I am so miserable at having given up my cat. I spent half the night last night crying because I miss him so much and I feel so bad that I gave him up.

I called this morning to see if I can have him back. I am willing to deal with the peeing and cleaning up after him just to get him back because I really miss him.

Damn!

Back in February, we took in memememes cat. He’s a nice kitty and she was never home with him.

Well, we started having problems with him peeing in the house and I had decided a few weeks ago that he was going to have to go. I wasn’t going to put up with him peeing in the house. As it turned out, I could bear to give him up because he’s so nice and loving and had really turned out to be my buddy.

Well, about a week ago I caught him peeing on my recliner. I again decided he had to go but then couldn’t go through with it.

Today he AGAIN peed on my recliner (thank god for Resolve) and that was IT I just couldn’t take it any more and I just cannot have him peeing in my house no matter how much I liked him so I took him to the lady I’d talked to before who said he could come live on her farm.

I didn’t want to give him up, I really didn’t but I spent 17 years with a cat that peed in my house from time to time and I just decided I wasn’t going to do that again.

He’s gone to his new home now and I miss him. I just need to keep reminding myself why I had to give him up.

That “friend” who I have so so soooooooooooo much to bitch about is a fucking ungrateful bitch (not that I didn’t know this already).

I’ll start by saying she has an issue with any money I spend. She always complains when I buy anything and I know that what it really comes down to is jealousy though her married boyfriend has supported her totally for 3 months because she quit her job out of the blue but never mind all that.

During the summer, I bought a new upright washing machine. I bought the washer because mine died. I didn’t buy a washer just because I wanted one, I needed it. At the time that I got the washer, my husband and I discussed getting the matching dryer but decided against it because our dryer still works fine though the matching dryer would be NICE it wasn’t a necessity. I have had no issue with using the new washer and old dryer. Granted the dryer isn’t the most energy efficient thing in the world and it makes noise when it dries but it does the job.

I suppose you’re wondering what this all has to do with THAT friend. Well…….at the same time I got the new washer, her dryer died and she has since been hanging clothes outside on the line. Here it is the middle of November and still she has no dryer. A relative of hers was going to give her one but that fell through and her married boyfriend hasn’t’ come up with one as of yet. I have been feeling sorry for her that she has no dryer and this put the idea in my head that if I were to get myself the new matching dryer, she could have my old one and it would help her out a lot because I know she has no money to buy herself one. Keep in mind, I don’t NEED a dryer–I would like a matching one but it’s not needed.

Today while looking through all the sale fliers in the Sunday paper, I came upon and ad for a new upright dryer for an excellent price that was just too good to pass up. It’s not the same brand as my washer but that doesn’t bother me, it’s a great deal so I decided to buy it.

Thinking of her need for a dryer, I was excited and call her up saying HEY–you’re getting a dryer and told her I was getting a new one. Do you think she was grateful for this? Oh no–she’d rather bitch that all I do is spend money and she knew as soon as I brought up about a new dryer I’d run right out and get one.

I said no actually I’m fine with the dryer I have but since you need one and since this sale I found is so good, I am going to get it and this will also help you out. She just laughed at me and said yeah yeah you just like to spend money. There is oh so much I could have said to that, especially a nice scathing comment like at least it’s MY money I’m spending and not my married boyfriend’s money but I didn’t.

The way I feel right now I’d just as soon take my old dryer to the fucking dump as give it to her. In fact, I think I am going to get the new dryer and tell her that hubby nixed me getting it and give the old one to someone else in need.

She did ask at one point how much I wanted for my dryer and I told her she could just have it and even that didn’t satisfy her–she had to make a comment about me having so much money I can just give things away.

For the record, I don’t have a lot of money BUT I do SAVE money so that I can buy something like this if I want. Unlike her, I have a job which is the same job I’ve had for 10 years and my husband works very hard at his job as well. In addition to that, we have 2 other part time jobs we do together and all the money we make from those jobs goes into savings for heat, taxes, insurance, and whatever else we may decide to get.

I’m so fucking pissed off right now I would like to drive to her house and smack her in the fucking head!

So I get this rash and finally break down and go to the doctor because it’s obviously quite infected and needs to be looked at. I hate going to the doctor really bad but this time I didn’t procrastinate like I usually do.

