First, I must apologize for being a bad blogger. It's been 3 weeks since my last post! Who knew three weeks could fly by so fast?! A lot has been happening at the Clark household, nothing out of the ordinary except for one major thing that occured last Friday. I've been much busier with school and that makes all the differene in the world. Subbing four days a week, class two nights a week, hw on non-class nights and then trying to fit in my husband on the weekends...which is priority! I mean, we only see one another two days a week so we try to make the best of our time together. I have a feeling most families operate on super busy schedules though, but I still like to complain just a little bit. It makes me feel better :)
So back to the major thing..... I came home from work on Friday and my garage door was not opening. Naturally, I thought the batteries had died in my garage door opener. I remembered that I had a key to the front door, then to also quickly remember that I lock the dead bolts. Stupid, but smart if you want to look at it from a safety point of view. I drove to Wal-mart for a battery, it was a special battery so I went to Radio Shack. Bought a $7.00 tiny battery that's the size of a dime only to find out that it doesn't work. Great, what now? While on the phone with the Beagnyam's, my phone dies. I drive back to Radio Shack for a phone charger (because my car charger broke and I failed to buy a new one until I really needed it), the Beagnyam's call David for our address (while in Temple) so they can come rescue me.
Well they couldn't do anything, they really just drove over for moral support and so I could chase little Linc around my front yard, that little flirt :) Love them!!
My neighbors come home and they inform me that they saw the electricy guy at one of the houses around us. I decide to call my energy company to find out if my electricity has gone out for some strange reason (we pay our bills people)! Champion (our company) can't find our address in the system...or our name, only to the last place we lived. That was over a month ago!
A light bulb goes off in my head and I realize that when we transferred our service it just happened to be during snow storm 2011. Basically, we were trying to transfer service with rolling black outs, regular black outs and black outs at Champion (where all the magic happens...but only with electricity)!
So long story short, our service was never transferred, which means it was never even set up, which means that Oncor has been paying for our electricity for over a month! So they came to take the meter, which I don't completely blame them considering they thought we were stealing electricity. Well when that happens, you have to get an inspection for a permit to be released to stab the meter.
In the mean time, I call a locksmith and the only way to get into our house is to drill holes in our front door! I lock the house up pretty well! Champion said we couldn't get service until Monday and I explained that we have dogs inside our locked house and they WILL be coming with us, so we discussed breaking windows or getting a locksmith. They seemed hesitant but came around really quickly when my husband asked if they were willing to pay for two dead dogs.
I packed up our things and took my dogs to meet David in Granbury at his parents. We spent the weekend there and then I came home Wednesday morning.
Some old inspector man came to our house for about a whole 2 minutes Tuesday morning, I had to wait 4 days for this 2 minutes. They told us between 9 and 2. What am I going to do in a house without electricity for 5 hours? He came at 11:30 and cleaning and talking on the phone passed the time quickly. Luckily he was very sweet and given my situation he called in my permit release number so I didn't have to sit on the phone for two hours with oncor trying to get this stupid number so we can have electricity.
We have electricity as of this morning! HALLELUJAH!!!
I will say how wonderful Champion has been through this process.....
-offered to pay up to $100 a night in hotel as long as it took
-paying for expenses during process (food while out of house) (about $100)
-replacing all perishable food (a lot!! I haven't taken inventory yet)
-paying for locksmith ($115)
-replacing front door (a lot a lot!!)
-paying for gas to and from Granbury because we opted out of hotel since we have dogs (insane gas prices!)
-paying for permit ($30)
-waiving all activation fees
This could easily come out to $1000!
I had a wonderful time in Granbury but I'm glad to be home :) Next you'll hear about the wonderful little town of Granbury. LOVE love love! Enough for tonight though, more tomorrow!
Watch for my little Granbury review, you'll want to see it!
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