I've tried talking to the neighbors, and I think she lies through her teeth to me like she does to everyone else. We've only lived in this house since late December, and their dog thought it owned the neighborhood long before that because they let him run loose. I couldn't check my mailbox on the way in from walking my dogs because their dog ran over and challenged my dogs at our mailbox next to our driveway, and I made my dogs retreat from it. My son was chased all the way up to our door on his way home from school, the chihuahua barking and nipping at his heels. My dogs saw that through the window. The neighbors introduced themselves and kind-of apologized for their dog taking over our driveway the first time we met them, and I should have confronted them then about the need to control their dog, but I didn't think it would be a big deal, and didn't want to create a problem. I was so dumb! My dogs killed the chihuahua in February when it came into our back yard barking at them and my girls, who had our dogs on leases. My dogs went to the pound for 10 days and I got a huge fine. I got another $140 fine when our door came open one day and my dogs poked their noses out.

The neighbor tells animal control that my dogs are the ones running loose, and my dogs are never out without being on leashes. When I did go talk to her after my dogs were picked up (after hearing the other neighbor's account of what she saw - the other neighbor said my dogs didn't leave our back yard), she said that she just wanted to keep them safe because they were running down the street. She said that she doesn't hold anything against us. Yeah, right.

I'll try to talk to T, particularly about the stuff that involves her. I had been wishing that I asked T more about the kinds of stuff that I hear second-hand from my friend, but most of the time I don't think she would tell me and doesn't want me to ask about her.

Who needs real life, anyway? I'm with you there. Uh huh, and avoiding real life is one of the biggest things T keeps targeting. I'm plenty willing to just escape from it and just live through the computer.