Can't sleep. Hip pain. Stretching not helping. Quarter flexeril not helping, adding another quarter. Blecch. TGIF.

I hear you Smonster. I am going to have to call today a sick day because I did no work other than about two emails. I slept and tried to read the Internet and be motivated, but my head hurt, and didn't really stop even in the face of Advil, ibuprofen, Sudafed, and flexeril. Had to cancel my trainer appointment because the flexeril had knocked me out enough.

Also, I have been having a minor (I hoped) medical issue for a month. Finally called the doctor on Tuesday, got an appointment for Monday. And since then? Totally not a problem anymore. Wtf. Guess I'll try to cancel. Should've used that motivation to find a new dentist instead.

I think you should go to the credit union ASAP and ask a human WTF is going on, and not leave until you get an answer and it's fixed.

Home now. Tired. Have picked primary color for condo. Still need to pick living room accent color.

Things I noticed today about my neigbors, and so far, love it all. Cute Asain gal. Cute African-American gal. A couple older Latino gentlemen. Several middle aged ladies. A nice couple that are VERY tattoo'd! All in all, Rather diverse. I was worried that the area could be rather white. The thing I like about Long Beach is it tends to be diverese. Very happy that purchased place has diversity! Now, to find out if those cute gals are single, and close enough to my age... and to gather gumption to ask out. HA! Yeah. Oh man. Made myself laugh on that one.

O_a, WRT sanding: the goal is just to rough up the surface enough for the paint to have something to grab onto, not take down the texture to create an entirely smooth level surface (unless you are about to a blackboard surface, but that's an entirely different situation.) A quick once over should be entirely adequate, just make sure you don't leave any huge holidays.

and le nubian, that's what internet financial dealies do when they are "verifying" an account: send several transactions that level back to zero but contain random amounts that you later have to verify to prove it's your account....really really really wierd to have that happen without you trying to hook that account up so some kind of direct withdrawal for a utility or credit card payment or something. Definitely best to talk to the Credit Union, it could be the precursor to something rather bad.

le nubian I just had that happen on my account and BofA caught it and flagged it as suspicious within an hour of the occurrence. A $300 charge from a local Macy's followed by a credit in the same amount. We killed the cards on the account and issued new ones. While BofA has many issues one thing I have had very good luck with is their fraud detection division.

o_a, at least for the textured walls, put down the sandpaper and go buy a product called a liquid sander or deglosser. You wipe it on and then off. Any big box or hardware store will have it. It still may not get all the gloss, but if you use a primer, you'll be fine.

erin and ND,

so, yes. I have had that happen before. My bank does that when I set up a new account for transfer, but the amounts are like $1, $2.19 stuff like that. Not hundreds of dollars!

The origin of these deposits and withdrawals (and might I say that the system marked a deposit as a withdrawal!), is from a "credit union family service center." I have never fucking heard of this entity.

You can use a CUFSC in another area to perform transactions like it is your home CU. Who knew? I didn't. That is the stated origin of these transactions.

so, yes. I have had that happen before. My bank does that when I set up a new account for transfer, but the amounts are like $1, $2.19 stuff like that. Not hundreds of dollars!

Right, and they don't take it back out. Oof.

One time my dad basically told me that women will corrupt me and turn me into a drug addict.

WUT. No one was supposed to tell you our secret!!!