Wow. This is News!

I had my second attorney consultation this afternoon. The first one was last week and I walked away feeling not at all confident in the attorney. This time, however, I felt like this guy really knows what he's doing and he has the experience to back it up. So, he started by letting me know that he was there to answer all my questions and that, hopefully, I would leave feeling at least a little bit better than I felt walking in. Well, that may have been the best $50 I've spent in my entire life! :D

Ken let me know that not only should I NOT be paying S and his slut's rent (and that no one in his right mind would expect me to be paying it!) but that HE should be paying half the mortgage and other joint bills. Well, how 'bout dat?!? I know, I know, all of my girlfriends have been telling me for weeks that I'm crazy to continue putting $$ in the joint account, but I just couldn't bring myself to completely cut him off. Yes, there's 17 years of history. Anyway, I've already moved my paycheck to my personal account and now I'll take over paying the bills and he can figure out how he's going to pay his rent. As Ken said, maybe he should get an income. LOL.

There were other revelations during the consultation, but that one was, by far, the  best news. So, payday is this week, so I'll have to let S know the news and, yes, he'll be very angry, but that's life. You're 52 years old and you chose this. I didn't. There are consequences in this life. 

On another topic, we got a cat about six years ago because we had a mouse problem in our old house. We'd tried everything to get rid of them, but finally had to get a cat. Enter McGonagal (Maggie for short). She took care of the problem post haste.  But, S bitched about her for six years. Well, he is allergic to cats, I'll give him that. A little cathartic move on DD's on my part: we adopted Kevin today. He's totally awesome. And gorgeous. And sweet. And lovable. Check him out:

Ah. Sweet boy.