Ouch, ouch, brain cramp!

Man alive, I feel like I've been through the fourth circle of Hell this morning.  (And while that is a literary reference, no, I haven't read the Dante and no, I don't want to end up in anyone's idea of Hell ever, thanks very much.)

What have I been doing that has been so wracking this morning?  I've been changing my investment portfolio.  Thanks to advice from my fil, which he gave me at the beginning of the month and I've ignored until the very last minute (almost literally), I've fixed up this thing so that hopefully it won't hemorrhage and leave me eating the Purina Diet when I'm an old lady.  We hope.

This began at about 9 AM when I called the investment people to tell them that my fil said I should drop this small bomb on the market this morning.  More like a bullet.  My first comment to this poor boy (and we did end up trading life stories and he is a boy-child) was, "Ok, well, I hope this makes sense to you because it surely doesn't to me."  He laughed, ma'amed me and we were on our way.

It took us one hour and fifteen minutes.

Have you ever traveled to another country where you didn't know the language and you didn't have an interpreter?  Neither have I, but I'm convinced that it must be like this.  I'm saying, "M U T U A L   F U N D" and he's coming back with a string of amazing language that sounds like it's English but makes no sense to me.

I think I did learn a few things today though.  I learned how to buy and sell stock my very ownself (at a savings of $35 a stock to myself).  Of course, this will not bear me well in the future because I now have no stocks to sell.  My fil feels that (and at this point I most certainly concur) if I don't know what I'm doing with regard to my portfolio, I probably shouldn't be owning individual stocks.  But I know how to sell them, if anyone is interested in this tiny tidbit of knowledge that I gained today.

What else did I learn?  I guess I was brought back face to face with the fact that there is a whole 'nother world out there that I know nothing about.  Less than nothing.  Except for my tiny little expertise with selling off my stocks and buying another, I have negative knowledge in the world of the stock market.  I found myself very curious, though.  I find myself curious a lot, which sometimes gets me into trouble, so I think I'll hold off investigating the world of finance until my fil is removed from the earth or is no longer able to advise me on these matters.

I did have a good time with the guy on the phone though.  I told him that, if nothing else, he'd have a really good story about the idiot investor on the phone.  We also talked a little bit about what I did know about (psychology and children) and I think that I was able to reassure him that children, although terrifying, were not as terrifying as he thought.  I also had time to give him my spiel about why we adopted internationally and why I don't put my children in government schools.  Another 15 minutes and I probably would have invited the poor guy over for dinner to apply immersion therapy to him with regard to his fear of children.

And, in the end, it made me happy to get that off my list and to have a nice conversation with Edward for over an hour.  Even if he did call me ma'am every other breath.

Posted by Galatians69

Oh what a fun and exciting time!!! Ummmm, I sooo hope I do not have to do that any time soon. lol Glad you made it through and got to talk about what a blessing children truly are. :)

Have a wonderful blessed night,
Rachelle