We got our new rat, Tinkerbella, this morning! She’s a little cutie. I can already tell we're not going to have a Tinkerbell, Blondie, Sugar, or Little Buddy but I think she'll become a lot less timid in time. She's 6-8 weeks and not much bigger than Fuzzy was when we got him. I just hope she isn't going to miss having a roommate! She's sleeping right now since rats typically sleep in the daytime anyway. 

They had about 8 rats, half white, half hooded. The hooded part of the rats had Berkshire rat coloring, so dark brown. I chose a cute little hoodie. As the “hood” reaches their necks and then their backs, the color tends to get spotty rather than a solid line. Tinkerbella has more of a wide solid line which I like the looks of. 

We were surprised they had so many females. They usually keep those for breeding. 

Yesterday we went to Port Richey, but they didn’t have any rats. They sure had some cute ferrets, though. Just when I was starting to get used to and accept that this is our forever home, I go wishing we had a bigger place and more money. The ferrets were $350! I held one for a few seconds and it was so adorable. 

Thought about sharing Tinkerbella’s picture in the park group, but nope, no desire to interact with anyone here, although we do say hello to Toni every now and then. She was out when we were pulling in and I told her we got a pet rat. She congratulated us, LOL. Otherwise, I have no desire to interact with people here or online other than those I’m already interacting with. 

Been having pain in my very lower left stomach close to the pubic area for the last couple of days. Really hope it’s nothing serious with my ovary. It’s probably just a flare-up since not all cysts are critical. Ibuprofen seemed to do the trick as far as the pain goes. I just hope it doesn’t come back. So far, so good. 

Had okay energy for half of my day yesterday. But today I woke up tired, not surprisingly. I woke up a few times a couple of nights ago, but don’t remember snoring. Last night, I awoke more than a few times and had trouble getting back to sleep one of the times when I got up to pee. 

Finally got a pulmonologist appointment for the end of next month. 

Met with Helen a couple of days ago. When I was telling her that I suspected I had sleep apnea and she was discussing CPAP machines and testing with me and all that, it hit me that she was speaking from experience. I asked her if she had it, and she said she did. I said I was sorry if I put her on the spot since I’m usually pretty perceptive, but she didn’t mind. 

Poor Jessie has gained 9 pounds in the 6 months she’s been on the lower thyroid dose. 

Andy’s still asking me the same questions, and so is Kim, who I still keep in touch with via email. I try to wait a few days before I reply because I know that within two hours of sending that message, I’m going to get a reply. I swear that girl is home 90% of the time, and all she does at home is play with her phone! I’m waiting for the day when she says she couldn’t get back to me the same day because she was either tired or sick, or too busy. So I hold off a few days to space things out. She could go back and forth 10 times a day with the same old shit, and believe me, I have no desire to do that.