Bad news of the year so far

Last December 11, a notice was posted on the door of the house we're renting which said the mortgage payments were 3 months behind. I immediately called the landlady, and she told me she was working on a problem wherein she had made payments to the bank but with an incorrect account number, and was trying to resolve the issue.

On February 8 (a Friday), a new notice was posted on the door, saying the house is going to auction May 9, 2008. Again, I immediately called the landlady (this time it was around 10pm) and she sleepily said she thought she had it fixed and she would check into it the following week. Then she stopped answering the phone when I called.

So last week I sent her a certified letter asking her to explain what's going on. Yesterday the Post Office signature receipt came in the mail, so at least she didn't refuse the letter.

The whole thing really sucks, because based on everything I can find about bank sales of foreclosed homes, a new owner can ignore our lease and start eviction proceedings once they take possession of the house. I don't want to move, but I have to plan as if that's coming.

Migraines suck

...and I don't even get them myself! Terri had a migraine today, it hit her about noon, and she came to join me in bed. When she woke me up crawling into the bed, she asked me to get her an Imitrex tablet, which apparently helped, because when the dogs woke her up around 5:45, she seemed to be getting somewhat better. Most likely, she'll be really tired tomorrow, and really hungry tomorrow evening and Thursday...that's the typical follow-on recovery when she has migraines.

Having a house full of dogs and cats doesn't really help much with the tiredness; they make it a bit hard to sleep! As far as the hungry part, we have plenty of healthy food in the house, so hopefully we can stay on plan and she won't have too much problem with her Weight Watchers weigh-in. Although, as she points out in her blog, our eating since last week's weigh-in hasn't been so good.

Walking like crazy

I've been working full-time for one company for 25 months now, a record for me outside of military service. From Feb 2006 - June 2007, I was in one area where the pedometer I sometimes wore typically showed I walked 8000-9000 steps per day. Since July I've had farther to walk from parking to work, and more walking at work as well, but I haven't been wearing a pedometer lately. Yesterday I wore a pedometer that used to belong to Terri, because she bought a new one for herself (the clip on my old one broke). It showed 10,535 steps (that includes a short time in the house and between house and car as well as work) so I guess that's pretty good. Today I've been at work for 3 hours so far and already have 3382 steps.

Wow, I guess it's been awhile since I was here. Since July 2007, we have been host to a whole series of foster dogs and cats, and life has been crazy. Now Terri has opened a new blog, http://terrilosinghalf.blogspot.com/, and invited me to add my thoughts there as well. :-)