i don’t give a FUCK if my brother yells at me for it.

fuck him too.

she is 13 and all her friends think “pimpin’” is cool.

i asked if she knew what a pimp was. she didn’t.
i asked if she knew what a prostitute was. she didn’t (!!!).
i told her what a prostitute is.
then i explained what a pimp is, and what he does. especially the part about keeping “his” girls hooked on drugs, taking all their money and doing none of the work, beating them up if they try to keep money or run away, etc.
i asked her if she thought that was cool.

she didn’t.

your link “add your school”
appears higher on the page
than your “safety” link.

i don’t understand
why you must appear shirtless
you are just fourteen!!

our verizon contract is up and boy has had his eyes on a nextel ruggedized phone for the longest time. so i priced out all the companies and compared their perks and penalties. t-mobile and nextel tied for best price, with different perks: t-mobile had a camera phone and data package, but no ruggedized phones. nextel had ruggedized phones and walkie talkie with no data package. last time i bought phones boy yelled at me for not buying camera phones which i think is stupid because i have a camera and i needed a phone. so then i got the idea that next time around i would get the camera phone and the data package, and he agreed. that was before he found out we couldn’t have it plus the rugged phone without paying a lot more. so i gave up the idea, which i had sort of come to look forward to having. and now his phone is rugged.

what i want is opinions on nextel’s customer service, because i placed our order online two nights ago, and they left me a message asking for me to call and give more info for the credit check. here is what happened next.

i did not have the phone number they left in the message which goes directly to the right dept. so i went to their site, logged in to check my order status, and called the toll-free number which appears on the page.

the first guy i got asked me for all my info including order number which i gave him. he spent a LOT of dead air time “looking at the account” before finally telling me i had to be transfered somewhere else. which i expected, so i waited patiently. the next girl on the line asked for my PIN code. i told her i only had an order number and explained my situation, which puzzled her. she transfered me somewhere else, where the lady answered the phone “thank you for calling alltel, america’s largest network”. this confused me somewhat but i assumed i’d heard wrong and launched into the explanation. she was also confused and asked me if i was a dealer or a customer. i told her neither, yet, because they wouldn’t help me complete my order. she transfered me again. a really nice guy answered “thank you for calling alltel, may i have your vendor number please?” at which point i stopped him and said, “wait, did you say ALLTEL? not NEXTEL?” he kind of laughed and said he was sure it was alltel. i told him alltel was my first choice but they don’t offer service in my state yet. then i asked him how on earth nextel customer service transfered me to alltel vendor service. he didn’t have an answer and wished me luck in reaching nextel.

the second time i called, same number, a woman answered and was quicker to figure out where to transfer me. in the process she disconnected me.

i called my voicemail and wrote down the number nextel left there, and called them directly. after five minutes on hold, i clicked the web chat button on their site. a sales rep quickly came on, and i explained my situation with my order number. his response (no lie) was to paste the link for “check order status” page, like i didn’t do that already. then he typed “it looks like it’s in progress.” which doesn’t fucking tell me anything at all. i told him i was returning nextel’s phone call and he goes, “did they give you a number to call?” so i told him thanks for nothing and signed off.

finally at the number they left on my voicemail i got a girl who was nice and knowledgeable and who listened to my story in amazement, then apologized. i told her i knew it wasn’t her fault and asked her what info they needed. she proceeded to ask me if my address was still 123 cherry lane (in case it changed from two days ago) and finally told me my credit was approved with no deposit required. turns out there was a conflict with my zip code in their system which happens a lot.

is this a harbinger of things to come with nextel? we used to be with sprint and their customer service was horrid. verizon we have really had very few issues with, but they aren’t outstanding. i am hoping and praying nextel will be good for us, and that in 2 years when my nextel contract is up i can switch to alltel (their “my circle” feature is just what the doctor ordered).

input welcome.

i had wp set to email me every time a comment needed moderation, and the recent spam attack (300+ comment spam in one day) got my hosting co’s attention. they thought i was spamming myself. ha! i changed the wp setting and now all is well. i think.

i can’t speak for the other girls who i assume are fine. but i am fine. tired and in debt and overworked but fine.

there is too much comment spam here!! i am so tired of cleaning the blog.

i just got an e-mail from my hosting company saying “hey, we noticed you are sending out bulk e-mails, which we don’t agree with, but you’re free to do it, read our spam policy, your account will be disabled if you send more than 200 an hour.”

????????????????????

if they spent five minutes with me they would realize that i check my email at home like once a MONTH because i cringe at having to weed out the bulk shit i get.

i emailed them to correct them (politely) and ask for any info they have, since i use a totally different smtp server than theirs anyhow. it annoys me that they think i’m a spammer, i feel my reputation has been sullied in the worst way! spamming is one of those crimes where even if you are exonerated people always think it about you…

i miss blog. i miss you guys. i miss the girls.