Check mine or Brian's Facebook account for the colored pictures.

ljsecret is my latest reading addiction.

Found this one and it made me laugh and feel sad at the same time.

I have to agree with notaboyscout, on his posting of this comic below, in reference to how Star Trek made him feel.



I really enjoyed it. All three times. (twice at the IMAX)

*snort*

Posted on the Consumerist
By Carey, 2:00 PM on Sun May 10 2009, 54,370 views

" Luis dropped his busted LG EnV in the mail at the end of last year and tracked its progress as FedEx delivered the package to Verizon. Verizon, apparently unfamiliar with tracking numbers, doesn't believe that Luis ever returned the phone, and insists that they're owed a $320 replacement fee. Luis disputed the charge, but rather than investigate his claim, Verizon decided it would be easier to suspend his service. Now they want Luis—a customer of seven years who pays over $350 across six phone lines each month—to pay another $15 to reconnect the service they should never have disconnected in the first place. He writes:

' Last year around August 2008 my cellphone was not charging so I called Verizon to get a replacement. I received my replacement a few days later. I went to a Verizon store to move my contacts to my new phone but was told that they couldn't do it because a piece inside the cellphone was damaged. So I left the Verizon store and moved my contacts manually. That same day I went to Fedex to drop off the old cellphone.

Then came my December bill and I get a charge of $320 because they say i didn't mail back the damaged cellphone. The cellphone is a LG EnV. As soon as I saw the bill I called Verizon. They asked me if I kept the receipt with the Fedex tracking number, which I had, because they needed to look it up. I am told that the tracking number is invalid. Then I was told not to worry cause sometimes its in the warehouse but has not yet been scanned and put in the system. They tell me they will send a report to the warehouse so they could look for the phone. They said not to worry and just to pay my normal bill without the $320 charge. 2 weeks go by and I call again.

They have not found the phone and the customer service rep tells me that i need to pay those $320. I tell her that i am not going to pay for something i didn't have. I also tell her why would I want a busted phone for when i could easily get a brand new one for less than the $320 I am being charged. She says the only thing she can do is make a report and send it to the warehouse. I tell her that the previous rep had done it already. She tells me she needs to do it again and I ask her if i can speak to a supervisor. She said I couldn't because first she had to get a response from the warehouse. I tell her to do it and she says it will take 1 week to get a response. I call again and get the same exact responses i did from the previous 2 reps.

Then January my line gets cut. They say I have to pay the $320 and I have to pay a fee for getting my phones reconnected at $15 per phone. I have 5 phones in a family plan. I tell them the same thing that I do not have the cellphone, that I sent it out. They tell me to at least to pay the regular bill and they would reconnect my phones without charging me the $15 per phone. They also tell me the same thing the previous 3 reps tell me and till now I have not been able to speak to a supervisor.

They now just cut my line again, called Verizon again, I still have that charge on my account and each time the reps tell me the same thing. I have been a Verizon customer for 7 years and have changed my phone many times and have not had this problem. I have 6 phones total with them and my phone bill is anywhere from $350 to $450 a month. I called last week again and i got the same BS from the reps. Maybe you guys can help me out and point me in the right direction. '

Fire off an Executive Email Carpet Bomb to Verizon's head office and explain that the $320 charge is significantly more than the $200 early termination fee you would consider paying if they can't appreciate you as a loyal customer with a tracking number."


However, even with me working for Sprint, that would be $200 per line not just for the account total. So $200 X 6 phones = $1200 vs. $320. So that last piece of advice the writer gave was completely wrong.

Today is one of those days where i have down time at work (a rarity) and so i have time to think about stuff and figured i might as well talk about what i've been up to and what my plans are in general.

I have a love/hate relationship with my job. I never ever thought that i would be good at sales because i never wanted to "convince" someone to ever do (or in this case buy) anything from me or do whatever i could to get the sale. Including, but certainly not limited to, shady stuff that i would never have done over a year ago. (which i will explain when i'm not typing from work) I like having a quota and being able to overshoot that quota by a significant amount, i like that i've developed sales techniques and have developed my own style in presentation of our devices. What i do not like is how all this makes me feel. I used to think Airgroup sucked the life out of me, but it was a whole different ballgame then. I think about it now and realize that while there were times i did overtime with Airgroup, it wasn't ALL the time. With Sprint, it's all the time. Every day. I have to stay after my shift for a different reason every day.

Having a flexible schedule does not work for me. I'm tired of working on the weekends and having no time with Brian, much less with what few friends i have down here. And it's hard to make new friends because i'm spending what little free time i do have with the friends that are here and with Brian. (did that sentence make any sense?) I still had time to decompress from work when i was with Airgroup. I also had time to bitch and moan about Airgroup because i also had two days off IN A ROW every week. I miss that office job because i still had a life outside the company.

