My sisters - 3 of them, the 4th lives in Utah -- and I met to celebrate 2 birthdays by having brunch. It was really nice, my oldest sister always picks good food places, and we got to talk about women stuff since no husbands were invited.

I have one sister who has left doctoring, and now manages some insurance unit where she decides stuff about treatment. One sister is now retired from nursing, and one sister traded nursing for coding and records, where she tells the doctors where they must fix their records. All patient care is behind them, which I'm glad of. Direct care was hard for people like them because they are extremely conscientious people and the responsibility weighed on them. The retired sister says she still has nightmares about emergencies. She, like the other nurse, did trauma & ICU work. I'm happy that now she can spend her time doing line dancing instead.

That same sister, Jan, just got rid of a squirrel that had gotten into their house and was spending time behind the walls, somehow. It got in wherever their dryer hose goes to the outside, having chewed through a bunch of plastic to be able to crawl in and run around. So after humane traps that caught 2 raccoons and a different squirrel, they finally caught the right one and then replaced their dryer components with all metal.

Today feels great, I am freed from the storage units (and their cost). I now will be going through the boxes slowly. I don't know if I already said this, but there was a dead bat in the 2nd storage unit. Apparently they fly in the holes in the top of the building and can't get out. Made it interesting.