What I Wore Today: Better Than Cash

I am not good with time, bookkeeping, budgeting and math. Two days ago, something short of a nightmare (okay, I'm exaggerating a tiny bit) happened to me. Prior to this day, my credit card bill arrived with quite a hefty amount attached to it, I wasn't bothered by it because according to my memory, I already paid the last bill in full and I didn't remember using the card much after that. So I thought the last payment just didn't register yet and all I had to do was present the receipt to the bank, subtract it from my current balance and just pay the little extra left. Why I trusted my memory? I don't know either...

Track back to two days ago: After lunch, I finally decided to get my bills in order,so out came the credit card bill, wallet and old receipts. But wait, the last receipt of my credit card payment was missing! I frantically searched the entire house, kitchen, sunroom, bedroom, all my bags, drawers, envelopes, etc, NOTHING! I couldn't find my last billing statement either. I started sweating, pulled out my credit card and called customer service asking what to do. You know how customer service goes right? They're the last refuge of the desperate. Nothing really get s done there. They couldn't help me without the receipt, I had to go to the bank where I made my last payment. I was almost in tears and dizzy with panic so I searched the house high and low to no avail yet again.

Dressed up, took Nikola to school and headed straight to the bank. Asked the manager to look up all the payments for the period of so and so manually. NOTHING! Of course the predictable dialogue soon followed which included, "How is this possible?" "What should I do?", etc etc. Maybe I made the payment in their other branch located a street away....

While driving towards their other branch, I started searching the car...guess what I found? My previous billing statement.

And guess what I found in THAT statement? No, not the receipt but evidence of the full payment I made...which was dated sometime 2 months ago :S

What bothered me the most wasn't my current bill but the fact that I thought that I threw away an "X" amount of money. Lesson learned. I'm now shopping for a proper filing cabinet in wood!

I retreated home with my tail between my legs...wearing this: :P

kids of bayo neon lapel blazer, pink manila crop top, acid wash pink shorts from greenhills, JC lita's

After that very stressful event, I got a call from our lobby guard, Unilab was downstairs with a delivery for me! :D Instant forget, instant happy! I have a love/hate relationship with my (almost non-existent) memory bank. I was SOOO overwhelmed with the amount of stuff they sent me! I'm never gonna have to go grocery shopping again for health and beauty products for the rest of the year!And the icing on top of the cake??? What could be better than cash you say? Why, SM GC's of course! I thought they were sending me Forever21 GC's but I was pleasantly surprised when I found SM GC's instead. Hello, Fashion Forum??? Another pair of JC's perhaps? :P
See, as they say, "Bilog ang Mundo"/"Life Is A Rollercoaster Ride", in this case, it happened all in one day! I wouldn't say I recommended it but it's better than going downhill all the way!