Happy new chucksday to me!
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Blue!
you know that thing where my mail service really sucks? i mean, seriously, just honestly stinks?
my debit card expires at the end of march and i haven’t received a new one yet.
today i decided to call chase to see if they could get me a new card to my local branch — the one right next to the division blue line stop — for me to pick up, thus bypassing the black hole 60622.
very long story short: if it was an illinois account, i could do this, but my account is not an illinois account — apparently because it’s gone through a couple of acquisitions, totally nothing to do with, you know, me and my always-having-lived-in-illinois-ness — and there is no way to make it an illinois account. that’s right. there’s no way to say “this person actually lives in illinois — you know, like how the billing address has ALWAYS BEEN IN ILLINOIS?” it turns out that the solution is actually to open a new checking account. so this will be fun. i was going to file my taxes this weekend but i always do direct withdrawal or deposit, so now i guess i’ll mostly do them and just hold off on the money bit for a couple weeks. actually, i’m grateful i hadn’t already filed since now my checking account’s going to be all upheaval-tastic. this is going to be great fun: i get to change my mortgage auto-withdrawal, my netflix, all kinds of stuff. this will be great. hey, they are sending me free checks!
i swear to you, if i get home today and there is a debit card in my mailbox, i can not be held responsible for my actions.
ETA (1920): no debit card upon my arrival home. um, hooray? also: as promised, the new checking account was created right alongside my old one by the time i got home from work. too bad it’s the wrong kind of checking account and i’m going to have to call to fix that!
thank goodness my new philosophy of life is: fuck it!
guess what i am messing around with at work today? NO, NOT PHOTOSHOP!
(ok, maybe a little photoshop.)
(inspired by I Can Has Cheezburger?, among others, and IM with b. BTW, if you have no idea WTF a lolcat is, see here. You non-lolcat-knowing loser.)
well, this weekend i went down to peoria to visit some folks and run some essential errands, like hit up co-op (i picked up some used vinyl — Breakfast in America by Supertramp and a couple of Fleetwood Mac records — bite me, i like Fleetwood Mac — and new RJD2 which came with a little sticker advertising a free download of MP3s as well (several of them had that sticker; nice idea, we’ll see how it works; it’d be nice not to have to buy things in two formats since i haven’t bothered to rip anything off of my vinyl since Breakfast at Tiffany’s like five years ago — bite me, i also like Audrey Hepburn singing “Moon River”) as well as a copy of sufjan stevens’ Illinois more or less just ’cause, and a shiny new copy of pixies’ Surfer Rosa. and, i see looking through the pile now, i somehow ended up with a used copy of drivin’ n’ cryin’s (who?) Whisper Tames the Lion (“Features ‘Powerhouse’ and ‘The Friend Song’!”), which i must have picked up by mistake after i put my selected records down in the bin to look through some others. oh well, it was only three bucks. i can always sell it back. i also picked up a few used CDs and, on an almost entirely inexplicable whim, a new copy of a Revolting Cocks CD (Linger Fickin’ Good). they had a buy-three-get-one thing going on and i had only picked out three used CDs because i didn’t notice it, so i went back and picked one out at random; ended up with Human League. we shall see how this little record shop adventure works out for me, i suppose. man, i still wish i had gotten to work for co-op in high school. i really like that store. the campustown co-op sucks ass relative to east peoria.).
but i had also mentioned to my dad that i was looking for a used kitchen table i could pick up for cheap, and so saturday he and my stepmom made it their mission to find me a table. newspaper classifieds and everything. we ended up driving out to morton and buying a table and two chairs from a couple who were selling all their stuff and moving to indianapolis. score! so i am now the proud owner of a white formica 48″ round table with 18″ leaf, and two white vinyl and wood chairs. it’s pretty swanky. i’m happy.
