I suppose…

I suppose if I’m bitching about loan stuff, I ought to mention the up side, too. I called the Alaska Student Loan people, to whom we have been hemmoraging money in order to get Ted’s loan out of default, and they have set up their reinstatement program, and will send us the paperwork, and what this means is that the extra $N hundred that I am sending to them in order to try to catch up can be sent to 3 other loans instead. So there is actually quite a…

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WOOOO SARAH!

WOOOO SARAH! House loan! House! WOOOOOOO! WOOOOOOOOOO! YAAAY! WOOO! *beam* WOOT!

gnarg

Well, I called up the other loan people to see why my stupid student loan bill had doubled, and they said, “Oh, it’s because we got your paperwork that you sent in saying how much money you were making, and based on that, you can afford to pay twice as much as you’re paying.” Well, no, actually, I can’t, fuckwits. But I can’t change it to a smaller payment until I’ve made 3 payments (on time and in full) at this new rate. This is stupid.

W-2

My at-least-in-theory correct W-2 has finally arrived. Turns out they are in fact withholding an extra $25/paycheck. That’s good. I’ll see if it’s good /enough/ after we do our taxes, of course. If not, maybe I’ll ask them to withhold $50/check. Blah. That’s a lot. Stoopid taxes.

blah.

What a stellar morning this is turning out to be. I failed to prevent the dog from crapping on the carpet, but did manage to ruin my breakfast, because oatmeal just does not reheat well, and I had to throw the damned dog outside again. Also, poor Zilli was being chased by Chantico and Zilli jumped up on the counter to get out of the way and then realized I was there and went OH SHIT! and jumped back down to where the dog could chase him again. Poor kitty.…

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