Congratulations, Matt! welcome to the stress-and-money pit that is homeownership. However your house looks like it's in good shape, so that's nice.

It was just fully renovated with a new roof, new floors, new kitchen, new bathroom tile, and new HVAC. I don't think I could have done any better without having a new house built to my specs. My realtor assured me it should be quite a few years before I have to replace anything major.

Hearing is over for the day. Starts back up at 9am tomorrow. Bleargh

And CONGRATS ON HOUSE!

Sheryl, I’m so sorry for your loss.

Congratulations, Matt!

I’m at my library bookstore job, which seems to be shaking me out of my holiday funk a bit. I have found way way way too many books for ltc.

That's great, Matt!

Meant to say, I love the floors, Matt.

They're vinyl planking rather than hardwood, but they look and feel really nice. Mom getting her floors done that way really turned me around on my snobbery about hardwood or nothing. Plus, the color matches the heavier shedder of my two cats, which is always a bonus!

Ha! Yes, to the bonus. And, yeah, my sister had hers done with some material like that, and they are gorgeous and resilient.

Timelies all!

To be honest, I hadn't been that close with my aunt. I think she got to meet Mr. S when we went up to CT a few years back, but that's about it.

I have finished making my open enrollment selectins, a whole day before the deadline. Ended up keeping my current coverage, mostly, just added voluntary accident and hospital indemnity because they seem like good ideas (we haven't had those options before). Something on Facebook yesterday reminded me how much more of a pain it was to fill my ADHD prescriptions when I wasn't with Kaiser - having the prescribing doctor and the pharmacy under the same umbrella seems to - so that tipped the scales to staying. If anyone was wondering.