I bet your wondering what all four of these have in common… Oh but they do! See I am sure that I mentioned that some punk ass douche-bag \”compromised\” my Visa so mine was canceled as a precautionary measure. So because of that I had to wait for the new card to be sent to my mom\’s house in ON and then wait for her to send it to me registered mail. Shiny new visa comes in last Thursday and I finally got off my ass to go to the post office and pick up because I had to sign for it. So that\’s fine, I open up the envelope only to discover that my card wasn\’t ready to use, had to either activate it online or via telephone due to the chip I have with the pin. So I tried to do it online but because I\’m not the primary card holder I apparently needed some of my moms info. Turns out I didn\’t (bastards) but you know c\’est la vie. So I dropped it off at home and trekked over to Gryphon to see two of my favorite people. Had lunch with two of my favorite customers, played catch up and ran off to work to pick up my pay.
So I go to work, grab my pay, briefly tormented Freeman for a while. So I detach my cheque from my pay stub (we use a company now) sign it, fold it in 1/2, shove it into my back pocket and run off to the bank that is literally 2 blocks away! So as soon as I get there, I discovered that my pay was GONE. W.T.F?!?!?! Seriously? FAIL! F.A.I.L! So I hoped that maybe it fell out of my pocket at work somewhere and went back. I of course re-traced my steps which was pointless because it was nice and windy today and who knows where on earth it ended up? So back at C.O.C, I called my manager to get the number of our payroll company to put a stop payment on it. It was around 4:45, guess who closes at 4:30? THE FUCKING PAYROLL COMPANY! I was thinking seriously? Your joking right? So I ran back to the bank just to have a note put on my account file with the cheque number stating that I had lost it and to not accept it should someone try to cash it in my name because I signed it at work. Which sounds crazy to some people but sometimes its actually safer because then no one can attempt forgery. I consigned myself with the fact that most banks close at 4pm, which today being the ONLY time I was actually thankful for that! I\’m hoping that if someone actually found it, that in an attempt to cash it they use the bank machine… Yeah I know sounds nuts but I\’m thinking I should have a stop payment in place before it actually gets removed from said machine and cleared by the bank, best scenario. Worst scenario, someone actually was able to cash it on my behalf and then the payroll company tells me how utterly fucked I am… We\’ll see what happens.
So I thought, all is not totally lost because I have a Visa (thanks mom!) so at least I have access to some funds and won\’t be totally poor and can just slap my pay onto that when I actually get it. Except that wasn\’t meant to happen either… I do all my running around, then I head off to the pharmacy to pick up my birth control pills for the month and what do you know? MY FUCKING VISA CARD DOESN\’T WORK! I was about ready to loose it at this point, but it was almost 7pm IE: free mins kick in, so I call the handy 800 number on the back. \”Oh I\’m sorry miss your not the primary card holder\” So I said yeah I know, its my mom. \”Oh is your mom there (in a condescending talking to a child tone)\” I said yeah well, she\’s home but she also lives 650km away in Ontario and I\’m in Montreal. \”Well I need to speak with her before I do anything to the account because I have security questions I have to ask her\” . Fine, its a security thing, I get that. However all I wanted was my damn baby prevention script! You see, they keep me sane and baby free, oh yeah and I don\’t have breakouts either but that\’s a side effect I\’m willing to live with. In spite of the fact that I have awesome skin like that (thanks mom!). So I walk home, call my mom in ON, tell her what happened and asked her to call me back once she\’s off the phone with them praying that it doesn\’t take hours.
So mom calls me back and I apologized for horribly inconveniencing her like that because I knew she wasn\’t feeling well. She said its no problem Steph, I\’m your mom that\’s what you do as a parent. See this is why I don\’t have kids, they\’re a pain in the ass! I do however love my mom and all that she does for me <3. However my mom tends to tell people a little too much on occasion, you know like the tattoo I have on my vag. Yeah my mom goes out of her way to tell people about it. One of these days someone\’s going to ask to see it and you know I most likely will show them. Doesn\’t matter because my girly bits are going to be part of an art book (that\’s a whole other story). Anyway getting off topic here… So the person on the phone was a woman and my mom says to her my daughter went to the pharmacy to get her B/C pills but her card didn\’t work. I don\’t need that to happen (her? What about me? lol) she says oh yes, she would need those, can\’t have that happening now or she\’d blame Scotia for it (yes, yes I would). Apparently they both though that was hilarious. I however not so much. Sooooooo I got my card activated and verified, head back to JCP for a second time, wouldn\’t you know it… MY FUCKING VISA DIDN\’T WORK AGAIN! So I told the poor cashier I was sorry for being such a pain, she says oh no, I feel bad for you. I know you need them (yes, yes I do!). So as I\’m walking home I passed a dep that had an ATM, thought well maybe its just the terminal? Hello cash advance attempt. Success! Grabbed some cash and went back to the pharmacy for the THIRD time and finally got my pills.
Funny thing about birth control, more so the one that I\’m on (Alesse) in case you wondering. I\’d gotten a \”warning\” from someone I know about it. More so being on the pill and antibiotics at the same time. I knew this from when I first started taking the pill in the first place because I read the pamphlet that came enclosed with the first kind I was on back in the day. Because I like how smart I am for one thing and I want to know everything about what I\’m putting into my body. Well apparently said persons g/f had taken antibiotics and allegedly wasn\’t forewarned to use an alternative type of b/c. I\’ve ALWAYS been told, because the fact that I\’m on the pill is not only on my file and when its not the pharmacist makes sure that I am aware of this. I call bullshit. Because yes while the pill is proven to be 99% effective there is always that 1% but that\’s SO minuscule. That\’s one piece of ignorance that I refuse to buy into. Mostly because this happened conveniently around the time that he was talking about moving to the US, as a matter of fact that incident happened TWICE (both times when he was seriously considering this move). OK one time, it can happen. It may have happened to me, although they\’re not 100% certain that I was in fact pregnant which would have resulted in a possible miscarriage. But that\’s neither here nor there. I hate to sound insensitive but I didn\’t know so there was no attachment there and not being able to totally confirm it from a medical standpoint either. Instinctively though, I\’m 99% sure that I was.
Its not like if you miss a day or if your on antibiotics that you\’re going to automatically get pregnant. News flash, that\’s usually not how it works. Yes it can happen but I\’ll tell ya, after being on the pill so long it would most likely take me a lot longer to get pregnant after I stopped taking it completely. Can we say baby trap? It astounds me the amount of woman who use the whole I\’ll be all ninja like and get myself knocked up behind his back and trap him. I REALLY hate when people use children as a pawn in their sick, fucked up, emotionally twisted games. Reminds me of a similar story that I heard from a guy who\’s cheating on his g/f whom HE invited BACK into his life and when I asked why, he claimed that the daycare said his son was having emotional issues because his father wasn\’t at home. His son is two, and I don\’t mean to sound insensitive but really; your doing that child NO favors by sticking around because you feel its the \”right thing to do\”. Children aren\’t stupid and yeah they\’re likely going to lash out but I think it would be less traumatizing to do it when your child is still considered an infant as opposed to having the whole relationship fall apart when that child is far more attached. Idiots!
End rant