Late in the day that Tammy was to be admitted, she let me know she was at home because there were no rooms available. Instead, a nurse came to administer antibiotics and steroids through an IV.

At least they must not consider her case critical or else I would think they would have made room for her. Strange that they wouldn’t have enough rooms, though. Was there a spike in population or is it just a small hospital? I know that illegals have been really straining the hell out of many states like Florida, Cali, Arizona and others. And of course, they’re always considered before others.

At least Aly can be in the hospital in the Midwest if she has to have the misfortune of having to be hospitalized. She was feeling dizzy and really cold and figured her iron levels were low. Her blood work came back showing both her red and white blood cell counts were low, so they kept her overnight. They want to do a bone marrow biopsy because one doctor thinks it’s leukemia while another thinks it’s just her anemia. She doesn’t have symptoms of leukemia and I don’t sense that she has that any more than I sense Tammy does, but who knows? I may be incredibly intuitive, but I don’t know everything, and I can’t always know a dream may be a premonition until and if it actually happens or at least close enough to what I saw in the dream. Hopefully, the blood transfusion she had will help. She said she expected to be discharged tonight.

I’ve been feeling well, but have noticed a slight increase in fatigue since having to lower my dose. I was both surprised and disappointed to tire down after just five or six hours of activity yesterday. Yes, it was a lot of activity and much of it was physical, but still. It seemed a bit extreme and I worry about how I’m going to handle moving when I have days like that.

My worst fear is actually something going wrong with one of us as it gets close to when it’s time to go, but I don’t even want to think along those lines! It’s just that if I’m right about a noise curse then whatever is up there isn’t going to make it easy for us to get out of what’s been the noisiest place I’ve ever lived. Hasn’t been too bad today, though.

Realizing how important it is to stay put until he retires made me go back to being concerned about him being laid off but nah, I’m not worried. Again, nothing’s going to pave the way for us to get out of here that easily, plus, he should be able to get another job soon enough, white, older, and from here or not. It just may not pay as well.

Thought I heard the mama’s boy come in, but Tom didn’t think it was that car. Now that I know the end of our time here isn’t near after all and that that was just wishful thinking, the bastard would start coming and going a million times like it used to. We’ll see.

Forgot to mention that several days ago Dixie called saying I left my cell phone at her place and then she realized it was actually her old cell phone. She cracks me up because she’s such a hypocrite at times and I don’t think she realizes it with her bordering on dementia. First, she told me not to let noise get to me and annoy me and all and why that’s not a good thing, then she went right on to tell me how much her thermostat annoys her.

When I asked if she heard and was annoyed by the latest round of tree cutting a few days ago, she said no, she doesn’t pay attention to the noise around here. But then the next sentence was about how annoyed she was by Santa’s car alarm, and did I hear it? I didn’t because I probably had the sound machine blasting to drown out the sawing, but I did hear a few honks of a car alarm yesterday evening that could have been coming from there. It didn’t bother me, though, because it wasn’t that loud and it was only about four honks.

I realize that it really is best to keep the things that annoy me to myself because it seems that the more I let people know what gets to me, the more they do it. That pretty much tells me about them too, and who cares and who doesn’t.

I complained in a Facebook status about being congratulated on other people’s wins and wondered why some Facebookers would congratulate people to everyone on their friend list instead of just to them. Then Tammy turns around and congratulates Sarah to all of us on her stupid job. It also seems like the more I drop hints about not wanting to hear about those I’m no longer connected to, the more she mentions them. Tom agrees that if I mention it to her directly, she’ll likely get all worked up and mention them even more. She’s very Andy in that department. Well, gee then, I should have just told her to keep me as informed as possible. So what if they don’t give a shit about me?

Tammy’s always been like this in general. I’ll point out a particular way something is spelled, for example, but she just doesn’t listen or doesn’t care. It’s really nothing new.

