This _never_ happens to me...
May. 25th, 2010 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deathpixieRemember that weirdness about my old job thinking I hadn't resigned a few weeks ago? Well, I cleared it up pretty easily and that was that, I thought. Then today I have a look into my Aussie bank account, the one I use to pay off my credit card, and I'm absolutely stunned to find a credit from the Department of Justice for $1,878.28. Apparently I had some kind of outstanding leave or backpay or severance pay or something?
Any way, money I didn't expect. Which promptly went onto the credit card. That, combined with the money I have filtering through via Paypal and the $100 I transferred from my Canadian account today means that my Aussie credit card should be, for the first time in a very long time, completely paid off, or so close as to make very little difference.
This sort of thing never happens to me. Financial windfalls are always things that happen to Other People. So consider me suitably grateful to the luck gods for providing me with the peace of mind and the ability to go join my brother and sister-in-law in Italy in July for a week without stretching myself thin - I can do it now with no qualms whatsoever!
Especially if I can finally talk the bank into letting me get a Canadian credit card this week - I'll be able to put the Aussie one away as strictly emergency use only.
(And yes, [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com], you were right about the backpay. I have no idea how, but you have smugness rights tonight.)
Any way, money I didn't expect. Which promptly went onto the credit card. That, combined with the money I have filtering through via Paypal and the $100 I transferred from my Canadian account today means that my Aussie credit card should be, for the first time in a very long time, completely paid off, or so close as to make very little difference.
This sort of thing never happens to me. Financial windfalls are always things that happen to Other People. So consider me suitably grateful to the luck gods for providing me with the peace of mind and the ability to go join my brother and sister-in-law in Italy in July for a week without stretching myself thin - I can do it now with no qualms whatsoever!
Especially if I can finally talk the bank into letting me get a Canadian credit card this week - I'll be able to put the Aussie one away as strictly emergency use only.
(And yes, [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com], you were right about the backpay. I have no idea how, but you have smugness rights tonight.)
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Date: 2010-05-25 09:53 pm (UTC)God I cannot tell you how nice it is to say -that- version of that phrase!
Buy the smug one a beer? :)
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Date: 2010-05-25 09:58 pm (UTC)The timing is perfect - I had to use the CC for therapy last time and I've been a tad stretched lately with all the social things in May. Now I can breathe a bit.
And yes, the Smug One shall be getting a beer.
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