OK, I love my mom. She’s totally bad-ass and all around awesome.  With one exception: when she calls me at work on a Monday afternoon for two reasons.

• To let me know that the family dog Belgium had a litter of puppies…
• To ask for my address & to let me know that I needed to obtain some bank information for a branch that’s close to my work.

That’s it!!!!

Her response to that? Well I wanted to catch you before you left so you had time to head to the bank and you could e-mail me later on when you got home.  It’s called google mom.  You would be AMAZED at the information that you can find online. 😉

Bear in mind I live in one province, mommy dearest lives in another.  So when my mom’s number appears on my phone in the middle of a work day, I obviously assume the worst, have a mini stroke and then pick up the phone.

For that ^ >.<

Also, my cell company… GOOD LORD!

I have a plan that has 10 international buddies which should offer me unlimited calling to ten people of my choosing ALL ACROSS THE WORLD. Hence the term INTERNATIONAL.  So yeah I was a little pissy when I got a huge ass phone bill charging me for calling someone in Nebraska. Three times!  So I e-mail them and this is what the response that I got was:

Greetings Stephanie,

You’ve reached Amanda with Virgin Mobile and I would like to thank you for your patience while awaiting a response. I can certainly discuss your national Buddies. I completely understand where you’re coming from and why you’d like to ensure you’re being billed fairly.

National Buddies are for calling Canadian numbers while in Canada. Being able to call within Canada to a Canadian number is national calling. It appears your service is working perfectly based on the services you signed up for.

I trust this clears up how your Buddies work, Stephanie.

All the best,
Amanda

Listen up Amanda!

This don’t clear up shit! Why? Because I don’t have the national buddies plan, mine is supposed to be international!  *face palm*

On a final note, I’m going back to school.  I need a permanent code since I didn’t go to school in QC.  So I contacted the government authority that I was supposed to contact, and was a little taken aback by their response:

Greetings, 

Thank you for writing to the Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport. 

In response to your question, we would like to inform you that, in order to obtain a permanent code, you must present your immigration documents to the school where you want to study. They will then send a request to the MELS to have a permanent code assigned to you. However, please take note that, if you have submitted a request for financial assistance to a person responsible for international cooperation programs at the MELS, or to a person responsible for the faculty of graduate studies at your university, he or she will take care of requesting a permanent code for you. In any case, you must wait until you have received your documents from the Ministère de l’Immigration et des Communautés culturelles. 

We hope this information is to your satisfaction. 

Regards, 

Violaine Forget

Dear Violaine,

I’m a Canadian. WTF?!?