Friday, October 19, 1984

I adopted a cat from Alma and Larry. She's a mama cat and black and white striped. She was the friendliest with their St. Bernard dog. I call her Tat, because her fur reminds me of lace. Tat immediately had no fear of my dogs, and both my dogs were raised with a cat that got run over by a car and died several years ago, so, they had no curiosity about her either.

Larry paid me $80.25 for the week's work: $5.00 for gasoline, $3.00 for doing the laundry, $5.00 for cleaning the freezers and the $15.00 I spent getting his clock repaired, a total of $108.25.

I bought fifty pounds of dog food, and it will last one month. I bought kitty litter, cat food and a cat flea collar. I bought enough groceries to last me the weekend at Ruth's.

I paid the phone bill, finally paid for the newspaper ad that landed me the two jobs, paid for the flowers that I planted in the yard, and bought $10.00 worth of gasoline, which should last me all next week, a total of $125.00.

I dismantled my stove burners, cleaned underneath them, and lined the drip-plates with foil, then I finished cleaning the stove. I discovered mouse-droppings, where I had cleaned yesterday.

One of my co-workers stopped at Ruth's before I went to bed there, and gave me four Darvocet. I slept well for four consecutive hours. Even when my hand/arm pain woke me up, I was able to 'wake-up' my right hand without much pain in five minutes or so. Several times I've sat on the edge of the couch/bed and bawled trying to 'wake-up' my hand. Sometimes it took about thirty minutes before the pain subsided.