I got outbid on the horseshoe, so Tom used the credit toward a buy-it-now here in Cali selling a couple for a buck. The only problem is that Tom accidentally had it sent to Carmichael, not realizing our last two addresses were still in our account. He contacted the seller about it, so hopefully they haven’t shipped them yet.

In better eBay news, the doll has a bid! She and the books do, but nothing else yet. They’ve still got a few days to go so hopefully the other things will get bids and Glinda will get some competition with additional bids.

When I took some face shots of the dolls I was amazed at the clarity and just how good this camera is! So I went and deleted a bunch of old doll pictures from my files taken with old cameras and will re-shoot them soon with this one.

We’re both back to dieting after getting our fudge fix out of the way yesterday. He’s having nothing but Slim Fast shakes and is hungry as hell. And tired. I’m 132 pounds and have decided I’m going to make sure I get into the 120s, for once and for all, within a week.

My ear and teeth are bothering me today and I’m not any closer to being insured than I was months ago. I still don’t think I’m going to get insurance till I’m 65. Most jobs don’t offer insurance these days and the few that still do want a fortune for it. The only good news is that Tom’s research says they’ll extend the unemployment till January of next year. He doesn’t think it’s remotely possible that he’d not be able to get work by then. We’d have to be beyond cursed or this country would really have to go to hell for that to happen, that’s for sure! I just hope the horseshoes, assuming we get them, helps bring us some luck. The one in Oregon sure seemed to.

To my surprise, there were only two quick barking sprees today. I was surprised because it was the sunniest it’s been in days. It got up to 80º in here. I thought Jesse would want to roar out on the motorcycle the first chance he got, but we never even heard that today. He was out for a while at 6:00 (to bring his kid home?) but that’s the only barking fit I heard. The other one was around 10:00 before I got up. Tom said it sounded further away and wasn’t sure if it was Jesse’s dogs.

I was thinking of my mother and how she brought up the subject of me working and didn’t admit to getting the letter I sent explaining my sleep disorder after I said I already did explain it in the letter and didn’t they get it? It was Dad who finally admitted they got it. What was she going to do, keep me thinking they never got it? It’s things like this that make me wary of keeping in touch. It also cancels out the occasional times I wish I was there to help out however I could. They have plenty of others who could help them anyway. Still, I wonder if I’m doing the right thing by keeping in touch. I guess I’ll just keep my letters to a minimum and I’ll let them do the calling, which I don’t expect to be very often. If she gets too judgmental or pushy I can always ignore her. Unless I’m stuck living with a pack of freeloaders who won’t let me ignore them, ignoring people I clash with has always worked for me. That’s why I’m still not in touch with Larry or Tammy.

I deleted the ‘Random Ramblings’ journal on Kiwi. I decided to just use Kiwi as a place to back up stuff rather than for day-to-day journaling. I can usually put 50 pages worth of text in one entry, so every 50 pages I accumulate in my word processor, I’ll throw in as an entry. So about every 6 weeks, I’ll do an entry. The thing is I’m just not into the social scene lately and would prefer to do my day-to-day journaling at MD which isn’t a social site. So I’ll just use Kiwi as a backup and for other fun stuff. I still love all the colors and the fun games there. And the prizes, of course.