The Vent Part Quatre

[ashenflowers 5]

I can't beat this myself, but I know someone who can...

Over the last year I've become good friends with the morning/noon meteorologist from one of the local TV stations. In order to be in to work in time to prepare his forecasts and graphics for the morning shows starting at 5 AM, he has to be out of bed at 2 AM, and is back in bed again around 8-ish at night.

Aww see, I can't do that. The same way waking after 8am is a wasted day for some people, going to bed before 11pm seems like a wasted night to me.

I could never do that job.. or an early morning radio show or anything. I'd be so sad/cranky. LOL

Speaking of various bills, I remembered that we had the hydro electricity bill today, and paid it, and have a teeny amount of money left over. First time since I moved here that I think we can pay the bills and have money left over, AND don't have to ask for help from the inlaws. lol *happy tear*. Oh wait, this is the vent thread... How's about I'm having trouble getting in touch with EI because they're behind on sending me cards, and thus behind on paying me more $. hmmph

[Kimbear 53]

Aww see, I can't do that. The same way waking after 8am is a wasted day for some people, going to bed before 11pm seems like a wasted night to me.

I could never do that job.. or an early morning radio show or anything. I'd be so sad/cranky. LOL

Speaking of various bills, I remembered that we had the hydro electricity bill today, and paid it, and have a teeny amount of money left over. First time since I moved here that I think we can pay the bills and have money left over, AND don't have to ask for help from the inlaws. lol *happy tear*. Oh wait, this is the vent thread... How's about I'm having trouble getting in touch with EI because they're behind on sending me cards, and thus behind on paying me more $. hmmph

i still to this day keep saying HYDRO......ugh and i hate my bills. 115 a month for a one bedroom? with no appliances ??? i mean c'mon!!! what happend to my nice 30$ month bills eh? grumble.

i cannot even get ui..why? because my ROES are out of date. they are only good for for a certain amount of time, and cuz our visa took so long etc etc now aos and ead..i'm screwed i even cashed in all my old pensions from work life insurance etc.

[Marilyn. 340]

we pay about 40 to 50 bucks a month for Electric in the summer and about $30 in the "winter" and we have AC, fridge,stove, TV's, computers etc...

and about $28/month for gas (we are doing the equal payment plan thing)...

[The_Dude 1,142]

i still to this day keep saying HYDRO......ugh and i hate my bills. 115 a month for a one bedroom? with no appliances ??? i mean c'mon!!! what happend to my nice 30$ month bills eh? grumble.

i cannot even get ui..why? because my ROES are out of date. they are only good for for a certain amount of time, and cuz our visa took so long etc etc now aos and ead..i'm screwed i even cashed in all my old pensions from work life insurance etc.

Holy #######, $115 for a 1 bedroom apartment? I found out that I was actually paying for 2 apartments electric bill at my old apartment. They said they dropped my rent by $100 to compensate for it, but never told me this up front. But even then, the bill was barely $80 per month. Do you have an AC Unit? I know here that will cause the bill to triple.

ETA: when I got my new behemoth of a computer, our bill went up $13 per month.

Edited August 23, 2010 by Rob & Mel

[Ontarkie 14,193]

we pay about 40 to 50 bucks a month for Electric in the summer and about $30 in the "winter" and we have AC, fridge,stove, TV's, computers etc...

and about $28/month for gas (we are doing the equal payment plan thing)...

Wow our most recent Electric bill was alomst 300$ its the most its been so far and will go down in the winter. How I wish ours was only 50$

[Marilyn. 340]

Wow our most recent Electric bill was alomst 300$ its the most its been so far and will go down in the winter. How I wish ours was only 50$

we live in an apartment townhouse type place and we don't really get direct sunlight..except upstairs... so we don't really need to run our AC all day.. i usually turn it on around this time.. plus we are only 2 people..

Edited August 23, 2010 by Marilyn.

[Ontarkie 14,193]

Ah ok I see, but i still wish we had your electric bill lol

[ashenflowers 5]

Ours was $21 this month. And we have the gas turned off right now, so it will be $0 again.

I just wish cable/internet was cheaper. Sigh.

[Marilyn. 340]

Ours was $21 this month. And we have the gas turned off right now, so it will be $0 again.

I just wish cable/internet was cheaper. Sigh.

we don't turn off the gas completely because it is what heats our water and runs our stove but we do turn it off on the heater.. saves us a bunch of money in the warmer months...

and yeah our internet is almost 50 bucks a month.. I got rid of cable a few years back and that was about the same price... but I couldn't get rid of our internet...

