Not wanting to listen to the dogs this morning, knowing they were due to start up any second, and not wanting to be the one to have to take the responsibility of yelling for them to shut up for the measly 10 minutes or so that they’d obey my command, I turned on the sound machine. Really, I wish someone would shoot these fuckers dead. Just shoot them totally dead as hell. But I know that if they did the landlord would suspect us since he knows they bother me, and he would only get two new dogs to replace these within days. Hey, a house in the west without dogs in the yard is as naked as a newborn baby.

I already feel bad for the next people in here, though if they’re from the west they’ll be used to this shit if they aren’t busy letting their own dog(s) bark up a storm. Maryann let us know from the get-go that a dog would be ok if we had one, so they will be allowed to do so.

It usually takes me the better part of a week to lose the weight I pig on over the weekend. Well, I was stunned to find I’m already what I was at the end of last week! Then I remembered I not only restricted myself to taking just Saturday off from my diet and not the entire weekend, but I also picked up some oolong tea for the first time in a while. Of all the foods and drinks said to encourage weight loss, that’s the only thing that’s proven to be true, at least for me. But it’s not like it’ll knock 20 pounds off of me or anything like that.

I’ve really got to quit running. If I don’t get those excruciating cramps, I at least fear I’m going to get them. Running a minute or two to keep my joints strong is fine, but I really need to walk the rest of my workout. It takes longer to burn calories that way but is much easier on these aging joints.

I got the second “I’m sorry” today on Ask. Actually, it was, “I’m sorry Jodi.”

Why do I smell Molly in that one? And why can’t I block unwanted questions from those without accounts? That much really sucks, but if I block her there, she’ll only harass me on other sites and I’m through blocking this and hiding that on account of this one sicko. Obviously, she’s never gonna fuck up bad enough to be put away for more than a few weeks tops since she hasn’t already, so I guess this piece of shit will just be a regular part of my online life till the day I die. Hopefully, I’ll get more breaks from her like the unusually long one I got until I was dumb enough to share the link after joining Ask. I could disable anonymous comments and that would back her off a bit, but I don’t want to deny other anonymous comments just to kick hers out. Also, I’m almost sure that she (and maybe a friend as well) was behind the pretty lady thing. She reads every word I write. Just because she hasn’t appeared on my TIP tracker doesn’t mean she isn’t watching or having someone else copy for her what I post. She knows I like older women and she knows how I spell my name. In fact, she’s one of the few who has always spelled it correctly. I’ve read enough of the shit she’d say about me in her blogs to know this.

Later...

Won a writing contest on thoughts.com and didn’t even know I’d entered in the first place. They were having a Mother’s Day contest and chose 50 people who blogged about Mother’s Day to give T-shirts to. Well, the last thing I need is another T-shirt but it’s still pretty neat that I was one of the ones chosen. Especially since there’s got to be thousands of posts. The only thing is that I didn’t say much about it other than my quick chat with Mom. Maybe the “naked” dream that was part of that entry helped it, LOL. I only post entries in batches over there every few days or so.

Had to shut windows this morning when I got up at 8:00. It’s not cold, but it’s cooler than it has been. I was able to open them back up in a couple of hours and now it’s warm, though barely. It got down to 51° last night and we’re definitely going to have to close windows tonight because we’re going to get down to 49°. By Tuesday we’ll be back in the 80s and averaging lows in the mid-50s.

Although I walked for an hour today, I feel a bit off today. I’m just sluggish instead of being as energetic as I usually am. Been having this problem for a while now. Perhaps it’s time to go back on some vitamins and see if that helps perk me up. Today, though, I feel sluggish and like I don’t want to do much else other than read, write and work out. There’s a strange ache between my shoulder blades, too. So I guess working out gives me strength and stamina but not energy. At least not anymore. Insured or not I don’t ever want to have to see a doctor unless something’s really, really wrong. Too many quacks out there misdiagnosing people, not giving a damn, or telling people they’ve got things wrong with them just to keep them coming back so they can make more money. Sometimes I don’t know which is worse, doctors or lawyers.

The fucking wasps are back, so I’ll have to have Tom see if they’ve been hiving again in their usual places. There was a yellow jacket in the bathroom. Not one wasp was ever caught in the trap we got. It’s just not bright enough. They loved the bright, neon-yellow trap we had back in Oregon, but this was the only one Tom could find at the time. All it has is a strip of yellow tape around it which is worthless. It doesn’t stand out nearly as much as the other one did. So it was a waste of $12.