Automatic mortgage payment on new mortgage is established. Applied cash back to principal. Big paranoia gone. Reveling in not paying mortgage this month (it will be applied to installing working garage door rather than principal.)

Yay managing grownup finances!

How are you with beef jerky (or any jerky)?

Just fine, I eat it as a snack fairly regularly. I know pepperoni is seasoned with cayenne pepper, but I used to eat cajun food all the time without any nausea, so I doubt that could be it.

Is it too early to start hating on August?

No hating on August! (aka my birthday month)

I do not like sweet pickles very much but I love all other pickles! I did a big batch of quickles a few weeks ago that I need to finish eating. And I want to quickle the fennel I got at the market last weekend.

Sweet pickles are nasty, but everything else Yum

I vote for quick August turnaround.

I'm weirdly sad July is gone. It's my birthday month and back in NM, was the onset of my favorite (pre-swimmer) season- the monsoon. Thunderstorms every day. August meant school started. It's a little different out here.

I'll get to NM later this month at least.

LOVE SWEET PICKLES.

I used to hate savory but got over that. However, sweet fridge pickles are my swedish grandma. I make and eat them and she's there in all her difficultness. Makes me happy.

We can hate on August, except for Lisah's bday. I go back to work in a few days. ARGH.

Though, I have worked all through July. I'm running a 300 kid writing contest this weekend. And it's back to work on next Thursday.

I have it in my head that I really like sweet pickles, but I really only like particular sweet pickles that are not all that sweet. Cascadian Farms stopped making their baby sweets and only make relish, which I don't like as much (which is a phenomenon we studied in business school, something to do with margins, I always think of that when I am combing the shelves for a good sweet pickle) and then the local brand I found disappeared entirely as far as I can tell so there is a sweet pickle shaped void in my life. And I can't make them the way I like them, tried and failed.

My old mortgage servicer bought back my loan and are already annoying me - my payment is due, but they haven't finished transferring all my information from the interim servicer so I can't verify that my escrow account exists, and they want to charge me a fee for the "convenience" of paying my bill in the only way available to me. Sigh. I am halfway tempted to refi again just to get away from them, but I have no confidence that whoever I went with would actually keep my loan and I sure as hell don't want to get an appraisal.