raybear: (sunglasses)
Um, I'm going to Miami.

Soon. In less than a month. February 22-26, to be exact. I committed an hour ago.

I'm a little freaked out right this second with buyer's remorse, because even though my plane ticket was cheap, I'm looking at possible hotels and worrying about money. But then I think about walking home tonight from the train and how icy and howling it was, while snow swirled around in rather painful ways (and I don't generally think myself a lightweight about the cold). And then I think about how for those four days I'm going to wear my sunglasses nonstop and it will be sunny but not hot, and I will do nothing but walk around, lay around, jog around, and drink around the ocean. And it will all be okay.

I've just been hemming and hawing and saying and thinking and I knew I had to just commit, do it, point to the calender and buy a ticket, otherwise it would be April and my ass would still be in Chicago. I promised myself a winter vacation, to reward myself for finishing the draft of my novel (which, uh, I should get on that -- but now I have a deadline!), for surviving winter, and the holidays, and depression and all that. I'll figure the rest of it out, even if it means five days of granola bars and free continental breakfasts as my only sustenance.

ETA: Hey, there are hostels for $25 a night. Maybe I'll spring for a luxury room in a real hotel one night, and dorm it the rest.
raybear: (Default)
I love phone calls at 9:30 on Saturday asking me for money.

So, I rented a car in L.A. at Thanksgiving and they claim I owe them $200+ for some damage to the rear bumper. They're sending me the incident report and other misc. paperwork to back up their claim. I have said that no one mentioned anything to me when I returned the car, and she said that the inspection was made just after I returned it, and that if they did inspections right at return, customers would have to wait forever. To which I'm thinking, too bad, it's your business decision to create a gap between procedures that is unaccounted for, that's not my fault as a customer. I stood by my claim. Also, $223 seems like a way too much for some 'minor bumper' damage that 'probably happened while parked'.

But, perhaps I'm also just screwed. Am I going to have suck this up and pay it?

Also, I used to ALWAYS get the full insurance when renting, the extra $9 a day to cover such bullshit (as well as major stuff), but about a year ago, someone made fun of me for doing that and said she never in her life did it and that I worry too much, and plus I was really broke around that time and saving the dollars seemed like a good idea. Now I'm mad I ever stopped doing what I wanted to do and fck intrusive know-it-alls who say I have hangups for being too careful and equate spontaneity and freedom, with irresponsibility. You can pay my $223 bill.

Actually, fck me for not just doing what I want to do and ignoring the rest.

Or fck car rental places who are charging me more than twice what I paid to rent the damn car for minor isht. Alamo, for future reference.

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