Deep and mindful breaths, Suzi.

Omnis--basically, if you don't know up front you're going to need COBRA, don't buy it. If it turns out you need it, buy it then. Best insurance ever.

You'll only be juggling 683 things instead of 684.

Seriously.

Tomorrow:

• Work 4-6 hours (nailing down transfer stuff at work and keeping up with my work)
  
• Go to Credit Union and get info on car loans
  
• Go to leasing office and hopefully get that wrapped up with a bow
  
• If the lease is set, go by local Elementary school and get registration information
• If the lease is set, go to other apartment complex and get back a check I had left to hold a very basic 3 bedroom unit which was my fall back plan (but it had no garage and no storage space).

After that? Nicole and I get to play on Saturday. I'm even thinking of looking into catching a Rookies game.

won't break down after one year like the Gevalia one did

Mom had one of their coffee makers that broke down after a year too.

ahh OK, good to know it sounds better than it is. Thanks!

I don't know why but I love this lady.

I still have all 10 toes! Mowing was actually kind of fun. Seriously.

My estimate of lawn size is more like 4 Twister mats. (I'm really bad at looking at an area and coming up with actual feet/inches measurements.)

I couldn't remember if The Boy mows the lawn for our next-door neighbor. I've seen him shovel snow off her walk, so I assumed that grass removal is like snow removal, in that if some fool is willing to do it for you for free, then you let them. So I mowed the neighbor's lawn, too, which is also about 4 Twister mats.

She wasn't home or didn't see me, so it's possible we'll get a brick through our window with a nasty message, but I doubt it. Who's going to say "How DARE you make my life easier?!?"

(Well, I'm sure someone out there would, but I don't think it's our neighbor.)

Perhaps I'll mow again before the summer is over. (You only have to do it, like, once a month, right?)

(Kidding!)

We had a strip of yard that abutted our neighbors' strip of yard and neighbor Dad was always mowing them both together so one day when Mom was out there mowing and neighbor Dad hadn't done it recently she was so proud that she had the opportunity to return the favor... until neighbor Dad came over to let us know she had mown through their TV cable.

Steph, recently STBX was out mowing our huge lawn (maybe 6 Twister mats) and the next door neighbor asked if he would run the mower over her 4 Twister mats. As he was doing that, neighbor and I decided that the house one more over needed mowing, so we got STBX to do that one too - maybe 6 Twister mats (love that unit of measure).

And GO YOU!!! YAY for 10 toes!

ahh OK, good to know it sounds better than it is. Thanks!

Just to be contrary, I had one that worked well for quite a long time. I don't know if the deal is the same w/r/t the coffee - at the time you could cancel the coffee deliveries pretty much immediately.

she had mown through their TV cable.

You know, I didn't even check for things like that (we don't have a TV cable, because we still don't have cable [or dish]; we have 2 1/2 channels). But the blade-y dealie is so silent and kind of smooth that I think I would have noticed if I mowed over a cable.

Maybe.

Woot! Well done, Teppy! I had confidence that you would conquer the unruly lawn.