Where the night before last I was hot flashing my ass off, last night I was freezing. It was chilly and rainy yesterday so the temp dropped lower last night. I guess I should sleep with the temp set at 68° instead of 67° whenever possible. When I got up to pee at 3:30 I had to turn the fan off. 

Loved how quiet the rain kept things yesterday, though sure enough, late in the afternoon I could hear something loud and steady running somewhere for an hour or two. It might have been just outside the park. A carpet cleaning truck maybe? 

Got up at 7:30 and Tom, who had been up for about an hour, took his shower after I took my pill. He then showered and we took our empty bellies to the lab. Not surprisingly, we had to wait a while. Of course there was a screaming brat whose mother rudely blasted a cartoon on her tablet for it. Brat screamed like a hyena once she was called in. I felt a little bad for her then. 

We were both taken to a room in back by a kind and competent girl I’m pretty sure I’ve seen before. She had no problem with a butterfly needle and didn’t tie the tourniquet too tight. Sometimes the tourniquet can be worse than the needle or any bruising that may occur. Yet she quickly got 3 vials without leaving me bruised. 

She had to pull 4 vials from Tom and he even had to pee in a cup. While she was tending to us she was telling us this horrible but not at all surprising story about a 5-year-old boy who slapped and swore at his mother as she was trying to draw his blood. Meanwhile, the mother was singing the alphabet to him. Then the little bastard pulled the needle out of his arm and hit her in the face all the while Daddy just stood by wordlessly. I’d be doing a long prison sentence right about now for knocking the animal unconscious! 

Kids of today are absolutely horrible. Just total animalistic, selfish, rude brats with seemingly no concern for anyone but themselves, and the parents that help create them are even scarier. What will the world be like 20-30 years from now when these things are running so much of it? 

So we each used the bathroom afterward and when Tom came out I looked at his hand and said, “You were supposed to leave the apple juice in the bathroom, hun.” But I guess they had a place down the hall to deposit the pissers. 

She said the blood would be leaving the lab at 1pm, but I doubt I’ll be able to see the results online till around Wednesday. 

Later… 

Waited until the daily landscaping racket, which unfortunately extends into the late afternoons at this time of year, died down enough so I could concentrate on a second entry. 

Began reading An Act of Deceit. It’s another Jennifer Jennings mystery. Probably won’t work on my own book till after the weekend. 

After we left the lab this morning we stopped at Sam’s and got a few things. One of those things was a pack of 8 knives for cutting fruits, veggies and breads. What's cool about the knives is that they have pictures of what they’re for on the blades, and each one has a different color handle and matching case you slide it in to protect it. I’m surprised the set was just $20. 

Don’t know that I’ll be cutting as many fruits and veggies now that we have the juicer, but they’ll still come in handy. The two large knives we had were old and dull. 

Another gadget I’d love to try is an air fryer. I didn’t even know any such thing existed till I came across a sweep for one. 

Gonna grab a facial brush next time we do an Amazon order, which will probably be this weekend since the rats need bedding. It’s a small soft rotating brush, and I like how it removes dry, flaky skin. It does a better job than a washcloth, bath puff or even bath gloves. They even make pink ones now. My MIL gave me a white one in Maricopa and I miss having one. 

What I REALLY can’t wait for is our 3D floor! 

We went on a bike ride when we got home, then he took down the shower doors in the second bath so I could clean them easier, and sprayed the patio and outer windows for bugs.