Oh dear

I have access to the outside world!! My phone turned on today! My internet turned on today! I still don't have cell phone service at my house, but I have internet!!

I would like to make a list of things I like and dislike about this place. Maybe I should just focus on the good, but the bad is so funny that I really think you'd enjoy reading it.

For example, gnats. Why did God create these tiny little good-for-nothing creatures? They swarm in huge blobs, they bite, and you must be careful when walking through your yard, because if you happen to walk through one of the swarms they'll fly in your nose and mouth, YUCK!

In my last couple of posts, I was telling you about how some of our things are missing and how things were packed. Well, it gets better. Our bed broke over the weekend. My 2 year old, nice, sturdy, expensive, first ever new "grown up" bed is broken. Apparently the movers that moved us in last week didn't put it together properly.

I have a (California) King, so there is a center board that goes down the middle and keeps the two twin size box springs up. Attached to this are supposed to be 3 'pedestal' type feet that go to the ground and help support that center beam, the box springs, and the mattress. The feet were not attached to the center beam. Not only that, but the slats they used under the box springs were not the ones that belonged with our bed. They were for Blake's bunkbed. The slats that go on our bed are supposed to be screwed in.

What is amazing to me is how these things just disappeared. There was supposed to be a "hardware" box. A box that all the screws and stuff from the taken apart beds. The packers didn't pack this stuff because our beds were taken apart on the move day by the driver and his crew.

I called the people that moved us in and told him what happened with my bed. He came out this morning to look at the bed and see if he could find the hardware box in the garage. He couldn't find it, either. He said he would call a furniture repair place and see if they could come and fix the bed and the crib (since we're still missing the screws for it as well). I'm sorry, but they already screwed up a lot. I'm not going to give them another shot at it, just to keep me from filing a claim, only to have it break again in a month or so. I'd rather just file the claim and get the reimbursement money then call the manufacturer and get the replacement parts through them and fix it ourselves. I can just see them saying "oh, this screw seems like it'll fit" and using that method to fix Luke's crib. Uh, no.

The good news is, the movers that moved our stuff here are locals. Hopefully this can be resolved before it gets ugly.