MeghanIsMe

Stuff from yesterday:

I went to the dog park with the intent of walking for an hour while Ella ran around, but the whole place was like walking through a living cloud of mosquitoes. Someone even gave me some bug spray and they were *still* getting me. Ugh. I left after about 10 minutes.

In the evening, I unexpectedly smelled a burning-related smell and had a rush of fear. I had to be 100% sure that the smell was outside (it was) before that fear reduced. I'm not sure if it was the wildfire smoke making it to southern Saskatchewan or if it was neighbors barbecuing, or what. But I closed the windows again.

Also yesterday evening, with the kitchen cabinetry being installed in the condo in the near future, Miriam and I talked about still not knowing how insurance is going to pay for appliances, what our budget for them is, when they should be chosen, or anything like that. At some point, our adjuster said that they would be covered by the condo corporations policy not ours.

We asked the rebuild manager, Pamela, who's been managing lighting, plumbing, flooring, cabinetry, and just about everything, about it. She said we should ask our insurance adjuster. We asked him and he said we should talk to the condo board and/or their adjuster. We asked them and they said we should talk to the contractor that is doing the work. We thought that was Pamela, since her title is flooring/rebuild manager and told the condo adjuster she told us to talk to our insurance.

The condo adjuster said we should talk to a project manager at the company Pamela is with and that Pamela is a flooring manager, not a project manager, so she can't help us with this. Her title in her email signature is flooring/rebuild manager, but ok. Now we're waiting on hearing from a different person at Pamela's company.

We are having some anxiety that it will turn out *nobody* is paying for the appliances and that they will come out of our personal possessions fund in direct contradiction to what our adjuster told us months ago, but he's a crappy communicator so it could happen. We have not been budgeting any of that for replacing appliances, so that would throw a wrench in things.

We also were just told, by the condo insurance adjuster, that our stove will *not* be covered because it caused the fire. If our adjuster didn't suck at his job, we would have known that *long* ago and been able to plan around it.

There's been just one really competent person in all of this; Pamela. Her communication is great and she gets shit done. We're going to send her an email once this is all over telling her how much we appreciate her unusual and remarkable level of effectiveness. She's really been a pleasure to work with.
And lastly, it just feels petty to me to not cover the stove, you know?

We had a longish email conversation with the person working with us on picking tile for our condo. I knew that it was a bit lengthy, so at the end, I sent an email that I tried to make very brief and clear.

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Hi X,

To confirm our choices:

We would like to use the Argile #ARG27567 in Ice for the area in front of the fireplace.
We would like it laid horizontally (with long side parallel to the fireplace opening) with 1/3 overlap staggering.

We would like the Artisan Aqua 2.5 x 8 #AR24468 for the shower wall.
We would like it laid vertically (with short side parallel to the floor), with 1/3 overlap staggering.
Please let us know if you have any questions.

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The purchase order the rep sent for us to sign described the fireplace tiles as "to be laid long-side parallel to the floor." We've already had issues where they recommended two different tiles for the floor in front of the fireplace only for us to look them up and find they aren't rated for floor use. They're going ON THE FLOOR! ON THE FLOOR! Parallel to the floor has no meaning in this context!

Also, and to be fair my summary email did not mention the grout we talked about, but the order only mentioned one of the two grouts we picked and did not indicate which tiles it was to be used with.
Also also, the purchase order had the condo address and our phone number wrong.

Also also also, this person CONTINUALLY fails to include one or the other of us in emails. Miriam and I always CC each other on these, and the company rep *never* includes the CCd person in their responses.
I jus wonder, sometimes, how some people are able to keep their jobs.