8am &  phone goes off. Bear picks up ready to go the fuck off, but thankfully recognized my mothers voice before he sent her world into a tail spin.

Now, I’m not going to dwell on this but, yesterday she sent me an email saying she hadn’t heard anything from the Detective, surprise surprise. But this morning she tells me he phoned her & told her he is “going to arrest him on Monday the 29th”.

- We’ll get back to that bit in a minute.

So I come online to emails from my aunt telling my father to calm it & him informing me that my mother has known about this for a day or two but why oh why hasn’t she told me (she tells me she was too ill) – anyway, none of this sends me into a wild one anymore. I expect this kind of thing nowadays you know? Snot like it’s been going on all of almost 21 years. – Yeah, I know. It’s my birthday at the end of January, all contributions great fully received!

However, the 29th – I take this with a pinch of salt, I’m sure you understand. I can’t help but hope he has some fantastic New Year party planned though.

I wonder which email it was that got them moving again. Perhaps it was the mere pileup.

Anyway like I said, I’ll believe it when I see it.

In other news:..

Our upstairs neighbor – fucking noisy hippie moronic douche-bag – nearly caused a nice Christmas house fire for us.

He’s constantly setting his smoke alarm off but this time he wasn’t home. Having heard it all before, we rang the landlord & he rang him. We got a call but a few minutes later &, like I had already discovered by turning the doorknob, we were given permission to go in & turn it off as the door was open.

What a state he has that place in I tell you. It’s disgusting. But you know what’s better? After simply believing the smoke alarm was faulty & there was in-fact no fire, I could still smell burning… like melting plastic?

Whaddaya know! – Sat right there on the stove, on a fucking red hot burner was a bone dry,  empty pan. (I suspect it was once filled with water but it had since boiled away) .

Now Bear & I had a slight accident when a plastic handle caught fire near a burner whilst I was boiling the kettle last night, so the very notion of a house fire was pretty damn fresh in my head today. I mean that fucker went up. Not unlike our neighbor across the street who had an electrical house fire last week!

It turns my stomach to think what might have happened if;

a) The door hadn’t been open.

and

b) We hadn’t been here – We had literally just got back from town & what with the dog locked in the bathroom & the cats, well, the cats couldn’t do anything.

Losing things which may seem more trivial,  like my passport could really jeopardize my Visa too especially since I have a limit to get myself off US soil & our US airspace.

So, to further illustrate said Hippies idiocy;

Not 45 minutes later we hear him burst in the front door (he always slams it shut) & bolting up the stairs – obviously remembering he was an idiot & had left his wee pot of water boiling – for his wee tattie scones perhaps? – yet he never thought to say a word whilst passing our door, twice. No sorry no thank you..no nothing.

Then… 15 minutes later we’re heading out to walk the dog & we hear his alarm clock going off! Again, we ended up walking into his apartment & turning the bloody thing off.

This guy is unreal.

Anyway, disaster avoided & our stinky hippie is out by the end of the month anyway. Perhaps this was his way of saying.. Merry Christmas? I guess he was pissed we’d scuppered his plans?

Wishing all a very merry & very safe Christmas!