In every life a little rain must fall. And when it rains, it pours, amirite?
So it seems a lot of people on my friend's list are having pretty rough times (I love you guys!!) and I guess I am no different.
On the positive note today is Joe's birthday! He is twenty three now. I am so excited. :) I got him two different things this year: A new pair of plugs called Marstone and a neon 'Blue Moon' beer sign. The sign actually isn't here yet- though I hope it will arrive by Sunday which is when his family is celebrating his party. I'll present his plugs to him tomorrow. Here's hoping he likes 'em! (My dad already gave him his gift- two speedloaders for his gun.)
However there are some darker things on the horizon too.
Where to start first? Well, I guess money issues. So, for those who read some of my other entries, I owed about $300 from when I cut my hand open while cooking about two years ago. The bill was originally around $700. Well, I didn't have any insurance at the time, and I had lost my job at Target so I was pretty much screwed. I was only 18 and while I was trying to be responsible, my dad said he would handle it.
Well....he forgot.
So after a lot of rigmarole I ended up settling with them for $285 which I paid about a week ago. it hit my bank account hard as I still haven't recovered from my trip to New York (that and I had to assist Joe with his huge credit card bill that he had acculmated on our trip- and at the time he was jobless.) So I was obviously very relieved to be debt free again.
Or not.
So I got a letter yesterday saying that I owe $365, which was a settlement of the $700 I orignally owed. The letter said that if I didn't pay soon the offer would expire and two things would happen: 1.) I would owe the full price and 2.) It would show up on my credit report (which, to my knowledge, is quite good)
I called them this morning to figure out what the deal is, and according to the (incredibly rude) lady I talked to I have *not* paid then so I need to figure out what's going on. I certainly did pay someone and it was someone who was reputable enough to have all my medical information on file. So....what. So tomorrow I'm gonna call my Credit Union and see who I actually paid (I can't find the original mail I had with the contact info, and I can't remember the whole name of it) and work from there. I just hope that I don't have to shell out another $350. I'll probably be stuck with just around $150 in my account which is...very, very bad. This is awful. I'm really hoping that it's just some kind of horrible mix-up so I won't have to pay it. I'm not gonna put all my hope there though. I wish I didn't work tomorrow, of course I work 10:00-2:30, their hours. Hah. Well, I'll just have to call when I first get up.
Second bad news is my dad got a letter from the guy who owns the house and he either wants my dad to buy it or move out. Well...my dad doesn't have the money to buy the house, nor the credit to get a loan or another place. We also have two dogs, one of which is a boxer/pitbull mix that I couldn't bare to part with ever. Not to mention he hates this house and the location, but it's all he can afford. He's gonna call the guy tomorrow to try and figure something out but it could be awful. Really awful.
Third, Joe's sister Jessica was finally found. I'm not sure if I mentioned this or not, but she ran away from home. She's got a bunch of problems- she's 15 and so crazy into boys that she goes into awful mood swings. She's also more than likely Bipolar, but hasn't been taking her meds. She's almost like in her own little world. She ran away three weeks ago and lived with some 16 year old dude, swears she's pregnant and that they're gonna be married and all that junk. While the pregnant thing seems to be just wishful thinking on her part (at least according to the pregnancy test her mom gave her) she is being totally awful. Joe's mom, Christine, is a very sweet and loving woman who just wants to be close to Jessica, and even lets Jessica run all over her sometimes. She's in no way abusive, but Jessica has fabricated this off the wall reality where Christine is abusive and emotionally distant and uncaring, but it's totally untrue!
It's frustrating, to say the least, and has been weighing in on Joe hard. But since she's back we are going back to watching her on the weeknights again. So Mon-Thurs we will be babysitting her in the hope she won't jump out the second story window again to go out with her flavor of the week boytoy.
So...things have been kinda hard lately, but there has been good things too. I beat Ultimate Alliance 2 earlier today (I wanted to talk all about it but I'm getting tired now- basically it was awesome. Maybe I'll do a fuller review later on.), and I got Joe to watch "Mask of the Phantasm" with me, which is one of my all time favorite Batman movies. It's so touching! And of course, it's his birthday :DD
Well....work tomorrow. Also gotta call the bank and get information....figure out what to do about this sudden new debt...figure out if we're gonna have to move and where and how and what to do with the dogs...and stay in a house with no AC when it's around 100 degrees outside to watch a teenager who has run away more than Linkin Park.
