I am mad and need to vent. TL;DR XM keeps charging me for a dead radio and won't stop ( Read more... )

So, this Christmas was almost canceled at my house. This hits me pretty hard because, well, Christmas is special to me for reasons that are not always made clear ( Read more... )

Well, I have filed my taxes and despite all my paranoid calculations which always edge on the side of insane bad luck, I got a refund instead of having to pay. This is awesome. Because we need the money like nobody's business. But it reminded me of this being the 22nd year of paying taxes ( Read more... )

So, I did bills last night. Things are not good. Two part time jobs I have had (babysitting and dog sitting) have all but dried up. This means that we're single income with takayla's unemployment trickling in up until December. She has only had one interview all summer, despite her applying to a lot of places (2-3 places a week ( Read more... )

So get this, I get a notice from American Express they have halted my card because of excessive spending. The total that I reached was not very high, and I paid it off every month anyway ('tis the rules with American Express), and I wasn't late (payment due next week). This was part of a plan to shift spending around so I could pay off other cards ( Read more... )

I nearly passed out twice on the Metro, and again when I tried to walk uphill to work. I don't think from anything more than sheer lack of sleep, although I got about 4 hours last night, which isn't that unusual for a weekday. I just can't "get in the game," as it were. Part of the problem may have been that this weekend I tried in earnest to ( Read more... )

I was up until 3am doing bills. I hate bills. Luckily, American Express may be able to help me out with a consolidation at 5.99% fixed while the high credit card is 18.9%. I am going to have to ditch that card; 7 years ago it was only 11.9 ( Read more... )

By Caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, by the beans of Java the thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking is a warning. By Caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.Jesus Christ, I am exhausted. I am running on maybe 90 minutes of sleep. The reasons behind this are basically my finances, as skimmed before in a previous ( Read more... )

I really hate doing finances. I took them over in 1996 because takayla ran them from 1990-1996 when we had money problems the likes of which most of our current friends have never seen us with. But she was sick of doing them, and she ran them in "crisis mode," which is incredibly useful when you are shit poor, but the "pay the ones marked shutoff/final ( Read more... )

I can't shake this... cold, or whatever. It's not nearly strong enough to be flu or my usual winter enemy, bronchitis. It's just slight fever, congestion, scratchy throat, and diarrhea. Totally sucks my energy, and I was hoping I'd get better this weekend, but no. I am not the only one sick, though ( Read more... )