The pool!
We’ve had nothing but drama with our pool. Again. Finally last week the guy said, ok, we have to Floc it. That’s short for flocculation. I know. Just doesn’t sound right, does it? But basically it’s the white flaky chemical you put in the pool, turn off your pump for 2 days and it sinks everything down to the bottom and then you vacuum it all up. Well. Smarty pants me forgot to turn the pump off for 12 hours instead of 2 after putting in the pool Saturday. We thought it might still work but by Wednesday we had given up. I took a sample of the water to the pool store and we had to start all. over. again. Which included buying 4 bottles of floc again. Whee! The super duper good news is when I woke up this morning I saw the bottom of our pool for the first time this year! And the really strange part is it’s not very dirty! I’m still not understanding why our pool would never clear up if it was nearly spotless on the bottom! Anyway, hopefully by this weekend we will have a crystal clear pool on our hands finally.
Medicine!
So a few months ago I talked about starting thyroid medicine and I don’t think I mentioned it but I started birth control for my skin. The past two months have been a bear. The birth control pills made me CRANKY. I felt like I had PMS 24-7 and the actual week of PMS was horrendous. I haven’t felt that hormonal since I was pregnant. Thankfully, my doctor knew right away what it was and we switched my prescription. This week has been the first week on that and I can already see a huge difference.
As for my thyroid, I finally heard back yesterday and the dosage they have me on is too much so they knocked me down to 88mcg (for those that are familiar with Synthroid, mainly my mother). I really thought they would up me because I just haven’t seen any difference from it so I think I was a little bummed they lowered it.
Dexter!
I swore I was not going to watch TV for the summer but then I got the bright idea to give Netflix a try. Well, it has unlimited streaming of a lot of their DVDs and every night since getting it I’ve been watching Dexter. Now, I was very hesitant in watching this show. It’s on Showtime if that tells you anything. But everyone raves over it and I see a lot of articles on it in the media. So I gave it a try. It’s very gory and it has awful language and on the surface, I would stay away from a show like this but it is seriously some of the best writing and acting out there and like a train wreck, I can’t stop watching. So, that’s where I’ve been every evening for the past week which probably explains my lack of posting here.
Overall we’re enjoying our summer. Lots of TV time, computer time, pool time and general let’s see how messy we can make the house time!
I have never even heard of floculation! haha I always had a difficult time with birth control pills, there was only one that I ever took that didn’t make me a crazy lunatic.