I hate this tv.  There's only two shows I like to watch on SyFy with any regularity - Ghosthunters & GHI - and it's on tonight.  And the tv not only refuses to get that channel but it won't do sound.  Not a peep.  And I should be able to watch a little tv on my birthday!  But noooo!  Cursed thing.  If we were close to a PX I'd have gone over and bought a new one...but we aren't.  Wayne is saying we should buy a new one at the end of the month but I don't think we will have the extra cash then.

I royally screwed up my bank account because I forgot that I wrote a paper cheque to Bank of the West for the fiver payment and didn't write it down - I normally use the electronic pay but paydays are a little skewed vis a vis bills right now and I didn't want it to be late.  So add on a $10 charge for transfering the money from savings to checking.  After all this time you'd think I'd be able to keep on top of things like that....sigh.  Oft wish Wayne would do the bills but he got out of the habit when he was in school and I was trying to keep us going on my pay and didn't want him to see me juggling things and distract him from his classes.  Now, occasionally I show him the chequebook and explain why he can't spend any money at that time, but that's as close as he gets to knowing what's going on.  If I should keel over he's going to be at a loss.

This means I have to throw about $400 into savings on Friday just to make up for the transfers and the normal $100 that goes in weekly.  Heavy sigh.  I will be SO Glad when we just have the fiver payment as our only big bill...and that should happen next month with any luck.

TPTB are sure putting a lot of pressure on Chris to find a new job and I know it has to be stressing all of them out.  Micha wants to stay put so JaDe can graduate from that high school but I truely fear that won't be possible.  Atleast she'll be able to finish out this year, I think.  Q has a car so he can come out for the weekend if they don't go too far.  Got my fingers crossed for the Columbia area.

My eldest brother called me to wish me a happy birthday and to talk about magickal stuff.  He seems to have fixiated on Buckland and it makes me impatient but I know that he's not to the point yet where I can tell him things or explain that a lot of what he's reading is great for beginners but unnecessary.  They did some sort of ritual based on what I told Maryann decades ago - that would be something to see! - and are thinking of checking into a coven in the New Orleans area.  I put him onto Cunningham and, thanks to Chris, a couple of entry-level High magick books.  And today I told him how to sense energy with the chakras in his palms and told him to check into reiki and chakras.  If we were nearby I could do much more for him but as it stands we'll see how this progresses.  He wanted to get the books thru Barnes & Noble but why when he can get used thru Amazon for a fourth of the price?

Talked with Shanna and Katie today - well, IMed them.  Very handy thing.  Shanna said she's interested in rare breeds so I mentioned the ALBC.  There's also that one that deals specifically with antique poultry but she didn't mention that she wanted fowl except for a peacock so I left that out. 

Had more snow today and they're calling for like feet in the 4 Corners area.  I think we're on the outskirts so most likely we won't get any.  Wayne was almost pushed off the highway by a gust of wind combined with slick pavement on his way in to work.  I can see I need to add that in to the wards I put on the truck almost every morning.  He found some old modules at a used book store in town and is happy reading them as they aren't some he has in storage.  I expect his need to game is going to result in him harassing me to play.  He doesn't want to do that.  Or this weekend after we get another 400 units on the phone he'll be calling Chris and gaming with him.  Got to do laundry again this weekend, too.  He can take the phone to the laundry and game from there!

I threw some chicken and veggies into the crockpot for dinner, added a cup of red wine, and it still needed seasonings.  Shouldn't have.  Oh well.  I also cut the cake in half and frosted the inside so he'd have his two layer cake.  Men!  Why not just have a side dish of frosting?  Don't think he'll be extending here as he's finding it frustrating to work there and I see no reason to continue if he's not happy.  Wouldn't mind coming back to this area after I've had the knee replaced, though.  Still many things I want to check out.  But next month I'll email all the companies he's registered with and ask them to start looking for another job!  Always exciting to see what pops up.