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[impy]

I've been relatively quiet the last week or two because I spent most of last week having what felt like one long panic attack anytime I was at home. Which is a change since work is usually the trigger and I'm still not sure what the fuck that was all about since not every night last week was stressful but try telling that to my brain and body, I suppose.

Turns out though that clearly I am PSYCHIC because yesterday after work, when I was feeling nice and almost relaxed for the first time in I don't know how long, I check FB and immediately regret it once I start reacting to various things Cass sent and she pounces on me with me needing to grab my phone because we need to talk about them.


D's getting laid off at the end of the month and he's who we get our fab discount from (since we're on his plan) but he's known for a week that this is happening and also because it's happening, everyone needs to pay off their phones before it does. And because I was an idiot last year when I got my new phone and didn't immediately pay for it all upfront, I now basically have to come up with *ungodly to me sum HERE* in like, three weeks. I went ahead and figured out about what it should be but Cass is getting the actual amount once she manages to track him down. She's not thrilled, and neither am I, that he's been sitting on this for a week and we'd still be in the dark if not for her mom mentioning it to her. I get that he probably does NOT want to talk about having to find a new job and being laid off, and I would respect that at any other time, but I also cannot just pull that amount of money out of my ass with no fucking notice. As it is, it's gonna be interesting.

So I pretty much went into a money related panic spiral and did not sleep at all well once I could finally get my brain to shut the fuck up long enough to crash. I spent the night being exhausted and tonight isn't looking to be any better on the work front.

Yay. Actually, work was fine last night for me, but that's because daytime didn't do enough totes to make it possible for me to actually be able to grab any of the ones I might've been able to do, so about halfway through my shift I stopped being able to work on truck and just transitioned to making my half of the store look beautiful. But I'm gonna pay for that tonight because all those totes I couldn't get to are still gonna be waiting for me. Boo.

Need breakfast and to fix my nail and then SLEEP.

Comments

[venivididolli]

Probably a bit off the wall of a suggestion, but have you ever used Affirm? (I can't remember.) If you apply for it, you can also apply for it as a card. You won't need the physical card to come in the mail for you to use it. (The physical and online cards have different numbers.) Then you've got whatever amount your purchasing power is. So if you can pay for your phone online, you could input that purchase info into Affirm and set up a payment plan for it, then use the online card number/expiration/CVV to pay for the phone. I'm not sure what the total is, but you can do up to 12 installments. The interest sucks, but you can also make that shrink by paying it off faster.

[impy]

I have used Affirm though I always forget the card aspect. I'll have to keep this in mind if something else comes up in the future. This was kind of a cash (or at least paypal) thing since I'm two people removed from how it gets paid, but still useful info for the future!

[luxken27]

Ugh, ugh, ugh, that suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks! I'm sorry. I hope you guys came up with a solution that is workable for everyone :(

The best thing I ever did, when I came off of someone else's plan, was to go pre-paid. It costs half as much as being post-paid and there's not a whit of difference in service, unless you like to stream stuff on your phone like, every day. Good luck!

[impy]

Paid off my phone this afternoon. Well, sent the money to Cass who will then pay it off or send it to D, however. Depending on how it'll shake down without his discount, I may play take my phone/number and bounce to pre-paid. I'm half tempted to just take Comcast up on their mobile plan but then I remember I hate everything about them and even if Verizon and Comcast are basically the same thing, they technically have differences.