Oh my Glob, I'm in a swirly whirly flurry of texts and emails now between various realtors and finance people as we get prepared to make a bid on this house tomorrow.

I forgot about now nerve jangly this process can be.

I've been trying to watch the 5 minute highlights from the A's win last night and got interrupted by incoming texts and emails five times.

Happy Birthday Flea!!!

Teppy I'm hoping the universe will gently wrap you in some kind of bubble wrap until the surgery.

Laura- Mom's doctors think it's a pinched nerve and she has an MRI soon. later this week? I can't remember but that is the theory that a nerve is pinched and when she moves it causes weakness.

We went to see the Independent Senior Living Place- Mom liked it!!! If she didn't have this back stuff she was trying to figure out I think she would have been talking more about moving. This is the only place we have looked at BUT it's in a good location, they currently have 2 bedroom apartments available. They allow pets-- we got to pet the friendliest , cutest Chihuahua mix--that dog trotted right up to us and demanded pettings and then didn't want to leave. She was on a leash but it was kind of long lead and the owner was following along after the dog but that you can tell that dog loved attention and gets it regularly. It just had a really nice vibe to it.

That sounds really encouraging, askye.

Oh, it totally is, Hec. Of course, I know about the most fucked-up ones cause Mom was in title and mortgage all those years....ours was weird, too, but only cause I had the untrammelled credit at the time but not much income.

I just saw the sad news about Bridget. I only met her in person the once, but she will be missed all the same.

Happy birthday, Flea! Happy house-buying, Hec!

askye, my in-laws moved into an independent senior living place last year and they LOVE it.

I took my car in for its six-month checkup (I don't drive it enough to stretch visits out to 5k miles) and I'm starting to think this car might not be worth repairing any more. It's 13 years old and every time I take it in for an oil change/tire rotation they find something else that needs to be replaced, and I'm having to do the mental math of "what % of the car's trade-in value is this costing me." (This time the really spendy one was replacing the tire pressure sensors which would have come to almost $1000 and so I decided not to. I might see if Costco or somewhere else can replace them for less but I'm not going to spend a third of what this car is worth to get rid of an annoying blinky light.)