Numerous Updates And Assorted Frustrations

[chelseajmunoz]

I've been forgetting to mention that within the last week or so I joined Google Hangouts. I honestly have no clue what Google Hangouts actually is except for the fact that signing up with that particular service allowed me to follow a fan website of Stacie Orrico (one of my favorite singers of all-time). So anyway I'd recently signed up with Google Hangouts because I'd thought that signing up with said service would allow me to send a message to the person who runs the Stacie Orrico fan website that I frequently visit. However I haven't found a place on Google Hangouts where I can send the owner of the Stacie Orrico fan website a message. A while after I'd written my last blog entry Friday I called a local DMV because I'd thought that making an appointment for myself would be a good idea. However the DMV's automated system kept giving me trouble because there was a lot of background noise on my end since a friend of mine was doing his own thing at his apartment. Fortunately though when I finally got far enough with a local DMV's automated system I learned that the soonest date that said DMV could schedule an appointment for me would be on the 24th of next month. Of course I don't want to wait that long to get a state ID so I hung up the phone once I'd heard that bit of information from the DMV's automated system. Shortly after I'd hung up with the DMV's automated system I called a local post office in this city to inquire about getting a post office (PO) box for myself. However no one answered the phone at any of the phone numbers I'd called for different post offices in this area. So I then Googled the zip code of the place I'd rented a room at along with the words "post office." Because I'd thought that using that particular phrasing would get me exactly what I'd wanted. However I was unable to find out that particular post office's weekend hours which was quite frustrating to me. A while after I'd tried to find a local post office's hours an acquaintance of mine printed out the certified copy of my legal name change order for me. So once said acquaintance had handed me said printed document I put said document into the zip lock bag that the rest of my things that I'd take to a local DMV were in. A little while after I'd gotten everything organized for the DMV I Googled my friend's Hydrocephalus organization. Because I knew that while said friend has good intensions to help people she also does not say "no" to anyone. And I really wanted to see what the scholarship she'd come up with was about. And fortunately I found her Hydrocephalus organization through Google as I'd hoped I would. Although it did take me some digging on Google to find what I was looking for. Anyway once I'd logged onto her Hydrocephalus organization's website I searched for the scholarship application. What I'd found was text on her Hydrocephalus organization's website that explained how people could apply for a college scholarship. Once I'd found that bit of information I read through what information I'd be required to provide to my friend's Hydrocephalus organization. Some of the information I'd read that I'd have to provide for said scholarship application was not clear to me. Specifically I was unclear whether the student loan office of the college a person is attending was the same thing as the college's financial aid office. So a little while later I asked a friend of mine if he knew whether the student lone office was the same thing as the financial aid office and he said that he wasn't sure. A little while after I'd asked my friend that particular question I deleted the Talkspace app off of my phone. I then created an FB status update asking my sighted friends on FB if any of them would be willing to help make my blog visually appealing. Shortly after I'd created that particular FB status update a blind friend of mine commented on that particular FB status update. In said friend's comment on that particular FB status update I'd created he'd tagged a friend of his to ask him or her if he or she'd wanted to help me. When I'd seen his reply to that particular FB status update I'd created I then made said FB status update public so that his frienD would be able to see what I'd written. Saturday when I woke up I officially connected with the friend of a friend. One of the first things that the sighted person helping me with my blog told me was that I have too much content in an area that is very small. He then asked me if I wanted to continue blogging at Dreamwidth or whether I wanted him to get me hooked up with an actual website for myself. He then explained that the reason he was asking me that particular question was because Dreamwidth is a basic blogging platform that people can't really do much with in terms of how creative people want to be with his or her blog. So I told him that I'd like to have an actual website for myself. Shortly after I'd exchanged several FB messages with this guy I went to a post office that's near the place I recently rented because I wanted to get a PO Box. Because as my blog readers may remember I'm unable to receive mail at the place that I'm renting. On the way to that particular destination though the Uber driver I'd had was kind of interesting. She talked about how her mom was recently placed in a nursing home because she has Alzheimer's. Hearing that this lady's mom was in a nursing home broke my heart because I don't feel that anyone should ever be in a nursing home. I've been in a nursing home myself and the staff who works at those kinds of facilities does not take care of their patients well. And even that's putting things mildly. Anyway once I'd arrived at the post office though the Uber driver I'd had made sure I got into the building before