Guess who has two thumbs and whose lab orders were fucked up again this week?

Unacceptable. Seriously, heads should roll.

I need to post this to add a layer of accountability. I have let my cc debt get up again. It was at $20k before I just emptied a side savings account and put my 2012 just now received tax refund towards it. I am paying half my paycheck to it each month while still using the cards for purchases. I am making progress, but my discipline has been for shit for I guess about 2 years. So yeah. Please remind I cannot make any more trips this year (summer trip tix already purchased). No going to movies until this is reigned in. No clothes are needed, no books or music, and if it is not on Netflix I don't need to watch it.

This year's tax refund is still to come in, so that will be another chunk and then it will probably be a year to get it paid off unless I am able to budget better, or find more income.

Wasn't he born on base or something though?

Yeah, I think McCain was technically born on US soil or whatever.

msbelle, I would just say, don't make yourself feel deprived to the point that you snap. I think you can still go to the movies once in a while!

Yeah, msbelle, debtor's prison is not a thing.

Ok maybe.

I had zero debt 5 years ago.

Feeling stupid.

Birds have nested in the exhaust vent from my downstairs bathroom. It stinks. A workman is here now. I thought removing them would be a fairly simple process, but no. Apparently there is a bend in the vent, so he can't simply scoop them out. He's going to "try" smoking them out (with non-poisonous water vapor and peppermint oil). This may not work. Yay!

Also, the birds got in because the end cap that's supposed to protect the vent from invasion is missing, and he doesn't have one, so he's going to partially cover the end cap with duct tape so they don't get back in.

msbelle, I am in the same debtor's boat with you and feeling dumb about it.

Cheerios: This exterminator is not filling me with confidence. He doesn't seem to know anything except what the company trained him to do. However, the birds seem to be gone, and he's sanitized the vent with something that smells like Vicks' VapoRub, so hopefully this chapter of Home Ownership: The Adventure Continues! will close with a happy protagonist.

You think Vick's VapoRub smells good, until your whole house smells like that.

I got myself two scoops of caramel ice cream with toffee on the way home and just sent a snarky e-mail to the nurse practitioner. (It was actually, "salted" caramel ice cream. When will this salted craze go away? In something like this, it just means too much salt.)

I've been there, msbelle. I suspect many of us have. I think that depriving yourself of everything is more likely to lead to falling off the wagon.

Birds! Oh, no. They're lovely outside, but a pain in the house.