You are not being unreasonable! You are being 100% reasonable.

For real estate comparisons, here's a similar price near me: [link]

Mom's argument is she drove herself to the ER and she did "fine" (she didn't get into a wreck I don't know how well she drove) so she is ok to drive. No one thinks what she did was a good idea.

I now feel like I am being an unreasonable bitch .

You're not being unreasonable at all. It would be irresponsible and potentially dangerous for her to drive until a doctor or physical therapist can give her the all-clear.

I'm not moving, but "Lauraville" does have a certain appeal.

There's something weird about sharing your name with a nearby town. I live within driving distance of a Frederick, a Fredericksburg, and not one but two Frederick Counties.

Hey all. Had a hurricane, lost power for just about 30 hours. Otherwise no more damage for me beside I few crushed flowers.

Other parts of the city are still without power because some very large trees fell on power lines. This is the first direct hit we've had by a hurricane in 15 years, and I hope that interval between stays that long. This one was much less fierce and destructive thankfully.

I'd not be a good survivalist. Even though i had lots to amuse me that didn't require power, I was super restless waiting for everything to be restored.

I'm glad you are fine!

Askye is 100% reasonable. I can write a letter saying so.

Glad you are safe and sound, Sue.

ION - not one person at work has asked me how my trip went or said one thing to me about 1) closing on a house 2) kicking out my son.

Yeah, I need out of here.

Hope all is put back to normal quickly, Sue.

Good grief, msbelle. That is really odd. Are your parents still out of town? I was wondering if Mac was going to contact them.

My parents are still out of town, I don't think he will contact them because I told him if he did I'd explain the full story to them.

He actually slept at the house last night. He contacted me and I told him he could sleep there last night if he came to dinner and talked with me.

No big revelations, no switch flipped, but I asked him a few things that I could tell made him think. Like I asked him " how long are you willing to go with no job and have your situation be like this, before you consider other options?" And when I asked him how long he thought he would need to work before he could get a place and he said a couple of weeks, I informed him that apartments require like 3 months payment up front (info that has been given to him more than once, but the he obviously never read or listened to) and he looked shocked.

That's good. I hope stuff starts to sink in.