- HMO hell - We switched to HMO to save money and it's screwed up from the get-go, can't use my OBGYN at the moment and worst case scenario couldn't see her or sign up to use her until JANUARY! HMOs suck. I've always been PPO in the past, for good reason. Mark's never sick, never goes to the doctor and doesn't understand the difference really since he doesn't use their services, so he wondered why we were paying so much more for PPO and wanted to switch. I was told HMO isn't so bad for pregnancy since you only need 1 referral and after that, it's 9 months with no red tape, but this one mistake signing up has caused me to have to spend about 1 1/2 hours on the phone Friday, 20 minutes Saturday and so far an hour on Monday.
- DirecTv - don't even ask. Talked to the one friend who likes it, didn't manage to hear from the other 3 who hate it before signing up and ending up with a contract that makes me feel like an elderly victim of a scam. Worst company ever, using a 1994 business model, lots of small print, varying degrees of idiots and non-idiots at customer support, and all this to hide a not-so-great product with less functionality than most plain ol' cable. If their product didn't suck, they wouldn't have to trick people into contracts and omit tons of things on their website beforehand.
- My imac is dead, I don't have access to several of my email accounts, addresses, old emails,etc.
- Haven't found my answering machine, which I actually need now that I have POTS phone service again. Vonage still hasn't transferred my old number yet - might take weeks.
Good news:
- House is starting to look like humans live here and not Katrina victims.
- Baby kick count - you don't have to do it until week 28, but so far, it takes my baby less than 10 minutes to give me 10 kicks (their aim is 10 in less than 2 hours) at his most active time. I think it's supposed to slow down as he has less room to move, but for right now, he's kicking my butt, and I don't mind. I love it!
- Imac is under applecare warranty!
- House phone is now routed to the correct phone jacks - AT&T took a week, but came out and fixed it, probably for free.
- Owners of house have agreed to add lighting to the back office and garage so that I won't trip trying to get to my office after dark which starts as early as 4:45 now.
- Can cook in the kitchen and dishwasher works VERY well.
- LA weather is going back to normal - I can enjoy my patio now and Max can get back to sunbathing in the yard.
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