We just met our very ugly and very large yet seemingly nice neighbor Kim. Her toilet’s clogged up so she knocked and asked to use ours. Fortunately, the rat was in the kitchen and out of sight, but she doesn’t seem like the type who’d say anything. She left a message for the maintenance guy about the toilet, but being Easter Sunday, she probably won’t get anyone to help her till tomorrow, which means she’s going to have to piss and shit in buckets tonight. She said it’s been clogged since this morning.

Meanwhile, I told her I hoped she stays put and that she’s been the only decent neighbor we’ve had in years. She said she was in an apartment for 5 years, hated it, and that this place isn’t so bad. I still don’t see how they can even fit a bathroom and kitchen in that tiny room of hers. Anyway, I said that I understood what a nightmare apartments are and she said she tries to be quiet and I told her I try to keep the music down. She doesn’t get to door-slamming nearly as much as the dog across the canal gets to barking these days.

As for our other neighbors, they’ve still been okay, though they had me worried for a minute there. When Tom was coming back from doing laundry before I got up, a young guy was with a medium-large brown and white dog. Only the guy was outside the fence while the dog was inside the fence and the gate was wide open. Given the way everyone takes their dogs everywhere, we think it may’ve been a visitor with his dog, helping them get moved in some more. With the gate being open on both ends, there’s no way they could contain any dogs over there anyway unless they tied it to the fence. Well, I not only hope they don’t go getting any dogs of their own, I hope visitors don’t constantly bring dogs over either. As young as they are, they’re bound to have company just about every day. Anyway, we haven’t seen any dogs since and there’s been no music yet. We did see a guy walk to the back corner of the yard with a box, then back again, which was sort of weird. It was also weird that Quest was over there with it being a Sunday and especially Easter. The truck’s been gone all day, too. When he went to the store earlier he said there were 3 vehicles on the other side. I’m still not ready to say the neighbor curse has been broken, but it’s looking good so far.

We seem to have dropped the sex again, which doesn’t surprise me. It’s just fine with me too, since all I got out of it was pain and we both got zero orgasms.