Yesterday turned out to be an awesome day! Not without next door worrying me first, though. Again I thought they were moving because they were loading stuff up and getting pretty annoying about it too, with loud door slamming. The same guy returned in another car that was red like hers. I was surprised to look out at one point and see two red cars there. According to Tom, everyone hunts here, and yesterday was the first day of hunting season, so I guess they were going hunting.

Tom said he saw another car over there the other day. The person pulled in, knocked on her door, then took off. Guess I was asleep when that happened.

What made yesterday so great was that he got a surprise raise! He was so stunned when he saw his paycheck that he wondered if he’d gotten someone else’s check. Guess they just forgot to mention it. This is a really good raise too, compared to the last time. The last time they only jumped him a quarter. This time they jumped him $1.15, so he’s gone from $7.60 an hour to $8.75. Not bad for an area where the cost of living is so low. This is $40 extra a week. He’s working today, but that extra $88 we thought he’d get today is going to be an extra $105!

I may get some beauty supplies from Yves Rocher real soon since we’re low on lotion and shower gel. I miss them and the free shipping and free gifts they give you with orders over $40.

I had a moving vibe for May of next year, but it faded fast. Moving in May makes no sense. We couldn’t possibly save up enough money by then to spring us out of state, so that’d mean either something really good or something really bad would have to happen for us to move then. I’d have to win us a lot of money or things would have to get so bad here that we just couldn’t stick it out and we had to leave.

For now, although I’m still hampered by occasional ear/tooth pain, things have been going so much better for us. I’ve been happier in the month that we’ve lived here than in all 10 months we lived at the duplex.