It’s hard to believe I’ve been journaling for 19 years now!

Kim’s been wonderfully quiet with the light play being the worst of the annoyances lately. Yeah, as soon as I go to relax to music in the dark in the evenings, the light in back goes on and off and distracts me, but I’d rather that than the door slamming. Obviously, Century hasn’t been around or else she’s been doing a great job of coming in quietly and not waking me up. I’m getting up in the late afternoons now, so I don’t know if I’ll see Liz this weekend.

I saw Estella a couple of days ago. I don’t think she likes me in that way, but she’s definitely been noticing me more and smiling more. In the past, she’d just talk to Tom and act like I wasn’t even there.

In Tom’s phone chat with the cruise line lady, she told him they would do a radio interview with us in Florida when we return from the cruise. The thought of Doe and Art or someone they know hearing it cracks me up!

Bluefly’s finally given me my credit. In fact, they’ve given me double my credit! I have $200 in my account. The question is, did they do it to be nice for making me wait so damn long? Or is this a fuck-up? Well, to be on the safe side I’m only going to spend $100 of it. If the other $100 is still there in a week or so, then I’ll spend that, too. I’m ordering two pieces this morning. A peach-colored tiered drawstring skirt and a gorgeous, and I mean gorgeous, silk chiffon top that’s on sale at $85 from $130. Its usual retail price is $215! There’s only one left in stock. Hope I get it! The top of it is bright yellow and it turns to hot pink on the bottom. It’s got a rhinestone brooch in the center and pink and yellow twisted chiffon straps. It just sucks that it’s dry-clean only as is most of their stuff, but it’s absolutely beautiful! The bust is lined so I don’t have to wear a bra under it and have the straps showing.

I’m so disproportioned that according to their measurement chart, my hips and bust are large, but my waist is extra-large. They really do have some nice things as outrageous as their prices are and I’ve been looking more and more forward to the idea of getting new clothes. I’ve been wearing the same things for years. It’s just that most things, especially such fancy clothes, fit and look better on skinny people. If anything may give me the incentive to starve, it’s clothing like theirs, though I’m not doing anything till after the cruise. I didn’t think they were that nice at first, but the more I browsed through their site, the more I could see that some of the stuff truly is nice. I like how you can search by size and color, but I still prefer to try clothes on in person.

Later…

Tom’s got a cold, unfortunately, but he’s got these lozenges that claim to cut colds down to just 3-4 days. I asked him if he thought it was just a coincidence that he got sick right when he was about to beef up EFO for serious money-making. He said he wasn’t sure, but that he wondered about it.

He went to the grocery store before I got up. She was there, but her line was too long so he went elsewhere.