Alcove is so much fun! There's so much to do there. You can go on virtual bus rides and car rides. You sit back in a convertible and leave the driving to them as you cruise cross-country. They have several 10-minute videos that take you through various states in sections. It's just so cool!

I just wish it wasn’t so damn blurry. The struggle to see is so frustrating, but it’ll be a few more months before I can get new glasses that will hopefully improve my vision. 

You can also visit animals up close in various zoos. Meerkats are so cute! Then there’s deep-sea diving, games, and meditation. The place where you choose your activities is set in a nice, modern-looking house. You can set the outside to make it look like the house is in the middle of a meadow, a snowy mountain, or by the ocean.

My weight is back down to 156 lbs for the first time since everything went haywire a couple of months ago, and I blamed it on the medication. This makes me think the weight loss was more about the medication than cutting out sugar. I wonder how much lower it will go before the side effects kick in for real. I’ve got contradictory symptoms, though. My weight and other things suggest my thyroid might be improving, but then why did I sleep nine hours, and why am I so cold? 

Tom said, “You slept because you were tired, and you’re cold because the weather is cooling down.”

It did get chilly in the house last night, but of course, “chilly” for me means 75°. This weather is going to be so hard to give up when we move.