The Bowflex sold for $355. We’d have liked a little more than that since the thing cost us $1200, but it’s better than nothing for something we don’t want to take with us and that’s 4 years old. At first we were pissed when we saw the winner was in Missouri, and I was like, eBay’s got to come up with some kind of controls we can use to automatically reject bidders we don’t want, but then we got an email from this guy saying that although he’s in Missouri, he wants it delivered to his daughter in Chandler. So Tom called and spoke to the daughter Alisha, and will be delivering it tomorrow.

The guitar now has a bid. We figured it would go because two people asked questions about it.

Today we’re going to list things like paperbacks, decorative picture frames, intercoms from 1969 that were part of some unclaimed freight, (he used to know someone who worked at a train station) and whatever else comes to mind. Maybe we’ll put up one of Critter Trail cages.

I’m a little worried about my weight. For the last couple of years, I could still get as low as 127. Once I began my diet, I expected to drop to that and stay there, but after two days of watching what I eat, I’m still 130! I wonder if this is now as low as I can go. Oh well. As long as I don’t gain.

Later…

Cool! The incense has a bid after receiving just 6 views. The guitar has another bid too, and is up to $50. When I think of how well we did at the swap meet and how well we’re doing with eBay, even if we don’t end up selling much incense, I see a money curse lifting and reversing itself slowly but surely. Still, we have so much incense that we’re contemplating adding a free 20-pack to each winning bidder and each store purchase. I guess our mistake was having the last auction be one scent and that variety is the key to selling more incense. If it turns out that the incense was merely a gateway to us selling all kinds of stuff, along with giving me something else to enjoy, that’s cool, too.

The grape incense I made has a funny smell to it. I hate when my incense doesn’t come out right. My chocolate minis don’t smell right either, nor do my short or long butter rums. From now on I’m getting them dipped anyway.

We even got paid to go get water, soda and mailers. They gave Tom a free refill (that’s being in a small town for you), the priority mailers are always free, and he got paid to fill our 5-gallon water jug. He inserted a buck to fill it, only to be spat back the dollar and an extra nickel along with the water. Not bad.

We decided that by late May we’re going to have to put our foot down if nothing’s happening with the house because we can’t afford to be here when the heat really sets in and kicks our electric bill up to $400. This means that if we don’t get a decent offer from an investor and if we don’t go to his mother for help, we’ll contact this place that pays cash for houses. The problem with that is that we’ll only get about $5,000 and will have to spend about a year making payments on our new land, but a year of paying for land is better than paying forever on a house/land package.

I just hope I like Oregon and don’t end up having any regrets! Then again, I’ve started over one too many times in my life in so many different ways, so like it or not, shitty neighbors or not, I’m staying put for at least 15 years! I’ve had it with moving and with starting this over and starting that over. I decided I’d be ok with starting over as far as our failed attempt to get things to grow like we tried to here, with the exception of a few olianders, but if for some reason we’re unable to take my indoor plants, I’m not getting new ones there. It’s just that the starting over thing gets old after a while. Sometimes I don’t mind, other times I think I ought to add a rule against it to my do-not-forgive rule.

Anyway, we’re aiming to be out of here between Memorial Day and his birthday.

We’re looking forward to online gambling there which this control freak of a state won’t allow. In fact, Arizona’s such a controlling state that you can’t even play games for points through points programs.