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Stupid health insurance.  "Oh yes Mrs Hawke, that's our mistake, we'll refile the claim and pay it."  Really?  So why have I got another bill for it a month later?  Why am I sat on hold again, listening to syrupy music again, reciting date

Well, that was interesting.  Just got home from an interview for an assistant manager job for a jewelry store in the mall.  I'd be piercing ears if I got the job.  They have artificial ears to practise on.  Somewhere out there is a company that sells fake ears

Tiring day.  At 9am we were in a Ford minivan heading out to look at our first house with Janis, our real estate agent.  It was a gorgeous brick house in a great location, hardwood floors, dry basement, great kitchen, two bedrooms instead of three, but lots of space.  It

Paul gave me a turquoise Photon II light from Think Geek, and I love it!  He tripled the memory on my laptop, upgraded one of my most often used pieces of software and gave me a really cool t-shirt that says "No, I will not fix your computer."

1:30 pm it started raining, which turned to sleet.  It's still coming down.  Yesterday it was warm enough to be outside in a t-shirt.  Tomorrow it's supposed to be below freezing all day. Applied for more jobs today, including a nice web development place down

Went back to Chesterfield, this time my customer was there.  She ordered a bracelet and asked me to price up a matching necklace, and the other woman with her asked for a rose quartz bracelet.  Woohoo!  I'm in business! Now I have to go buy the parts and

I'm going to see a woman about a bracelet at 2.30 pm, and I'm nervous.  This could be my first real jewellery sale, and she might have an address I could send my CV/resume to for her brother-in-law's company.  Scary. I have

Apparently Hubby has been in a class action lawsuit and never even knew it.  We got a check from Chase Manhattan for a whopping 86 cents.  It must have cost them more than that to print and mail it.  We still don't know what the lawsuit was actually