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Two new cards for sale, $5.00 each.

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Woo-hoo - I'm feeling normal again! I love drugs.

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Remember the bully at work? He's someone in another office who I have to deal with very little but he's just a rude, nasty man - to everyone, not just me. He used to totally get to me until I told myself to snap out of it.

Yesterday I arrived at work to find an email from him, attempting to berate me for something he perceived as ineptitude on my part. But I refused delivery of his attitude - ha! In spite of the fact that the drugs hadn't quite kicked in yet, I was cool as a cucumber. I replied, explained what I did, when and why. I made a phone call to HIS bank to find a solution that HE has to set up and spelled out the details to him. Naturally he had copied 3 other people on the email, my boss being one of them. I work very well with all 3 of them, they know me and my work and they know him, so honestly, that didn't bother me in the least. My boss was out of the office most of the day but when he came back, he said to me, "I saw your email to Mark. What a piece of work that guy is."

I've yet to hear back from Mark so it probably ain't over, but who cares? I'm soooo glad I quit giving him any power over me. Wish I had done it the moment he came into my life, but at least it's done now. So there.

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Steve called me from work last night telling me to go ahead and eat dinner without him, he was going to be late. So I did. And I sat with him and stitched while he ate and we watched TV. End of story. :-)

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Steve's taking today off and I'm leaving work at noon because we're heading to Turning Stone Casino this afternoon, about 2 hours away. We're going to see Tower of Power and Average White Band. Steve plays trombone, played in bands growing up so he has a real affinity for horn sections. We've been joking that this is the first time we're seeing someone that he wants to see. Usually it's me who finds shows and concerts to see. He is always 100% fine with that, always enjoys everything we do, for sure. I liked Average White Band back in the day, owned an album and everything, so this really isn't much of a stretch for me. It's not like we're going to a monster truck rally, for cryin' out loud.

He downloaded a bunch of songs from iTunes the other day, burned to a CD. As I was trimming the cover to fit the jewel case, I remarked it was a change - a concert I didn't have to study for. For a couple of weeks leading up to the March Springsteen concert, I listened to the Magic CD non-stop, memorizing lyrics, reading lots of reviews online of this tour. Tonight, I'll just go, be in the moment and have fun.

We're staying overnight at the resort this time. When we went to see Kathy Griffin last fall, there were no rooms available - and they have 5 hotels on the grounds, I think it is. We stayed in that Super Stinky Super Smoky Super 8 down the road.

And tonight we'll have dinner before the show. I think we have it narrowed down to the buffet place. I'm usually kind of anti-buffet, only because I want to be waited on, thankyouverymuch and I don't want to overeat. But this place looks good and most of the other restaurants are pretty high end, as we found out last time. We just want an Applebees kind of place - something for everyone.

Steve's daughter is going to let Reggi out today/tonight and Simon will take care of her in the morning. I'm going to tell him to set his alarm on his phone or something so he doesn't forget. He's always come through in the pet care department, but I can't help but worry a tiny bit. Heck, we'll be home around noon tomorrow. She'll be fine, no matter what. And the cats probably won't even notice we're not here. That's not true - Verona sleeps with us every night so about 9:30 she'll walk around trying to find me, like she always does. Sometimes I have Verona and Reggi both hanging around my studio, tapping their little feet, clearing their throats, making sure I know it's bedtime.

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