Just a Little deserved worrying
Good morning this is me … It’s just after 5:30 am and we got a sleep kitty laying across our arms … no worry its super writer … we breach any obstacle! Besides he feels warm and fluffy and he tickles us with his tail :) Funny how animals adapt, hmm? No him! Not Me! HMPF!Ok, so then what happens now or more credibly what happened yesterday. Well there’s this one major thing that we have to write about. There seems to have been a slippage of common sense. We’ve held out getting the computer for probably about 2 months, but yesterday the dams let loose. *Sigh*
We did something we weren’t supposed to do. We kinda spent all the money on a new computer. All? Well, close enough to say that’s a fair statement. We got the wait … we can’t say it because Rich is still here. We’re in super sneaky spy mode. This is the part about guilt that I don’t like … because I know I did something wrong, but we’re still where it’s ok as long as we don’t get caught.
I know, I know … there’s the part also where we bring home the goods and then Rich says umm, what’s that? We’re thinking our first response should be hmm? Oh nothing. Yeah you … like that is going to work? Ok … Rich is gone … this is what we are in trouble over. We showed you a while back, remember?
This is what we mean. It cost us everything we had in the account. To be fair we still have that $800 something coming so there will be some money to pay the bills, but we really went WAY over. Thank God we don’t have a regular credit card. I don’t know what set all this up again. I mean I know that someone sent us a note saying Lenovo was on sale, but then that didn’t really affect the computer we were looking at. Actually we looked at almost all the Lenovo x200 tablet configurations.
You remember we’d last left off we could do the super compressed list … well at the last curtain call we couldn’t we went out for the big one though we got it as a better price than originally looked at and for the sake of argument … yes we did go back to Buy.com. We figured we knew how they were operating and they had one of the best prices.
We did a lot of calling, surfing and otherwise thinking about which one we should get. Like I said we started off at the $1400 model, and then we saw a $1700 model, and then that snuck up to a nearly $1900 model and then we thought reasonably no we got to do the $1700 – with the $1400 model nowhere in competitive site, and then we somehow figured we’d go with the $1900, but then it was … shoot could we do the $2200 model, and since we didn’t have quite that much … we looked around and got the $2200 model at the price of $2000. Yeah … you can imagine all our potential energy was then realized and we did stuff pretty quickly before a more reasonable part took over.
We’re not talking to those parts because it might upset them … one was pretty down last night, but who can tell maybe it was something else? Ok … I better get into the shower … be right back.
Pswhoo back! I did the medicine, got packed and even got dressed. This is going to buy us about 45 minutes. We also turned on the news, but I think we’re going to turn it down some … way too loud!
Better. I’m not sure what our thinking was all about before, but as to add my own two cents in on the computer … I think we got into a state of panic. We’d checked our bank account, and then we thought if we don’t spend it now then it was going to get taken apart. We ran out of patience waiting for the $800 some because we thought the other would be spent.
Now this morning we are thinking we’re going to have to figure out a way to make it until that money comes in … We think we’re going to need calling the bank and putting some kind of stop on payments out until we can cover it because they’ll just charge us until we clear the amount … that’s not going to be good. But, that would mean a certain level of handling things … I think that’s going to be hard for us. I know we deserve it, but still no doubt we’ve gotten ourselves over our head. I don’t know why this happens, but do think it revolves around panic in not being able to do it if we don’t do it immediately. The things that are impossible like how to cover our account become too overwhelming and we try to bury the experience in something we can control.
It was nip and tuck with the money as it was. We had to go through things several times to make it work from the debit card. We had to call the bank and have them release the money because it was about $45 over $2000. It was either that limit or $1500, but one way or another she took it to her manager who approved it. Then it was like if we didn’t do it in the same day the approval would be dismissed.
I don’t know what’s wrong with us that we’d consider this kind of spending … I don’t think most people would do it and already we’re worrying about medicine and such … We’re ok on gas and Dr. Marvin because we’ve got about $22 left in the car compartment, which will give me money for parking and $15 in gas. We’re really going to need talking to the bank about freezing the account though. It’s the best we can do in the circumstance.
Ok, let’s not panic. Ok, on the good part … we are getting a very good computer.
The model that we got the EKU has everything on it. It includes the camera, the docking station, the DVD, the bigger battery, the bigger memory and others. These are the main things though.
We’d try to work with that other company who we’d talked to before about the loan, but they weren’t willing to negotiate and that’s about the time we figured we could probably get a better price elsewhere. Ok, we should be moving on. We’re just a little obsessive here with our thinking aren’t we?
We did do some work yesterday beside the computer finagling. We did the rest of the calculations for the Qnotes, and then did a half dozen of them. We also had Group 1 for the singing/signing and we’ll do group 2 today. Today we’ve also got Dr. Marvin. It seems like it’s been a while since seeing him. We’re really going to need talking over the purchase with the computer. It’s like our mind said – ok!
That’s enough of that, I want the machine and that’s that!
Last night we we’re feeling too scared about the purchase to tell Rich about it, but we were still in a pretty mope mood which was recognized by Rich. We couldn’t tell him what we’d done though. Finally, things settled down so that he’d put away groceries, made and ate his dinner and then sat back so we could sneak over to lay our head down on his lap. *Pswhoo!”
So as today … we’ve got to take care of the banking, we’ve got Group 2 and we’ve got staff training. I think we’re going over the signs just one more time. Saturday is the big day. I think that we’re really going to need the podium because it’s just too much pressure on me to remember everything. It should be ok, just got to get through it.
Sr. Theresa wasn’t too happy with me when I came in yesterday and we only talked those first few moments. She wanted to drill in that there was no option in missing the Spring Fling because no one else could do what we were going to be doing with the signing. I didn’t mean to put her in a pinch and obviously there’s nothing I would do to not be there. I know I’ve got to be here. Shhh … it’s going to be ok.
I think that as soon as we’re past this Spring Fling I’m going to get really hit hard on the CARF stuff. As rightly should be so. It’s a lot of pressure. I’m hoping within this week yet to finish the Qnotes for this month and that’s going to make me feel happier. I’m still far from happy over the stuff that’s going on with that whole situation, but mostly it’s because I’m so far behind in Annuals and CARF that I don’t have time proper to go through the goal evaluation that really needs to be done. Ok, we’re not saying much new here are we?
Let’s move on. I have to go through the computer disks to seek if we have MS OneNote. That’s the only thing I can think of that might cost more money that we don’t have. I’m not sure, but am thinking it’s the only program – well there might be one more – but this is the preferable one to get the new computer handwriting thing set up. I might have a 2007, but I’m thinking not because I seem to be working on borrowed programs from the free 2 month download. I think that could cost something, but maybe I can get it at Tech Soup for under $20 … we’ll have to see.
That’s a really big deal though – being able to write on the screen directly to the computer. We’re going to need figuring out how to get it configured to the printer too, though I’m not going to worry about that right away.
I’ll be so glad to get this other laptop back to Sr. it’s just intolerable the speed of going from one Internet site to another. We’re talking literally sitting back and waiting 3-4 minutes each screen … it’s so annoying. I think after we get stuff set up with the first computer that we should try to redo the other computer. I’m not sure if I couldn’t get Joe to help me, but that would be a very good deal - just not sure.
Ok, we should probably consider getting on the road … still have to stop for gas. I would like to think we’re not terribly nervous, but we are … just so much in the air.
posted by Ann Marie @ 3/19/2009 06:51:00 AM
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