Yesterday was the hottest day since moving into this place. Even the other rooms got hot. I was surprised to see the dog out in the early evening, but that’s what people do when it’s warm; they throw their dogs outdoors.

We’re getting ready to walk to the store soon, but first, there’s a guy at work who Tom says is moving out of a house next month. It’s a small two-bedroom house for $450. It’s heading towards the Stuart-Lennox area. We don’t know if we can get the money together in time or if we’d even qualify with the rat in the picture since the landlord only allows outdoor animals. He has a dog, this guy, which I didn’t think could be left outdoors in the dead of winter, but apparently they can be. The only indoor animals allowed there are fish.

I like the fact that it’s off a highway and has two bedrooms, but I’m not sure I like other things I heard about it. The lady next door has two dogs which they sometimes hear her yell at, and is crazy. He didn’t elaborate on how she’s crazy, but I don’t know if I want to live next to a crazy lady with two dogs that don’t seem to be allowed indoors. Haven’t I had enough crazy neighbors who don’t allow their dogs indoors?

Another turn-off is that there’s a church across the street, though since churches are only active on Sundays for the most part, this may be okay.

Another negative is that there are kids on the other side, though he did say they’ve never been a problem as far as playing on his property goes. Yeah, but do they stand outside and scream for hours at a time?

He said there’s not much of a yard but there is a long driveway with a detached garage. You can park 3 cars in the driveway, I guess.

The house uses oil heating which doesn’t do a good job, though it does also have a fireplace. He says he doesn’t know how good a job it does because he’s never used it, but that it’s also vented into one of the bedrooms.

It’s ironic that it has some features I saw in my visions, like the two bedrooms that are small and that it’s owned by an older guy, but I’m not sure this is the place for us. No yard is going to be void of barking dogs. Especially one we end up next to. Therefore, we may as well stay in the heart of the city where we can walk to stores. Tom’s going to get more information from him, but for now, we’ll keep our options open. All I know is that there is no peaceful place on earth for Tom and Jodi S.

Later…

I love it when people fuck up on us for the better. I really do! I not only got the oils today, two days sooner than expected, but I got way more than was due me! I was supposed to get 8 1-oz. bottles of the spring scents they just got in. Yet besides getting those, I got a 4-oz. bottle of extreme concentrate Watermelon which was one of the spring scents. Also, I got a 1-oz. bottle of Pink Sugar, a designer perfume that I wasn’t supposed to get either. I added that on figuring that if he was dumb enough not to know what samples he owed me that he had to ask me what they were, then I should be able to manipulate at least one freebie off of him and I did! Either way, I’m quite delighted! It smells really damn fruity in here right now.

Amazingly, Fatty Patty was gone most of the day. I didn’t see the dog till it hit the back a few minutes ago for what I’m sure will be 4-6 hours.

It was cool on the way to BK and the grocery store this morning, but it had easily climbed a good 10º by the time we were headed back. We lucked out big time with the groceries. They had sales on lots of good things like fried chicken, fish and shrimp.