Somedays you learn something about people that you know that shocks you. Sometimes those things make you think about a range of things.

As I've always said - that one person you just don't like (even if you can't put your finger on why) there is someone who loves them.  It's always very apparent when you've got a mutual friend and you find yourself scratching your head wondering why or how on earth your mutual friend finds cause for their relationship with said person.

The scary/bad/evil person is some dark skulking figure without a face, not someone you know.  That's why they say often it is someone close to a victim, the last person you'd suspect, who was the villian.

We often forget that it could easily be us that is the villian in someone else's story.  It could easily be any one of us.
1 Peter 5:8 Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

You're kidding right?

I got mail today from collections for local taxes saying I didn't pay my Cburg taxes in 2016.  Um.  Right, I didn't pay you any local taxes.  I didn't LIVE HERE in 2016.

I guess if you're too lazy to look up on your local records that I purchased the house in February 2017 and too lazy to look at my 2017 taxes which indicated partial year of February to December of 2017 here you probably don't want to go ahead and fight Richland to try and get the money that was paid, rightly, to them, so how about you leave me out of it?

I can't believe I have to waste my time making a telephone call and trying to figure out what I have to do to enlighten them.  Their form says I have to submit proof.  How about you submit proof I lived here?  This is your burden, not mine.

The humidifiers are off.  The heat is off.  The windows and back door are open.  Avery was outside at the end of the day at daycare without her coat.  We went for a walk.  The sun was out.  I spent an hour in the sun cleaning up dog poop in the back yard.

Ok, so it isn't all great, but even that task felt pretty good today.  I am sure winter will get another hurrah, but I see hope today.  It has me in such a good mood that even my long work day yesterday which resulted in me only getting to see Avery for about 30 minutes seemed like a good day.

Work is still being a bear, but I'm trying to make progress where I can.  I won't say I'm not stressing, I am, but I slept!  I actually needed my alarm to wake me this morning.  This is no small thing to me as of late.

The follow up call from the doctor's office said the lab work said I didn't have a UTI and that I could 'stop the antibiotics'.  I don't know what to believe about the two sides of the argument as to what causes antibiotic resistance.  That aside, I felt like something was up with me, so I finished them anyhow.

 I also went back to the dentist for the other filling late last week, so that's done with.  This time it was only two shots of Novocaine and nothing in excessively painful locations.

This week turns my focus away from things about my body maintenance and towards house maintenance.  Starting first, on Tuesday I have the place that will make the bath cabinet for my 1/2 bath coming to measure.  I've decided to do a floating one since this will eliminate a few of my concerns, it is in style as of late, and it will still give me some storage space in there.  It will be good to get the ball rolling in there.  They also gave me pricing for the other bathrooms, which I'd like to do, but only after I have figured out what type of tile I'd like to put down up there and in the laundry room.

I did have someone come clean twice. I'm not sure how I've been feeling about it.  There were things missed in the first clean, and the second clean took even less time and still seemed to have some gaps that tweaked my nerves a bit.  There was to be a third clean, but rescheduling occurred and then some dialog that made me feel even less like this was the situation for me, and that third clean never happened, nor have I heard back.  I've reached out to someone else and they're coming to give me an estimate on Wednesday.

I saw my first robins of the year this morning!  That's a little less than 2 weeks earlier than last year.