I made a decision to go all-digital with my journaling. It’ll take some getting used to and if I don’t like it, I can always return to my old ways, but I’m no longer going to write journals. I decided that with the amount of writing I do, it’d be easiest to just do it all on the computer. I think I’ll start with doing groups of 3 months at a time. This is just a temporary idea, though. I’m gonna do groups like this: January, February, March. Then, April, May, June. Then, July, August, September. Then, October, November, December. This one’s to be March only since we already passed January and February. I’m certainly not going to waste the 4½ more journals that I do have, though, from Andy and my folks. I’ll use those for whatever. I haven’t decided yet, but I will use them. I know I also have to get back to my proofreading project. I will. I haven’t forgotten. I’ll change colors each month, too, like I used to change colors with each new journal I’d type. I’ll still keep my Mystery file. That way I can type up the day’s stuff, then cut and paste it into its group without having to recap and recorrect stuff that’s already been capped and corrected. Maybe I’ll cut and paste stuff into its group, say every 4 pages? Yeah, 4 pages in the Mystery file’s enough.

So far, no phone call from Cigna has come, so that’s good. If we can get past Tuesday without hearing from them, that’ll mean that they could read my PAP and that everything is fine.

Still no period or cramps, but I’m sure I’ll have it tomorrow.

I had mentioned to Tom the reasons why I didn’t want more than one kid (in case I ever did take those egg releasers), and he said that twins are so similar, that one doesn’t feel left out or less special than the other. And they don’t fight like kids who aren’t twins. I still just want one kid. That’s enough to take care of and enough to pay for.

Andy called earlier, wanting to know if he could stop by. That’s fine with me. He’ll be calling when he’s done doing errands, then he’ll come over.

Changing flags on this new pole is a piece of cake. I took down the one with the streamers and tacked it to the gate. I also tacked one with purple flowers onto the door in the back room to his little workroom. Lastly, I tacked up one with sunflowers onto the outside of the front door. I have 5 flags that I’ll fly regularly. The ballet slippers (which are out there now), the music one, Garfield, Snoopy and a parrot.

I may have no feelings down below telling me my rag is on the way, but my tits are so sore! I don’t think they’ve ever been this sore. At least my mental state is a whole lot better. That’s how I know I’ll rag tomorrow for sure. Usually (if you’re not on Aerobid), you tend to perk up emotionally the day before, then more so when you start bleeding. Even Tom notices how much better my moods have been since I quit the Aerobid.

I’d go send an email to Marla to let her know about the appointment, but then I won’t hear Andy’s call, so I’ll wait till later.

Summer’s really setting in. It’s a hot one out there in the low 80s.

I cleaned the house today and it was great weather for it, cuz I could have the vent on while I did it, without freezing this place out. When I got up at 9:00 (I slept a long time and needed it too), the thermostat read 70º, but after venting it out, it read 74º. So it was hotter outside than it was in here.

I did some laundry and now I’m gonna take it easy for the rest of the day. I just have the grocery list to do and a lot of writing to do. I gotta get a letter off to Kim.

Andy wrote:

I absolutely love the look of this journal. I found it at the Fashion Square Mall in Scottsdale, AZ as I was shopping for a birthday present for Jodi. Happy 31st birthday I wish you my best friend in the whole wide world. If being a femmy means being that than I’d rather clean floors for Xena and Calysto. Come to New Zealand where the burgers are charcoal broiled. Eat the fuzz cause the buzz is waiting to take a shower in Hartung’s empty cottage. I live in a paper bag torn now from World War II. Seventy years of bad luck followed. Where are you when I need you to follow me down to the silver lining with Grayson Hall who is now in parallel time with the Trilogy of Terror? Eventually he no longer was famous, he was simply infamous. I’m missing the bus so I’m walking to the mailbox. Eat liver it is so good with spinach and colored pencils.