Inconvenient Annoyances

After all the ordeal of trying to get the paper from insurance to finish our taxes, finding out we could get it from the IRS website, and the continued ordeal of dragging the info out of the woman from insurance so we could fax it in, we finally got the one I requested in the mail. These people seriously have their own time frame for everything.

Then, a call to insurance to find out what is going on with our case only gained me the information that 'expedited' means they have 30 days to review the case, then call you to see how to go forward, if they are even going to. We could still be cancelled with no chance of getting our insurance back, over their mistake. I'd like to hope it won't come to that.

IA 1. STILL fighting it out with insurance. Now we find out they lost one of our payments, but they are not sure which month. So, when I paid December and January at the same time, they logged it as November and December. So, now we have to start over with applying if they can't get their act together, and hope we don't get fined for the months we have been without because of their error. Gosh I miss the NHS.

IA 2. I have no idea what I did. but I have messed up my left shoulder. It is affecting me at work, with housework, it hurts to drive, and I have had about 4 hours sleep in the last three nights because I can't get it comfortable unless I lie on my back and have it flat beside me. I can't sleep on my back, plus my sinuses are acting up enough I can't breathe when on my back. In addition to the pain and loss of sleep, I dare not go to the doctor without insurance because it will be expensive, and if it is something 'big', it will be very expensive. I'm hoping it is as simple as a pulled muscle or a bit of strain. Have I mentioned how much I miss the NHS?

Just posted an ad online yesterday to sell our car prior to our move back - today when I turn the heat in the car on some horrible rubber smell appears...and it only goes away when I turn off the heat - ugh!!!  Back to the dealership to get serviced, again!!

Maybe the car is trying to keep you from selling it? If no one else wants it, it gets to live with you forever! Still, annoying, Especially to have to pay to fix it only so you can sell it.

Woke up yesterday and got all ready to work only to find that all of the trains on the line between London Liverpool Street and Southend Victoria were closed due to a fire in a tire depot near the rail lines.  DH and I waited half-an-hour for the bus to come only to find that it was full!  Lovely replacement bus service that it was, they were only running one every hour.     So we walked to the in-law's planning to drive into the next town over....  took it 45 minutes to make a 7 minute trip.  We were literally just crawling thanks to the traffic.  At this point, I was two hours late to work with no hopes of getting in as the roads leading into Wickford were shut thanks to the fire.  I had to call in and let them know that I wasn't going to be able to make it.  Ah, the joys of commuting.  I MISS MY CAR AND MY CLEAR OHIO ROADS!!!!!

Silver lining: turns out that, should I be unable to make it into work due to traffic or trains problems, I just have to turn up at my nearest library and work there!

Maybe the car is trying to keep you from selling it? If no one else wants it, it gets to live with you forever! Still, annoying, Especially to have to pay to fix it only so you can sell it.

Lol!  Probably - that car & I have been through a lot together!  It's hard letting go

Our car started falling apart around Thanksgiving, slowly at first, then by January 2nd, or so, it was almost as if it had lost the will to live. With what we were projecting to fix the three major things wrong with it, and the fact it was a '99, we decided it was time to let it retire. So, we found another one, then sold it for scrap. The last two times I had to drive it, it behaved beautifully, without a problem at all. It honestly felt like it was showing me it would behave if I would just let it live with us a while longer. I kinda felt sorry for it when I dropped it off at the scrap yard.

Oh yeah, why I came to this thread...

I have spent a good deal of my day on the phone. We finally have an answer from our insurance. Because they can't prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was their error of someone not logging one of our payments, we are definitely cancelled, and they are not going to do any more about it, but if you call the Healthcare Marketplace and re-enroll, and they accept you, we will gladly resume service with you. I fail to see why a person can't just sign up directly, but that seems to be Obamacare for ya. Then I call the Healthcare Marketplace who says they show us as already re-enrolled automatically, and there was no reason for Anthem to cancel us one day into a 30 day grace period, even if we had simply not paid. So, they are going to send paperwork to Anthem to show them they are supposed to be covering us.

It can still take up to 30 days before it is all resolved. So, here we sit another 30 days hoping for no medical emergencies or illness, and with my shoulder still in agony. I have no idea what I did, but you'd think after a week it would start improving.

Gosh I miss the NHS, So simple, so easy, so... actually works...

We have the worst luck with neighbors.

