Current Song: Lostprophets - Last Train Home.
Woke up sometime in the morning, I was off and on all day because I stayed up until 7am this morning... I didn't actually get out of bed until around 1:30pm to 2pm. As soon as I woke up I came downstairs, and went towards the kitchen... Stephen had ordered all of this stuff the other day to replace his appliances. Turns out today was the day they were delivering everything and I forgot all about it. Mom mentioned it last night, but she wasn't completely sure they were coming today or not. So with that said, he spent a good portion of the morning with Nick making calls, and trying to get people directions to get to the house here. Not to mention, Nick trying to get people on Craigslist to come and pick up the old appliances. All in all it was a decent afternoon for them, the businesses Stephen ordered from came and dropped the new stuff off, and they all look pretty nice. He got a new Fridge, a Dishwasher, and a Washer and Dryer I believe... Or maybe just a Washer... I forget. Either way it ws a busy busy morning.
I took the time out of my afternoon to get online and talk to Steph. She was at work, and she couldn't really talk other than the occassionaly hello, how are you, I'm going on break at such and such a time so call if you want to. Turns out, Mom wanted to call Mary Beth as she hasn't yet, and as usual Mart Beth never got off her ass to call us. So Mom called her, and got her damn voice mail again. She called Linda, and asked her what was going on... Unfortunately, Mary Beth was in a meeting today and she might call us back. So we went the rest of the afternoon hoping she would. Around 3:50pm, Mom decided it was time to call Section 8 and try to figure shit out. She wanted to see if the house actually passed, and if we could start moving in... Along with, anything else that we needed to know about Newt and the house before moving in. I didn't have the number for Section 8, and mom was getting impatient because they closed at 4pm. I found a few numbers online and she told me that it wasn't it. She called them, and no one answered. Eventually she came over all "ugh" like, and we looked the agency number up, and she called. It was a bit of phonetag between receptionists, then recordings, then answering machines. She wasn't getting anywhere and it was getting closer to closing time. Luckily, I stumbled over a number on the website for an inspector, and she called him. He told us we needed to call this Katie person who was handling part of our case... So Mom did, and luckily, at like 3:58pm, she answered... And we kept her over her work hours with this shit. Here's what she said.
There are two different agencies, Section 8 and HVR. The way it currently is Mary Beth is helping with the one program since we are considered homeless with the shelter, they have been helping us with the hotel, and are supposed to help with the first months rent, security, and two months. The problem is if they pay that it already passed the inspection for them to pay it. But I have a housing voucher which is different from the plan the shelter has. Section 8 when they passed the inspections people need, they automatically start paying the rent. The problem is we have one house, and we have the Shelter and Section 8 wanting to pay it. They both want to pay it, and if they do, Newt gets double money. And that's Double Dipping, and against the law, getting double the money for it when he's only allowed to get the main amount and not double it. The rent is $750, he'd be getting $1500 if they did this, and it's illegal. So Mary Beth is supposed to pay everything, but Mom talked to Kate, and she said that the Shelter has their paperwork letterhead, and Section 8 has their own letter head. The inspection they did before wasn't a normal Section 8 inspection, even though it was a Section 8 Inspector - He did the one for HVR, on the HVR paperwork. Technically it passed, but it wasn't done on the paperwork for section 8. And they need that in order for Section 8 to start paying. It might need reinspected because of this, or since the Inspector already inspected it, he might just duplicate the paperwork results onto the Section 8 form with their own letterhead. That way both paperwork packets are completed for both agencies.
Section 8 thought I didn't have a voucher, and that the Shelter was helping us. And after the three months of Mary Beth paying it, we would take over after her payments are done and over with, three months from now. We're waiting on Katie to call Mary Beth, or Mary Beth to call Mom back. Mary Beth can pay first months rent and security, and Section 8 will pick up after the first month is over, OR, Mary Beth can pay the first months rent and security, along with the two bonus months... And then Section 8 will pay it after her payments run out. But either way, we're waiting to hear from Mary Beth in order to finalize everything, and have her check signed and given to whoever it needs to be given to. On another note, the paperwork I hand delivered to Newt's Wife when we went to see the house on the 14th, they never filled it out and sent it in. Because of this, we're also waiting on that too... So three things.
1. Mary Beth's Check, and Section 8's funding - Can only have one at a time, or both separated so they each pay at a different time frame.
2. Paperwork for HVR and Section 8 needs to be completed based off of the house being reinspected a second time and passed... Therefore, it needs to be on Section 8 letterhead in order for Section 8 to okay their payments. Even though it already passed.
3. The Voucher I put in with Newt and his Wife needs to be filled out and returned to Section 8 by them, along with their Tax information.
Because of this, we may have the key by tomorrow.
