Arynn and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

   Yeah, it sucked! Let me just start with this disclaimer because if this happens to you, you may have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day as well! DO NOT USE FREE CREDIT REPORT.COM!!!! "Why" you ask? Well, first of all, that is not the company that runs the credit checks, it is actually a parent company called Experian Credit and they have 4 various titles under them that all deal with credit checks. This would not be an issue if all the companies were tightly connected but they are not! As a result, the company is very spread out and your information, such as your social security number, debit info, name, address and all that important stuff you do not want to share-- gets shared with numerous people! As a result of being an ignorant person and believing that I could trust the company just because they had a catchy jingle, my debit info was stolen and my account has been severely over-drafted by someone! The scarier thing is, that this person may have ALL my information and could do a lot worse damage then stealing some of my money. So with that said, learn about your real options for taking care of your credit! I am a big dummy head and I know it...

  

   Okay, so that obviously ruined my day because now my accounts are frozen and I cannot access my money. I was not feeling too bad though because thankfully my bank 100% insures a refund in the cases of fraudulent transactions. So, overall I know I will get my money back, its just a matter of "when"? Anyway, Kris being the nice, wonderful, amazing boyfriend that he is, offered to lend me some cash in the meantime. So me, (being a big dummy head mind you) only borrowed $20 thinking "Well, I have five bucks already for bridge toll, I just need a like ten for gas and four bucks for swimming" which meant that I would still have $11 for whatever else came up. Now, I was only thinking that is what I would need at school Tuesday, obviously eleven dollars would not last me the rest of the week but I could worry about that when it came around. Well, I got to school and remembered, oh yeah! I need to get a parking permit, which is ten dollars for the whole day! Now, I had a twenty dollar bill and a five dollar bill...eleven dollars left in my mental budget...should work right? Wrong! The permit machine does not give out change. Okay, well I just thought "I need to break the twenty". That would have worked if I had time to, however, there was already a policeman in the lot giving out tickets and the only place to make change was all the way across campus and I wouldn't have time to walk to there, get change, come back, get a permit-- avoid a ticket and make it to class on time. So I used the five and scrounged up some quarters to get just a two hour permit. I came back after class to get my swim stuff only to realize that the 2 hour permit was about to expire so I needed to get another one. (This will be a very long rant I just realized so if you are already bored, go ahead and move on because it will not get any better, sorry) because I was convinced that I still wouldn't have time to get change and swim. Then I thought, well what if I try to find a parking space on the other side of the campus so I am closer, can get change and then just get a full-day permit; this would have worked if it was not noon and if all the spaces weren't already taken! I drove around the campus for twenty minutes! By this time, my gas gauge was hovering over "E" like a gnat over sewage and I was sweating bullets about my time. I ended up back in the same lot as I started and only two spaces down from my first parking place. Scrounging up more quarters, I managed to get a 1 hour pass and ran like hell to make change. At this point, I have given up on the idea of swimming, not only because of time but also because I had to split $20 among gas, bridge toll which is $5 and a full day parking permit which is ten.That left me with five dollars for gas! Five dollars would only get me a little over a gallon of gas...which meant at best, I could get 30 miles out of...my school is 47 miles from my home. Now, on top of all this wonderful parking drama and crap-- I still had classes! ASL went fine as always but then I had 19th Century English which is not that hard but the professor makes it hard. I ordered the book for that class 3 weeks ago and at that point, I still hadn't received it (I got it today)! Of course, that class is the ONLY one that requires the book in class and of course, the professor called me out, and OF COURSE she chalked my reason up to me being just another lazy student! On top of that I discovered that I have two midterms the day that Kris and I are supposed to be leaving for Disneyland! So I either have to take the exams earlier or we cut a day off our trip! Yeah, that all really sucked, but am I done!? Noooo, I am not done! That morning, I did not wash my hair because, I thought I was going swimming! I also did not do my make up because-- you guessed it! I was supposed to go swimming! I usually take a shower after I swim and wash my hair and do my make-up then but I could not afford to swim so therefore I could not afford to shower! I went all day looking like a wreck! I did not know I looked like a wreck until the end of the day when I finally stopped to look in a mirror. My hair was greasy, my skin was all splotchy, I had a zit in the middle of my forehead and I also got a mysterious black smudge on my face that was about an inch long! What was the substance that adorned my cheek? Dirt? Grease? Bird crap? Who knows! Just prior to this, I got stopped by some girl who decided that the person who looked like a wreck and was obviously in a big hurry was the right person to stop and proselytize to! I tried my best to be polite and to let her know that I was not interested in learning about her faith at the moment but she just kept right on talking. She eventually asked me if I believed in God and I said (and I feel bad about saying it now but my mood was just awful at that point) no and that's when she finally decided I was a lost cause and left. To put the rotten cherry on the crap sundae that was my day, I had to try and drive to the nearest gas station on fumes. Now, the nearest gas station is about 3 miles away from my school...uphill...and it was raining...and there was lightning...which meant everyone was determined to drive 1/2 a mile an hour up that damn hill. By the grace of God (who I apparently don't believe in if you ask that girl) I made it and put six dollars in my tank. It was only six dollars because a 1 dollar coin piece somehow made it into my purse. I do not know where it came from and I hope to god it was not a rare coin because several people have given me old coins in the past year and I know some were in my purse. So with an eight of a tank (maybe less, my gas gauge is a little wonky), I attempted to drive home. The weather was absolutely horrible, there were accidents everywhere and I could barely see the road in front of my car. Kris then texted me and asked if I wanted him to meet me at a gas station just past the bridge to which I replied YES! That is, if I could make it that far. Once again, by the grace of God, I made it! Kris met me there-- coming to my rescue as usual and put some gas in my tank. I was so happy when I pulled into my driveway and then got into my bed because that meant that the day was definitely over!

   So I hope (if any of you made it this far) that story didn't bore you to death...maybe just to pain but not to death. As I sit here, ready to wrap it up, more little things are coming to mind that went wrong yesterday...my fight with the Experian credit people, me slipping on the stairs, me getting my butt all wet by sitting on a wet bench, not having homework done  and the list goes on... but I think you have got enough examples for one post. I hope that your day yesterday and today was and is far better than mine. Thank you for being a trooper and reading all of this. I promise the next one will be happy and short(er)!