Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Who needs to pay for cable?
Just a quick update since I haven’t done so in more than my allowable laps, but my excuse is that I’ve been struck with an extreme case of “the lazies.” Actually, the real truth (as opposed to the fake truth which, I guess, would make it a lie) is that I’ve been busy. Busy with work, family and side projects that I wish were my work. Usually I have time to post a novel to my blog first thing in the morning, but that hasn’t been the case for the past week (obviously). It’s good and bad: good that I’m actually earning my paycheck, but bad because I like to write. Oh well, best not to waste time.
I have two small stories about Michelle; one is rather humorous and one proves that she’s clairvoyant.
Cable Schmable
We got a cable bill for over $370 in the mail the other day. I knew this immediately because Michelle loves to phone me at work with things like this. It is not uncommon that I’ll get a phone call asking for a suggestions of a side dish for tonight’s meal, requests to tell the children to listen to their mother or, and I actually like these ones, just to say hi because she misses me. However, this time she phoned me to tell me that the cable bill was over $370.
I have mentioned in previous posts that Michelle and I have put all our eggs in one basket where internet service, cable and phone are concerned. Shaw has me by the short and curlies with all three, so if anything goes wrong on their end there isn’t anything I can do except phone them on my Rogers cell phone. They’ll probably figure out how to get that service too, however.
We both went through our online bank statement, and Michelle phoned them up. It was very apparent that she had made a payment to Shaw a month ago when the bill, for some reason, was over $240. We had just assumed that a bill had slipped past us somehow, but now it was getting ridiculous. She phoned them up and said that our bank showed the payment being made, but the friendly person on the other end informed her that we hadn’t made a payment in 4 months.
A warning went off in my head.
I mentioned before that I’ve been lazy in a jesting manner, but the truth is that I have been lazy with piddly little things…Like correcting our online bank billing to include our new Calgary bills. I told Michelle that until I did that we’d have to pay the bills at the bank machiene. This little tidbit of information slipped her mind, and she had been paying out old cancelled account in Victoria She told me she’d make a call.
Five minutes later, after she had dug out an old bill and called a Victoria Shaw office, she phoned me up at work to let me know that we had almost $500 in credit on our old account. Easily resolved with another phone call, and we won’t have to be paying next month’s bill either. So have I set up the bills online yet? Ha! I put the “PRO” in procrastinate, my friends.
Pizza Sauce Clairvoyance
I made pizza (from scratch) for Kristen’s birthday party which was smaller than the previous ones since she’s older and most of her friends were brand new (really nice, though…Kristen has a wonderful habit of surrounding herself with wonderful people). So while Kristen, Michelle, Rylee and the guests all went to the wave pool, I set about the task of making my specialty. I had asked Michelle to pick up the ingredients on my recipe, so when I went to look for the 8 oz can of tomato sauce, I was surprised to find a can that could only have equated to a small bucket. Why would I need so much sauce? It’s not like I’m making six pizza’s for a hockey team, for crying out loud. Kristen’s appetite suggested that she may get through two pieces and that’s it. So made up the sauce (seasoning and all) and put it in the fridge for an hour, and I put the leftover unnecessary sauce in a plastic container in the fridge, as well.
An hour later, when I pulled out the ingredients for the toppings of the pizza, I knocked the bowl out of the fridge onto the floor where it smashed into an infinite amount of pieces and sprayed pizza sauce all over the under side of the fridge and floor. I was devastated!
But I didn’t have time to be devastated for long! I cleaned it up, quietly thanked Michelle for seeing my clumsiness using whatever psychic abilities she has and made up another batch of sauce. I really would have hated to order pizza after missing out on the swimming to fulfill Kristen’s request, so once again I have to say, “Thank you , Michelle! Now use your powers to predict the winning lottery combination.”
That’s it for now! I have to go on a trip up to Redwater overnight, so no drawing for me tonight (maybe writing). I have been doing strips for our upcoming launch, but I’m not posting those here. You all have to wait! Shame on you for begging!
