I forgot to mention earlier that they’ve asked him if he’d work Saturdays, which is good. We’d love the extra money, but I worry he won’t have much time for other things.

It’s the selling of stuff at our ages that really bothers me. We want to sell the guitar, yes, but we should only be doing it because we want to and not because we have to. There’s just no escaping the past. It always comes back to haunt us. To be reduced to needing to do this all over again is insulting, infuriating and humiliating! I should ask God what I asked the Queen the last time around – what do we do when we run out of stuff to sell? Sell our souls? For now, I guess all I can do is keep on visualizing good things.

Later…

I feel a little better today. Especially since we won’t be homeless before the 25th. Tom sold the guitar and so now we’ll be here till then. I don’t know if we’ll be in this room, but I hope so. Despite there being just one bed, the AC having a broken auto setting, the microwave having a broken carousel and a few noisy moments, this place is still amazingly quiet.

I heard them leave next door at 8:00 this morning and return at 10:00 tonight. They slammed, banged and threw shit around as if they were in a race to see how fast they could unpack or do whatever it was they were doing, then it went quiet after 10 minutes. There were a few stereos in the parking lot too, and according to Tom, someone blared music a few doors down, but we couldn’t hear it in here. This place is so quiet, though, overall that my schedule’s starting to flip. I slept pretty well from 9:00-5:00.

Anyway, I don’t know if we’ll be able to stay in this room or if we’ll have to move. If we have to move, I hope the room will be as quiet as this one! If not, we’ll have to have the housekeeper here this weekend, so I expect my schedule to be disrupted soon either way.

Work is still going well and Tom worked in a different area today. He said people were surprised he’s working tomorrow since he hasn’t been there a week yet, though technically, he isn’t working overtime since he didn’t work Monday. Let’s hope he dazzles his way to a sufficient raise real soon!

Next Friday he’ll get a check for about $300 from work, and I’m still waiting on that $100 Walmart card Netwinner owes me. And of course there’s whatever deposit money we may get back from the Oregon dump, and a $50 rebate from Best Western. Oh, and there’s also $100 that got locked that we’ll have access to next Friday.

The beauty basket lady, Dana, said she never received the forms we faxed so we’ll fax them again.