So, How's February Going So Far?

 Today's what, the 8th? 

The condo board sent a notice that we're getting hit with a $1500 special assessment for damage due to Hurricane Milton, oh, and if you could just write us that check by March 1, that'd be great! Thx. You bet your ass I have questions, and we'll be having a meeting about it this month.  

And then, my AC quit cooling. 

But Catherine, it's February, why are you running your AC? Because it's in the low 80s and humid AF, we wake up to pea soup fog every day at this time of year, and you gotta dry the air out or it's awful. So I called a repair company I trust, and the tech came out, had a love fest with Eddie, who adored him and watched him work from a  respectful distance, and he got it running and cooling again, for now, but it a temporary fix. 

Bottom line: over $4k of repairs on a 17 year old system, or a new system. That's kind of a no brainer, $4200 on repairs to a 17 year old system or probably around $6k for a shiny new one.

So we're 8 days into this fucking month and I'm looking at, best guess, $7500 of unexpected expenses. Remember last summer when I won that $10k lottery jackpot? The check after taxes was $7200. It's still in the bank, meant to be spent on something fun, like a cruise. 

And the Universe snickered.