3 days ago. Main drain pipe for the house clogged. Poo water came up both shower drains. We had the house cleaned that morning. Toilets unusable for most of the day. $800 to get it fixed due to complications because of old house. At least it was fixed same day I guess.
Thursday 2 weeks ago I got laid off due to the economic environment.
The stock market hit a new record high that day.
The next day a grant I got one of my programs named in came through for 80k. Between that and my other program revenue, I’d have been fully paying for myself the next 2 years.
Wife had an important conversation with her adult son. One of those, “I didn’t tell you this before because you were a kid; you are clearly an adult now. There are things in family history that you should know.”
Went well. I wasn’t there because I’m not blood and wasn’t around for the relevant events. Besides, they need time without step-dad.
Spent entire day worried for them and hoping it would go well. Sounds like it did. Good outcome for a kind of draining, high-stakes day.
Just yesterday, work was not going very well, and I received a phone call from my mother saying my sister had a fever. I was supposed to spend New Year’s with them, so those plans were canceled.
It’s ok, I went shopping, got a massive amount of snacks and food and am going to have an amazing New Year’s Eve by myself, and nobody can stop me. Plus some friends invited me to play video games online with them and I rarely ever have the time, so that’s going to be fun.
Neighbors showing their unneighborly side again. The people here have a saying, “a cat giving birth to her kittens in the oven doesn’t make them biscuits”, meaning you’re not viewed as one of the community members unless you and the generations before you were raised there. And they somehow think that’s a virtue.
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