« basketball, tummy ache | Main | Tour our new place »
November 02, 2006
stress
Today on my lunch break I locked my keys in my car and had to pay a locksmith to rescue me. That $50 expense came less than an hour after Ben and I concluded an e-mail conversation about our money saving goals. At 1 p.m., I was the locksmith's 76th call of the day. He makes between $50 and $100 per call.
"You must make a good living," I said, because I say things like that. If I decide I'd rather retire young, he'll train me as an automobile locksmith, he said.
It rained all day and it rained all night, and tonight our basement flooded.
A half-inch of water soaked into the rugs Ben had laid in his special saxophone-playing area. Drips dampened the bookshelf that holds his music sheets. The puddle had spread its way toward a bundle of wires connecting to a HEPA filter and my ipod when Ben discovered the mess. I don't know where Ben will practice his saxophone, now. He had a really nice den set up for himself.
October was a pretty awful month. I hurt my foot and couldn't run. We got kicked out of a place we didn't like that much anyways and had to hemmorage cash to make a move. The rental market, we discovered, has gone haywire, and finding an OK apartment was more difficult than we'd expected. Our brand-new dryer wouldn't fit down the stairs at our new place, so we traded it in; for $100, an appliance refurbisher took the new model and delivered a smaller, older dryer, which did fit down the stairs. Ants invaded our kitchen. Ben's new commute features a rare failing on the part of Portland's public transit system.
I was hoping November would be an improvement, but signs don't point in that direction.
Today I also learned that my brother Morgan and his significant other are going through their own difficult challenges.
Here's hoping 2007 brings improvement.
Posted by Courtney_Sherwood at November 2, 2006 09:51 PM