OMG. I admit it. I’m a reality TV junky. And I just watched my first episode of VH1’s The Tool Academy. Granted with most reality TV shows I will likely catch one episode and forget about it until they run a marathon of the season on a Saturday afternoon when I have nothing to do but veg in front of the TV – but that’s all beside the point. I want to talk about the Tool Academy. It’s all wrong. These girls brought their boyfriends on the show to make them change. These guys are more douches than tools, but I love the idea of getting a bunch of tools together and showing them how lame they are. I do have to admit there aren’t that many tools in Duluth. I think it has to do with the fact that winter last 6 months and all the pine trees make it tough to lay out and get a good sun tan. But last year when we took our cruise, the ship was full of tools. I think all males in New Jersey should attend the Tool Academy.
In other news – somewhere in Salt Lake City, UT is a person I really want to physically harm. OK – so fisticuffs may not be my thing – but I totally want to yell and scream and tell this douche what I think of him and anybody around him. So a little back story – Friday when I got home from work I got a call from the Post Master General’s office in Salt Lake City asking for my husband. I politely told the person on the other line that he wasn’t available. She went on to tell me that some packages had been intercepted in a mail order scandal with his name on it, they were trying to track down people of the same name and warn them and she advised me to check our accounts and credit report. I was kind like ‘I shred everything. I am careful with all my info. Must be some different people with the same name. But I will check the credit report anyway.’ So after some time entering in personal info and verifying account numbers I got his credit report and found a new address and a new credit card. I used many profane words in a loud tone. The dog left the room – I really home he doesn’t repeat those words in public. So I did the next logical thing, called the credit card company that issued the card, tried to explain the situation – and was met with much resistance. They pretty much couldn’t do anything for me until they had a copy of my PoA. I was ticked. They gave credit to some jerk that had a few bits of info – but they wouldn’t let me report it as fraud until they had a piece of paper saying who I was. Grrrrrr. Well I guess in the end they are one who will get stuck with the bad debt because they did a crappy job. So now I’m in the process of trying to clear it all up. My goal is to have it all charges removed and the card closed by the end of March. I think that is ambitious. But I feel a bitch streak coming on and I am so wanting to call the credit card company back and escalating this to a manager and then escalating to their manager – and as soon as the PoA arrives I will be doing just that. I worked in credit cards for a while. I know how this works. Let this be a reminder for all to do your annual credit report check: https://www.annualcreditreport.com/
Continuing in other news – resolutions are still going well. Well the running and working out are going well, not doing to great at getting organized and staying organized. But still trying.
I guess that is all to report today.
231 days to go.
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