Control

So I'm having serious control issues today. I was getting really frustrated with discrepancies with money, and I caught myself muttering "Why can't I control anything?!" That was when it was pretty obvious that it is going to be one of those days.

What do I do when I have one of those days? Find something I can control.

So I did.

Turns out I could control some issues with our rent (this was actually different than the other money discrepancy mentioned above). I realized that our statement this month was way higher than it should have been, and wanted to know why. I called our apartment office, and the woman gave me the numbers since our rent was prorated this month (we renewed our lease and the amount went up partway through the month). Basically she told me after we were both doing calculation that I should just call back on Monday and talk with someone else about specific numbers. I agreed, but then messed around more to figure out what happened.

I did it. I figured out that the dude prorated the later amount in the month to be what our month-to-month amount would be if we didn't renew our lease. Except we did renew our lease, so we shouldn't get that ridiculous amount. Ta da. Now I can call on Monday and say "I figured out how you screwed up, so give me $57.96 back." That will of course be translated to be a bit more appropriate.

So, all-in-all, I'm glad I found something to control. Hopefully I will be much nicer to my husband the rest of the day now. I haven't exactly been the nicest person this morning (ok, that's making me sound better than I have been!) and he deserves better. Sorry bout that! I'll do better now.

I'll also run the dishwasher later if I need something else to control. I've found that works beautifully.

*I've decided to post completely useless facts on the end of my posts for a while. Here's the first:

**A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.