Made it. 

And it was pretty fabulous. 

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I woke up this morning at 8 am because the phone was ringing.

 My alarm was set for 8:30. 

The person on the other end of the phone was a robot.  From my credit card company.   Their fraud division is having kittens (again) over my peculiar card usage.  I suppose I do have peculiar card usage–I pay it off the end of every month, which is peculiar enough, so anything I do flags my account.  Not to mention the fact that I've told them at least four gazillio