It’s a big day today. Office party Friday. Every year we have Christmas lunch. Usually about 1 to 130, so restaurants aren’t busy and we can sit for 3 hours and move slow. Works well. New place this year so we will see.
But still work to do. Yesterday I received a letter from my business bank. They are closing my checking account because it does not align with their risk portfolio for CPA firms. What?
So early this morning I went to my bank to find out wth they are doing. Turns out, closing the account, no appeal allowed. Why, you say. I know I said it. Several times. Because in December I received a wire transfer of $427k for a business deal I managed and proceeded to then pay all participants. And the bank did not like my perfectly legal activity and that’s that.
So, I need to get a new bank. I drew $5k out of the old bank, closing me out in 10 days, and went to another bank. I sat with the banker for a tried to open an account. I explained what my firm does, What happened at last bank, etc. turns out it’s a problem for them too. But, they have a solution. But they could not open an account yet. I have to speak to another banker higher up the food chain. When I finally did, he had a solution and I will get an account open. Tomorrow. Or Monday. Would prefer now, but it seems to be working.
Next on the agenda, back to office. It’s only 1130 and I can work for another 90 minutes. Lunch is at 130.
Whatever I did for 90 minutes is forgotten. Must not have been important. At 110 I left for the restaurant.
Well it is a highlight of the year I suppose. Everyone loves it. All of us, plus spouses, eat and drink whatever we want till we are sick. And we did. I don’t put any limits on people. That’s why it’s lunch and not dinner, no one drinks or eats excessively at mid day. I’m brilliant. And all still have a great time. There were only 11 of us but that’s a long table so I cant really talk to everyone. But that’s ok, I don’t really want to anyway. We sat and ate and opened presents early (I got a new kindle from the whole office!!!) and drank and had appetizers and more appetizers and desserts. For three hours. A fine time had by all. When I got the bill and attempted to pay with my debit card, no go. Turns out my dumbass bank shut it off when they decided to close my account. Except that’s on Jan 2. I called and they turned it on again. Assholes.
Emily, Marika and I went to the jewelry store after. Marika has a new watch, engraved, from her mommy and daddy. Need to get the wrist band sized. Hence a trip to Grebitus Jewelers. Funny thing, the watch guy their is best friends with Walker who works for me. So I get better service. Anyway, watch guy fixed it up plenty quick. Marika is thrilled with her new watch, the first she ever owned. I guess people don’t wear watches so much anymore.
Next, more shopping. Except, store gone. Space empty. That was weird. We had no more errands. So mom drove home. Marika and I went to the airport to pick up Michael and Carly who flew in from SoCal. Busy day.
Fun pick up. I had to circle the terminal twice because the rent a cop would not let me wait out front. Or park out front. We were on the phone with the kids in the terminal while they got luggage so they would know where we were. It was funny, they came out to wait at the curb, which is ok just not ok for me to wait at the curb for them. Michael. Decided to help the cop while he waited by loudly pointing out which cars were loitering. He had his phone on speaker to we could listen. It was hilarious. When we finally got back around the terminal Michael suggested we load very slow. I liked it. We loaded and unloaded the bags several times. Took forever. The cop would not come near us. Funny.
We headed home. Stopped for some quick groceries. Then back toward home.
Finally, back. Emily has cleaned up the house a bit. Again. Those two had dinner, leftover pea soup. The rest of us ate the whole box of cookies from employee Carol. A fine baker. Delish.
Bedtime next up. Emily was already there. Big day tomorrow.