Friyay!

CharmedPam

Long week for everyone else too? I’m headed out tomorrow for my nephew’s 2nd birthday party as well as some Halloween fun too! I have halloween gift bags for them, but I think I’ll have my P’s hold off on giving it to them until mid October.

Now that I applied for an amazon prime card all my 5% categories in other cards suck.  One is amazon/target (which I don’t shop at) and the other is paypal/charities/mcdonalds(?)/pet stores. I don’t even use paypal that much anymore because if a shop offers the pay in four, I usually choose that. So boo hiss 5% categories.  I want gas stations, grocery stores and restaurants again! 

VarunaTT

No big plans.  I probably need to force myself outside at some point.  I'll go see Mom and I have some movies to watch.  I'm supposed to go see a concert, but I bought the ticket when I was feeling social.  Now I feel all ugh about it.  We'll see, it's a group I like, so maybe I can kick my own butt to go out.

Really nothing much interesting going on in life and I'm totally fine with that.

short+sassy

@CharmedPam, After recent events, I HATE and despise my Costco Citi visa card.  But it gives me 3% back at restaurants and travel.  4% back for gas.  Plus it's a long standing account.  So I can't bear to cancel it. 

Here is what happened with them.  I thought I had already made my Sept payment.  Apparently I hadn't.  They auto-called me on Sept 15th.  Then THREE TIMES in one day on Sept. 16th.  But it was always a dumb message on my VM where they were asking me to "hold" to speak to a representative.  Didn't even say who TF they were.  The only reason I knew it was them is because I applied for this card a few months before I was getting married and had put down my H's last name as my last name.  Because I was planning to change my name and never did.  It's the only card I have with Jennifer (H's last name).  They also cut off half the last name in their VMs.  More eye rolls.  But it was still clearly his last name.

I was busy and pissed at them, but finally paid the balance off about a week later.  But before that happened, they were psycho-calling me 1-2x/day.  I looked up the laws.  There is no daily limit.  But a debtor is not allowed to call more than 7x in one week.  It was about double that.

Oh, but wait.  On Sept. 25th, 5 days after I made my payment, they called me again at TWO AM!!!  The day before had been horrible and I couldn't sleep, so I was still up.  I have their number blocked, so it rings once and then goes to VM. 

I immediately called their CS to find out why they are ILLEGALLY calling me at 2 fucking AM.  The CSR claimed they hadn't called me, but that my account was in good standing and she didn't see any reason why they would call.  I won't bore you all further with the rest of that idiotic conversation but I was even more infuriated when I got off the phone.  She said she was going to put in a ticket to investigate the matter further.

That was over a week ago and no one has contacted me.  If she even put in a ticket to begin with.

That's okay.  It just prompted me to do more research.  NOW they can answer to the complaint I'm filing with the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau.  I'm only waiting until I can figure out how to get my phone records because I can attach that with my complaint for black and white proof.  That way, they can't keep lying about when and how often they called me.

levioosa

Morning is okay. A little annoying. There is a staff member at work who tries to throw their weight around constantly (she has no managerial power over me) and she is trying to micromanage me as I WFH and it is seriously pissing me off. I'm trying to decide it it's worth confronting her when I get back in office or if that will make her double down. 

Otherwise I am ecstatic to be in a room that isn't literally 93 degrees. I knew I was in bad shape but I didn't realize how bad of shape until I was in the gym last night and I couldn't even fucking walk at 4 mph without my pulse ox dropping to the 80s. It hasn't been like that since I had COVID-19 in July, so this week in the extreme heat actually made me go backwards in my recovery and that's pretty frustrating. I need to go back to pulmonology. 

Otherwise, SSDD. I'm excited it's the weekend. And I'm excited to WFH and have my sweet kitty next to me all day. She's going to be so happy about it. 

MyNameIsNot

It's been a long week here and I'm ready. It should be a fairly chill weekend. It's finally really nice outside, so I'm going to the park as soon as I get done with work and trying to spend as much time outside as possible this weekend. 

short+sassy

I thought today was going to be another stressful work nightmare like most Fridays have been lately and the last two weeks have especially been.

But it wasn't!  I still worked too many OT hours.  But I was productive.  I'm not haunted going into the weekend with all the stuff I should have gotten done.

I'm hoping I can get back into a good head space, at least for the weekend.