First, my new scanner arrived. It’s absolutely awesome! I scanned in 4 images as a test, just to see how well it would do — they are up on Hairy Ember’s site right now.

I put up a new site dedicated to Hirsute Sandra. When I have time I’ll explain a story of how I got the domain.

Woke up and my tooth didn’t hurt at all. I’m thinking maybe I bit down funny when I ate the ribs I made for dinner last night. My ribs are the best in the world, no exaggeration. First, they are baked in the oven which is the way I prefer them — I don’t like smoked foods. Icky. What I do is buy baby back ribs and then spend almost an hour trimming of them of every little bit of fat. I then rub them with a little Hoisin sauce and let them marinate for a day. Then I put them in the toaster oven at 500 degrees for 30 minutes, brush them with Hoisin sauce, then do that again twice more, every 15 minutes. What you get is fully cooked pork baby back ribs, carmelized from the sauce and crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside with no fat.

Anyway, I’m happy the tooth doesn’t bother me, thinking I saved myself almost $900 … but it wasn’t quite that good a day.

On my right hand I have a diamond ring, .75 carats, that was given to me by my mother when she had her first breast cancer. I was 18 and she wanted me to have the ring in case she died. It has a lot of sentimental memory. Well, about 3 years ago I was working one morning and leaned on my right hand and cut my face … when I looked down, the prongs on the ring had cut me, but the diamond was missing. I retraced my steps of that morning but could not find it. I was heartbroken. That night at dark I took a flashlight and crawled around my entire house, looking for it to no avail. I remember Eddie telling me since it was a $4k ring he’d have hired someone to find it lol. (It’s a good stone).

Well, instead I bought another diamond, only this was more than a carat and while not as good a stone, it was still good and was under two grand (if I remember right). About a month later, one morning, I went into the kitchen to make breakfast, and looked at the left hand side of my counter and saw something shiny. I figured it was shmootz and was about to sweep it off the counter but when I looked, I realized it was a diamond. Yes, a diamond was sitting in the middle of my lilac Corian counter. This was the eeriest thing in the world. I live alone, no one had been here, yet the missing diamond was there???

Eventually I figured out that in the morning I had to fix a broken fingernail and apparently my diamond must have gotten stuck on the little ceramic bottle of acrylic, because I had washed it out the night before I found the diamond. It must have dried and then fallen off. How odd is that? Anyway, now I had 2 diamonds, so I just wear 2 rings (I wear 3 diamond earrings as well).

Last night I felt a sharp edge on the back of the ring and figured it was something stuck on it, so tried to remove it, only to find out the ring had split. Yes, the white gold had broken. Since I didn’t like the setting anyway, I went to the jewelry store this morning to get a new ring. The one I liked was on sale but I nearly died when she said $2,300!!! I asked for something MUCH cheaper without all those diamonds on the side, sheesh! The girl at the jewelry store has a lot of facial and forearm hair, so I didn’t mind talking to her for a while. Eventually I chose one for $500 (on sale) so technically, at the end of the day, I saved about $400 ….. I get it back tomorrow late afternoon and if anyone wants to see it, I’ll be glad to take a picture of it and then post it. Can’t scan it lol but can take a pic!

I needed to buy myself a gift like this, taking care of my parents is really beginning to get to me. Dad was in the hospital until yesterday as he had gained 20 lbs in 5 days from fluid. He’s home but now has more infections on his legs so will be in and out. Taking mom here and there and listening to her repeatedly bitch about him is really beginning to take its toll on me. I was planning on taking a few days off in 2 weeks and taking a mini vacation but with him so sick right now, I can’t.

I had to run mom to the store today to get lots of stuff for dad but at least when I got home, the UPS guy had been here and my scanner was here. The day began with humidity and pouring rain, then it cleared up and was cool with no humidity, then it poured when I was home having lunch and got humid again, then when I went out again in the afternoon it was sunny and cool with no humidity. The next 3 days are going to be in the 90’s with high humidity, though. Fortunately tomorrow I just have to buy paint for my back bedroom (glad I typed that as it reminded me to grab a sample of the wallpaper border to get an exact match for the paint), do some grocery shopping, pick up the diamond ring (I feel naked without it) and that’s it, I’ll then be home until Monday morning … nice and cool in the house, though I have to finish pulling down shelves and moving stuff for my guy on Monday .. major construction project about to begin!!]

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