Have you ever felt like so many goofy things have gone on over the course of a week or so that it just has to be some outside force working against you? I mean really, can all these things just happen on their own? Who knows. That being said, I have come to find out that not only am I “small appliance challenged” I just have bad luck.

Over the course of the last two weeks my iron broke, my toaster broke, then my hair dryer broke. At least my hair dryer hung on until the very end. I ordered all my replacements online at Amazon. I got my new toaster, the hair dryer comes today, and don’t ask about the iron. The iron in itself is a whole different post. Moving on…

Before my cluster of small appliance disasters I had VOIP phone service. For those of you that have no idea what I’m talking about, it’s phone via the internet. I LOVED all the features. The service was not real great with the company, but did I mention that I loved all the features. I’m a “techie” and I love making use of technology to make my life easier/better. (i.e. the robot vacuums), so VOIP was a natural choice. Well one day my phone company closed. Yes, they closed. No notice, no nothing, and because they were a VOIP provider, legally they don’t have to notify me. So I went without for a couple weeks until I could get my new WOW service set up. The WOW (Wide Open West) phone is ok, but it’s not fantastic, and they don’t offer any features besides the everyday run of the mill voicemail. I wish I would have stuck it out and stayed with VOIP, just found another provider.

So you’re wondering what my point is… well yet another kick in the pants yesterday. We bank online. On the 28th of September the FDIC closed my bank and turned it over to ING Direct. I’m fine with that as we already bank with them. Problem is that I wasn’t technically notified until late last night. Worse yet I found out on my own when my ATM Card wouldn’t let me make a deposit. I came home, sat on hold for an hour and was then told ING wasn’t allowing ATM deposits until the transition was complete. I’m told that could take 60-90 days. I’m not sticking around for that! Not to mention the email I got last night when I was “technically informed” said everything was business as usual, well that isn’t true now, is it? Turkeys.

I’m sure you’re reading this thinking, “Has she learned her lesson yet?” And well that all depends on how you look at it. What I have learned….

• It only takes a few morons to really send a business down the tubes (phone people, bank, and a few other I can think of whom I won’t mention).
• I still love technology and miss the VOIP phone.

So I’m going to stick it out. It’s a bump in the road, ok a pot hole, but I’ve changed banks, stayed online, and I’m moving on.

Now to anyone that has a Bind-it-All, do you find the lack of good instructions really aggravating? I’m making a little book here, (which I had a paint disaster with yesterday), and I wanted the cover a bit bigger than the pages. Well I see the “tab” for it, but I have no idea how to implement it across the cover and pages and make it all line up correctly. I’m open to help/suggestions. For this project I bit the bullet and trimmed the cover to fit the pages because I just couldn’t fight the thing anymore. But I’d like to know for future reference.

I’m still training for my position at My Creative Classroom, and I will be for several weeks. Classes are to start up in November. If you haven’t done so yet, go sign up for the newsletter there. They are offering a week of free classes for newsletter subscribers.

FYI, there are 3 seats left for cards this time around and I’m also offering a techniques class this month on the 23rd. Check it out.

Happy Wednesday! Oh and thanks Becky for the comments! I LOVE comments. I get all excited when I see them pop in my inbox!

~j