September 2023; What's Cooking ?

bethk wrote:No cooking tonight......

It's been "ONE-OF-THOSE-DAYS"


I picked up our mail today ~ it's delivered to a central location instead of at our home and we have to retrieve it during the hours they deem appropriate ~ which is inconvenient at best.  But, I digress.....we received a notice that our homeowner's insurance will be cancelled on Labor Day if a sizeable check isn't received prior to 09-04-23.  

Turns out our mortgage holder failed to pay the proper amount and it took me over 2 hours on the phone to convince the mortgage company of the problem and how it had to be taken care of TODAY.  It amazes me how difficult some people can be ~ I tried my hardest to be civil but it wasn't easy.

I had to send copies of the original billing (that they had in their records but had failed to scan all the pages) and then explain and re-explain they read the bill incorrectly.  Our home insurance and auto insurance is on the same policy and they paid the amount for our auto policy instead of the (larger) home owner's insurance policy.  It really is quite clear IF YOU HAVE ALL THE PAGES but some idiot decided the 'back' of page one wasn't necessary to scan and they only had Page 1 and Page 3.......    ((  sigh  ))

So, if another hurricane happens between now and September 5th, I may be $hit outta luck.....

I hate problems.

I don't want anything to eat...........

I'm drinking Scotch and with any luck I'll just pass out and sleep all night...........

bethk wrote:I had to head to my insurance office this morning to get the cancellation of homeowners' insurance reinstated.....I knew the payment from the mortgage company wouldn't be there by this morning.  

So, I explained to the agent what the problem was and suggested I just pay the amount via my credit card ~ I just wanted to be sure once the mortgage company did send payment I'd be able to get a credit on my credit card.  My agent assured me when the over payment was made then the insurance company would issue a refund check.  Not surprisingly, this sort of thing happens quite often.

So, our home is again covered against any loss that might befall us in the near future.

I had difficulty sleeping for the last couple nights.....sure that it was this problem weighing on my mind......nightmares about fire, flood and a giant sinkhole swallowing up our home.........

((   sigh   ))

Thank God it's back on track....

bethk wrote:From Lore:


"Dinner Stuffed pepper, yellow gold potato half, lettuce, onion, tomato salad with simple oil, lemon, salt  and pepper dressing."