Got my pears and Hogan’s Heroes DVDs. Guess the guy was for real after all. He says the Mash DVDs will arrive by the end of the week. The pears are boring but edible, and I’ll probably sell most CDs and DVDs I win unless either Tom or myself wants any. Why couldn’t I have won S2 of Charlie’s Angels?! And why can’t I win S3 of that when it’s released?

We will be ordering Ashley on March 3rd. That day can’t come fast enough!

I may get another warmer sometime soon because although the burner doesn’t smoke as much as incense sticks, it still smokes enough.

The more I think about it, the more I’m not so sure I want to move. That is if we stay in Oregon. I hope I’m right about California not being meant to be this year, as funny as that may sound, and that I’m wrong in assuming we won’t move next door for $650. Hopefully, that old saying about the rich getting richer will really kick in, and besides, I can’t believe I’d ever get so lucky enough as to get out of here after just two winters.

Yes, I hate this house, the summertime bugs and the lack of space, but things have gone so well here and this place is so much cheaper. Especially if we don’t license the truck. The only thing not licensing the truck may make hard on us would be eBay. I wish I knew when next door was moving. That may influence what we do, depending on what moved in afterward, along with next door. We’ll still keep saving money like we have been so that if the bugs get to be too much and the wrong people move in, we can get out right away, instead of having to endure 10 months of shit like at the duplex. I also still fear that rural isn’t meant to be and that if we moved to the country fate would see to it that they fired Tom or closed their doors forever, forcing us to return to the city yet again. I know it’s only a matter of time before the noise curse finds us. Until we either get rich or into a retirement community, our neighbors were meant to bother us 90% of the time, like it or not. For now, the chick next door is tolerable, there are no dogs allowed next door for whenever the hell that place rents, there’s no on-street parking, no driveways across the street, it’s cheaper to heat and easier to clean in here, and it shouldn’t get as hot as the duplex did in the summer, although I’d still probably need the AC in the living room. Most of all, I really like having extra money for fun and for saving. We’ll still keep a lookout for good deals, though, especially if we’re going to stay a while. Another pro to this place is the moldings above the doors and windows. They make a great place for the Barbies, even if they’re a bit high, and this way I don’t need to get shelves right away.

I can’t believe that having a big place was once so important to me! Even if we struck it rich right now I wouldn’t get a place as big as in Maricopa since I’d have to clean all that space, although it would be brand spanking new.

It could get noisy in the summer with music, barking and screaming in the yard next door if it’s rented by then, but I don’t see how it could get as bad as the duplex.

Tom said that this German company hasn’t made any more orders, and that’s a bit worrisome because their orders are huge, but there are tons of orders lined up for next month, so that’s good. The stage is still set to rake in the dough.

I had another vibe about that green house, if it means anything at all and that’s that it was built in the 60s or 70s, probably ‘69.