WARNING: This short b*tching post quickly turned into a rant... sorry. Moral of the story? I'm am extremely stressed out right now and could use some encouragement and suggestions for relaxing.
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Okay, so I have two things on Craigslist I was hoping to sell. One of these things it has taken me nearly 5 years to be okay to sell and now I am ready to get it out of my home...
I get about 10 e-mails a day of people wanting to buy these two items.... the thing is, they are all spammers! They are trying to get my pay-pal information. I swear I am about to f-in' lose it! Some are obviously not real people because the e-mail reads like a foreigner who hasn't mastered kindergarten yet... but there are some that could be legitimate buyers so I respond that the item is still for sale and I DO NOT take paypal. Sure enough, they e-mail me back, offering more than my asking price and request my paypal info. OMG! I am already seething from this horribly botched move and a screaming baby.
Oh, the move? Yeah... we had two moving companies do our move. Our things arrived LITERALLY 3 DAYS before LB was born... 3 DAYS even though we had been living here (in a hotel on our own dime) for 4 months already! So you can imagine with a newborn and c-section (then a second abdominal surgery 4 months later) I did not get everything unpacked in oh the 75 days given to report damage/loss. I did however know that almost ALL our things from one of the moves was broken because they packed it all in the boxes my family has been using to move for 25 years; the boxes I used to go to college and move into my first apartment; the boxes held together with duct tape, because they didn't bring enough to pack our things! (No I was not present at that packing because I was already past my "fly date" and was in Alaska waiting for LB to be born.) Yeah, so I submitted that claim and got paid back which was nice.
Now, 10 months later I have finally unpacked all the boxes (and my house is a tornado aftermath) and have discovered that only two items are missing... our PS2 and Wii (plus games). That is about $600 we will have to spend to replace the two. I am so steamed right now! The paperwork says that we can submit claim up to two years after the move date for "depreciated value". I called the moving company, they said nope, won't do it. Now I have to find the time to take a screaming baby up to the moving place on post, wait a few hours, and have them call and straighten this all out. Then I call today to see if they can come pick up our broken down boxes and she says "I don't know if we pick them up after that long..." I wanted to scream "WELL excuse me for having a baby and two invasive abdominal surgeries!"
I can literally feel my blood pressure rising... And tonight DH is going to want to sit down and talk about our budget because we cut it close this paycheck for the first time in a year. I am not looking forward to the rest of my day. Someone please tell me it's okay and give me some suggestions to calm down? I am thinking about going outside and sitting in the yard. It's snowing out and if it's quiet, maybe I can just sit there, let the soft flakes fall on my face and breathe...
