Here We Go in Thirty-Six

As is the case, every 3rd of the month, my paycheck gets deposited at around 5am. I woke up this morning at 7. We had planned to take a small day trip up to Phoenix, just to get out of the house somewhere, since we haven’t gone anywhere since February of 2020.

Every 3rd, I have $25 sent from my account to my cashapp, as a little backup, and it has come in handy. This morning when I woke up at 7, i had a notification stating that the transaction had failed. So I checked our bank account and sure enough, there was $16. I get $872 deposited.

Our mortgage company generally calls us a few days before the 3rd to ask if we can make a double payment because we have one we are behind. This month there was no communication and they just took the double payment.

I didn’t have the extra $400 that I usually do to pay my electricity, water, trash, phone and internet. The reason we have $16 left from 3rd to 3rd is because we pay all our bills. People just think we’re spending money on needless shit, but yanno, not my issue.

That got sorted thankfully. Our current tasks at hand are sorting through all of our shit. Consolidating all of that and throwing away or selling what we don’t need. That should free up some plastic tubs for clothes and stuff.

So then with that, we are going to work on getting everything that we want to keep packed up and taken to my dad’s. Then we will sell whatever is left in the shed and the house from there.

People asked me why I was paying my electric and water bill if I am leaving. So we can have it until the 18th. We’ll still have to pay it. So might as well get ahead of at least that one. Plus the refrigerator and freezer and coolers. We’re doing an indoor sale once we get everything out and to my dad’s.

It’s Arizona. It’s July. I’m not having this outside. It’s either 95° by 9am or storming so badly my neighbors will get a lot of random free shit.

Anywho. Yesterday was very hard. We said goodbye to Parsley, Nigel and Bandit. All older ratties. All with various levels of illness. So that was pretty damn hard. But they are all buried in the back yard, next to the cactus with the Owl that will protect them.

Today we took a decompression day and wasted a whole tank of gas on a trip to Phoenix. We needed out of the house. To talk shit about the house. To talk about all the opportunities we will have in New Mexico.

There’s a lot that we got out and discussed and just talked about. It was a nice 4 hours away.

Tomorrow is botox and see what we can do for the meantime and all of that. I have a feeling it’s going to be prednisone for a minute. Just to get me through this first hump. It’s gonna be super rough and stressful and I know I will flare pretty badly. I just want to be prepared.

I threw up all damn morning, so we didn’t leave to phoenix until about 1. I was debating on whether to go becasue he had some other business to take care of for his client and so we did that. Had a quick bite somewhere fast and cheap and then came home.

Friday we hand over The Girls to our rat lady. I feel like Harriett and Eleanor don’t have much time left either. Hemi is definitely the strongest out of the group so he should be with us for a little while longer. Winston is pushing or already 3. So we definitely know our time with them is limited. Rizzo and Fievel are just over a year old.. But still not knowing full genetic lines, it’s kind of hard to say. Jovie and Trillian are good too. Jovie is really dainty and Trillian is a tank like her brothers. Apparently she is her mom’s twin in all but size lol. She’s like twice the size. Her mom’s name was Karen. 😂

That is all I have to say for today thankfully. People have been weird as usual and making judgements based on one story so today was needed and we both feel a lot better.

Randy actually reached affiliate status on Twitch. So now he can make a small income from there. And he can do that as long as he has his work station (we’ve already figured it out) and an internet connection.

So, yeah, more to come… Next month I will hopefully have much better news come the first of the month. Life is depressing. But we’re still here and we are figuring shit out.

Go us.

Last updated November 01, 2021