chaletian | Entries tagged with money

1. There was a genius picture on the front of the newspaper today of Roger Federer winning the US Open. Sadly for Roger, it looked less like man-winning-US-Open and more like throw-organic-beans-at-him. What can I say, it amused me.

2. I am so cross with myself for getting this broke. I am usually so much more careful than this - even when I go broke, it's usually *much* later on in the month, and I've seen it coming, and it doesn't really matter a great deal because I've paid everything that needs paying. This was just careless extravagance, and I should know better.

3. I am still, years after the fact, pissed off with my parents for throwing away their taped-off-TV videos of In The Red. I *loved* it, and it's not on DVD or video, and OK, they may have got rid of their video player, but they knew I hadn't, and they knew I loved it. Rah.

♥ So,

katie__pillar,

helenmia and I had the wonder of Chadstock over the weekend, and wondrous it was indeed. House of Wax = so much better than we had imagined. As in, actually enjoyable, in a good-crap kind of way (sort of like the equally fabulous Wrong Turn). One Tree Hill is just brilliant, though I find I cannot watch – what was it, 18? 19? episodes all in one go because it makes my brain explode. It has Moira Kelly in! And Dan is So Evil I want to bash his head in. And Nathan/Hayley ftw. Chad, obviously, is magnificent, espesh his brooding!Lucas face, combining nicely with the crazy scarecrow hair.

♥ Shit. Have just checked my bank account and I am massively broke. Actually no-money at all. Shitty McShit. How did that happen?* I actually do not understand. Oh, bollocks.

*OK, yes, so will have involved spending lots of money, which, um, true this month, but I was sure I wasn’t spending any more than I actually had, and I checked my account on Friday, and it was fine. This will have involved my online banking/debit card LYING to me. Fuck. And I still have to pay (i) extortionate price of ticket from Barnes to Luton; (ii) weekly travelcard after we get back from France; and (iii) groceries after we get back.

♥ I’m now cross, so have forgotten everything I was going to LJ. Oh, I hate le monde.

♥ However, even the woe of no money pales next to the wonder of TV. Dexter last night was brill, as was the rest of NCIS series 3. I love NCIS. I love Tiva. I love Ziva having angst about Gibbs. I love Tony acting like Gibbs because that’s the only way he knows to lead the team. I love McGee being scared of the bomb room and Tony making him go and do another job so he didn’t have to go in. I love Abby sitting in the lift because she’s worked out that statistically it’s the safest place for her to be. I love Gibbs’ affection for his team. I hate Director Jen, but you can’t have everything…

♥ I have lots to do before I leave today, so I had better get cracking…

I had a letter today from my bank. Well, not today, obviously. It's Sunday. It came on Thursday, I think, but I didn't get around to opening it till today. I get quite a lot of unexpected post from my bank, which always worries me, because I think I've got into banking trouble (even when I know perfectly well that there's nothing wrong with my account).

But anyway, my post today was offering me a £12,500 loan. This loan is, apparently, "ready and waiting just for [me]", because I am "a loyal customer who handles their account particularly well". The bank has "arranged everything": "all it takes is one phone call". They have been at particular pains to point out how easy it would be for me to get this £12,500 loan. How straightforward it would be.

I think this is absolutely appalling. How cavalier are they, to offer this sort of thing to any passing customer? I am *dreadful* with money. I mean, I'm not too bad these days. I have a regular income, which helps, and I budget regularly, and I tend to know exactly how much money I have in my bank account. But I still sometimes make stupid financial decisions, and in the past I have been absolutely unreliable, and frankly it's a miracle I managed to escape my late teens/early twenties without a CCJ. Offers like this make me feel quite threatened, really, because (after the annoyance of more junk mail) my first reaction is, ooh, lovely money, before the voice of reason takes over, but that reaction scares me a lot, because I don't want to be as crap with money as I used to be. Wah. I hate money.

1. I have a beautiful computer, which connects to the internet, and which is half-way to having an organised file structure.

2. We are about to move into a lovely flat with exciting new things all over the shop.

3. The weather seems to have perked up a bit.

4. I am poor but not quite as hideously impoverished as I have been the rest of this year.

5. I have the day off tomorrow.

6. I have pretty red shoes.

7. We have been spectacularly organised with utility bills etc, so everything is set up for when we move. We rock.

8. I am going to see QI being filmed tonight, along with some of my favourite people.

9.

helenmia has created

warriors4ackles, in a moment of genius.

10. I found Deadly Boring on a disk, and will be sharing carefully chosen passages with you all. Look forward to it. That book is a literary treat.

I am pleased, as today I went to the bank and, as well as getting a change of address form, I spoke to one of the bods about getting an overdraft on my account. I applied for one through the medium of online banking a few months ago and was turned down, which actually really surprised me. Then I discovered recently that because my old current account with the bank was still active, it was affecting my bank scoring rather badly, so I closed it. And I bopped up to discover that I am now pre-approved for a rather massive overdraft (which I didn't ask for, on account of being Sensible and not wanting to end up in some hideous financial Spiral of Doom), and have arranged a little overdraft for emergencies (such as the other week, when I completely forgot a cheque I had written for the Love Nest FOCS subscription, and had el giant spazz over the cheque bouncing, and me being subject to about a million pounds in bank charges, and the shame of Ann & Clarissa knowing my cheque had bounced - none of this happened, thankfully, as I had enough cash to pay into my account to make sure yonder cheque went through, and really none of you need to know this, I've just got a virulent case of LJ diarrhoea (do I get points for spelling that correctly?)), and am quite pleased, firstly that I was pro-active and got it sorted out, and secondly that, er, it was OK and they didn't laugh at me for asking for one.

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