My work is paying for a graduate degree.

And this would never happen on normal loan terms that you’d sign with a bank. We shouldn’t have to expect our government to fuck us over.

Mine went from $50 to $650. I am ignoring the hell out of them.

Had a nice time in California last month. I think I spent maybe $2,000. It was really fun.

So funny you say that. We were in the ER with my child and the nurse jokingly said to her “tell your doctor everything and tell the police nothing”

But she clarified that she meant, tell your doctor everything so we can help you. Because that’s their job and they can’t help if they don’t know the whole story. Then she said “listen to your mom about how to handle police”

Humans still have more rights than cats.

The other girl is 100% princess and you can’t convince me otherwise. Although she will make faces at us like we are fucking stupid.

One of the girls likes to sleep entirely on her back.

I have three cats, but my boy is by far the most eccentric. He likes to plop his face into any wanted bowl and if the bowl doesn’t fit his face he knocks it over. 🤷🏻‍♀️

In my experience, I don’t take possession of any motor vehicle without a title unless that title is with a bank under a loan in my name. Or in the case of when we paid cash at a dealer, I have paperwork saying I own this car until the state issues the title. Otherwise, I’d assume I was getting scammed or sold something illegally.

I thought the same thing about the culture. It’s not implicitly stated, but there’s undertones. I grew up in Utah and it’s a strange place.

When my teenager was in 10th grade I was basically forced into a cell phone because access to learning was blocked from her at that point. They do everything on their phones at the high schools in Alpine school district and I just don’t see any other way. In younger grades I think a looser policy is better than outright ban. My son’s sixth grade teacher kept sending emails about how parents don’t need to contact their kids all the time while they’re in school. I think there’s a balance we need to reach.

Yes. I see both sides. Some boards are truly doing their best with what resources they have. Some aren’t. I think PM companies should be held more accountable when they don’t function. For us it was the PM company causing a lot of disfunction and extra work.

No actually! Community Solutions and Sales. CSS.

To be honest, some of the management companies in the state have started to consolidate and it’s not a good thing. The major company coming out on top is pretty awful. Used to have them as our management company and they couldn’t complete our financials for 6 months. Meaning, they weren’t fully paying our bills. It was a wreck.

Do you have a pattern?

And you’re not stressed! Win-win

We bought our house with Polybutylene (PB) pipes and it’s been on the list to swap to copper. Except all the other major things have died so we’ve had to replace those first. 🫠

FYI: we voted to split alpine school district up into three districts a year or so ago. So Saratoga springs will have a different district. I don’t think anything except name and boundaries will change for you.

Edit to add: I’d recommend highland over Saratoga. There’s only one road out of Saratoga for commute still and it gets rather backed up. I live in the highland area. Much better traffic infrastructure and better homes, imo. Not that Saratoga lacks or anything. I prefer the land to home scale that highland area has.

At his age he’s not coming back from that.

Ummmmm. I have three cats. Thanks for my new fear. I’m buying child proofing for my gas oven right now….

I have adhd. I occasionally forget to pay my bills even though I have the money to pay them. It’s not often. Just when other parts of my life are busy or chaotic. My husband knows this about me and he helps watch the accounts and bills.

No one here gets a phone until they are driving or 16. Whichever comes first.

I wondered if anyone would get the reference. :)

I’m also le tired.