I, um, am kind of looking forward to cleaning my apartment. Like cleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaning it. Like pulling the crap out of the cabinets and scrubbing out the insides of the cabinets and then washing all of the cabinet contents (the stuff that can be washed anyway, I'm pretty sure I won't be running Pasta Roni boxes through the dishwasher) before putting everything back cleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaning. If I wasn't completely positive that I am absolutely not pregnant, I'd swear I'm nesting. Of course, having a month's worth of visitors kind of, um, inhibits…anything that could happen to cause a bun to begin baking in my oven.
Most likely the urge to cleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeean comes from the Fios installation yesterday.
The installer awesome, which was a good thing because he was here for over four hours. People, when you order Fios and they tell you that it can take up to six hours to install everything correctly? They are not kidding. The reason it took so long was because we had to install new wiring in three different rooms of our apartment. This involved us pulling everything away from our walls so that he could drill holes and run cables and then secure those cables with covers so that they'd blend in to the walls, which? They totally do. Also? Anyone who says "this process is so much easier now that they let us use stud finders" and then passes the machine across his own chest and then says "yep. It works!" is cool with me.
But yes, everything got pulled into the middle of or moved into different rooms. And then we bought and put together a new television stand for the living room. Which means that the old one got moved into the bedroom. I've been slowly putting things back in order since yesterday afternoon. And inhaling mass quantities of dust. Mass quantities. My housekeeping skills apparently completely suck.
None of that matters though because now we have cable in the living room and the bedroom, super fast internet all over the house (that doesn't get slowed down by the wireless router thank you very much) and seriously? FioS rules. RULZ. I've only been playing around with it for a little more than a day but holy crap. All of the television! The faster internet! I'm sure the phone works well too! Yay!
I have to admit that I got kind of a perverse joy out of calling Comcast this morning and telling them exactly why I was cancelling their service and that, no, I did not want to have a technician come out. I was perfectly polite and the person I talked to was perfectly nice, but it still felt really good. I kind of wanted to be all "because you suck! You're expensive!" but the customer service agent was so nice and so apologetic and, really, it isn't her fault that our service sucked so why would I do that to her? Our dissatisfaction was noted and that's good enough for me.
Tomorrow will be spent catching up on the work that I didn't get to yesterday or today because of all of the moving stuff, installing stuff and putting things back.
Yay! Fios!









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I’m jealous, I’m still stuck with Comcast.
By Missy on 09.28.08 12:00 am | Permalink
I don’t know what either are, but I’m kinda jealous about all those wonderful TV channels
Also? Dust is evil.
By Britt on 09.29.08 12:00 am | Permalink
I am SO living vicariously through you. Yes, I’d love to get rid of our comcast internet.
But more importantly, I have an iphone which I love, but AT&T (which is the only service with the iphone) SUCKS! If I could switch my service to verizon someday and tell AT&T to shove off, I’d be pretty happy too!
P.S. I get random urges to nest sometimes. I see it as a good thing because otherwise I’d live in a much less clean apartment!
By Optimist Under Siege on 09.30.08 12:00 am | Permalink
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