I'm back, again, but for a short one, this time. The reason is that I'm a member of another one of those internet money programs, but this program has paid me already, so I thought I'd share it with you in hopes of getting referrals so that I may make a little extra money. Here's the link: http://www.itpaystolearn.com/default.asp?ref_id=AOP425 . Sign up, and be sure to make at least 500 QuizPoints a month in order to be able to have the cash carry over. Just so you know, each quiz is worth about 30 QuizPoints. Each quiz consists of 10 questions and comes in 3 levels of difficulty. A quiz takes me about 45 seconds. 10 QuizPoints is worth 1 cent, so you can figure making 3 cents per quiz. Thanks to all those that sign up, I really appreciate it!

Well, things seem to be going good sometimes and bad others. I'm still trying to get over this cold or whatever it is that you want to call it. Its much better than it has been, but my nose is still constantly runny. Hopefully I'll be completely over it in the next couple of days. What else has happened... Well, I finally got my new shoes. They were $17.00 at Wal-Mart. Just some plain old black boots. I don't have to walk on holes anymore now, thank God!

Tomorrow is going to be another plasma donation day. We're trying to save up as much money as we can from donating so that we can go visit Mom for a few days, but it isn't easy. When you only make $80 a week from selling your body fluids, it's hard to save. We spend most of it on eating out the day of donating and bus tickets. After all of that is said and done, we only have about $10 left, or $20 a week. We also like to buy a few things while we're away from the Center of Hope. Well, hopefully in a month's time we will be able to leave this acursed place for a weekend!

That's all for now. Keep those comments coming!

Blah, I'm not feeling too well. I've got a cold or something, in the middle of the summer! Well, that's what I think it is anyway. My nose is stopped up, my throat is sore, I'm sneezing and coughing a lot, not to mention my left ear is clogged or something, because I can't hear too well from it. It's not doing me much good at all, especially since I have to walk so much lately. But the walking is starting to pay off; I've already lost four pounds, can you believe that? Kim is also losing weight.

The heat has been near unbearable lately, with temperatures in the upper 90's. Most of my uncovered body is staying sunburnt, but I'm used to it, so it doesn't actually hurt too much. My feet are probably the worst part of me. My expensive shoes that I'm wearing right now, which Mom bought me a couple of months ago, are almost worthless. The soles in both shoes are rubbed out. Well, I put a pair of $16 shoes at Wal-Mart on layaway and I'm paying as much as I can afford every time we go to donate plasma. I only owe $10 now, so I'm looking forward to having them hopefully by the end of the week.

DCI isn't a very reliable source of income, though. Every time you get poked, you risk infiltrating a vein, and if you can't get your blood back, you are deferred from donating for 8 weeks. If we're not able to donate, we won't be able to ride the bus around town to look for jobs anymore, not to mention eat out every now and then, which is about the only thing we can ever look forward to anymore. The stress at the homeless shelter is pretty bad, so we look forward to every day that we can get away from it all.

Well, anyway, I hope this blog keeps some of you up to date on my happenings. I'll talk to you people later!