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a. $200 - Owed to vet from previous visit
b. $500 - Owed to ex-husband Wes for emergency vet visit
c. $196 - Regular car payment due on the 7th
d. $182 - approximate amount owed for cell phone.
e. $160 - car tag on former roommate's car
f. $107 - owed to Wes/credit card for Christmas gifts.
g. $275 - amount needed to move into room at Janel's house.
Total: $1,620

That doesn't count the money I will owe the vet for Toby's current visit; I won't be able to pick him up until Thursday, because I didn't get up early enough today, I slept in.

I have $160 in my checking account at the credit union, $54 that I made yesterday, and $15 that I found while doing the laundry, which will probably go in the gas tank. Call it $200 ahead of the game for the moment.

I am going to try to get all the hours I can at work, so I can hopefully make at least $50/day and be able to pay off most of this. Which means that I will not be partying or going out. I will be eating at home and at work, where I have charity available to me, and maybe my mom will even send me a care package. :)

The worst thing will probably be not smoking, but then how could I say that could be bad for me?


(a.) and (b.) : My cat Toblerone, more popularly known as Toby, has not been quite the same since we came back from California. He was always mouthy, but he seemed to cry more frequently. I wasn't sure why, but a couple of weeks ago, he started to cry loudly, to urinate in odd places, and to make different cries than I had heard before. Petting, food, treats did not console him. I took him to the vet, and they said his bladder was full of crystallized urine, which had probably built up over weeks; they asked about his diet... no, no large changes... etc. I feel guilty and awful and strange, for not noticing earlier, but he'd just gone to California and come back and lost his 'sister.' I didn't know what his problem might be, but there were a lot of options.

The vet kept Toby for a week, to the tune of $420 for various treatments and whatnot, and I brought him home with new medicine, which I managed to get down him for almost five days until he started throwing up and acting in a very bad way, like peeing on me when I would try to give him his medicine. I thought (this is Saturday evening) well, I'll take him to the vet on Monday, but when Sunday morning came, he was peeing blood. I gathered him up, spattering all over jeans and towel and took him to the emergency vet, who pumped fluids into him with an IV through the night until I came to pick him up Monday and take him to the regular vet. The bill for this? $550.

Now, he's back at the regular vet, he'll come home Thursday with new meds, and (hopefully) drinking water on his own. Since the ER vet told me he was 'extremely dehydrated' in spite of fresh water maintained constantly at home, I've been worried he was giving up on me, and that I was spending $1,000 for the care of a suicidal or fatally ill cat. We'll find out Thursday, I guess.

(c.) : The primary thing that convinced me I was heading in a straight line for bankruptcy, my car, which I had to purchase after spending several thousand on the old one (on the credit card) to keep it running. And this is only the regular payment. I have the 60k mileage maintenance coming up hella soon and I don't know where I'm going to find the money for that.

(d.) : The cell phone people are not happy with me, since I went like 300 minutes over last month, and I don't know how much this month. And I can't really afford to pay them, but I guess I'll try to put in a bit at the time. They're really pretty patient if you let them know the score. But now I am going to have to start analyzing and keeping track of my minutes. I had given myself the 550 minute package so I wouldn't have to do that, but apparently I'm getting away with myself, and I can't afford a larger package (although, of course, it's better to afford a larger package for an extra $20 than to not afford an extra $100).

(e.) : This is a really weird one. I've been trying to sell my car to my former roommate. He did not bother to get the tag updated. He blames me because the tag is in my name. I'm not willing to be blamed for this, but somehow, (partially because I feel guilty about the loss/theft of one of his car payments) I have ended up agreeing to fix the matter. Now, he's got the car, the insurance, and has to get the emissions statement, but I have to take it all down to Dekalb County and stand around. I don't really know whose responsibility it is... All I know is after this is cleared up, he owes me $4,000, clear and plain, $2200 of which is mine and would make a magnificent dent in getting all this crap paid off. Funny, isn't it?

(f.) : I feel like I've done better than I thought on this: I bought some gifts online for sister, mom, brother-in-law, and that's the lowest holiday CC bill I've had in years.

(g) : I want to go live with one of my best friends. She is also relatively close (East Side) to my other best friend from college, so it would be girlfriends everywhere! Yay! And closer access to Mark (if that's ever reasonable to expect access at all) and Alex who will be photographing for the magazine.


On the not-money front: I have a reason not to hang out and party with N9. My once-friend that I used to go over to see has found himself a new girlfriend, and since she doesn't want me around, he no longer has time to be my friend. So I guess I won't have to worry about wasting my time with that issue. I am tired of this whole thing. When I get a new boyfriend and refuse to give up my friends, it causes problems. When other people get new SO's they willingly give me up. I guess I should stop thinking friends are all that important.

On the other hand, I have a new "friend," who is, unfortunately, also under the money pinch, so we will be doing a lot of domestic stuff, I can imagine (not like we haven't already *wink to those who know*) and cheap dates, and it won't seem like so much deprivation.
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