I have some recent family dramas I keep almost posting here (it concerns Canberra family), but for now I'd like to ask if people could keep Biyi's mother in mind. She has a persistent sore or such like on her lip, going on over six months now. She's a cancer survivor, and has started worrying about this thing. Biopsy is scheduled for tomorrow. She's talking about returning to China for treatment (she's a retired dentist, which in China covers other forms of oral surgery, so she has relevant professional links to access treatment). Ryan's got wind of this and is now worrying about if his grandparents will be leaving. At this stage it's all anxiety and no concrete information so we're just hoping the diagnosis is something simple.

Much much ~ma for Biyi's mother!

Quick and easy ~ma for the Biyi mom.

Prayers and thoughts for Biyi's mom and you guys, too, BT.

good thoughts and wishes, bt.

Much ~ma for Biyi's mom and your family, billytea.

All the best outcome~ma for BiYi's mom.

So much ~ma for Biyi's mother.

In addition to the ongoing evil of BoA regarding the never-ending, yet somehow EXPENSIVE, loan, this month they deposited last month's rent check again and therefore bounced this month's rent check.

After almost an hour on the phone, they will fix it, but what a clusterfuck. I cannot wait to run far, far away from them.

In college when I barely had two nickels to rub together, I wrote a check to citibank for $6.50 (which was the balance of my credit card bill. I think I may have had $100 in my checking account at the time (if that).

the bank paid it out as $650.00. I had written several small checks (to my university, the grocery store, etc.) and they all bounced. of course they ran the check through a 2nd time (because apparently that is customary) and the checks bounced twice.

Each bounced check was a $25 fee.

So, my checking account was at -$1000 very very quickly. I made the bank write apology letters to all places where my check bounced, etc. but it took like 2-3 weeks for all of this to be resolved and my parents had to send me some emergency $$ so I could survive.

I am completely paranoid about banks and at 20 I had already learned this lesson.

Not having health insurance sucks.

TMI: Turns out, I had a yeast infection and atopobium AND an abnormal pap smear - ASCUS, they tell me. So yeah - I get to go pay money for ANOTHER script in a time when every dollar is being saved for the moving costs.

Sometimes, I think FML.