(how I feel...gee, how did the kids know this when they created this thing?)An update on the credit card fraud issue. I suspect it's more than that. After Bank of America canceled our card, I had 3 things pop up that were purportedly ordered by me. One was a fitness video: the company called to say that they had trouble charging it to my card. Well, yeah. Another was a book club subscription; a box of books from The Good Cook book club arrived in the mail yesterday. Another is the Book of the Month Club. Oy. So now I have to get a hold of them to let them know that I didn't sign up for either of them. I wonder if there are more to come... As if life weren't harried enough without stupid, extra things to stress over.
Have any of you ever had your identity stolen?
Dh and the boys got some planting done in the greenhouse last weekend: they put in spinach, various lettuce, and different Asian greens. Looove Asian greens! They also dug up and transplanted horseradish. Dh made the best horseradish sauce with some of the roots and shared some starts with the people who responded that they wanted some. Lisa said that it is next to impossible to buy in town. Dh says that it's due to its only being harvested at very specific times.
And for a totally unrelated thought: the last time I did any *real* writing was years ago. Sure I did NaNoWriMo the last two years, but I mean the kind of writing that I actually can picture a sale with. Well, thanks to the most excellent Gotham Writers' Workshop's Science Fiction class, I may have one or two stories ready for submission before long.
The experience of this class has been so good, in fact, that I am tempted to take SFII in April. But, without credit card to use and feeling inundated by life, I may just wait until next year.
I know that some of you enjoy sewing, so wanted to share this video for sewing kids' tutus that I found over at the About.com Sewing forum.
I have to say that having life so busy (and not all in a good way), plus reading The Happiness Project book, has helped me not to dwell on the credit card/ID theft issue as much, although it does eat at me that there are such people out there who don't deserve the free oxygen they breathe.
But, on a happier note, if you have a special someone whom you've been forgetting to tell how special he/she is, go check out Suzanne's post on Forever Friends. :)
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." ~ Douglas Adams
5 comments:
That stinks big time about your credit card. That stuff sometimes takes way too long to fix. Crossing my fingers for you (and I'll also throw salt over my shoulder for good measure).
I am with you on the randomness. I am thinking that may be the common theme of several upcoming posts for me. Life just gets in the way sometimes, you know.
Will there be a way we can read your stories??!?!!
Teri, thanks for hoping for the best for me! Right now, I don't know whether to laugh or panic. It is really stupid.
I have always admired how you seem to have a strong theme going in your posts. Even when you have a few tangential points mixed in, you tie it together nicely. I doubt your random posts will make you sound flakey like my random posts do me. LOL!
Hmm, well, I'm getting better about showing people my stories (just because I've had to show my classmates for them to critique), but I'm not sure I'm ready to show it to the world at large yet. I'll keep you posted! =)
I'm so sorry you are dealing with the credit card issue. It feels awful when this happens, it is so violating. I hope it all gets straightened out without causing you too much grief! ((hugs)) Do you and your hubby do those free credit reports every year. We use freecreditreport.com and they don't charge a penny. It will at least tell you if other parts of your identity have been stolen.
Good luck with the writing submissions (when you send them). I will be in the cheering section sending positive energy for positive results.
I need to get reading. I always try to read when I go to bed and then I fall asleep. Grr!
thanks for the link on sewing tutus, can't wait to check it out. I'm trying to expand my sewing skills (ever so slowly) and a tutu would be fun to try for my (princess) Aiyana.
I'm so jealous, I wish we could plant. I'm so excited for spring/summer. Anxious to get digging in the dirt. It is wonderful that your kids are gardening. Hopefully this year I can convince my kids to do the same :)
Such an invasion of so everything when credit cards, identity are in the wrong hands.
It's nice you have your writing, your books, your gardening, and of course your family to divert your attention for some peace....
Hugs
How strange that your thief ordered items to be sent to your house. Unless it was to utterly confuse you, I just don't understand the logic.
When dh's identity was stolen they got a hold of his ss# somehow and actually applied for a ccard in his name. We didn't find out until we ran a credit check on him.
Love that crazy snow person. I totally know that expression-- see it in the mirror all the time! ;-) So glad you're happy with your writing these days.
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