No, this is not about that goddamn Rapture. It's an awesome day for the end of the world however. Birds are singing, bright blue sky, lots of sun. <3

ANYWAYS. I will be outlining this journal in the good/bad of what has happened to me over the past few days. Good=orange, Bad=green.

So, A few days ago I was worrying about the upcoming SLC minimal payment duedate. I didn't want it to come from my dads pocket, but I wanted money for Anime North.... my mom and I go to check the mail, and there is a cheque from the government for me for 65$.
SO, I give that, plus a little extra, to my dad. I now had enough to pay him, and get to pay for a bit of AN myself.

Turns out that they STILL reach into my dads pocket no matter if I pay the minimum payment - Apparently we need to get the debt under 14k in order for it to stop taking money without permission. We are currently at 14,885$. Fuck.

I had also been planning on giving my dad the money in the hopes it would also pay off my debt to him for my beloved Ipod - 3-4 years ago I had my Ipod Nano 4th Gen taken from me under... extrenuating circumstances. I wasn't able to get it back until I gave him 140$. Now, I have very limited money, specially back then. So, Last month I gave him 100 from my paycheck (when i had one) and now, 80$ to pay off the rest with extra.

According to dad.... paying off the minimal payment/interest did NOT go towards my Ipod payment... just the extra 30 I had given him for... well, extra. So, no Ipod. I stormed off, because he had NOT lined that out for me and I got my hopes up for nothing.

Turns out my dad can be nice... a few hours after I stormed off, he went and got my Ipod and gave it back. He kept saying it wasn't fair, but hell. I haven't had my ipod in 4 years. I think it's pretty damn fair.
SO, Ipod back. Now, my ipod is one of the few items I had managed to keep in near-mint condition. I went and got a case with screen protection as soon as I had gotten it for christmas a few years ago, and was super careful with it.

Turns out dad had been keeping it in his GARAGE... in a box with a mess of other gadget wires.
Our garage... isnt the best insulated.
Take 3+ years of not being used, plus SCORCHING SUMMERS and FREEZING WINTERS... the battery on my ipod will NOT hold a charge. WILL. NOT.
It's fine once I reboot it and plug it in to any socket or computer. (Takes a little fanagling, but thats cause it has no power.) It plays perfectly plugged in. But thats not the point of an ipod, now is it?

Also been looking at how to replace an Ipod battery, cause I found one and a repair kit for cheeepycheap on ebay... and it's ridiculously difficult and finky.
ALSO to send my ipod back to Apple to get it repaired, and since is is WAY not under warranty, it would cost me $60 bucks to get it fixed, plus probably like a month before I got it back.
$60 is all I have to go to AN.

Godamnit.
See my backwards karma? Every time something good happens, something really bad happens. It's ridiculous.
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