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Today I found out that I make to much money to get emergency food stamps. I find that interesting because I do not alot that much money to replace everything in my refrigerator and freezer on a monthly basis. Open the frig and look inside. You have your salad dressings, eggs, milk, butter, onions, other veggies, fruit, mayo, cheese, pickles and good grief an assortment of other things in there if you are like me and keep a stocked frig. I'll be buying a bit here and a bit there to refurbish the frig. My freezer, on the other hand, looks dead. Darn meat is expensive!
I got a call from the FEMA man. "I'm sorry but I had a problem with my computer and lost all of your information". Wonderful. After giving him the details, social security numbers and what not, he asked me again what my damages were. *sigh* I politely asked him if he would like to come back out and take a look around. He said that we could just do it by phone. So I gave him the damages again, NICELY, and advised him if he needed anything else to call. My homeowners insurance, on the other hand, advised me they will not do anything until after Hurricane Ike. Thank you very much.
Getting through to the phone comany and the cable company about the lines being down in my yard is a joke. All I have gotten is transferred from one person to another because I have service. Yes, I have service because the wires are still connected to the pole, but they need to be tightened up or whatever it is you people do as they are lying on the ground. It was like no one understood.
In the meantime, Hurricane Ike seems to be blowing to the west of us and for that I am thankful but wish my friends and family in Texas the best. I should get some rain and a bit of wind, squally type tropical weather, so this will be a good test for the tarp on my roof. Heaven knows when that will get fixed. I can't even get a roofer to come give me an estimate.
On a good note though, I just about got my yard cleaned up and looking pretty again. I am sore in places I never knew I had muscles until I started raking. Whew, what an upper body workout! And my legs have been sore for some reason that I can only figure is from stooping so much. I tend to take showers and leave baths for when I'm stressed, but lately I have been enjoying a good soak each night. A bit of lavender in the water and you feel like a new woman.
I am tired and hopefully I'll sleep tonight.
Ciao!
I got a call from the FEMA man. "I'm sorry but I had a problem with my computer and lost all of your information". Wonderful. After giving him the details, social security numbers and what not, he asked me again what my damages were. *sigh* I politely asked him if he would like to come back out and take a look around. He said that we could just do it by phone. So I gave him the damages again, NICELY, and advised him if he needed anything else to call. My homeowners insurance, on the other hand, advised me they will not do anything until after Hurricane Ike. Thank you very much.
Getting through to the phone comany and the cable company about the lines being down in my yard is a joke. All I have gotten is transferred from one person to another because I have service. Yes, I have service because the wires are still connected to the pole, but they need to be tightened up or whatever it is you people do as they are lying on the ground. It was like no one understood.
In the meantime, Hurricane Ike seems to be blowing to the west of us and for that I am thankful but wish my friends and family in Texas the best. I should get some rain and a bit of wind, squally type tropical weather, so this will be a good test for the tarp on my roof. Heaven knows when that will get fixed. I can't even get a roofer to come give me an estimate.
On a good note though, I just about got my yard cleaned up and looking pretty again. I am sore in places I never knew I had muscles until I started raking. Whew, what an upper body workout! And my legs have been sore for some reason that I can only figure is from stooping so much. I tend to take showers and leave baths for when I'm stressed, but lately I have been enjoying a good soak each night. A bit of lavender in the water and you feel like a new woman.
I am tired and hopefully I'll sleep tonight.
Ciao!