Okay, so, I moved in with my girlfriend's mom recently. I didn't mention anything about because, frankly, I was a bit embarassed by the whole thing. But I rationalized that she was having a rough time of it lately (her fiancee died just barely a year before we came down here) and she's been trying to get her kids back from her sister. Aside from which, her house is pretty big, since she bought it with the intent of housing all her children, so most of the rooms were just cluttered with junk by the time we got here, since they weren't really being used for anything. The plan was to stay with her for a year (hopefully less) and save up enough money for a car and a nice apartment/house for ourselves in the area. She was very adamant about us not helping with the bills around the house, though she did concede to us helping with buying food and other supplies. Besides, she had a high paying job in the post office ($20 an hour, from my understanding), and her house was nearly paid off.

Except, uh... she rarely went to work. She worked nights, but lived through most of her life as though she had a regular 9-5 job. She's also very religious, and prioritized church over work, especially when she was given the chance for her children to visit for a couple months. Also, a house being "nearly paid off" is pretty relative: there's still a lot of thousands of dollars between her and owning the place. So despite her lucrative job, the bills have piled up. Also, it turns out the post office has this whole thing about how they like their employees to actually show up for work, so she was fired just the other day. For one it's really screwed up her mood, and for two the power, internet, and water are probably going to be turned off as soon as next week.

We're looking for our own place. There's a whole lot of drama from the whole thing, but I don't want to complain about it too much. Not publicly, anyway. I just thought I'd mention it here, because it might take us a little while to get the money necessary to move, and I'll basically be without internet for that whole time.