Yay, Pix and ND! I can't imagine what a relief this must be for a the both of you.

We met Mom halfway between here and her house for lunch. So, I have my crutches back and had a delicious Italian grinder as a bonus.

We looked long and hard at Credit Unions, but there really weren't any available to us that worked for what I need for the business. However, I feel that the new bank really gives us most of the same advantages. It is a tiny branch, and I've been dealing with the branch manager for everything who is a VP for the overall bank. There are only about half a dozen people that work in the entire branch, so they really know everything. On the business side, the manager sat down with me for over an hour to talk through how my business works and to really try to understand it. For a business like mine this is paramount. It does not fit neatly into any traditional categories so I needed someone who would try to understand what I do and why I'm good at it. This manager did exactly that and then has worked directly to get the underwriters to approve the full line of credit. All in all a really good thing.

Tep, I totally know how that feels, even though I have no spouse to disappoint. Mine is kind of about a dental problem, which despite all logic is bringing feelings that I'm low-rent and dirty or something(even though in some ways I know it could happen to many people who've gone without dental coverage.) I think both school and movies and TV give us the expectation that we can *win* life, so, when things get hard or we're not killing it(Most writers do Occasionally think of deleting their opuses so nobody needs to know, right?) we feel like failures and whatnot. At least that is what I'm going with this week. (Or else February really does have a curse on it.)

ftr, my dentist is totally rude and unsupportive, without the Housian skills it would take to pull that shit off. Also, where's all the Special Treatment folks like me are supposed to get(and shrug off like in this scenario
PROFESSOR I don't want to give you special treatment...
YOUNGER ME
(Too fucking earnestly)

Of course not, sir.

Not gonna lie, would take some special treatment if it were offered today. In the non- Nazi sense, of course

can you see another dentist, erika? I mean damn.

We're looking into it, for sure, but I have this crappy "discount plan" thing and all that.(I have gotten my gums really clean, but while I was deep-cleaning those, my teeth got away from me.) And you know, there's no such thing as a truly accessible dentist, or at least, I'm forty and I've never really been to one, so...

I have to say (and nothing against anyone here) I find the chorus of credit union! credit union! kind of off-putting. Again, nothing to do with Zen or David or anyone. Just the fact that pretty much no conversation about banks doesn't end up there sparks my contrariness.

Your contrariness sparks my contrariness. Options for the end of this conversation other than "Credit Unions FTW!" include "what power could we have against the Big Banks that are run on the philosophy that if we don't have as much money as they do, then we don't deserve to have the money that we do have", "help, help, I'm being represssed," and "Occupy Something!"

ETA: Small local banks are wayyyyy better than the big name ones, and can be an excellent option. But as BoA and Chase and the like have proven they love the idea of bank robberies as long as they are the ones doing the robbing, I can but wonder what would happen if every private person and small business removed their assets from the reaches of the giants.

You guys! I'm being social and stuff this week! I went to an opera opening last night with a friend, and tonight am at a theatre opening by myself (both tickets comped, thx former sm life) and was a the store on my way so I got a little bota wine box and a straw and am totally rocking the single slightly drunk gal. Show is supposed to start in ten min and house is still not open...and I know it's a huge stretch for the theatre wrt mechanized scenery...I'm totally ready for shenanigans!

Hi everyone. Reading and nodding and sending love. That's all I got right now. More work stuff but I don't have the spoons to even type it out. But I got good feedback at my other job today and awesome friends and in town and I'll see my friend/mentor/local dad tomorrow. So that's all good.

Oops, second glass of wine= Bad idea. But the bota cab is so yummy! Act I excellent. I do l love Amy Freed's writing.