OK, let me get this story right — You are married and a relatively new female friend of yours is texting you first thing in the morning and last thing at night, and asking you to move so you can become room-mates? Am I reading this correct?

Getting one CT scan every once in a while is fine. My mom has to get one every sex months to monitor her cancer, so it is actually saving her life FROM cancer, not giving her more cancer.

Wow, that’s fantastic!

Exactly. I am just glad I didn't have kids to support at that time. I really have a lot of empathy for those folks. Food stamps does not pay much.

Yeah, they do check your accounts and such. They have a whole fraud prevention task force. I guess you could say it is like the IRS auditing you, but on a much smaller scale. Most folks don't get audited by the IRS, but they are free to do so and can look into all you finances if they do. It was surprising when they…

I was on food stamps in California for about a year and a half. I was having serious mental health problems and in and out of hospitals at the time. I had a part-time job workign from home, but was getting paid minimum wage and only 15-20 hours a week. It made the difference between not eating at all and having a meal…