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I feel sorta dirty after that whoring out of my blog. Time to cleanse the pallet with some random thought whenever.

The derby team went to a local western bar last night for some "bonding" and goofing off and what not. They are nucking futs, those rollergirls. I didn't go. Tim has been very supportive lately, staying home with Charlie while I left to do this and that, and I felt like I owed him a night off.

My working out is paying off. I've lost 8 pounds, a few inches, and several percent body fat. Of course one of the inches came off my boobs, and nothing has come off my hips or thighs yet.

My writing job has blossomed a bit. I'm now being paid per article, which is awesome. I'm now also responsible for keeping track of advertisers. It's money in my pocket, and it's something I can do from home. It will also fill in the big blank that would be on my resume for the time that I spend staying home with Charlie.

Speaking of the little devil, my almost-one-year-old is still waking up at night a lot, and I've been trying everything that's been suggested to get him to sleep through the night. Among the suggestions: water down his bottles at night so he won't want to eat them, let him cry it out, just pat him on the back but don't pick him up, keep him up later, feed him more solids during the day, give him cereal right before bed, and give him Ibuprofen before bed. I've tried all of those and more. Nothing has worked. Then last night he woke up whining, and I simply reached over, turned off the monitor, and fell back asleep. Tim didn't fall back asleep, but he didn't get up and get Charlie. He said he whined and cried for a while, but eventually gave it up. So that's apparently the key-- just don't bother. He must not have cried much, or else I would've heard him again.

I think we have given up the idea of moving, for now. We can't get what we have here for anywhere close to the same price in another part of Petal, and Tim said he doesn't want to move and stay in Petal unless we get a great place. We have a 3/2 on 3 acres on a dead end road in a great school district. It's hard to find something similar to that around here for less than $250k, and that's way more than we paid for this place. If we find something great in Brandon, we'll go look, but the idea of moving but staying in Petal is out. We'll just have to deal with the trashy neighbors for now. Maybe they'll move, right?