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sigh
For reasons I intend to discover on Monday morning, my new cable and internet company billed me more than $200 more than makes sense to me, either from the alleged cost when I signed up, or even the damn bill.
Aside from the totally mundane annoyance of that, it also screws my Christmas plans into the ground. At the moment, I have enough left in my checking account to pay the one bill I haven't yet paid and then I will be flat. I will not have enough gas money to drive to Houston. I may have enough money to mail packages.
Don't get me wrong, I am actually not badly off, actually not at all. I'm stretched tight, but partly because of what goes into my retirement fund (which started at zero in 2011) and my flex spending account. My bills are paid, it's just like most people these days--things are stretched tight.
So no getting to see Mouse, her Man and her baby bump.
Aside from the totally mundane annoyance of that, it also screws my Christmas plans into the ground. At the moment, I have enough left in my checking account to pay the one bill I haven't yet paid and then I will be flat. I will not have enough gas money to drive to Houston. I may have enough money to mail packages.
Don't get me wrong, I am actually not badly off, actually not at all. I'm stretched tight, but partly because of what goes into my retirement fund (which started at zero in 2011) and my flex spending account. My bills are paid, it's just like most people these days--things are stretched tight.
So no getting to see Mouse, her Man and her baby bump.