Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
I haven’t been blog writin’ lazy, just full o’ bad luck
I wrote this about two weeks ago, but I didn’t feel like editing it, so it’s just been sitting here. I may as well just publish it. Please edit it in your head. (whoops, I had two versions saved for some reason and it looks like I deleted the long one. Oh well, you didn’t miss anything. 
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I somehow missed one of those “last notice before we turn off your service” letters from my cable company, and I thought my due (or die) date was a week after it apparently was, but also, the cable company has always made a few days worth of phone calls to remind me that I’m about to lose my lifeline to the world. This time, they did not. And sadly, all of our lifelines to the outside world (phone, internet, and tv…although, we discovered that the tv still worked, so at least we were able to watch the Stanley Cup playoffs) were in the hands of a single company, and I couldn’t afford the amount they wanted to turn the service back on. It felt really lame and depressing. I’ve never in my whole life lost my phone or internet service. I lost a car, but the internet is actually more important to us, because without it, we can’t make any money. It was weird and isolating. We have a cell phone, but we’ve been trying to sell it because it’s a pay-per-use phone that requires a top-up every three months of $15 to keep the account. We very rarely use the phone, so it has more than $200 of credit on it, which the company won’t allow us to have back; hence, the reason we wanted to sell it and start over with a new account. We’ve had the account for around five years and the most we’ve ever used the phone was for a few minutes here and there, every few months or so. Plus, we used it to take pictures occasionally when we were out. So, while we weren’t cut off totally, we didn’t want to use up the credit on the phone because we still want to sell it. Plus, it’s a bit pricey for just random chatting. The text messages though, at 15 cents each, were kind of a bargain (compared to 25 cents/minute for talking), so we learned how to send text messages to a few people, so friends and family were aware that we were weren’t dead.
After a week of being cut off from the world, we got our service back, which was good. Although, toward the end of that bad week, things in life got much worse than just not having a phone or an internet connection. I had to pick up a certified letter that my letter carrier only tried to deliver once. That letter? It said that our house was due to be auctioned on Thursday (that date is now June 1st - I’m not sure what’s going to happen, but I’m hoping that money will fall from the sky and someone will be able to buy the house in a short sale for pocket change and rent it back to us). Some people think my blog is supposed to be rainbows and kittens all the time, no matter how crappy I feel, so I suppose I’m also supposed to keep my financial problems to myself, too. Well, I’m not gonna. While I feel like a total loser for having lost my car and having my house in foreclosure, I’m not into keeping secrets. I didn’t do anything to deserve this other than herniating a disk and having Fibromyalgia, so I’ve ended up with lots of medical bills and the inability to run right out and get myself two jobs to help remedy the situation. I’d love nothing more than to be able feel like a normal person and be able to pull myself up by my “bootstraps”, only I don’t have anything I can pull up. I can push myself extra hard, but all it will do is make me feel lousy for longer afterwards. Blech, it sucks.
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