November 2013

[logans_girl2001]

11/27/13

I meant to write this last week but got distracted.

Thursday I had my appointment to renew my housing voucher. I hate that I have to drive all the way to Denton (which is more than thirty miles away) for a five minute meeting. It gets earlier every year and before long I'll be going in March for the following March!

Anyway, due to budget cuts my voucher has been cut which means they now consider the living room a sleeping space and so two people only need a one-bedroom apartment and so that's what they're going to pay for now. Oh, I can stay in my apartment; I'll just have to pay the difference from what housing is willing to pay and the amount of my apartment.

And here I was looking forward to having some extra money because I no longer claim child support as income. Yeah, that's not gonna happen now.

This put a damper on my excitement over the Catching Fire premiere. But since we had tickets to the double feature with The Hunger Games I was able to forget for a bit.

The movie was awesome! Really want to go see it again and will definitely buy it when it comes out.

Everything was going okay, if not great, until today.

Open enrollment for insurance at work is coming up and today they put the information in our boxes. I've been thinking about dropping it for a while but the premiums went up again and it is now $105 for medical, $14.61 for dental and $4.34 for vision. This is all per pay period and just for me! I could handle this if it was per month, but not per pay period so I will be dropping my health insurance and see if I can find a cheaper one through Obamacare.

Another thing I've never experienced before at any of the jobs where I qualified for health care is they take the premiums out of each check, even the extra check in those months when we get paid three times.