You know you're cursed when:

You manage to get the brakes fixed on the car. You drive to the post office instead of walking because it's freezing cold and you have othe things you have to do needing the car right after. When you try to start the car up again and you smell something burning and it's doesn't start(it's not the fuses or the battery, I checked and so did the guy from the auto parts store) . Add to this you have an appointment 25 miles away Monday and there's no public transportation and the only person who can take you has an appointment that can't be changed at the same time (I just hope I can change mine) .

I need a drink but the nearest place to buy liquor is about 30 miles away . At this point my best option is to find those 2 dogs that rewards are being offered for (oddly enough the only lost dog posters I've seen) if they come up to the cat food we leave out for stray cats. That way I get to fix my car, they get thier beloved pets back and the dogs get out of this freezing weather.

I just did what I swore I'd never do. Get a title loan. The interest rate is through the roof but I can pay it off in up to 10 months at this place instead of 1 months (which had a lower interest rate) like the other place wanted.I just hope it doesn't blow up in my face. The domino effect of late rent payments started with having to take Mama to 2 unplanned doctor's appointments withinhg 2 weeks when gas was 50 bucks a tankful and it took half a tank to get back and forth to Corinth just once.

The due date for each month is far enough from when the money comes in that I should be able to scrape it up by then with not much trouble.I'll try to pay more than expected each time in order to wear down the principal and cut down on the interest.

My immediate problem is fixed but the long term problem hopefully can be managed. Doesn't mean I won't be anxious about it though.

It starts like this

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Am I paranoid to think she's actively sabotaging me ? She's definitely capable of it past behavior has proven it. Or is she just a naturally talented pain in the butt? When you've had at least one family member diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic you tend to want to ask others what they think about that.

Either way I need a vacation . Possibly about 10 years straight and in an undisclosed location.

I have a theory about Ned's father in Pushing Daisies.

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So any thoughts on my theory? Ideas that could prove it? Links to fic where Ned's father gets beat up by Chuck , Emerson , Olive and Ned?

George Carlin died Sunday , in case you hadn't heard.

He was proof that you can grow older and never get old.

One of the greats is gone.

He never failed to make me laugh.

An example of Murphy's Law.

I won a 3 bottle pack of flea shampoo from ebay fairly cheap.

The animals and me (with Mama you can't tell because she spends so much time complaining about everything else) are suffering because of these fleas and the only money I had was in paypal which is why I used ebay. It's gotten to the point where one cat won't leave the kitchen and has to be carried to the litter box and another won't leave the bathroom and has to be carried to the kitchen and held in front of the food bowl before he will eat.

He sent the package on time and I've checking every day because apparantly no one was scanning it even though he opted for tracking. Today was the first time anything showed up. Unfortunately what it said was that my package was missent to NEW MEXICO! It was sent from Utah and I live in MS. Given that the label was printed through paypal which has my correct address , there's no possibility that bad handwriting screwed things up so how the frilly heck did this happen? It could be another week before it gets here. I'm hoping they'll add it to an express mail batch since they're the ones who screwed up.

Fur + fleas + extreme heat and humidity = Really bad idea. I wonder how much blood I'd loose if I shaved them .

I've gotten this cheapy little digital camera in order to post pictures of things to sell on ebay that I can't find a stock photo for. How cheap is it?It's on a key chain.One of these days I'll get a real one but for now I'm figuring out how to make half-way decent pictures.


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