Dentist & Therapy

Tuesday I had a dentist appointment for a cleaning, Jennifer went with me as she had the day off so we made a shopping day out of it.  I do need my therapy.

I had written down that my appointment was at 10:00 am, so we got our lattes and headed to Billings, dropped Jennifer off at the mall.  She doesn't like to sit around the dentist office waiting for me.  I got to the dentist's office and I was an hour early.

No problem I can just come back.  Didn't want to wait for an hour anyways.  Sent Jennifer a message, she had to get some banking done, so we took care of that.  She had received a sizeable refund back from her credit card and she couldn't figure out why.  Didn't want to cash that check to find out that she somehow received a loan.  It was a legitimate refund, she somehow paid a bill three times.  Not sure how that happened but she did.  She was lucky that the credit card company was honest.  However it did take them several months to issue her the refund.  That was good news.

Time to get back to my dentist appointment, so dropped Jen off at the mall again, this time I had the time right.  Found out that the 10:00 never showed so I could have gotten in anyway.  Oh well.  My teeth are doing great since my accident.  It has been 5 years since I fell and I have healed up very nicely.  It has helped that I am keeping to my regular dentist appointments.  I am not going through all of that again.

My appointment took an hour, so picked up Jennifer.  I had some shopping to do at the mall anyway.  Back in June I won a $50 gift card to Scheels from work for logging in my walking.  I bought a new pair of running shoes.  Since I have turned 50 I have decided to become a runner.  That is the challenge to myself.  Actually the challenge is to run the 2 miles in next year's Montana Women's Run, so I'm getting in my practice now.  I have a 3.1 mile loop that I do through town, I walk the first 10 minutes which is about a half mile, then I run the rest.  I say run, Gary says jog.  Either way it is faster than my walking pace.  Got my new shoes, ran into a sale.  My shoes were originally priced at $100, but marked down to $80 because of a back to school sale, with my $50 gift card I only paid $30 for the shoes.

We then went to lunch and Jennifer wanted to upgrade her phone.  We have her on our plan she just pays her share.  Two weeks ago we talked to the cell phone people about upgrading.  Right now Jennifer and I have unlimited data plans on our smart phones.  I was told that if we bought a new phone outright we could keep the unlimited data plan.  Not so easy.  We would be able to keep the unlimited if we bought another 3G phone, the only problem they don't make 3G anymore, only the 4G.  With a 4G phone we are changing our plan so then we would be limited to 2 GB a month for internet.  Most people don't use that much, only if you stream a lot like watching movies or listening to a radio app.  They checked our usage and we don't use that much, I come close a couple times.  Things to think about.

Jennifer decided she wanted to upgrade, no sense in buying a new phone outright because no matter what we do we are going to be limited.  She decided to get the phone she wanted for $50 with a 2 year contract.  We went to Best Buy as that is where she found the phone she wanted.  The Verizon Store is more pricier for the same phone.

We talked to the salesman, got all the information.  The problem we ran into is that I was not authorized to make any updates to our account, only Gary could do this.  We went through this about 4 years ago and Gary called Verizon to get me authorized.  Well they didn't get me authorized.  I was upset, but understood.  Told the little salesman that I wasn't mad at him, just made at Verizon because silly me thought this problem was taken care of.  Had to wait to get home so that Gary could call.

Jennifer and I finished up our shopping then headed for home.  Jennifer took us out for supper then Gary called Verizon to get me authorized.  That in itself is quite a process and not an easy one.  I don't know how many prompts he had to go through, then he makes progress but had to call from a different phone.  He used mine and again went through several prompts.  I was getting frustrated and said I just want to talk to a live person.  Next thing I knew I had a live person on the line.  Handed the phone to Gary so that he could get me authorized, I couldn't do it.  This is Verizon's policy to cut down on fraud issues.  I can understand that.

According to Verizon I am now authorized to make changes to our account, I called Verizon this afternoon and was told that I am good to go.  We will find out tomorrow when Jennifer and I go back up to upgrade her phone.  We are going when I get off work.

I told Verizon that it sure is funny that I am authorized to make a payment, but can't upgrade.  What would have happened if Gary died.  Verizon told me that we would have to go through court.