We Won!

So, as you may recall we have been battling the big evil home warranty company. The short version is that while they pretended to be decent for a year and do what we paid them for (with enough prodding), right before our renewal period they morphed into an evil company. They lied to us and about us and refused to honor the contract. This would be the dryer incident. So we decided that we didn't want to renew with them after all and told them we were cancelling our renewal. Mind you that this was before the renewal date. We were not so kindly informed that the cancellation fee was $300 (renewal fee was $339), even though it was not yet the renewal date. It didn't take long to realize that any logic was lost on them and we resorted to disputing the charge with the credit card company. We had our doubts about whether we would be successful since it was taking so long and the credit card lady seemed to be having a lot of trouble understanding the concept of a home warranty. However, Mike noticed on our credit card statement yesterday that we've been credited the renewal fee so we won! We feel a little like David bringing down Goliath. Just in case you're interested. We had National Home Protection and (obviously) don't recommend them. We googled them after we started having trouble and there's a lot of unhappy people with them trying to file a class action lawsuit now and dealing with the attorney general. Since we got our money back we're not interested in all that, but I just thought I'd share for anyone who is researching home warranties.

Guess we'll have to start going to reunions...

This weekend I was in Chicago for a college friend's wedding. We were never able to find super-cheap airfare so Mike stayed home and worked on the yard. I roomed with several of my college girlfriends who also left their husbands at home and had a really fun weekend. It was great to catch up with all the Trinity folks that came to the wedding. And with 4 girls in one room, "adult libations", dancing and a hot tub I started having flashbacks to college. Of course the problem with acting like I'm back in college for the weekend is that I'm not back in college, I'm 30, and I had a huge presentation on Monday morning. I've decided that I'm officially too old to behave like I'm 20 anymore. At one point in the evening though I realized that with the exception of a few people that everyone there would be married by the end of the year. I haven't been back to any of the official Trinity reunions because I see so many people at weddings instead. Guess we'll have to start going to reunions....