ABOUT FUCKING TIME, is all I have to say. Although I thought it had been longer than two months. It feels like it’s been closer to 6. And doesn’t it figure that the weather just started turning really cold in the last few days? The cats aren’t going to want to go outside when it’s THIS cold out, the little bastards. Maybe we should just wait until next Spring before we open the cat door again.
Ah well – at least the damn thing is finally in the process of going up!
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I sure do hate paying bills. I also hate that I’m a total slob and tend to pile things all over my desk so that when it’s time to pay bills, I have to sort through piles and piles of crap. That’s a good way to be late on bills, you know. Not that I’ve done that or anything.
It chaps my hide that we pay so much for phone service. I mean, $50! For a phone that hardly ever rings! Didn’t basic phone service once upon a time cost $10 or $20, or am I dreaming? I keep telling Fred that we should cancel our phone service to the house and just use our cell phones, but if we only used our cellphones, we’d have to carry them around with us, and that would be a huge asspain. Also, my cellphone is starting to die and is difficult to hear on, and I’ll be needing a new one in the next year or so, but when I tell Fred such a thing, he gives me the “There she goes again, SPENDING MONEY USELESSLY!” look, and I want to plunge my cellphone through his eyeball and into his brain.
You know, I have no point at all. Just that I hate paying bills.
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I’m not allowed to report that last night when we were watching
Extreme Makeovers, and the guy was proposing to his girlfriend at the end, all romantic-like, getting all choked up, I looked over at Fred, who was all teary-eyed.
So I’m not reporting that. At all. Never happened!
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I have to do some cleaning this weekend, especially getting down and cleaning the baseboards in the entire downstairs portion of the house. They’ve gotten horribly dusty, and I would hate to have Liz come to visit and see what a mess the house usually is.
I still have to get those daffodil and lily bulbs planted, too. Meh.
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Don’t be fooled – this is NOT a submissive position that Miz Poo is in. When the Bean tries to leap on her, she’ll take those powerful yet stubby little back legs of hers, and she’ll kick him off her, lickety-split.
There’s so much crap piled up on my desk that there’s hardly any room for these two. And how am I supposed to get anything done with them in the way, I ask you?]]>
Robyn, If you’ve had your cell for a while, maybe you could get your carrier to upgrade you to a new phone in exchange for extending your contract. We just did that last month, and I’m carrying around a fancy new phone and it didn’t cost us more than what we were already paying!
Robyn,
Yipee on the fence. You’ve never mentioned. Did the cats get all whining about not be able to go outside for two months? My mom had a cat that would whine to go out all the time. He even went outside in the Wisconsin snow (on a leash – no fence in our yard) until it got too high for his legs to clear the snow.
Lex – that’s an idea, I’ll have to check it out! Although, we don’t have a contract (the reason we chose the cell phone company we have was because we wouldn’t have to sign a long-term contract), so I’ll have to see what they say.
Val – they got all confused when they’d try to go through the cat door and it was closed, and there was some whiny meowing, but they seem to have adjusted. Although any time we go out into the back yard, they get all interested and act like they might shoot out the door if we give them the chance! ๐
If you have a cable modem (not DSL, that requires a phone line), you can get vonage voice over IP — we’ve been trying it out for the past few weeks and it rocks. No more evil overpriced phone co! And if your cable modem goes down, it detects that and forwards your phone to another # like your cell. vongage.com. $35 and unlimited calling in US/Canada plus free voicemail, etc. They even email your voice messages to you, which is kinda neat.
“when I tell Fred such a thing, he gives me the “There she goes again, SPENDING MONEY USELESSLY!” look…”
Of course, this is the man that wanted to buy a new phone because he couldn’t figure out how to turn up the volume on his old one. =)
Our landline phone bill is less than $20, but that’s because we have no long distance, just local service – we use either the cell phone or our calling card. Even though we rarely use the landline phone, I wouldn’t want to cancel it simply because I want to be able to call 911 and get help to my house ASAP. The cell phone just complicates matters in that situation.
Plus, my sister and her BF are going the cell-only route, and it pisses. me. off. that I can never get her on the phone (her cell gets horrible reception). So don’t do it, if only because you’ll manage to piss someone off. =)
Ooh, thanks Kathy, I’ll check that out!
