Our family is living somewhere in the 21st century. It certainly is not the same place or time we were living just one year ago. Last year at this time we had cell phones that worked without cutting out while talking in our own home. We had satellite television and internet that worked wonderfully, at least 99% of the time. But that 1% was easily understandable and we were okay with it. Life as we knew it was changing. One son off to college, another son getting braces and my income being very fluxing, had no choice but to 'decide' to reduce our expenses.
We moved to a 'cheaper' place and cut some other expenses as well. We moved to a location with a mentally ill landlord. Of course we did not know that at the time of move in, but a few days later we began to realize how disturbed she was. After bouts of threats, harassment, attempts at coercion, filing for eviction, court dates and crazy accusations from our mentally ill landlord we moved to a new location. We happen to know the present landlords and what a relief to not be under the thumb of the mentally ill landlord. By the way, she is still trying to harass us even after we left her property. You will have to read the previous entries about the situation we suffered under her to get part of the story.
Anyways, we moved and set up to have internet and satellite television. We have internet that is slower than dial-up but far more expensive. We do not have satellite television. We do not have local channels and we may never have these great inventions. Why? because our home and the four homes in our little subdivision are left out of this century. We see phone lines, cable lines and other modern conveniences surrounding us, but they forgot all about our little road. We have tried cable, phone, internet, satellite and every other company out there to see if anyone would happen to provide us with the little luxuries many take for granted. However, we are not so fortunate. We have difficulty with getting radio stations in at home too. Can you believe it? With all the advances we have in this world, something as simple as laying cable lines to a small street where four homes sit very closed together is impossible.
We have gotten back to reading books (Kindle for me), playing board games (we are a competitive little bunch of people), talking to each other (sometimes even laughing and joking), holding on to our IPod touches and Kindles just in case the internet comes back up while we are laughing it up. We are a family with a 19 year old college son and a 16 year old licensed driver spending more time together than most families could even imagine somewhere in the 21st century.
taking care of the written word,
dannielyn
