*sigh*
My partner just reminded me that because I didn't get a paycheck today (I now in fact owe *them* $20) we don't have funds for the motel room in the morning. I somehow didn't connect the two in my head so now we're up against a time crunch.
I truly have no idea how much my pay advance will be until the morning now that things have been so weird lately with my pay thanks to this damned "wage-compression" bonus.
I *think* the $20 I now owe them will come out of the next paycheck, but I don't know for certain.
So, worst case scenario: if they do short my pay advance tomorrow (or now today rather since I wasn't off work until almost midnight) to cover the supposed overpayment, I'm looking at roughly $50 available.
The room is roughly $90 (which is far more reasonable than $140 for today). We have to use a prepaid visa debit card to pay and, irritatingly they place an additional ten percent or so above the charge itself so we'll need at least $10 in order to actually make the payment.
I'm disappointed with myself for not planning better. However, this has been a useful learning experience because it never occurred to us that we could make several individual single-day reservations ahead which should hopefully allow us to somewhat avoid skyrocketing "peak demand" prices.
Anyway.. long story short, we have roughly 8 hours to make the motel room payment. We simply don't have enough room in my car to transport two humans and a dog and all of our stuff which is even more complicated now that we have a bit of a commute; in other words, I would only have a couple of hours before work to drive at least 40 miles round-trip to our storage unit and hurl everything on top of our already overflowing pile of crap.
Plus I would really prefer not to have to drag the mini-fridge and microwave downstairs after just bringing them up yesterday. My back is still sore from the climb.
With all that said, I must once again humbly ask for help somewhat urgently to keep us housed.
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