Happy Moonday!
Well. it’s not so happy but it is going to be busy.
It’s a cold and dark 18 degrees outside, but it is supposed to warm up to 32 today.
And snow.
I am going to kill the cat.
I woke at 2:30 for a bladder call and was having trouble getting back to sleep. Just as I was drifting off here comes the damn cat and he will not be happy until he wakes the dog. I try getting the dog to stay put but the cat is having none of that, so the dog chases him, catches him, holds him down, chews on his head, and the cat screams bloody murder. I get the dog, get him settled back down, setting in to fall back asleep and here comes the cat again. After the third time I told the cat he was on his own, if the dog chews his head he has nobody to blame but himself. I have been working so hard with the dog and making great progress getting him to leave the cat alone, but the cat is not happy being left alone.
Then I get a text early this morning from the fraud department of the credit union that somebody tried to use my credit card at a hotel in dc. Of course, I don’t trust text messages so I have to get up, look up the number to the credit union, call them and find out was card was also used yesterday at a best buy in virginia. My card is blocked from further use but I have to call back later to order a new card. Then I called the hotel, supposed to be a 4 star hotel and whoever answered the phone could barely speak English, was pissed that I called at 6am, and they are going to tell me that nobody tried to use my card in the last half hour?
I’m calling best buy later too because I want to know how somebody managed to use my card for an instore purchase when I have the card.
aarp is on my hit list again too. I got an email from them asking me to verify my email address. I ignored it. Then I got an email addressing me by name asking me to verify my information. I called them up and asked them why they want my information. So, once again, I am removed from their mailing list. Two days later I get an envelope in the mail, no return address, no information except ‘cards enclosed’. I thought it was my new insurance cards. NOPE, membership cards with a welcome letter, and a bill from the aarp. So I wrote them a not so nice letter telling them what I think of them, where they can go, how incredibly stupid they are, what part of NO do they not understand and shoved it into the return envelope along with all the glitter I could scrape off my Christmas cards. Then I find out I have to use a stamp. But that is okay, because the next day I got another letter from them asking me to join, and that letter included a postage free return envelope.
At least all the college crap got straightened out. According to my son’s account I owed them almost $1500. I could not figure out their calculations because I should not owe them anything as the pell grant covers everything. I couldn’t figure out the math until in the middle of Saturday night I woke up thinking subract the state part out of the grant and they are only using one fourth of the grant money. He only needs one class to graduate so I thought maybe the grant will only cover one class. Only a pell grant won’t cover anything less than 2 classes.
Anyway, that got straightened out on it’s own and the grant is covering full time classes.
Then we checked progress in his program of study and some new requirement showed up and we were like wtf?!, which means he would have to scramble to find a class to fit the requirement and change his schedule. But later in the day that self-corrected.
I’m supposed to go to get a sonogram of my throat today but I’m still sick. I called to rescheduled last week and they asked me to wait until today to see how I feel. I feel a lot better than I did but I am still coughing a lot and once I start it seems to go on forever. I’d rather reschedule than sit in the office coughing my head off.
I already rescheduled to furnace inspection, which made the furnace people happy since a bunch of them are sick and the others are overwhelmed with fixing real furnace problems.
The house is still a friggin mess. So today is going to be clean up day, first day of school for the son, kill the cat, deal with a stolen credit card, and try to get out of a dr appt day.
I also want to try to get back onto some kind of schedule. My sleep schedule is so out of whack, I’m up half the night because I nap all during the day. Now that I am feeling mostly better I can stop napping so much - I hope.
{{{Scooter}}}
