Not sure if I’ve got the strength or the energy for this entry, but we’ll see. No, it’s not my ear and teeth (that was yesterday), it’s my runs and allergies. The allergies are easily explainable – it’s windy out. That usually stirs up my allergies and that’s why I’m drowsy now; I had to take a Benadryl. But I can’t explain why I’ve had the runs so often lately. I had the runs 5 times in less than an hour but I don’t want to take any pills for it in case it wouldn’t jive with the Benadryl. I think I’m finally done running, though, for today. I’m not the least bit stressed out right now, I’m not sick, and so I just don’t get it. If it’s something bad that I ate; that’s a lot of bad things I’ve been eating lately. I jokingly said to Tom a while ago I wanted the runs because it helps control weight. Well, folks, sometimes we really do get what we wish for!

Yesterday I got a nice friendship candle from Eileen. It was in my favorite color, too – pink. And I got a card mostly in my second favorite color – purple with glitter on the inside. It’s too bad candles don’t work well at all when it comes to emitting their scent. That’s because the heat source is above the scented part and can’t get it hot enough. I used it as a nightlight instead so I could see my way through the living room and into the kitchen.

Andy taped on some quotes and pictures to the card he made me. I didn’t realize till later that he took a picture of a figurine with this little girl holding a sign saying Love You Nana and crossed out the ‘a’ in Nana and made it an e, LOL.

Nothing from Barbara, so yeah, I either scared her off or she simply feels there’s nothing more to say since I’m not going to be reporting to class anytime soon. Of course there’s always the chance she’s on vacation since they seem to get a lot of time off from work in Europe.

Chatted with Maliheh last night. twirls with delight As I told her, she’s still my #1 hottie. I just wish things were better for her and that there was something – anything – I could do to help. But right now she’s down from 20 students to 7 students (I don’t know how she can make her rent on that but she says she’s used to living on just 9K a year), she had to call the cops on her neighbors cuz their dog barked for hours and she wanted to kill it, and she hopes to go to Hawaii in a few weeks and sue the nursing home her mother’s in and its staff. I guess they’re guilty of being negligent and because of it they dropped her and broke her leg in two places.

Now here’s the funniest and most interesting news of all and that’s that I’m pretty sure my cousin Polly spent a half-hour in my journal last night and bought a copy of my book. I sent both her and Aunt Ruth a quick hello-hope-all-is-well-in-life message just out of curiosity as to how they may respond. I didn’t expect them to respond or go to my blog much less buy my book, but all they’ve done that I expected was not respond. Unless they’re waiting till they finish my book. More than likely they’re just curious and not wanting to actually be in touch which is ok with me.

I can’t say anything good or bad about Polly. I never really knew her that well since she’s a lot older and I rarely saw her. She would be in her 50s these days. I doubt I’d recognize her if I saw her on the streets. I didn’t always have nice things to say about Aunt Ruth, but she’s not a bad person. Just a little phony and misguided at times. Sure wish I could find Philip, though. I can’t believe he doesn’t have an account, but he probably does and it’s just not searchable. I’m not surprised he’s not on Ruth or Polly’s friend list as they probably don’t get along. Like me, Phil was the black sheep of his family.

The reason I think it was Polly was not only because they linked in from FB, but they searched for the word abortion and the name Polly. Why would she search for abortion, though? Anyway, I was a little surprised she’s in New Jersey. For some reason, I thought she lived in Connecticut, though she might have for a while. Then when I got a book sale in the US, it just seemed like quite a coincidence. If she could be interested enough to comb through my entries and access my blog’s archive, it seems likely she would be interested enough in the book. Despite the coincidental timing, though, I’ll never know for sure unless she ever comes out and tells me.

It was all I could do to keep from messaging her and saying, “Sorry you didn’t find what you were looking for since my blog’s search feature doesn’t work for some reason. But yes, I did mention you twice (in a nice way) and why look up abortion? I never had one, if that’s what you’re wondering, and if all you wanted to know was my take on the issue – to each their own. I’m amazed to see that anyone other than my husband can stand OSX and New Jersey? Shouldn’t you be up in Connecticut? Well, do stop by again sometime, and thanks for buying my book if that was you!”

ROTFL!!!

The thought of her reading my book amuses me. The synopsis and review would tell her up front that the leads are lesbians. I hope she can handle the steamy scenes, LOL. I can just imagine what she’ll tell her mother who will tell my mother, etc. Had someone told me they’d read one of my books someday I’d have hit the floor laughing, totally not believing it.