Cash Flow

I'm supposed to be working right now. Supposed to. For the most part, I'm pretty diligent about my job. Like all of us, if I don't do what I need to do, there are repercussions. While I'm not responsible for saving people's lives in the operating room or sealing all of the valves on the space shuttle, if I don't do my job, there will be lots of glaring, empty white pages for our readers come next month.

That's not something I want to happen. (And, if it did ever happen, I'm pretty sure that would be the last issue of Lipstick I had anything to do with.)

But lately, all I can think about is my tax rebate check. I filed my taxes on time, I have direct deposit and the last two digits of my social security number are in the 01-05 range. (I would have put the actual number, but I fear that my identity-theft-fearing family would never let me hear the end of that one, and that's just not a conversation that I want to have today. "Yes, I did see that Dateline report ... No, I don't think my financial future is something to take lightly ...") According to many google search results trustworthy sources, all this means that I should have my rebate by this Friday, May 2nd.
It's almost as if I'm powerless to stop myself from visiting Regions' online banking every 15 minutes.

Of course, my rebate is already spent. (Thanks to rising gas prices and a poorly-installed furnace, this winter was an expensive one for me.) But that hasn't stopped me from being nearly giddy over my expected pay out.

OK, it's time to get back to the Regions site now.