GiST #80

1. Birds were singing merrily this morning. Does this mean spring is coming? I haven't heard such birdsong in what seems like months and months!

2. TB didn't want to tell me about a piece of mail we received yesterday. Our mortgage is being raised $500/mo. because of "increases" to our escrow. Can that be possible? The grace in all this was an unexpected sense of peace. There's no way we can afford this. We'll have to sell and move.

3. My son's been great about taking his sister to and from work. She's afraid to drive on her spare and won't have the money to fix her tire until tomorrow. If my son wasn't able to take her to work, we'd be doing it.

4. I wrote up another book I just finished reading, Nightmare House. I posted it on my reading blog.

5. I got a much-needed few hours of sleep this afternoon. I was up from 2 a.m. to about 10 and then finally was able to fall back asleep. I must have really needed the sleep because I didn't stir until after 3 p.m.!