The Importance of Being Idle

Poli-high!

Today's been an odd mixture, at least so far. I got up early cos I'd been summoned to the centre by Jules, and we had a cuppa and chatted and stuff for a couple hours before it was time to get on with our respective days.
I came home and tried to convince barclaycard to let me off a payment this month, but that was entirely unsuccesful (the bloke in finances was aggresive and frankly useless, which might be his job but it wasn't very helpful) and I ended up making a part payment and talking to a nice customer service lady who told me that they won't let you change your payments until you've already screwed up your account, and cos my account is in good order and always has been they won't do anything. That seemed kinda stupid to me, after all I was going to them to AVOID getting in financial difficulties, but I guess that just ain't the way the world works. Ah well.
Now, normally that woulda made me feel bad (in fact it did make me feel bad for a while), but then I remembered some of the stuff from the book on confidence that Ronnie got me, and I kinda thought it through and realised that it's not the end of the world, it's just something that's happened. It's serious, sure, but not insurmountable. So, then I actually felt pretty good: I'd dealt with the problem for now and lived to fight another day, lesson learned!
I have to say that felt good, to deal with a problem and then walk away from it because it's DEALT WITH, rather than obsess about it for weeks afterward. Neat stuff, me like.
The rest of the afternoon has been spent on more bathroom painting, finished the ceiling now, so it's just the wood work and assorted detailing to finish now, which is pretty exciting. Soon it'll be like a whole new room!
And yes, in case you're wondering I'm listening to The Point again! I still don't know if the story itself HAS a point, or if that's part of the joke or if its just a weird drug induced fairy-tale. Still love it though!

posted by BadMonkey @ 3:08 PM