I don’t fucking believe this, but it looks like we’re going to lose BOTH Sugar and Hoodie. For the last 2 or 3 days, Hoodie has been acting very weak, inactive, and doesn’t seem to have much of an appetite at all. The only thing is that Hoodie is still young, like maybe only a year old if even that. Sugar is now very old, and because Hoodie was spending so much time in the borough sleeping with him, I thought it was a sign that this was the beginning of the end for Sugar because rats take care of their own when they get sick or are dying.

I totally, totally regret getting Cappy. Never have we had a rat this timid. He doesn’t bite or anything, but he is extremely antisocial for a rat. Overall we haven’t had the greatest rat luck since coming to Cali, so maybe it really is time to switch from rats to cats.

I went outside and did some walking but I only made one round around the circle because it is just too damn cold. It sucks too, because this would be an ideal time to be out there. I was fearless, though, and my heart behaved.

I have really come to love boy shorts too, even if both of the ones I got are a little big on me.

We ordered two Alcatel smartphones, which I call Alcatraz phones, haha, and they are a lot faster. They also come with face recognition. I also got a gorgeous doll I have been wanting for a while but just hadn’t gotten around to getting, for $95. She’s an Adora baby doll (Workout Chic). She is a very realistic-looking 20-inch toddler doll with two upper and two lower teeth. She has the sweetest face and realistic-looking brown eyes and brown hair. None of it is costing us a thing either, because it’s coming out of our tax refund.

I accidentally stumbled across these cute little figurines from the Forever in Blue Jeans collection that are both realistic and not. The shapes of their bodies are realistic but they have no distinctive facial features. They’re small, cute and inexpensive, so I might grab a few.

I let a fellow blogger/follower cry on my shoulder tonight cuz she was diagnosed with hypothyroidism today. It feels good to help others if only to listen and hug them in cyberspace and share my experiences with them. They wanted to know my experience on the levothyroxine, which as you know, was a living hell for a few months when they upped my dose to 75mcgs. I told her I’ve been fine on 50mcgs and not to let my experience scare her since everyone’s different, but just to keep in mind that hair loss and racy hearts are something you gotta watch out for. When you’re on the right dose, though, the disease is no big deal. It’s only a problem if you take no medication or too much medication.

She said she figured she’d get it cuz her mother and grandmother have it. Another reason to be glad I don’t have a daughter to pass this shit down to, even though there are worse diseases to have. My own diagnosis came as no surprise to me. Losing weight is supposed to become hard with age, not impossible.