Whoever had my new phone number before me was obviously in serious debt because I keep getting calls from debt collectors among other things. What pisses me off about iPhones is that in order to block unidentified callers, I have to silence every call from numbers I don’t know. I liked it better on the Android where I could simply block anyone that didn’t show their number. I don’t want to block an unknown number that could end up being important.

Anyway, this is an attempt to hopefully get caught up with my writing. There’s a lot to catch up on! I’ve been on the go nonstop so I haven’t had much time.

So much TV to catch up on as well! I have another season left of Mr. Mercedes and then I have a brand-new season of Law & Order SVU.

We’re almost through all our stuff and so far they managed to smash eight figurines, three of which couldn’t be repaired. If we don’t end up filing a claim, and we would likely only do that if it turned out that something was missing, I’m going to be bashing the living shit out of them on Yelp soon enough. Horrible, horrible moving company! I swear we’ll never let anyone move us again. We’ll either ship it in a pod that we pack ourselves or U-Haul it.

Anyway, I’m so behind I haven’t mentioned all the stuff we’ve gotten for the new place, one being a small desk for my secondary office where I work in the daytime. I’ll work at the desk off the kitchen at night when it’s not too warm and sunny in there. This way I feel like I have a little more space and privacy and I’m not as likely to hear anything going on outside depending on how loud it is.

A day or two after they pressure washed their house, they trimmed their tree in front but it wasn’t noisy. Reciprocating saws aren’t nearly as loud as chainsaws. It’s been 2-3 days since the last project so I’m sure that means that in another 4-5, somebody will do something around here. Again, same shit no matter where you go.

We got the bidet I prefer but it ended up leaking so it had to be returned and exchanged. As he said, that’s the difference between a $30 bidet and a $100 bidet. Yeah, but the $100 bidet’s spray is still too wide for my little ass!

We’ve got a little addition coming for the kitchen. A 4-foot-tall cabinet with an extra drawer and a couple of shelves. We need all the space we can get in here. As it is, the Bowflex is simply too big for this place so it’s going to have to go out in the lanai. I tried to tell him it wouldn’t fit in here.

I’m sure there are still numerous planes flying overhead but now that I’ve got the air cleaners going, they’re less noticeable. What has been more noticeable lately is the uptick in helicopters. It’s almost as if something up there is determined not to let me get off so easy with the flying shit.

And OMG! Every fucking time we go somewhere, we’ve got to deal with loud car stereos at stoplights. Every. Fucking. Time. But I know better than to bitch about it because that would only annoy Tom. Wouldn’t change anything anyway. Really, though, I just can’t understand some of these insane and twisted laws. Why are some things legal that shouldn’t be and why are some things illegal that shouldn’t be? What baffles me more than how the hell battery can be a misdemeanor while something you write or say can be a felony is how lawmakers themselves can’t see how backward and twisted something like this is.

Anyway, I’ve been having that stomach pain more often lately and I still have no idea what it could be. He thinks it’s intestinal and I hope he’s right and that it doesn’t have anything to do with gallstones. Hopefully, I can hold out until my February appointment with my PCP. I don’t want to go to urgent care because I don’t see how they can help me. I would probably need an ultrasound and special blood tests done to narrow down exactly what it is, and all urgent care mostly does is isolate what’s life-threatening and what’s not. Well, obviously this isn’t life-threatening because I’ve had it on and off for 5 years now. It’s just that this is the longest spell I’ve had, and it doesn’t usually last more than a few days.

My weight is pretty much unchanged. I’m still waking up in the high 150s. I could try the diet route again but I’m sure the same thing would happen where I just lose a few pounds and it comes right back no matter what I do.

My new dentist is wonderful even if she doesn’t have the water laser. I thought I detected a faint accent even though she was very easy to understand and when I looked her up on Facebook, I found that she’s from Brazil. She gave me Halcion and had me take one before bed as well as an hour before she did my fillings and I definitely slept like a rock. Nine solid hours with my highest sleep score ever of 93. Last night was just the opposite. Six hours with a score of 81. The only thing that hurt was the shot when she went to numb me.

She was pleased with my BP (I was bombed on Halcion, LOL) but here it continues to read too high. Top number in the 150s, bottom around 90.

Crystal, the assistant, is really nice. She wasn’t working yesterday, though. The assistant was some older lady instead. She didn’t really stand out in any way. Ashley, the hygienist, seems a bit standoffish but she did a good job of cleaning my teeth. The sonic scaler hurt a bit but I kind of equate it to waxing… It hurts a little but is worth the results.

They have all positive reviews except for one on Facebook where someone complained about going for a cleaning like I did only to spend an hour getting unwanted X-rays taken instead. That frustrated me as well and they should have cleaned my teeth as we agreed but I understand the X-rays are necessary and helpful.

I have to go back to sign a consent form for her to pull the tooth in a couple of weeks, and at that time she’ll give me another prescription for Halcion for that procedure. Because she’s so good and she’s worked on me already and I feel comfortable with her, I don’t think I’ll ask for Halcion for future fillings. She did say they were working on getting nitrous oxide. Either way, hopefully, the prescription fluoride toothpaste (MI paste) will help keep me from getting cavities.

So we’ve been to Walgreens a couple of times picking up prescriptions and getting other little odds and ends we’ve needed. Tomorrow we have to go back to pick up his blood pressure medication.

So we are slowly setting up house here but still have quite a way to go. I’m just so fucking pissed at the rude animals that broke our shit. There’s no excuse for it! I packed so well having had lots of experience. It would have had to take brute force for so much broken stuff. They dropped or threw the totes and boxes. Even just the way they carried them into the house was worrisome with the way they would tip things and plop them down a little too hard. Nobody gives a shit about anyone else’s stuff. If it’s someone else’s, they have no respect or consideration whatsoever. It won’t change anything, but I will be venting on Yelp eventually.

We went to McDonald’s by the dentist before coming home the day I had my teeth cleaned. Yeah, I had them nice and clean just to dirty them up with chicken nuggets and fries only minutes later, LOL.

Again we set up OneDrive and again I had problems with it so my big computer isn’t connected to that. Just the laptop.

I deleted Irene and the Jells because I’m pretty sure that Irene’s account got hacked yesterday, and while they may mean well, I’m just sick of trying to decipher their shitty English.

When I got a strange link that I wouldn’t click on from Irene, I said that I wanted to make sure it was her and not a hacker and therefore I wanted her to tell me who an old mutual friend of ours used to be that dumped us both, and she gave me the wrong name even though whoever it really was, insisted they weren’t hacked.