Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Ten cents short and a year too late...

Imagine that you are someone who is so efficient that you pay your bills as you receive them, not when they are due, but the day they come.
Gosh, that’s me. And the reason I do it is because all the money we get for the month, pension and social security has come and no more will be coming until the next month so before we foolishly spend it on something other than what we should I make sure our bills are all paid then fun ensues, got it?
As long as we have the funds i.e. I do it and we always still do at this point in the month and this was our last due bill.
And since I am the bookkeeper for our bills, for nearly forever… our credit is still excellent. You see, like most I am sure today, we never ever charge what we cannot afford to payoff at the end of the month and so far… we have been lucky, but someday, who knows…but it’s there if need be for emergencies; and I sure hope that never comes to be!

As many of you must know my eyesight is extremely compromised and that we all know that bills in snail mail arrive in a normal font for the well sighted to see.
This blog though I write in large text and I have amped up my other sites too. For some reason whoever aided me previously on doing it for me, get your mind out of the gutter, the font size, it appears it was diminished when I had that last fluke occur over the weekend this past when our server was screwed up.

Any-who, the point I was trying to make in my round about way is that I misread the bill by all of ten cents!
And I felt awful since I paid it online, as I always do and so I called the bill source (I could not change it and I did try, but hit pay too quickly) and they were kind enough to credit the whole ten cents to my account that will take two or three billing cycles to fix, but they backed it up with a confirmation email; would you believe?
And this kind company who was AT&T, my cell phone provider.
Before the offer was made, I did explain my mistake and suggested since my bank would not allow me to pay only a ten cent amount to set it right that they tack it onto my next bill but I didn’t go into my eye problems being the cause, how odd and so unlike me. I saved it for here to talk about just between us, as usual, OK?
Problem nipped in the bud, like I always try to do… to face those problems and remedy them, not hide from them. TA DA!
I know, not that big a deal, but in my mind they might have sent it back saying that I did not pay the correct amount! Boy, I am such a worry wart, nothing new there, hmm?

Second part of my title, ‘a year too late’, refers to the year our first home a Townhouse condo in NJ was built.
On occasion I go on zillow.com to check the value of homes we owned and lived in and see how the economy has affected them.
Odd hobby, some may say, but I have a lot of time on my hands and you know it is interesting.
You see it was listed as being built in 1973!
But au contraire, we moved into it brand new on December 18, 1972!
With our first son who was nearly eight months old at the time.
One rarely forgets their first home or date of when you arrive in it.
And so I wrote to the realtor who was listed for interest on the account and we have been back and forth all day.
He/she, since the first name is Pat and so I don’t know for sure stated that it says on the taxes the date and there is not a thing that they can do about it.
Oh well…
Many tax records are incorrect, and they do not accept retractions apparently.
Case in point, another of our homes here in Florida had on its records that is was a three bedroom two bath when in fact it was a four bedroom three bath, but what can you do? It was our second Florida home on the other coast here.
Not a thing, but frustrating all the same, and no they were not added on later, they were built into the home back in the late 1970’s.

I just remembered while writing this that I wrote that our son was only five months old when we moved in, but I realized that takes some of my legitimacy away since I did say he was born in May, oops!
Bad Mother, I thought he was only five months old, now why did I forget that?
We had been living in a basement apartment before the move, and it was not a very good situation.
But I had remembered the move distinctly since it was for us like moving from hell into heaven!
All there was great, a wonderful social life with many young parents with much in common, all in our starter homes together and we lived there for six years and then built our second home, a five bedroom bi-level south of there on a lot just under an acre in size, ah memories...
We moved to Florida back in 1986 where we have bought older homes and renovated all three that we have owned at one time or another, which brings us to today and our little retirement home.
Our jewel on the Elkam waterway with our boat and pool and sunshine and no worries…
If you believe that…how did you get into my dream? LOL!
Life goes on here as it does everywhere and some things never ever change… less is more I have been known to say, but with me I always find something to fuss over, hmm?
Contentment should be almost a given, but health issues that are real not imagined are a daily grind that can be unkind.
Today lefty leg went very numb mostly righty leg has been that way. Lesions are nasty fellows that never ever let you forget when the MS train daily calls claim to your bodily functions… All of us who have these mean reminders that we want out of, and liken heavily for more distractions of doing or thinking anything but like a drug addict our symptoms call to us and steal us back into the reality of what we have been dealt… and there is no rehab to rid ourselves of these undesirable effects… MS, Multiple Sclerosis is forever or at least until they find us all a cure…

On that sadder than I wanted to be end to this essay allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and kindly count all your blessings and share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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