I’m so happy and excited for my sister! But first, another strange thing within the costs summary for my healthcare was that it said it cost about $300 for her to do my toe. But it also costs that just to talk to the ear specialist, plus $500 to vacuum the canal. WTF?!?! 

Then Tom clicks on the ‘pay now’ button and it says we only owe $25, so that’s all we paid. Still think they’ll probably bill us for the toe since that’s not considered preventative (at least we don’t think it is), but we’ll pay whatever we owe. 

We spent $500 of our tax return on Amazon tonight and ordered a new Frigidaire dishwasher in white. 

Tom has also wanted to try a trackpad, so he got one, plus a yellow jacket trap since those will be an issue soon, especially in such a flowery neighborhood. 

I also got a couple more animals to add to my collection, a black and white rabbit and a blue parakeet. 

Lastly, I got these really cool skater silhouettes made of metal. It’s a set of 3. 

Lemme check on the rats… ok, one went back home and the other is napping on the bookshelf. 

Anyway, Tammy's going to get situated in an apartment in Florida in April. Hopefully, it will be in an adult community, though I don’t see how she could get into one with such a big dog. Would a big dog even be able to handle an apartment in the first place? I guess it will have to. I just worry about the Bad Neighbor Curse striking her if she ventures into the mainstream. We had every degenerate and noisemaker imaginable – welfare bums, college kids, large families with tons of little kids – so I’d hate for her to have similar experiences. The girls are getting apartments down there, too. 

After she’s settled in a much smaller place that she can deal with easier than the huge house she’s in now, Mark will return to CT to prep the house for sale. 

They have friends in Florida, so it’s not like they’ll be moving where they don’t know a soul like we did when we went to Oregon and then when we came here. The point is that disabled or not, they feel they have no life in CT. They want to be where they have the option of going swimming every single day of the year if they want to. I envy their the climate, just not the apartment. I do love the dry heat of the summers here, though. The summers here can get pretty damn hot, often reaching 110°, but is otherwise gorgeous. 

I totally agree with her as far as it being better to have a life in a small place than no life in a big place. Look at what I went through in S. Deerfield back in 1991. I had a big beautiful apartment but no life to go with it. Same for Tom and I in Maricopa. Gorgeous brand new 2100-square-foot house that was sucking every last dime out of us. The welfare bums using their corrupt pig pal to seek legal revenge on me for the city complaint lodged against them was no fun either, but of course that was part of the package, too. 

She mentioned both of us or just me coming to visit and saying she’d help with the costs, which would be wonderful. I’d certainly rather see her there than in CT. It just may be a year or two cuz you’re still talking a lot of money, and it would only be for a few days. Of course I’d prefer to go with my nearest and dearest, but I wouldn’t mind going alone if Tom couldn’t get the time off. I think he will, though, cuz they give him a lot of time off at work. And if they give him what we hope they’ll be giving him next month, he’ll be salaried and we definitely won’t have to worry about going broke or him being laid off anytime soon.