Ultimately, i'm toughing it out till i make a year which is in July. Only two months away. I'm talking about going back to school in the fall and i'm not sure i'm going to follow through on that just because every year i talk about going back to school, and then nothing happens because of whatever.

I've been thinking about Seattle a lot and how much i miss it. I can't believe that the place i had been trying so hard to get away from is the place i end up missing the most. I'm depressed when i think about where i used to be and where i am now, but at the same time i wonder if it's because of my lack of free time and job situation that it's making me having a bad time down here in sunny San Diego. I want to go home, but i want to stay here.

Really i just want to get out of California and go somewhere else for a few days.

I miss the clouds and i miss the rain, but i'm getting used to the sun being out all the time. I'm excited about it being summer and going to the beach and going swimming, i like that i never have to wear a coat at night and just wear a tank top.

One thing i noticed is that i don't talk to anyone about anything anymore. I sit at home and watch tv, play xbox or just sleep. I need to word vomit more, i need to talk more. I use Facebook quite frequently just because it's so easy to just post pictures from my Blackberry on to there. But pictures only say so much and really i need to say more.

I've been in San Diego for almost a year.
Brian and i have been married for almost a year.
It's hard to describe how i feel about this because our first year of marriage has been full of all kinds of crazy stuff. Some good, Some bad, but crazy is the best way to some it all up. A lot of people were pissed that we got married, and for their own reasons, but it wasn't really about them anyways. That's why it was just the two of us. No one else.

Brian supports me in every way that he can and does whatever he can to be a good husband. I do what i can to be a good wife, though i definitely see some points that i need to work on in order to achieve the status of a good wife. Living together has been a huge adjustment for me (and probably for him too). I'm taking us living together for granted, because soon enough he'll be on deployment and i'll be alone in San Diego. And those things that he does that might irritate me or annoy me, i'm going to miss like crazy and will wish he would just come home. I'm not sure what i'm going to do with myself when that happens.

I've been getting better at running on a regular basis, though i haven't been going for the last two weeks. I get back into the routine tomorrow and continue my goal of getting 3 miles in 30 minutes hopefully by this summer. Right now i'm at 3 miles in 45, but i'll get there in due time.

I have no other partners down here. I've been too afraid to go searching for them because of the little free time i have (which i've blabbed about above) and so i've been feeling a little bitter about that. I have no one to blame but myself, though, and so that's why i'm bitter.

I miss dancing every week, i miss dancing at all.

So my goals/ideas: Go back to part-time, get a different job that is monday - friday, go back to school, anything that'll free up more time and possibly give me my weekends back..

And i'm spent. :P

For all you preggo bitches:

For all you Twilight fanatics out there:



I laughed so hard i almost peed myself.

I rode my bike to the gym today and parked next to the other motorcycles.



They were all jealous that they're bikes weren't as cool as mine.

I need a name for her, i just can't think of one that would fit..

I laughed really hard at this last night.

Last night i had a dream.

Apparently i was a 30 something lesbian with really short hair, who was pregnant, and i gave birth in the bathtub with no water. And i kept thinking this time will be easy since it's my third pregnancy.

I really don't know how to dissect that one.

It's my day off and i am wide eyed and bushy tailed at 6:00am.

What the f*ck?

There's something nice about sitting in a coffee shop, eating a sandwich and surfing the interwebs. It's calm and quiet. I like it.

Have to go back to work in 10 minutes.

I feel like I want to talk about stuff, but I don't really know what to say. I hate that.
So I sigh and return to my brain.

I have tomorrow off. Yaaaaaaay.

Sprint (and i guess At&t too?) Finally released their version updates for Blackberry's to go from OS 4.3 to OS 4.5.

Sprint Blackberry users have been screaming for this to come out for a very long time for various reasons. Mainly for the ability to edit documents and excel spreedsheets and the ability to send picture mail, which has been a frustration for some time.

Though i'm still mad that the picture's still come through as LINK instead of as an actual picture. But i can at least send out picture mail, so it's an approvement (for now). This is one of the reason's why Sprint is not doing so well. We lag far behind all the other carriers when it comes to the little things such as this. Being able to send picture mail and getting the picture and not just some stupid link, can define whether a person wants to be with this company rather than that company. It sounds silly, but it does happen. I know we've made improvements so that all of our phones now get the picture vs a link, but what about the rest of them?

My company is doomed.

Otherwise i'm having fun downloading new themes for my Blackberry and sending random pictures to liquid_static. She's really the reason why i wanted picture mail, because we used to talk to each other that way when i was still using my Palm Treo 755p. Now we can start again. ^_^