Hey everyone!!
Sorry I disappeared off the face of.. well, the internet for so long. I'm in D.C.!! I'll be here for a month (although now, technically about 1.5 weeks more) helping my boyfriend move and get settled in to his new home, then I"ll be back! FYI- moving to D.C. is hard. It's especially hard when you're renting a car, have no apartment, and.. well, really those two things make a life I suppose.
Let's see... what happened in the last few weeks? We arrived in D.C. literally the night before my guy had to start his new job/orientation. But somehow we found time to- walk around the whole day in high humidity and heat looking for apartments, get stood up by an asshole realtor in a neighborhood with bars on all the windows, choose an apartment (not in said neighborhood), drive to Virginia to check out cars that had already been sold, drive to Maryland to check out cars that wouldn't start, drive back to Virginia to return rental car, sign the lease for the apartment, and move from our hotel to couch surf for nearly a week.
But the real saga begins here- we wanted to get a car. My guy drove across the country in a rental car since his old car had about 200k miles on it and no A/C. Not optimal conditions to drive through rainstorms and heat. So we discover from one of his coworkers this thing out here called CarMax. No haggling!!! Perfect. So we drive back out to Virginia, find the awesome car, decide that it's the one, and start the paperwork. It's Sunday, by the way, since the boyfriend has work every other day. But something's wrong with the loan. We'll have to come back tomorrow to get it figured out because the bank isn't open Sundays. No biggie, right?
Then, one of the employees at CarMax hear that my guy doesn't have a D.C. license. Oops. Apparently he has to get his license converted before they'll sell him the car. Ooookay. That's not TOO bad. We'll just go to the DMV (
) in the AM, figure out the loan stuff, and get the car at night.
So we get back, and I get online to find a nearby DMV and find out that the DMV isn't actually open Mondays. Double oops. I present my boyfriend with a list of "required documents" and he looks at me- totally freaked out. "SOCIAL SECURITY CARD??" Turns out, it MIGHT be in his moving pod that's locked away in a storage facility, ne'er to be seen until next Friday. So. Triple oops!
Instead of getting the car Monday, we instead spend the morning at a SSA office in a kinda ritzy neighborhood in Maryland, mistakenly believing that it would be faster and nicer there. It took about 2.5 hours to get a printout that took 30 seconds. (We then spent the rest of the day getting a public space permit from DDOT so that the moving pod can be delivered in the first place. 50 bucks, by the way.) Tuesday, we go to the DMV, which was amazingly smooth. Then we drive back out to Virginia to pick up the car, drive to Maryland to return the Jeep we borrowed from a coworker, and the next day, take the car back out to get inspected, and fax the proof over to CarMax. Thus endeth the car saga.
Wow... I have a really serious problem with epic blog posts. Next time, it'll be short and sweet.
Did I mention that we hate Comcast? Like... with a double vengeance. Like, I'm about to spend the next hour on the phone with them, because the service isn't working, even though they installed it last Friday, and my guy's been paying for nonexistent service. But will he get a discount? A refund? An apology? Nope. They'd be happy to send someone out to disconnect the fucking thing though.
Wish me luck!
Sorry I disappeared off the face of.. well, the internet for so long. I'm in D.C.!! I'll be here for a month (although now, technically about 1.5 weeks more) helping my boyfriend move and get settled in to his new home, then I"ll be back! FYI- moving to D.C. is hard. It's especially hard when you're renting a car, have no apartment, and.. well, really those two things make a life I suppose.
Let's see... what happened in the last few weeks? We arrived in D.C. literally the night before my guy had to start his new job/orientation. But somehow we found time to- walk around the whole day in high humidity and heat looking for apartments, get stood up by an asshole realtor in a neighborhood with bars on all the windows, choose an apartment (not in said neighborhood), drive to Virginia to check out cars that had already been sold, drive to Maryland to check out cars that wouldn't start, drive back to Virginia to return rental car, sign the lease for the apartment, and move from our hotel to couch surf for nearly a week.
But the real saga begins here- we wanted to get a car. My guy drove across the country in a rental car since his old car had about 200k miles on it and no A/C. Not optimal conditions to drive through rainstorms and heat. So we discover from one of his coworkers this thing out here called CarMax. No haggling!!! Perfect. So we drive back out to Virginia, find the awesome car, decide that it's the one, and start the paperwork. It's Sunday, by the way, since the boyfriend has work every other day. But something's wrong with the loan. We'll have to come back tomorrow to get it figured out because the bank isn't open Sundays. No biggie, right?
Then, one of the employees at CarMax hear that my guy doesn't have a D.C. license. Oops. Apparently he has to get his license converted before they'll sell him the car. Ooookay. That's not TOO bad. We'll just go to the DMV (
) in the AM, figure out the loan stuff, and get the car at night.
So we get back, and I get online to find a nearby DMV and find out that the DMV isn't actually open Mondays. Double oops. I present my boyfriend with a list of "required documents" and he looks at me- totally freaked out. "SOCIAL SECURITY CARD??" Turns out, it MIGHT be in his moving pod that's locked away in a storage facility, ne'er to be seen until next Friday. So. Triple oops!
Instead of getting the car Monday, we instead spend the morning at a SSA office in a kinda ritzy neighborhood in Maryland, mistakenly believing that it would be faster and nicer there. It took about 2.5 hours to get a printout that took 30 seconds. (We then spent the rest of the day getting a public space permit from DDOT so that the moving pod can be delivered in the first place. 50 bucks, by the way.) Tuesday, we go to the DMV, which was amazingly smooth. Then we drive back out to Virginia to pick up the car, drive to Maryland to return the Jeep we borrowed from a coworker, and the next day, take the car back out to get inspected, and fax the proof over to CarMax. Thus endeth the car saga.
Wow... I have a really serious problem with epic blog posts. Next time, it'll be short and sweet.
Did I mention that we hate Comcast? Like... with a double vengeance. Like, I'm about to spend the next hour on the phone with them, because the service isn't working, even though they installed it last Friday, and my guy's been paying for nonexistent service. But will he get a discount? A refund? An apology? Nope. They'd be happy to send someone out to disconnect the fucking thing though.
Wish me luck!
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mjb67:
happy birthday!!
phb:
Hope you had a wonderful birthday... and that the last six months since this update have also been good to you!