Here we go again with the screaming pool party. So what if it’s nearly 2:00 in the morning and just 48º outside? Like everyone that’s lived there, though, they use the yard as a big old parking lot, so I might’ve been hearing people coming and going from cars, but I don’t care. I’m hanging in the bedroom and almost out of here, not that where we’re going will be any quieter.

Not that I expect to have much of a choice, but I decided it may be worth a little misery for the financial peace of mind an apartment would bring. Since Tom can sleep through any kind of noise, then it’d be pretty much just me who would have to adapt. Maybe the chaos would be worth it to know we’d never again have to worry about money, especially if I can never live where I want anyway.

He’s been prepping the yard little by little at times when she’s not sleeping. He saw her cat in the window, so I guess she took it in altogether.

Some spyware or virus or both got into my computer somehow and infected it, so now I can’t sweep. I can do the newbies and play Netwinner, but I can’t use the Shazam feature for the dailies. It’s been causing all kinds of problems and headaches like crashing, pop-ups, pages being redirected, etc. Tom first thought OLS got hacked, but there was nothing about it in the forums. We don’t have a clue what it is, where it came from, or what to do about it, but at least we’ll be ordering my new laptop soon. I hate breaking in a new computer cuz then I have to reconfigure everything, but it’ll be well worth it. Then when we’re down there, I can shut myself up in a closet when I want to sing so I can sing for my own enjoyment and not for free for the pool people or the groundskeepers mowing and blowing every day.

Just when I thought the tea was a bust for sure and nothing but a water stripper, I’m amazed by the promising prospects of its magical effects yet again. I’m jogging in place, but I’m still not dieting. Not at all. I’m still having around 2000 calories a day. I don’t know how much more I’ll lose, but if I do it’ll probably happen very slowly from here on out and in chunks. That’s why I thought I wasn’t going to go down anymore. I stood the same for nearly a week.

I’d gotten so big that I had this pocket of fat between my shoulder blades. Yesterday when I went to scratch a little itch back there, I noticed it felt like there was less of me there. I asked Tom if I was imagining it or what, but he noticed it, too. It’s an overall feeling. At first I only noticed the difference in that my thighs weren’t rubbing together as much and my arms hung looser and less snug against my sides. Now I’m feeling it everywhere and am back down to 134 pounds. So for the numbers to be going down at a time of month when they should be going up is encouraging.

Nah, they were just packing it in for the night over there. I just went to rinse my mug out and it’s dark and quiet over there.

Anyway, it’ll be interesting to see where my weight ends up after my period. I don’t think I’ll drop the 2-3 pounds I usually do because tea is still a diuretic and it’s still no doubt keeping the excess water off. I just didn’t think it could really burn fat, too! I’m not totally convinced of this stuff yet. There’s no denying the fact that you don’t “just lose” 8 pounds in this day and age without even trying, but I’d have to get down to 130 before I was fully convinced. Even if it could take me to 130, though, could it take me to 120, or 110?