According to Tom’s research, the RV park rates vary depending on how long you rent space. For a night it’s $35, not much cheaper than here. For a week it’s $800, $400 less than it costs to stay here a month. For a month, though, it’s just $450, plus utilities. They should also have some of the things apartments have without as much chaos like pools and laundry and fitness rooms. Until we can find an ideal house, it may not be perfect, but it should be much better than an apartment. Maybe we’ll still be annoyed by car doors, car stereos, dogs barking and kids screaming, but we won’t have to listen to their TVs, cabinets or footsteps.

We also don’t have to worry about them forbidding rats, which we intend to get ASAP and which would’ve been harder to sneak into an apartment versus an individually owned house. Most individuals will bend on that, but in apartments, if they ok it, they want a hefty deposit first.

Another good thing about a trailer is that we can move if we don’t like where we are, and take comfort in knowing that anyone we don’t like nearby that may be noisy, isn’t going to be around for long. In an apartment, what you get next to is pretty much what you’re going to be stuck with for months, maybe even years.

To think that I won the money to get us here, figured out a way to save our lives a couple of months back, and now saved us from apartments, is pretty mind-boggling since an apartment is exactly where we were heading! I just hope I’ll never have to save us again! Still, all that stress and depression over apartments for nothing! Oh well. Better to worry for nothing than for something, right?

So, all’s running smoothly except for the truck and my eyes, which think they’re 48 years old. Yeah, I had to jump from a 1.00 to a 2.00 in reading glasses, yet according to the chart, I shouldn’t have to do that till I’m between 48-50! Bummer, huh?

Tom’s creating a BOT for Netwinner. We figure that as long as we’re careful with it and don’t go running it like crazy, we should be ok. I just hope I get my e-card! I’m really starting to wonder about them, alright.

It’s been relatively quiet around here for the last week or so. The rooms next to us mostly have been empty lately, and the last few guests were one-nighters, which is fine with me. Unless they get firecracker-happy around here tonight, I’ll be asleep as the New Year rolls in. This will probably be my last entry of the year. Let’s hope 2008 brings us a nice peaceful place to live, more money, more wins, great rats, and insurance for both of us!