[Colleens 40]

Our last elecrtic bills have been close to $300 for a 1000sqft 2 bedroom apartment, that is completly shaded. We keep all the blinds closed and rarely cook on the stove or use the oven. I was in shock when we got the first one that was over $300 when my 2 story w/ finished basement house was only about $70 a month. I think it is becasue the AC unit here is old and inefficient. But we have had about 70 days that have been over 90° this summer, so AC was definitely required!!

[ashenflowers 5]

OOOOOOHHHHH MAN... DO I HAVE A F'ING VENT.

I just got compared to a 6th grader, because I used 'them' and 'their' on a recent tweet, instead of 'his/her' and 'him/her'. This is by someone else who volunteers at the dog shelter I am with, who does NOT use twitter, or understand twitter, or even know that we've had a twitter account for the shelter (which has been run by me and only me), since MARCH of this year. IT'S F'ING TWITTER. Not to mention I didn't want to specify a gender in that particular tweet (which has since been deleted). Correcting grammar on TWITTER!? Are you kidding me?! And comparing a hardworking, intelligent VOLUNTEER to a 6th grader, because they are using language acceptable on VERY grammatically INCORRECT Twitter in order to fit 140 characters... I don't !#^$#!&%! think so.

I can't believe that just happened.

[Kukolka 8]

I've been wanting to vent and just put two and two together and figured out this is the proper thread for it.

1. Dave sent back P3 on 14 May, Canada Post marked it received 17 May, but it wasn't "logged in" until 2 July. Others who *mailed* their Packet 3 back the week before ours was *logged in* already have interview dates, so hopefully, ours will be scheduled soon... I know, everyone waits, and unfair things happen, and this is really really minor compared to other cases. I just have this paranoid thought that ours was shoved aside for a while because it wasn't mailed back right away, but that was because it was a Major Issue for Dave to get access to a working printer. >_< And I know realistically the delay in checking in probably had nothing to do with that. 'Twould be nice to have the wedding before winter so his family can make the drive though...

2. Dear Montréal, please give Dave his visa soon, so we can get married and I can change my name, so maybe, just maybe, people at work will stop confusing my last name for my first name!

That is all.

[The_Dude 1,142]

OOOOOOHHHHH MAN... DO I HAVE A F'ING VENT.

I just got compared to a 6th grader, because I used 'them' and 'their' on a recent tweet, instead of 'his/her' and 'him/her'. This is by someone else who volunteers at the dog shelter I am with, who does NOT use twitter, or understand twitter, or even know that we've had a twitter account for the shelter (which has been run by me and only me), since MARCH of this year. IT'S F'ING TWITTER. Not to mention I didn't want to specify a gender in that particular tweet (which has since been deleted). Correcting grammar on TWITTER!? Are you kidding me?! And comparing a hardworking, intelligent VOLUNTEER to a 6th grader, because they are using language acceptable on VERY grammatically INCORRECT Twitter in order to fit 140 characters... I don't !#^$#!&%! think so.

I can't believe that just happened.

LoL, sorry, but I think you're getting a little too upset over twitter. Seriously, it's just twitter, life will go on, and stupidity on teh interwebz will continue.

[ashenflowers 5]

LoL, sorry, but I think you're getting a little too upset over twitter. Seriously, it's just twitter, life will go on, and stupidity on teh interwebz will continue.

I'm not upset about twitter. I'm upset about this person's attitude towards people, and the complete lack of respect they have for the work of VOLUNTEERS. I should have explained that further. It wasn't just some random interwebz fight or anything. But I don't want to reveal too much, cause ya never know who's reading public forums.

I'm not angry about twitter. I am angry about this person. There's some extensive back story to this as well, which I won't even get into on here... but let's say it's not the first time this person has offended me or another volunteer with their ignorance and disrespect. They actually make me not want to volunteer with this organization any longer, but I'm too involved now to just leave without putting a large work load on other people.

[ashenflowers 5]

Sorry, I reread my posts and realized that I really didn't explain what happened.

This person saw the tweet, then emailed me and 3 other volunteers a very rudely worded email, with the references to the 6th grade teacher and a grammar lesson, AND saying it was careless, and asked me to delete it and change it. VERY rudely, inappropriately, and really unwarranted. That's what I'm upset about.