Well here we go again. For the second time I'm trying to pose this. I lost everything I had written when I moved the mouse I have to use because the mouse pad doesn't work right. (which I'm still waiting for the box so I can send it back for the second time)
In case you don't follow me on Face Book I'm moving (hopefully) on August 15th. I say hopefully because I still haven't finished the paperwork for this place and I haven't heard from my Section 8 case worker. I only found out a little while ago that they had the paperwork for me to finish here and that they haven't heard from my case worker which prompted me to make a call to her. That was a royal pain since I only had her first name written down but now I know her last name and extension so if I need to I can call her when ever. I'll probably be making a few calls to her today because I've not had good luck with those people calling me back. It seems that they don't care if you have questions about things. I was told to call her if I did but when I do I don't get any answers.
Well back to the subject at hand. In anticipation of moving I had my cable (TV, phone and internet) shut off so I wouldn't have a bill to pay in August as I'm going to be spending most of my money on the move. I will have to pay this months rent where I am, rent for the month of August in the new apartment plus half the security deposit for the new apartment. Now I know your wondering why I have to pay a full months rent here and in the new place and that's because that's the way this place works. If you move in on the 15th you still pay the full month and they send you a check for the prorated amount. So I'll be getting a check bad from them for half the month in this apartment, half the month in the new apartment and the security deposit on this apartment. Of which I will end up using to finish paying the security deposit on the new apartment. So that doesn't leave money to pay a cable bill for the month of August. And besides that my contract ran out on August 6th and I was being billed individually for each of the services I was getting. When I opened the e-mail with the bill for August I almost had a heart attack wondering how could it be this high. So I called and found out that after the contract was up I would be billed for the individual services at the normal price. What I ended up doing is having the new services start the 22 of August in my new place under my name instead of transferring the services in my friends name. I knew that there was a reason I was paying off the old bill in my name. (other than to clear my credit) If I had tried to transfer the services from one apartment to another AND change the name I would have not been eligible for the rate that I'm getting as a new customer so I'm glad I did it the way I did.
But in the mean time I'm without TV. Most of the time it was just background noise to listen to but there were a few shows I followed faithfully and now I can't watch them for a month. One of them was Deadliest Catch which had it's season finale the day after I shut off the cable. I don't think Discovery channel has a On Demand channel that I can catch the last show on at someone else's house and I'm very upset that I missed the 2 hour show. I have to see if one of my friends that has cable will let me watch the show if we find out Discovery channel has an On demand feature. I'd love to see how this season ends. I'm really hoping that Jake and Josh end up getting to be the captains of the Cornelia Marie next year. It would make their father Phil Harris proud if they took it over.
So I guess I can say I'm a TV, internet junkie. I can't live without either of them. The phone yeah I can live without that to a point and that's why I have the cell. Of course having the mobility problems I have and not being hooked up to life line means I have to carry the cell with me at all times which sucks but hey what can you do about that? It's easier just to push the button on my necklace and have them call the police, ambulance whatever than for me to call on the cell and be transferred to Oxford from the state police. I pay for that convenience and when I get moved I'll get it back. I just have to find out who to call to do that.
I am in complete withdrawal from TV and internet. I have to go to my friend's house to log in and check my e-mails and such. It's a pain in the butt which is going to get even bigger because I finally got the box to send my computer back in. I have to do that at the beginning of the month when I have the money to have UPS come out and get it. That sucks. I'm going to be taking back the computer that I gave my oldest son for a while so I can keep up on Face Book and such. I just wish I knew someone who would let me splice into their cable so I could watch TV. Not having it sucks. And I won't have it for a week after I move into my new place either. I'm still trying to figure out where everything is going to go in the new place on top of things.
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