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Wedding Woes
VarunaTT
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Wednesday
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We're all late this morning!
SSDD for me mostly. I'm mad at myself; I got really excited about an event and bought tickets for it. I just realized it's at 2pm on a Wednesday. I assumed it was in the evening. It was only $10 and it's non-refundable, but I want to go, dammit. I'm just not sure about taking an afternoon off with vacation coming up. It was to see O Brother, Where Art Thou on the big screen again. I adore that movie and would love seeing it in the theatre again.
Nothing big happening, just grinding away at work at home.
SSDD for me mostly. I'm mad at myself; I got really excited about an event and bought tickets for it. I just realized it's at 2pm on a Wednesday. I assumed it was in the evening. It was only $10 and it's non-refundable, but I want to go, dammit. I'm just not sure about taking an afternoon off with vacation coming up. It was to see O Brother, Where Art Thou on the big screen again. I adore that movie and would love seeing it in the theatre again.
Nothing big happening, just grinding away at work at home.
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Re: Wednesday
I have a similar event disappointment. The shelter we adopted Maple Bar from is having a fundraiser. It's a tasting event with a bunch of restaurants and the tickets are only $35! I would love to go because it sounds like a great value, plus I obviously have a soft spot in my heart for this organization. But it's at the Cajun Dome, which is near the shelter, but 2 hours away from me. And on a Wednesday night (sigh). I'd go on a Wednesday if it was within 30ish minutes of me. Or I'd take the 2-hour trek on a Fri. or Sat. night. But the combo of "far and a weekday night" just isn't doable.
I am incredibly angry at the bank who carries my home mortgage. I know I previously mentioned to you all the insanity of how much my property insurance has jumped up over the last two years. Including going from $4400 to $7600, just this last year.
Let's do the math. That is $3200 more per year. Which is $266/month more. Plus then they do their obnoxious escrow thing with wanting even more than that in my escrow account. So I knew my payment was going up at some point by maybe $300ish/month.
I happened to go into my online account today for something else, but noticed my August mortgage payment is $500/month more than it's been. Excuse me?!?! Why is it DOUBLE my insurance increase?
And for the cherry on top, they have sent me ZERO notice of the increase in payment and ZERO accounting of where TF they are getting that number from. So typical of them. They do the same thing with my tax documents for the interest every year. Mail it within the last 1-3 days they are legally required to.
I'm going to see what is involved with taking it out of escrow. It's one thing when they were hoarding my money in an escrow account that pays no interest, when the amount was only $3K-$5K (depending on the year) and savings APYs were crap. But now that we are talking $10K+ in escrow and I can get a 5% APY savings account, I'd like that extra $500/year.
It's also massively screwing up my DTI for trying to keep this house while I buy another one in Ocala, if it's a worse case scenario and I have to quit my job. Unfortunately, taking it out of escrow won't help that. I've heard banks still calculate in the insurance/property tax, even if it isn't part of the mortgage payment.
Also wow you're not only the one person outside my family who knows O Brother but also likes it lol
My dad looooved that movie lol
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Sorry about your movie @VarunaTT that's a bummer it's mid-day.
It's super smoky here. It definitely feels apocalyptic. The only place with worse air quality than here is Detroit. I've been getting all sorts of notifications about activities and events being canceled or postponed.
SSDD otherwise. Just hate feeling out of sorts.
I have a glimmer of excitement at work. And hope I don't get smushed down like a bug again.
As a recap, I've been feeling very resentful and unappreciated for months because they suddenly hired all these people, including a new manager, for the Procurement department that I'd been running by myself for years. I felt pushed aside and hadn't even been included in the new tasks/responsibilities for this department.
I was assuming it's because the other department I work in (Steel) was going to be ramping up and they wanted me available to focus my work on that. I was "kind of" told that. But not that I was going to be totally cut out of anything new in Procurement.
But I was invited to a small "meet and greet" meeting today (I'm almost never invited to meetings). Turns out, the meeting was mostly about...me! But in a good way. They are making some large changes in steel for how they are going to do things for the upcoming big projects we have. They want me to take on more management responsibilities (for processes, not people). I've felt like such an under-utilized cog for so long. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to "stretch my muscles" a bit. The "meet" part was someone who normally works in Houston, but was in town. He and I will be working together for some of this.
We need to take the pup to doggie class tonight but I know H is going to balk at it. He is leaving tomorrow to help his sister with some of their Dad's stuff and to bring back things he wants. However, we haven't been to this class in almost a month. We bought a year membership at this training place (where we did puppy classes) and can go to any classes as many times as we want for the year. I just feel like we should try and make it to at least one a week (which we haven't done).
boooo @VarunaTT, why would they do that? I guess they expect people to have the three days or full 5 off? I’m back in the office Wednesday too. Our office is pretty lax with hours but I don’t think it would go over well if I took a longer lunch for a movie lol.
cutie BK! @MissKittyDanger
@levioosa, I think you did hella lots!
But right now, I'm more basking in the glow and boost of confidence that they trust my abilities to expand my role here.