Edit: And since I owe you all at least something viewable, I just noticed that the new Harry Potter trailer went up last night:
I'm really looking forward to this, but I also have to nitpick. When Potter's flying towards the screen in the final shot, it's reminiscent of the special effects used in Superman 4. In other words, it looks terrible! C'mon, WB! This is the age of special effects where anything is possible. So, possibly, redo that shot! Ugh!
I have two small stories about Michelle; one is rather humorous and one proves that she’s clairvoyant.
Cable Schmable
We got a cable bill for over $370 in the mail the other day. I knew this immediately because Michelle loves to phone me at work with things like this. It is not uncommon that I’ll get a phone call asking for a suggestions of a side dish for tonight’s meal, requests to tell the children to listen to their mother or, and I actually like these ones, just to say hi because she misses me. However, this time she phoned me to tell me that the cable bill was over $370.
I have mentioned in previous posts that Michelle and I have put all our eggs in one basket where internet service, cable and phone are concerned. Shaw has me by the short and curlies with all three, so if anything goes wrong on their end there isn’t anything I can do except phone them on my Rogers cell phone. They’ll probably figure out how to get that service too, however.
We both went through our online bank statement, and Michelle phoned them up. It was very apparent that she had made a payment to Shaw a month ago when the bill, for some reason, was over $240. We had just assumed that a bill had slipped past us somehow, but now it was getting ridiculous. She phoned them up and said that our bank showed the payment being made, but the friendly person on the other end informed her that we hadn’t made a payment in 4 months.
A warning went off in my head.
I mentioned before that I’ve been lazy in a jesting manner, but the truth is that I have been lazy with piddly little things…Like correcting our online bank billing to include our new Calgary bills. I told Michelle that until I did that we’d have to pay the bills at the bank machiene. This little tidbit of information slipped her mind, and she had been paying out old cancelled account in Victoria She told me she’d make a call.
Five minutes later, after she had dug out an old bill and called a Victoria Shaw office, she phoned me up at work to let me know that we had almost $500 in credit on our old account. Easily resolved with another phone call, and we won’t have to be paying next month’s bill either. So have I set up the bills online yet? Ha! I put the “PRO” in procrastinate, my friends.
Pizza Sauce Clairvoyance
I made pizza (from scratch) for Kristen’s birthday party which was smaller than the previous ones since she’s older and most of her friends were brand new (really nice, though…Kristen has a wonderful habit of surrounding herself with wonderful people). So while Kristen, Michelle, Rylee and the guests all went to the wave pool, I set about the task of making my specialty. I had asked Michelle to pick up the ingredients on my recipe, so when I went to look for the 8 oz can of tomato sauce, I was surprised to find a can that could only have equated to a small bucket. Why would I need so much sauce? It’s not like I’m making six pizza’s for a hockey team, for crying out loud. Kristen’s appetite suggested that she may get through two pieces and that’s it. So made up the sauce (seasoning and all) and put it in the fridge for an hour, and I put the leftover unnecessary sauce in a plastic container in the fridge, as well.
An hour later, when I pulled out the ingredients for the toppings of the pizza, I knocked the bowl out of the fridge onto the floor where it smashed into an infinite amount of pieces and sprayed pizza sauce all over the under side of the fridge and floor. I was devastated!
But I didn’t have time to be devastated for long! I cleaned it up, quietly thanked Michelle for seeing my clumsiness using whatever psychic abilities she has and made up another batch of sauce. I really would have hated to order pizza after missing out on the swimming to fulfill Kristen’s request, so once again I have to say, “Thank you , Michelle! Now use your powers to predict the winning lottery combination.”
That’s it for now! I have to go on a trip up to Redwater overnight, so no drawing for me tonight (maybe writing). I have been doing strips for our upcoming launch, but I’m not posting those here. You all have to wait! Shame on you for begging!
Edit: And since I owe you all at least something viewable, I just noticed that the new Harry Potter trailer went up last night:
I'm really looking forward to this, but I also have to nitpick. When Potter's flying towards the screen in the final shot, it's reminiscent of the special effects used in Superman 4. In other words, it looks terrible! C'mon, WB! This is the age of special effects where anything is possible. So, possibly, redo that shot! Ugh!
