Sleepy Saturday

Sleeping helps dull the pain.  Some people drink, do drugs, fight – me I’m a sleeper.  Got in some good sleep today and it has helped.  It’s a great way for me to relax.  However, sleeping in my late partners bedroom that congers up memories – some good, some bad.  Mostly makes me wish I would have done more for him, even though I put him 1st in my life I still don’t feel like I did enough.  I also wish that the warning signs that I saw would have been a little bit more obvious to me, so that I could have potentially saved him. 

We are only a couple weeks away from marking the first year.  Holy cow I can’t believe it’s almost here.  Seems like yesterday he was gone.  I’ve been thinking pretty much all month long how he was here last year at this time.  I really wish he was here this year and I had advanced knowledge certainly I would have done things differently. 

Okay so moving on.  I got a mailer from the local car dealer.  I went down today to see if I won a car or cash and as I figured I did not.  However, I did get $20 in gift cards for Target.  Not too shabby for taking about 10 minutes of my time.  They tried to sell me a new car but I told them I wasn’t ready. 

Yesterday I got my cable bill in the mail.  The promotion I signed up for a year ago is expiring and they want to raise my bill by $30.  I think not.  I called and they tried to sell me phone service.  I said I am not interested in ways to increase my bill but ways to lower it.  They don’t have any promotions going on now that would help me, so next month I get to call back and see what they can do for me.  If the people on the phone can’t help then there is a local office to visit.  TV is a BIG part of my life but why pay more when I can pay less.  I mean they should just give everyone the rock bottom price instead of making us go through this BS of seeing what the special is.  I told them I have limited funds.  They have me hook line and sinker for internet – I mean I have to have that.  However in the TV area I don’t necessarily need HBO, SHOWTIME & CINEMAX plus Digital Tier 2.  Which right now would save me $20 per month.  So that is taking it down to basic cable but then I am into them for $12 for converter boxes.  No box = no TV even for basic.  They went all digital but they are supposed to give you a box for the 1st year.  See each person you talk to will give you a different answer.  Sort of like me dealing with the mortgage company.  SUCKS!

On the work front nothing new.  I confirmed my hours of vacation time and they match my records.  I am asking for the first full week of April come Monday.  Regardless of what I do or don’t do, I can’t control what my boss does or doesn’t do, with regards to letting me go or letting me stay.  All I can do is hope and pray for the best, while continuing to look and hope that I get out of harms way before harm has a chance to strike.

I checked in with the IRS and my partners refund is due to be mailed next week.  Meanwhile my refund well they haven’t gotten around to that yet.  They were both mailed on the same day, to the same address.  Makes no sense to me.  I checked with the state and they are still processing his return. 

I got my 2 of my 3 free credit reports and I don’t see any fraud.  The 3rd one will arrive in the mail, I go through this every year where I have to mail them a copy of my ID to prove I am who I say I am.  Then they mail the report to me.  It will be here in a few weeks. 

I broke down and treated myself to some items I wanted from surfing on-line.  The big item that I really want is at Sam’s club but until I have some idea how things are going for me in the job market or until that refund arrives I don’t think I will be making any large purchases.  I also went to McDonald’s this morning for breakfast, it was an emergency because I was out and needed food but was thinking that I could make it to a local restaurant.  It soon became apparent to me that I couldn’t so I ducked in to the drive thru.  It was good!  2 Sausage Egg McMuffins 1 Cinnamon Melt and a Large Diet Coke to wash it all down.  $10 which really wasn’t worth it but considering it was an emergency why not.

This evening I made it to Bob Evans.  I got my Chocolate Bread Pudding and $3 off of my meal.  It wasn’t the Chocolate Bread Pudding that I was used to getting but it wasn’t bad.  It was a very small portion but then again it was a very small price too. 

I think that is all of the eating out that I am going to do this weekend.  I say that now but tomorrow will be calling soon enough. 

I also had a really strange dream last night.  I was having sex with one of the guys from the Pet Food Store.  I know for a fact he is gay but I can’t imagine him giving me the time of day.  It was really messed up.  I was telling my partner all about it and he was happy for me.  He of course was still alive.  It was just a wild dream.  Maybe my body is telling me that I need to ‘get laid’ or work on finding someone.  I don’t know but sex dreams while they sound hot are something that I would rather not dream about.  It just another way I get to see something that I want and at the moment can’t have. 

Well the children are starting to chirp so I guess I should go feed the little beggars and get the dishes started.  Then find out what is new on Netflix this week.  See I told you TV was a big part of my life. 

Talk with you peeps later.