I haven’t had Internet at home (not counting when I lived near the university I had crappy wireless connections to piggyback off of whenever a friend with a laptop visited) in a year and a half, and it’s an inconvenience having to drag my happy butt down to the library (with no car, working over 40 hours a week, and the city bus only running daytime hours Monday-Friday). Plus, one of my stepdaughters prefers to talk to me and her dad over the Internet instead of on the phone or in person (not an ideal situation for any of us, but that’s the way it is, and my husband would rather us all talk over Myspace than not at all). That and I am an information junkie. If I hear something I’ve never heard of, I want to research it online. If I just think of something I want to learn about, I like having Google at my fingertips so I can learn everything I ever wanted to know and more. I’m also hoping to take a couple of online classes while I get my GPA up to go to nursing school. So I NEED the Internet.

They keep advertising those bundle packages on TV, and from my own research the phone company’s DSL is just as good and cheaper than the cable company’s (at least in my area). Thing is, we don’t have cable, Internet, or a house phone right now (just a prepaid Cingular/AT&T phone that won’t even pick up in our trailer because it’s an old trailer, and they’re notorious for crappy reception). I would pay the deposits to get those services ($50 for phone/Internet and $50 for cable), except that due to a better financial situation than we’ve experienced in the past (hubby just got a stable job, I’ve been working for the State for nearly two months and getting better paychecks than I’ve ever seen in my life…we’re still poor, but we’re not dirt poor anymore) we’re moving out of our trailer to a house that is only a little bit more expensive to rent, a lot bigger, and right next door. Those kinds of companies charge fees to transfer services, don’t they? Maybe I’m cheap, but I’d feel kind of stupid getting services only to pay a month or two later to move them literally one house down.

So this will happen soon, but not right now…damn, I miss the Internet!