No new news yet on Monster from what I could see online.

Tom’s still fighting with the bank over the house payments but is still certain that it’ll be over soon and in our favor. He says he doesn’t think he’ll get the payments lowered back down, but that this will at least show them that we’re fed up and aren’t going to take any more, should they think of raising the payments some more in the future.

I hope he’s right about this since some people just don’t give up. So many more people would lose weight and quit smoking if they could put the same determination and discipline into making that happen as they do with fucking other people over.

Anyway, I’m quite bored. All I have to do is work out and clean the kitchen. Now’s when I wish I was making dolls or at least had some typing to do for Mary! There’s been no mail from her or anyone else connected to her.

Originally I had thought that the defense seeing her book couldn’t hurt her, and I doubt it will, but now I’m wondering about the part where she looks in the mirror at her beaten face and tells herself she’d broken every promise she ever made to herself about not being with abusive guys. In other words, it shows she knew what was going on. She knew she was with someone dangerous yet she stuck around. If I were her, I wouldn’t worry about it, though. I don’t think it’ll change anything one way or another.

I’m down a pound to 127. I’m regular, avoiding fried foods and sugar, and I’m working out more, so we’ll see what happens. I still think I’m too old to lose much more weight, let alone weighed down with too much muscle to do so.

Later…

Just had an utterly terrifying experience. I went to sit down on my toilet, and there in the shower stall was one of those big spider-like things the size of the skylight spider. What was even scarier was that I kept Raiding the shit out of it and drenching it with water and it still wouldn’t die! It was too big to go down the drain. So then I turned on the hot water and ran to get the fly swatter, came back and it was gone! I hope to hell it squeezed through the drain as the water heated up, and I am so spooked out right now! I’m like, oh please don’t tell me we’re going to get another slew of these things again! But I know that where there’s one, there’s more waiting to terrorize me. They’re always either in that bath or the kitchen. Only one was found in the utility. I’ll tell you one thing for sure, if I see more of them, we’re bombing with or without a truck. We’ll take the bitch’s cage outside, and take the guys with us in the tank if we have to. I really want to move to a place that doesn’t have anything bigger than Daddy long legs!

I wonder why no one’s emailing me lately. Nothing from Dave, nothing from the dentist, nothing from Tom. I had told him to email me and tell me what I may have from Mary since he got out too early this morning to stop at check, but I guess he either didn’t get around to it yet or there was nothing there.

Nothing online pertaining to Monster, so maybe they haven’t had time to write the story yet, twist things around, add a few lies, then get it online. Of course, there’s always the possibility that something came up to delay sentencing, too.

The good news is that Tom settled with the bank and got our payments lowered by $100 so that’s good. He mentioned raising our allowances. We should get at least $40 a month so then we can get as much as the freeloaders do. I mean, I know the money doesn’t go to the freeloaders, but the point’s the same.

I thought about it and realized that the numbers don’t add up. Tom said the house in front was about a mile away, but that makes no sense cuz then it’d have to be about 9 properties away since there are 5,000 feet to a mile, and there’s no way it’s that far out. Distance in the flat desert can be deceptive, but I still say it’s only a couple of properties away, putting it a little over 1,000 feet away.

I just hope that in 3 or 4 months from now when they’re all moved in that we have them damn fences up so their dogs can’t roam around on our land.

I’m pleased that the nighttime barking has ceased quite a bit. I got through a whole bath just a little while ago without one bark.