Sent a message to Stacey since it’s been a while. I still miss her at times. I sent it at 1 a.m. and when I got up, I found that she read it at 9 a.m. She never replied and I don’t expect her to this time around, but I’m okay with that. I just wanted to say hello and let her know what’s been going on these last couple of years. I told her about the liothyronine experiment, the brand issues and things like that. I know most people aren’t as quick to do things as I am, so there’s still a chance she had to go somewhere or do something after she read the message and plans to reply later on, but I doubt it.

Much to my delight, Renting Ginny has received another borrow! :-) They haven’t read as many pages yet. It got me thinking about keywords. Maybe I did a better job with them this time around, making my stuff easier to find. I read more about keywords and found that they’re not quite the same as tags. They’re a little more descriptive. Instead of just “rat,” “smart brown rat” would be more appropriate, for example.

Fortunately, our delivery arrived before the gates closed for the night. But unfortunately, the pigs don’t seem the least bit interested in their new plush burrow. If they don’t eventually decide to use it, I’m sure the rats will. Rats are great for things like that. Tried a new food you didn’t like? Just give it to your rats, they’ll love it! But they’re way more destructive than guinea pigs so the burrow won’t last as long with them

I used the ramen noodle cooker and it is definitely very convenient, although not something I expect to use very often any more than the rice cooker. I don’t have pasta often. The only starchy food I have fairly regularly is potatoes.

The nail polish remover pads work well, and I’ll leave my nails bare as boring as that is until they clear up.

Haven’t been able to remember much in the way of dreams lately. Just bits and pieces of this and that. Some woman giving me a pedicure and me being annoyed by spam on all kinds of sites. That’s so true, too. They’re all over PB, and you would think that a wallpaper picture site would be the last place you’d find spammers, yet you’d be wrong. They just incorporate their messages in photos. The site doesn’t seem in any hurry to delete them either.

I was relaxing in bed, letting my mind wander the other night when I realized that some of my fears and concerns in life have shifted a bit. My worst fear has always been growing old and dying and while that is still a very real fear that I’ll have to face someday, right now I think an even bigger fear is whether or not there’s an afterlife and what it may hold for me. I fear that if one exists, it could be a billion times worse than my earthly existence. I try to remind myself that if there is one, I have just as much of a chance of it being as good or better than this life as I do of it being worse, don’t I? Yet the unknown continues to be a scary thought.

However, money issues don’t scare me nearly as much as they used to. After the hell I’ve suffered, I would much rather be poor than go through what I’ve gone through. The thought of losing everything to poverty or some kind of natural disaster used to be one of my greatest fears. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would have given it a 9. These days it’s more like a 5-6 because I know that objects can always be replaced. There are clothes and knickknacks just as nice as the ones I have and the same goes for everything else we own. The only thing that would be a tragedy to lose would be our pets, and of course, it would be a real pain in the ass to have to get new birth certificates and all that. So, losing documents and animals is definitely a 10+.