Monday

And Nabal awoke at 6 am yesterday, put back on his work pants from Saturday and went to work a half day... By the time I got home from church he was showered and changed and studying his bible. He in fact did not preach this Sunday. The other guy did. Nabal knows some scandal about him, but sin abounds. The Spanish community here is a place where everyone seems to know everything and yet in this church everyone seems clueless. I was there setting up their powerpoint and Nabal came in. He looked at me so lovingly, cane over and patted my back and kissed me on the top of my head. And the award goes to Nabal for his superb acting ability! It was all for the people. In the evening he was being sooo nice, acting puzzled when I looked at him like I was trying to figure out his angle. His phone however told that he had in fact spoken to Isela while I was out, got the picture from the chick in Denver that he had asked her for the previous day and had been texting Isela all the way home from church. He was driving the church van and dropping off people...

So the rest of the evening he's talking to me in his weird baby voice that he has somehow come to think is sexy. He just kept saying "I love you baby" but in a tone that made me think he was still saying as he has for years after I had been defeated, "It's ok, I still love you." He doesn't get that it is not even a factor any longer. He thinks that I'll be soooo thrilled that I am loved that the slate is wiped clean. This is Nabal's way of not apologizing. I told him, "Me too." Funny, he doesn't listen... I think he assumed what I did not say... I now love me too much to let him and his antics dictate my life, home or happiness any longer. I was figuring that either everyone else was busy with family things of their own to be bothered with him, that he knows he screwed up and is trying to buy some favor, or that he has indeed crossed some line and feels guilty. All three are my guess. I'll give credit where it is due- he did not drink I think. He still smelled of alcohol last night, but that could have been just what was floating around in his system after drinking and drugging for 10 hours.

So the phone didn't surface yet. He said the pro-girl who dated the neighbor for sure has it. She waited until they were all drunk and stole the Protege's money along with that of his roommate. These are grown men, and this has gone on for months. This time the complaint was that she was stealing their pennies even! She has stolen hundreds of dollars at a time from them when they are drunk. Pennies upset them? Nabal was plotting to do something to her to get her back. He will not do for his own children in a crisis, but his drunk buddies... Read something last night- an alcoholic doesn't have family down on their list of priorities. There is no list, alcohol is the only priority. First and only love.