Today’s our day for housekeeping this week. Will they remember us this time around? I’ve been up since 7:00 last night, so I may call down right before 9:00 and have them do this room first. Or maybe I’ll wait till they come by at their usual time between 10:00-1:00. I’ll just see how I feel.

We’re going on the third day of having no one in the inside room (I think), but someone with a baby checked into the end room just before midnight last night, so I don’t know if it’ll be very peaceful once they’re up and about. I just hope the kid can’t walk and that it doesn’t go screaming on its way in and out. That’d surely override the sound machine and earplug when I finally do crash either late this morning or early this afternoon. Most people stay here a couple of days to a week, and even that can be an eternity with the wrong neighbor. The worst ones are the ones who are here all day and who know people in the area. Knowing the locals means having to deal with their company, too. I’d bet almost anything that fat tub of shit we had to ring the new year in with got evicted from wherever, no one would take her, and so she had to stay here till she could get someplace else. And if she was the freeloader I suspect she was, someone else would be quick to give her another place. We could’ve gotten rid of her a day sooner had it not been for that appliance issue I heard her mention during one of the many phone calls that had to take place outside our door.

I’m so tired of living with all these damn people! We did not come here for this. We just want a place of our own where we don’t have to hear from others. It’ll never happen, though. Never happen. Life is so what we don’t plan it to be! We agreed to see if we could get right into a house once we get the money I won, but I know we’ll be stuck with the hassle and inconvenience of being cramped into a trailer first, even if having a trailer may still be a good thing, just because a house is what I want. Believe me, I’m so sick of all the thumps, thunks, bumps and bangs in this place that I’m even ready to settle for a tooth house if that’s all we can get. But regardless of where we’re destined to end up if we live to escape this damn room, I doubt the check will arrive soon and that we’ll be able to cash it without any problems, cuz nothing’s ever that easy for us.

Neither is losing weight, though I have lost a little. My best guess without having a scale is that I’m down to the upper 120s. I don’t expect to lose much more, though, since I still don’t have the willpower to cut my cals low enough.

If I were naive I’d call this good news, but as someone who knows better, I’ll call it exactly what it appears to be – too good to be true. Even Tom agrees it seems that way, yet despite how many times he checked it out, it still told him the same thing and that’s that the number 3 horse almost always nearly doubled his money in all the tests he ran on it after getting yet another new idea. Why just the third horse and not those ranking first, second or in another spot, he doesn’t know.

Why oh why can’t this be for real and not some grand tease?! Haven’t we been teased enough? It’d be so awesome if this could not be a joke! We’d be filthy rich in no time! I’ll add it to my prayers and spells, but so far all God’s helped me with is seeing that Tom doesn’t get pulled over by the pigs, not that that’s not something we don’t greatly appreciate because we do! He’s helped with other things too, but not where the horses are concerned, or my lack of willpower in the diet area.

Someone’s up next door showering now. But are they getting up to check out, or to be out all day, or to stay here and blast the TV all day while they fight inside and outside of the room?

Later...

They both just left, and the baby, too. I hope they’ve checked out and that we can have another night or two with no one over there or on the other side. If they’re not coming back, then that will certainly be the shortest stay I’ve ever seen here. Given the time, it seems reasonable that they’ve hit the road to continue on their way to wherever, but they could just be going out for breakfast, and then at least mom and the animal may return for the day while daddy goes off to work if they’re here on some job, or to look for a new place to live if they’re moving, or whatever.

Meanwhile, I’m getting tired, so I’m going to call the office in 15 minutes and see if they’ll do this room first.