Yesterday I put together the 550-piece glow-in-the-dark puzzle I got at Walmart. It’s pretty cool. I flipped it over, taped the back, and will put it up on either these walls or the walls wherever we’re going to live if we move. For a while, I had sure-set vibes that we were going to lose the house, but today I’m starting to have vibes about staying. They started right after Tom told me he applied online for a job at Casa Grand’s library. He applied for part-time in the evenings and on weekends, and because it’s a government job, it pays better. Like $10 an hour. If he can find an additional job that also pays well, then maybe we can stay here. We’ll see. There are pros and cons to both staying and leaving, like I said before. I’d like more land, to not have a house payment, and to get further away from people, but I do love this house!

I already packed most of the decorative items and non-necessities, so I’ll have to put those back if we stay, but I won’t mind. It’ll give me a chance to redecorate and I do like to go through things periodically to weed out old junk or shit I never use anymore anyway. We’re still going to have a tag sale even if we stay, but we may hold it in the center of town where it’ll get more attention. The only thing that will be a bitch to put back is the lacy valances. I’ll probably have Tom do it. He’s tall enough to hang the rods on the hooks anyway.

It’s been over a week since I’ve worked on my story. It also seems like they’ve stopped flying every other day, so maybe I’ll work more on it soon. I like to do it when Tom’s not home or is asleep, but we’ve both been on days lately. I don’t like anything around that could distract me.

Here come the renters. Even though it’s dark I can tell it’s them by the sound of the old dumpy truck they’ve been driving lately. They had gone out a couple of hours ago. It’s early yet, so they may go out at least once more.

Memolink gave me 50 birthday points which was cool. I’m up to 2426 now. I’m also signed up for daily freebie/discount emails and I play these scratch ticket games they have at one particular site. I don’t know if any of them are ever allowed to win, but I do it anyway.

I’ve been walking while I watch Kate, though only through the scenes she’s in. I know I should be walking more than 20 minutes a day and eating less than 2000 calories a day, but it’s better than walking 0 minutes a day and eating more than I do in a day.

I’ve officially named the gray and white rat Piggy since he’s quite an eater, and I’m just calling the brown one Brownie.

I’m going to have letters going out to Mary and Paula on Monday. I won’t stop writing Mary weekly till I hear from her. If I don’t hear anything by the new year and can’t get an answer from the aunt, then I’m going to assume she doesn’t want anything to do with me anymore for whatever reason and simply doesn’t have the guts to tell me so herself. I don’t know, maybe she’d be afraid of me putting a spell on her. I agree with Tom’s number one assumption, though: she’s probably just broke.

I called Paula today from Tom’s phone and I swear I’ll hang up from now on if that sick cock she’s with is there! I call on precious time and money and she’s yelling, “Mind your own fucking business! She didn’t call here for you.”

The little paranoid shit thinks we’re lovers. It’s like, yeah right! What does he think we do, get it on over the phone?

Anyway, because of the lack of money and her screaming at him and Justin, I only stood on long enough to ask if she got the incense and about the spell. She got the incense, but as Tom said would be the case, it was all broken up. I told her to send me $10 if she wants me to ship more to her in a box. I’m sick of carting the bill here. She ought to pay some of her own shipping expenses for once. She needs to learn that I can’t just give, give and give. She’s got to give a little herself every now and then and do her fair share.

She never even asked about my birthday or said a simple little “thanks” when she confirmed that the spell I put on her did dissolve her cold. So now I know I can do long-distance curses and healing. I’m not surprised. I figured as much, after all. Mary’s silence pertaining to when I’d ask her about it kind of told me the answer, and besides, I figure that if you’re psychic, you’re psychic and so distance shouldn’t matter because psychicness is in the realms of the paranormal. Tom explained to me that because Mary believes in angels, curses would probably spook her, though she did ask me to make sick Todd’s little slut, so I don’t know.

Anyway, I did go ahead and enclose a small envelope made out from Paula to Incense Galore so she can get a free sample since that was no biggie, but like I said, if she wants more incense and CDs, she’ll just have to learn to give a little to get a little. I can’t be expected to do it all.