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FIB - Scams 101 - Ye Olde Archives
Posted By: MaaMaw
Monday, 17 April 2006, at 10:10 a.m.
This is more than a whine... it's a smack upside the head!!!
I'm a professional procrastinator. It isn't just for fun(?!). My life is overloaded and always has been. It didn't get that way by accident. I allowed it to happen.
True, working 20 hours a day 7 days a week wasn't by choice -- I had to do it to keep my business going and support my family during the first 15 years --
Or did I?
No, I didn't. With better management skills, I could have done things so much differently, built my business bigger, and NOT ruined my daughter's childhood.
So being overloaded has always been my excuse -- but really, it's no excuse at all.
I'm trying hard to get life under control so that I can someday say, "I only do as much as I can do well," but I'm not there yet -- not by a long shot.
My latest screw-up??
I missed the deadline to file a claim on the Blue Shield Class Action Suit that resulted in a $6.9 million settlement for the thousands of people who were cheated by Blue Shield over the past four years.
I'm so upset I just want to sit down and bawl, but I really can't cuz the kids are doing their math and I don't want to derail school yet again.
Why did I miss it?
Because it was the day I was racing to get my taxes to the tax man.
Why was I racing?
Because I didn't get my taxes ready ahead of time.
Hey... why does that have anything to do with it?
I knew about the Blue Shield deadline over a month in advance, but it involved taking the time to fill out some forms, and -- you guessed it -- every time I thought of it, I was racing to do something more important.
I'm consoling myself with the thought that a $6.9 settlement won't go very far after they pay legal fees, so at worst I lost maybe a few hundred dollars (pretty unlikely), and at best I lost 10 bucks (like every other time I've been a "class member").
But really -- in my current financial pickle, 10 bucks is 10 bucks -- and a few hundred... oh God, I can't even stand to think about it :-(
My message to Procrastinators Everywhere:
Really, there is NO excuse good enough!!!
Luv,
MaaMaw
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