I miss Nane and I hope she’ll stop by and say hello, poke me, message me or do something tomorrow since she seems to be on more during the week than on weekends. Not even Irene seems to be around much lately, but oh well. We all have our lives to live. I did see, though, that the drama queen added a birthday countdown on her wall. LOL, is that to remind people not to forget her?

I’m really proud of myself:) I walked not 30 and not 40 but 50 minutes as fast as I could before I was to the point of breaking into a trot! I thought I’d have to resist the urge to take off running, but I didn’t miss it at all. Especially since it’s just too hard on my joints for some reason. I was all set to walk an hour but my knees started acting up by then, especially the outside of my right knee, so I stopped at around 2 miles, 250 burned calories (almost my entire breakfast), and a heartbeat of about 125 beats per minute. I was sweating like crazy. Even my hands were sweaty. The only sucky part is that I don’t think I’m going to lose much weight. I’m just one of those whose bodies don’t respond much to diet and exercise, especially since getting older. But I’d rather be fat and fit than fat and unfit. If there’s anything wrong with my thyroid, I don’t know it and I don’t care to know right now. I have more important things to deal with than my weight so long as it doesn’t get seriously out of hand. I think regular exercise should help stop that, though, even if it doesn’t make me thinner. Although it shouldn’t have since it was just one day, yesterday’s day off with Mint Milano cookies set me back another pound. I’ll know in a few days if it’s water or not.

The cool shower I took afterward felt sooo good and my joints were fine once I got off the treadmill. My feet were a bit sore despite the expensive Ryka running shoes I won a few years ago, but what was strange happened after my shower. I’m very pale and am normally a bit rosy in the cheeks, but my face not only felt hot as hell but it appeared to be sunburned that’s how red it was.

After I dried off I lay naked on the bed in front of the fan for 10 minutes or so which also felt sooo good. Then I got out of my birthday suit and entered sweeps.

Yesterday a Facebook friend I never met that added me way back when and started following my blog, posted a link to a really cool site where they have daily $50 drawings and drawings for a couple of bucks every few hours. You can also win cash, tickets and coins along the way and it seems like a fun way to earn extra money. So I joined through her referral link and then I got Kim into it. The lady I got the link from said she’s been there two years and they don’t spam people. It’s a very simple site to navigate, too.

Another “moving” dream only I didn’t like this one at all. Not when one of the residents in wherever the place was told me it got below 0º there a few times a year.

It’s so nice to have a leisurely day where I can just relax for the most part. :) I needed this. To make it all the better, our connection has been wonderful even if I don’t expect it to last long. My guess is they’ll start their games up with us on Monday.

WTF? It’s around 4:30 yet I hear a large truck idling and I could hear it beeping like it was backing up, too. It sounds like it’s up at Jesse’s but I don’t see any lights or anything, though that’d be hard to see through the trees, and the dogs aren’t going off. He certainly wouldn’t be working on the land at this hour. Could it be an ambulance? They’ve been there a while if it is. As selfish as it may sound I hope whatever it is (it just stopped. Either that or the vehicle is quietly pulling away) doesn’t put us out. We’ve had enough shit on account of other people’s evilness, incompetence (I hear it backing up again, WTF?) and misfortune.

It’s gone now, whatever it was.

After a week off the troll returned to my blog yesterday. Yeah, I knew it would. And it’s gonna play catch up soon enough no doubt. I could tell it didn’t have much time to do so yesterday.

Later…

Not surprisingly, Nane was in my blog, though it was a bit earlier than I expected. I guess she made me a top priority as soon as she got to work, LOL. I made sure to mention her at the top of the first entry I thought she’d see too, assuming she came in when she returned to work. I said I missed her, LOL. I’ll “poke” her tomorrow.

Just thought I’d get in a quick entry before entering sweeps and hitting the treadmill. There’s not much to say, though. Yesterday was hot, dry and quiet. Also, the rat likes to take off my glasses and Miss Teri got me hooked on hummus. I’d never heard of it till after asking her what she eats on a typical day. So I got some garlic-flavored hummus and even the rat’s addicted to it now, LOL.

So other than worrying about a couple of friends of mine and getting a kick out of the rat’s new game of begging for cheese in front of the fridge, alles ist in meiner Welt gut. :)

It is so, so nice not to be in so much pain day after day from that one lousy tooth, and thinking that my ear and other teeth are a problem as well because of it. So yeah, the two weeks of hell I went through truly was worth it in the end to put an end to the misery I endured for years.