Y2 D329

Busy busy day yesterday but I was able to push one thing off until this morning. Biggest issue yesterday was the stupid bank. I have some things that still go out through bill pay directly from the bank. Most stuff I pay on the payee's site directly, but there are three bills left that I let the bank send out. The other day I got an email saying one of my payments had been rejected by the payee. This was an account that had been set up and established for quite a while too. I called the bank and they said something might have changed. Um, ok. So I called the payee and they confirmed that nothing changed. Called the bank back and we all figured it was a glitch in the system and we would just send the payment again.

Yesterday morning I get up and this time TWO have been rejected. The second one was the kid's life insurance policy and the original one from the other day. Now I know it's something on the bank's side. I spend an hour on the phone with the bank trying to get to the bottom of everything. In the end I have to call the payees and take care of everything manually. It was frustrating and annoying. I still have one more to pay tomorrow, but hopefully the bank will figure things out before next month's payment.

During the rest of the day I worked on some reports for the main client. The kid went out shopping with grandma. Poor kid. She is shopping for a prom dress and I could tell when she got home she wasn't happy. Grandma first off doesn't get that in this area the proms were all a month ago and there are no dresses left (the kid's area is behind). Second, she took her to places where the chance of finding dresses anyway is slim to none.

Step in dad. I took her to the good mall last night and let her 'pre-shop'. Her and grandma are going back today to try and find something, but now they don't have to waste time because we already looked in the majority of the stores. She can hit one store, be done, and move on.

It was nice hanging out with her like that. I feel very honored that my teenage daughter enjoys spending time with me. We came home, had dinner, and watched three more episodes of Twin Peaks. 8 down, 20 to go.