I’m going to be rather tired for the next 10 days. I have to hold my schedule where it’s at till Monday when I go to get my ear cleaned, then continue on holding it till Friday for the freeloaders. Always for the freeloaders! Again, words cannot express how much anguish and humiliation it brings me to have the bulk of my life revolve around my own perpetrators!!!

I had a funny thought, not that I expect this to ever happen, but wouldn’t it blow Scot’s mind if I reported with Teddy Bear in tow? In uniform, that is. He’d be like - what the hell? That’d throw him for damn sure!

Still working in back. The moving boxes, if that’s what they really are, are still back there, and I’ve seen workers come and go. They were on a ladder in front of the house yesterday and today they’re on the roof.

Amazingly, I had 1000 calories yesterday, I shit, I ran twice for 10 minutes, I worked out for 15 minutes, yet I haven’t shed a pound. Your metabolism is supposed to slow down with age, not stop completely. It just goes to show yet again that exercising doesn’t make you lose weight, fat or inches. It just tones you up and gives you more stamina and endurance. I’m way fitter than I was months ago, and can jog for over 15 minutes now! It’s hard to believe that less than a week ago I couldn’t jog more than 2½ minutes and that less than a month ago, I couldn’t do stationary jogging for more than a minute.

Tom received a whopping $600 from Mom for doing her taxes! I was surprised she’d give him that much. He also got $20 for us to have fun with. The next time I’m in Walgreen I want to get more of that chrome nail polish. Meanwhile, we’re going to get me another whitening kit for my teeth, order Donna for $25 (I’ve still got Sugar Plum coming in March) and get current on the house payments.

I don’t know when the hell the fences and landscaping are going to happen, but someday I guess it will. Sometime this year I hope to get Blossom and Joy, but I won’t count on it.

Mom wanted Mary to call me to tell me that she deleted the pictures she took of me, but like Tom pointed out - what good would that do? The pictures were already taken, and I was already embarrassed and made a fool of. I don’t hate her and it’s not like I’m going to hold it against her forever, but she needs to learn that I mean what I say, unlike most people. A person should never take another person’s picture without their permission, and if they say no, then no means no!

She gave Tom a bag of M&M’s. I managed to control myself from eating more than a few, but that’s another thing that bugs me about Mary and Dave. They live on nothing but crap. Whenever we visit, they want to feed us crap. Good, yummy crap that’s awfully hard to say no to, making maintaining my weight rather hard. I can’t believe these people aren’t over 200 pounds with the way they eat. They eat nothing but McDonald’s, pizza, cake, candy, ice cream, etc. They’re the kind that would rather die than eat fruits or vegetables.

Got both good news and news that could turn out to be either good or bad. It’s too soon to say for sure.

Right now I’m pretty sure it is a worker living back there. When I got up at 1 PM today, there was a white pickup by the side of the house and a white car in front. I saw a guy sitting in front, of course, then he got up, threw a cigarette on the ground, and walked into the house, followed by a large dog. I later got a good enough glimpse of him through the binoculars. He’s white and scruffy-looking. Could end up being as bad as off-brands. He was thin and wiry-looking with long gray, scraggly hair resembling Willie Nelson. The kind that would litter the ground with cigarette butts. The kind you’d find in bars. The kind that may blast music with his buddies while they all get high and drunk. We’ll soon see because now’s the time they’ll start up with the music if they’re into that. Now that they’re settled, we could hear them anytime now. I didn’t see anyone else. No kids, either. It’s hard to believe that just one person could be living there, but Dan lived alone in a 3-bedroom, and in this house, you got just two people in a 4-bedroom that could be a 5-bedroom, depending on how you use the retreat.

Anyway, people who are going to be noisy don’t usually act up till they’re all moved in. It’s an “ok, we’re here, we have arrived” kind of thing.

Also, Willie took off in the pickup at around 4:00. He hadn’t returned by the time it was dark, and if he has since, it’s too dark to tell.

The news that should definitely be good in the long run, like in about a decade, is that they’re going to be building a Basha’s grocery store near the new subdivision. So now the nearest grocery store will be 20 minutes away rather than an hour. The closer stores and subdivisions get to the house, the more money we can make off of this place, which will be a fortune if it keeps growing the way it has, which is just as I predicted it would before we even moved here. This is exactly what I saw in my vision.