Tom’s been enjoying a leisurely 58th birthday. Yesterday evening we rode our bikes 2.5 miles and it felt great. Not surprisingly, my pulse was at 130 when we got back and his was at 95. Now if I can just get past Monday without any thyrotoxic showdowns, I should definitely never have to worry about being on this dose. I’d say I’m virtually there, as the days leading up to when the trouble started, I was short of breath and jittery. I don’t have that now. 

When I was out riding early in the morning last week, I saw a tractor digging a grave over in the cemetery somewhere between 100-200 feet away. So someone has come to live with the people in the hill who live by the people in the park. I call them the People in the Hill because the cemetery is on a hillside of sorts. 

Simone is now up to 6.8 pounds, so she’s now close to average. I read that average is between 7-10 pounds. 

We went to Target earlier where we both had fun shopping even though he’s the birthday boy. It was hot out, slightly humid, and there were tons of screaming brats. Whatever happened to the “Careers Over Kids” thing? It’s always fun to go out hunting for treats either way, and it’s nice to be able to get things we want and not just what we need. For a while, though, we couldn’t even get what we needed. 

I got a black spaghetti-strapped sundress that’s formfitting up top and loose from the waist down, and a small hot pink purse with a matching strap and gold chains that is probably the nicest looking purse or handbag I ever had. 

When I inspected myself in the mirror wearing the new dress I wondered how I got so out of proportion. It’s like my skinny little calves don’t go with the rest of my body, LOL. 

I also got some Burt’s Bees lip shimmer in apricot. 

He got an iPhone holder that you attach to your bike so that you can see it while you’re riding. This will make using the exercise app a little easier. He also got some tools to mount on the wall of the workshop and some chips. 

Then we went to Michael’s, which is a craft and home décor store that I love because they tend to have more unique things. Wish they’d had tons of shiny and glittery stuff back in the '90s when I first started going there! 

I ended up getting these delicate little flower stickers. There were two purple crocuses and a couple of pink flowers of some kind. I put the pink ones in the kitchen window and the purple ones on the corners of the medicine cabinet’s mirrored door. 

I also got shiny gem stickers to decorate our boring matte green singing bird clock frame with. I took some pictures, which I shared on a few sites. I’ve changed the way I save pictures on my computer. Some pictures like nail pictures and pet pictures will go in a file specifically for that, but for the most part, everything I took in 2015 will go in one file. 

What else did I get… some Hawaiian incense as well as some lavender incense, and a chocolate bar. 

My dreams were stranger than strange last night. Tom and I were living in a house much like you would find back east… bedrooms upstairs, basement downstairs. I went down to the basement to do laundry and I discovered a woman sleeping down there. She pulled out a gun and told me that if I didn’t let her sleep there at night and if I didn’t service her sexually while she was there, all the while keeping her presence a secret, she would go upstairs and shoot Tom. She said she would only be there at night, and I wondered how the hell she was getting in. 

One day she held me at gunpoint for a while down there when I realized I could no longer take her shit in silence because I believed it was only a matter of time before she killed me. I had to alert Tom and get us both out of the house until she could be caught and jailed. 

I suddenly decided, for some bizarre reason, that the way to freedom was up this old rickety wooden ladder. So when she wasn’t looking I climbed up and then started to walk out onto this wooden plank. Afraid the plank wouldn’t hold my weight, I doubled back and realized I had to figure out a new means of escape from the madwoman. 

Before I could come up with a new plan, we moved. I was sure we had been both quick and discreet about it, but just when I felt safe and comfortable in our new home, there she was.