| OH MY FREAKIN' GOD!!! |
[Oct. 14th, 2005|09:42 am] |
Yesterday was, without a doubt, my luckiest day ever:
First of all, æ just "recapitalized" (whatever that means; sounds to me like the company's value went up upon further investor analysis or something) in preparation for selling the company, which means that we were all due to get a bonus. At the time they mentioned it to us, I figured that it would be somewhere in the area of $300 - $500, which: very nice, but not exactly earth-shaking. However, that was about 6 months ago and I'd forgotten all about it.
So at around the end of the day yesterday, the I-man and Mae started handing people envelopes; I got mine and opened it, and my jaw fucking dropped. The check was for $1600! This, for someone like me who lives from month to month, is HUGE. Only the other day my mother and I were talking about some major and depressing budget cuts we were going to have to make, and now...!
After my heart stopped fluttering a little, I got really bummed out because Tod had just gotten his bank account overdrawn, and the rat bastards had assessed another $150 in overages. So he basically had -$180, and he thought that he might have to move out of the apartment because Adam has been so uncooperative about finding another roommate. Telling him that I'd just received a large sum of money from a company he'd left less than two weeks ago seemed like it would be adding insult to injury when he was so broke and demoralized. I had to tell him, though; he'd have found out anyway, and, what's more, I don't like keeping things from him.
So I called him and told him, attempting to downplay it somewhat, and when I finished telling him about it, he said, very quietly, "I got mine too."
Me: "EEEEEEEEEEE!"
Apparently he'd gone to the bank to protest the overage charges, because they hadn't told him about their new policies after the bank switched hands or something, and he found both his paycheck and about $700 extra! I was so goddamn chuffed that I couldn't stop laughing like a maniac. I rang off, promising that I'd come over later.
So Hanna let me go home about an hour early, about which I was overjoyed because I just couldn't wait to tell my mother (we own the house together and have a joint bank account, so this affects her as much as it does me). When she walked in the door, she looked kind of pissed and asked why I was home early. I told her that I thought we could afford it, and showed her the check.
After we both stopped screaming, we both managed to calm down and talk about other things, including the kitten I had fallen in love with on Tuesday.
*** Flashback:***
She's Tod's kitten's youngest sister, although she doesn't look a thing like him: she's all black except for white on the tips of each paw; she looks as if she's wearing nail polish. She's very fuzzy and has blue eyes, and she is very beautiful. I call her Bella, which is maybe rather trite but it does suit her perfectly. When we got there she was as hyper and playful as the rest of her siblings, but later on she calmed down and sat on my lap and fell asleep in a ball in a very sweet and ladylike manner.
But the real surprise was Tod's kitten; although all of the kittens were gamboling all over the goddamn place, and I kept trying to cuddle with him, he kept gravitating towards his new daddy, and finally got up on his lap, curled up, and fell asleep with all four of his paws in the air! Even when he started slipping into the crevice between T.'s knee, he just kept blinking trustingly up at him. It was the damndest thing! Tod, of course, looked as happy as I'd ever seen him. He is thinking of naming him "Hobbes" (for he is stripey), or possibly "Qui-Gon Poo-Poo".
***End of flashback***
So I'd been lobbying M. about little Bella for a couple of days, and she'd pretty much nixed the idea since we have three adorable little bastards already, but yesterday she capitulated! So I called Diane to check and see whether she was already spoken for, and (of course, because it was my lucky day) she wasn't! My cup done runneth over.
Another cool thing about yesterday (as if the above stuff wasn't enough!) is that my best friend from middle school, Tara, got in touch with me via myspace.com! After 14 freakin' years! I can't wait to see what she's been up to after all this time.
So last night, already high from the crazy day I'd had, I went to the mall (ick!) with Tod so he could get some goldenseal. To my surprise, I was able to get about ½ of my Christmas shopping done - yaaaay! Also, T. was unusually (and wonderfully) demonstrative yesterday, even for him; I was totally basking in all of this affection!
So that was what happened on Thursday. |
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