A week to recover & burying the lead.
I just go back from a week long trip in the Great Smoky Mountains.
I was one of three adult chaperones for a school function with 12 students (6 boys, 6 girls). Overall it was a very good week (lost ten pounds, got poison oak on the insides of of my ankles and calfs. Weird, I don’t know how I got those). Saw some amazing mountains, streams, and forests. I’ll put up some pictures later. Remind me if I forget, I’m still kinda in a fog, because now that I’m back:
– Must finish up two final exams for my semester today and tomorrow.
– Move my bank from the hacked bank to my new local bank (set up direct deposit, get visa/debt card, etc.) (Did I mention I got hacked again two days after getting my new credit card? I’m switching banks and filed a identity alert on my national profile with the three credit card reporting agencies. Equifax, Transnation, and the other one. Twice they got me, second time for $2000 in UPS shipping and Craigslist charges, and there is absolutely nothing to be done for it. The banks won’t give me any details, and since the charges were pending and didn’t actually process they have no details about where, when, or who used them. This is complete bullshit! I can’t believe there is no information on these transactions. What details are stored with the charges while they are pending? Come on people. Why are we letting these criminals get away with this? 
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– Do all the laundry in the house and de-flea the entire home. Major flea issue occurred while I was away and now I’m covered in fleas. My legs look like they were sprinkled with pepper when I go into the back room. Ack!
– Straighten up a little bit before MerryMaid comes out on Thursday to give me an estimate on what it’ll cost to come out on a bi-monthly basis. (This house really needs to be cleaned and I’m just too pulled and unmotivated to do it right now. Once it’s clean for a couple months perhaps I’ll cancel the service.)
– Monthly credit card bills are due…. WAIT!
Nope. Don’t have to do that anymore. 
I’m credit card debt free. All my credit cards are paid off in full with no balance or pending transactions! Very happy about that, it’s been a long time coming. Will never fall into that hole again.
So while I’m still in the mountains mentally, I’m slowly returning to the “normal” routine of life and work, which starts tomorrow (Monday 4May09). Ugh. Should take another week and I’ll be good to go.
Brain fog!?! Perhaps it is hay fever or spring fever:) Welcome back. My friends in the Blue Ridge say all is green and buds abound on the flowers. Dogwood trees are full of flowers, too. Orange trees are in bloom here. News from MT - Great Falls had a foot of snow three days ago.
So far I’ve not had a credit card problem but more I know folks are. One friend went to the flea market and used her CC. They asked for her ID and proceeded to copy her drivers license along with her CC number. She has been told her ID was then sold with her CC to a number of folks. Her American Express had over 8,000$ which was forgiven. They told her so many happen daily that is is not usually worth the expense of trying to punish the bad folk.
Speaking of fleas- Shadow has not had that issue since he retired to the condo:) Good-luck with that!!!!
Vacation (even as a chaparone) is nice but I’m glad you have a job back on Earth:) Take care-
Holy cow, no more cards. Nice. I’m sure it’s a huge load off.