Want to hear about my exciting life?

My life has been very exciting lately. That was a joke : ) This week I've been on the phone with insurance companies for doctor bills that are "supposed" to be covered, the property management company that owns the truck that did this to my car and our satellite tv company numerous times. These calls are as much fun as you imagine they are. Oh, and I'm going to the dentist today.


But, I do have a funny story for you:

We are on our second satellite tv remote; now this one is on the fritz. My husband and I love to watch our taped episodes of Beverly Hillbillies but you need the remote to do that. We both hate to have to call the tech service people at the satellite company for a couple of reasons: First, due to a language barrier, it's difficult for either party to understand much of what the other says. Second, you need to go through the whole 30 minute script of what could possibly be wrong. Oh no, you can't just call and say the remote is broken and you want a new one, because that would be too easy.

Since George and I would rather lose an arm than call the tv company, we both pretend to not notice the remote is broken. One night this week it was especially funny, we are sitting there trying to check the weather and the tv wasn't doing anything, for a long time. Neither one of us said anything, we just kept pretending we didn't notice. When you try to change channels, it skips around and puts you on a different channel -- again we pretended like we meant to end up on the Spanish channel. Too funny. One morning this week after we sat quietly for 10 minutes waiting for the weather channel to come up, George said we should just switch companies. I laughed and agreed. People from the new company are coming out on Saturday and they are bringing all new equipment -- hopefully it lasts a while.

I'm kind of looking forward to the dentist today. I'm getting my official metal and porcelain crown "installed". It will be a quickie visit with no novocaine. That's about as good as you can hope to get from a dental visit.