All is well on my front. I have not buried Andy’s remains in the backyard, or even stabbed the man, as we’ve worked out a suitable option for now that stabilizes things. Doesn’t stop me from wanting to wring his throat, but I know he was doing the best he can and wasn’t trying to sink us into massive debt. He’s just money stupid. But I’ve been working on his money education for over four years now and I can successfully say that he is doing SO much better than when before I met him.

It amazes me that schools don’t require every student to take a personal finances classes. Blows my mind. We have to make sure we take at least four different science classes, four math, english, et cetera not to mention sex ed, but heaven forbid we require students to have a solid foundation in finances before we send them out into the world.

Obviously, parents should teach their kids this. But his parents are not fine examples of money management so… well, the shoe fits is what I’m saying. If I were on a school board, that’s one part of the curriculum that I’d change. Mandatory personal finance class or no diploma.

Anyway.

I’ve been paying a lot of attention to the local political scene for my city and while it’s something I think every person should do, I almost preferred my little bubble of ignorance to knowing what block heads we have in our city council.

For example, we voted to raise taxes so that we could get a riverfront museum but then the developer never got his share of the money and has passed deadlines for providing contracts and blue prints for the museum and yet our council hasn’t retracted from the agreement and taken back the several million dollars we gave them. And yet, they are cutting our police force, cutting our snow routes for this year, and thinking about cutting out funding for the animal shelter. They are cutting basic civic services and yet they handed over several millions of dollars to a developer who has yet to actually develop anything or receive the extra private funding he was supposed to have gotten. Nuts.

That’s not even getting started on our local school district which is in complete shambles… It’s an interesting business.

Also, the more I read, the more convinced I am that I’m definitely going to have to sign up on the PTA to help fix some of the school problems (dear God, joining the PTA…. the stuff nightmares are made of…. maybe I’ll make being on the PTA hip) and then maybe from there birdwalk my way up in local politics to get things moving. Or at least harass the appropriate persons in charge.

Like, my current city councilman who is a complete wet noodle. How come only the rich districts have effective council members who actively look after their interests? And why does he not live in OUR district and yet he is supposed to represent us? Ridiculous.