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Stolen from Jonny Hart:
BC - "Boulder, Boulder on the ground, tell me something real profound."
Rock - "So what's to tell?"
My life is just going on as it usually has been. Carlos and I see one another for lunch a couple of times a week, and he passes the night here on Friday or Saturday nights, but not both.
I had to pay the FedGov over $800 due to the backpayment I received, and that cost $200 more than I received from the State of Montana. I still have taxes taken out for Montana, because I have "income" from the house in Shelby, which is (thanks be unto God) still rented. I paid off the trailer in April, which is helping with the financial situation a good deal . . in fact, it says I'm getting $700 more per month than I had before, which is a good thing, indeed. $300 for the rent, and -$400 for the monthly payments. It may not be stated well, but it equals a net gain of $700.
I promised, about 2 months ago, to translate a Motorcycle manual for somebody, and have still not begun. I hate translating. You'd think being able to speak the language, more or less, would make it relatively easy - - but it's damn hard thinking in both languages at the same time. And, it's a lot easier for me to go Sp to En than from En to Sp. I need to get on it, though, or I'll feel guilty for longer, and I don't need that.
The chicken pen has been finished, for a bit, but I'm still waiting to get chickens (a cock and 2 hens) until I've got a good box for nests, and some alfalfa for the filler, and to line the earth. I also bought a very large birdcage (I can enter it, myself) for the parakeets. Of course, it's FAR too big for just 2 parakeets . . I'm going to get a few more birds. I can't afford a macaw, so I'm making up for my lack of parrots by getting the little ones. Paula laid 7 eggs this year, and 3 hatched. Last year, she laid 5 and one hatched. Who knows what will happen next year? Plus, with a few more pair of 'keets, I should have a lot of chicks.
Hillary is still crazy. I haven't spent nearly enough time training her, so a lot of it is my fault. She's a bit more than a year old, by now. And she's still beautiful. I bought a training collar to get her to "heel" more easily, but haven't used it yet. I'm giving her, and the cats, their rabies shots today.
Still need to get to a dentist for a bridge - - and possibly another extraction or cap. My mouth's a mess, but I hate going to the dentist.
I've had LOADS of insomnia in the past month. I can't get to sleep, and so I'm exhausted during the day. It seems that the nights I have the worst time falling asleep are the nights before I have to be up early in the morning. Carlos is urging me to see a doctor, and I need to get my semi-annual blood tests, anyway, so I'm going to call Saba on Monday, and make sure to tell him about the sleep problems.
I've been piss-poor at answering mail. I have no excuse. I'm just not up to reading, analysing, responding . . . It's a sign of mental state. I'm satisfied, enough, with my life, but still not what you could call "happy." I know that depression and craziness is still my main "modus operandi" but don't seem able to do anything about it.
Anyway - - it's been way too long since I've posted anything, or even logged into LJ. Sorry if some of my readers, and folks on the friends list, seem to be being ignored. Rest assured, I'm ignoring everybody these days.
