Or, you could go out, spend all your money, run up your cards and then call your banks and cancel everything. :)

quester, put a fraud alert on your account at all three credit bureaus:

Equifax: 800-525-6285
Experian: 888-397-3742
Transunion: 800-680-7289

Dude. The world needs some painfully earnest songvids to Karma Chameleon. If only I could think of the perfect fandom for it... Xena?

Also? Spoldemort. Think about it. There could be shots of Spike's dreams from season 5; from Buffy's time-wonk hallucinations in Dead Things; Chip headache shots; shots from Seeing Red.

libkitty thanks for the advice!

I went to the pharmacy, the pharmacist said that the stuff in Unisom and Sominex is the same stuff that's in Benadryl and Tylenol PM. And he's right. Two Benadryl is the same as one Unisom.

I didn't get to the natural foodstore to see about libkitty's recommendation.

Also talked to Mom after work, told her about my money flub. She insisted on paying for my med copays and said if the shrink says I should take Ambien or something she'll start helping me out with that.

Right now as it stands if I take back the clothes and return the book with the money Mom gave me I'd be in a better spot than if I returned the dvd set. I haven't decided if I'm going to keep the dvd set, I'm going to think about it and be reasonable. I'll have Monday off, but can stay late and make up most of the hours.

Right now I'm going to have a rather light supper then take a bath with dreamtime and waving not drowning. and then go to bed.

quester, put a fraud alert on your account at all three credit bureaus:

Yes, this. It's remarkably helpful. When I thought someone may have gotten a hold of my Paypal info, I put one on my account and the next year or so I had to go through a lot of personal interaction when I was applying for credit. It's piece of mind.

Still at work - starting hour 3 of OT.

Oh joy.

But OT pay, right? At least there's that?

But OT pay, right? At least there's that?

Please tell me they haven't switched you to a salaried position.

MG, can I point out that you have a tremendous amount of leverage at work right now and you need to insist that they quit dicking you around?

They'd be up shit creek without you. There's nobody else that can step in and do your job. You need to tell the work bosses to sort out the job assignment and get you some assistance and quick.

Do NOT go through the extended stretch you had in the fall without your assistant with no relief in sight. Tell your bosses now that is unacceptable and you are not willing to sacrifice your sanity with umptyjillion hours of overtime.

Listen to me on this. You need to jerk their choke chain and say, "Look I'm valuable to you. Quit taking advantage of my competence and hard work, and give me a reason to stay here. If I quit tomorrow you'd all be in serious trouble. Give me some help here." But politely, and with the threat implied rather than stated.

quester, put a fraud alert on your account at all three credit bureaus:

Do I have to list all of my credit cards?