Another false start

Another false start to Spring. It’s freezing again today so I had to remove the cat door. There is talk of snow on Sunday. Shriek! Even I – who loves winter – have had enough of this one.

My next problem is my T-Mobile account. Well – in December my contract with T-Mobile expired and silly me – not realizing that the end was near – took out a new two year contract for the latest iPhone.

So I am stuck with this – which is fair enough – but my attempts to deal with the problem with T-Mobile have not met with a great deal of success. They lack inflexibility.

Can I cancel my contract?            Nein

Can I pay it out?      Nein

Can I change the monthly payments – because I will not be using it? Nein

Can I use my iPhone in America? Nein

Is there anything at all I can do? Nein

Can I stick my head up a dead bear’s bum”? Ja

Well of course what I can – and will - do is just cancel my credit card and T-Mobile will no longer get their money. This may focus their attention on the problem and we can reach an agreement.

Tomorrow we are going on a three day trip to the Romantik Strasse in Germany.

This is my favorite kind of trip as there are lots of ruins and castles. These bring me out in a rash but I have ointment which I can apply so the discomfort is  bearable provided it does not go on too long. And they have wine in Germany.

I will attempt to blog.

This time it's real

I was overcome with Springiness today and went for my first bike ride of the season. There are supposed to be lots of bicycle tracks in Indianapolis – we shall see.

I was also so confident that winter is over that I re-installed the cat door and Monika and Sissi did some basking in the warm sunshine.

I had my last fire on Monday night and got rid of the remaining wood. Another thing I can cross off the list.

The cats have their flight booked. They are apparently flying Swissair – which is good because they have flat beds on their long distance flights.

I will have to be content with United.

My man in the USA has assured me that he will not be closing our account and that it will indeed remain open until we arrive. He also said that as an added bonus they are paying us interest – at the fabulous rate of 0.1% per annum.

And I have had to adjust the comments settings on my blog. I was getting an enormous amount of spam – lots of which was getting through – but did not realize that I could exclude ‘anonymous’ posts. I have done this and it has fixed the problem.

There are still a very few blogs that I read that have that dreadful word verification thingy – but it is just too difficult to comment – so I don’t.

Another stamp in the cat passport

The cats had their second visit to the vet today for more rabies shots and got another stamp in their passports. The vet is now muttering about another visit for blood tests but I need to check with the pet removal people to see what I actually need to get the cats into the USA.

I have not heard back from my ‘Financial Wellness Expert’ about the account closing scenario  and – things being the way they are – I guess the account will in fact be closed on 4 April and we will have to start again as soon as we get there. I hope they give me my money back.

I had these grand plans that when we go on our house hunting trip on 1 April we would find the perfect house and would be able to buy it and move in as soon as we got there.

I regret to say that there are very many obstacles in the way of this ideal scenario and we will just have to move into temporary accommodation. We have been provided with a list of potential properties – all as equally gruesome as each other – and will have to make a choice when we go there in April.

On the bright side – I am becoming an expert on buying a house in the USA and am on my second read of ‘Home Buying for Dummies’. I have identified some of the many hoops through which we must jump and – after all these years – finally know what ‘escrow’ is.

Oh – and it’s snowing again here. What the………….