It's like magic!

The other day I noticed that the bottom of my bottom teeth were brown like a smoker's...because I was a smoker...

But I haven't had a cigarette in two weeks, and I don't smell like a smoker, I shouldn't look like one either! So I bought some mouthwash that claimed to whiten teeth and Advanced White toothepast yesterday afternoon. I used both last night and this morning and my teeth already look, like 100x better. It probably helps that I don't really have plaque anymore because I've stopped eating sugar.

13 Days Sugar Free
13 days Nicotine Free
13 days Alcohol Free

Still working on Zebra, when did I start that anyway? Less than a week ago, right? I'm up to 30,500 words.

When I finish it, I'm going to work on a novella that is about 6,000 words right now and push it up to 15-20,000. That won't take too long. And then? Be Thou My God. Initially I was just going to revise the whole thing and then write the ending, but I know some people are still waiting on it. So I'll write and post the ending and then revise.

Frustrating!

In case I do have to move to Palm Desert, I've been looking at rent.com and apartments.com for a place to live. Or at least for a list of places to check out this week. Apparently, there are no places to live in Palm Desert, Palm Springs, Indio, or Cathedral City unless you are a wealthy, old person. Nearly all the places are for seniors, and the ones that are not are expensive. Nobody wants cats, and if they do, they almost literally double the rent.

GAH!

Bought a new scale...

I knew I should wait until Tuesday morning, so I can get an accurate picture of the full two-week induction, and plus, I won't have a bunch of food in my body. But I couldn't resist the scale.

I lost 1.5 pound.

In two weeks.

On the one hand, I was hoping for more. A lot more. On the other hand, I didn't really start losing last time until after 3 weeks, the diet doesn't always work so quickly if you start again, and besides, it's better than gaining!

I had a heavy reliance on whipped cream the past two weeks, using it to carry me through my cravings like methadone. Probably wasn't the greatest idea, but it kept me from snapping and binging on a gallon of ice cream.

In the next two weeks, I'm going to cut all dairy consumption (except a little bit of cheese in my salads) and up my water consumption (I went from never having any water to 2-3 bottles a day with 2 diet cokes on average. I'll cut one of the cokes and replace it with water.) I should also probably excercise. Exercise would be a good idea. I still have my damned stationary bike.

My husband just looked at me and said:

"Wait. Did Rick James die?"

I love him, but I swear he lives under a rock.

What a big step

I just deleted all the Angel and Buffy eps from my harddrive. I don't need them because I have the DVDs, but I did use them from making vids.

It was hard to let it go. Hard to admit I didn't want to make vids anymore (and of course now that I don't have any source files I desperately want to make one more) but I needed to make room for...

24 episodes of the Real Ghostbusters! SQUEEE!!!!!!!!