I found out that I have SHINGLES which to me is an old people thing. I have to take giant horse pills for the infection and ice the area twice a day and keep an eye on it of course.

The doctor was very short with me and may as well have shoved me out the door, I had more questions I didn’t get to ask.

Did I mention I hate going to the doctor and I also hate having an old people disease too.

It will go away in time but it’s miserable all the same. It’s painful and it itches!

We all know how much I bitch about memememememe but yet when I have trouble and need help, who do I call? You guessed it! memememememe

Shame on me for that but good on her for being helpful. Today I pulled a real boneheaded maneuver and got my car stuck and needed someone with a truck to pull me out. I called mememe and she was to my rescue within 10 minutes.

I suck!

This is a bit of a stupid thing but a bummer all the same. Four years ago I got a roll of quarters and never used it. It has been in my glove box in my car all this time. In fact, I’ve changed cars and moved that roll of quarters from car to car. At one time, my husband said he could have used them for something and I had a fit and said NO, I’m saving them! He asked why and I said because I have a feeling there’s a rare quarter in there plus, I’m not good at saving money and I’ve saved $10 so I’m going to keep saving it.

Well today I decided it was the day to open my “special” roll of quarters and wouldn’t you know—–there’s absolutely nothing special in there except the fact that I’m managed to save $10 for four years.

Meh

More and more I am reminded of why I am not a social person. Recently I have become online gaming friends with a lady who is just a couple years younger than me. When we met in the game about 3 weeks ago, she was calling another player “babe” and said he was her man. At the time, I assumed they had at least MET but I came to find out that wasn’t the case. In the meantime, this lady was always playing in the game with the roommate of her “babe” and confided in me that she really liked him much more than her babe so she broke it off with him for the roommate. This has all happened within 3 weeks time. Talk about fickle. I knew that she and the roommate were always on skype together while gaming and evidently this caused their relationship to blossom (in 3 weeks). Last weekend, she asked me to keep her new babe company in the game because she was going to be gone on vacation. She expressed to me how much she’d miss him, etc. While talking to him in game over the weekend he told me how much he missed her and then dropped the bomb–he loves her. I don’t ever keep my mouth shut of course and I said WOW that’s fast and he went on to tell me she said it first. WOW again. They have never met in person though I’m sure they’ve exchanged photos. Obviously they have talked at length and I know they’ve had “sex” over skype as well because she told me. There is so much irony to this. There is a vast age difference for one thing. She told me she’s 38 and he told me he’s 21 yet when I asked her how much older she is than him, she said 8 years. Ummmm ok whatever. Age certainly isn’t everything but this woman has three children and the oldest is only 2 years younger than this online man according to what he told me.

I know that online dating is the thing now days and I guess it’s just something I can’t fathom and fortunately, I don’t need to fathom it either. With that being said, online dating is one thing but this is quite another. I just don’t get it. These people don’t have love any more than a candy bar has love for me. They have lust, I have little doubt of that.

According to her, they are going to meet in a couple of months if all goes well. I figure at the rate it’s going she’ll have gone through at last 2 more “babes” by that time.

I’ve been told three times now “it does happen”. Well obviously since it has happened morons!

I get my electric bill via email–not paper bill–for both of my houses. Last week, I got a notice of the bill and knew the date was off so I went to check it out only to find that it said “final bill”. I was like WTF do you mean final bill, I didn’t request to have my electricity shut off! Granted, we’re rarely ever there, but when we are, we want electricity.

So I call the moron patrol Alliant Energy to find out WTF is up with this–did they decide because there’s hardly any usage they were going to cut me off or what. OH NO, it’s even better than that!

They said that someone called in and said that they were moving to that address so I was issued a final bill and the name on the account was changed. I said NO–no one is moving there–that’s MY house, it’s NOT a rental-! Then the fucking moron says there’s no landlord of record for that address. I said OF COURSE NOT–it’s NOT A RENTAL–THAT’S MY HOUSE. She then went on to say (like it’s no big deal) that someone must’ve given a wrong address when they called in the change and because it is a common address “it happens”.

I do not find that answer acceptable. Where is my right to privacy, etc. How the hell can someone just randomly call in and change a name on an account like that? I don’t get it.

