Things are still going well, though Tom doesn’t yet know if there’s to be any more money made. He still feels certain that he’ll know within a few weeks, but let’s put it this way: They’ve been getting lots of orders, they’re about to lose two of their senior employees, and the partially nutty boss lady who’s trying to go without her anti-depressants has been absent a lot. This could all mean good things for Tom. God, I hope so! It’d be truly wonderful to have our futures financially secured, so it’d be one less thing to have to worry about in life, though I won’t count on it. For now, unless he does get more money or I win big, I still have to assume we’re meant to be poor and to live in noisy places throughout most of our lives.

I finally got a win notice for a 2-star premium sweep that ended November 30th, which once again proves that just because I haven’t gotten more win notices, it doesn’t mean I still didn’t get snagged at the start of the year. It just may be a while before I’m notified. Anyway, this win was for $60 worth of cosmetics.

I finally got all 8 lotions I won.

Until the Superbowl, Safeway’s having this cool contest. They’ve been giving scratch tickets with 3 rows of footballs, each containing 3 columns. You can only scratch one football in each column to uncover the number underneath it. If your numbers equal 100, you get a free store item. Well, Tom got two tickets and came up with a bright idea for our own little contest. He decided that whoever had the highest amount would buy the other something we wouldn’t be so quick to buy ourselves. Tom decided he wanted a wheel to race his car with if he won, and I decided he could let me call down to Jamie at JBS Dolls and buy me the armatures needed to assemble Chris and Haiku. Well, I beat his ass! But we agreed not to call until we get moved if that’s still what we’re going to do. My vibes still say our next move isn’t to California, so let’s hope I’m right because the only way we’d stay here would be if there really was a significant amount of money to come. If not, we’ll save and try to get out of here in the fall.

We’ve been averaging highs in the 40s, and amazingly it hasn’t dipped under 0 degrees. Not much snow lately, thank God, but lots of rain. Rain we wish we could get in the summer.

I didn’t stay at 120 pounds for long. Since that day I’ve jumped back up to 122, and truthfully, I don’t know if I’m going to lose any more weight. We’ll just have to wait and see. I just hope the Claritin continues to keep my appetite suppressed because I’ve been hungry these last few days, and whether or not I lose more weight, eating less really saves us a ton of money.

I was a fool to think my ear was on the mend just because I had a few good days there. It’ll never get better. I know that now without a shred of doubt, but I’ll be damned if I’ll play appointments as I did for most of my life. I’m not going to spend a fortune, rob us of our opportunity to move, then be given a whole new problem in place of this one that just might be worse. There’s no doubt about it, something up there wants me to suffer from one problem after another. Well, unless it has me get to the point where I’m forced to deal with it by breaking my bones or something, I will not give in to it!