I finally called Capital One to say “hey, upping my rate from 14% to 22% is not okay.” It only took me a month to gather the spoons to call the automated system which just needed me to input two strings of numbers and hit 1 a few times. Why yes, yes I am phobic of phones. ;_;
I’ve been feeling pretty awful lately, but managing to get things done anyway, which is good. Yesterday was remarkably awesome (I got to hang out with my best friend and my sister) and it’s made a big difference in my brain. I’ve been panicking about money, but I’m feeling pretty cool and organized about it now. I just got this month’s allowance (god bless Dad, provider of all things good) so once that deposits I’ll pay my credit card bills, and then I’ll have enough for shoes, bullriding tickets, AND a signed book that I swore to the author I would buy as soon as I had money. The book is an interesting story, actually - the author, Sam Starbuck, was one of the first journals I read on LJ for non-fandom reasons. I actually was reading his journal before I even had an LJ. The name “Swordage” is strongly influenced by his username. So the book - he posted it on his LJ, or at least the manuscript and then the edited draft, and he invited critiques. So I was one of the people who critiqued it, which is an amazing feeling - yeah, I was one of a few hundred people giving feedback (okay, probably actual feedback came from a dozen or two readers, but he has like 5,000 people subscribing to his LJ) but man, there is a published book in the world that I helped to make better. Whether or not I was the only one giving a particular bit of advice, it is so cool that he used that advice, you know?
Anyway, how did I even get on that tangent. Things are getting better for me, I’m starting to feel like my head is screwed on straight, I need to get out a calendar and mark things down like Father’s Day, Chowderfest, transfer advising/orientation, bullriding, and Shan’s deployment. Also, why do I keep watching the Dog Whisperer? The world may never know.