After hanging up with moron #1 and stewing a while, I called back to moron #2 only to get the same song and dance that someone made a mistake, it’s a common address, etc. I asked her what about my right to privacy and asked why I, as the owner, wasn’t notified of this change. She just nonchalantly said that they couldn’t possibly call everyone when there was a change or they wouldn’t get anything else done. I really think she just wanted to piss me off by saying that! To me, there should be a department that handles this–the owner should be notified especially since “there is no landlord of record”. How stupid!

I was told by morons 1 & 2 that the account would be put back in my name and it was no big deal. Well, I know Alliant–another legal monopoly that I detest–NOTHING is ever “no big deal” with them and I have been waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Today, I got an email saying the above referenced account is currently being electronically billed and paid using ‘Your e-Bill’. Recently, this account was turned off at your request. Therefore, the ‘Your e-Bill’ option has been terminated and any future scheduled payments have been canceled.

OH LOOK–ANOTHER WTF MOMENT!

So I call back AGAIN to moron #3. This time I was told that although the account had been put back in my name, it was issued a new account number and that I would have enroll that account in the ebill service again. I once again expressed my extreme displeasure with this situation and included the fact that I feel my privacy has been violated and asked again how someone can just call and a make a change like this and to my shock (not) I was told again that “it does happen” that a wrong address is given, etc. and that they can’t call to verify the changes, etc. Their typical load of shit. I said so in other words, because of someone else’s mistake, I have to mess with paying my bill by check, mailing it in, etc. Not that it’s a big deal to do that, it’s not, it’s the idea of WHY I have to do it. That someone else’s mistake has caused me a headache.

To further that, I cannot understand how this could really happen anyway. Obviously the person who called to request the change is moving somewhere with the same address as my house, but not in my town–there’s only one address per house after all. So my question remains, how can this happen? One of two things should have prevented this. A. The person calling should have known not only the address but also the name of the city and/or zip code to where they were moving AND B. The person at Alliant taking the call should have verified not only the address but the city and/or zip code. In short, in my eyes, a “mistake” like this should never happen and someone (probably Alliant) fucked up big time.

I guess in the end I should have not said anything and let them bill the new guy for my electricity.

I’m sure that this isn’t done yet, I’m just waiting for Alliant to tell me I have to pay a reconnect fee. Wouldn’t surprise me one bit.

When we moved to this too much–too far house, we put in a 6 foot high board fence because our neighbors are not desirable and they were constantly gawking over here to see what we are doing. You would think a 6 foot high fence would cure that problem but apparently not so much!

Yesterday we bought a new washing machine and left it outside for the night still boxed and covered with a tarp because we didn’t want to deal with it until today.

My husband JUST took the old washer outside and loaded it on the trailer to haul away and the neighbor showed up around the fence asking if the old washer worked and wanting to know if they could buy it because their washing machine just died.

HOLY CRAP! I need a taller fence!

As a side note–we told them they could have our old washer. It still works but it’s no the greatest any more. We were just taking it to be disposed of any way so what the hell.

Since mememe has been gone that has meant that my sister-in-law had to take care of her own kid. I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that memememe takes care of the kid for nothing 5-6 days a week (and sometimes Sunday too) as well as buy all his diapers and got knows what else.

Well, once meme announced that she was going to be gone for 2 weeks, my sister-in-law THREW A FIT about how she wasn’t going to waste her vacation to stay home with her son! As it has turned out, she did end up staying home a few days with him; however, she did also take him to a day care for a few days too. I talked to meme junior yesterday and she went on and on about how it cost $30 a day to take him to day care and how that money would pay a payment on something and on and on.

OH MY GOD!

As someone who was never able to have children (though I didn’t necessarily want any), I just cannot fathom the attitude. If I would have been lucky enough to have a child, I just do not think I’d feel that #1 my vacation time would be wasted if I spent it with my little one; #2 that the cost of day care wasn’t worth it because I could pay a payment on some toy for myself; and #3 that leaving him with my mother-in-law would be preferable to either of the other 2 options.

After I hung up with my sister-in-law and replayed the conversation in my head I realized, the selfish apple sure doesn’t fall far from the selfish tree in that family! Cripes!