Saturday was a circus for me, because I had to track down $900 that mysteriously disappeared from my bank account to purchase a satellite phone for someone else.
I thought that I had been a victim of identity theft, but it turned out that the person who bought the phone had faxed in a copy of their credit card–on which the numbers were only two digits off from my own debit card. The expiration date was the same, and the clerk at the store typed in the transposed numbers and voila! Hyperventilating PANIC on my part when I log into my bank to check my balance and see that I’m overdrafted, when I should have had more than plenty of money in both my checking and savings accounts.
Thankfully we got in touch with the store the purchase was made from, and the manager very kindly took care of things for me. I’m hoping to see the reversed charges hit my bank account tonight, and then be reimbursed by the bank for the erroneous overdraft fees. I swear, I finally am making enough money that I *have* money in the bank, and then something like this happens. I am just very, very grateful that it wasn’t identity theft, but someone who needs to just pay some damn attention.
Between the bird flu and the bank snafu, so much for my relaxing weekend. Also, so much for me getting anything done at ALL. I should have known better than to try and write a freaking NOVEL this month. At least I have a good start that I can chip away on in small increments. Perhaps I’ll be really crazy and attempt to write the 50K by December 31. hahahahaha! Probably not.
Word Counts - Today: 0 | November: 0 | 2005: 0
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