We’re actually going to a party in our pajamas! Good thing that’s the theme.

It works out well for me since I’m so lame I rarely make it to midnight. I’ll be snoozing on the couch in my piggy feetie pajamas while everyone else rings in 2008. Party animal, I tell ya.

Hope yours is happy! And here’s to making 2008 the best it can be!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Love,
Pocklock, EHH, and the Fat Felines

Ellen Degeneres just said that the song Soldier (Soulja?) Boy (Boi?) has been #1 for many weeks.

I can honestly say that I have never heard this song. It might be because of my unhealthy obsession with Jamie Lynn Spears’ pregnancy.

I hate cell phone companies.

I’ve had a Sprint/Nextel account since 2001. When the thrill of direct connect died and became more of an embarrassment to have my name yelled out of my pocketbook while running a meeting at my desk, I went back to my roots and got an AT&T phone.

Most of my family was (and still is) using the Nextel direct connect so I hung on to the Nextel phone and dumbed down my plan to make it easier for them to communicate with me. I upgraded my phone and was nice enough to give my stepmother my old one so that she could also direct connect with Dad and other family members.

Last year I got my brother a Nextel phone for his 16th birthday and added him to my plan. About a month later, my phone wouldn’t charge and kept turning off on it’s own. Since I had my AT&T phone, I just started leaving my Nextel at home thinking I was being nice by continuing to pay for my stepmother and brother.

That kind of got old after a year.

So for Christmas, I got my brother a new AT&T phone as his phone was due for a replacement anyway after 18 months with a teenager, and added him to my AT&T account which is netting out MUCH cheaper than the Nextel bill of $165. Today I called Nextel to cancel the accounts.

Do you see where this is going?

Cancellation fees. $200 per phone. That’s $600 total.

I had a heart attack.

Apparently, when I added my brother to my account in July of ‘06, that automatically “contracted” me for another two years. This, I did not know. Since I was barely using the phone then, I find it hard to believe that I would’ve agreed to a two year contract.

The service representative was a complete and total prick and wouldn’t give me a supervisor saying that there was no one authorized to waive the fee and if I would just listen and stop interrupting him, he would tell me what else I could do.

????

Dumbfounded, I shut up as he explained that I could change the plan to put all three phones on family talk for $70 per month and then cancel without charge in July. The math works out to about $500 to continue to pay that fee from now until July and I find it REALLY difficult to believe that they won’t come up with another $100 or so in taxes, franchise fees and whatever else we stupid American’s pay for unknowingly. So nice pitch, Buddy, but I still think you’re screwing me.

I hung up on him.

I’m sure now my account has a little red flag next to it for when I call back with my decision which I’m still not sure what that decision will be.

See where being a nice person gets you? Hindsight is 20/20, but I never should’ve been paying all this money for as long as I have for phones that suck and a service provider that’s notorious for their overpriced billing and shitty customer service.

What would you do? Should I pay the $600 up front, cancel the service and be rid of these pricks for good? Should I continue paying them and cave to their bullshit until July even after replacing and activating my brother’s cell phone on AT&T? I’m relying on you people since I’m so pissed off I can’t see straight never mind make an educated decision.

Puke.

“Big Girls Don’t Cry,” especially if they’ve recently been proposed to.

Singer Fergie and her beau, “Las Vegas” star Josh Duhamel, have been recently engaged, a rep confirmed on Wednesday to People. more

I guess everyone makes mistakes on their first wives. I still love you Josh.

The cafeteria at work today had a limited selection to say the least. I had to make my own iced tea.

Ingredients:
2 tea bags
medium cup of hot water
lemon wedge
large cup of ice

Place tea bags in cup of hot water and brew normally. Squeeze lemon wedge over ice. Wait 5-10 minutes. Pour brewed hot tea over ice cubes in large cup. Watch and marvel over the dissolving ice. Drink with straw.

Totally ghetto, but still yummy!