Avocado toast:

Go msbelle with the excellent adulting!

EM came by this morning and took Matilda off to her doctor appointment to follow up on her blood tests and check in about her new AD meds.

I've paid a bill via actual check in mail, made a derm appointment, and successfully applied for an AmEx card with a bonus SkyMiles account for Delta (my preferred carrier).

Did you know if you buy something with an AmEx card they automatically double the length of your warranty on that item?

Did you know if you buy something with an AmEx card they automatically double the length of your warranty on that item?

Yes. Their Purchase Protection also covers theft so I've always made sure that anything I order online is on my Amex card just in case the package gets stolen. And, at least in my case, customer service has always made it easy to actually use this type of benefit. For that alone, Amex has always been worth price of admission.

Fun fact: One of my current main clients has one main client for whom I proof account offers and T&Cs. Guess whose benefits I am now even more intimately familiar with?

My NDA killed the thread.

That is a powerful geas!

Their Purchase Protection also covers theft so I've always made sure that anything I order online is on my Amex card just in case the package gets stolen. And, at least in my case, customer service has always made it easy to actually use this type of benefit. For that alone, Amex has always been worth price of admission.

I didn't know any of this information. I have an Amex card, mostly because I received one at Macy's, and it happens to be a regular Amex card as well.

Being knowledgeable and practical about these things is not one of my superpowers. I have a variety of cards, but I should take the time to review their features and choose more wisely. I tend to use my Amazon Chase card because I always take advantage of the percentage back.

My mother was brilliant with financial management stuff, and I am pretty much haphazard about it. I wish I had inherited that from her. At my age, I need to be more mindful of the enormous mess I leave behind for my family to clean up. Maybe this summer I will get my act together.

Being knowledgeable and practical about these things is not one of my superpowers. I have a variety of cards, but I should take the time to review their features and choose more wisely. I tend to use my Amazon Chase card because I always take advantage of the percentage back.

I have the Amex Blue Cash Everyday, which is a cash back card with no annual fee. There's a premium version that gives you a lot more cash back on gas and groceries but I prefer the no annual fee since I don't do a ton of grocery store shopping and don't buy gas at all. What I am learning from all these T&Cs is that on any given card from any given company there are usually tons of features, but you have to be really on top of things to take advantage. I just can't be bothered. Especially since I am never one to spend money to save money.

I don't buy gas, but I do a lot of grocery shopping. I really need to take the time to list my cards and see which ones do what. My physician customers pay me with cards to rack up miles. I don't fly enough for that to matter to me.

I have accomplished a lot today, except for work. I had therapy, went to the bookstore (it is so dangerous to have a bookstore in my neighborhood), went to the CVS, went to the grocery store, gassed up the car, did a load of towels, made the bed, washed the dishes, and baked a batch of egg bites and a batch of chocolate chip muffins for a friend who had knee replacement surgery today. Now I am icing my left hand and idly considering a cocktail.

Ooh, gold star day for you. Nice!

I... took the cats to the vet, washed the dog's bedding, and made an appointment for a job interview next week (different job from the recruiter call on Friday -- this one is with the actual person to whom I would report, so that's something. Just preliminary, though, via Zoom.) No word back from the Friday recruiter yet. Oddly, both are similar jobs and sort of different from previous jobs. Must be a constellation of experience or something. Good to know!