Another date with the Nevada DMV

Moving to a new state is surely a lot more work than I had expected. I've told you of my two wondrous experiences with the Nevada DMV and now I have another bone to pick with them. Once you decide to claim residency in another state of course they want you to obtain their license and registration so they can make their money off of you. I was fine with this as I didn't want to pay those nasty CA taxes anymore. It sure has made a big difference in my pay check, even with the pay cut to come here. 

The greatest task I had when moving was to choose a new car insurance carrier. I called around to a few different agencies and finally decided on AAA since they are a very reputable company and surprisingly had a competitive price. I paid the 6 month premium and about a week later received a letter in the mail telling me they screwed up and I now owe them 14 more dollars. Well, I could have really cared less why, so I sent them off a check. It's now 2 months later and now they are telling me they REALLY screwed up and I owe them another 500, almost twice the amount of my entire premium. So, as you can see I was pretty sick of them at this moment and had decided to once again change carriers. 

Today I received another quote and to be sure this one wasn't going to get screwed up the lady took down my VIN numbers and my new NV license info. Everything was going along just fine until she couldn't figure out why my license report wasn't coming up. She suggested that I go to the NV DMV website and order myself a copy for a mere $7 dollars. I wanted to get this insurance switch over as quickly as possible and definitely didn't want to go down to the local DMV office so I decided to take her advice. As my report was pulling up I noticed something really wrong with the report. It said the status of my license was CANCELED. 

Seriously Nevada!! I just can't handle this DMV anymore. Apparently when they accidentally forgot to put the “A” restriction on my license and I had to come back and take another picture, I was also unable to return that same day and came back to the DMV a dew days later. They made me pay another $3 dollars for the photo, I completed another application and the license was on its way. I ended up receiving both licenses, the first was the invalid one and the second, the one I am currently using is apparently now canceled. Of course today was Saturday so I could get nothing accomplished, so now on Monday I am going to have to fight to get this fixed and I'm not going to pay another $7 dollars for their mistake. I will show them who is boss! HAHA!

For the Love of Snow

So today was a pretty rough day for me and the snow. Over the weekend I was down in Southern California visiting friends and while it was raining there, it was dumping snow at my house in Nevada. I was worried about the amount of snow we actually got in one day. My brother sent me pictures of the house and it was covered in snow. I started thinking about my car just sitting there day after day with the snow piling up and I new I would be in for a surprise when I got home. My flight back home was delayed over an hour, which put the time of me getting home after midnight and I wasn't about to deal with my car then.
I woke up this morning and figured I needed to give myself about 30 minutes to deal with the snow before I headed to work. Boy, was I sure wrong! I haven't had to deal with too much snow since I moved here, the occasional scraping off the windows was about the only task I had to do. But not today, the snow was piled high on top of the car and frozen ice was all over the windows. Struggling to get all the snow off the car with my 5'2" frame I started getting really frustrated. Shoveling, brushing, scraping, and all of this was not doing much to the snow and ice. Of course, I had left my snow boots inside the car and after I had gotten my nice leather boots all full of snow walking out there, I really could have cared less.  It also didn't help that the snow plow was on our street making huge piles of snow around my car for me to step in. I started to cry in frustration, thinking to myself that I'm just not cut out for this kind of stuff. But then started laughing at the poor job I was doing getting the snow off since it kept falling off the roof and onto my face and clothes. Finally over an hour of scraping it was driveable and I was on my way to work......45 minutes late

A New Low

So, the other day I was sick of being a lazy human and decided I was going to go get the Jillian Michael's 30 day shred video. There isn't a convenient gym, the closest being 20 miles from my house, so, my living room has become my pilates studio. I have heard from other people who have tried this video and all of them have said that ts difficult. Of course, I had to have it THAT day, so I went on my search. It was no where to be found at Target but Wal-Mart had it so I set out on my lunch break to acquire said video.  Let me tell you that it sure feels weird strolling into Wal-Mart while wearing a suit. I received a ton of funny looks but really didn't care since I was on a mission. Of course I couldn't leave that place with just the video, I decided to do some grocery shopping as well.
Finally at the check out counter I used my best points card, my Wells Fargo Credit Card (SHAMELESS PLUG HERE). I try to use it as much as possible when buying things since my friend Robyn convinced me that it is best to earn something free while you are spending money. The cashier proceeded to run my card when this little message came up....SUPERVISOR APPROVAL REQUIRED. I was shocked to see this and since I don't shop at Wal-Mart very often, I wasn't sure what it meant. The supervisor came over to check things out and I was told I needed another form of payment. Confused as to why this was happening to ME, since I work for the bank and know my balances. I proceeded to give the cashier my debit card, as the balding homeless lady was snickering behind me. Thankfully that card went through since I had experienced enough embarrassment for the day. I left Wal-Mart and just blew the whole incident off thinking it must have been there computer systems and it wasn't until I tried to make my next purchase that I realized my credit card had expired. I first cursed the WF credit card company for not sending me a new one on time and then realized that I had seen it come in the mail. It was sitting at home unactivated and I could have forgone all the embarrassment at Wal-Mart if I just would have activated the card in the first place.  Lesson learned and a new low I felt that day.

Officially an American

It would surprise most people to find out that I have never hit a baseball before. I know it sounds crazy but its true. My parents already had two sons when I was born and my mom didn't want another, so it was dance and cheerleading for me. I played a few other sports such as golf and tennis but never tried my hand at baseball or softball. Since baseball is Dan's sport I asked him to teach me how to play.
The other day Dan and I decided to find some indoor batting cages down in Reno. It took us a few hours looking on online and calling every wrong number that was listed to finally find one. To our surprise it was super nice and even had a bar inside to make it a little more fun.
I started out in the 45 mph baseball cage and I was surprised at how well I was doing. Then went over to the slow pitch softball which was even easier. After about an hour of being there my hands were aching so we decided to go home. Next time we will remember to bring batting gloves.
Everyone has been teasing me lately about being "Un-American," to have never hit a baseball, tried meatloaf or a Philly cheesesteak. I just recently tried a pot roast and I am making my way to the other so called "American" items I have never tried.

Winter Wonderland

For the last month that I have been here we've been having really great weather. Now when I say great I mean 30-40 degrees without snow. I used to think that 60 degrees was cold and now I'm driving with my window down when it's 35 out. How things sure change! Last week we had that pretty big storm so there was lots of snow everywhere. Dan and I decided to get into our snow gear and head outside for a walk. We stopped on my front lawn to make snow angels first and here are the pictures. I think mine looks the most like an "angel." =) I didn't last out there very long, after about 5 minutes I was too cold and ready to go back inside. So much for our walk in the snow.