The 3 houses for rent in this area are still going for $800. However, if she can stay put next door and whoever rents the house on the other side can live in it rather than in the yard in between, then I’m all for staying, assuming we really can control the bugs when they wake up because not many houses go for $450. Period. Not many houses are this small and cheap to heat either.

The Asian lady sold the store where we got the bamboo plants so we’ll have to hope these last. We could order them online if need be, but I’d rather these live awhile. They really do seem to help, though I still fear it’s just a matter of time before we’re back in the poorhouse, as usual.

After a very uncomfortable cold snap that lasted a few days, we’ve warmed up to the 40s, normal for this time of year. It was so damn cold at night, though, that I had to run the heater in the bedroom continually and I was still cold. Usually, I can turn it way down when I’m asleep and buried under the comforter.

Oh, the things people do to make a racket. Big city, small town, you can’t do shit in peace anywhere! We walked up to the burger place right by where he works and were all set to eat there, but I couldn’t stand to do so to the crash and boom of some rude bitch’s bass parked outside awaiting its order, so we walked back and ate here. If I asked this before, I’ll ask it again – how the hell can these things still be legal??? Anyway, their burgers and malts are so-so, but the deep-fried mushrooms sure were good.

I got my candy from Harry & David’s today. It’s delicious. Tom will like the chocolate mint candies and the chocolate truffles, but not the chocolate Bing cherries.

I have been a bit hungrier and more congested since stopping the Claritin, so I’ll resume taking it on Friday when he does the grocery shopping. It’ll be interesting to see if it has any renewed vigor after a week without it.

We signed me up for another free email account at mail.com which I’ll use mainly for survey invitations. I’m even doing some in Spanish. I have my doubts about it, though, because so many of them either only enter you in sweepstakes or give you points that you can redeem for money. However, it takes a zillion points and lots of time to rack up enough points to do so. Some will only pay you if you pay shipping charges to try samples.