Today I am thankful for my Siegfred radar.
Every three hours, I literally get a blank message on my website. Well, when I began writing this post three days ago, it was every three hours.
It's now every thirty minutes or so.
Maybe some idiot is trying to hack my website as if they could find anything. I don't store credit card numbers, PHI, or anything of importance there. I purchase a triple encrypted service for all that.
It gets worse.
I'll check my Facebook messages weekly and notice that I average 7 friend requests from accounts with few friends daily (fake accounts obviously). My hypnosis page gets one like daily (haven't used it for ten years).
I'm not getting my mail. I never received a bill from the lab nor have I received a check from my former employer's retirement account (yet I got a tax bill for it).
That last one is nothing new, the government is not the best courier.
These things are tiny warnings.
It's almost Valentine's Day.
People get creepy around Valentine's Day...
at least one guy's family gets ultra-creepy.
In late December, my garage door became so mangled that it was unusable and stuck. I won't bother to repair it until I sell the house, a man moves in or my ex-husband's family goes five years without bugging me.
I don't want to pay to repair it again only to have it mangled a few months later.
The past few days, the dog has been barking and growling a lot. He's not a barker.
Last night, there was a knock at my door.
It was the renter. She said, "I let my dogs poop on the side of the house and noticed that your dog was waiting for you to open the door. I chased him back into the backyard."
My doggie doesn't runoff. Every time he has gotten out, he'll be found on the porch barking to get back in.
Now, I'm getting worried that the harassment is not over.
I just went outside. There was a man dressed as a Catholic priest in a black car sitting outside of my driveway.
Weird.....
On the bright side, I wasn't singing. There was no mention of an exorcism. Usually when I sing, people think 'exorcism'. It's that baaad.
He jumped when he saw me and sped off.
It's hard to tell what is a warning and what is a coincidence. The last time things got crazy, there were Catholic artifacts left on my doorstep. My ex's family is catholic.
I fear the stalking is not over.
I guess it's time to break out the Devil's Shoestring, just in case.
Now, my thoughts went to the first time these people spread stories about me.
It was 1984. I was in high school and attended school with cousins of the man I would later marry. One of them spread a bunch of rumors that I was fucking the football team. No one believed her and the guys on the football team were really sweet about telling her off.
Over the years, the gossip changed.
The last gossip was that I aborted my children and they called leaving crappy messages for my children to hear calling me a murderer. They also left Catholic literature on the porch about the evils of abortion. Once I noticed that one article was dated for a future publication. I called the church and found out that only someone who volunteered at a certain location would have access to it. My ex's cousin volunteered there.
Creepy shit.
Sigh.... Every time this bs starts, I wonder why I was dumb enough to marry into that stupid family.
I should have known it would never stop.
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I just got a call...
my nephews are coming over to help fix the fence.
I'll finish writing soon.
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I'm back.
I wanted to share a happy story.
For the past few months, I wanted to get my hair cut. I have very curly hair. It got so long, it reached my mid-back!
I would go to the salon and something would prevent me from getting my hair cut. There would be a staff shortage, numerous people waiting (even if I had an appointment), I'd have a covid symptom...
something...
until last Tuesday.
I went in and was seen right away. The woman cut off about 6" of hair and I'm barely recognizable.
She asked what I did for a living and then started to talk about people shooting up in Downtown Denver. I told her that I used to go downtown and try to recruit heroin users into treatment before I got the job at the rehab center. Now, doing that would be a conflict of interest.
She offered to cut the hair of the homeless.
Oh my goodness.
It dawned on me that this was why I had to wait so damn long to get my haircut. I had to wait for her!
That woman got a 100% tip and I bought every product she recommended, too.
The point is that everything happens for a reason.
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What is the point of the stalking, the gossip, and the harassment?
All those nutjobs that try to break into my home are just going to cause me to run out and find some guy to come live in the spare bedroom.
Maybe if the creepers think I'm getting laid...
maybe they'll leave me alone.
I just have one question,
What color should I paint a small, well-lit room?
There are hundreds of shades of white.
I always have a tough time deciding.
This is why my house hasn't been painted in ten years.
I have no clue what shade of white I want.
What will happen is I won't know what to do...
and I'll run out and buy Aspen White.
I'm boring and predictable.
It's always Aspen White.
Maybe I'll live a little and try Scotland Road.
Hmmmmm.....
Love ya,
S.