she'd Drove off. And fortunately the lady who'd helped me at the post office was very kind. She showed me the different sizes of the PO boxes that were available so that I could choose exactly which size of PO box would work best for me. She even said that she'd filled out a change of address form for me so that I'd have one less thing on my to-do list. At first though the lady who'd helped me at the post office was being a hard-ass, trying to tell me that she couldn't accept the forms of identification that I had with me. Then I told her that I had a copy of my lease that I could show her as proof that I live in this city and state. Once I'd shown her that particular information she became much more willing to help me with the things that I'd needed her help with. While I was being helped at the post office though this lady who was waiting to be helped said in a very rude tone of voice "There isn't anyone else working today?" The lady at the post office who was helping me told the rude lady that she was the only one working at the post office today. The rude lady then said to me in that same rude tone of voice "If I were in your position I'd take all the help I could get too." There was absolutely no need for that lady to be rude. I was a customer there just like she was a customer there...and it's common knowledge (or at least it should be) that if someone is currently being helped by the only post office worker that you see in the building then you have to remember what your elementary school teacher taught you about how to wait your turn...then you actually have to you know, wait your turn. So anyway once that rude lady made that snide comment to me I didn't worry about how much time I'd take to get done everything that I needed to get done. Shortly after I'd gotten home from the post office though I called the post office to ask the lady a few questions. I wanted to know how to spell the town name where said post office was located. I also wanted to know the last four digits of the zip code for the address of said post office. Fortunately the lady who'd helped mE earlier in the day gave me all the information I'd asked her for. A while after I'd finished my errand at a local post office I read an FB status update where Scholarship Giver reminded people who are going to college to apply for the scholarship she's giving out. So I commented on said FB status update to ask her if a college's student lone office was the same thing as a college's financial aid office. A little while after I'd posted that particular FB comment to Scholarship Giver's FB status update I received a text from my landlord. In the text that he'd sent me he wanted to make sure that I was doing well since I hadn't been at my place lately. So I texted him right away to let him know that him and his wife would probably see me closer to the time that school starts. A little while after I'd replied to my landlord's text message the friend of mine who'd lost his Apple TV remote asked me to check if said Apple TV remote was in my backpack. Because for whatever reason my backpack was the one place that neither of us had checked for the Apple TV remote. And fortunately the Apple TV remote was in my backpack. So now my friend's world is restored again because he has his Apple TV remote back! LOL. Shortly after I'd found said friend's Apple TV remote in my backpack I drank a few sips of soda. I didn't enjoy the soda the way I used to enjoy said drink. While I drank a few sips of soda the friend of mine that I'd recently started making a song with and I completely scrapped what we'd originally came up with. Once we'd scrapped what we'd originally came up with the two of us played around on his keyboard to try and find sounds and beats that we liked. I actually played his keyboard that day too. I could tell that I was out of practice though because I kept having timing issues where I'd be a little bit off where the timing was concerned. Needless to say it took me a little while but I picked up the correct rhythm pretty quickly. Yesterday afternoon I emailed the academic counselor at the college I'm going to be attending. In the email I'd sent her I told her that I'm aware that when a person registers for classes, the system wants said person to pay for said classes right then too. So given the fact I'm going to have financial aid pay for my class I asked the academic counselor at the college if she could tell me what could be done to ensure that I don't have any problems on May first when I register for my English 100 A class that I'm hopefully going to take this summer. A while after I'd emailed the academic counselor at the college I'm going to be attending I had an acquaintance try to use each of the gift cards I'd gotten from Samsung to purchase tickets to Ed Sheeran's concert that's coming up in the next few months. Although the gift cards that I'd gotten from Samsung wouldn't fully purchase Ed Sheeran tickets the gift cards would at least help my friend and I be able to go to said concert. So after my friend and I'd discovered that the gift cards I'd gotten from Samsung wouldn't work with Ticket Master's website said friend emailed me each gift card's information so that I'd have said information in my possession. A little while after said friend had emailed me the information that's on the gift cards I'd gotten from Samsung I helped said friend prepare dinner for that night for the two of us. Specifically I'd helped said friend put butter, Parmesan cheese and mayonnaise on four corn on the cobs. The way I accomplished said task was that my friend put butter and mayonnaise into two separate bowls so that I could access both of those ingredients easily. So with each of those ingredients in separate bowls I rolled each corn on the cob in each bowl of