Another wild mouse has come and gone. I saw it late last night come up from the vent in the living room. I set up the trap by the refrigerator, but it trapped itself this afternoon in our empty garbage pail instead. It was so cute sitting down there, not being able to jump high enough to get out. Tom dumped it by the wash just beyond our property.

I spoke to Paula earlier. I called her and hung up after a few rings. I figured she wouldn’t be there because I thought she’d want to get out and get away from the neighbors, but she called back, saying they’d been getting along better lately.

Even so, she said she may end up in jail again cuz she got into it with this lady whose daughter’s been bullying Justin for a couple of years. She said the only reason she didn’t hit her was that the kids were all watching. Some detective came out to talk to her, too.

If all she did was scream at the woman, especially in Massachusetts, she shouldn’t have anything to worry about, but for a detective to come out to talk to her tells me there may be more involved.

She said it took her only a year to do her community service because she did 40 hours a week (she’s on-call as a housekeeper right now). Then why is she on disability, if she can handle a full-time job?

She said she mailed the doll on the day of my birthday. That was two weeks ago, just about. I guess it could take 2-3 weeks if she mailed it 3rd-class. That’s how long it’d take those Ashton-Drake dolls to get to me. I think it’ll come this week, as long as she didn’t screw up the address.

The tapes are growing on her, she said, which I was glad to hear. She’s going to take my advice and get digital cable, so she can hook up a tape deck to the TV and record music from the commercial-free channels.

She said the indigent packages in the jail she was in included Life-Savers. Damn! You certainly didn’t get that in Estrella.

She also said she may have ovarian cancer and has had a lot of pain and bleeding.

There are 4 inches of snow there, and I guess that’s it. Hopefully, she won’t go to jail and lose her Section 8. I advised her not to talk to any more pigs without counsel present, not that counsel, especially if it’s a public pretender, wouldn’t be just as manipulative and out to get her.

I’d be getting $675 if I was still there, but that $440 apartment would now be $600 so it wouldn’t do me much good.

I went and checked up on Little Miss I’m Indifferent, but couldn’t find anything past her last release date.

I still plan on dieting after the New Year, but I’m going to settle for losing just 15 pounds and getting down to 105. No more regular gourmet coffee for me, though! They’re so loaded with caffeine that I end up staying up for nearly 24 hours with just 2-3 cups. If I get any more, it’ll have to be decaf.