Well, I guess I didn’t get to write much the other day. When you’re babysitting 3 kids, you cannot write in a journal. I babysat from 2 PM to 10 PM. Tammy and Bill went out to dinner and a movie. I’d also done 4 loads of laundry.

There was a message from Jessie when I returned from babysitting. She never called back till last night but my father called that night while I was putting my laundry away. He and Ma sounded in an ok mood. Actually better than usual. Especially Mom. Once a year she’s in a jolly old mood. Perhaps it’s cuz she just had come back from Disneyland. Or Disneyworld. Whichever one it is. After the dispute, Tammy said she had with them, I sort of suspected they’d be a little more cheerful with me. I have a package on its way from UPS, and the girls got one too, while I was at the house. Dad says there’s hair stuff in the package along with other stuff. I really hope I get my microwave soon.

As far as dumping them, I’ll leave that up in the air for now. I am no longer speaking to them that often and never would if the calls were free. That’s when the trouble starts. People like them are always easier to deal with if you only speak so much to them. Unless something’s done that really irks me, I’ll leave things as they are. They don’t know it, but they are on their last chance. One more thing is all it’ll take for them to lose me and if no one can believe that, well, they’ll just have to wait and see, won’t they?

I should be getting a letter from Bob next week sometime. I did what Bob told me to do as far as making plants from other plants. I broke off a twig of 4”, threw it in a glass of water, put it in my kitchen window and now I have roots. I’ll get some planting soil tomorrow when I go food shopping. I need to go very badly, too. I’m completely wiped out of food. I only have around $76 till I get my check so I’ll have to shop wisely. I won’t need only food, but there are cigarettes, too. I wish I could quit!

Tammy went through exactly what I went through with the Nicorette gum with her patch. She still has bad urges and is smoking a few cigs daily.