I woke up a little late this morning, but not too bad considering how late it was by the time I finally got to sleep last night.
After puttering around/sitting on my ass for a while I got ready and headed out into the world. My first stop was the bank, where I deposited a rebate check and a check from having recently exercised some stock options. The latter check was considerably larger than the former, and as I looked at my receipt showing my current balance, my eyes goggled a bit. Even factoring in the subtraction of my mortgage payments and a few other outstanding debits, it was still a substantial balance.
Which is what made going into my next stop scary; it was Best Buy.
I was in Best Buy with a several thousand dollars at my disposal. That is a scary thought.
I’d gone in strictly for the purposes of buying a USB hub, but those intentions were made well before I realized just how much money I was going to have in my account.
Still, I managed to remind myself that there would be little point in buying, say, an HDTV, or something similar, and that it’s been my intention to put most of the money into my high-yield savings account, with the hope that, somewhere along the line, it will go towards a down payment on a new place.
(Deadline to respond to the buy-back offer is this week. If it goes through, the deal will be final 180 days from the receipt of the last letter. Last count, as of yesterday, was 52 out of 58 received.)
So I managed to walk out of there without dropping a few grand, and in fact, only spent $20 beyond what I’d intended to spend.
(Monty Python’s Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life on DVD for $10 each? Impossible to pass up.)
From there it was off to the grocery store, and then home again where, thanks to the fact that I remembered to buy butter, I had those grilled cheese sandwiches I was supposed to have for lunch last week.
And that’s been my exciting day so far.
Oh, and the title of this post is a search term that led someone here that was just crying out to be shared.
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