GUBM texted SO today to let him know that she's moving soon. Like. Real soon. She'll be registering SD at her new school on Monday and moving to a new area in NJ. She won't say why. SD is MIA so SO can't even talk to her about her own feelings on the matter. It all stinks of shady fishiness if you ask me.

I'm betting that either GUBM is not allowed to stay in the apartment they have right now (either via eviction or via non-renewal of lease) or she has burned her bridge with her now loser ex-boyfriend so badly that living in that area is unbearable (because her comfort is of the utmost importance). Apparently, SO found out recently that her loser boyfriend moved out in July, so, I'm guessing she's either been hard pressed to make rent every month because she couldn't afford it without her live-in loser, or, since he lives in that area, she can't stand to be near him.

On the one hand, it's annoying that she's ripping SD out of another school mid-way through a school year. This child has never been permitted to complete a school year when GUBM gets the moving bug up her ass. It's in the same county, so, I guess that's OK as far as SD keeping in touch with what few friends she actually has at her current school. And at least she's not trying to change states. She had a fleeting idiot moment last year, late winter/early spring, that she'd move to NY with SD. It's also annoying because she's moving to a more expensive area and she might try to hit SO up for more CS every month. There's no formal agreement for CS, just SO and GUBM operating on good faith that CS will be paid every month and it will used for SD's well-being.

On the other hand, the school district sounds way better than her current one. First, they have zero tolerance for the kind of attitude that SD likes to pull. So, that's nice. Hopefully she's already worked the snottiness out of her system by the time she starts there. She might actually be challenged mentally, but, this could pose a problem if she's going from a half-ass school into a rigorous school mid-year. I don't know if she'll be able to catch up on her work. It was worlds different when she moved last time in the middle of a school year because she went from an awesome school district into the half-ass school district. So she was ahead of the game. Also, the new school has a fall and a spring break (each a week long) that would permit SO to have at least three weeks with SD before summer break every year if you count Christmas breaks (which we aren't this year because she isn't coming). So, that would mean more parenting time made available to SO as the new school district doesn't do that dumb "long breaks over a weekend" thing.

SO is just waiting to hear back from SD to get her feelings on the situation. He knows she isn't happy at her current school because it's not challenging her, but, he doesn't know how she feels about being uprooted mid-year again, nor does he know the entire situation as GUBM, the asshat that she is, feels she's a stellar mom for even telling SO about the move. Although we all know that the only reason she did that is so that she can get her "prize money" for birthing a child.