Pre-paid crap piece of plastic

[fai_dust]

warning: this was written on 4h of sleep in 48h and may be unorganized, incoherent or totally bug-nuts. Cool?
what I've been doing since 2:30AM; getting cranky at my mom for playing Bejeweled in her room so loud it woke me up in mine, playing FreeCell & watching Angel on my laptop, spazing about how I didn't spend much time catching up on emails yesterday because I got tunnel-vision working on soundtracks for already overdue holiday gifts (I spent at least 45 minutes on this freak out), began my twice a year (if that) attempt at bringing some form of order to the pit that is my room (just to horrify you, pictures to come - asuming my sister can find the family camera in her pit of dispare) although I can say that I don't have open food (just boxes of powerbars and halloween candy) in there, lost the use of my left leg while carrying a load of laundry downstairs (ow,ow,ow!), panicked about being an invalid for the rest of my life - leading to panicking about my lifespan (care of a going-away party I'm to attend tonight, held by mutual barely-still-friends of my stalker (the barely is for him, not me, due to his stalking) which I know I'll be safe at, if not for all my other friends, then for my personal guard conser, who may be on the smaller side, but she's a tank), then utter exaustion and general uselessness.
      - while I know I had a particular purpose when I sat down to use my computer, I have no idea what it was, so I flaked around LJ for a bit, wrote a stupid-long email to grimsage0013, asking for help with LJ payments which I then edited the best I could. But since I have an uncontrolable urge to... do something that I can't actually phrase, because "bitch" implies more anger then I ever really feel (although in text, it probably sounds much more angry then when I speak), "rant" implies staying at least central to one specific point, and "babble" always just sounds as though it's an unconscious act. Regardless, I felt compelled to (insert new term here) about my hassles with the pre-paid card I bought back in November but can not use.
      - of course, what I should be doing right now is be downtown dealing with shared-fault OW f-ups. But My mom didn't go into work today (re; Bejeweled), so obviously she didn't drop me downtown, which would usually be fine because I could take the bus, but given that my leg isn't working right, I'm going to wait until I can walk without looking like a cripple.
 
 
...and now, the actual subject of this ____! (didn't think we'd ever get here, did you?)
 
At least a month ago, back while I was first having LJ exasperation, I bought a pre-paid MasterCard to buy a paid account on DreamWidth. Sounds simple, doesn't it? It's never that easy.
**1** Problems with DW's server accepting cards without more then a name.
    - I tried on two computers other then my own as well, then contacted MC to see if it was on my end some other way; they said it wasn't
So I tried to use it through PayPal...
**2** ...Which also would't take it
    - something to do with their confermation process involving taking two tiny amounts, letting it process without being rejected, then refunding the money; the problem with that is the card doesn't allow for reloading, because they make that much more money that way (and serously, how greedy can they get? They already charge $30 for a $25 card!)
so I ended up having to transfer money from my bank account to PayPal then pay DW (who were great about it, by the way), which I'm still not really comfortable with, but by that point I was obligated to. This is because after requesting help with the first problem, the awesome staff (who replied the same day!) not only did everything they could to try to figure it out, but the woman asisting me actually gave me a free week and when after that time it still hadn't been sorted, she gave me the points/tokens in advance and let me pay her back once the transfer from my bank finally cleared!

Anyways, I still have the damn pre-paid card with $22.55 CAD on it...
**3** There was some charge that was either the first test-charge from PayPal or MC's "you didn't use this up within the first 10 seconds? Sucker!" charge which I gather is monthly
...so I tried to renew my paid account on LJ last week, but it wouldn't take.
**4** When I tried to check out, it said something about trying to access an account I don't have the right to access. I wouldn't be suprised if this one is the fault of my laptop.

UGH!

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