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May 12, 2004
Confessions
since it's Mid-Week Confession day over at Chix's, i thought i'd join in on the fun and share a confession of my own with you.
my confession: i am the worlds worst bill payer.
it's not like it's because i can't make the payments. i know we're lucky enough to have enough coming in right now to cover our regular expenses. it's just that i hate the actual process of paying the bills. in an attempt to make things easier on myself, a couple years ago i decided to stop writing checks altogether and to pay everything on-line. i figured i would be able to keep up if i did it that way. sure enough it is easier, but guess what, i'm lazier then it is easier.
last night for instance. i balanced the checkbook for the first time in four weeks and then threw money at a pile of bills that had been sitting around even longer. some of those bills, like my cell phone bill, had both this months and the past month clipped together. why? because i never got to them last month, that's why.
and that whole process took me an hour and a half to do too. i know that if i were to pay them a few at a time as they came in it wouldn't take much time at all. i'd also probably avoid late and finance charges -- but i just can't seem to get myself to do it.
so that's my confession. whew! this may not get me to pay on time from now on but at least i feel better about it.
how 'bout you -- you have anything to confess?
Posted by P at May 12, 2004 06:18 AM
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oh, bills.... YUK!
I have lots of things to confess but fear that I would end up in a straight jacket if I did! LOL, no I am just kidding. I confess that I dwell on things that I cannot change too much and it makes me unhappy at times!
Have a good day!
Dew
Posted by: dewnut at May 12, 2004 06:40 AM
I have nothing to confess. My life is like an open book! (Are you buying that one??)
Posted by: Empress at May 12, 2004 06:59 AM
~I confess that yesterday I yelled, "Get out of the way you slow ass driving old blue hair motherfucker" to an elderly person driving in front of me, 20 miles under the speed limit
*sorry about that "Mr. Old guy in a hat driving a Cadillac"~
Posted by: btezra at May 12, 2004 07:06 AM
My husband has a similar problem...it's very frustrating.
Posted by: Miss Bliss at May 12, 2004 08:54 AM
Anne gets really stressed about bills so I have learned to pay them as soon as they come in. Bills gather no dust in our house and the marriage goes smoothly!
I do have other stuff to confess though. Here's one.....a few years ago I had to sit next to a guy that had a crush on Rush Limbaugh. He had pictures of him in his cube, kept Rush's newsletter on his desk, loudly proclaimed Rush his hero and listened to the blowhard entertainer daily. The problem was he listened with the volume up. I and several other folks had to share in the Rush sermon and it was a distraction. One day after the Rush guy left the office I glued his radio dial to National Public Radio and unscrewed the back of it. The next day he comes in, hits the on button and got to listen to the NPR view of something or other, he then pulled his radio to check the tuning and the back fell off. He freaked, wanted to know who did this horrible deed, etc. Unfortunately there was a guy in the office (another unpopular oddball) that he had a long standing fued with and he was accused of the crime. They went at each other until they were hauled into the managers office for some joint counseling (two birds with one stone I suppose). I tried hard not to laugh too much at my desk.
They offer absolution over at the Chix table. How about a beer instead?
Posted by: Erik at May 12, 2004 11:28 AM
hell, it was Rush -- you were doing the world a favor! Erik, i was going to absolve you of your guilt over the deed, but if you rather go drink that works for me too. :)
Posted by: P at May 12, 2004 11:58 AM
I think that a Porter or Nut Brown ale could absolve the guilt. Hmm...we should establish a Church of Ale just for this purpose. Prayers could include a Hail Ale and services would include the Lager Liturgy.
Posted by: Erik at May 12, 2004 02:23 PM
Guilty. I can't tell u how many times a bill has slipped behind the desk or something. Your right, it's the process of it all. :|
Posted by: Curator at May 13, 2004 02:10 PM