...the day has come that I thought would never happen. I've lived in this house for 25 years. I know I had briefly lived in Tampa for a year, but other than that, the house on Florida Avenue has ALWAYS been my childhood home. I never thought I'd see the day when my mom says 'We have to sell the house.'

Apparently the Polk County government is making cutbacks in staff, and the first people to go are gonna be those in the DROP program (it has something to do with retirement). With my mom being in that program, they're most likely gonna have her retire early. After that, she can no longer afford mortgage payments on the house, which right now sits somewhere over 900 dollars a month, because Countrywide (now Bank of America Home Loans) are complete assholes and won't work with her to help reduce her payments.

That means we're gonna have to dump a lot of shit from the house, put it up for sale, and move.

This is going to be a rough year. Art and updates are gonna be far and few until this mess gets straightened out.