Glad to say I slept great and am less hungry today. Alexa played brown noise continuously in addition to my white noise on the stereo, and nothing woke me up. Don’t know if this means nothing loud went by or if I just happened to get lucky. Awfully hard to believe nothing loud went by between the hours I slept but I’ll keep doing this and we’ll see. No reason I couldn’t add the headband when I’m back to crashing really early in the morning. Hopefully, I won’t need the earbuds until we’re in a Florida hotel looking for a place to live and hopefully, it won’t be for nearly 9 months like the last state change. Gotta keep the Bluetooth plugged in, though, since I usually sleep 8-9 hours and its battery life is only for 5.

I’m amazed that I didn’t gain weight with the 2100 or so calories I had to have consumed yesterday. I think it’s most likely my body is still having some PMS symptoms even though I haven’t had a period in a while. Until I go over a year without one, I’m probably going to have some hormonal shifts where I exhibit symptoms of grumpiness, water retention, backaches or hunger which are the symptoms I would have most before periods.

Hunger usually means your body is burning extra calories and it’s true that I ate and ate and ate while my body burned and burned and burned most of it up. Seriously, I just couldn’t stop eating and for the first 10 hours of my day, nothing could quell my hunger. Finally, I had to convince myself to take a break before I got sick and it’s amazing that I didn’t at least get heartburn. I think it would help if I not only increased my water intake but protein as well. It’s just that protein usually has more cholesterol.

Liking to try new things, I got thin slices of beef which I fried in a skillet in a marinade sauce called Caribbean Jerk. I looked at the ingredients of different sauces and marinades because I don’t like anything too tangy or spicy, and it’s pretty good. The meat is a little tough, though.

Trying to make sure I drink at least two liters of water a day to keep hydrated. Tom said my “happy hour” dehydrates me, too. After being up for 12 hours, I have my own little happy hour and have a wine cooler. Then after I’ve been up 14 hours, I read for the last couple of hours of my day. So I have a schedule without a schedule. Today’s happy hour will be a homemade screwdriver.

Every now and then I feel a quick pulsing cramp in my right ear so it’s not 100% better. Plus, I’m still slightly off-balance but not much. A little tired because I skipped my meds twice. I’ll start them again tomorrow.

Looked back in my journals, and while I can see when we got the earbuds, I can’t tell if the head pressure began before or after getting them. I just wonder if it could be connected to whatever’s going on with my ears. I oiled them both and I’m going to have him do an alcohol and peroxide dump in the right ear when he gets up.

Just thought of another keyword to look for in my journal and yes, I did have the pressure in my head upon standing up before the earbuds hit the scene. I think it started at the beginning of last year. It was last June that we got the earbuds.

After doing some cleaning yesterday I had shoulder pain for about an hour in my left shoulder which I’ll be sure to note in my health blog.

After having a bit of a tough time getting ahold of someone at my dentist yesterday, Jessica answered and I was able to bump my appointment with Holly up a week since there’s no way I’m going to make our original appointment. My PCP appointment is fine, though, and I don’t need to reschedule her. If I push my schedule a little each day I could make Holly but that would throw me off for Doc A a few days later.

Kathleen’s voice is still on the outgoing message and I’m still wondering why people in their 50s and 60s would agree to get together with those they have no intention of getting together with.

Since it’s looking likely that we will need to get another car while we’re still in the state, he’s been looking on and off and I told him I had a vision that what we end up getting will be green and made in 2006, but I don’t know what it is. It’s definitely not a van but it may be either a large car or a small SUV. Can’t get the make and model or anything else.

I was watching a documentary about the Nostradamus Effect on Hulu which, depending on the way you interpret his writings, shows that he predicted two of the three Antichrists he saw. One was Napoleon, the other was Hitler, and supposedly the third Antichrist is now among us but may not know he’s the third Antichrist.

Then it explains The Rapture, something I learned about a long time ago, which I think is the most ridiculous of all the supernatural theories I’ve ever heard. I do believe in the supernatural to a degree and while I’m still not sure if there is a God or an afterlife, like millions of people are really going to suddenly disappear and tons of dead bodies are going to fly up from their graves to be sent to heaven? But if we don’t need bodies in the afterlife in the first place, why not just take their souls if there is such a thing? And what about those who have been cremated that were firm believers? Bunch of crap if you ask me, but if not, then I guess I’ll be around for the 7-year tribulation.

When you exclude weekends, holidays and vacations, Tom should now have less than 1000 days left to work before he retires. This doesn’t mean he might not get something part-time for extra money after we get settled in Florida, though. Having five more years to work seems like such a long time but I get his perspective. When he compares that to how many years he’s already worked, it seems like nothing. Well, let’s just say I’m glad time goes by faster when you get older!

Other than fatigue and that strange vibrating sensation in my head, it rained steadily all day yesterday and it’s been doing the same ever since I got up a few hours ago. It definitely didn’t rain like this in the desert! Not even in Oregon.

I found a random story plot/character generator and just for kicks I wanted to see what it would come up with for a character profile and it was pretty interesting.