Thought I’d do an update as the ants dig away by my side. They’ve got tunnels started on the bottom corners of their little farm. Wonder how old they were before they were shipped to us?

Went to the dollar store earlier and grabbed some cans of air freshener. I always like to keep those by the toilets. Got a cute pair of flip-flops, too.

A friend who’s around my age said she understood the struggle to lose weight after 50 and that it’s like you gotta starve yourself to do it. Wonder if I could even lose on 800 cals, but I’m not about to find out or eat the 1500-2000 cals I’d like to have. I’ll just struggle to remain 35 pounds overweight for now and have 1000 most days. rolls eyes

What I don’t get is why there’s so much obesity among young people. I get that there wouldn’t be so many fat older folks if it was that easy to manage as our metabolisms slowed, but when you’re 20-something your metabolism should be running top speed unless you’ve got something wrong with you. I doubt all these young folks have something wrong, so I guess that the readily available amount of food we have these days as opposed to 30 years ago is a factor. There’s that thing about antibiotics I recently heard about, too. Only that theory doesn’t make much sense when you consider the fact that most Europeans are still thin.

Another friend said she had to keep weight off due to back issues. If it was a case of do or die for me, I’d definitely be dead!

I was looking at HGTV’s past winners over the last decade or so and apparently, HGTV is pretty old-fashioned. Every single winner is married with kids. That can’t be a coincidence. With the marriage rate down and the birth rate down even more, I can’t believe there weren’t just as many single and childless, single with kids, and married without kids entrants. And they claim their drawings are totally random? I’m not so sure about that. Reminds me of this article I read about a regular sweeper like myself who said the draws aren’t as random as they’d lead you to think and that they’re actually looking for specific types that meet their criteria. Those who seem to want it the most, among other things. Well, if HGTV would prefer to give their homes to families instead of couples or a single person, I won’t bother entering then.

I like the new NaNoWriMo site look.

Last night I dreamed I was walking along a deserted stormy beach at night. I told myself to keep away from the water’s edge as I probably wasn’t safe there.

Then I broke into this guy’s place, though I don’t know why. I didn’t know the guy either. The guy, smallish with dark hair and dark eyes, came home before I could escape and caught me. In exchange for not calling the police and reporting me, he promised to let me go if I made him a turkey sandwich. I sized him up, trying to get a sense of whether or not I could take him. I wasn’t sure but I didn’t see the harm in making him the sandwich and seeing if he would actually keep his word before I went trying to fight my way out of there.

He threw the bread, meat, mayonnaise and lettuce on the center island in the small kitchen and I quickly began to prepare the sandwich.

“No, that’s too much,” he told me as I slathered on mayonnaise.

So I scraped some off, and when I put some lettuce on, I asked if it was too much and he told me to add a little more.

And then the dream ended before I could find out what happened next.