Last night my husband and I got into a bit of an argument. My mother had called and mentioned that my great aunt is in a nursing and, unfortunately, will not be able to return to her home that she has lived in for 60 years. She and my great uncle (who passed away quite some time ago) bought the home when it was brand new and she has lived there ever since. Her son and his wife have decided to sell the house and use the money to pay for her care in the nursing home. From what my mother says they should be selling it rather cheap to get it off their hands. It's a beautiful home on a dead end street just around the corner and would perfect for us. However, i can't seem to convince my husband that owning a home, paying a mortgage and having equity is better than paying what we would be paying for a mortgage in rent and having NOTHING! He's so thickheaded sometimes. I mean really...he could get not only a first-time homeowners mortgage, but a veterans to boot! He's nuts...and I married him! I still love him although I'd like to smack him in the back of the head sometimes!!!

In other news...This new game I'm playing has become quite addicting! I've been raiding neighboring villages since yesterday morning and my own little village has experienced quite the growth spurt because of it. I know have a population of 139, which includes 20 legionnaires and 1 Equites Lagati. I'm growing faster than anyone around me! Raiding people is so much fun!!!

My husband told me last night that he had no more work shirts to wear because all of his were dirty. Fine time to tell me at 11:00 at night! I guess he had 1 left which he would be wearing today. This morning I decided to run downstairs and do a load of laundry so that he would have clean work shirts for tomorrow. I figured that in between loads I could play my new game. Well, I went down at 11:00 this morning and threw his shirts in the washer. Someone was occupying the drying, no big deal. After an hour I would be able to run back downstairs to switch my laundry over, right? WRONG! Someone never took their clothes out of the dryer. Not so big of a deal. I could have simply taken them out and put mine in the dryer, right? WRONG AGAIN!!! Their clothes aren't even dry and they've been in the dryer for 2 hours!!!! They don't have a big load in there, they are obviously just too darn cheap to pay the $1.25 for 60 minutes of dryer time. My guess is that they only spent about 50 cents for 20 minutes!!! So..here it is 2 hours later and I STILL haven't been able to put my clothes in the dryer. They've been sitting in the washer for over an hour and a half because someone is too lazy to go get their laundry!!! If they sit in there too long and I have rewash them (because we all know what happens to clothes that sit in a washer for too long) I'm going to flip out and make a report at the office. What annoys me most is that when I do laundry, since there is only 1 washer and 1 dryer for an 11 apartment complex, I have the common decency to keep an eye on the time so that I can get my clothes out of the way and make room for someone else to do their dirty laundry!!! I've just gone out the front door and I can hear that the dryer is going, so apparently they finally got off their behind and went back to the laundry room to finish drying their clothes. Guaranteed their clothes will sit in that dryer for another 2 hours! Correction, it WOULD sit in that dryer for two hours, but as soon as i hear that the dryer has stopped I will be taking their clothes out and putting mine in! And I will be making a report at the office...this is ridiculous. By the time my clothes are dry it will have taken me well over 4 hours to do one load of laundry!