I slept most of today. I made yummy soup in the morning. Coconut soup with chick peas. There's enough left for merryperseis to have some when she gets home from work.

I'm about to go to Market Basket with purpleglitter to pick up food supplies before the storm hits.

Yesterday, after the roommate interview, I went to the Salvation Army Thrift Store and picked up a couple new outfits. One of them I really like (a red crinkled blouse), as it is incredibly flattering.

We rented Legally Blonde last night. Bad. Really bad.

Kat came over last night. I don't get to see enough of her, she's quite the social butterfly.

Today, the only real plan I have is to go grocery shopping at Market Basket. Other than that, I really should try to write something or do some art. I'm often too lazy about those things.

We're home!! We went to Market Basket to get groceries on the way back. If feels so wonderful to be home and free!

In about 40 minutes Lake and I will go to Market Basket for groceries for the remainder of the month. We have $50 budgeted to accomplish this. That comes down to $2.50 per day per person for food (and coffee). I smell a lot of beans and rice in our future.

Market Basket no longer carries the huge one gallon jars of pickles I'm used to getting, so I had to pick up several smaller jars. I've eaten way too many pickles. Most of a jar. I'm paying for it now. I cannot move without feeling them. It really isn't all that bad, but I wanted to keep eating them. They're so good, and have no calories. I had to put them away and leave the room to stop myself from continuing my mad consumption. I really have to learn better self-control.

We were going to go to Dollar-A-Pound and Market Basket with Lake, but she pooped out. She says she is too tired to drive. I tried making coffee to no avail. Maybe we'll go to Dollar-A-Pound next week, but we need to go to Market Basket before then.

Been depressed most of tonight. I'm doing better now. Going to go to Market Basket in a few hours for groceries. My stomach has been giving me quite a bit of grief today. Probably all the beans and rice I've been eating. We'll get better food when we go.

From time to time we're going to enter text from our old hand-written journals. Of course I'll tell you when we're doing this, so there will be no confusion.

I've lost three friends in the past few weeks. Well, people I assumed were friends. Percy, Clover, and Gerette. I've been friends with all three for quite some many years now. The loss of all three is the latest round of people who left because of my DID. We had quite a little e-mail war with Percy. Tried to send him a polite e-mail asking why he'd stopped talking to me, and he immediately became hostile. I know we should know better than to respond and enter into such a thing, but we did. When Clover tried to start the same thing, we'd already had enough so we entered her onto our blocked senders list.

I am at a point where I think all the dead wood has gone. The people from the era where I hid the truth about myself, who couldn't handle the real me, are gone. We are better for it. We have left good friends, and I'm confident we will find more. Finding good friends is like digging for diamonds: you have to dig through a lot of dirt, but when you find a jewel it was all worth it.