Day 50 of Singledom

What started out a a slow morning ended in a very cold and very long day. While showering my lights went out. First thought was there must be a power outage. Wrong, just my lights out, Comed came and did me wrong. My bill is paid so once I towel off I have a beef to pick with them. I was running short on time because I have to be perfect with the buses now that CTA has done all these cuts and if I am late for work by 1 minute you get suspended for a day. So while waiting for a Comed agent to call me back I call work and let them know I am running late, would it better to take a sick day or show up late. Funny thing is my job would prefer you have a sick day instead of showing up late. So I suck it up call off and continue to wait for Comed to call. When they do I informed that there was a disconnection because back in Dec. 2008 (when I was not living in the building) the heat/electricity was being ran till May 2009 when I moved in so since there was no name on the bill during that time and it's been over a year they disconnect WITHOUT sending any notices. I would have advised my landlord or paid it myself if I would have received notice. So I pay it, and want to know when they will be back. 1-3 business days. WHAT? It's already getting cold in my apt I have a fridge full of food and how in the hell will I be able to charge my phone, which is my life line, without an outlet? Now the real interesting part comes in if they don't get here by Friday I will have to wait til Monday. All weekend no heat or lights for something not my fault? I tried to do the honey thing, ya know you get more flies with honey than whatever the hell else it was... didn't work.

I call back and ever say "Look I have a newborn baby here, unsafe to live like this", nothing, those people are robots man! So I wrote a complaint and sent that off, I have been filing complaints all week, kinda humorous. I finally got someone of some sort of authority to contact me back and tell me there would be a work order out on Friday. Thank goodness!

My girlfriend comes over with some vodka and we pretend like we are in Russia, drink till your warm. I don't know how they do it but it only made my hands colder and myself hungry and the only thing I could make was salad because everything else had to be cooked and I have an electric stove. Bad idea. Then bright idea number 2, which actually was brilliant was to carry the microwave to the 2nd floor landing which has an outlet and make some food! Bingo! Crisis solved. Kinda like being in a college dorm and you eat popcorn for dinner.

Later that evening The Ex calls to see how I am and I tell him about the plight of the lights and he wants to pick me up so I don't have to sleep in the cold. I agree, I may be all for camping in the woods on a warm night but freezing in my house is not my idea of adventure!