Check. Check. Check.

My list of things to get done before I move is quickly being pared down to nothing. About all that's left is finishing at the school (which I hope to do tomorrow), finalizing everything with the apartment manager here (which is also planned for tomorrow), and cancelling my current cable subscription here (and I think they turn it off the minute I call them, and I'd prefer to keep my TV working a couple more days). That's all I can think of that's left to do, other than the actual moving.

Speaking of actual moving - my bookshelf looks lonely. All my books are packed away in boxes in my spare bedroom. All that's left on the shelf is dust and two software boxes. My "desk" is much the same, though it has a few more things on it because of my computer. Also, it seems U-Haul hates Tullahoma. This makes sense because the only place in Tullahoma that rented U-Hauls was closed on the one day someone (Lee's parents) was going to rent one. But now I'm trying to rent one, and it's a headache. A guy in Estill Springs has some for rent and is willing to be very nice about the return time, saving us from paying for an extra day while not having to rush to get a trailer unloaded and returned. It would require returning the trailer to Estill Springs rather than dropping it off in Madison, AL where I'll be, and the cost of gas is close to the savings for the extra day, but the guy has been nice enough to offer some flexibility, and it's not real money - it's on a credit card.

From an article I read today:

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It costs $12,106 to cover the average American family, with workers picking up about 28 percent of the tab. That works out to $3,281 annually - about $1,500 more than they paid in 2001.

Similarly, it costs $4,479 to cover a single worker, who typically pays 16 percent of the bill, or $694.

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Now, there are co-pays on top of that, but that strikes me as not awful. When I worked as a bagger at Kroger, I could afford that. Not much else, but I wasn't working full time, either. And since when does the problem of "not enough money" not have the solution "work more"? People want a "living wage" as the basis of minimum wage, but if you're working 80 hours a week, even at two minimum wage jobs, you're doing alright financially. Working while raising kids is tough, sure, but people have been doing it for as long as there have been people. I need to save it for the Straw Poll. More tomorrow.