I often wonder if my next door neighbor is a drug dealer. No, not the older Italian gent on the left, obviously, but the guy on the right. He seems like a super nice guy, but seriously, he is forever getting in his car and zooming away for short little excursions at odd hours of the evening. I mean, it’s 11:30 at night now, and this is the fifth time since I got home tonight about 9 that he’s zoomed away.

I know we all have to make a living, but what the heck can this guy possibly be doing? He’s not delivering pizzas, that’s for sure. It’s unfair of me to judge, and normally, I wouldn’t, but every time he slams his car door, coming or going, one or both of my dogs start barking, and tonight my nerves are shot. I’m just grouchy this week (although I’ve long pondered about why he comes and goes so much even in the best of moods—it’s bizarre). For all I know, maybe he works for that Buffalo cab service I’ve heard about where if you go out and get all loaded, they come chauffeur you home while someone else drives your car back to your residence for you. That would make sense, right?

And as if on cue—he just stopped back in, and now he’s almost immediately on the move again. I guess it doesn’t matter so much, and besides, I have no business being up this late on a work night anyhow. My internal clock is all out of whack from my long weekend and not being home the past few days but for brief spurts. Or maybe it’s the 5 hour energy drink I took on the homeward bound commute working an overtime shift of 7 hours, instead of that measly 5. I don’t know for sure, but that doesn’t mean I don’t care!

I told Ellie on Monday on the way home from our shopping trip for Keith’s birthday presents that I could get used to living this life of leisure and not working. She told me, “But then you wouldn’t have any money.” Spoken like a true, super-intelligent 7 year old. (Oh incidentally, neighbor’s home again. Maybe he’s about to go inside and work on his blog about how he wonders why his neighbor has been listening to semi vintage Goo Goo Dolls so late at night so much recently.)