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Our house is officially on the market. Listing was in yesterday and they're still getting the pictures posted. This evening, we got a call from a Realtor wanting to know if they could have someone look through our house in the morning. Some scrambling about is occurring as we are doing things to get ready--I'm patching nail holes and Alisa is cleaning out the pantry.

Of course, there is plenty more to do. There always is.

We had to gussy up the house for pictures for our listing. I took a couple pics of our living room for kicks.

Yesterday, and early this morning, my intestinal tract really really wanted to get rid of stuff, so it was a little more painful than usual. But two pounds came off, so I can't complain too much. Had my cup of senna tea last night and this morning, so I may have more of this to look forward to today.

While the waste elimination process has been not quite as pleasant through this process--I kind of expected that--the biggest thing bugging me right is the taste in my mouth. If I'm not drinking water or lemonade, my mouth has this taste that's like ass and it always comes back. That alone is making me want to be done with this fast. Less than 48 hours to go, though, so might as well finish this out.

I plan on making a trip to the grocery store today to purchase the bits for my vegetable soup that I will make on Sunday. That and I think I'm going to need a couple more lemons to have enough lemonade to make it to Friday.

I've started a number of these things, so might as well participate in one. This one goes back to someone named "Laowolf" which I can't find a reference to. But I got tagged by Ocifant, who got tagged by Philhellene, who got tagged by Aubrey, who got tagged by DKN. Trail runs cold there. I think the idea is to list 8 "interesting" facts about me and then tag 8 others. I might not be able to tag 8 others, or come up with 8 interesting facts, but we'll find out.

1. I have a thing for the game of Monopoly. Perhaps because I have many memories of playing with my mom or other members of my family. I even made a Monopoly set one time. I used the back of a different board game, made the property cards out of construction paper. I may have used the Chance/Community Chest cards from a "real" game, but I managed to make the rest of it. Can't remember what I used for houses and hotels.

2. When I was 8, I broke my arm attempting to carry a ball while climbing up a cliff at a beach. Because I did not go to the physical therapy after getting my cast off, I can't turn my right wrist more than 90 degrees, meaning I can't turn my right palm face-up. Occasionally annoying, but I can usually work around it.

3. I have never voted for a presidential candidate that has ever made office. I'm therefore wondering if I should vote for "the other guy" if and when Bill Richardson wins the Democratic nomination.

4. One of my favorite shows when I was a kid was Fight Back! with David Horowitz. Nice to know David Horowitz is still doing his thing on the Internet.

5. One thing I wanted to do when I grew up was be a Game Show Host. That never came anywhere near true, obviously.

6. I graduated college with exactly the number of credits I needed to graduate: no more, no less. Call it laziness.

7. The first mobile phone I owned as a Qualcomm phone. This is prior to working at Nokia, of course. :)

8. Despite having had cats most of my life, I am, according to some allergy tests I took last year, allergic to cats. Not seriously, but I do notice that they bother me at times.

Okay, that's 8 facts. So who can I tag? Well, I don't exactly feel like tagging anyone right now. It's late and I want to go to bed. If you want to respond in-kind, then be my guest.

I never thought in my life I'd go a week without eating solid food, but here I am doing exactly that. Only a half a pound lighter this morning. I drank more lemonade than usual yesterday, but didn't eliminate as much in the way of waste yesterday. I drank senna tea both last night and this morning to help keep things moving. Waste elimination is the entire point.

I'm in the home stretch of this cleanse, and I have to say that there haven't really been any periods of grogginess. Getting up in the morning is a more or less instant-on experience now. I still don't have any difficulty getting to sleep at night, and it's nice to be able to wake up and not require time to get "awake."

Now that I've cleaned my office and gotten it more or less ready for pictures for our house listing, I figure I should show off a little. There will be a few last-minute adjustments like the addition of a fake plant that Toby, the large creature in the middle of the floor, would attempt to eat. He likes plastic, what can I say?

Run another copy of the previous updates, except this time, I was woken up early by my body. The senna tea I had last night did it's job. Total net weight loss since I started is 10 pounds, which is a nice bonus.

I am noticing less hunger pains now. A couple of sips of tea seems to quell any hunger pains that do show up. That being said, I am looking forward to being done with this cleanse. Not thinking about food quite as much as a couple of days ago, but I'm also ready for some different tastes in my mouth. If I go up to Poulsbo this week for one or two extra curricular meetings, I'm going to miss going to Central Market and getting some sushi.

What time is your alarm clock set for? Do you use the snooze button?

No alarm clock needed in the mornings. One or both children are usually awake by 7am. We've got Jaden trained not to wake us up before 7am on school mornings, 8am on the weekends. Hm… I wonder how that will work during summer break, which starts on Thursday? Guess it depends on how planned out mommy has his schedule.

This half, anyway.

Essentially a carbon copy of yesterday's update: stuff is still moving along, one pound lighter, and no senna tea this morning.

I am starting to think about what I am going to eat when I come off this fast--perhaps more than I should. Physically, I'm not that hungry. The lemonade or just plain water keeps that in check. But mentally, I am thinking about the vegetable soup I plan on making--I pulled an interesting sounding recipe off of the UltraWellness site--a Veggie Delite sandwich at Subway--something I've never eaten before--and eventually, the concept of meat. That chicken I cooked the other day, or some steak. But that's later.

Fact is: I like to eat. Perhaps more than I should, perhaps not the kinds of foods one is "supposed" to eat, but I like eating. And it's not like I can avoid it since everyone needs some kind of food to survive. The question is: what will the diet look like when things "return to normal." The fact I am obsessing over vegetables for a change is probably not a bad thing in the grand scheme of things, but it's mildly frustrating at the moment.