Tom went to get me some incense on Saturday and to see if Jan got her incense from Incense Galore, but she was closed. I hope she’s open next Saturday on my birthday.

We renewed my Webshots membership, though we’re paying month to month instead of a year. It’s $4 a month.

It may be worth paying that a month for Yahoo’s radio extras. It’s so cool what you can do nowadays! You can customize your own radio station, skip songs you don’t like, click links for photos, lyrics and more.

It’s nice not having to vacuum so often as I did in Maricopa now that there’s no dust, dirt and weeds to be tracking inside constantly. I haven’t vacuumed for a couple of weeks now and it still doesn’t need it. I just dust and do the kitchen and bathroom, and that’s it. It goes real quick compared to that big old monster of a house we used to have, though I’d gladly take it back and throw it in the woods somewhere if I could.

We’re still researching where we may move to. Tom thinks some of the small towns closer to Salem, Eugene and Portland may be best. That way we could do rural living while being closer to a bigger city than we are right now (Medford).

I also researched Ukiah, a town I used in one of my stories. It’s a coastal town that’s not too far from Sacramento, but I doubt we’ll end up in California. The further down you go, the more welfare bums there are, though a freeloader 400’ away can be better than a white person attached to you.

It was a quiet weekend. No music from Beverly, or bass, I should say. I was pleasantly surprised.

Later…

Here’s another example of life not being fair. They’re going to pay this chick Tom works with to go to cosmetology school simply because she’s a single mother. But so are half the mothers in the world. Meanwhile, I had to pay what? About 5 grand?

Anyway, I found another gay/lesbian publishing company, though I don’t know if they do e-books or regular print. They don’t say what they pay either if they pay at all. The company I’m still waiting to hear back from says they pay 30% for e-books and 15% for hard copies. Again, it hardly seems fair. The author should get most of the money. They’re the ones who wrote the book. This is why I’m not sure if getting something published would be the big deal Tom thinks it’d be. It’s just that as usual, I’d be working to make other people money much, much more so than I would myself. Just like I said when I had to pay so much of my dancing money out to bouncers, DJs, house tips, etc., I don’t like being used. As far as what’s up there is concerned, I was put here on this earth to serve others. But who services ME?

I may or may not submit the book I’m working on to this other company when it’s done. I’m hesitant only because there’s just no money to be made in it. I’d have to sell a million copies and there’s just no demand for lesbian fiction that’d generate that many sales.

I was surprised to find that some of the gay writers are actually straight, or at least appear to be.

I’m wondering if the reason I haven’t heard back regarding College Romance is that I didn’t meet their recommended word count. Or maybe it just isn’t meant to be.

I have to struggle to talk myself into working out. It’s just that between the combination of me always weighing 127 pounds, and not having the strength to fight the hunger in order to eat less, it’s hard to motivate myself at times. Oh well. I can at least do it to keep fit.