Bought my first mutual fund! I'm well on my way to having...one millon dollars (in the voice of Dr. Evil). It's a utilities fund. I figure they're so good in Monopoly that they must be good in real life. Maybe next I'll buy into the railroads. Them are gonna be big!
Man! A 401(k), an IRA and a potfolio? If I didn't have my big sister to compare myself to I'd say I was old ;-)
Went to the dentist today. She told me no more Dr Pepper. Might as well tell me don't breathe. 'No more breathing, it's bad for your teeth. If you do breathe, try to only breathe during a meal and brush right after. Don't be sipping air all day.'
And I found out I have a missing tooth. One of my incisors never came in. The Dr said one of them was bigger than all the others so I musta got a 1 for 2 deal. I'm amazed that none of my other dentists pointed that out. Hacks!
I have to get my wisdom teeth removed. The receptionist told me most people are out of work for 4 or 5 days when they get their wisdom teeth removed. Blah...
The other day a lady walked into the CU and exclaimed, "You're Teriana!" And I, of course, said no in case she was w/ the government and they'd found the bodies. She then said she had something for me and held up my wallet. Apparently it had fallen out of my coat pocket when I was sitting in the vestibule of the Spam Can (the bldg I work in) waiting for another coworker to arrive. I didn't even know it was missing.
That was the second time a Good Samaritan had found my wallet and returned it fully intact. The time before that it had fallen out of my coat pocket in the parking lot at Fred Meyer. A nice couple found it and saw me loading my groceries in my SUV (pronounced suhv) and returned it. Next time I might not be so lucky. A member came into the CU and told me her purse had been ripped from her hands right in the front of the capitol building. Maybe I should put a chain on my wallet. But then I'd have to grow a mullet and start listening to K.D. Lang.
...And I haven't even sighted in my rifle yet.
When I was at the gun store this weekend a couple from San Francisco came off the cruise ship asking about good fishing spots. The wife was admiring a big wolverine pelt hanging on the rack. She asked her husband what it was and he said, "I don't know, but it's beautiful." Then the wife declared, "It's an otter." An otter?! How could you confuse a wolverine w/ an otter?!!! Sigh, Californians.
So I got myself a part time job. I'm working weekends at this little gun shop, which I said I would never do again b/c of all the jerkwads I had to put up w/ a Jay's Sporting Goods who thought women couldn't know anything about sporting goods. The pay starts at $10/hr, and if I make it past the first month it goes to $11/hr. Makes me realize I'm underpaid at the credit union. I better ask my boss for a raise before we fill the position we're hiring for and she has someone better to compare me to.
Today at the CU we had our Wednesday training that we have on Wednesdays. The operations supervisor brought cards and she spread them on the table and asked questions. When we got one right we got to pick a card and at the end, whoever had the best hand won a $5 gift card (which I won w/ an ace high straight). After we were done we still had 20 mins left so I suggested we play real poker. One of our members walked by and peered in the window and saw us sitting around a table playing cards and betting candy. She pulled on the door, but of course we were closed, so we tried to look as busy as possible until she left. I bet she was pissed.
The tourists are coming! The tourists are coming! The first cruise ship rolled into town on Sunday. And we almost got a record breaking amount of rain over the weekend. Today when I went out for lunch I saw four helecopters flying overhead. Showing the tourist the highway and soppy marshes, no doubt.
I don't go out for lunch that much, but I had to drop off my brand new notary stamp at the stamp place because they spelled my name wrong. I can see how they made the mistake. My name was only printed in size 24 font on my notary certificate. At $3.18 a gallon it was not a trip I wanted to make.
I saw my first real live cruise ship tonight. I had to look twice 'cause at first glance I thought it was a building it was so huge. Later on when it floated into the channel I was able to snap a few photos of it. This thing was ginormous. It was like a floating city. Every once in a while I'd see a tiny flash and I realized, people were photographing me.
So on February 17th I faxed my direct deposit form to HR to have my paycheck auto deposited to my account at work. I waited two pay periods (4 weeks), but it didn't go in. I figured I musta missed the cutoff date for that pay period when I originally sent the fax, so I waited another two weeks. Still got a paper check. I emailed the human resources generalist and she informed me she never received my fax.
Back to the drawing board. I sent my fax again, waited two full pay periods and on 4/30 got a note on my pay stub saying my DD would begin after verification and it listed my account info. Finally! This evening I was looking over my pay stub, lamenting on how much taxes the government takes out even though I upped my exemptions from 1 to 3, when I saw that the routing number listed was incorrect. They got the routing number for their own damn bank wrong! I'm gonna be super pissed if I have to start all over.
The Human Resources Generalist left today or was fired (haven't heard the latest official gossip yet) so I sat in on interviews. They like to have two people sit in on the interview so one can ask questions and the other can look intimidating.
The first girl had a heavy coating of perfume. Now, I've got nothing against smelling like a French whore, but it still filled the room a half hour after she was gone. The second interview was over the phone. The woman lives in Texas and she is going to be moving up to Alaska. Apparently not to Juneau, though. A couple minutes into the call it was discovered that she's moving to Fairbanks. That would be one hell of a commute.
It's May Day. Apparently it's much more celebrated in this area than in the Midwest. No paid holiday though, so it can't be that special.
This little old lady came into the credit union today. Well, she actually wasn't that little. She prolly had a couple inches on me and I'm 5'6", so she was tall for a little old lady. She came in w/ a list of 18 relatives she wanted write $12,000 checks to. She whittled the list down to 14 'cause 4 of them owed her money. My co-worker asked me to add her to the list, "I don't owe her money," she said. I wanna know when my rich relative is gonna come out of the woodwork and leave me money.
