I got the new cell phone bill today. I about choked on my dr pepper. $780. Yep you read that right. I was expecting a bill around $450 because I bought my daughter her christmas present and had it billed to me. But I wasn't ready for a bill that large. Turns out that one of the phones my ex has has been getting on the internet and it has no(zero, zilch) data plan. So it charged $1.99 for each megabyte. total charges = $290. I know exactly what happened. His mother has the phone and his brother got ahold of it and started using it to probably look up porn on the internet. I called the ex and he will get to the bottom of it. I know that he will pay me for it, just have to make payments because he just started working in New York. I also blocked the internet on that phone and blocked the subscription text messages from all phones. No more surprises.

I got on the Sallie Mae website to see about my payment that automatically comes out. I was debating cancelling it because I didn't have enough money to cover it. It was too late to cancel it(although I did attempt to cancel automatic debit will have to go back and redo that). But I found out that the payment is $471 this month. They added all the late fees to the $269 payment. Good thing I looked. That is a significant difference that could have gotten me in a lot of trouble.

I am running short on money so I took out a loan from my employer for $1400. I will pay it back $100 per paycheck. I hated to ask him but with the renters not giving me anything I was desperate. Now I can make all my bills and hopefully I will get somebody in there pretty quickly. I am going to drive by there tonight and see if they have left yet.

Plan to have a quite night at home. Trick or treating is a little different where I live. Since the homes are mainly rural everyone goes downtown where the merchants hand out candy. Since my kids are older now, I don't have to go downtown. They go to hang out, not to get candy, and their mom hanging out with them would just be lame(according to them). So I get to relax in the warmth of my home.

My sister is bringing me a wood burning stove this weekend to put into our fireplace. It should help with our heating bills this winter. I just hope that I keep up with it and it works like I hope it does. There is only a narrow opening that heat can get through to get to the main part of the house so I am hoping that it travels well.

Well that about updates all that is going on in my life. Hope everyone has a safe and fun halloween!