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Name: Stephanie
Birthday: 2/14/1982
Interests: Aaron, Jackson and Audrie, getting a dog to stop barking and licking everything, DIY home improvement projects, cooking everything from scratch
Expertise: Jack of all trades master of none. I think that sums it up.
Occupation: Wife and Mommy
Industry: Nonprofit
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2/21/2003
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Oh yes, I ate a banana yesterday and my lips didn't swell up, so I'm not pregnant. *sigh of relief* These two keep me crazy enough.
EDIT - I guess I forgot to explain the banana comment. For some reason I can't eat bananas while I am pregnant without my lips swelling up. Seriously, like Angelina Jolie. Any other time bananas are fine. I've never heard of it happening to anyone else, but really who else would think of that?
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| was this incapable of coherent thought I was pregnant.
I put water in the back of the coffeepot this morning then set the pot on the counter.
I threw whole beans on top of the old dried grounds.
I fished the whole beans off the grounds and put them in the grinder.
I composted the old grounds and put the basket next to the pot on the counter.
I ground the beans and threw half of them in the pot without a basket.
I vacuumed grounds out of the coffee maker, ground more coffee, put it in the basket and put the basket in the maker.
I turned the machine on.
I heard hissing as coffee started dripping out of the maker onto the hot plate.
I placed the coffee pot in the maker.
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I told Aaron this sequence of events.
He said, "Do you remember the last time you were like this? Ugh, I almost just threw up."
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| Audrie's first three-word sentences include:
Don't do that.
Come on, Mommy.
Jackie push(ed) me.
Here you go.
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| Thanks for all the advice. We have some sort of account from ING (I should probably figure out what that is and how much money is in there) and another account through E*Trade. I just like that our bank has a rewards program that we usually translate into Lowe's giftcards. We've been getting doorknobs for all our interior doors. Yep, doorknobs, because, in case you haven't looked lately, decent ones are really stinkin' expensive.
I ended up getting a call later in the day that the bank "found an error in my account" and it would be fixed at some point. We had to raid Jack's piggybank to get money for milk and pumpkins. As of this morning all of the charges are fixed. We signed up for overdraft protection when we opened the account, but lately rather than just transferring enough to cover the amount they are dumping my entire savings in my checking, so I can't transfer any money myself and end up getting screwed with a fee.
Aaron has a theory that the bank's computers have an algorithm that tracks how often a paycheck is deposited and they try to push transactions through before that happens so the account gets overdrawn. I'd call it crazy except it seems that no transactions go through Monday or Tuesday of the weeks that Aaron gets paid on Wednesday. That keeps the balance unusually high until just before the paycheck goes through, so if someone is only checking the balance and not what has or hasn't posted to the account they are more likely to spend extra money and end up incurring fees.
All that to say I put up with the above for pretty doorknobs. Hmmm. | | |
| At 9:01 AM.
Me: Hi, I was looking at the bank website this morning and it looks like 7 of the last 8 transactions have been charged to my account twice.
Bank: Account info, blah, blah, blah. It looks like your credit card was charged twice for the transaction.
M: Yes, at seven different stores, over two days and with two different cards.
B: It looks like your account balance is negative (blah blah blah)
M: Yes, because I'm being charged twice.
B: Well, we'll just have to wait until the transactions post to the account in the morning.
M: (Thinking of a million sarcastic things to yell at this innocent lady - Like it IS morning, you opened one minute ago.) So, I have no money until the bank figures this out.
B: Yes.
M: So, when I get charged a ton of fees tomorrow the bank is going to take care of those too?
B: If it is our error.
Seriously? Double transactions at seven different stores, over two days with two different cards and it might NOT be their error? Anyone know of a bank this isn't trying to screw people out of money?
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