More birthday stuff and a fear come true
Nov. 2nd, 2005 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heavenly_pearlRemember how I said we had my cake last Sunday? Well, Mom surprised me by bringing home yet another cake from the store, as well as food from McDonalds. O.o She told me she might bring me home a cupcake today, but that was totally unexpected and probably connected to something I'll talk about later in the post.
Dad surprised me as well by giving me a CD. It was Destiny's Child's greatest hits album. Granted, it isn't something I would have bought for myself, but I have to admit it was much better than the LotR's video he got me last year which I still haven't watched. (It's the second one, so I don't want to watch it unless I watch the first one.) At least I like Destiny's Child, even if they aren't my favorite group in the world.
Now, about why Mom was so generous tonight. Well, for the past couple of weeks, we've been having trouble with bouncing checks, so we've been trying to keep purchases down to the bare minimum until Mom figured out why. That's why I only got the Princess Nine boxset for my birthday, ordered with a credit card. As it turned out, though, it appears that somebody in Irving, Texas got ahold of our bank card number and bought a cell phone with it. O.o
I hate identity theft! It's my number one greatest fear. That's why I'm so anal about running my virus scan and anti-spyware programs. We don't know what happened, but I sure hope they didn't get it by hacking into our computer. I don't think Mom even uses the bank card online except for Netflix and AOL. Whenever we order online, we usually use credit cards. (Well, she does. I personally like using gift cards, since they're less of a risk. Even if I had a credit card, I'm so paranoid, I probably wouldn't use it.)
Well, the good thing is that the bank is going to credit us back the stolen money, so we actually have money again. That's probably why Mom decided to celebrate with the cake and fast food.
Dad surprised me as well by giving me a CD. It was Destiny's Child's greatest hits album. Granted, it isn't something I would have bought for myself, but I have to admit it was much better than the LotR's video he got me last year which I still haven't watched. (It's the second one, so I don't want to watch it unless I watch the first one.) At least I like Destiny's Child, even if they aren't my favorite group in the world.
Now, about why Mom was so generous tonight. Well, for the past couple of weeks, we've been having trouble with bouncing checks, so we've been trying to keep purchases down to the bare minimum until Mom figured out why. That's why I only got the Princess Nine boxset for my birthday, ordered with a credit card. As it turned out, though, it appears that somebody in Irving, Texas got ahold of our bank card number and bought a cell phone with it. O.o
I hate identity theft! It's my number one greatest fear. That's why I'm so anal about running my virus scan and anti-spyware programs. We don't know what happened, but I sure hope they didn't get it by hacking into our computer. I don't think Mom even uses the bank card online except for Netflix and AOL. Whenever we order online, we usually use credit cards. (Well, she does. I personally like using gift cards, since they're less of a risk. Even if I had a credit card, I'm so paranoid, I probably wouldn't use it.)
Well, the good thing is that the bank is going to credit us back the stolen money, so we actually have money again. That's probably why Mom decided to celebrate with the cake and fast food.
