Woo-hoo, I can now run at 6 MPH! Can’t sustain it for long but it’s plenty doable. Maybe someday I’ll get up to 7 MPH comfortable enough, though I can’t imagine doing 10 MPH or sustaining anything over 5 MPH for very long. But I’ve learned I don’t have to run that long anyhow. Just enough to get my heart going and keep my joints strong, but then I can walk off the rest of the time at a brisk 3 MPH pace. So I did an hour and felt so good afterward. It even helped my PMS backache and my feet weren’t that sore afterward. I think the only reason they got so sore the last time was that I’d already been on my feet all morning cleaning and shopping. Anyway, I did what I’ve been doing the last week or so and went just over 3 miles and burned 300 calories. I think the calorie burn is more important than time, speed or distance.

For the last 3 days in a row, I’ve woken up down two-tenths of a pound, but it could very well be water loss and not actual weight loss. I have the slowest metabolism in the world and I still think I’ll eventually gain up a storm if I don’t cut calories no matter how much I work out. Andy doesn’t think so, so we’ll have to see who’s right as I continue to get fitter, faster and stronger and build up more endurance.

It was a quiet weekend and a somewhat quiet day so far today. I heard a quick barking fit, then Jesse came and went on the motorcycle, then the brother came and went, setting the dogs off while he was at it when Jesse was out. Does anyone in that family believe in calling first to save on time and gas???

The saws have backed off lately. Can’t complain about that!

I shut my Yahoo account down yesterday and I definitely won’t be missing all the spam and scams that would come into that account and not get filtered out. I laugh at the thought of the hundreds of messages that have already bounced. I could’ve just abandoned it, but that’d be one more account left sitting out there that could possibly be hacked, so I shut it down altogether.

I miss Mary and am curious as to how she’s been, but at the same time, I would rather not be contacted by her. She’ll just be such a pest! The only link I can think of that she has that I still have is MD, though I suppose I could always ignore any unwanted messages. I pulled my last name off of MyOpera cuz MyOpera’s Googlable. I’m also going to disable my name from coming up under FB searches which is an option, but not till it gets closer to her release date which will probably end up being late summer/early fall.

According to the troll’s latest FB account which she created today cuz she “got sick of all her other ones,” this is her “last day online.” She heads for Iowa tomorrow. The others and I give her two weeks tops before she returns home. I guess she went up there before and was supposed to stay for 3 weeks, but ended up returning home sooner because she got sick of having to pay for everything and they would fight a lot. I really have to wonder about this guy’s level of self-esteem to want a GF like Molly.

I’m going to be breaking a record I hope Tom doesn’t break as well, because if he does, that would mean that something went wrong. He lived in the Maricopa house for 4½ years and it was 4 for me, thanks to the haters that stole half a year of my freedom. Well, since we’ll definitely be here past April 12th, this will become the second-longest place I’ve lived as an adult. If we’re here in October, it becomes Tom’s runner-up place, too. I sure hope not, though! If we’re ever in the same place for over 6 years, then we’ll beat the Phoenix house record. He actually only moved into that house just a few months before I did when his brother moved out of it and into his new wife’s much nicer house. Except for maybe Ryan, Pam and Jackie, we were always the family underdogs of both families save for those few years in Maricopa, but that’s okay. We’re used to it. It may not be fair, but it is the way it is.

Wonder if Christiane or Irene read about my latest Nane dream? LOL, it’s a funny thought. Christiane and I were talking about our weather. I forget they do Celsius there, so she was a little confused when I told her it would be 72° here in a few days, LOL. It’s a good thing I’m on days now.