Shortly before 11pm, I took a walk down to the pool. I could see a few people were still up watching TV, but there wasn’t a soul outdoors. I stuck my arm in the pool up to my elbow and found it to be gorgeous! It should be with all the triple-digit temps we’ve been having and will have for the next few months. Hoping to pick up my bike this weekend. I’d rather ride to and from the pool than walk.

My period is finally starting and so I’ll have to schedule that dreaded pap I’ve been neglecting since the late 90s. I still have burning and itching down there and would like to know why. The problem with this doctor is that you have to make a separate appointment for everything. Yes, everything. You can’t just address everything you want to address at once. People will do anything to make a buck, even doctors. I could break my arm in two places and she’d want me to make one appointment for one part of that arm and another for the other part of it. 

Started entering sweeps on a site called UltraContest and it’s not bad. Pretty straightforward layout and friendlier staff, though it doesn’t have as many sweeps as OLS. There’s no premium membership or Shazam feature that pops open multiple sweeps at once, but I like how it tells you if you haven’t entered a sweep or Not Yet if it’s not time to enter again or You’re Done if it’s a single-entry sweep. I do it while proofreading old journals and that way I can listen to the electronic reader as I make my entries. 

Later… 

Perhaps I’m wrong for feeling this way, but it really annoys me when people butt into conversations on Facebook. Ok, so I know that’s what Facebook is supposed to be all about and that it’s ok to expect “likes” and comments from whoever, where it’s possible to get those. But still, something about leaving a comment for Jane Doe and then having John Doe come in and comment on my comment bugs me. Again, perhaps it shouldn’t and perhaps I’m the only one that feels that way, but sometimes I start off in a discussion with one other person and it ends up being a group discussion that involves 5 or 6 people and I’m like, “Hey, where did all of you come from and who invited you to butt in? I was talking to So and So!” 

This annoys me in person, too. I’d hate being at school or at a bar or wherever and end up chatting with someone. Then someone overhears us and they rudely insert themselves into our discussion. It would be even more frustrating if the person I was initially chatting with was someone I really, really liked or didn’t get to see very often. It would be all I could do to keep from screaming, “Get the fuck out of here!” 

Another thing that annoys me and also may sound weird is that it’s always the same damn people “liking” things and commenting on things. It isn’t that I don’t appreciate their responses. I do. But at the same time, I can’t help but feel a tinge of annoyance when I see the same people coming around while others I rarely or almost never hear from. But that’s what Facebook Housekeeping is for. I do it once or twice a year. :) 

Later… 

Woke up with cramps and a backache, but Tom’s hands and a couple of Ibuprofen got rid of both. He’s decided to start a diet and I was thinking of throwing myself on a 1200-calorie diet starting Sunday. Not that I think I’ll lose more than the same damn few pounds I regain before periods when my hunger levels are up, but because I think it may help other hunger that I can actually control. When we suddenly eat a lot like I have been on weekends, we tend to feel hungrier the next day because we’ve enlarged our stomachs. Well, I can’t prevent PMS hunger, but I can at least be more consistent with my eating habits and hopefully not be as hungry during other times of the month. 

I was reading around in a fitness forum and found lots of people have lost weight on 1200 calories, even some around my age. But do any of them have hypothyroidism? 

Sill doing the 30-day ab challenge but damn are those sit-ups hard! Yesterday I noticed the leg raises were easier and today I noticed that planking was easier. The crunches are the same, though. 

We’re much happier with our new carpet than we thought we’d be. We thought it wouldn’t look so good being that it was cheap for carpet, but it looks fantastic. With the old, worn-out carpet you couldn’t see the Robo vacuum’s tracks, but with this stuff, you can. The brighter color also brightens up the room big time, but it’s not so bright that you would see even the slightest trace of dirt you may track in and all that. 

Woke up from a bit of a scary dream where I was smoking this poisonous cigarette. I wasn’t trying to kill myself deliberately, but it was almost as if I was living in ancient times and was being forced to smoke it or something. Every time I inhaled a lungful of the deadly smoke I could feel my body shutting down.