It was just one of those weeks.  I got a text from my credit card company asking me if I made a couple of big charges - $529 & $273 - I answered no.  Then I got a call from their fraud division and found out that someone had used my card # to buy some furniture and electronics.  They said no problem, they would take these charges off , cancel my card and send me a new one.  Great, so glad they contacted me.

Then 2 days later I get an email from my bank, asking me about 3 charges using my debit card.  Nope, not me either.  Super, they will decline those and cancel my debit card and send me a new one.  Obviously I have been hacked somehow.  I immediately looked up all the rest of my accounts to make sure they were all ok.  So for so good. Now I don't usually carry a lot of cash with me, but when you don't have a credit card or debit card that you can use, it is amazing how much money you need to carry around, especially for Christmas shopping.  I have made more trips to the bank in the last week than I have in the past year. haha.  I am now on a first name basis with all the tellers.

I thought life was running pretty smooth.  Then Thursday I had a message on my computer that Dell had some updates.  Did I want to update now or later.  I clicked now.  Nothing seemed to be happening, so I continued on with my work.  I thought maybe I should restart my computer to see if the updates had been don...