Now that the rats are back home I can do an entry. Even though I was going to take the day off from exercising, I’m on the skier right now and I don’t want to risk them getting too close to it and getting hit. Even smart animals do dumb things and sometimes their curiosity gets the better of them.

I slept shitty, though it had nothing to do with noise and I’m not tired today. I kept waking up and once I had a horrible taste in my mouth and this god-awful heartburn. My first thought was that I ate too much too close to bed and I got up and popped a couple of Rolaids. When I woke up I had the runs and figured I likely ate something bad. I still have mild queasiness here and there so I’m not totally better yet.

What shocked me was that I’m down another pound because I did indeed eat more than usual yesterday as I often do on Saturdays. It’s still too soon to say doubling my workout time is affecting my weight, though. It could be just water loss even though I’m still a little watery and my boobs are still a little bit sore. Sill spotty, too. At least I am less lightheaded today.

It took Tom 4 hours to finish the laundry and bathroom floors which looks fantastic! We’ll eventually do the same thing in the kitchen. Kind of wish we did from the get-go but this rug really is beautiful. It just sucks that the Roomba can’t handle it. Not having to vacuum for years has spoiled me.

After half a decade I decided a change would be nice in the bedroom along the wall where the dresser and a small desk are. It’s a very long wall at just over 12 feet. I was thinking that would be a great place for a mural and they’re so much easier to put up now than they were when we did the one we got in Maricopa. I created a Pinterest board for the various ideas I have in mind for possibilities. I knew I wanted something that didn’t have a lot of busyness and color to it that would clash with other things in the room and I also decided to rule out night skies and night cities because I figured they would make the room too dark. I like it pitch black in there when sleeping but don’t want it dark in there when I’m awake. I wanted a design with mostly neutral colors but that would be detailed and realistic enough. I prefer photos to artwork and so I settled on a close-up of large birch trees in a forest. It’s 100 bucks and we’re in no hurry because we have so many damn projects going on at the moment. The new windows won’t be ready until the first but we still have plenty of other things to do.

This morning we went to Walmart where I was stunned to have to pay $40 for an inhaler WITH insurance that I’ll probably only use once or twice in the next year if even that. What’s the point of having insurance if you still have to pay a fortune? I wish this country would get with the times but I know we’ll never have universal health care here.

I also couldn’t resist a pair of rainbow slippers with a little Beanie Baby cat head with shiny pink ears and pink glitter eyes on the top of the foot. We were going to go to Payless to look for new sneakers but they didn’t open as early as I would have liked.

We grabbed a few groceries and headed home where Tom had set up this really cool new hose. It’s got a green cloth covering and it’s really cool because when the water is off it kind of shrivels up and contracts. He’s outside blowing leaves and trimming bushes now.

The weather is cold and getting colder with lows averaging in the 30s and highs in the 60s. That will drop 10° before spring and some of the highs may not even make it to the 50s on rainy days. It got down to 35° last night.

I don’t know why I have so many dreams about being “with” Scott as I never had an ounce of attraction for him. But while I wasn’t officially with him in the dream I seemed to be a part of his life on a regular basis and I overheard someone saying how sweet I was and that I couldn’t have done what I was once accused of doing. Then either he was telling that the person or they were telling him that a psychic told him he was to meet the perfect person real soon. They said it in a way that suggested that person was me.

Then I had a dream about sitting in a car that was idling and I was unable to turn it off. I rolled down the window and called out to Tom who was nearby, got out of the car and let him take care of it. We were talking about him trimming my bangs afterward but then I changed my mind.

Mrs. Bowe was giving me a foot massage and I was worried about whether or not my schedule was fit for some kind of fancy dinner party that I was invited to that evening.

In the last dream, we were living in our Maricopa house once again when I was walking by the back door and noticed it was slightly ajar. The door had been an issue before and I was annoyed with Tom for not fixing it. Then I was walking toward the den when I saw movement in the bathroom. I realized it was a woman’s arm. Then a short, grossly obese or possibly pregnant woman, came out of the room shouting some mumbo-jumbo. I began to turn and run out of the house but then I stopped and turned around to face the bitch. Not sure what happened next.