I was paying bills today and realized that I have just written in my last car payment. It will officially be paid off at the beginning of next month, technically. Wow. Five years. Also? Halle-freaking-lujah!
We’re dogsitting again. I’m not sure when my mom & step-dad will return. My mom has been gone for 3 weeks and my step-dad just left on Monday (we got the dogs on Sunday). His deployment (both work for FEMA and are in Texas – separate locations – helping out in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike) is for 60 days. My mom’s was supposed to be for 30 days (which means she could return in the next few weeks), but she said there is still so much to do that she thinks her deployment will be extended for at least an additional month. She promises to be back in time to dogsit for us in January. I hope she was kidding. We certainly don’t mind dogsitting. They get along with our two and are not hard to take care of – just hyper. Would it be rude to get Paco neutered while they’re away?
My mom is currently working 7 days a week – 10 hours Monday through Saturday and 6 hours on Sunday. She said they have about 100 people a day waiting (an average of 6 hours) to fill out paperwork for assistance. Crazy.
The annual we’re going to close the office/be laid off talk has begun. I always become worried when this happens, but this year I am even more worried than usual. Our economy has been crazy and other firms in the area have been laying off, so it could happen. It would suck. Yes, I do want out of this place. Sometimes desperately. I’d like it to be on my terms, however. Plus, I can’t afford much of a pay cut and I certainly can’t afford (at least in my mind) to be out of work for any length of time. I’m sure B would say that it would be tight, but we’d survive…but, well, it’s one of the rare instances where I am all doom and gloom instead of my normal (per Big Cheese) Pollyanna self. Plus in my head I think it would be odd to start a new job only to take 11 days off in January. No, it’s not unprecedented, but I would just feel bad.
Finally – today is the 3rd anniversary of Big P’s death. RIP.
-M
Song of the Day: Hate Me by Blue October
