Yesterday turned out to be a pretty good day. While I was waiting in the car for Tom to check the mail, however, I felt sort of like I was taking an unwanted trip down Memory Lane. Although we had food, a little bit of cash, and didn’t have to scramble to pay for another night in a motel, I was back in that Carmichael parking lot, waiting to see if Tom would emerge from the mail place with our much-needed debit card so we could access our money. Despite reminding myself that I hadn’t had any bad dreams the night before warning me of any impending trouble, I was surprised to find myself shedding a few tears of relief when Tom returned to the car with the unemployment check. And yes, we’re now getting an extra $100 a month, so that’ll help. We are going to be a little tight next week, however, but that’s because it’s propane time (we’re going to get $100 worth). We’re used to being strapped anyway. It’s nothing new. Just the story of our lives.

Anyway, it’s nice to have a full refrigerator and the rest of the rent paid! Tom left it in the box, called up to Jesse, but got his machine again.

We were going to send Paula’s package out Monday and I was going to hope she really would send $10 like she said she would, but instead I’m sending her a letter first to let her know that because we’re broke right now, I’d like her to send the $10 first, then I’ll get the package out to her within a couple of weeks. I also let her know we’d be setting up an email account for us to use.

Walmart was mobbed, of course, and there were tons of screaming kids, but it was nice to get out.

Sydney has an amazing 18 bids now and is up to $41, $10 more than the last doll. One of the fashions has 4 bids and is up to $15.50. Sunday we’ll be listing the last two Tonners (Tyler & Angelina), plus all or most of the fashions I have left to sell.

I won a Cheerios gift basket at a blog sweep. It’s just a coupon for a box of banana nut Cheerios, a bread pan, a couple of cereal bowls, and a fruit basket, but nice. Now that I finally know how those damn sweeps work, and now that I’ve enabled the site administrators to be able to see my email addy with which to contact me if I win, I’m entering those once again. They do have better odds, since most people, including myself, hate these sweeps. I hate having to leave comments for most sweeps these days, but I also didn’t want my email on display for the whole world to see either. And since the sweeps suck in general these days, I figured this would be better than nothing.

So many sites let you blog these days that I decided that one of the email sites I use would be yet another good place to back things up. This one lets me put up to 150 pages of text per post and the software isn’t too shitty for copying/pasting like in some places.

It’s been amazingly quiet the last few days, though I don’t expect it to last. I’m surprised I haven’t heard the motorcycle since it’s been sunny and dry. Maybe he’s been taking the truck more so he can finally get the fucking dogs out of here and give us some peace.

Tom made some revisions to the BOT I use to play slots with on Kiwi, and it’s been more efficient so far.