Lowering the Property Values in Shorewood

Don't tell Lois though.  Good gawd.  She would be beside herself if she knew I stepped foot where she lived.  

I wasn't in the area for long, just enough to get strawberries at Metro Market.  I had been at my local Pick N' Save and they didn't look so great but since I knew I wouldn't be that far from this store when I got down with my walk, I thought I'd swing by.  Well Mary Jane didn't have to worry about running into me at the store, and if she did, she could have gotten a good laugh with the cool whip that was on the sweatshirt that I had on.  I realized when I walked in what the hell was that on the front of my sweat shirt? I thought oh well, this isn't my neighborhood.  No danger of anyone really running into me except Lois and she would huff off in disgust.  Not sure if it was Cool Whip on the front of my sweatshirt but yes, I changed when I got home!  I have some class.  Kind of.

I saw the guy that had the rental on the block where I parked.  He had a sign about a year and a half ago with a little container where you could pull out the information.  It was actually a really good price at the time.  It was the lower part.  Just had to help him with the shoveling. The catch?  No cats.  He had two dalmations.  Damn.  She wouldn't taunt the dogs.  She'd hide from them.  I thought this would have been nice.  Maybe too nice for us.  I saw him outside when I got to my car. I thought lucky ducks whoever got the place.  Maybe it wasn't all that, but it would have prevented us from getting blindsided.

Out of my own curiosity, I looked up Cassie's condo on Zillow and her previous home. I was surprised at the value and I thought oh, this may explain a few things.  It explains the guilt she had over my housing situation.  Sigh.  Cassie really lives a privileged life.  More privileged than I realized.  

I don't think anyone is on vacation when you're a stay at home mom.  I don't even want to change the litter box somedays so no, that's not a frigging vacation.  Cassie didn't really work for a lot of years.  She went to MATC for her paralegal degree and interned for a judge for free.  

Here's the difference between the two of us.  I did have some interest in getting a paralegal certificate.  I wasn't sure. I took an online class but most of the classes at MATC were at night and downtown. I took some software classes at their Oak Creek location when I lived in Bay View.  After a long day of work, I was tired.  Cassie could go because she couldn't go to work and as she told me, she didn't sign up to be a legal assistant.  Well. She got the job that she wanted.  I didn't say hey I have 4 years to your 2 years, I thought well, if you want to be a jerk and be above everyone, knock yourself out.

I think it bothered her that I had more hoops to jump through in life.  Well she shouldn't have felt bad, but she shouldn't have acted like a spoiled brat at times.  Announcing to me that she didn't have to work after someone got fired really made her seem like a brat.  The other women who were married needed that income.  Leave it to her to announce it. It bothered me when she retired early and announced on Facebook that her husband was picking up the slack.  Here we go again.  I got a husband and I don't have to do a damn thing.

It kind of makes me not have respect for another woman when they say that type of stuff.  I wonder how her daughter is faring that signed up for a government job.  She didn't want to live in Idaho because she would never live in a state that doesn't support women's rights.  Sigh.  Well I'd like to live closer to the lake because it's warmer where I live but here I am.  Dealing with the humidity and my knees cracking like a popcorn machine.  Her other daughter has panic attacks if she sees people giving blood.  I thought she was feeling ill because she gave blood when Cassie told me she had to leave.  No, she doesn't like it when people donate blood because it gives her anxiety.  I try to have empathy and not be a judgey asshole but this situation made me think, What the . . . . ?   My mom might have gotten me but she probably would have said that was bullshit.  

I think to spend that money on a fancy apartment in a nice area of the state seems kind of a waste.  Then again, she thought lowly of the people that lived in Shorewood because she thought obnoxious Jewish people lived there.  She had one attorney who was from the area.  Well Lois lives here and she's just a Catholic jerk so what does religion have anything to do with it?  I used to go to book readings at the old bookstore they used to have and nobody told me they were going to get their gun when I went door to door for John Kerry in 2004.  Rude people live in all parts of this county.  One isn't any different than the other.  Some just drive nicer cars.

Hopefully I didn't lower the property values too much for Lois' liking.  Maybe she would have liked Cassie.