January 5, 2009
$403 Utility Bill….
Well, I marched my self to Douglas Cherokee this morning seeking assistance with the utility bill that we can’t pay.
“We’re out of money, try The Good Sheppard”. So I marched myself to them. They don’t help with Sweetwater Utilities, only Fort Loudon utilities. Great, I thought.
So I come back to Sweetwater to see if SAM’s (Sweetwater Area Ministries) can help with the bill. They will give $100 of help to a family once a year. They only go over applications on the 15th and then decide who gets help. That didn’t help right now though, as the bill is due tomorrow and it would probably be cut off by the 15th.
I came home and called anyone and everyone I could looking for help. No luck, at all. Everyone told me to call Douglas Cherokee. Apparently they’re the only place here that would be able to help me.
So, I blasted to everyone on my Yahoo Messenger list about my problems, asking for prayers that we could get this taken care of. I won’t ask them for help. There are so many work at home mom scammers that will take trusting people’s money and not care. That’s not me.
I put my truck on Craigslist for sale. Robert told me not to, but I can’t get it registered… so what good is it to me?? I doubt anyone will call about it since it doesn’t have a title… but I can try anyway, the light bill HAS to get paid, somehow!
I was talking about pawning the title to one of our vehicles… just to pay the bill.
Robert left and picked the boys up from school. I took Dakota in my room and we did his homework in no time. (Good job son!)
So, as I sat here whining to my good online friend Beth…. Robert brings me a little yellow piece of paper.
HE PAID THE LIGHT BILL! “OMG, how did you pay that?!?!?!?!?!” He says “with a credit card”.
Holy cow. I’m glad he paid it, but a credit card?? Oh well, at least it’s paid.
I told Robert that as long as we have electricity and food, we’ll be ok. It’s not like they can take the house from us (no money owed on it, Robert and his brother and sister own it).
Credit card companies can’t take anything, they’ll just call all day everyday asking for money that we don’t have, so oh well… sorry.
We own the vehicles, no one can come get them from us.
So, I’m not sure what the future holds for us… but at least we will have electricity for another month! YAY!
January 4, 2009
Financial troubles and relationships
Robert lost his job November 26th, 2008. It’s now January 4th, 2009.
How have we been doing since he’s been out of work?? Not great.
Apparently not having money to pay the bills makes him mad at ME. It seems that way sometimes anyway.
It’s not like I’m not stressing over bills too. I’m in the same boat as he is.
I know as well as he does that we don’t have $403 to pay the light bill. This bugs me too. I will be without electricity just like him if it doesn’t get paid. So will our three kids.
With him not working, he nit picks at me about everything. I feel like I’m not doing ANYTHING right, but EVERYTHING wrong!
So when I’m grilling a sandwich and he made a comment about it not cooking… I kind of went off. I’m tired of feeling like I’m worthless and not doing anything right.
Earlier when I was folding laundry, he was at my desk looking for the light bill that we can’t afford. He was griping about the old bills from October being on my desk.
Mind you, had I been at my desk, he would have been complaining about the laundry piling up.
I feel like I can’t win for losing.
I plan on going to try to get assistance for the light bill tomorrow, by the way. So maybe that will release some of his… ‘whatever the problem is that makes him nit pick at me and blow up when I finally crack and say something’… built up anger.
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