I did get mail from Mary after all. Tom just didn’t get around to letting me know about it till after I shut down the computers. Got 5 envelopes with drafts and religious cards with a very surprising letter in one of them.

The smaller surprise of the letter was that she told me my body looked good in the recent pictures I sent and that I was in awesome shape. I’m in awesome shape, yes, but I sure didn’t expect to hear that I looked good. I mean, I didn’t expect her to come out and tell me I was a fat, ugly cow, but I thought she’d tell me I still needed a lot of work.

Anyway, I hope she’s on her way to Florida so I can send her her stuff and we can exchange letters a little more privately, so to speak. Meaning, in Florida, no one will know my or the Phoenix officer’s names that I may mention.

Speaking of one Phoenix officer – the big surprise was about Teddy Bear. To quote from Mary’s letter, she wrote: I have Teddy Bear updates, but I can’t tell you much quite yet because 007 is still investigating. I know almost everything about her. I can’t be sure if all my information is true, but I have reliable resources with whom she associates. Let’s just say Teddy Bear’s got issues and I feel you deserve better, Jodi. I really mean it. I’ll write soon with my update.

I was like, Teddy Bear, what did you do?! My first thought was that she and another inmate liked each other just like we did, only she went further with this one and got caught. If this is so, and if she was lonely and horny, why didn’t she come to me? Was I just too far away? Was this other inmate more convenient and maybe better looking, too?

My second guess is that she hit someone, but Teddy Bear? I know the woman had a bit of bite to her, but that’s more of a Palma thing, I’d think. She always seemed to be a rather dedicated professional, so I don’t know. I mean, I just can’t imagine her getting into trouble, unless maybe she herself is being set up for some reason, but who knows?

Whatever it is she’s supposed to have done, wouldn’t the 007 just love to know about us? I assume this 007 is something that investigates officers. I couldn’t find anything online about it, and Tom said that it’s an internal thing that would never be posted online.

I wonder if it’s a DO I know that’s been filling Mary in? Whoever it is, I think I might write Mary and ask her to ask this person if she’d be willing to give my letter to Teddy Bear, since she associates with her regularly enough. That is unless Mary doesn’t think it’d be a wise idea. I’ll trust her to use her best judgment. I guess it depends on what she’s done. Besides, Teddy Bear knows my address and number. If she ever really wants to get a hold of me, she knows how to.

I just wish I knew what was going on! Could it somehow be connected to me? I doubt it, but once I knew she was going to blow me off, I did wonder about my letter. I wondered if it could’ve caused anyone to think more went on between us than actually did.

Meanwhile, I guess all I can do is sit and wait for Mary’s next letter, hoping it’ll have more detailed info. After all, the suspense sure is killing me!

As I let her know, I’m so grateful to her. If it weren’t for her, I’d never know about this 007 thing, nor would I ever have known she even left there!

Later…

Tom found a link with an update online about Monster. My hunch was right as to why there was no obvious mention of yesterday’s supposed sentencing. It’s been delayed till the 28th (Mary’s letters were postmarked on the 4th and 5th, so she couldn’t have known about the delay at the time). Supposedly, he asked the judge if he could change his guilty plea and the judge said no. Then he asked to fire his lawyer and the judge said no. Finally, he asked for a hearing (I forget exactly what it’s called), and the judge said ok. So the animal’s still utilizing any delay tactic he can come up with, but I don’t know why. It’s not going to change the inevitable outcome in either case.

Tom says he thinks the spider may’ve come up from the shower drain, which might explain why so many sightings are in that bath. That shower rarely gets used cuz of the leak, and I know the fuckers don’t drown easily. As he explained to me, all drains have wide-open vents to the roof, so that’s how it might’ve gotten in. From now on I’ll be sure to run water down it more often, and even spray some Raid down, even if it might not be as powerful as I’d like. It’s just that I’d have thought it was too big to squeeze through the drain. Maybe if it’s that desperate it can squeeze its way through, cuz I’d have found something that big if it had gotten out of the shower, and it couldn’t have gone very far. It would’ve been sluggish from all the Raid and water.

Tomorrow Tom will spray the skirting and install the indoor/outdoor thermometer he fixed.

Anyway, I’m going to assume Mary will be in Phoenix at least until the 28th and go ahead and send her a letter. The poor girl must’ve been pissed as soon as she found out about the delay. I’m sure she just wants to get the show on the road, so to speak.

We discussed it and we decided we’d each take $40 a month for fun, and we’re also going to get new computers, the fences and the kiln within the next couple of months, cuz we’ll definitely have the money for it all. Also, we’re going to allot $90 a week for groceries, though I’ll still try to get as little as I can for two reasons; the extra money I can save, and cuz I should anyway, so I don’t end up like Roseanne Barr anytime too soon.