Lots to update.
First off, we have officially moved. My job searching has started for Southern California. I hope it is better than it was in Phoenix. There was a ton of little details that I have probably forgotten about by now- but I will try to give the best recap that I can.
So we started off with packing the U-Haul. That was fun. It always is though – right? Maybe not. But what can you do? I really hate dislike moving – I don’t think moving will ever be a ‘fun’ thing for me to do. It’s a hassle. Nuff’ said.
Just getting started…
Once we packed the U-Haul we spent the next day cleaning the house throughly. About halfway through that day (Thanksgiving) we started our trip on I-10 west. We got all the way to the outskirts of LA that day (it is a pretty short move when you consider the other moves we have made). We didn’t get to the hotel until about 8:30pm… being somewhat sore and tired we checked in ready to rest. My parents skipped out and went to I-Hop for dinner and Maryia and myself stayed in. Our thanksgiving dinner consisted of some crunchy cheetos that we had in the car along the way. It is the first time I can say that I’ve had that on Thanksgiving. At least for dinner. Our hotel ended up having a problem with the heater/ac so they had to move our rooms shortly thereafter. Fun stuff. As if being tired and sore weren’t enough. They did however end up comping our rooms. It was fantastic. I love when companies go above and beyond and that is exactly what happened.
It’s good though. We were able to get up a little early the next day and go to the nearby mall to check out some Black Friday sales. Nothing was good enough to pick up… and it was mass chaos throughout the mall. We ended up having a good nights sleep and even woke up to a hot breakfast. It was better than the previous night of sleeping on the tile. We ended up at the house mid day as expected. Once at the house and after checking the house over we started unloading the U-Haul. Also another fun part that I look forward to (yes, I’m using sarcasm).
After getting nearly everything unloaded (besides the tools that my dad had to drop off at his work the next day) we went out to eat at Carrows and everyone ordered a turkey dinner. It tasted good- it hit the spot. It even came with a slice of pie. Yeah, we ended up celebrating Thanksgiving a day late. At least we had our Turkey dinner as it is better late than not at all.
The next day was hectic. My dad and I took off in the morning to bring his tools to his work. Not before the Verizon guy showed up at our house to install FIOS Cable & Internet. It seemed to be going alright until the guy took his drill and went through a water pipe (I couldn’t make this up). So while that began to take flight my dad and I were off and unloading his tools. It seemed like the whole afternoon/day was a lot harder than it should have been. I don’t know why. During our unloading of his tools we noticed that someone had tagged the side of the U-Haul. I had texted Maryia and my mom and Maryia said she remembered it being there when we woke up a day earlier at the mall. We figure that someone was upset that the U-Haul was taking up 4 spaces and tagged it. That is the only thing/reason we can think of to explain it.
Needless to say, it didn’t really put anyone in a pleasant mood. On top of that… my dad & I had gone to like 3 locations to drop the truck off but the GPS was wrong on all accounts for the U-Haul drop off points. We finally ended up finding a place in the ghetto and returned the U-haul. It was sketch. They didn’t say anything about the tagging and we weren’t about to ask to be charged any additional money. Besides, it was a cosmetic thing. It didn’t affect the functionality of it, right?
We arrived back home to find out that the Verizon guy was pretty much an idiot. Plus the repair to the house would take a few days time if not more. We also had to call the owner, the realitor and the verizon manager to make sure everything was taken care of and was on the up and up.
Here is a picture of the repair guys truck and ID#.
I must say that everyone that we have dealt with in CA has been very nice.. but the Verizon guy was pretty much a DB (sorry to say). As anyone who knows me I generally always speak rather highly of Verizon but this whole experience was very bad. Still to this day it hasn’t been fixed 100%. Verizon has written out an offial paper saying everything will be taken care of yet we still are waiting for some final repairs. It’s good that they acknowledge they messed up and all.. but I believe some compensation should be in order considering the hassel a new customer was put through. Ugh.
Can’t top that huh? Guess again.
We recieved a T-Mobile bill that was some $80 higher than our normal bill. We called to find out why. They told us that we went over on our minutes. We explained that we were in the process of moving and if they looked they would see that every other month we had hundreds of minutes that were unused. They said it didn’t matter- the current charges were legit and not going anywhere. Calling again and speaking to a supervisor, we explained that when we were with Verizon and something somewhat similar happened but instead they had processed a credit of minutes to our account to use over some 90 days, plus they had informed us when we were nearing an overage.
It didn’t matter, it all fell on deaf ears and we were told that as great as it is that Verizon does it.. they don’t and will not. Plus, they won’t notify you if you go over your minutes. Tough luck. Pay $5 extra a month and they can notify you though. So aggravating.
During this week the tempatures were spiking to record highs. Day time temperatures were close to 90, as crazy as that is.
One of the warmer days…
So anyway as you can see we have been dealing with a few annoyances since we have arrived. It has pretty much all been dealt with now. Now we are just looking for a washer and dryer to do some laundry! It is much needed.
Hmm… well now that I think about it for this episode folks. One nice thing that came from this was Jake (our cat) has been super sweet during this extended time of stress. He would come up to us and sit on our laps (which is rare for him to do) and he would continue to be very social. No real rhyme or reason.. just out of the blue.
Jake with his HoHoHo thing on, sleeping on the couch.
So there you have it. We are now finally enjoying the California area. The traffic isn’t nearly as bad as people make it out to be- at least not when you are coming from Phoenix- and the traffic might be really bad in some areas *cough* Santa Monica *cough* but not so much in the area that we live in.
I guess that is all I have in me for now.
Until next time.
just Pray
