Postby Psycho Molos » Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:21 pm
Sorry for not getting back quickly and finishing the whole news....
The whole thing about the apartment hunting is that before my mom died, the plan was to graduate and then then have an easier time getting a new job and getting an apartment but also I was planning to get out of state. Actually I was quite horrible to my mom for about half the time the last few years and her mentality of loving to argue and arguing to win and her thinking she was right no matter what didn't help much. I was and still am sick of Oklahoma and always thought that there must be quite a bit of truth in Connie Chung's crack when she was reporting in OKC shortly after that bombing and that if all women born in this state of parents also born here were stupid and stubborn then I wouldn't want any part of them. I also thought that was why mom didn't like my third ex-gf because she wanted to keep me here and that she didn't want to move to any other state because she always found something wrong with just about all the states and that OK could do no wrong, that it was the "land of milk and honey." For instance she didn't like Florida because of all the hispanics there, doesn't like the southwestern states because they are too hot and when she was young, my grandpa always went to Cali to visit his mom on vacation and they never went anywhere else on summer vacation...etc etc (oh and my 3rd ex lives in Arkansas and you can of course imagine what she thought of there...plus the Clintons came out of there...)
Anyway I didn't even know or realize about stuff like property taxes for houses and that apartments have many levels of seperating utility and rent bills and that the ones where one won't have separate utility bills are the ones that have extremely high rent until now. I also assumed along with mom that I had SSI and would always have it....
Which leads me to another ordeal. I won't say how much of course but sis and I split the life insurance money and we got the checks in the mail in those document style type envelopes. When I got mine, my aunt was over and at that time I had a US Robotics router that I got when I got my laptop and when mom was alive we'd have occasional problems with losing wifi...well after she passed, the problems increased more and more until I realized I must have a lemon or something or that the manufacturing was otherwise faulty. At the time that I got my half of the insurance, I was in the computer room rebooting the router and my aunt came back there and told me to put the check in a safe place and then went back out to the dining room. I was still working with the router so I opened up this area in the top part of the computer desk and put it under a pile of floppies, hidden and then the next time my aunt saw me I was in my room....we all decided that night to wait until we could see how depositing the check in my bank would affect my benefits so it was months before we did that.
When we did, we learned that bank account size doesn't matter but I don't have SSI, I have something called "survivor's benefits for a disabled adult child" that I am drawing off of my dad and that they recently saw that I've been earning a gross pay (I guess...) close to the current limit and that if I go over that limit, then they cut my benefits (it doesn't matter if my condition is permanent or not) and if I get married, the benefits go "bye bye" as well.
The following Monday my sister tells me on way home from work to go in and get the check so we could deposit it and asks if I remember where I put it but I actually forgot and thought it was still on the kitchen table in this pile and of course you guys might think of her reaction...so I went in and checked where I hide my paycheck cash and my birthday money in my room and didn't find it. So we spent all night "tearing my room apart" to find it, my aunt got involved and kept calling for checkups, and then eventually asks me if I was throwing out junk and I said yea and she told me that she'd call back one more time and if I didn't find it then she'd come in the morning when I'm working and start pitching so I sat down after and wrote a list of what I don't want thrown out....classic literature, other books that are hard to replace, my Battletech novels and manuals, my other RPG books, and my manga. I even threatened to dump my other cat's ashes out of her urn in the middle of the backyard if aunt threw out my Shonen Jumps that I collect solely for "One Piece" (you might think I'm strange but I have read OP to my dead cat since I discovered it but have fallen behind too).... and at the end I even made a suicidal threat....but the note only ticked my aunt off when she actually came but she didn't have time to come in the morning....she then told me that when I move, and they help me, they would only bring me one tiny box and any that I can fit in the box is what I'll take and the rest has to go because her and my uncle won't do more than that.
So I concocted a plan to save my library since I've been and still are very paranoid about the possibility of moving and then not have enough money and then having to gradually sell off my posessions to live and then the only entertainment I would have would be to sit around and watch paint, wallpaper and dry wall peal and crack. The main part of the plan was find websites where I can download classic literature (especially for free) and downloaded all the titles that I have that I could find, then that part was improved when I found that Drive Thru RPG has a fiction part when I was looking for a few of my manuals in PDF format to purchase so I've purchased a lot of my other books in electronic format too.
The next part of this plan, Operation Ninjutsu, is what some of you might not agree with. I started sneaking all my manga (ALL OF IT) up to my work, after asking around and explaining around I got two of my coworkers to help me, and I started boxing up my manga, my game manuals, my books, and my campaign folders and they'd take the boxes to their homes to keep until I move. I kept it secret at first and then gradually thought up and revealed the story that I'm having my manga illegally scanlated by "friends of friends" and uploaded to free websites for me to download and that they are typing a chapter a day or something of the books into text files and uploading them for me too. It's now to the point that my sister now knows so I overtly take them up there now but she thinks that these "friends of friends" work near where I work and I walk over to them and make the drop.
I do this because they nag me saying that it would all be a fire hazard in an apartment when...hellooooo...virtually all my books are confined to my bedroom; either my doctor's desk that I got from my dad, a tall bookcase in my closet, a shorter bookcase next to that, and 1.5 shelves of this larger bookcase in the computer room.
Oh btw, we did find where I hid my half of the life insurance anyway.