Well, I’m a redhead, sort of. The 5 or 6 inches of regrowth I’ve got since dying my hair 10 months ago is bright red, but the rest is dark auburn, almost brown. It’s funny because it looks like my natural color is bright fiery red and that the auburn/brown is what I dyed it. I always said that blond was my least favorite hair color, but perhaps it wouldn’t be so bad to have since it’d cover so much easier.

Tom went to Fred’s today where he got two boxes of dye with coupons and other stuff to take care of the pending bugs and spiders. We got flying insect tape, spider traps, bombs and beehive killer for the hive that’s under the front eave of the house.

They didn’t have Natural Black dye, but he said they had shiny black. If the damn company had their color list online complete, I’d have told him to get Shiny Black, but instead he got Chocolate Velvet. This means my hair will be a lot like my natural color. Tom likes that best, but I prefer black or red.

The jail’s fucking with me again. I sent 2 envelopes to Mary, each with 2 sheets of pictures and a letter. The first one has already been returned saying the pictures must be 5x7, but I swear they’re not larger than that! I think they’re just fucking with me cuz I’ve done time too, and they always try to discourage contact between two current/past inmates, and this was the perfect excuse to do just that. I knew I shouldn’t have bothered and could kick myself for it! Just because we’re not broke at the moment doesn’t mean I need to have our stamps and ink wasted. I could send in pictures that are 1x3 and they’d still find some reason to return them. I re-sent the letters and will just hope for the best. If this gets returned then I can’t write her till she’s released, whenever the hell that may be. I’m starting to wonder if she’s either in denial or being seriously bullshitted as to how much more time she has and beginning to suspect she may have many more years to do in jail and possibly even prison as well. Prison is very different than jail and while it may be more comfortable in some ways, I’d just hate to see her go there and piss off some bitch with a life sentence, no commissary, no visitors and nothing to lose.

As for next door, so far, so good, but I know that means absolutely nothing so far, and that it may take a month or two before they act up.

Since they don’t have any window coverings yet, I could see a teenage girl with straight blond hair to the middle of her back last night, and a young guy in his teens or 20s, walking around at one point, but after the truck backed up, they cut the front light and that was it. All inside lights were out by around 1:00.

We’re suspecting there’s a group of young adults over there, possibly college students. If that’s the case, then they can’t be home 24/7, and while it may be wonderful that there are no dogs or kids, college kids can be pretty damn wild. Come June it wouldn’t surprise me if they partied in the yard and blasted music both inside and out. With my shit luck, they’ll have band practice, too! Tom said that judging by the 1 car he saw in front and the 3 he saw on the other side, he doubts they’d have stereos, but I say that’s an awful lot of young folks not to have any. The blue truck hasn’t moved all day. They’re probably mostly night people. With at least 4 people over there, that means everyone has to pay just $200 a month which would make the ridiculous $800 a month seem like nothing. They probably liked that it was on a corner which would give them more space to park their cars, too.

True to vibed, Tom got a third $20 check from Pepsi, but I sense no more.