Today’s deck is The Wandering Star Tarot.
Not bad! Very functional, just not my thing.
Today’s reading reflects trying to stay strong while life batters you down and oh boy does it fit today.
I forget if I’ve talked about this, so let’s say it’s an introduction if I havent, and a refresher if I have.
I don’t use credit cards but debit cards that you charge because it’s easier for me to manage my money that way. Last month an issue started happening where I tried to recharge the cards and the money just didn’t land in them for some reason. Debited off my account, supposedly arriving at the card company, never reflected in the balance.
It’s been a stressful month of not having full access to my money AND the money landing or not being a lottery.
So I asked my bank to give me a card from a different company since I was capital D Done with that nonsense and EVEN THAT was a struggle to get it to happen for some reason.
ANYWAY, the card is requested and they’re sending it, I even get a DHL notification that’s like “the card will arrive on the 27th”. Perfect timing because the other cards, my current cards, got BLOCKED for what I HOPE is them fixing the mess.
I’ve got bills to pay, plans to make, I’m thinking “alright, the new card arrives today, I can recharge it and keep continuity with everything else”. So I stay in the house waiting for the mailman to arrive.
Then DHL calls me to say “hey sorry no delivery today, what about tomorrow?”.
I you thought I wouldn’t take kindly to this, you’d be right! And here’s the thing: It’s not just a matter of all the inconveniences of being locked out of my own money, or the fact that it’s the SCOND MONTH IN A ROW in which it happened (mind you, second in a row doesn’t mean it’s the first time it’s happened either) but that literally ruined the rest of my plans for the week.
You see, as I mentioned a while back I planned to go to Iwate. Normally when I reserve hotels I reserve with the “pay at location” option since that gives me a receipt I can use, but this one was like “pay half now and pay half before you come”.
And well, with one card not arriving (and unable to charge it because of the weekend) and the other two blocked I cannot pay said second half so that plan is out the window and not having my Scheduled Time Out The House is not doing any good to my mental health.
I had Japanese lesson but between waiting for the card that didn’t arrive, coping with all the cumulative annoyances, and figuring out what to do with my week that still counts as blowing off steam instead of working there’s not much else to talk about.
Man, don’t you love banks?