he is trying to do a big construciton project involving a deck, shed, and hot tub...We really need to clone him because Florida projects need completion too.

Clone him twice because we could use him in Ohio!

We keep putting off remodeling the bathroom because, even though we have the budget earmarked for it, Tim kept having serious medical shit (and now I have 2 surgeries in the next 12 months -- the cervical spine, and then a hip replacement next year [I hope!]), so we wanted to make sure that we could cover the medical bills first, before renovating the bathroom. We are extremely lucky that his health insurance is so good when it comes to surgeries (and, apparently, cancer treatment). You would expect a family (in good old America) to go bankrupt after 5 surgeries and cancer since 2020, but our finances are fine, and I am grateful for that every day.

There's 13 days to go until surgery, and I got the pre-surgery physical (which is different than your annual physical) done yesterday. Thursday I pick up the hard neck brace I have to wear after surgery. I am *dreading* that, because I hate snug things around my neck — I never wear turtlenecks, and it has to be like 10 degrees for me to wear a scarf out of the house — but I'm hoping I'll be so stoned on opioids that my violent hatred of stuff around my neck goes way down. Fortunately I don't have to wear it when sleeping, showering, or icing my neck. Apparently with some more complex cervical spine surgeries, the patients have to sleep in the hard brace and have to wear a different kind of brace when showering. I would die.

I have an OB/GYN appointment next week to talk about HRT for perimenopause, and I cannot wait. The hot flashes are unreal, and I would appreciate my mood leveling back out from the ready-to-stab-a-bitch phase it's been in for a while. (I mean, some bitches need stabbing, but not all the time, or so I hear.)

I'm sure having a depression/anxiety episode the last couple of months

I feel for you, my depression/anxiety has been at epic levels for a while now. Working on getting my meds adjusted but that's also always a process.

Sending virtual support, Matt and ND.

Sort of tangentially related, I had noticed an uptick in ADHD-ish um… behaviors, I guess?… in the last 6 months or so and finally decided to see about meds. I’m glad I did. I think they’re helping. I was diagnosed a couple of years ago, but I felt like knowing the diagnosis alone explained so much and helped in so many ways. Which it did, but I’m glad I decided to see about meds.

I wish getting the helpful meds wasn’t so hard. In so many ways.

Congrats to the Massachusetts peeps who get to keep Sen Mackey. Personally, I cannot fathom still wanting to work at 80; hell, I didn't want to keep working at 70.

I don’t want to keep working at 57. Good thing I was never called to public service, I suppose.

Here's hoping you can get the meds situation sorted and feel some relief soon, ND. I know for me it takes 5 or 6 weeks to fully feel the effects even when they get the dose/combo right.

Sat down with Emmett & Kalena and crunched the numbers and we're going to make a bid on the property. Looking at the Disclosure documents now (305 pages).

We've already cyberstalked the tenants (Finance Bro, Wedding Photographer, Non-Binary Marketing Coordinator).

the tenants (Finance Bro, Wedding Photographer, Non-Binary Marketing Coordinator)

You could set a reality TV show in this building!

You could set a reality TV show in this building!

They fight crime!