#statty

[windupnamazu]

lala-fell!

[trans-pickles]

In her divorce proceedings, Bev offers Tom a great deal - she gets to keep their townhouse in NYC, their vacation home upstate, and their fancy cars in exchange for Tom getting half of her income. Tom jumps at the chance - as the CEO of her company, Bev is pulling six figures a year.

As soon as the deeds and ownership papers and all such documents are handed over to her, Bev promptly sells the townhouse (full of horrible memories of shouting and slamming doors and black eyes under dark sunglasses), the vacation home (cold and dreary and away from people, away from help), all but one of the cars (a nice, dependable SUV, good for road trips with all six of the other losers, plus Patty, plus any new additions to the family), and the company. 

She then moves in with Ben and takes up pottery. She tells her customers (the few she gets, of course) that she’s really in it for the love of art, which is why she’s selling each piece (the few that she sells) for barely enough money to cover the hours she puts into them.

Of course, she is always very fair. The second those checks come through, she divides them straight down the middle and sends half to Tom’s one-bedroom apartment above a 24-hour deli in Staten Island.

[trickstump]

Stan and Patty going on a road trip to all the US national parks.

It’s Stan’s birthday present! Patty hints at it by buying a Big Book of US Birds and they go to all the parks, and hike, and Stan carries around the guide with him and checks off all the birds they see.