ingredients. Then my friend sprinkled lots of Parmesan cheese in the bowl that the four corn on the cobs were in. I then rolled each corn on the cob in the Parmesan cheese that my friend had put in the bowl. So along with the corn on the cobs my friend and I also ate steak and macaroni with shrimp and Cajun seasoning inside of it. Unfortunately the macaroni didn't come out as well as my friend and I'd hoped it would but the rest of our dinner that night tasted delicious! While my friend and I were eating our dinner I took a few sips of Dr Pepper. When I'd tasted said drink this time, said drink tasted good. My friend said that's because it's all about what a person eats that makes soda taste good or not. Maybe he's right. When I got up this morning I read a text message from a friend of mine who's an Orientation and Mobility (O&M) instructor in a different state than I live in. In the text message she'd sent me she told me that I should suggest to my Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor (VRC) that he pay for her to come here for a week or for a weekend to give me some orientation to where I currently live. I haven't decided if I'm going to take her up on her offer yet or not though because I really want my VRC to purchase Artificial Intelligence, Remote Assistant (AIRA) for me. Anyway shortly after I'd read my friend's text message this morning I received an email from an academic counselor at the college I'm going to be attending. In the email reply that the academic counselor at the college had sent me she told me that I could apply for financial aid as well as that I could apply for a specific grant that that particular college offers for some of its students. So I immediately sent her a reply back letting her know that I'd applied for financial aid back in February. In the same reply email I'd sent her I also told her that I'd looked into the exact grant from said college that she'd mentioned to me in her initial email. She then replied to my email suggesting that I call the financial aid office at the college I'm going to be attending because that particular office at the college would be able to answer all of my questions. A little while after I'd read that particular email from the academic counselor I've met with a few times at the college I'm going to be attending I called a few different places to change my address with those places. When I called T-Mobile to update my addresses with that particular company the lady I spoke with told me that it may take some time for my new mailing address as well as my new physical address to be updated in T-Mobile's system. While I was on the phone with a lady from T-Mobile I also asked the lady to create a new passcode for me. Unfortunately though her system wasn't allowing her to make that particular change for me. So she said that she'd put a note on my account that would ensure that someone from T-Mobile would call me within the next few days to update my account passcode. Once I'd gotten off the phone with a lady from T-Mobile I called my insurance company. The lady I spoke with at my insurance company told me that I'd have to call a different phone number to change my address with the state. The lady I spoke with then gave me a phone number and when I called that phone number after I'd gotten off the phone with that lady, I spoke with another lady. That particular lady I spoke with informed me that I'd need to contact the county I live in, in order to change my address with the state. So I told her the specific city that I'm currently located in and she gave me a phone number to contact for the particular county that I'm in. I then called that particular number and I spoke with a third lady. That particular lady I spoke with told me that I'd need to contact the Social Security Administration (SSA) in the particular city that I live in. This lady also gave me the number for a local SSA office in this city. This lady also told me that once my address was updated with the SSA, my insurance company as well as the state as a whole would receive the updated information. So once I'd gotten off the phone with that particular lady I called the number she'd given me. The lady I spoke with at a local Social Security office told me that that particular office's system was not letting her update my address as I'd requested she do for me. Once I'd gotten off the phone with that lady I called the post office that's located by the place I'm renting. When I spoke with a guy at the post office I asked him what the physical address of the post office would be for someone who has a PO box at that particular post office location. He gave me the information I'd asked him for which was great because there were some businesses that I used the post office's actual location along with my unit number for my address instead of the PO box I'd recently gotten. Mainly I used the post office's physical address with my unit number for the State Library for the Blind. That way if that particular agency ever sends me actual Braille books by mail, those Braille books would get to me without any issues. A little while after I'd updated my address with the State Library for the Blind I received a reply on FB from Scholarship Giver herself. In the FB reply that she'd written to me she answered the question I'd recently posed to her about whether a college's financial aid office was the same thing as a college's student lone office. In the FB reply she'd made she told me that a college's financial aid office was the same thing as a college's student lone office. So onCe I'd gotten that bit of information from Scholarship Giver herself I filled out most of the scholarship application. Then I saved the draft of said scholarship application in the drafts folder of my default email account. I then posted