Go Robin Go!! That's excellent news. Yay you!

Hee, Robin. I just weighed in at 140 and am very excited because it means I've regained the weight I lost after the concussion. I'm going to focus on 145 for now (which means regaining the weight I lost when I started running) and then it'll be back to looking wistfully at 150.

Lord, may I never weigh what I probably weighed at 25.

Juggles flaming chainsaws for vw's amusement.

Last night I discovered the wonder that is Nutella. Why has no one told me about Nutella before?

Did you eat it with a spoon or with a knife?

WooHoo, Robin!

I think my lungs are trying to sympathizes with vw's.

Fie upon banks!

I'm having two issues: one, my available balance is still $2000 below my ledger balance for some unknown reason - I'm still hoping it's my computer being charged, but if it's not, bad.

Two: I sent my dad an electronic transfer for $3200 a few weeks ago. I didn't have his account number, so I just did his address - when that happens, they send a physical check. Next day my account was debited, a few days he got the check, great.

Except when he tried to deposit it, it was returned with a "Could Not Find Account" stamp. The money is no longer in MY account. What we think happened is Washington Mutual transferred the money to another bank (JP Morgan and Chase Payment Processing Center, apparently) who sent my dad the check. Fine. But either his bank or they strewed up somewhere, and the money is now in nebular-world somewhere. We don't know WHO "Could Not Find Account" - his bank couldn't find the JP Morgan account? JP Morgan couldn't find my dad's account? Neither of them could find my account? We need to hold somebody to... account!

By the way: I don't blame Washington Mutual, who are generally the best bank ever. But still: Fie Upon Banks!

Gris, it sounds like you have to get yourself to WaMu, park yourself in a seat by one of the bank officers and refuse to leave until they can tell you what happened to your money. Screw ups over $5000 deserve a face to face.

GO ROBIN! No sweets for 9 weeks? 20 lbs? Wow!

Ear ma~ Teppy.

It actually looks like the $3200 screwup is the fault of JP Morgan and Chase Payment Processing Center. We called my parent's home bank (who are Southern and therefore friendly-like. Really.) and had a discussion that locked the problem down to them (JP Morgan) not knowing their head from their ass.

That is: parent's bank got the check, credited my parent's account, put their name and account information on the check (in the endorsement area) and sent it to JP Morgan expecting a credit. Instead, JP Morgan was like "huh what?" and sent it back all like "no likey!". For... some reason? We're still locking that down.

The other thing - yeah, if it's not cleared up by day's end, I'll do that. I already sent them an online message, and sometimes i get responses really quickly to those, so we'll see.

Sign that I worry way too much: I've had my third nightmare in a row about the upcoming hearing with Evil!Ex-boss. In this one, I was backed up against the wall while she yelled into my face about how horrible it was for her that my disgusting voice is still on her message machine. In real life, I would probably think that sort of complaint was deeply pitiful since it could easily be fixed. In my dream I cried because I was so scared and she was so large and so angry.

Talked to my tax lady. Turns out they were supposed to send me a 1099 form covering three weeks of independent-contractor labor. Oops. One more thing to discuss with them. Then I get to call the IRS. The only thing more enjoyable would be making more phone calls to my health care plan.

Oh God, a friend of mine from high school just got engaged. She's two years younger than me. Ahhh!

I'm going crazy waiting to hear if a friend in SF has had her baby yet. She was due on the 13th. I don't want to bug, because if she is still pregnant I'm sure she doesn't need someone else saying, "What? No baby yet?" And if something bad has happened they surely don't need somebody bothering them...

I was out there when their first baby was born and it was a really hard birth. He came very close to not making it (he's 4 1/2 and perfectly fine now). But I was there and could see them right away and see the baby and hear the whole story first hand.

The problem is we really have no mutual friends I can ask to keep me in the loop.

Also that there is a stupid huge continent in the way.