Greg caught up on all of his phone bills today, $55.00, but Steve only paid me my $51.00 and then asked to bum a cigarette. I refused to give him one, and I plan to continue to refuse, since I haven't got enough money without unemployment checks to even make a partial house payment. He must be self-supporting from now on. I am very quickly going to be in a bankrupt position, unless I find a part-time job.
I think Teresa and Steve are close to breaking up, even though she still has his ring and he has her bicycle for transportation. She still comes over a lot, but their relationship seems strained.
I would love to be able to afford to live alone this winter, but I doubt if I will be able to. At least this place is easier to keep clean in the winter. If I could afford to turn on the air-conditioning in the summer, this place would stay much cleaner now, and freer of flies and fleas, but I can't. No one else seems to notice or care either, when the pool's open.
Even without making any kind of house payment this month, only eating one or two meals a day, and not paying the Great Gas God, I can only afford some gas money to look for work, if I don't buy pool chemicals.
I picked the garden today and it yielded two servings of green beans, one cantalope, one bunch of white grapes and about twenty tomatoes, which I froze. The watermelon vine and the cantalope vine are dying, but the pumpkin vine is thriving and I have four pumpkins now.
Steve cooked BBQ rabbit and offered me some; I declined. I wondered if it was Happy, the pet rabbit, but I didn't ask.
A famous, no, infamous, car maker has been judged not guilty on all counts of a government cocaine sting operation. It seems that government entrapment and gestapo-like tactics shouldn't be allowed to continue, and I'm glad he was found not guilty. It's not that the car maker wasn't morally wrong perhaps, but I don't think that governments should try to jail all the morally weak people in their country.
Nothing from the unemployment office has arrived yet. If it doesn't come tomorrow or Monday, I'm going to have to spend the gas money, that I could be looking for work with, going to the unemployment office.
I saw in the local newspaper today that one of my ex-bosses and her husband are declaring bankruptcy. The bankruptcy also listed them at separate addresses. This economy does drag you down.
Greg brought a bunch of people home, but it rained, so they didn't get to party in the pool. This house has become one constant summer party and I don't like it, but I don't have much choice either. I need the rent money.
I'm going to put an ad in the paper under 'Situations Wanted' for elderly companion. I have to find some work quickly and it's worth a shot.
