Why won't messages use my phone number as my ID for my messages when I have it set as the default?

I have gone through all of my settings since updating to iOS 8 and I made sure my phone number is listed as my default caller ID for messages and facetime (meaning I have logged out and back in again on my phone, iPad, AND Macbook....) but it's still using my Apple ID e-mail address and when someone texts me to my phone number it sends it as a text and not an Apple message.

You say that your account is blocked and that you have your Apple id back (?).
If you updated your existing account then try logging out of it on the iPad by tapping on the id in Settings > Store and then log back in and see if that 'refreshes' the account on the iPad.

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