Was on track for a decent enough sleep when the honker woke me up. Not in RL, but in my nightmares. Before I get into that, I can’t believe this is going to last for the rest of the time the honker is here, but this is the quietest he’s ever been other than the usual honking. I haven’t even heard the dog howling. Again, though, I can’t believe it will last. If Colleen has anything to do with it by keeping him busy, then I no longer hope they’ll break up and entice him to move. I can see where them having a part-time relationship would make them want to spend as much time together as they can. She’s got a husband for when he goes to Canada, but what does he have up there? Hmm, I wonder.

In the nightmare, the honker had two homes in this park, even if the park didn’t quite look the same. We figured one was sitting empty and got curious, so Tom picked the lock and we poked around inside the second home, LOL. The walls were ugly, but I liked the layout of the place and that it was a little bigger than our place. Looking at the scattering of plants, I started to suspect he could be renting the place out to make a profit since someone had to be caring for them. Then Tom got curious about some things in a closet and started going through them. A bad feeling suddenly came over me, and I said, “Hey, we don’t know if this place is being rented out by someone, and if the honker catches us, we’re…”

“Dead,” finished the honker as I glanced toward the open front door, where he suddenly appeared. Terrified, he came into the house and punched Tom, and then punched me. I was thinking of how to sucker punch him and run when I woke up.

So now I get to be tired when I might have had more energy had I not had that fucking nightmare. I swear I don’t go more than a week without one. I wonder… if the usual things that wake me up suddenly didn’t exist, would we then happen to have these quieter garbage trucks replaced by ones that are airplane-loud like back in California? Would we get noisy neighbors in Toni’s place? Speaking of her, I wonder what’s going on with her because she hasn’t even picked up my message, unless she missed it. Her windows are black as midnight, so maybe she’s staying with someone for the holidays. I hope she’s not in the hospital again.

Oh, wow. So Arteaga did read my message. She read it 10 days after I sent it, never replied, so I still think I did the right thing by unfriending her. No hard feelings, but why be connected if I’m the only one reaching out and I never hear from her?