Maliheh said a quick hello and asked how I was doing, making me think we were going to chat, but she disappeared. Again I wonder if she’s playing with me or something. Can she really be that busy? I’m just amazed I heard from her. I thought it’d be weeks before I heard from her again.

Last night Tom downloaded me a 30-day trial of Word for Mac, insisting I would love it and that it does everything I want it to do. In fact, he was so confident I’d like it that he removed not only OpenOffice from my dock but the virtual box I was using to run the old WP as well.

He was right. I do love it. It’s only got a couple of minor annoyances, but I love how I can design each document easier without having to switch to ‘web view’ only. I prefer to work in ‘print layout’ but the other ones wouldn’t let me stay in that layout and give me the freedom to configure the looks of the docs the way I wanted. This program also allowed me to add covers to my story and journal files that look so cool and so professional. I have my 2012 journal set with a rainbow background. Totally me, LOL. My favorite colors are bubble gum, strawberry, carnation, magenta, lavender and grape. I also like the blue ice and bright lemon.

Another neat feature is that it keeps a word count on the bottom so you don’t have to click on ‘word count’ in the menu. So far this year’s journal has 42,384 words, though I don’t share everything with everyone and I certainly don’t put everything in public or on Facebook. I need to learn more about customizing the toolbar. I never insert graphs into my documents and therefore I don’t need to see that option on the toolbar. I would like to see other things, though, that aren’t visible and that I would like to have more readily accessible.

Oh, just heard from Maliheh again. She’s bored but exercising again. She worries that her mother’s going to be just another number. She doesn’t want to be in a nursing home herself, but who does? She hates cleaning but is doing that and laundry now.

This WP costs $100 - $125 on most sites, but we found a reputable site that charges just $78 with free shipping so we jumped at the opportunity since we don’t know that we’d come across such a good deal again anytime soon. Another $100 or so will be spent on the 4-terabyte backup device that’ll automatically back up our entire computers. I will no longer have to back up the laptop or risk backing things up online that could be hacked. I back my music and docs up on the iPod as well so I can take them with me when I go out. That way if God forbid we were ever robbed (the Macs would be the first to be grabbed) I would still have my music and docs. My only real loss would be my photos, though I do have some on the iPod and most on WS and Photobucket.

I slept late after spending something like 6 hours setting up and configuring the new WP last night.

Haven’t spent much time on many of my usual online hangouts today but it’s nice to take a day off every now and then from the same damn sites every single day of my life. It makes them more fun that way. Besides, I have other non-computer-related things to do - laundry, dishes, cleaning, exercising, etc. The rat wanted a lot of attention today for some reason.

Tom said he heard the permanent employees (yeah, they do have some perms) saying they’re going to be posting additional jobs at work. Tom doesn’t know if they’d be worth applying for, though, since they may be just minimum wage.

I was so sure that the third pound I gained over the weekend would be gone when I got up but I held my sleep weight completely. I forget that when I crash at certain times (usually early morning) my body tends to hold its weight for reasons I can’t begin to fathom. How can my body know what time it’s sleeping? Despite waking up at the same weight I crashed at, I was down almost half a pound, but when I got up the hunger was a killer. It took around 800 calories to stop it and I was hungry again in no time. Still don’t know what’s plugging up my metabolism, but today I’m going to take it a little easier. I’m not going to pig out, but I’m not going to deprive myself too much either. Hey, the weight just does not want to come off. If there’s one thing I learned in life it’s that we can either waste time struggling for what’s not meant to be or we can just make do with what is meant to be. Since I’m always hungry anyway, I’d kill to be able to puke up my main meal but I just can’t bring myself to do that. Puking’s gross!

So while I battle the bulge, Marie battles alcoholism. Yeah, that’s what Becky said is going on with her, unfortunately. Obviously, she slipped after we stopped talking because when we were “together” she’d been sober 2 or 3 years. It sucks that she’s so miserable but she is still with her wife, so that’s good. Just like I thought would be the case with me she started to believe she’d be alone forever.

Monica got her new Kindle and downloaded both my books, even though she already read Evil:))) She is definitely my most dedicated fan in Australia! And such a sweet friend, too. :)

After just that one day of rain, the drought was back on. Nothing but sunshine, warmth, saws and Jesse now being open to his entire fleet of vehicles. All I heard today, though, was the truck because I didn’t get up till mid-afternoon. It’s going to be nearly 70° tomorrow so I’ve got to remember to turn the heat off and crack windows before bed.

Just had 500 more cals and am still hungry. beats head Just what is my body doing to work up such an appetite???

Nothing more from Maliheh after that second message. Yep, it’s like she doesn’t want to let go of me but for some reason, she’s being evasive.

Although I’m not as worried as I was before, I still have those pigs playing in the back of my mind. The more time that goes by without them messing with me, the less concerned I am, but that may be what they want is for me to think they’ve forgotten me. It’s a common practice for them to bide their time before jumping out at you. I guess in their mind you’ll be more likely to be caught off guard easier if they think you think they’ve forgotten you.

There are a few things I just don’t get, though.

1. If the pigs have to serve you in order to go to the court why did they set a court date without serving me in Maricopa? I once heard they can serve you at your last known address even if you’re not there and the summons is still valid. However, Tom said they didn’t yet set a court date, just filed charges. Well, isn’t that what supposedly happened last month when they “made” a case against me?

2. Once the default warrant was issued in Maricopa why weren’t they quick to run to pick me up? I was in the state after all, and everyone involved was oh-so obsessed with me.

3. Why don’t the pigs tell people to just not read what they don’t want/don’t like unless they’re forced to read it at gunpoint?

I was thinking back on anything I ever had to go to court for and it was cuz of nothing I’ve done. Only what I’ve said/written. I just don’t get this. If you get up in someone’s face and say something they don’t want to hear, that’s one thing. But people on phones can be hung up on and emails can be ignored.