Lizet's Place

Finished on the phone with my bank.

Everything is resolved, but not completely to my satisfaction.

The person I spoke with explained how I ended up with the overdraft fee and it basically boils down to when the transactions are processed.

There was enough in my account to cover the initial Postmates amount, but it went over when I added a tip, plus the "counted" the pending transaction from GrubHub in figuring my balance, so I wouldn't have had enough in the account to cover the Postmates transaction (with tip) anyway...therefore overdraft fee.

What they were able to do was give me back 25% of the fee, which is $8.75. That's better than nothing, I guess.

This is definitely a learned lesson for me. I'm going to stick with GrubHub. They allow me to add the tip BEFORE finalizing the transaction, so I know exactly how much is coming out.

First, we were being self quarantined until the end of the month.

Okay. I had a little issue with that, but I looked at all the things I was able to do to get me out of the apartment and it was going to be okay.

Now it’s apparently a month-long quarantine!

Sunday was church.

Monday was a keep warm and stay out of the rain kind of day…I also did a bunch of research for my original story (and day 1 of self-quarantining)

Tuesday, I went to get a tattoo and bought some dish soap. (Still, self quarantining)

Wednesday…oh…that was just yesterday. Man did the week go by fast!

Today…today I didn’t do much of anything, but I was in an okay mood…until about 3 hours ago.

What happened 3 hours ago?

LA County completely closed down.

Then what seemed like minutes later, the Governor said the entire fucking state of California is closed down until AFTER EASTER! FUCK YOU! THAT’S A MONTH!

I don’t go anywhere, to begin with, but now everything is really basically closed until AFTER April 19! No church on April 5. No church on April 12. No Easter service.

There’s no place I can say I wish I could go to escape this because this is happening all around the fucking planet!

As far as I know, KW still has her doctor appts on April 1 and April 7, but she will need to go to the lab before her April 1 appt and when I called the clinic, they said they didn’t know if the lab was going to be open next week (they only do it 1 day a week). I will have to call the clinic next week to see if the lab is open still.

Postmates fucked me up this week. I used them on the 16th, the transaction cleared my account on the 18th, but the fucking “pre-authorization” charge was still pending and my bank charged me an overdraft fee! The “pre-authorization” is still pending but they charged me the overdraft! “We can give you back $8.35 (of the $35 overdraft fee) right now.” Uhh, the fuck you will! You’re going to give me back all of my money! That “pre-authorization” is still pending so until or unless it posts, I have the money to cover it! Then the bank says that they can give me all of the overdraft fees back if the merchant/Postmates reverses the charge. Okay, great. I send a message to Postmates and they send me the stupid automated response about how they hold the amount of the transaction until it clears and then within 24 hours, it reverses. Well, this bullshit policy just cost me $35 in overdraft fees on a $22 purchase! And I’m currently overdrawn by $54.32!

And then! When my paycheck posts tomorrow, it’s going to be short $54.32 until Postmates removes the “pre-authorization” amount so that the bank can refund me $35!

I’m just frustrated by life now. It’s confirmed that we aren’t having Church until April 19.

Church today was weird. I think because we all knew it would be the last time we saw each other until April 5. Do we hug? Do we not hug? Do we shake hands? Do we not shake hands? Like I said…weird. At the start of our service, for the morning service in English and for the afternoon service in Spanish, there’s a greeting song where the congregants go around greeting/hugging each other, but today that didn’t happen. There was one person wearing a mask, that’s because she recently finished chemotherapy so her immune system and pretty much shot. Everyone else seemed to be okay.

The Pastor told us how service was going to be the next 2 Sundays and I feel a little better that I won’t be completely without anything. They’re going to be live-streamed from his house. Two of his kids, his son in law and two of his nephews are on the worship team so they will go to his house, sing a couple of songs and then he will give a message. 10am for English and 12:30pm for Spanish.

Then after the Spanish service, he told the leaders of the different groups that he would like them to prepare a little message, maybe 10-15 minutes that could be sent out in some meeting app that members can join and listen to during the week. Each group (Men’s, women’s, and youth) would have a different day/time; I think it was Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

It’s also raffle time. I don’t know what we’re raffling off or how much tickets are (I think $10), but the money goes towards lowering the overall cost for our annual family camp weekend trip we have in August. The last 2 raffles we had, we were able to lower the cost by like $25/person. For the weekend at camp, it’s like $175 or something, but that includes the cabins, some snacks/pizza we have Friday night and Saturday night, breakfast/lunch/dinner on Saturday, breakfast, and lunch on Sunday as well as the wood we use at the 2 bonfires we have Saturday night. It sounds like a lot, but we get a lot in return. I’ve always felt it was worth the money because I’ve had so much fun and I’m looking forward to going a 4th time.

