Yesterday turned out to be an incredible day! I hope we’re not going to be compensated for it with bad things to come, but if anything, it should be just the opposite. This should be compensation for some of the hell we went through a couple of months ago. I still cringe when I think of it, too!

The only dark spot is the noise around here, although the inside room checked out yesterday morning. The end people also still scuffle around more than I’d like, seemingly around the clock, but they’re not as bad as the other side was.

Also, the truck still isn’t taken care of yet, but I have confidence that I’d be having dreams signaling impending trouble if we were in any serious danger security-wise.

Less than two hours after winning the Armani GC, I won a $100 Spa Finder GC! Jessie said, “I wish I had your sweeping luck. How do you do it?” I told her she just has to master the art of influencing! I just hope I’ve mastered it enough, along with his hard work, to get out of here soon enough! Yup, we started with 5 small bets before he left for work. This won’t tell us anything 100% concrete, but should be a good enough indicator. If this doesn’t work out, then it’s either be stuck in an apartment complex or stuck here long enough to get Satish’s house after all in a year from now! Neither of which we’d prefer!

She also asked about Italy. That’s still a few years away, I told her. We need to either get the horses established or get him into a job where he can qualify for vacations, insurance, raises, etc. As a temp, he can’t get squat. On the other hand, a part of me doesn’t want to go seeing that we’ve been on a “trip” long enough! Really, if I never see another motel room again it’ll be too soon! I’d really love for my biggest travel adventures to be simply going from one room to another in a nice peaceful little house.

It gets even better. I not only have $100 more coming to me from Netwinner if I can ever get the $50 they’re processing right now, but we got a check from Oregon! Not from Unemployment, but a check we’re not sure why we got. According to what Tom read it had to do with a percentage of revenues exceeding this and that and other legal mumbo-jumbo, and as I told him, he may as well be talking Chinese and that ain’t one of my languages, so just cut to the chase. Anyway, the check’s for $350! We sure could’ve used this check on October 4th, but you get money when you already have it.

Things really do seem to run smoother when I pray for the basic necessities. When I’m not praying, things aren’t as good. I knew he’d be doing more driving yesterday than usual when he went to pick up the TV. I prayed a few times during the day on and off that he not get pulled over until he could finally pass emissions. At one point he ends up with a cop in the next lane, one car behind him at a very long light. Plenty long enough for the cop to notice the nice bold “11” in the rear window and 2-year expired Arizona plate. So after what seemed like an agonizing eternity, the light’s green, then they get stuck at another long light. This time the cop’s two lanes away with no one in between. Tom didn’t want to look at him, but didn’t want to appear nervous and like he was trying to go out of his way to avoid eye contact either. Then the cop accelerates around the corner. Of course the truck takes forever to catch up, but meanwhile, as he’s pulling around the corner himself, he expects to see the cop pulled over waiting for him, but he turned down a different side street instead. Talk about breathing a sigh of relief! Had he been in Arizona or Texas that pig would’ve jumped all over him like he was the FBI’s most wanted!

There’s still more good news, too. This is unfuckingbelievable! When Tom picked up the TV yesterday there was a card from Simple Green saying we’d won a prize that was returned from Oregon. He said he’d call them, but that it was probably just a small win that was no big deal. It came to mind this morning and I thought it odd that they’d notify me of returning a “small” prize. The prize itself should’ve been forwarded if it were “no big deal.” Sure enough, when I checked in the ‘expired sweeps’ section, I saw that I was July’s winner for a $500 GC to the online store of my choice!!! (I chose Walmart from their list of options). Is that just incredible compensation for some of the hell we went through or what?! I just hope we get it. I emailed Simple Green and texted Tom. We’re not even two weeks into the month yet and I’ve already won $750 worth of stuff!

Later…

Someone just checked into the inside room. They kind of slammed the door, so I guess that means they won’t bop around the room as much. Amazingly, the end folks have been out all day. Maybe they’ve checked out and the housekeeper just hasn’t gotten to that room yet. If so, will the next people be worse or just as annoying? As for quieter – not likely!

Tom called FedEx and they said my prize is in the process of being returned to Simple Green. I emailed Simple Green and am awaiting their response. He couldn’t call them because he didn’t have their number. I got it from their site, so he’ll call them tomorrow.