Ida and I patched things up. We talked a lot today about all kinds of things and I’m glad we’re still cellies. We talked about the things that have happened to make me this angry, including my childhood. She really is a good person deep down. I told her I know I’m not perfect and am sorry if I scared her in any way.

She talks a lot, but she’s pretty smart and has many interesting things to say. She’s not your typical inmate any more than Rosa or Mary (I was chatting with Mary earlier who’s still sick). She even taught me a few German phrases like Guten Tag (good day) and Ich Liebe Dich (I love you).

Tomorrow’s Ida’s b-day. Even though I’ve been rounding her off to 60, she’ll actually be 59. Hope I look half as good as she does if I live that long. She doesn’t have much sagging and wrinkling for her age and she’s skinnier than I am.

Ida and made a bet. If she goes to court next week, whether or not her motion is denied, I owe her a bag of trail mix from commissary. If she doesn’t go to court at all, she owes me her lunch snacks all next weekend.

I never make bets I can’t win.

Cedeño, the huge 250-pound DO that’s on now, has her clipboard. That means it’s around 10:30.

This morning I put in a tank for an inhaler refill and to see Psych for some sleeping pills, but I have a feeling Kara will show up instead and I won’t get the pills. They fucking force psych pills down my throat as a kid, but when I ask for them as an adult, nobody will give them to me!

Ida told me her daughter-in-law had liposuction on her thighs. It costs $600 a thigh and it really works, I hear. It’s been 2 years and her thighs are still thin. Just like me, she exercised yet could never lose the fat on her thighs. I still want to check into a body wrap, but this is something to consider for my thighs and gut. Even my hips and face are huge! It’d be worth the money to me, but it’d take some time to save up for it. Still, it’d be a damn worthy investment.

The shower water is still cold, but what else is new? And it’s so obvious that it’s deliberately set that way.