Sunday - morning

2 hours before church.  

We had a party over here last night for one of the members of the group, there were a lot of people here and lots of fun.  Getting up this morning and walking out to the kitchen?  Well I just spent 45 minutes cleaning and loading the dishwasher.  Don't really want to start a Sunday with a dirty kitchen, just my mindset.  

I did absolutely nothing yesterday.  By design, I laid in bed most of the day until it was time for the party. The people showed up too early, lol, I just wanted to stay in bed.  I haven't done that in so long I can't even remember the last time I just decided to lay around like a sluggard.  I'm not a sluggard and no one could reasonably accuse me of that, but it was nice to spend a day doing - .... - nothing.  

Some new people moved in Friday and they were already complaining about the dogs. The people next to them have been a thorn in my side with letter out 3 or 4 dogs just to wander all over the place.  I have contacted them at least 3 times about this, pretty soon it's going to be an ultimatum: You  can not let your dogs roam free, unsupervised and obviously shi**ing everywhere and obviously you aren't cleaning it up. Either conform to the written rules or please leave.  

It's a young couple and the man is not a nice person.  He has the personality of a rock.  He doesn't like to chit chat and I've seen some interesting people they are bringing in there with them.  Judge  a book by it's cover? Meh, maybe a little.  I've been around those types of people before, I can spot them pretty quickly.  The street I used to live on was full of such people.  My problem is if they decide that my property is now going to become their looting place, a place to steal whatever they can get away with. 

But, whatever the case, the dogs are the immediate concern. They had 1, then 2 and now allegedly they 4 dogs living in that trailer.  No one wants to deal with someone else's dogs, especially these new people.  The man looked at me and said: "well you have rules about that don't you?" He isn't against dogs, he just wants them under control, which is perfectly understandable.  They don't have pets and they don't want other people's pets visiting them.  

Honestly, I'd rather cater to the normal people than the people that think they can do whatever the hell they please and nothing can be done about it. Yeah, they'll find out that when they push me far enough, I'll throw them and their 4 dogs out of my park.  There are lots of dogs in the park, people do not let them run free except one dude that is also getting under my skin.

However....he is always with the dog at least.  He doesn't just boot it out the door and say goodbye, go poop somewhere and then someone else can clean it up.  That has quickly become and Achille's heel with me, people not cleaning up after their dogs.  Everyone in that park that has a dog knows I won't tolerate their dogs just shitt*** everywhere and then leaving it.  

Ok let's get off of that. Keto.  I dumped 5 pounds overnight a few days ago and tho a few pounds came back on, the fat is starting to come off.  I can tell from my love handles, which were getting escessively large and .... not so appealing in appearance.  They have shrunk considerably.  Last night, it wasn't even that hard to say no to delicious looking birthday pie (the dude wanted pie, not cake).  Why? Because I had just checked ketones and it was dark purple.  Meaning, my body is burning fat for energy, not carbohydrates.  This is exactly what you want and it amplifies the fat loss exponentially compared to other diets.  

I have noticed in the past that the scale may not even change but the fat loss is quite visible and noticeable.  So, I'm sticking with the diet for now, at least a month but if this continues, I'll go on as long as it needs to to get the weight and fat off of me and drop at least one pant size.  I still have 34 jeans, a whole drawer full of them. Haven't been in them in quite a while and was headed to size 36. That's when I said nope, we aren't doing that, I'm going to try lose this weight no matter how hard of a struggle it is. 

And yes, there are times I want sweets, I just either put it out of my mind or I have unsweetened tea and add monk fruit sweetener to it.  It's pretty good, actually, you can add enough that you don't even know you are drinking anything but sugar.  I did buy some Atkins chocolates, but I've only had one of them.  I think that stuff actually hinders progress by the sweetener they use in it.  I also saw that Walmart is now carrying a line of Duncan Hines Keto fudge brownies, cookies and such.  I need to find out what kind of sweetener they are using in it to determine whether I want anything to do with it.

Note that a disclaimer does, indeed say that it is not a low calorie food.  It's basically: I'm needing some sugar, I'm having some of this stuff, I'll just pick up the next day and move on. The point is that it doesn't throw you out of ketosis, or so it claims. Lots of these products are being made saying "KETO" or "Keto friendly" or similar verbiage, but you start reading the carb count or reading the ingredients label and you find that that isn't actually true.  Especially the ones that say "keto friendly" and you see it has almost 20 grams of carbs.  20 grams of carbs is an entire day's worth of carbs on strict keto.  

They might be able to claim it is "low carb" but they shouldn't be misrepresenting it as keto friendly.  And the price tag with such stuff....

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Many hours passed. Got into a cleaning mode and started going to town.  Not just the kitchen by my room, trash, etc.  There are no great plans for today beyond church, stop at the park and give a receipt to the new people, ask them if the dogs are still wandering around, etc.  Go out to eat as is weekly tradition - I have significantly cut back restaurant visits in a move to save money - but - I am not going to forgo my Sunday restaurant visits after church unless I'm working, of course.  If I don't do at least one weekend shift per pay period, my pay will be down that $450.  

As it stands, days off just seem to fly by.  Seems like a few hours ago it was Friday afternoon, I had just come home and was doing stuff around the house.  Now? It's still Sunday morning, yes, but it will disappear.  James off to work, Taylor off to her game event every Sunday, I will have the kids for several hours, but that's normal for a Sunday.  

There must be some movies I can watch on satellite...speaking of that, I plan on buying the entire series of old shows I like to watch, think Star Trek the next generation, The Big Valley, etc and get a large collection of movies that I like, mostly older stuff they are cheaper as well, build that collection up nicely and ditch the satellite. Tired of the ridiculous amount of money they charge, it's too much.  I'm getting cheap again, I guess, but I'm trying to save money, not dump it into the coffers of giant corporations who are, truthfully, overly greedy.  

I think satellite tv is doomed unless they decide to do something about their pricing tiers.  I wouldn't mind so much, but  for decades, BOTH companies have played the endless "let's agree on a price" game and almost immediately, within 3 months anyway, start ratcheting the price back up.  They come up with their excuses, I'm tired of hearing them.  I don't care what your excuse is, I can't just do that with my customers.  Every month: sorry, folks, but the lot rent just went up $15.  Take it or leave it. Most would probably give me a middle finger and tell me to stick it.  I wouldn't blame them, either.  

Well, it's almost time to leave for church.

G'day