The cost of renting an apartment or a house just seems to keep going up and up doesn’t it? Meanwhile our salaries don’t seem increase at anywhere the same rate. Sometimes the best way to get around the cost of renting is to share your space with a roommate. Whether that be renting […]

Last year we had a border from Brazil. Our previous borders had been from Vietnam so we didn’t know what to expect when he was moving in. It turned out that he was a very nice, quite guy who absolutely loved his country.

He talked about Brazil all the time, showing us photos, and […]

I just realized that our Brazilian boarder is going home tomorrow and I haven’t even written a rant post about him. What a change.

It’s not that he’s been a perfect boarder, but he certainly was better than the first two that we had. The first boarder slept all the time and seemed depressed. We just […]

I mentioned earlier that I’d tell you about our third boarder. Well, the time is now.

We’ve taken in few boarders over the last few months to help pay the bills around here. I’ve been off work due to illness for over 9 months now and I have NO income coming in. So we had […]

I’m so damn angry right now!
My boarder, a home stay student from Korea, has been driving me nuts all week. I could just break something right now!
I’m not going to get into all the details right now. I’m too pissed to do that. Grrrrrr!

The really short story is that we have to provide three […]