Topic: Things That Are Driving Up Me Up The Wall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bill440cars]

      1. I've used Alltel for over 10yrs with minimal problems (and the ones that I did have, were taken care of, to MY satisfaction. Now, Alltel has become part of Verizon and the (so-called) fun has begun! To start with, my Daughter's phone developed a problem and would not charge. So, I took it to Alltel, got a new phone ordered, received the new phone and sent the old one off, thinking that it was done. WRONG!!!!!!!!! About 7 days AFTER Brenda's passing, I got a box in the mail with a phone in it! Now, I opened the box and thought it was another NEW replacement phone for my Daughter and forgot about it til today. Those things have a "turn-in time of 7 days. I took it to Verizon to tell them about it. Come to find out, it was her OLD phone because Warranty said it wasn't covered and they wanted their replacement phone back (within that 7 days, or I would be billed Two hundred and something dollars! It couldn't be resolved up there, I had to take that sucker home, call customer service and go through them and I did this, while losing the call, 2 times. BTW, I had said something about lost calls and was informed that for about a month, while the reconfiguring  f the Alltel towers was done. I mean, I'm dealing with all kinds of things (as a number of you know) and I have to deal with this, on top of everything else? Not to mention that we were looking to move the landline number over to a cell phone and drop the home phone completely.   
 
            2. Part II of the phone deal. Now, I have to send their phone back in the box provided. Call in the insurance claim, about the phone AND they are supposed to send out a new phone. I'm not sure how much longer I'll be there, before I check out another phone service. AND I HATE change! Especially at this time in my life.

            3. I then call the cable company to pay my Dad's cable bill, using the "automated system", right? Wrong!!!!!! After " the system" repeating what it thought I said and it wasn't, it finally connected me to a real person. Then, I finally got it taken care of.


          Well, I'm through ranting, for now. Gotta go get my Daughter to another appointment (2nd one roday)

                            Later on, Bill

[tramp]

hang in there bill

[Hush]

But Bill, remember it's recession time...just think of all the people out there you are keeping in jobs.

[bill440cars]

hang in there bill

            I'm trying, it just seems like things are ganging up on me and, it's at a time when I have gotten so many things going on anyway. I'm just trying to get to the point where I can lose some of this stress. Like when I am trying to take care of a bill over the phone and lose the signal during the process. Then, I call back, get somebody else, tell them who I was working with, they don't want to get you back with that person, they want you to start all over again. I'm thinking, "I feel like I'm starting my Life all over again" and that's tough enough right now. Oh, I'll get it done, I just hope I can keep my sanity, in the process.

[bill440cars]

But Bill, remember it's recession time...just think of all the people out there you are keeping in jobs.

          Yeah Hush, I know that things are, and HAVE been tough for lots of folks for a while and I can appreciate that. I'm just needing some (even a little) relief. Brenda went SO QUICK and the paperwork that I need to take care of things, is SO SLOW! It's a shame that those things could be reversed. But I mean that Brenda would still be here (not that her death or suffering would have been drawn out. I just wish that WE could have had more time together, you know? I'm uncomfortable with some of the things that I have to do and just want to get them done.

          Have to go, time waits for no one, much less me.

[Hush]

You're getting there mate, time and patience.............sometimes hard to reconcile both.

[bill440cars]

You're getting there mate, time and patience.............sometimes hard to reconcile both.

      I'm trying to get there and it's the hardest thing I've ever had to do, in my life.   Yeah, and it's very hard to "reconcile both"!

      You know, I;ve ALWAYS felt for those who've lost "Loved ones" and tried my best to support them and all, thinking that I knew how they felt (I'd lost Loved ones before and really thought I knew what they were going through), but I didn't have a clue!  I was reminded by a friend (and I am very embarrassed to say I don't remember who it was ) that, the other losses had me comforted by Brenda and now Brenda isn't here to help me through this, because she's the one I lost! Karla (my Daughter) asked her counselor (she has regular sessions on an as needed basis) about me coming in with her, in addition to the young man who we work with (and have for some time) and we go every 2 weeks. I wasn't (or didn't seem to be) doing as bad at first (I guess it didn't really start to sink in til the last few days because I know that this month is almost over and she is still gone.  

        I'd heard all my life that:
       
       "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'VE GOT,  TIL YOU LOSE IT"   

        And, that has gotten a whole new meaning to it, now.


     There's a song in a song book at our Church, that I selected as one of them to sing, Because He Lives. And the 1st line says it all.
   
     The chorus goes:

          "Because HE lives, I can face Tomorrow

           Because he lives, all fear is gone.  Because I know He holds
       
           the Future.  And Life is Worth the living just

           because He lives"       


                                     Take care,  Bill