March 29th 2017

I met the fabled Donovan today. He came into the diner wanting to talk to Kim. Emilie and I were there and told him we help manage the place. He wants the diner to cater some type of event he’s throwing. He didn’t say what. Just that it would be Saturday after the next. I think he could tell I was acting weird. Well what can I say? I’ve heard a lot about him and he kinda spooks me. Plus the man looks like a legit P I M P. It’s almost a bit of a caricature. But maybe that’s what he wants. I don’t know.

After work we went hunting. I killed… something. We think it was a gopher or maybe a mole? I have no clue. I did not like the feeling of it at all. The Shorty has some major kickback and I can barely stay standing up. Plus, the animal screamed before Jax gave it a final blow… it was quite horrifying. We saw an opossum but I couldn’t bring myself to kill it. I feel guilty, when we go hunting I secretly wish nothing would pass by us. I think I gave us bad juju because no other animals showed up after the first one I shot.

We went home afterwards. Jax decided to walk through the damn corn while he was wearing a short sleeve shirt and shorts and he got all scratched up. I told him he was banned from going any near infected and forced him to clean himself before we did anything else. He was kinda exasperated at my insistence but he knows I don’t want to fuck around with scratches since that’s how we lost Claire. Such a stupid thing killed my little girl.

We took a “shower” while the food cooked (I made a crappy stew with the meat, corn and tomatoes. It wasn’t good. I didn’t finish my bowl even though I was starving.) that was nice, we’ve been using some of the soap and shampoo Jax got from S-mart. We try to ration it so it lasts but it’s pretty amazing to be able to wash my hair and use soap and stuff. I wish we had it regularly and I would keep my hair long. There is a girl at the diner, Ami, who said she was working on making her own soap out of lye. Maybe once she figures it out we can buy it from her regularly.

While we were hunting today I told Jaxon about Ami. It turns out she was almost abducted a few days ago right there from the diner. It’s really scary stuff. Kim told me about it and she said the people who abducted her we’re going to eat her. It was these two hillbillies I saw Monday at the S-Mart while we were buying my gun. I told Jaxon about them today but I couldn’t bring up why they were trying to kidnap her. He was already freaked out asking me if I needed more guns or something. Like wtf? I can barely handle the gun I have now. My husband is sometimes a little too much. I’m sure he won’t be happy once he does find out, but I’ll deal with it later. We already have plenty on our plate and dealing with cannibals does not need to be one of them.

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