Over the course of our day, the following things have happened:

1.  Will’s other sister (not the one who came to visit, the other one) called him while he was at work to scream at him for not telling her about our engagement.  Will doesn’t really get along with the females in his family and this is pretty good evidence of why.  While part of me wants to flog Will for not telling them sooner, the rest of me understands why he avoids dealing with them.  Even the happiest of situations can turn them into screaming wildebeests.  So yeah.  By nine in the morning he’d already had someone screaming at him.

2.  Two of our friends decided to split up.  They’ve been married for just over two years and when we lived in Roseburg, this was the couple we’d go out to dinner with when we wanted to do “couple” things like, well, going out to dinner because there wasn’t anything else to do in Roseburg.  And the decision wasn’t really mutual so much as it was the wife unexpectedly dumping her husband.  Will and I are trying to convince the husband to move up here and crash with us while he gets himself settled but, because of his outrageous car payment, he can’t afford to just up and move, even if we didn’t charge him any rent.  So, while he saves up money to move (because the Wife decided that she wanted to keep the apartment), they are going to keep living together in the apartment.  They’ve moved into separate bedrooms, but…what kind of hellish torture that must be!

(We’ll just sort of…gloss over the fact that if he’s living there and still paying half the rent and his entire car payment he isn’t likely to save up money to move any time soon)

3.  Will’s company is going through budget cuts and they are letting one of Will’s favorite coworkers go so that they can keep Will.  While it is certainly flattering to know that they will do whatever they can to keep him even if it means working around his impossible fall school schedule, Will still feels really badly for the coworker that they are letting go.  He even begged them to put him down to part time again so that they could afford to keep the other guy, but I guess they wouldn’t listen.

I’m trying to think of a funny way to wrap all of this up, but…yeah…I’ve got nothing.  I’ve been writing allllll day so my brain is fried.

I think that this has been a Monday of Garfieldian proportions!