I am thinking I am going to put this house up for sale once I retire and go live in one of the local 55+ communities. Most of them are double wide mobile home parks but the double wides are very nice. I won't have to mow or shovel snow. They check on the residence and provide transportation, if needed. I am looking ahead. My parents should have moved into something like that but my mother laments that they may have waited too long to sell their home. They could move into a place like this but my mom, I think is worried about not having enough space to help her feel comfortable. She doesn't realize that she needs to slow down. I know them being so busy is what has probably kept them healthy but my father is slowing down considerably because of his blood clotting and high blood pressure issues and medication. She has recently been showing signs of being over extended.
My son lost his job. iHeart media went to all of their radio stations across the country and let all of their street news reporters go...along with some inhouse news reporters. Everything is being centralized. He has been out of work for one week and is applying to everything that has a decent paying opening. They gave him 2 months of severance pay and he has 2 months of unemployment after that. I told him that I have been concerned about his job security for the last year. I also told him not to just jump into the first thing that comes along because he could find himself stuck in a job that makes him miserable.
I have advised him to look at this as an opportunity instead of a hinderance. God sometimes has to give us a big boot in the butt to get us going in the right direction.
Update on my old friend Benny: He not only has throat cancer and is going for radiation treatments, he has a failing liver...cirrhosis. They have to keep draining a lot of fluid. He was released and is living with his widower father. Heavy smoking, heavy drinking, lots of cheating on his wife. It is all coming back on him in the worst way. Even with all of that, he is a really nice guy...would give the shirt of his back to help others.
Bethany and Jordan are planning on making a move up here by me next summer. They may end up moving in with me. He expressed to me that he does not know how they are going to coordinate 2 job transfers and securing a place to live all at once. I told him that they may end up splitting up and moving in with me in order to secure job transfers for both of them. THEN they can look for a place of their own. He conceded to maybe having to do that.
In 7 more weeks, I hope to know whether or not I will be signing a contract with another online school. It would be GREAT if I could. I also know that I pray about it and if it would turn out not to be a good place for me to jump, then that door will not open for me.
I am also considering a part-time summer job with Home Depot. The plus side is I would get some instore employee discounts on things. I am looking at redoing my kitchen...replacing my sliding glass doors, etc. We will see...it would mean moving up my cataract surgery. May 28th perhaps.
And is this going to be a quieter summer? I may have my son and DIL moving in with me for a time.
