Small Victory?
Mar. 1st, 2014 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_lucy21Oh, my brain.
Prednisone is not kind to me- I'm constantly ravenous, I don't sleep well (if at all) and I have an incredibly short fuse and not much of a filter. Add this to my propensity to chaos and impulse and it makes things difficult.
So, I had thought I could upgrade my phone in March. Today being March 1st, I went to the phone store and was planning to come home with a smartphone. Well, what happened was that I discovered that somehow I was mistaken and my free upgrade isn't until August. However, they have a new plan where you can upgrade whenever and pay so much a month for the phone itself. The phone I want is $9 a month. Well, I have not slept more than 12-15 hours in the past 3 days. I was hungry even though I'd just eaten about an hour before I left the house. Throwing me off the plan was not something I could handle right then. So, instead of being impulsive (and getting angry that either I was told something wrong or I screwed up, because while I'm ordinarily extremely patient, particularly with retail people, see above about short fuse), I walked away from the situation. And came home. Whereupon explaining the situation to my mom and thinking it through I realized that yes, I do have $9 a month to upgrade the phone without a problem and I was willing to spend up to $100 today to upgrade the phone anyway, so spending it over the course of 10-ish months as opposed to today wasn't really that big of a deal. So I'll go back out and do that (possibly at a different cell phone store so I look like less of an idiot) after I eat something. Again.
But yay for impulse control? Even if I did get flustered? Yes. I think so.
Prednisone is not kind to me- I'm constantly ravenous, I don't sleep well (if at all) and I have an incredibly short fuse and not much of a filter. Add this to my propensity to chaos and impulse and it makes things difficult.
So, I had thought I could upgrade my phone in March. Today being March 1st, I went to the phone store and was planning to come home with a smartphone. Well, what happened was that I discovered that somehow I was mistaken and my free upgrade isn't until August. However, they have a new plan where you can upgrade whenever and pay so much a month for the phone itself. The phone I want is $9 a month. Well, I have not slept more than 12-15 hours in the past 3 days. I was hungry even though I'd just eaten about an hour before I left the house. Throwing me off the plan was not something I could handle right then. So, instead of being impulsive (and getting angry that either I was told something wrong or I screwed up, because while I'm ordinarily extremely patient, particularly with retail people, see above about short fuse), I walked away from the situation. And came home. Whereupon explaining the situation to my mom and thinking it through I realized that yes, I do have $9 a month to upgrade the phone without a problem and I was willing to spend up to $100 today to upgrade the phone anyway, so spending it over the course of 10-ish months as opposed to today wasn't really that big of a deal. So I'll go back out and do that (possibly at a different cell phone store so I look like less of an idiot) after I eat something. Again.
But yay for impulse control? Even if I did get flustered? Yes. I think so.