Thursday is a great day to do that 1 thing you don’t want to do but also don’t want to continue thinking about doing.

The 1 thing that I did this week was: I called my credit union and try to do that thing where you ask for something and don’t take no for an answer. I wanted them to stop charging me ATM fees, because, WHY NOT. So I called the credit union and was on hold for a few minutes and then something really important happened (someone maybe gchatted me? or a good song came on Pandora?) and I hung up and wrote an email instead (“I would like to request that you refund all these fees I’ve already paid you, etc”).

A lady emailed me back the next day and … said no without saying no (“I understand you are concerned about incurring fees on your account”). But she did find one fee she could help me out with going forward, a $3.95/mo. estatement fee that I didn’t even know I was paying. All I need to do is call her to tell her how I’d like to proceed.

Check your phone bill for unauthorized virus charges. 

I’m setting up my new landlord in my online billpay, and I’m thinking about having it automatically send a check for  my rent as soon as I get paid every month, instead of waiting until the first. Is this a dumb idea? Does anyone else do this? I figure the upside is: Less math to do during the weeks between payday and rent day, won’t ever not have enough money for rent. Downside is, I can’t spend that money and then work something out last minute. Also: Emergencies?  WHAT DO YOU DO?

Thursday is a great day to do that 1 thing you don’t want to do but also don’t want to continue thinking about doing. (Friday is also an acceptable day.)  

This week’s 1 thing was to get through the week. And I did it! WE ALL DID IT. I successfully left the house most days and I successfully stayed hydrated most days and I successfully ate at least some amount of nutrients most days and one day I even ate some kale. I took a few showers. I put up some blog posts. I called my mother on her birthday. You?

Thursday is a great day to do that 1 thing you don’t want to do but also don’t want to continue thinking about doing.

I’m sick and grumpy and sick and am 100000 positive I have a fever because I have all the symptoms of a fever and also I called my mom and she said, “Yes, you probably have a fever, you would be able to know for sure if you still had the thermometer I got you and we wouldn’t even be having this conversation if you had gotten a flu shot like I told you to.” So: All signs point to fever.

So my 1 thing today was to get out of the disgusting nest of blankets I’m in and put on a coat and leave my apartment and walk down some stairs and then walk 100 feet to the corner store to buy some Advil. And I did that. Success. $8.99 for 40 liquid gelcaps. The clerk just made up the price. That’s fine. The less happy part of the mission was that I also bought double chocolate Milano cookies and just ate 12 of them and now also have a stomach ache in addition to a whole body ache and a head ache and did I mention that when I don’t feel well I revert to a tiny little whiny child because that is 1 fact about me.

Hotel living, forever: “An officer at the Guaranty Trust Company remembered Ida coming to the bank in 1907, at the height of the financial panic, demanding the balance of her account in cash and stuffing all of it, nearly $1 million, into a netted bag. Declaring she was ‘tired of everything,’ she checked into the Herald Square Hotel and disappeared, effectively removing herself from her own life.”