After four months on the market, we let our listing expire yesterday. We’d had two showings in those four months. One was a scheduled showing where the people bought a house with wood floors instead, and one was a wild rapping on the door by a Realtor with “investors” who turned out to not [...]
Today at work I got notice that I would be receiving a pink slip. After twenty years in existence, my whole department was defunded. It’s quite a shock to everyone there, although I wasn’t too surprised with the way the economy is going. I do admire academia though, they do their best [...]
I think MonkeyBoy and I have talked on our phones this week more than we have all year combined. My poor phone needs charging at least once a day with all its use. Tonight I got to call my credit card company to alert them to fraud. Unless in my recent sleep [...]
An era ended today – the 1970s. Today we sold off MonkeyMan’s gold crushed velvet couch. It was a hangover from his dorm days and his bachelor pad. It was the couch that we used to make out on when we were dating. MonkeyMan used to describe it as a “nap-sucker” [...]