April – heh, I had forgotten that! Our landline bill is $50, and we never ever make a long distance call on it, because we get so many minutes with our cell phones. But it’s too convenient to have extensions of the landline phone through the entire house and would be too much of a pain to have to carry the cell everywhere, so I doubt we’ll be going to cell-only anytime soon. Besides, what would I bitch about? ๐
LOVE the movie! made my day ๐
I hear ya on the phone bill.We too, ponder whether or not we should rid ourselves of the land line, and just use cell phones.We do have DSL, so that might be a problem.I HATE the phone company, and feel everyone’s bill is too damn high as it is, and they keep adding shit. As Lily Tomlin says, “We don’t care! We don’t have to! We’re the phone company!” Oh, could I ask you to post more Tubby pics soon? We ADORE Tubby, in all his Tubby glory!
We got rid of our land line here about a month ago, no regrets so far. BTW, we still have dial tone on our phones & can call 911 even though we cancelled the service – I don’t know if all phone companies do that, though.
One possible complication for you is that you still have a kid at home – we waited until my stepdaughter moved away to college to do this because paying for a third cell phone would’ve defeated the savings for us.
One other thing – our cell phone company practically knocked themselves out to get me a decent phone for free. I was going for a cheapo $99 model that was free after rebate, but they took one that would’ve been $100 (after a $130 rebate), gave me an extra $100 rebate, and the phone was free. Not sure what’s up with that, but I wasn’t going to complain about it ๐
Not dreaming. For basic phone service (no callwaiting et al) I pay 30$ of course, I live in a college town in the midwest…maybe location matters?
Robyn, the hubster and I had a bitchfest about our phone bill a while ago as well. We decided to cancel all long distance access and go for the “no frills” phone. Our bill has gone from $80 per month, to $22 per month. We call long distance quite often to contact family and such, so we purchased an MCI calling card from Costco. 600 minutes for $20!!! We’ve had the card for almost 6 months now, and still have over 200 minutes left on it. How’s THAT for saving $50 per month?? we’re pretty stoked because now we have extra money for more cat toys ๐
Itยs no wonder you canยt get your bills paid on time, or information on new phone services with the troublesome twosome looking so beanie… uhhh I mean innocent on your desk. Those two I tell yaย They will be the death of you and all of us since I almost fell off my chair watching the Bean and his war cryย Funny, I donยt even like cats!
Check your phone bill and see if you have extra features: call waiting, caller I.D. etc. I don’t live that far from you, and we have just the simple basic Bell South phone service (no long distance, no caller I.D. — I use an answering machine! — no call waiting) and the bill is $25.00 a month.
Aw, Poo and the Beanster are best fwiends FOWEVA!
I paid $5.35 a month for “low-income”(I think the upper limit is around $1,200 a month) basic phone service. Then another five dollars for long distance…Maybe the phone company is raising its basic rates because so many people are abandoning their land lines and switching to cellular. They aren’t making as much money so YOU have to make up the difference,
Damn,I thought maybe the neighbor was putting up a fence in the front lawn so they wouldn’t be traipsing across YOUR lawn anymore. You have much more patience than I do. The first time a neighbor laid one foot on MY grass(to cut across across)would be his last. Don’t you ever at least fantasize of putting a sign in the window that reads,”Neighbors who thoughtlessly cut across other neighbor’s lawns SUCK.” ??
I couldn’t help wonder if the cowboy (on Extreme Makeovers) would have proposed had she NOT had all of that surgery. She’d been waiting a LONGGGG time to get that ol’ boy to propose.
I hate that Jon- he needs to just drop off the face of the earth! And I see what you mean about Darrah- she was silent until the end last night- at tribal council- it was like nails on a chalkboard! EEEEK!!
Love Poo and the Bean- they are up to no good together-
I’m looking forward to this week’s Extreme Makeover because it’s about the guy who lost a ton of weight and has all the extra skin. The first person I thought about was Fred and I want to see how this guy on Extreme Makeover goes through with the surgery and how he recovers. It should be interesting!
Hi Robyn
I always read your great journal but this is the first time I post a message. About the whole cat-urinating-everywhere-but-the box thing.
I had a cat that did that and it turned out it had a kidney problem. I’m sharing because I too spend some time wondering what the hell had gotten in to it and yes harsh words were spoken ๐
Robyn, it can’t end up all girls at the final four! Didn’t you know that it is a guys turn to win? Look at the previous Survivors – guy/girl/guy/girl…..