Well, I’ll continue to enjoy my tasty dinners and that endangered eighty dollars is, at least for the time being, secure.  Contrary to what that government man predicted, my Medicaid subsidy has just been re-approved.  So staying in the program is in the best interests of both me and the Landlady.  Those Blue Water folks are really good at these bureaucratic dances and I am reminded yet again of how fortunate I am to have them as a sponsor.

If I were a taxpayer I’d probably be annoyed by this development because realistically I don’t think I am really eligible.  On the other hand, I probably wouldn’t even know about it and if I did would be unlikely to much object.  They spend tax dollars on so many silly things that my pittance hardly seems relevant.

I wonder why it is all Filipino boys and young men are so attractive?  There are certainly very few exceptions in our little valley.  Handsome Son is unquestionably the champ but the ten-year-old is just plain adorable and will be a major heartthrob is a few years.  Many of them maintain their good looks as they grow older, as evidenced by the Husband.  He was really a knockout when he was younger, though, as I saw when the Landlady gave me two enormous photo albums to look through.  I even got to see Handsome Son stark naked although I’m sure I’d much more appreciate the experience now than in seeing what it was like fourteen-or-so years ago.  I immediately banish any such thoughts from my head, but I did once visit Damien with the Landlady and said later I thought he was the most handsome lad in the school.  He was, too, although the competition was certainly heavy.

March has come in as a lamb all right, although I’m not sure if that old lion-lamb saying is applicable in these islands.  In any case, the month is off to a very beautiful beginning. 

I ended Sadie Hawkins Day with $1.34 and four cigarettes in my pocket.  Yikes.  I’ll be going in quest of those pension checks in a few minutes.  Let us pray.