So Discouraged

We finally decided it was apparent we're never going to get out of our shoebox till we move back to the midwest and we should just go ahead and get a landline phone and Internet service at home. Coincidentally, about the same time we decided this, the local (but new to the area - I think there might have been a buy-out or something) phone company was sending sales reps door to door to find new customers. Signed up for a nice package with phone service and high-speed Internet and waited to received a letter confirming our start date with our phone number, as well as a modem. We waited. Waited. Got the modem, finally. I ended up calling the phone company who called me back (at work) to give me my phone number and let me know our service started on October 31. Except we didn't have service - we had a completely dead line.


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We figured we'd move back to the midwest in May, once the weather's good again up there, but now we're beginning to look at late February/early March. I can sell back all but a week of my sick time this month and we can put that away, then in February, Irish has a huge event (the only one he made any real money at this year - hopefully he can do as well next year) and my final paycheck should have plenty of vacation pay on it. Altogether, it ought to be enough to get us out of here and have a little to start with when we get back. I know my mom really wants us to wait till she's ready to go in May but I'm just not up for that. We really have to go.