Been wondering what’s going on next door. I noticed their light on by the garage which they never leave on at night, fortunately, since it’s kind of bright unless they’re running their Christmas display in front. Saw Nancy’s car in the carport yesterday evening and then the car and light disappeared. My first thought was maybe they took off somewhere, but then why didn’t they tell me? They have slipped away before without giving word, so I hope that’s all it is and not that something went wrong with one of them. It just seems a little too early for Thanksgiving and definitely for Christmas.

Made another sale and got another borrow of Ginny today. In my message to Stacey, I mentioned that book and wonder if she could be any of the buyers or borrowers. If I had to guess, I would say no. If she wouldn’t check out my blog, or so she said, why check out my books?

Deleted my Twitter running account because I never remembered to use it.

We went to KFC yesterday after work and I got chicken strips with waffles and it was fantastic. Best waffles ever!

Then we stopped at Rite Aid for the usual wine and treats we get. No matter how much we may like certain foods, it’s just way too hard to eat the same things every day. It’s just not worth it if it’s not going to cause us to lose weight. It may keep us from gaining, but it’s hard to sacrifice for no results. We need to be bad on weekends and throw in some variety or else we’ll go crazy, LOL.

If only I could think of the kinds of story ideas I used to be able to come up with. It seems like I struggle to think not only of ideas but how to make certain scenes last longer and more detailed. I struggle to meet my own personalized daily word count but can ramble away to no end in journals. Go figure. Guess there’s more going on in reality than my imagination.

We went to Goodwill today and I swear I could spend all day trying on the tons and tons of clothes they have. I was going to grab some incense, but the place was so crowded and the line was too long.

I’m so sick of crowds and traffic. We’re definitely, definitely going to settle in a smaller town when we get out of here. Hopefully, the dream I had means we eventually will be in a smaller town. Tom and I were in a small store in the dream and he was telling the person that worked there that it was nice to come out and see what they had each week be it dolls, games or whatever because they were the only store in town.

Then I had a dream someone was telling me, or at least suggesting, that my mother had an affair. I’ve always wondered if either of my parents ever stepped out on each other because it’s so common. I would guess not, though. But sometimes I feel like Tom and I are the only faithful people out there. We may flirt and we may have our crushes, but then so does everyone.

We’ve been discussing the pros and cons of getting a Windows computer versus a Mac Mini. The only thing that sucks about most solid-state drives is that they don’t come with touch screens. I’d really like to have that option.

He has a Mac Mini for which he’s going to get a faster drive. Right now I’m leaning towards a Windows computer which he’s been using at work as well as for coding and he’s gotten pretty used to it. They’ve really beefed up their security lately as well. I absolutely love this new feature where you can voice type in other languages as well as English. I said a few sentences in Spanish and it was right on. Anything that can understand his pitiful Spanish, which is limited to just a few sentences, has got to be pretty good. LOL

We’re also discussing phones and other gadgets. We looked at Tammy’s iPhone, but we still find that Androids work best for us. We paid a buck for ours and no monthly payments during a promotion they were having to get new customers. Guess it’s just a matter of personal preference. I don’t, however, like that my LG model won’t let me block numbers. Therefore, I may end up getting this Samsung Galaxy that looked kind of interesting for about $12 a month, plus a few decorative cases for it as well. Glitter, flowers, that sort of thing.

Might be trying a gel and memory foam mattress with no coils that still has a bounce to it, so they say, which I like.

Would love to get a smartwatch, a tablet and a few other things, but we only have so much money. Alexa rings are too big for my fingers, but definitely gonna get an Alexa with a clock in it.

In light of how busy I am with my writing and other things, and given how easy it is to ramble on with speech-to-text, I’m thinking I might write more for myself and less for others. The more I share, the more I find myself filtering things I wouldn’t normally filter. It gets a little tricky to edit things just right for each and every person and place I share it with. I don’t want that time-consuming pain in the ass on my hands, and sometimes it really is best to be a little more private anyway. I can do status updates on Facebook to let people know what’s going on in my life, bullet entries on PB and MD, and keep in touch with Kim and Aly on WhatsApp and texting.