My premium membership hasn’t kicked in yet. If it doesn’t by tomorrow, I’ll email them.

I’m back to thinking next door doesn’t work. She’s just home too much to be working, so it seems.

I decided that I’m sick of being the one to have to move just because people can’t shut up, and so we’re staying here till we’re ready to leave the state no matter what. Hopefully, this isn’t something that’s just easy to say while it’s still quiet, but once all hell breaks loose next door, I’m just going to remind myself that that’s how we have to live for the rest of our lives and to quit running from one noisy place to another and settle down for a change. That’s what I’ve been wanting to do for a long time now anyway. We were just meant to be in crowded, noisy environments. I don’t know why, but it’s become more than obvious. I’m serious about buying a house in a noisy, congested, rundown section of Sacramento, too. It’s sad that it has to be this way, but it’s our only insurance, so to speak. I know that the more I hate the neighbors, the neighborhood and the house itself, the easier it will be to hang on to. I don’t want to go so far as to plop ourselves down next to freeloaders ever again, because the noise and problems they cause are truly overkill. But if we surround ourselves with Mormons or something like that where there’d be kids screaming often enough and dogs barking, we couldn’t lose the house if we tried. The freeloaders would also call for music, vandalism and God knows what other trouble, so we won’t go that far. Of course, we also can’t control fate. History could end up repeating itself where we got next to a house that was owned by an individual and ultimately ended up in the city’s hands. If we ever do get freeloadered again, we’re out of there so damn fast! I’m not going to be provoked into a reaction just to have them play the race card and take legal revenge on me all over again, not that I’d let them get me as far as they did the first time around. It’s just that we’d be forced to run and all that and we have to lay low for the rest of our lives as it is.

As I told Tom, I got to thinking about us having a washer out in the utility area, and when I realized all the creatures we’d be washing our clothes with, I was highly turned off of the idea. Therefore, I thought we should get a portable washer we could use indoors, and he liked the idea very much. Especially since he could then use the utility area for the stuff that’s jammed inside the truck, to make selling it easier. We probably won’t own a vehicle for 5-10 years, if ever again.