Well that was fun...

We had an appt for the exterminator today to come between 8 and 10am. This was our "free" service call for problems between appts (ie, we still have horrible cockroaches so we're going to take all the spraying we can get!) with our monthly appt scheduled for end of next week. We would have preferred to have them come out last week, but couldn't get scheduled in. So this morning we all got early (well, I got up at my normal time, but immediatly got moving), got showered, dressed and spent a good bit of time pulling furniture away from walls and pulling stuff out of dressers/cabinets. Then we spent 2 hrs waiting. 10am rolls around and no exterminator. So DH calls the 800 number, they'll call us right back. Half an hour later I call them again. No explaination for why they didn't get back with us before, but this guy finds out that the exterminator never got our work order. Great. They found somebody else who can come out between 1 and 4 today. Fine, whatever. We run a few quick errands and then commence with waiting. DH goes to work, and I wait some more. Kids ask to do school, no sorry, don't want to get it all out and then have the guy show up. More waiting. 4:15 I call Terminex again. "It appears your service tech is delayed" Yeah, I noticed. So I told them this is what is going to happen. They were going to cancel my service for today, because I am done waiting. I've spent 6 hours of my day waiting already, plus time prepping for the visit and now clean-up. All for nothing. So the end of next week, they're goign to come out for our monthly visit like scheduled, but I am NOT going to pay for it. I refuse to put my house back together to make it through the night, just to pull it out again tomorrow and wait some more. I spent the next few hours trying to get my house back together, taking many frequent breaks, b/c there was lots of bending over and stretching and things like that that my belly did not like. A lot of furniture is still pulled out, b/c I need DH to push it back, but otherwise I got it all done. And next week I get to do it all over again, plus clean up dead cockroaches everywhere and wash all the dishes. Fun for me!!