The new one(s) is supposedly high up at the local university, which implies to me a mature adult. The comings and goings all hours of the night don't go with the thought of someone with a day job. The young voices in and out at all hours,  and loud music that the teens and 20somethings are listening to don't go with the idea of someone in an important job. When I called to report the lack of peace and our inability to sleep. I was told who it was. We can only work with the assumption the guy the landlord is talking about signed the lease for his kid.

I have called the landlord and left a voicemail, since they are not in at the weekends, so they can hopefully hear the volume the music is currently. I have also just called the police for a noise disturbance. They haven't arrived yet, but I am hoping the music is up when they do, because he has pauses between songs. Fortunately, it is loud enough it could be any of the other three apartments in our building so he won't necessarily know it was us who called.

I wanted a sweet little old lady who bakes cookies. Sigh. I sorta miss the other loud one who moved out a couple months ago. She wasn't as bad, or as loud, and went to bed about the same time we did unless her boyfriend was over.

The neighbor saga has taken another turn. Apparently we have complained about the new guy one time too many, because we came home to an eviction notice. Over two years of paying on time or early, living quietly, and keeping our place nice, and being almost boringly good tenants, a bit of complaining about a new guy is all it takes. He is supposed to be high up at the local university, according to the landlord. That to me implies someone who sleeps at night and has some sense and maturity. This guy is awake and loud until anywhere up to 4:30 am through the week. Last Sunday his music was so loud he didn't hear the police beating on his door when we called a noise disturbance.

I have called the landlords about 6 - 8 times in the month he has been here. I started out with asking if they could just let him know we could hear him half the night but didn't want it to count against him. Then each subsequent call, I let them know I hated to be a pest, but because we are up so early we'd appreciate being able to sleep. We've had nights of silence, and nights were we could faintly hear him so we are aware he is capable of being quiet.

Part of me is chapped because now we have the expense of moving, I've never been evicted in my life and I feel soiled and tarnished just by the word, and i truly hate packing and unpacking.

The rest of me, and hubby too, feel okay with it. We have hated the incredibly busy train track a few blocks away, different people have moved into the area in the two years we have been here and it isn't quiet, and we've been feeling for a while it is time to move on. We have an appointment to look at a place tomorrow. The woman said it should be fine to have Joey, but would have to talk to her husband. It sounds like the building has one apartment off by itself off from the lobby, and the rest of the apartments are on the other side. We can look at others, but we are thinking that the one off by itself would be quieter for us anyway.

Oh Tama, that's awful!  Is that even legal to evict you for that???

Oh Tama, that's awful!  Is that even legal to evict you for that???

i'm not sure if it is legal or not, but we're not even going to check into it, because the whole situation has soured us on this place, even if we do have an amazing deck and huge lake.

We signed the lease on a new place this afternoon. It is one bedroom instead of two, which puts MIL on the couch when she visits in June, but the couch is super comfy, and at 4 ft 8, she will fit just fine. Other than when she is here, the guest bedroom stores stuff we haven't used since we moved in. A lot will be being donated since there is no need to hang on to 'stuff' just for the sake of having it.

The kitchen is smaller than this one, but with three times the counter space and over double the cabinets. Woohoo! We won't have a bathtub, but the shower is huge and has a seat in it which will make a great food rest for doing legs. The building seems quiet, and we've met our next door neighbor who is the sweetest older guy.When the landlady told him we have a bird, he was all excited about it and told me about a cockatiel he had.

So. crap experience has netted us a good result, I suppose. No one above or below us, and no train track in town.  

As if I haven't rambled long enough, I'm editing to add that water/sewer, trash and cable are all added in with rent. None of those came with this place.

Well at least you found somewhere quick that sounds like it will work out nicely for you. 
 

@TamaMoo

Yes I'm really sorry to hear but I am so glad you found something good right away.

@TamaMoo

Yes I'm really sorry to hear but I am so glad you found something good right away.

Well at least you found somewhere quick that sounds like it will work out nicely for you. 
 

Thanks, guys! We are finding ourselves excited about the move. We'd been putting up with the trains because of the lake, but it is time to move on. I tried for two days to get the landlord to actually speak to me, to be adult enough to be honest with us, but he is ducking me.

Onward and upward! OH! And the new place has a place where we can actually have a grill! New bonus! I'm beginning to think this should have gone in IA/UP.