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I am now getting to be so good at Sudoku I can solve all but the hardest puzzles with only writing down the correct numbers and not writing down any little \”these numbers could go here\” numbers.

I\’ve also really been enjoying doing logic puzzles. The type where \”There are five brothers who each live in a different style of home on a different street in a different city and each have a different job and by these clues can you figure out who has what?\” Then in cryptic words one learns that Harry doesn\’t have the Victorian house and the Actor doesn\’t live in on main street but does live in the ranch style house. The logic behind those puzzles is much the same as the logic behind a sudoku puzzle. By using the rules of \”if x is z then x cannot be y\” one can learn such interesting things…

And as for houses… Well, the morning after my previous post Mom decided that we probably should stay where we were. I then thought \”Oh it looks like we won\’t be moving after all. Why did I think we were so close to moving?\”. But now I know why again. None of the final choice houses were perfect though all had elements that we liked . Mother\’s desire to have a beautiful home is quite real and that is why we may still move. At the moment Mom(And Dad, and me, and so forth) is thinking about building. Yesterday Dad and Mom looked at empty lots in beautiful neighborhoods and Mom started looking at house plans.

Apparently Mommy was so interested in house plans that despite having gone to bed and lights out she couldn\’t sleep and thus, around 2:00 in the morning she got up and began looking at house plans online and contemplating them and printing them.

I know this because I also was awake at that hour. My not being asleep then was caused by other factors but when I heard the printer going my first thought was \”How late did I stay up?\” as Mother definitely gets up before I do. After looking at the time I decided to investigate and see just who was printing at that hour and found it was Mom, so I joined her.

After looking and discussing for about five minutes or so I fell in love with one of the house plans she had already selected that had the most beautiful walk in closets!!! After we both decided that was our favorite and oh how wonderful Mom spent the next hour and half looking to see if there were any houses she liked better and I spent the time thinking about how I\’d furnish my two bedrooms that the house plan would allow me to have.

We finally stopped around four in the morning. I\’m usually awake at midnight and lately I stay awake until one but four is a very late hour for me. Still, at four in the morning Mom really liked that house plan. And right now, more than twelve hours later, Mom still likes that house plan. If it lasts until tomorrow then I will begin to think even more seriously about how I\’m going to decorate my rooms:)

Now, on another subject. Why was I awake at two in the morning? Well, around Friday or Saturday I started feeling sick. I felt weak and a bit dizzy whenever I would get up. I was very inclined to stay in bed so I did that with a little bike riding. Sunday morning(Yesterday) I was scheduled to run camera at our church. I was hoping I\’d feel well for that but… Suffice it to say I quickly rushed to Mom and Dad after the service and earnestly requested them not to make arrangements to dine out as their daughter was feeling most unwell and desirous of being at home in her own bed as quickly as possible.

Personally I think I must have the most wonderful parents in the whole world. They actually cancelled the then in process lunch plans and took me home with a stop for a little milk on the way. The last time I got sick like I was then we did go out to eat and sitting at a table made everything so much worse. So this time I kind of got off easy.

As soon as I got home I considered it time for some pain medication so I\’d feel better. I pulled out the most reliable pain deadener I knew about, my laptop computer:) Really, it\’s a great pain remover. In between the internet, DVD\’s, and computer games while I\’m using I\’m practically unaware that my insides are not happy and that things could be better with the world in general and my stomach in particular.

So that was what I was doing at two in the morning… I hadn\’t used it solidly all day though. I think I took a nap at some point and I know I got up at least twice to eat something and I read a bit in books. At four in the morning though I was able to go to sleep without much lying awake in bed thinking about how sick I was feeling which was why I\’d been using my computer that late.

I certainly haven\’t been doing much writing lately. I\’ve thought about it moderately often but so far not much has shown up.

However, I have written a post and now perhaps it is time to transfer to other things as post writing is not so fascinating that I don\’t think about my stomach regions and if I weren\’t much better today this would probably have been a shorter post.