Life is still running in a predictable fashion, but a good one. No real complaints other than life’s usual annoyances we all have to deal with. I hope it stays this way, too. I don’t want any more medication drama in the future! On the bright side, I know what’s too much for me. All I have to do if I run into trouble is lower my dose. The only problem is that recovery takes time. It’s not like flicking a light switch off when it comes to these types of drugs. Levothyroxine takes time to build up in the body and time to leave it as well.

I should now be down 6-8 pounds but am only down 3.4 with what’s probably a pound or two of water on me at the moment. The plan is still the same… to stick out the rest of the month even though I don’t expect to lose much more than maybe another pound or two, then return to what I was doing before. That means I basically stay the same weight for as long as I can. With Hashimoto’s, you’ve pretty much got two choices. You can either gain weight or you can maintain it.

We changed the rats’ cage and went bike riding down the “rollercoaster” and around to the lake. We sat at the lake and watched the ducks and geese till my heart slowed down a bit. They watched us curiously, disappointed to find we hadn’t brought them any food, and then I followed Tom most of the way back which meant this speed racer had to ride slow, LOL. I should have worn a T-shirt instead of a long-sleeved sweater.

Right now we’re just hanging out relaxing and doing stuff online. He’s watching a movie now on his computer. I gotta stay up till 6am as part of my schedule-flipping plan and so I have a long night ahead of reading, movies, language studies, and whatever else I can think of to entertain myself and pass the time with. Maybe I’ll think of something more interesting to write about at some point during the night.

Later…

Perhaps I should use some of those writing prompts they have in order to help me think of things to write about besides what’s going on in the immediate moment. Sometimes I’m in the mood to write, but I have already updated what’s going on with me and so I don’t have a clue what to say. At the same time, there isn’t much about my life, past and not, that I haven’t written about. So if I were asked about my family, for example, that could be found within my entries.

Maybe I should randomly look online right now and just browse websites until I see something that might spark a good idea for a topic to write about. Okay, I saw a blog title about strange laws. Let’s talk about crime and punishment then.

Even though I’ve already said a million times before that I think the laws should focus more on what people do instead of what they say or write or think, I will say that this opinion has not changed. They complain and complain about how overcrowded the jails and prisons are, but think about how much room they would have for real criminals if they let the non-violent offenders go and just put them on probation and all that. I really think jails and prisons should be reversed for violent people only, as well as those who put others at risk. Take arson for example. Say you burn a building down and you don’t think anyone is inside it because your goal is to burn the building and not kill anyone. But you might very well kill someone by accident and so I can see a prison sentence for those people as well.

Those who commit or attempt to commit violent or sexual acts should be locked away probably forever. But I honestly don’t see the point in locking up some mother and taking her away from her children just because she might have a drug problem. So force her to go to drug rehab instead, for God’s sake, and don’t take her away from her children. It just seems like people stand to lose way too much if they’re locked up when they’re not even dangerous to society. I’m not saying we shouldn’t punish them, I’m just saying that I don’t see the point in taking people away from their jobs, homes and families simply because they might have stolen something or something like that. Fines, probation, counseling… I think that this is punishment enough, especially since it’s been proven a long time ago that harsher sentences do not deter crime. People think they’re invincible. They don’t think they’re going to get caught and so they don’t plan on getting caught. That saying “life isn’t what we plan it” rings truer than true when it comes to the vast majority of criminals.

Tomorrow I’ll start doing entries that cover stuff going on in the present, and then I will write entries based on prompts.

I place my smartphone in my bike basket to play music while riding. At one point I had to get off my bike to restart the music because I heard a text notification sound, which stopped the music, even though no new texts were visible. I later asked Alison if she texted me and she said no, because she knows I like to hang with Tom and others around the park on weekends. Now that’s someone with consideration, which I greatly appreciate. Wish more people were more considerate of others and their preferences instead of always thinking about themselves only.