Not thinking about it too much. Gotta stay positive, ya know?
On the positive note today is Joe's birthday! He is twenty three now. I am so excited. :) I got him two different things this year: A new pair of plugs called Marstone and a neon 'Blue Moon' beer sign. The sign actually isn't here yet- though I hope it will arrive by Sunday which is when his family is celebrating his party. I'll present his plugs to him tomorrow. Here's hoping he likes 'em! (My dad already gave him his gift- two speedloaders for his gun.)
However there are some darker things on the horizon too.
Where to start first? Well, I guess money issues. So, for those who read some of my other entries, I owed about $300 from when I cut my hand open while cooking about two years ago. The bill was originally around $700. Well, I didn't have any insurance at the time, and I had lost my job at Target so I was pretty much screwed. I was only 18 and while I was trying to be responsible, my dad said he would handle it.
Well....he forgot.
So after a lot of rigmarole I ended up settling with them for $285 which I paid about a week ago. it hit my bank account hard as I still haven't recovered from my trip to New York (that and I had to assist Joe with his huge credit card bill that he had acculmated on our trip- and at the time he was jobless.) So I was obviously very relieved to be debt free again.
Or not.
So I got a letter yesterday saying that I owe $365, which was a settlement of the $700 I orignally owed. The letter said that if I didn't pay soon the offer would expire and two things would happen: 1.) I would owe the full price and 2.) It would show up on my credit report (which, to my knowledge, is quite good)
I called them this morning to figure out what the deal is, and according to the (incredibly rude) lady I talked to I have *not* paid then so I need to figure out what's going on. I certainly did pay someone and it was someone who was reputable enough to have all my medical information on file. So....what. So tomorrow I'm gonna call my Credit Union and see who I actually paid (I can't find the original mail I had with the contact info, and I can't remember the whole name of it) and work from there. I just hope that I don't have to shell out another $350. I'll probably be stuck with just around $150 in my account which is...very, very bad. This is awful. I'm really hoping that it's just some kind of horrible mix-up so I won't have to pay it. I'm not gonna put all my hope there though. I wish I didn't work tomorrow, of course I work 10:00-2:30, their hours. Hah. Well, I'll just have to call when I first get up.
Second bad news is my dad got a letter from the guy who owns the house and he either wants my dad to buy it or move out. Well...my dad doesn't have the money to buy the house, nor the credit to get a loan or another place. We also have two dogs, one of which is a boxer/pitbull mix that I couldn't bare to part with ever. Not to mention he hates this house and the location, but it's all he can afford. He's gonna call the guy tomorrow to try and figure something out but it could be awful. Really awful.
Third, Joe's sister Jessica was finally found. I'm not sure if I mentioned this or not, but she ran away from home. She's got a bunch of problems- she's 15 and so crazy into boys that she goes into awful mood swings. She's also more than likely Bipolar, but hasn't been taking her meds. She's almost like in her own little world. She ran away three weeks ago and lived with some 16 year old dude, swears she's pregnant and that they're gonna be married and all that junk. While the pregnant thing seems to be just wishful thinking on her part (at least according to the pregnancy test her mom gave her) she is being totally awful. Joe's mom, Christine, is a very sweet and loving woman who just wants to be close to Jessica, and even lets Jessica run all over her sometimes. She's in no way abusive, but Jessica has fabricated this off the wall reality where Christine is abusive and emotionally distant and uncaring, but it's totally untrue!
It's frustrating, to say the least, and has been weighing in on Joe hard. But since she's back we are going back to watching her on the weeknights again. So Mon-Thurs we will be babysitting her in the hope she won't jump out the second story window again to go out with her flavor of the week boytoy.
So...things have been kinda hard lately, but there has been good things too. I beat Ultimate Alliance 2 earlier today (I wanted to talk all about it but I'm getting tired now- basically it was awesome. Maybe I'll do a fuller review later on.), and I got Joe to watch "Mask of the Phantasm" with me, which is one of my all time favorite Batman movies. It's so touching! And of course, it's his birthday :DD
Well....work tomorrow. Also gotta call the bank and get information....figure out what to do about this sudden new debt...figure out if we're gonna have to move and where and how and what to do with the dogs...and stay in a house with no AC when it's around 100 degrees outside to watch a teenager who has run away more than Linkin Park.
Not thinking about it too much. Gotta stay positive, ya know?