Yesterday morning we went out to pick up the mail and got the Apple cards! We also browsed through Long’s Drug and they had these really beautiful crystals that are ever so dazzlingly shiny! A little pricey for such little gems, but I’ll probably get one someday. Instead, I just got Tempt Me body spray, one of my favorites.

Then, after grabbing a few things from the grocery store, Tom dropped me off and took off a couple of hours later to check the Carmichael box and go to the Apple store in this mall we almost went to when we first moved here. I wouldn’t go in it, though, cuz it was such a zoo. It turned out to be nothing but a waste of time, money and gas. There was nothing but junk at the mail place, and nothing in the Apple store either which took him forever just to get into, it was such a circus.

So this morning he ordered from Apple’s site and got us a color laser printer and a couple of Macs, one refurbished. One Mac will arrive at the end of the week, another next week, then the printer the week after that. While I’m not looking forward to breaking in a new computer and having to configure and reformat things, I’m sick of all the incompatibility problems I’ve been having which will make it worth it. Every time I get an update on something it fucks up or alters something else. But with Macs, everything’s run by the same company so I shouldn’t have so many conflicts with everything being made to work together.

When Tom was browsing through forums online to see what others were saying about Robo and Macs, a few OLSers were bragging about how they’ve won “hundreds” of dollars worth of stuff in the few years they’ve been sweeping, while in the few years I’ve been sweeping I’ve won over 30 grand’s worth. Guess not everyone’s psychic!

I had a dream last night that’s either just a tease like the horse dreams were, or a sign that I’m in for a hell of a surprise to come! I dreamt we were just moving into a place and I had my Barbies spread out all over the floor. Tom came into the room and asked, “So, have you got it all figured out yet?”

I looked up at him, nodded and said, “Yeah, I think I’m going to put 5 on the ledges on top of each window.”

Well, seeing that I have about 60 Barbies, that’d be a hell of a lot of windows! As in a pretty big house, two of which I’m entering sweeps for right now. The odds have got to be astronomical, psychic or not, but I’m doing daily house prayers and spells until the contests end between the end of this month and the middle of next.

Not that I’m complaining, but strangely enough, neither Tom nor I have heard the dogs in about a week now. It’s been in the 90s, but I haven’t even heard them in the middle of the night when it’s cooler. Somehow I doubt Jesse, any more than most Westerners, cared to take them indoors cuz of the smoke, even if there hasn’t been as much of it for a couple of days. I was just out doing laundry and it’s just oh-so peaceful and lovely! I did hear dogs off in the distance, but that’s about it. The only thing dampening how much I love it here is knowing that we don’t own the land and that the winters may be more extreme than I’d like, even if they won’t be as fierce as Oregon or Massachusetts.