A missing check, a day off and presents

Tuesdays and Wednesdays are my days off. Yesterday Cooper and I went into Cody to buy food because I have finally gotten paid.

I was supposed to be paid last Tuesday but when I checked my bank balance, Nada. So my boss sends out an email basically saying umm...Emily didn't get paid. The quick response is that there was a problem with the routing numbers (?) and so I had a hard copy that is up at mammoth (north end of the park and I am at the east) but they'd send it out ASAP.

Four days later I still do not have it.

More emails are sent and we eventually learn (several days later) that the check has been at lake for several days-no one bothered to send it along. So Sunday Dennis says that I will have my check by Monday come hell or high water. Later on Monday afternoon Dennis returns and asks if anyone got the mail. As I had taken that happy job, I was able to assure him I had not received any mail.

This was not news he wanted to hear. Lake had mailed it to east. Yes, through USPS. Although there wasn't an envelope for me, there was one for the East Entrance and inside that envelope was my check.

So now I have a few bucks and all I have to do is deposit it into my account. So I head into Cody on the look out for Wells Fargo. Only there is no Wells Fargo...yet. The First Shoshone National banks will become WF, but not for another couple of weeks. But, the kind souls that they are, they are willing to cash a check drawn off of the national treasury. I suppose they can assume the government's good for it.

So Coops and I spent a whole day in Cody, did some shopping and had a nice evening relaxing at home.

Today we took our time getting up and, letting cooper out to pee, I started my laundry. a dollar to wash a dollar to dry. I have a roll of quarters I remembered to get from the bank. And I had a sovereign mission while I am here in Yellowstone and that is to get people stuff.

I like to buy stuff. Fishing Bridge is the closest general store (a place where I can buy goodies and stuff for people-whoohoo)and, as it is closing next Monday, I thought it would behoove me to get my backside over there today to go and buy the stuff people have requested.

So Coops and I got into the car and drove. We stopped at Sylvan Lake, took some pictures, drove up a little further, stopped at an overlook and took some pictures of Lake Yellowstone and some pretty impressive verga. A nice drive through Pelican Valley and finally we reached Fishing Bridge.

And what did I find?

A whole section of stuff 50% off. I am a girl and things were on a killer sale. I am weak and I needed to buy Christmas presents. I came, I shopped I conquered. Although, I did manage to resist a $5 item cashier was trying to get me to buy. I was not that weak. I was proud of myself. ha! I do have willpower! Go me.

I had fun.

And now it is the end of the day, I have a chicken boiling in a crock pot and it has made the inside of my apartment smell all so delightful. Cooper is whining to get out of the entrance station and so I think I will say goodnight.

We shall see what is in store for me next weekend. I am going to try and get to the Buffalo Bill Museum and there is a rodeo in Cody every evening at 8. Who knows what can happen. :D

as ever, love you guys.

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