Happy New Year. Now Grow Up.

[sisabet]

Notice: My internet at home is down. I'm not certain exactly why it is down - last night it said it had come unplugged and then when I redid the connections and rebooted it said that there was a problem with the cable company. Now that I think about it - the last time I paid the cable bill was in November so I reckon they want December's payment. I don't think that is unreasonable at all. I still have full cable, though and I can still order inDemand movies and you'd think that would go out before my internet connection, but maybe they just know me really well?

I'd call customer service, but I'd feel stupid if they just wanted me to pay my bill cause - um. Oops. I was supposed to have a check to cover it by now - I got a letter in late November saying I'd get a reimbursement check in 3 weeks and so far I am still reimbursementless. So the bill has to wait. As does other stuff. EEP.

But then I'd feel stupid if, when they actually do come to cut the cable off, I could have had it all this time and I just didn't. The operative thing here, actually, would be to pay my bills on time so this stops happening. Of course, then my life would be an endless series of dull, predictable events like electricity and gas and communication with the outside world.

I am not a vampire with a soul on a mission of redemption. I am not even a classified government experiment now bound to act as a secret agent after a mixup involving a French-Swiss Terrorist and my super genius scientist brother and I am not now partnered with a man who packs around a book entitled "Lithium and You" and sees Canadian Terrorists in Mexico (and is right). Heck, my business manager did not leave the country with all of my earnings and now I am not forced to run a detective agency with a wacky, yet strangely attractive partner with whom I fight with constantly in very sexy ways. My planet did not explode and my birth-parents did not send me to Earth as a baby to be raised on a farm and I will not one day save the life of a bald yet brilliant man who, in a strange twist of fate, suffered a mutation in the same meteor shower that arrived with me and also will not provide weekly excitement as I tandemly do not discover that, hey, I have superpowers.


I have to seize my excitement where I can. Of course Angel pays his electric bill on time.

Comments

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

If, like Angel, I found bags of money in my basement on a regular basis, I'd pay all of my bills on time, too.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Ya know - how does Cordelia have a better apartment than me? Even with the ghost - like a *ghost* is really that difficult to live with. Really, how is this possible? I have all of this edumacation and my job is *much* more frustrating than her's and how much is Angel paying her anyway? Cause he is really cheap - so I bet she does the books and just sets her own salary.

Dude - that is totally what was going on. I bet Cordelia made more than Wesley. Which pains me cause Wes has all the books and people with books should not have to sit on hold with thier internet service provider listening to crappy Muzak versions of Christmas Carols and PEOPLE! CHRISTMAS IS OVER! ENOUGH WITH THE MUSIC!

All I want is to find out if my PC is down for some reason or if I am being punished for being late on a bill. I will accept either fate - although I think they should give me another week to be punished as the bill was just due a few days ago.

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

Well, Cordy could have learned embezzeling from her dad. Didn't he end up going to jail for that or something?

And Wesley has higher concerns than money. He would probably think he deserved to sit on hold suffering through the musak because of some tragic failure in his past.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Oh - since I am STILL HOLDING - I to will view it as penance for...something. I did not vacuum at all this week and now there are little drifts of dog hair under the sofa. This is my punishment for that (although having to live in a dog-hair drifty home seems punishment enough).

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

Sid loves you. Are you sure they are actually open today? I once sat on hold for my insurance company on one of those days that may or may not have been considered a holiday and they hadn't changed the message on the machine to reflect the fact that no one was actually going to answer the darned phone.

[way2busymom.livejournal.com]

Last year, Angel had a large multi-national corporation in charge of his electric bills. He had a department for that.

I personally want a department to handle that for me.

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Nah. Cordelia pays it for him.

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

And how shocking is that! Cordelia pays her electric bill!

Yeah, yeah, "paid".

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Well there ya go. I need a Cordy.