happenings

Wow, I already posted once this week, and I am actually posting again :-) Exciting times! So it seems that we already have a renter set up for the fall. A girl called me yesterday, who is planning on attending the local college in the fall and wants to move in. Excellent! That is exactly what we need, since our current renter will just be here for the summer. I am a little nervous because we haven't met her yet, but I looked her up on myspace (lovely little spy tool that is) and she seems to be normal enough :-) I just don't want any crazy parties up there, but other than that as long as the rent is paid I could care less :-)

It's definitely a gift from God that we have another renter lined up, since we just found out also yesterday that Matt's health insurance is going to go up $300/month. And that is for the cheapest plan. We aren't sure what we are going to do yet. I would like to just not have any health insurance at this point, paying $11k a year for health insurance that doesn't actually cover us until we pay a $10k deductible...yeah...it doesn't sound right to me either. But, Matt is of course concerned about the catastrophic thing that *could* happen to us at some point. I think my catastrophic thing has already happened in my life time...but that's just me. I am thinking about getting Emma and I a private policy and then have Matt on his work's policy. I think that would end up being cheaper, but I'm not sure because Maine only has one health insurance carrier, so not much in the way of competition. The thing that really gets me is that if we lived in NH, the same exact policy would be half of what it is in Maine, that is just wrong. But, since I can't change that...I don't know. If I didn't expect that we would eventually have another baby I would push to just not have the health insurance for me. If I had to go to the Dr.'s, which I never do, then we could just pay cash, overall it would save us money...unless something happened. What a pain to think about that stuff.

In other news...I am still sick. I think that I might have a sinus infection, but I am going to give it another day before I actually call the Dr. (after my claiming I never go :-)) I don't really want to go on an antibiotic, but the fact that I can't breathe through my nose is a little irritating. I can't blow my nose either...so the sinuses are definitely swollen...and since my mom can no longer breathe through her nose (sinuses collapsed a while ago) I think that I will take my chances with the antibiotics :-)

It's been a beautiful week here, and I haven't really been able to be outside and enjoy it. I have no idea what my garden is doing. I do know that the one tomato seedling I planted in the ground is now dead from being blown all over the place by the wind...so I will be making another trip up to Longfellows to buy some more seedlings. I think that next year I might try the square foot gardening...that sounds a lot easier than hoping for the best. Maybe I should have bought a book about gardening before I just threw seeds in the ground... :-)