Still waiting on the purple hair dye that was supposed to come yesterday but didn’t since some idiot put it on the wrong truck. I did get the nail powder dips, however, and they’re awesome! Very easy to do and anyone can do it. It is a little time-consuming, though, compared to strips and involves about 6 different steps. It takes about 10 minutes per hand. I have Metal Red on one hand and a mix of Fluorescent Green and Teal on the other. I didn’t want to use any of the pinks which I like best until I saw how easy it was to do. I didn’t know if I was going to screw up or what. There really isn’t much to screw up, though, as long as you follow the steps. You apply the base coat and cure it. Then the nail gel and cure it. Then the top coat and cure it for just 10 seconds. Then you take a makeup applicator and tap on the powder, then brush off the excess with the makeup brush I got. The last step is putting on a second topcoat and curing it.

The UV light didn’t burn me at all. It was slightly warm, but that was it. Believe it or not, my nails are still slightly tacky, but I didn’t cure them for as long as I could have. They look gorgeous. I’m very happy with the way they came out. Regular nail polish is nowhere near this glossy. Not even the strips are. Also, you would never know I had ridges! The lighter colors don’t look as glossy, but they look glitterier.

Next time I’m going to play around with the fluorescents by another brand and do each finger a different color. After that, I’ll go back to the chrome set and do the Holographic Pink on one hand and Chameleon Pink to Gold on the other. Eventually, I want to get some glow-in-the-dark dips. I’m still going to do stickers and nail polish at times but this is a fun way to add variety and mix things up a bit.

The other brand also has hues. Six different shades of blue and a little tower with six different shades of green. Even the ugliest colors in the chrome set were still gorgeous with the way they’re so vivid, shiny, and glittery. That would be the Coffee.

I’ll just have to be patient because it’s going to be a while before I experiment with all the different colors because this stuff has some serious staying power. If I get impatient, I have remover. I just hope it works as well as the video shows.

We discussed what to get each other for our upcoming anniversary on the 15th and he’s going to pick out a diamond painting for me to do for his office wall. I’ve decided on a couple of VR apps I’d like. One’s called Nature Treks. The other is Tai Chi.

I couldn’t figure out how to create maps for my VZ rides on the computer, but as expected, he was able to figure it out, so he helped me. I created a route from Salzberg to Munich but there are parts of the trip that Nane’s bus may not have traveled through.

I’ve been thinking about Nane a lot lately and I still don’t know why I miss her. She was such a judgmental bitch at times. I guess it’s because she was one of my first international cyber friends. I did have quite a crush on her too. She was quite the story muse as Kate Jackson once was.

I can’t help but wonder what her life is like today. Is she still working as an accountant? Is she with someone? Is she healthy? Does she still like to vacation in Turkey? Lockdown must have been so hard on her because of the way she really likes to be on the go and socialize. That’s why she dumped poor Irene. Irene had settled down, but Nane was still a party girl. She probably still visits Christiane. Although Irene says she’s over it, I still feel a bit bad for her because I think Nane only blocked her because of me.

I wonder if she’ll live the rest of her life in Germany, or if she’ll one day retire in Turkey or Greece. Or maybe somewhere else?

The funniest thing happened yesterday. I was standing in the kitchen window and saw Tom pull something out of the mailbox. Only he dropped it like it was on fire. A frog was in the box and startled him, LOL. I didn’t see the frog from the window, so my first thought was some kind of wasp, bee, or a large spider.

I heard the dog for the better part of a minute yesterday because it got all excited to go out on the golf cart with its inconsiderate owner. Pretty sure I heard it this morning too. I’m getting a little closer to complaining and not hiding about it either. I don’t think they said anything to him because I was anonymous the first time around. And maybe because I might have been the only complainant thus far. If they did say anything, then this guy simply doesn’t give a shit. Either that or he’s embarrassingly stupid that he doesn’t know that he’s got options for training/controlling the damn thing.

I was tempted to ask Toni how she feels about it lately, but I don’t know how much I can trust her. I barely know the woman. She seems nice and kind of like the new Mrs. Twenties, but how do I know Toni hasn’t already shared our chat? How do I also know that Mrs. Twenties didn’t tell the Bs I complained, or told someone that told the Bs? I have my doubts, though, because of how fast the counter-complaint came. I don’t think it was even 24 hours. I would think it would take two or three days for word to get back to the Bs and for them to look our place over and decide what to complain about, and then for Joy to come out and decide to leave a note on our door. Joy probably still gave our names to the Bs, but it was her counter-complaint, no doubt. It was her spiting someone who complained on her friends. That’s how they were able to get away with so much shit for so long and not get evicted. Joy had the chance to defend herself when I contacted her when we left and she never did. Silence often speaks the truth.

I’m still hesitant to complain here after what happened at the other place. My complaint could add to the anonymous one and any other possible complaints and lead to something being done about the mutt, or it could backfire on us and get us counter-complained on. You just never know who’s friends with whom.