After all of this church stuff, we braved the markets! First Wal-Mart neighborhood market. Their shelves were pretty bare. I got some things I needed, but not everything. Milk and bread were left for me to get. Next was to Stater Brother’s. I had a bit more luck there, but NO MILK OR BREAK! Fine…off to Albertson’s. Got a few more things, INCLUDING MILK, BUT DAMN IT! THERE WAS NO BREAD! Friends on Facebook told me a couple of places to try for bread and I’m also going to check the super Wal-Mart that is across the street from where I live. Hopefully, they have some bread, but if not I have other things to have for lunch instead of making sandwiches. It will be a nice change-up for a while.

Now I’m cold/chilly and tired…but 8pm is a bit too early for me to go to sleep. I do not want or need to be up at 4 or 5 am!

Of course, it would take a fucking pandemic for me to post again. And of course, it’s over a year too.

But I’m freaking out a bit. Not that I’m going to get sick or anything, but being cooped up in the apartment for close to 20 days is what I’m freaking out over.

Sundays are the 1 day that I get out for church, lunch and grocery shopping, but I found out tonight that my Pastor and the church Deacons thought it was best not to have services for 2 weeks. We’ll still have service on the 15th, but not on the 22nd or 29th.

And yes, I decided at the last minute to get a tattoo, so I’ll be out of the apartment on the 17th and then the 27th, 28th, and 29th, I’ll be house sitting and looking after my friend’s mother while she goes to Sacramento for her niece’s wedding (I don’t know if those plans have changed)…and KW has a dr appt April 1 and I have a hair appt April 3rd…then it will be April 5th and back to a regular schedule.

Laying it out like that has calmed me down. I won’t completely be stuck in the apartment, and I’ll have to go out anyway for food (if people in my city haven’t lost their damn minds and bought out Wal-Mart and Target!)

Another thing that’s still affecting me is the ending on Hawaii Five-0. It came as a shock to everyone, but Alex made it clear during an interview about the 200th episode, he was giving the show 2 more years and then he was done. Hmm, 2 more years would be season 10, but the show never did anything to let the fans know that the show was ending. No announcement at the start of season 10…in fact they were introducing a new character who would have potentially joined Five-0…and partnered with Danny. HA! Did they really think Scott, who was doing 5-7 fewer episodes a season, was going to continue on without Alex?! *rolls eyes HARD* so the show dropped the ball in letting the fans know so that we could prepare ourselves. And also the writers could have done a hell of a better job in writing/showing that Alex/Steve would be leaving, and I guess that’s what the final 2 episodes this season was going to be, and season 11 would have picked up without Steve…but they didn’t count on Scott and/or the network pulling that out.

Anyway…stuff has happened in the last year. A lot of stuff and none of it remotely important. I’m still tragically single; my brother is in town for work for the next 6 months. We hung out last weekend – the siblings and my sister’s kids – at the bowling alley and then went to dinner. We’re supposed to take sibling pictures to send a collage to my mom for her birthday (April 20) but that’s going to get pushed back to Mother’s Day. I’m hoping we get to see each other a few more times before he goes back to Florida.

There’s a lot of fun stuff with the church for this year. I was more excited about it at the start of the year than I am now. I blame the country shutting down because of COVID-19 and Trump being useless.

I’ve got a grocery list to make up for Sunday and craft supplies to make sure I have for kid’s Sunday School in case there are any at church.

by the time my birthday comes in September, I will be living in a new apartment (and still with my parents, but such is the way of life).

with this realization comes the fact that OMG, I have to make a list of everyone/every place I need to change my address.

but the ones off the top of my head are:
my driver's license (thanks for that reminder, t_verano!)
bank
student loans
state (due to notary commission)
t-mobile
tv guide

I guess for the rest, I'll do a change of address/forward mail to this address thing with the post office. I don't know how long that lasts though.

also, numerous online sites need to be updated, and my resume (and 10 year history) and I should also probably tell the temp agency I'm at (even though no one has gotten back to me about ANYTHING)



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Saturday's Plan of Action
write
EAT SOMETHING
shower/wash hair/shave (probably didn't need to know that last one)
straighten hair
EAT SOMETHING
write
get ready for wedding
WEDDING/RECEPTION/EAT SOMETHING
home to sleep
That's just for today.

Sunday's Plan of Action
eat something (not as important as Saturday's EAT SOMETHING)
church
EAT SOMETHING
come home
write
movie night at church/EAT SOMETHING
home
write
sleep

gah, sounds like a rather boring weekend (wedding not included)

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