It’s been a bit smoky and hazy out there as hundreds of wildfires run ablaze throughout NorCal, but so far nothing’s hit too close to home and I don’t have any bad vibes. As a psychic, I’d be the first to sense any danger.

Instead, we were annoyed by that stupid cock up the hill leaving a faucet on somewhere, draining the well and leaving our water flowing sluggishly. I would’ve been pissed had this continued on into tomorrow. I heard someone honk and a few barks this morning, so Jesse was obviously picked up and gone all day. Maryann works, so she may not have gotten the message Tom left right away. I wish they’d be more readily available, and what kind of person is that airheaded that they forget to turn their water off twice in less than 3 months??? Anyway, Maryann finally got the message, cuz Tom just emailed me saying there should now be water, and there is! Better to have a sluggish day, though, than to have to find 5 grand to fix a blown pump like down in Arizona. I’ll find out more about what happened when Tom gets home.

I had just under 2000 Kiwi points and decided to cash in for a temporary tattoo. I love those temp tats! Now I’m just under 1000, but I expect to be just over 1000 tomorrow.

Got a note yesterday from a fellow slot player saying she’d never dare to surpass me because I’m just too cool, congrats on doing good with slots. So tonight I let her surpass me. She sent me a friend invite, something I was about to send her till she beat me to it. I’m up to 15 friends now.

We finally caught the mouse that we figured was coming and going through the pipe opening under the kitchen sink since we never saw it, but we had to get new traps to do it. These traps are way cool and can be used on carpet, too. They work better and differently than the other one. Tom heard it trigger shortly after I crashed last night. He hoped it’d settle down and go to sleep for the night until morning. He didn’t want to have to go out at night with the skunks and whatever nocturnal nightmares may be out there, but because it was going crazy scratching and chewing, he freed it down past the shed, taking the flashlight so as not to fall off the cliff. Hopefully, it won’t find its way back here, but we’ll just catch it again if we have to and take it for a little ride down the end of the driveway. Ah, life in the woods. So much fun!

Tom layered my hair yesterday. It’s shaped nicely to my face and doesn’t get in my eyes as much when I’m working out. It’s so nice to be able to sleep with it down, have it dry so fast, etc. It’s going to be a pain trimming it regularly as fast as it grows, but I definitely don’t miss having 30 or so inches of hair!

Got 2 of the 5 goodies we ordered from Ashton-Drake, and one of them is going back. That’ll be the hummingbird carousel. It not only wasn’t as dazzling as it appeared online, but its lights also flickered and the thing squeaks when in rotation. The fairy ornaments, however, are lovely.

Good news for Jessie. I haven’t talked to her yet. I don’t know if she got tied up or was just overly nervous, but she did get the job she wanted after all. I’m happy for her. What I don’t get is why she said it’d be hard for her to say her goodbyes to the people at her old job. After all, they didn’t treat her well and she’s never going to have to deal with them again, so who cares? Maybe there’s something about it I don’t know.

I began this Special K diet yesterday and am amazed by how well it’s working so far and how much energy I still have. I’m not even stuck like I usually get on diets. The only negative is that I’m hungry as hell. But if it’s going to work this well, it’s worth a little misery! I was 147 when I awoke yesterday and now I’m 144. I only had that tea yesterday, too. I deliberately held off on the tea today to see if it was more that or this diet that’s dropping my weight. It’s tough, though, like I said. I get up and have a fruit cup, then eat a meal bar two hours later. After that I wait 3 hours and have a snack bar, then another 3 hours after that I have another snack bar, then a bowl of their cereal 3 hours later, then finally, 3 hours after that I eat for the last time and that’s my main meal. I also jog or bounce on the ball for 20 minutes each day, too.