The last few days have been busy yet fun. I hope I can remember to update all that’s gone on.

Got another email from the Court TV Clean Getaway sweeps asking why I hadn’t sent the affidavit in and I replied saying I already signed and mailed it, and that when I asked last week why I hadn’t gotten my prize yet, I was told that a lot of the prizes were returned for postage due and mine was one of them and it was to be re-sent to me. I also told them I wasn’t going to send in another affy and that if they can’t manage their own sweeps, including incoming affies, and put enough postage on the prizes, then why bother? I’m not going to do their job for them. It’s their job to take care of the affies they receive and their job to mail the prizes with the proper postage!

In the end, I got an email back saying they’d send it. We’ll see.

It’ll also be interesting to see if these iPod people really are scammers or not. They finally let me have all my points and they say the iPod, which is just a small one that could hold only about 100 songs, will be sent in 4-6 weeks.

I got a surprise win yesterday from Showtime’s Master of Horror sweeps. When I saw the DHL van pull up, I thought it was something from Zazzle, like maybe they decided to let me have my Barbie shirt after all. It was the same lady too, who gave me the rat stamps and shirt. However, when I opened the box, out came a backpack with a $50 PC game, a couple of CDs, and a woman and a man’s shirt. The CDs are of heavy metal music and they suck, but Tom likes the game. The shirts fit us nicely and so today we’re going to be twins.

I also won an Eric Clapton DVD which Tom would like, but being a DVD, I don’t expect to get it.

I hope to get lots of my own win notices next month, as well as everyone else’s, of course.

I’m still hanging down around 122 pounds, and my ear, believe it or not, just might be on the mend after all. I don’t want to get my hopes up, but I’m having spells where it’s not bothering me. Now I just have to hope they get more frequent and don’t end up being replaced with a whole new problem.

We were going to screw yesterday. I figured that since it’d be painful because it’s been so long, it’d be nice to have irritation down there which would hopefully take the attention from my ear for a while. Then my allergies ended up going off so we didn’t bother. I’m still having such mixed emotions about it. I feel unwanted if we don’t, yet I don’t want to go back to the same old boring, predictable sex that simply doesn’t excite me anymore. That’s fine that he’s content with not cumming, but it’s been hard for me since I’ve started having a hard time doing that myself. He chooses not to cum, so that’s different than someone who simply can’t get excited enough to cum. So is it really worth it just to “feel good” but not good enough to cum? Hell, if I just wanted to feel good, he can simply give me a back or foot massage. I also said I was sick of the stopping and starting.

Good news about the house next door. We figured they were getting ready to put it on the market again because we’ve seen lights on at night. Tom said the alarm had been going off for days. He obviously could hear it as he walked by, but I didn’t hear a thing in here. It’s now for rent rather than for sale, and according to what we read online, no pets are allowed! That really eases the stress from me big time. That way, if people move in before we move out, the worst we’ll get is screaming kids, but I’d rather that than barking dogs because the kids won’t be out as often. The owners sure are greedy as hell. They want a ridiculous $800! It may have sufficient space and a big yard, but the house itself is not that nice. I’m sure it’s nicer than this, but not by much. It’s still pretty old.

There’s another house near here for the same amount, but it’s a nice house that’s well worth the price. I wish we could talk one of them down to $650, but I also don’t want to end up in the same predicament we were in before where he loses his job, we go on unemployment and that keeps us comfy for a while, then he starts all over again at minimum wage and we end up homeless because we can’t afford the higher rent.

While I still want a nicer place and we need more space badly, I’m almost afraid to move since things have gone so well here and it is so cheap and easy to heat. The worst we could get, besides noisy kids, is someone with a loud stereo moving in next door, in which case I would be so unbelievably tempted to smash it with a hammer! Really, I don’t know if I could restrain myself!

Tom is really having doubts about this pending trip to Beaverton which is up by Portland. It’d be a 5-hour drive. He’s hesitant to go because the parts they’re going to get could be mailed to him easily enough, and because we’d lose money. He may have to be the one to shell out the money for a motel and all for nothing. So he’s got quite a dilemma ahead of him. Does he put his foot down and risk being fired? Or does he let them use and abuse him at will as BOA did so we can have money?

It’s snowing like crazy now, but it sure keeps things quiet out there. Honestly, I don’t know which is worse; being warm and cozy while having to listen to people’s antics night and day, or freezing my ass off in a peaceful place. The more I think about it, the more I think that unless one of us wins a large sum of money or he gets a huge raise or partnership, our best bet might be to stay here and freeze while we save up enough money for a down payment on a house in rural Sacramento. I’d rather we move to where we want to be, and not where a measly two grand says we have to be, which could only be the heart of Sacramento and that would be like returning to Phoenix.

Two mornings ago we went to Fred Meyer. It was dark when we left for the bus stop downtown. It was raining lightly and in the 40s. We had so much fun shopping and could take our time doing it because at 7 AM the store was dead. When we were done we killed time waiting for the bus in Carl’s Jr.

I only ended up not getting a couple of things on my list. I didn’t get new pillows because that’d be a bit hard to carry on the bus, and I didn’t get a new robe because they were all so damn long. If I were Kate’s height, I could wear them, but not at this height. I looked for children’s robes but couldn’t find any.

I ended up getting new silverware, 4 plastic cups with a floral design, a can opener, an iron, a kitchen pail, Emeraude cologne, more lip gloss, two dolls and an outfit. The outfit is a dress with metallic shades of fuchsia, purple and green. One doll is a holiday doll in maroon and white with silver glitter and is absolutely gorgeous, and another is of a Hawaiian theme.

Tom got a new camera as the last of the guitar payment, and it’s way nicer than the old one. I’ve been having all kinds of fun with it!

Lastly, that fabric glue is fantastic! It’s so easy to use and it works so well.