I can now add Italians to my hate list. My God, what bigots! Yeah, I learned a new Italian word today when Marilena posted “Che peccato!!!!” after asking me about my book which I posted the link to on my wall. That translates to “What sin!!!!!” Not a thrilling thing to wake up to today, and I thought she was my friend all this time. I let her know in Italian that I found her comment to be both rude and offensive. If she wants to think, feel and believe such hateful bigoted things – fine, but don’t do it on my wall in public if she doesn’t have anything nice to say. I guess that’s one more reason not to cry if we can’t go to Shitaly. Why hang out with a bunch of hate-mongers?

To add to my already foul mood was the usual cutting in and out of our internet connection. Tom tried to call but no one would talk to him so we let them have it on their Facebook wall. I’m about ready to seriously consider shutting them down and just going to the library every few days. Why pay for service we’re not getting? When we do happen to be connected they won’t give us our full speed. It’s just terrible and it’s obviously a problem that’s not going away, so since we can’t move we may as well ditch them. Tom suspects sunspots may also be a factor in the shitty service since it was going out at the same time for a few days in a row. I still think it’s them deliberately fucking around with us and probably others, too. Some people have nothing better to do.

To add even more to my shitty mood is the fact that they called to tell Tom they were sending his résumé to another company. So what? Anybody can send anything to anyone. That’s not the same as actually giving the guy a fucking job so who cares?

Does the shit stop there? No, it doesn’t. Maliheh told me she hadn’t been receiving my journal entries for a while and thought we weren’t able to get online since she knows we have lousy service here. Christine, however, said she’s gotten all of them so maybe the fact that they have different email providers has something to do with it. Either way, I have pulled everyone off the auto-send for now since it obviously can’t be trusted. Maliheh said it’d make her feel special if I sent them to her myself so that’s what I’m going to do from now on. Others will just have to come to the site.

We’re rearranging the living room yet again so that the treadmill is closer to the cooler. 75º can feel like 95º when you’re running on that thing in an area where not much air is moving. It’s been so dry lately that the cooler’s been running more efficiently since swamp coolers work better in drier weather. It was actually cycling off at times during the afternoon even when it was in the 90s. I just hope no forest fires erupt close by!

Mary’s release date had been listed as 1/16/13 for the longest time. Then recently I noticed it was set for 1/6/13 and now it says 12/27/12. I hope it keeps getting earlier and earlier, but so far everything’s happened that I pretty much figured would happen since I first learned of her case. I think they’re going to keep her in for as many of her childbearing years as possible. I just hope that whenever the hell she gets out she proves the media wrong in saying that chances are she’s “learned little and will end up barefoot and pregnant by some other bad boy.”

Nane commented on my wall post and Irene on some pictures of mine. I sent them both messages. They’re both so lovely in their own different ways. Good friends like them, Mitch and others make up for the haters out there. I know not all Italians hate gays but many are taught to hate them even though this is still no excuse. Any adult with half a brain should know it’s wrong to pick on those who are different and that comments like that are as rude as posting “fatso” on the wall of someone who’s heavy. I can’t wait for the day someone has the utter stupidity to say shit like this to my face! I love my husband but I also love women. Always have, always will, and it is with zero shame. :)

Speaking of the “sinful” book she so rudely commented on, I got another sale in the UK on Amazon!

I also finally got that book I won. I was going to wait till I got stronger reading glasses to read it, but decided not to. With good lighting and the book held far enough away, I can read it ok.

I got a surprise win this week too; a pair of socks. I wore them when I walked/ran just over 2 miles for 40 minutes and burned 200 calories. :)