u/Embarrassed_Dog_5404

So I've had this video doorbell for like eight months and honestly I forget it's recording half the time. Yesterday I got a notification that my package arrived, and it was actually two days ahead of schedule, which never happens. I guess I got a little too excited because I opened the door, saw the box, and did this full arm pump thing plus some kind of shuffle before picking it up.

I only remembered the doorbell even records video like an hour later when I got a motion detected clip in my email. I watched it out of pure curiosity and just sat there in silence for a solid ten seconds after it ended.

Now here's the actual problem. My girlfriend was sitting right next to me on the couch when the next motion alert popped up, completely unrelated, just a squirrel on the lawn. But she asked to see the app because she likes watching the squirrels too, and I basically lunged for my phone like she was trying to steal state secrets. She has no idea the dance clip exists and I intend to keep it that way, but now every single notification from that doorbell gives me a mini heart attack.

I've genuinely considered turning off notifications entirely just so I don't have to keep managing the anxiety of someone else seeing my porch dance. My own home security device has turned against me.

I work part time at a grocery store in Ontario and last month my manager bumped my hours up and gave me a small raise, about eighty cents more an hour. I was happy about it until my dental coverage renewal letter showed up this week.

Turns out the extra income pushed my family just over the line for the low income dental benefit my daughter has been using. She needed a filling last year and it was fully covered. Now with the new numbers, we're maybe three hundred dollars over the yearly threshold and the letter says we no longer qualify for the coming year.

I did the math and the raise adds up to about nine hundred dollars a year before tax. The dental benefit was covering appointments that would easily cost more than that if we paid out of pocket, especially since her adult teeth are still coming in and she'll probably need more work.

I called the benefit office to ask if there was any kind of buffer or appeal since we're barely over, and the person on the phone was polite but said the cutoff is the cutoff, no exceptions written into the program.

I'm not asking my manager to take back the raise, that feels backwards and also I need the hours for other bills. I'm trying to figure out if there's some other provincial or federal program that could pick up the dental gap now, or if anyone has been through this same kind of threshold problem with a different benefit and found a way to soften the landing.

Has anyone dealt with a program cutoff like this where a small raise ended up shrinking your actual support more than the raise was worth. What did you do, and did you find any other coverage to fill the gap.