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I’ve been noticing that work tends to go in real spurts here. At times it seems like I’m really busy, and other times like now, I find myself screwing around all day. Which I hate, but it’s like, if they’re not going to give me anything to do, then what am I supposed to do. Oy, it’s frustrating, anyways it’s the end of the day and time for me to head out. Nite

Ok, so a lot has happened. The main thing, we moved, oy hectic. We do this far to often, I think this is the 10th time for me since I moved out of the house 8 years ago.

Anyways, so we’re in capitol towers, on the 9th floor, it’s nice, definitely different. It’s interesting to see the reactions of people. Most older folks know the name, but younger folks rarely know what it is. I guess it used to be prestigious, in a way, I think it’s just a change from the normal downtown life. It’s nice to be in a place that is in the downtown/midtown area, but has the professionalism and feel of a full fledge apt complex, rather than the little one, run by a manager or an owner, where to get anything done is a miracle. And dreams of sheet rock walls and ceilings that are straight, are purely far off dreams…

Well, we like the 9th floor thing, it’s different and fun. And we’re almost fully unpacked, just have some organizing to get the last of the bins out on the balcony.

Oy, ok, over the last couple weeks life has been hectic. We weren’t sure if we were moving out, because the owner was threatening to sue, then he gave us an option to pay one months rent in exchanged for being released from the lease, but then he wouldn’t take payments, and wouldn’t take the money out of the deposit, so we were getting frustrated. I started to do my research and spoke with a lawyer or two and realized that we had rights too. It turns out that since he was trying to rent out the apt for 995 instead of the 795 that he was getting from me, that he wasn’t performing a good faith effort to mitigate his losses and rerent the apt. So, now he has lowered the rent to 895 after not renting it out. We left the place spotless and in way better condition then when we got it, and we have pictures to prove it. So, we’re hoping the guy doesn’t do anything, but if he does we have a few arguments on our side. Should be interesting.

Also in the move, Jason got another hernia.. A small one, but one that he happened to mention to his boss, who then mentioned it to the staffing firm, who said that he couldn’t work until he got it checked out, and the doctor signed off on it. Well, we don’t have the money for that, which means he is forced not to work, which put us in financial strains extraordinaire. $600 less a month is a lot, when it comes to making the 400+ car payment and car insurance payments. So, we started scrambling for cash, trying to find him another job where they didn’t know about the hernia. Selling off my coins, my old toys, borrowing money, working for my parents, and we managed to do all this. And then on top of that found out that we could skip a car payment, so we’re that much better off there now, so we have even more room to move. We’ll probably end up paying it, since we’ve made up the money, and apparently Jason’s boss is allowing him to work, just not to stress himself or lift anything heavy. So all in all it sounds good.

I think that’s pretty much it…we’ve found that there are good parking spots and bad parking spots around this complex on the street. The bad ones, are when you park and you see white spots literally covering the ground. We made the mistake once, and ended up with a car covered with birdshit. We now have a few damaged paint spots because of some bird crap that was on too long. It sucks…but oh well.

Well, I’ll update more later, or hopefully sooner….cya