Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Thanks, all! I'm still sort of neutrally interested. There just aren't that many jobs around here that I would be interested in, unless I really re-think my career, which I've been meaning to do for 10 years....
I have success to report! I just put away not only last week's laundry, but also several weeks' worth of worn-once clothes! Do you people do that? I'm happy to wear jeans, sweaters, etc., more than once, but it feels weird to put them back away right away. So I put them on top of my dresser and then sometimes they just stay there.
I also pulled out a few things to bring to Goodwill!
Will I manage to clean the bathroom and/or do a piece of writing I should have done last week? Stay tuned!
Zen, I will be in all day if you want to call. Drop a line if you do not still have my number, or would prefer FB.
My only outside endeavors will be dog walks, which won't be super long.
I just put away not only last week's laundry, but also several weeks' worth of worn-once clothes! Do you people do that? I'm happy to wear jeans, sweaters, etc., more than once, but it feels weird to put them back away right away.
I have a hall tree in my bedroom for just this purpose. I don't launder clothes after every wear, so clothes I wear often go on the tree. It's the same thing most people use their treadmill for.
Thanks, bonny.
Oh, a hall tree is a nice idea. I just leave stuff in a pile for a while and then put it away eventually, which I know makes no sense.
I threw away bad food out of the fridge! And did dishes! I am seriously on fire.
So I'm going through mail I hadn't opened or ignored. One of them was a statement from the last place I worked in Florida about my 401k - which was rolled over to an IRA. I thought. But the last statment said there was a withdrawl of all the money.
I never moved the money over to a different account when I had a 401K at my last job (which I should have done I know) but I thought it wouldn't matter.
Now I'm freaking out that the I've somehow forfeited the money. Is that possible? I can't call anyone until tomorrow so I'm trying to figure out what happened.
That sounds really unlikely. This isn't your most recent job? If it was recent, I would say that rolling over is probably technically taking all the money out of one account and putting it into another, but I don't really know.
Also I have mail to go through. I know there's a credit card in there somewhere.
A hall tree! I've just been using the other side of the bed.
Timelies all!
Starting to dig ourselves out of the snow here.
askye, if you were vested in the 401k, they can't just take it; it may have been withdraw into another account. (disclaimer: I am not an expert; I'm just a person who's had 401k's before.) I suggest deliberately not thinking about it until you can call them tomorrow and find out what happened. I doubt there's any reason to freak out, beyond "oh fuck, another fucking thing to deal with".
It's a wooden freestanding hall tree with lots of slanted round-tip hooks, and it was about $40. It holds a lot of clothes and has never torn anything. Tip: to hang shirts without creating a bulge in the neck, slip the hook through a sleeve.
The withdrawal is probably the rollover. I think when I had to do that there was a gap when I didn't really know where my money was and that was really disturbing, but it did show up in an account in my name eventually. I hope you can get it all sorted out easily tomorrow, ask, and try not to worry about it meanwhile, since you can't do anything about it today anyway.
What is a hall tree?
I don't have a system for dealing with worn-once closes that don't quite need to go in the laundry yet, I could use one. My half-assed system is to not put them in the laundry but pile them on the end of the bed or somewhere, but then I usually just give up and put them in the laundry anyway because after lying around for a while like that they probably need washing what with the cat hair that is bound to accumulate and the ever present possibility of hairballs, etc.
I still don't really feel well. I'm not sick enough that I would stay home from work, but I can't seem to make myself do anything productive. Frustrating.