He's only been there a few months, and Rob is away a lot - part of the deal is discounted rent for dog care (and I did meet the roommate a few times at the park). That's the part that would freak me out most. So crazy.

Meantime the roofers at my Wi place foot dragged on finishing so long that now there There are storms and they have to replace the ceilings in the kitchen and all three bedrooms.

Sigh.

Today is my mother's birthday, so I tried to call. The number is disconnected.

Brenda, that is messed up.

WS, I'm sorry.

Dear stomach,

I do not have the time or the energy for you to have an epic meltdown today. Please behave.

No love,

sj

I've been trying to buy car insurance. It's annoying.

Also trying to figure out how to pay my parents back the money I borrowed from them for moving expenses. It doesn't really help that I don't get paid until the end of September. And I think this might take me at least a year or so to pay back.

Still working on unpacking. I got my craft table set up, pretty much, and got one more box unpacked.

How's the stomach today, sj?

A little better but not much. I had to cut back my pain meds.

Got through to my brother, who let me know that Mom's landline got cut off for non-payment, so she got herself a cell phone. Mom said she is sure she was only a few days late in paying and they never punished her before, so she doesn't understand why they had to punish her now. AND looking back over her bills from the last couple years, AT&T did nothing but raise her rates.

I am so glad I do not have to deal with this stuff on a daily basis.

Also glad that she is more or less ok.

ericaj, don't settle.

askye, I wish you were close enough to hug. I felt much the same way when I lived in San Francisco. It was a lovely city but I was so lonely. I was lucky to have friends in KC who helped me move back there. Weirdly, I'm kind of in the same situation now. I moved to Iowa to be near family, but the family doesn't want me around much, so I'm lonely again.

wow, that was not good advise or cheery or anything! But, I don understand and wish you support~ma!

billytea, Ryan continues to be awesome!

I'm having the "not enough money" blues again. I just checked my bank account and found that I was overdrawn. Yikes! I thought I was doing better than that.

I have to hang on until at least December. that's when one of the monthly bills goes away. and then shortly thereafter another will be gone, but having to pay these two on top of everything else has been very hard. One is the last of my hospital bills, the other is the tail end of my student loan. I will be better off when they are done, but trying to budget this year has been very difficult.

My health insurance has been more expensive than I expected. I had to pay $1500 out or pocket before the deductible was satisfied. Another expense I didn't expect.

I am depleting my savings and not making it up right now. I hope next year to fix that but it's white-knuckling until then.

Money scares me. Until the magical mythical day when I have so much money I can't possibly spend it all and I'll never need to worry about it again, I'll always have a dread of looking at my bank account.

I tend to make a bet with myself on what the balance will be when I check the account, and if I come in above my bet, I'm happy--and tell myself not ot spend it.