Mom tried calling Mary Beth at 4:55pm, and got no damn answer... Hopefully she'll call us in the morning with word from Section 8. Lisa showed up at 5:15pm, and brought clothes so apparently, she's spending the night here with Stephen. After she got here, me and Bethy watched Music Choice at 5:20pm just because nothing else was on... Mom was in there talking with them for a while, and I ended up asking Mom about where my Toothbrush was, and she said she could go out to the van and look for it. I don't have it, and I have the ones from the hotel... Cheaply made pieces of junk that hardly clean my teeth off. So I wanted her to find mine. She went out and looked later on but didn't find it. Nick made stuffed cabbage, and potatoes, and said we could eat at 5:50pm... And wouldn't shut up about me going in to eat for hours. Just shut the fuck up, I'll eat when I'm hungry. Later on around 6pm, Me and Bethy watched That 70s Show, and then The Simpsons and Family Guy. Diana got here at 6:14pm... Looks like I'm sleeping here on the fucking chair again. You'd think people would be more lenient with us not having a house to call home... And give us a fucking bed, but nope, she just comes over every few days now and sleeps in my room... Fucking bitch.
Mom went outside at 6:20pm to call Newt and see about getting the key, she started leaving a message and it ended up cutting here off because her phone died. This is when she came in and told me she didn't find my toothbrush, and the phone died on her so she'll charge it and call him tomorrow morning when we might figure some shit out. We're really hoping they hurry and finish everything tomorrow, because if they don't we'll need to pay another $100 on Monday for storage, and we really don't want to if we can get everything out of the storage unit before then. Which is what we're hoping on, and moving in before February 1st. The next few hours they spent time in the kitchen together talking, Nick was off in his own little world most of the night while Mom, Stephen, Lisa, and Diana were all in the kitchen talking. He would go from his bedroom, into the kitchen just to hear what was being said... I know he's trying to find things out about what they're telling Mom. They already said some stuff, but they didn't say everything, and Stephen wants to sit down and talk to her alone sometime about everything. They talked for a good while, and when Steph got off work we talked for a while too... It was an odd night, we bickered a bit for no real reason... She kept telling me I was acting weird, I kept telling her she was too... It's just one of them nights I guess.
Around 9:30pm Diana wanted to go in the living room to watch Grey's Anatomy. She came in and found out it was a repeat, but she watched it anyway while everyone else talked. I just stayed on talking to Steph and being on cam with her. Around 11pm, Diana wanted to see the weather so she asked Bethy to come in and put the news on. I specifically said which channel to put it on, and Bethy complied with me in putting it on for her. Diana got rather impatient and pissed me off, saying she wanted to see the weather, when the damn news channel was on and the weather update was coming up in a few minutes. She asked Stephen to put the weather on, and he flipped some channels and pretty much put it on the same damn channel I originally told Bethy to put it on. And then she said thanks to Stephen... Um, hello, me and Bethy helped you out with it, but I guess that isn't good enough for you. Fuck you. And she didn't even watch the damn news, she started this shit at 10pm, and then at 10:10 when she didn't get a chance to see it she went to bed.
She came down a few more times after that, to my annoyance... She could "hear everyone in the kitchen talking" and wanted some earplugs so she could sleep. It was annoying, she kept saying in her horse voice that she can't sleep when she hears us. When Nick gave her one of the earplugs, she went back upstairs. And then came back down a few minutes later asking for them to shut the kitchen light off, because it was shining up the steps. God lady, close your fucking eyes, and cover your ears with a fucking pillow for once and maybe you'd get some sleep. I find it amazing you haven't had a problem the past few times you've been here, but now amazingly, you do. Fuck you.
When she was upstairs, we talked to Stephen. They talked to him for a while in the kitchen, which is why they then relocated to the living room when she asked about the light. We all got to talking about Cory, and Nick, and lots of other stuff, like Bethy's leg hurting, and this and that. Tons of things, and he's the nicest out of all of Nick's family. Nick's Ex-wife is pretty nice too but she can be real fucking annoying when she wants to be. Stephen started showing us some videos on Youtube, one in particular being Show Me Your Genitals.
I laughed my ass off at that, and just had to favorite it... After that they came out of Nick's bedroom and we talked some more. I ended up getting bored and listened to the Evans Blue CD Steph sent over to me and I played Continuum. It's an old spaceship shooter I used to play a long time ago. It's multiplayer, and fun as hell. They have Capture the Flag and a lot of other shit, check it out here.
http://www.trenchwars.org
We talked for a while, and then Stephen went to bed. I got in a fight with Steph... It was just a really odd night. I don't really want to talk about it because it was one of our stupid fights. But yeah... She's right, surprises really don't work in our favor most of the time :/ Especially when you want them to. I let things get way out of hand, and I shouldn't have and I feel guilty now...
Shortly after that, Mom went to bed. I made sandwiches, and had some sweet tea, and took a shower from 2am-2:30am. It was nice and relaxing, and it made me feel a little better. I stayed online for a bit, then went to bed at 4:10am when Diana's alarm went off upstairs in my room. I shut the laptop and set it down and fell asleep so I didn't have to talk to her. I know, I'm mean. I slept from them until like 7:30am, in which I was the only one awake and I went upstairs to bed. After scarfing down some sweet tea because it was fucking hot in here and I was parched. I went up to find no pillows on my bed, and no blankets at all. So instead of sleeping on the floor mattress I decided to reclaim my bottom bunk. It seemed warmer there, so I started going to sleep only to find a sleeping bag in a box next to my bed. I pulled it out while I was laying down and covered myself with it. So much for a nice cozy bed... :(... Ah well, this will need to manage. No pillow either... I'll just make do with it.
Night everyone.
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