Karina, Karina!

No, I don't mean Katrina. Karina is a young woman (20s-ish) who lives close to me. I've communicated with her many times, she's never given me a problem before. In fact, I really enjoy her family. She has a husband named Howard, and 2 beautiful children. I won't give the children's names here, but she has a girl who I think is about 4 years old, and the cutest thing! She has 1000 names though. And she just had a baby boy back in June. She used to have 2 dogs, so I know she's a dog-lover. Now she only has 1 dog. I haven't seen her chihuahua in several months now.

Well, now Karina has been spotted associating with the Karen upstairs. You know, the woman who accused me and my sis of "stealing" Tux. Well, ever since she started associating with her, she's become just like her. Now, Karina is beginning to harass my sis, thinking our dog Mya, is dumping in the play area. This afternoon, my sis had an encounter with a very angry Karina, who was telling her not to let Mya dump in the play area, and threatening to tell the manager if she does. She has done it before to me. But I was fine with it. I had just broken my foot at that time, so I couldn't walk onto the dirt to pick up after Mya. But Karina was "secretly" taking pics of Mya dumping in the play area. I say secretly, because I think she thought I didn't see her taking Mya's pic. I did though, and I knew she was going to go to the manager with it. But there's nothing I could have done about it. I wasn't going to risk another break because Karina was upset! Not my circus, not my monkeys.

Yes I admit, I should always pick up after Mya, and usually I do. It's just at that time I couldn't. I can't pick up her droppings at night either. I used to be able to before the last manager put the beauty bark in that spot, but now I can't tell a dog turd there from a clump of beauty bark at night. My eyes have gotten so bad in my old age!

Well, my sis tried explaining to Karina that Mya does not dump in the play area. We always take her to the fairgrounds for that. Everyone does it! But she said Karina didn't believe her. That's when she threatened to tell the manager. I told my sis not to let Karina get to her. She's just trying to scare her. Whether the Karen upstairs has anything to do with Karina's sudden change of attitude, I really cannot say. But my sis said she's seen Karina and "Karen" talking with each other. And Karen does have a problem with us now that she thinks we tried to steal Tux from her. Plus the butthurt Karen feels because she tried to tell the manager on us and he wouldn't do anything to help her because she already got her cat back. Well, the manager could not do anything to us about Tux, but he can force us to get rid of Mya. Unfortunately! This is why I don't like renting. Besides the fact that there's too many people here, I'm still stuck under someone else's rules!! I'm under the gun here. And if Karina has taken up with Karen, that could make everything worse. Especially since Karina does not seem to know when a dog is tinkling or dumping.

I hate to say things like this about Karina. She's never given me any trouble before. And I always thought she was a nice person. But I also know how 20-somethings are. They're followers. They find someone evil, like the Karen upstairs, and they think they're good role-models. So usually anything an evil Karen says to a 20-something year old individual, the younger person is going to believe it. Even though Karina was there when me and my sis were out and about trying to find Tux's owner. We asked her if she knew who owned Tux and she said no.

I'm also finding out Karen has not only been giving us trouble, she gives our next door neighbor trouble too. And Sherrie is so sweet and likable. Even Karina liked her once before. But Sherrie says Karen is her problem person too. I told Sherrie how Karen accused us of stealing her cat. I said she may even be the person who messed up Sherrie's porch decorations. I would not be surprised!

This is also why I do not give any more emotional credulity to anyone. No more than I have to. Because I've been let down by people too many times. I hate to invest any emotions into anyone anymore. When Karina had her baby boy, he was born with a heart defect. I felt sad for him, but Karina said it was easily fixed with surgery. I told her I was going to continue praying for her little boy. I think he's OK now, but I haven't asked Karina about him in a long time. Now that she is harassing my sis, I probably won't. Because it may not be long before she starts threatening me the same way!! She's already turned me in to the manager once, but she didn't know at the time my foot was broken. That's why I let that one go. But if she keeps on harassing my sis, I am going to have some words for her. I don't want to be aggressive, or name-call her. So, I'm hoping she comes back to her senses soon.

Well, I kinda find it funny, because Karina only harasses my sis from the safety of her closed-up 2nd floor apartment. She doesn't say anything when she's outside with us there. Probably scared because she thinks I'll kick her butt. But really I don't want to kick anyone's butt. I just don't want my sis to be harassed. She's had enough troubles this year, with moving out of one place and being kicked out of another. Twice! She tried to go back to her old client again in Bozeman, MT. But the manager of that apartment complex said she cannot move in with her old client because she's not related to her. Which I think is dumb! But if she moves in with that client, she'll never be able to go where she really wants to be, which is in Spokane. So I told her let's just concentrate on moving to Spokane, and forget about Bozeman. Besides, of the two, I'd rather move to Spokane. I'm more used to Washington's weather.