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February 12, 2007

Busy Bee

This weekend was pretty busy for us.

I spent several days last week looking, searching, calling and pricing new tires for Steve's car. He drives a Mustang GT. The tires he wants on that car are not cheap. The Michilin Pilots he has on now made me fall over in a dead faint when I saw the price per tire which did not include mounting or balancing.

I did some comparison shopping online and off. I ended up at Sears with a special order tire AND they price matched another seller and gave me a 10% discount on the price. Yayyyyy me! I got those tires for less than anyone was offering them. I think I did pretty well on the price.

Most tires places here do not make appointments for you to have your tires put on your car. It is strictly a first come first served venue. Steve and I got up at 6:30am and where at Sears at 8am. We were the first customers of the day.

While the car was in the mounting rack we hiked over to Waffle House. The store was closed and nothing opens until 9am or later. I wasn't crossing the main drag 6 lane highway to find another place to have coffee. So, to Waffle House we went.

I had decaf coffee, 2 (two not three, how did I type 3 :-/ ) eggs and a patty melt hold the bread. it was good. Now, being on a low carb diet is hard. but to sit in front of a skinny person and watch them indulged in breakfast takes sheer willpower to maintain control.

Steve ordered - 2 eggs over medium, 2 sliced buttered toast, double hashbrowns, 2 sausage patties and 2 waffles with butter and syrup and full caff coffee. He ate it all but a little bit of his second waffle.

I wanted to take a huge bite of that waffle dripping with butter and hot syrup. My mouth was watering. I watched him shovel in bite after bite before sadly looking out the window knowing I couldn't have a bite. When this weight comes off you will find me in some Waffle House having a waffle dripping with warm butter and syrup. The sugary syrup might make me sick but I am still going to do it.

After his breakfast of champions we wandered back over to Sears. We still had about an hour to wait so we mosied around the store. We looked at dune buggies and gardening implements. We researched mega sized flat screen TV's (and almost bought one but then didn't). We did buy a new battery for the cordless phone in our bedroom.

The car was ready with new tires, oil change and front end alignment. so, off we went to the Verizon store.

We have been having trouble with Verizon. Our bill is set up as a automatic debit by Verizon but every month since consolidating our bill we have been getting late fee charges. Over the phone no one would help us. We had been round and round with them and no one would help figure out what was going on. After nearly an hour in the store it was all settled and fixed. The huge problem dragging around for 6 months was the debit date was after the billing date. No one had fixed the numbers!

After we got that straight we looked at the newer model phones. We had planned to get me a new phone but hadn't gotten around to it. Back in the summer a coke got spilled and it has not been the same since. It won't hold a charge, sometimes it won't come out of charging mode, it may tell you after a full charge that the battery is low and just shut down. I only have the phone when I am out and might need assistance or if the school needs to contact me, etc. So, I needed a new phone.

I thought I wanted a pink rzr at the buy one get one free price. However, I found that phone to be flimsy and not durable. It is a fashion statement and nothing more.

I chose an LG VX8300. Love it! I had only a very basic phone before. No bells and whistles. No extras. Not even a camera. The LG does everything and more. Camera, video and stills, music, web -alot of things I might not even use but the features are there.

Steve's old Motorola he has been using for the past 6 years is pathetic. So very basic that it is a dinosaur. When the customer service rep told him with his current plan he had a $100 credit toward a new phone his eyes lit up. While I couldn't convince him he needed a new phone that did the job. He looked at a military spec phone but my cheapo husband took a look at the price and nearly fainted. He did go back and forth for a while and almost spent the $400 for that phone but the sales rep told himt he LG I had chosen was one of the very best in the store.

He got the LG. Now we have matching phones. We also have matching laptops. He always ends up getting something I have chosen. we could be twins but he is a man and I am a woman. he is skinny and I am fat. So that's not much like twins. Anyway -

I spent Saturday programing all the numbers into my phone. I did Steve's too. Because I am nice like that. Then I created backup assistant accounts on the Verizon site so that the phones are sync'd and updated every night. Never again will I have to sit and punch in every number and name one letter at a time. Hurrah!

So that was the jist of our weekend.

How was your's?

P.S. How much weight did I lose last week?

Posted by Angie at February 12, 2007 07:56 AM

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