Just thought I’d do a quick entry till I’m feeling a little better than I am now which is kind of brain-dead. My sleep was shorted a few hours, we had a power failure, I had the runs, I’m being harassed by the troll and her mother, I have a toothache, and I feel like someone karate chopped me between the shoulder blades. Pretty nice, huh? I had that pain yesterday for a bit and attributed it to a pulled muscle, but now I don’t know what it is.

Yesterday I was sluggish all day and even lightheaded at times. Tom thinks I’m exercising too much and eating too little. Well, I have dropped 7 pounds in 8 days, so maybe I need to slow down a bit. I tried to work out today but had to stop right away. My hips and knees totally protested and I feel like a dead weight cuz I’m tired. Not feeling very sociable either, though I did check in with a few friends. As tired as I am, I couldn’t fall asleep when I tried to nap earlier. Maybe tonight I’ll finally get caught up on my sleep.

I awoke to the sound of the sound machine going off and of course Jesse just had to come down to ask me if our power was out, too. Then I dragged my tired ass back to bed and half-dozed for a little over an hour. I didn’t realize the power had come back on when it did till I saw the numbers on the alarm clock lit up. I forget the computer and sound machine won’t come back on by themselves when the power’s restored as a fan or a light would, but neither of those things was on.

The cooler’s thermostat runs off Tom’s computer. I could fire him back up but don’t know the PW on that computer to reactivate the thermostat so I’m operating the damn thing manually. I’m glad the power didn’t crap out when I was going to bed, though that might’ve actually been a bit easier on me. Like I said, hopefully I’ll get caught up soon enough. And also hopefully, I’ll walk for an hour tomorrow, which is about a 300-calorie burn and a distance of about 3 miles.

That’s it for now. I’ll write more about what’s been going on some other time.

Later...

Help me understand why some people feel so compelled to harass and stalk others online, then turn around and whine and complain about it when we have nothing nice to say about them in our blogs and demand that we stop referring to them as trolls. I just don’t get this. Nor do I get why a high school teacher of all things would want to leave rude comments on someone’s blog that doesn’t even know them. Really, it’s scary to think these so-called role models in society can behave so childishly and sometimes just downright crazy. But as I’ve said before, the troll that’s been on my tail for years now had to get her craziness from somewhere, right? Makes me wonder if she does this to any of her students she doesn’t like.

After all these years I wonder if Mommy Dearest or her darling daughter, whom she does nothing but make excuses for and blame the behavior of on others, is ever going to get that “no contact” really means no contact. I don’t want to know these people exist. Why can’t they get this? Just what part of “leave me alone and go away” do they not get? I don’t want to fight with them. I don’t want to be their friend. I don’t want to be anything to them but an old memory. Period. Why can’t they respect my wishes and leave it at that? And if they don’t like me saying anything bad about them, then why don’t they stop giving me a reason to?

I’ve got the troll blocked as best I can on Ask, but Mommy had this to say on one of my entries: Do you really think that anyone cares about this? How selfish can you be? It’s sad that you have to turn to the Internet and strangers for affirmation. Get off the Internet and get a real life. Only then will you experience true confirmation of your worth.

Well, she cared. She took the time to read my post, didn’t she?

I smelled Mrs. M in this statement right away based on how it’s worded and the nature of what it says. Then sure enough, I jumped into my tracker report for thoughts.com and found that she did indeed care to read my blog, so that pretty much confirmed my suspicion. She spent over an hour combing my entries shortly before jumping over to MyOpera to pick on me there. She also combed Alison’s Thoughts blog, but I don’t think she dropped any insults on her there. I only allow friends to comment over there cuz I’m not there much, so that’s why Mommy had to run over to MO to insult me. I thank Adonis and others for jumping to my defense like they did. :) But if she can control her daughter from blogging like she has been lately, especially after the threats she wrote about what she’d like to do to her in her sleep, why can’t she control her own behavior as well?

I hate to spoil the fun for those with good intentions, and I know I probably shouldn’t let them control me and that I should leave the door open to their harassment so they can build a case against themselves, but I’m so sick of their shit that I’ve disabled the anonymous comment thing. After all these years I wonder if these people are ever going to leave me alone! It’s totally them coming to me. I haven’t contacted them on any site whatsoever in ages, so why they’re still coming to me beats me. I guess some people just have a lot of hate and anger in them and nothing better to do in life. Well, I don’t need any affirmations, confirmations, pity or approval from anyone, but I can guess just what she needs. I’m sorry, however, that she and her sick offspring won’t get the help they need. Then again, some people are beyond help, aren’t they?

Oh, and if being online is supposedly for those without a life, does that mean she doesn’t have one since she seems to spend enough time on it following people and being rude to them?

First I had just the troll tailing me, then her friend joined in, and then her mom. Who’s next, her sisters? Daddy?

Anyway, enough bitching about these whack jobs. Hopefully, they’ll finally learn to leave me alone and there won’t be any need to mention them again.