So I think that GOOGLE should create a service where you can pay to have your name removed. I love GOOGLE and I guess I’d be pissed if others had this service because then I couldn’t play Google detective, so I want it just for me. I don’t want to be on their search engine. Not that anyone is looking for me, but I don’t want anyone to be able to look for me. I want to not exist. I thought I was safe from it for a while, but now Googling my full name, last name, or first initial and last name comes up with several different links to my existence. Ughh. I’m officially changing my name to my Cabbage Patch doll’s name. You can google her, it just comes up with obituaries. I can live with that. You might wonder why I’m such a freak and I honestly don’t have an answer for you. You can ask me anything because I don’t have much to hide … of course everyone has a few things they’d like to keep from the world, myself included … but you won’t find that on Google anyways. And you wonder why I keep a blog or post pictures of myself and my friends … and I can’t give you an answer that doesn’t make me sound like a hypocrite unless you can understand that I like the internet, but I want to control who can see it and what they know. Perhaps I should buy the internet and make all new rules to suit me. The internet is great though.
Other things bother me too, like the Giant Eagle Advantage Card, the CVS Card, credit cards, background checks, credit reports, and anything else that has information about me that others can have. I hate the mail. It is such a chore for me to actually go out to my mailbox and retrieve it … so I don’t. It is like an extra garbage can and if I can’t see it or smell it, then I’ll just ignore it. I got a new key for my mailbox today from landlord man because apparently the key stopped working and the mail people are no longer delivering my mail. And I wouldn’t know because I avoid the mailbox. Well I did get a new UPMC health insurance card in the mail. I might need that next time I stab myself and end up in the ER. I pay my bills online and I don’t keep paper records of my bills. Why should I? If I reallly need it someone else has it. I believe that keeping paper copies of everything is pointless. For instance, if I really needed my credit card statements from the past two years, I could call up Visa and ask them to fax them to me. I can access the past twelve months of statements online so why should I keep them? All of my bills are automatically debited from my checking account. I write one check a month … and that is for my rent. I will probably never have to order checks again. So yeah, I’m all about the paperless world. I don’t balance my checkbook either (ooh yell at me). Why should I? I use my debit card like 80 times a week. I’d have to keep all the receipts, dig them out of my pockets, and record it all. It is a huge waste of time when I can just login to my bank account online and get up to the minute details and see my balance. Of course I check it daily just to make sure nobody has stolen my money or charged me for something I didn’t buy, so it is all good.
So maybe I’m stupid, but I really see no point in keeping records. I recently was talking to a girl in accounting at work and she was horrified. But then she went on to talk about how she had shoeboxes full of stuff that she needed to ‘file’. But when I asked her why I needed to keep stuff, I don’t recall her giving me a good answer. Am I going to go to jail or have a shitty life for throwing away my mail? And don’t tell anyone … but sometimes I throw away pennies, but just a few. Like if I’m on a cleaning spree and am cleaning something out and have the garbage bag right next to me. If I see a penny … sometimes it just goes in the trash. I always keep shiny things like nickels, dimes, and quarters though.
And you always thought I was such a practical and thrifty girl … I bet you are shocked.
I also only write one check a month for rent! And my checks still have the address on them from when we lived on Millvale and I haven’t needed any new ones since. I also don’t balance my checkbook and I just look at the online PNC thing. Maybe if I only had like 20 dollars in there, I might keep closer tabs on it, but for now I think I’ll be ok.
AND!!! I also hate my name being searchable which was part of the reason I quit using my previous photo hosting provider because even though my full name was NOWHERE on that site, it still kept popping up and I couldn’t get rid of it. I’ve also done my part by trying to get rid of last names in my blog so when I talk about some story that happened in 9th grade or something, that person won’t google themself and be like “Why the f*** am I on this girl’s page?”