Our last full day with Fat Pat and her beast has arrived! They let me sleep until I wanted to get up. Strangely enough, though, I have yet to see or hear from them today. She didn’t even have company and I haven’t heard the TV in days. The last time we saw her was late yesterday afternoon bringing in boxes of groceries. No wonder she’s so damn fat!

I’m surprised I’m still holding the schedule without a fight. I thought that by Wednesday it’d be a real struggle.

I did most of the final cleaning. I scrubbed the bathroom, vacuumed what spots I could, and put Blondie in the small wire cage he used in the motels. He’ll be moved over there on my lap since I don’t want him moving in the back of an open pickup. I’m sure he’d be fine as he’s a brave fella, but I’d rather he go with me. Because the cage is only a square foot, he’s sitting with me right now on this table. He’s actually asleep now. He’s so adorably cute! It’s sad to know he’s about two years old now.

Tom said he believes we’ll feel like we’re in a house during all of the winter and 90% of the summer. That I’ve got to see. As soon as the noise curse sends us the trouble it always does, I’m going to complain to Pam 10 times a day if that’s what it takes to get her to do something about it. If not, I’ll terrorize them out of there myself somehow.

We both agree that since we moved low class the last two times, we’re going first class to California. No cramming into tight spaces and driving old junkers. We’re going to rent a U-Haul. A 14’ U-Haul from here to Sacramento is only $181. If we can save up $2500, we can save an additional couple hundred bucks that’d be well worth it.

Tom should be very late today because he’s going to cash his check, pick up the keys right after work, then go do the walk-through and check off the checklist. Then he’ll go to a coworker’s house who’s having a yard sale soon to see if he’s got any furniture we could use. The guy said he’d just let him have whatever he wants, but he’s going to give him $20. After the guy drives him over with whatever he may get, he’s going to cash his check and go to K-mart for some additional boxes so we don’t have to play dump-it-and-reload-it and hold Eddie up longer than necessary because he too, is only getting $20.

Tom thinks there’s going to be a lease, but I’m beginning to have my doubts. Why hasn’t anyone mentioned it yet? I think that because we’ve been with this management company for nearly a year now, they won’t lease us. I hope not, but we’ll soon find out who’s right.