My Single Mom Life

I slept like total crap.
That trigger point injection has NOT kicked in yet people.
It should have kicked in by now and it hasn't.
Every movement with my left arm is like being stabbed.
Argh!

Anyway, I'm up this early because my friend called about going shopping.
We're going to go do it this morning after we stop and pay her car insurance.
The payment she made online the other day didn't go through for some reason, so they called and told her that, and when she checked her bank balance, sure enough, it didn't go through.
Their office is open this morning at 9am, so we're going to run there and pay really quick, then hit up the store.
I love that most businesses are open on Sundays here.
Missed paying the cable bill?
No worries, just drive all the way the hell out to the end of Fruitville road and the intersection of I-75, and pay it.
You may even get to watch a funeral at the cemetery across the street while you're at it.

I totally miss how easy it was to pay bills in Maine.
You just walked into whatever grocery store was your fave, go to the customer service desk, and you could pay your phone, cable, water, get money orders, stamps, mail packages, rent movies, all kinds of stuff.
They don't do that down here and man, was that a shock when I got here.
I actually went to the CS desk at Publix that first month I was in my own apartment, and asked to pay my phone bill.
They looked at me like I was crazy.
When I explained how it works up north, they said if they did that here, they'd never do anything else at the desk. They said it was bad now with having to just sell money orders and sell and give Western Union payments, never mind do actual bill payments.
Um, they barely do that.
They will sell money orders, but they don't cash them.
They will cash paychecks, but it has to be from a company in their "book".
It's weird.
It makes me very happy that I get paid through Paypal for everything I do because when I was working outside the home, getting my checks cashed without having a bank account was a nightmare.
If the place I worked wasn't in the book, they would refuse to cash it, and if I persisted, they would call my place of employment to make sure it existed.
Um, who hasn't heard of Pier 1 Imports or Ruby Tuesday's?
Then not one, but two store managers, would have to approve the check and add it to the book.

But whatever, I'm rambling now when I should be getting my ass in gear.
I tend to ramble upon waking.
Gotta run, time is slipping away faster than I think my body can move to get ready.
Ack!