My day started off with me in a pissy-ass mood because I woke up both hungry and in pain. That back molar of mine has been driving me crazy lately. Tom and I can’t figure out why it just won’t die. I guess something up there likes to see me deal with chronic pain. I’m trying not to take pain relievers unless it’s really obnoxious so as to toughen myself up. Especially since the tooth is obviously not going to die.

Then I just had to ruin my free sample of Spanish chocolate milk by overheating it in the microwave and causing it to boil over and make a mess.

Then it’s cold and rainy again. We had a hailstorm for a while, but now it’s just cold and rainy. I worry this is going become a regular trend here and that it will no longer be warm most of the year like it’s supposed to be. Last night didn’t get as cold as I thought it would because it stayed at 57ºout there for quite a while. But then after 1am, it started dropping both inside and out.

Lastly, the dogs went off if only for a few minutes. Tom said it’s cuz they heard me throwing stuff around. I’m sorry, LOL, but dogs can’t hear that well and we’re not that close!

The heater breaking turned out to be a blessing because the oven has been doing a much better job of heating the place with very little propane. There’s no doubt that there are holes in the heating vents below the trailer. Since we’ve shut the vents we’ve had no mice in here, though most of them probably get in through the pipes.

On colder nights, all we have to do is set the oven to low and it cycles on and off and keeps the kitchen and living room comfy. I just use the portable in the bedroom. So now we should be saving a ton of money for however many more winters we’re here.

But how many will that be? And WHEN will we ever be allowed to get ahead in life???

Marie and I are going to have our first live talk tomorrow at 11pm my time when she’s on her lunch break. That ought to be fun.

Paula did send that picture she wanted to send and she replied to the message I sent her on Gmail. Justin created a new account for her since she didn’t like the name of the other one. I told her to contact me on Yahoo! since that’s the account I usually use, though I just might go with Gmail myself since my Yahoo box is being bombarded with spam to no end that just won’t hit the spam box. If I’m just going to get harassed to use that account, it may be worth switching.

So Paula sent a full-page picture of herself she printed from the computer with a floral border. It’s pretty nice. She said she’s also going to send money to cover shipping costs soon, so I can send her CDs and other stuff.

I’m going to send her a letter with the new number because knowing her, it will be 10 years before she does email again.

On a roll again with the writing after getting stuck in a rut and not sure where to go next with the story. I have trouble keeping things going. I don’t want too much action, but I don’t want it to be boring either. I think I’m now moving along at a steady enough pace, and Paul is quick to help compare US dollars to euros when I need him to since the story is set in Italy.

Tom had me cracking up last night. He said he started to read some of the story and said to himself, “Does she even have any idea that this makes absolutely no sense at all?” Then he realized that he was starting with the second chapter, LOL. I had been emailing him one chapter at a time, and I guess he thought he was starting at the beginning when he wasn’t.