Cell Phones, Driver's License Renewal and Power of Attorney.

Is it possible that my cell phone service has gotten worse since Daniel moved to Chattanooga four months ago? Maybe I just notice now that he is gone.

It has been ridiculously frustrating to try to have conversations when half of the time it sounds like this:

"Can you hear me now?"

"How about now?"

"Hello."

"Are you there?"

"What about now?"

Arrrrgggghhhhh!!!!

We actually had a conversation earlier where I was able to hear every bit of his order at the drive through of Chick-Fil-A, but as soon as he started talking to me again, it cut out!

Our patience on the cell phone issue is seriously wearing thin. Thank goodness we will be together soon.

I received a notice in the mail today saying my driver's license expires this year. I guess that makes it a good time to move...

Daniel set up power of attorney for me today so that he can skip out on the official closing of the house. Not sure how things are actually going to pan out with that. 

We have work scheduled for everyday next week... porch repairs scheduled for Monday, roof replacement scheduled for Tuesday, window replacement on Wednesday, siding on Thursday/Friday. Movers will be here Wednesday/Thursday. And then an appraiser is supposed to come by Friday to approve everything.

After all of this work is done, we are still going to be waiting for a final check from the insurance company for the roof/siding work. Daniel is working out the details of how we can sell a house that we still owe money on repairs for. 

In addition, it is supposed to rain EVERY DAY next week. Please pray for sunshine so this stuff can get finished. I really need to be with my husband and not stuck in Charlotte in an empty house.

Can you hear me now?

Several years ago, Daniel and I had a phone plan through Cingular. Then the company merged and we ended up with AT&T. Around 3 years ago, AT&T and SunCom decided to do a business deal and swapped a percentage of their customers... we ended up getting swapped... we did not really have a choice.

All along, we have had a really great rate with free nights that started at 7:00 p.m. This has been particularly useful since most of our family and friends are in the Central time zone and we are on Eastern. We have also had free nationwide - a must since we drive so far, so often.

Up until now, SunCom has basically served us well. We have definitely had some irritating moments - mostly to do with the AT&T and SunCom swap, but overall, mostly decent service. One other problem has been the fact that service in our house can be spotty - which can sometimes be a pain since we have not had a land line in several years.

Back in May, I was traveling to visit my family in Arkansas. Angela picked me up in Memphis and AS SOON as we got into Arkansas, I had NO RECEPTION. I am not just talking about in the boondocks, I mean everywhere. I mean in Searcy (the home of Harding University where thousands of students from all 50 states and many countries live and go to school). Of all places, I would expect Searcy to have coverage.

Daniel called SunCom asking, after years of nationwide that covered Searcy, why (all of a sudden) we would no longer have coverage. They did not have a good answer. Really they had no answer. So for us, if SunCom will not cover the places we go (nationwide), then we can no longer continue to use them.

After some discussion, we decided that it was more important to have consistent (true) nationwide coverage as opposed to hanging onto SunCom and the free-after-7:00 nights. So as of Monday we are with Verizon (Angela and Mark - you can now stop bugging me about our outdated phones). It would seem that we have much better coverage in our house and hopefully this weekend's trip to Arkansas will prove they have much better coverage than SunCom... can you hear me now?