an FB status update asking my sighted FB friends if any of them would look through my FB photos, find an awesome-looking picture of me then text said picture to me. In that particular FB status update that I'd written I explained that the reason I'd like for someone to text me a picture of myself is because it's easier for me to share a picture that I've been texted then attach said picture to an email. Once I'd created said FB status update though I then realized that I could text a friend of mine to ask if he'd help me with that particular task I wanted to complete. I then received a text message from the friend of mine who'd recently emailed me the gift card information from Samsung. In the text message that that particular friend had sent me he gave me a phone number that I could use to activate the gift cards that I'd received from Samsung. So I then texted the friend who I'd asked to help find an awesome picture of me on my FB to ask him if he'd also help me activate the gift cards I'd received from Samsung. I then forwarded him the phone number he could use to activate the cards along with the email that another friend had sent me that contained each gift card's information. The reason I asked for a friend's help activating those gift cards is because a person has to enter in each card's information quickly in order for the system to process the request. And since each of those gift cards are not numbers that I've memorized it would be difficult for me to enter those numbers in the timely manner that said system would want me to enter each number in. Because I don't give up easily I called the SSA's main phone number once I'd given my friend the gift card information. Unfortunately I was on hold with the main SSA's number for almost an hour. Once a lady came on the other line though I told her that I wanted to update my mailing address. She had me verify my physical address first and it turned out that the SSA still had my old address on file rather than the one I'd wanted the SSA to change it to at the beginning of this month. That was incredibly frustrating because all this time I'd thought that my physical address was the place I'm renting a room from. Yet my address wasn't current. My physical address was still the place I first stayed at when I'd moved here in February. That also meant that the amount of rent that I pay had not been updated by the SSA at the first of this month either. So hopefully the lady I spoke with at the SSA this time correctly updated all of my information. Before I'd gotten off the phone with that lady though I confirmed with her that a local SSA office as well as the state as a whole would receive all of my updated information. She said that's how the process would work. A little while after I'd gotten off the phone with that particular lady from the SSA I received a couple text messages from the friend I'd texted earlier to ask for his help accomplishing a couple tasks. In the text messages that said friend had sent me he'd sent a picture of me that was taken of me with the Apple local and a famous quote by Steve Jobs (Apple's previous CEO) that another friend had made for me a few months ago. My friend then explained through a text message what said picture was of so I'd know exactly which picture he'd chosen to send me. Once I'd read both of his text messages I read through my email draft of the scholarship application. Since I couldn't find an "attachment" button I put a note at the end of said scholarship application saying "Note: Please see my next email for an attached picture of me that is meant to go along with my scholarship application." Once I'd written that particular note on said scholarship application I sent said scholarship application to my friend's Hydrocephalus Support Foundation. I then sent another email to the same organization that contained the picture of me that was meant to go along with the scholarship application I'd also submitted to said organization. Shortly after I'd submitted everything that was required for Hydrocephalus Support Foundation's scholarship application I read an FB comment that one of my sighted FB friends had made on the FB status update I'd created where I asked for someone sighted to help me pick a great picture of myself that I could use for the scholarship application I'd wanted to submit. In the reply that one of my sighted FB friends had posted on that particular FB status update, one of the pictures that that person suggested I use was a picture where I was standing up with my white cane in one hand and my support cane in my other hand. In that particular picture I was also standing near a sign that said "vote here" if I remember correctly. So after I'd seen that particular FB friend's reply to the recent FB status update I'd posted I commented to her reply. In the reply I'd written to her I told her that the particular picture she'd suggested would've been a great picture to use for the scholarship application. However I'd already chosen to use a picture that another of my FB friends had suggested to me. Shortly after I'd replied to that particular FB friend's reply to the FB status update I'd posted earlier in the day I called the college I'm going to be attending. I then listened to the college's automated system give me choices about what department I wanted to speak with at the college. So I chose the Admissions and Records Department. The guy I spoke with at that particular department told me that I'd have to physically go to the building that Admissions and Records is located in, in order to update my address with the college. That's pretty frustrating but hopefully I'll remember to update my address with Admissions and Records at the college when I have my next appointment with one of the academic counselors at the college.