I just burst into tears this evening because my sister just texted me that she and my niece and my mom are all watching Hamilton on Disney + together right now out in California. My 85 year old mom mentioned really wanting to see it a few weeks ago, and she was going to call her cable company. It would not have worked, and she would have been terribly frustrated. She doesn’t have a smart tv, WiFi isn’t strong enough at her house, and she’s not tech savvy at all. So I asked my sister if she could help our mom watch it. My amazing sweet sister came through today, and I cried bc I was so happy my mom got to watch it, and I wanted to watch it with them. I’m such a baby.
I also cried out of frustration this morning. My DD’s college tuition was due today. We have the Virginia Prepaid 529 plan that covers her tuition. The school sent us a bill 3 weeks ago, and her 529 money was not showing as pending. I’ve been working on getting it fixed for 2.5 weeks. I’ve talked to the school multiple times and Va 529 multiple times. The problem is on Va 529’s end. Early last week after 2 hours on hold, I thought I had it fixed. Va 529 was supposed to send DD’s name on a paid list to the school on Friday. I called the school Friday afternoon and nope! Not done. Nor did Va 529 call me to let me know they’d run into a problem. So I called Va 529 again today, waited on hold for 1.5 hours, and finally got someone to help me. For some reason they needed a new intent to enroll form even though we filled one out back in 2017 when she graduated high school. They wouldn’t release her money to her school without it. I tried to fill it out online but was told only DH could do it because the account was in his name. I called him to help me, he got super annoyed that I couldn’t take care of it myself, and I burst into tears. He ended up taking over the phone call, getting the form filled out, and getting an email confirmation that her name had been sent to the school. The school already knew to be on the lookout for an email from Va 529 because of my conversation with them on Friday, so as soon as they got it, they confirmed it with me and posted the pending payment to her account. The late fee was avoided, her classes weren’t dropped, and her account wasn’t frozen, whew! But it sure was stressful. And!!!! It turns out DH had received a notice from Va 529 about the stupid form way back on March 4th, which he ignored. Arggggg!!!!!
Other than that, I’m having a good day!