.

I loved the trip to the book store!! I picked up new releases from Kim Harrison and Christopher Moore, as well as three other books. If you’ve never read Christopher Moore, treat yourself big time and pick up one of his books. He’s writing is imaginative, odd ball, and totally entertaining!! Check out his blog at http://blog.chrismoore.com/ you’ll love it.

I also enjoyed my son’s cooking and finishing my book, Danielle Steele’s Echoes. Talk about tortured characters, no one love to tortures their characters like she does. Still it was a good book and as usual I ended up caring about her characters deeply.
Matt made Creole gumbo which was fantastic!

Tomorrow is scheduled out as well: funeral for a friend’s mother, deliver neighborhood newsletters, shopping for solider boxes, baking a cake for another friend’s birthday. Strange, I will celebrate the end of one life and when another began. Strange how things work out!