Just when I thought things were going to be better for us for a bit I find out otherwise.

I got an email from USAA telling me that they were sending out our lease payment to GMAC. Oops, we turned in the truck on 3/28, I must’ve only canceled April’s payment and not deleted the payee like I thought I had. The payment cleared our account on Monday so yesterday I had Tom call to find out how and when they will send it back. Well, this phone call that I thought would last 5 min, laster nearly 45. To make a long story short, GMAC is claiming that they never received the odometer statement from the dealership we dropped it off at and the salesman we dropped it off with said he faxed it in. So, we are supposed to be notified in 24-48 hours whether or not its resolved. If it’s resolved then after a 3rd party inspects the truck for excess mileage and wear then it will go to auction. Then once it’s sold any excess money from the sale after paying fees for excess mileage and wear will be sent to us, in 5-8 weeks. Um, I don’t think so. My contract with them ended on April 10, the truck was turned in far enough in advance. We called GMAC to let them know we dropped off the truck on the 28th and they said that the dealer already notified them. So we assumed everything was ok. Why didn’t we get any kind of notice? I don’t understand why GMAC having all the information of the salesman we dropped it off with, didn’t call him and get things straightened out. I don’t know why we have to wait 5-8 weeks to get our money. The whole thing started because of a mistake on my part and I fully admit that sending the payment was my fault - but geez people, communicate!

I don’t exactly have the money to be floating that to them for 2 months or so. Funny thing is that the only reason there was enough money in there to cover it was because of the tax stimulus check. So we will be ok, but otherwise, lmao it would have bounced. I don’t know where my mind has been lately with the bills, I just keep remembering things at the last minute. In deleting April’s payment I had completely forgotten that I needed to go in and delete the bill altogether. What gets me though is if I hadn’t made this mistake when would we had found out about the odometer statement? The truck is still sitting at the dealership, what the hell is going to happen if someone else damaged it since it’s been sitting there? We unfortunately can’t prove when any damage occurred either since they didn’t look at the truck when we turned it in. The salesman looked at it briefly when he went out to write down the mileage, he said it was ok. This makes me really not want to ever lease anything through GMAC again. They had Tom’s cell phone number on file - call people! It’s been over a month.

So the weekend went by pretty fast. We did nothing exciting. We attempted to go grocery shopping on Saturday, but the commissary was really busy so we turned around and went home. Alex is much better now. He cleared up almost immediately the day after his appointment. I found out that night or the following night that we have a mouse in our garage. I think that this is the reason that Alex was so sick. He loves to touch everything in the garage so I think he might’ve gotten into something the mouse did then rubbed his face. It could be that I am completely off base with this, but it fits. Alex hasn’t been in the garage since the Friday before our yard sale and he’s fine now. It gets worse if we go outside (and he had been in the garage).

The next day that it’s nice out we are going to test my theory by taking him out in the backyard only. We’ll keep everyone updated.

Tommy didn’t have school today because of all the rain we’ve had. It’s basically been raining since Thursday night. That was also the night there was a tornado in Stafford County. Apparently between the rain and winds last night a lot of schools in the are were closed because of power failures. We’ll see if he has school tomorrow.

I need to find a cheap car charger for my phone and a cheap bluetooth headset. I found some cheap ones earlier today, but they are only on sale until later tonight and it’s a website I’ve never heard of and I haven’t had a chance to see if it’s legit or not. That’s ok though, there’s really no money to be spent right now anyway.