Spinach Salad

The blood work I frequently have to have done is to monitor my blood thinning medication, how it is working. A bummer about this medication is that Vitamin K directly impacts the efficacy of this medication so I tend to avoid it. 

What foods contain Vitamin K? This article from the Cleveland Clinic has many exmples, and I've gotten a graphic from another site to share here to show you (in case you do not want to go read the article).  

Most of what I like to eat is on that list. Except Natto - I don't know how to cook that/use it in food. Give me all that green leafy loveliness, give me that fish. Do not give me beef liver, thank you very much. 

My last check in with the blood people showed my reading was too low. Before that, it was too high. There is a very happy medium with balancing this, and sometimes if I travel or if I'm lazy about meal prep, that can impact the readings. 

I also cannot take a multi-vitamin so I take individual supplements and vitamins like B-12 complex with C, Vitamin D, Magnesium, Potassium. 

My bureau top looks like a pharmacy. I wish there was a Multi-vitamin minus K. That'd be great. 

I went in (finally) today to do the blood work, and when I got home I was absolutely desiring a salad in a big way. Geoff recently bought nice mixed greens, and we have some spinach in a bag that I had been holding on to. It was still good, so, BLT Salad day but replace that L with S and we are down to party. 

I made a big ass bowl of salad, completely delightful. I thought of my friend S who when we travel will get to a certain point with vacation food where they say "I need something with a vegetable/green thing next to it." 

This hit that spot. 

After lunch, I got a lot done, and one of my clients was a no-show for a meeting. I emailed her but the internet is super busted today and all my emails are sitting in the outbox on my Outlook. Damn. I'm not sure if maybe she tried to email me, and it didn't go through from her end too. 

Around 3:30 I took Toffee for a walk, I wanted to go before it got dark and 3:30 is a perfect time right now. So thank you to the person who didn't show for our meeting.  It's really windy, but about 52 degrees and that shouldn't be too intolerable. 

We could have kept going but I wanted to get back. I did have some work to do. 

Tonight is the one night a week Geoff is at a hotel for school. I love when he leaves on Thursday mornings and texts me from the driveway and says "see ya when I see ya." I try to text him back before class starts at 9am that I'm looking forward to it. 

Last week when I was in NY he came home, which is kind of wasteful but he said he wanted to be here and watch football with dad. 

I cannot be mad at that. 

Around 5pm I asked Doug what he wanted to do for dinner, he suggested a restaurant that we went to the day we closed on the house in 2025. We haven't been back, and it is really nice so I thought yeah for sure let's do it. Dinner was great and they have one of our favorite beers on tap there, you can't get it a lot of places. We had a nice meal and talked about our trip next weekend where I fly out and he comes out to join me to hang out in NYC. 

We got home and I needed 3k steps so I hit the treadmill for a quick run, not a big long run, just enough. We had a couple beers that we bought at RAR that literally tasted like melted sherbet. Amazing. 

That's about it, here's a picture of the favorite beer, in a very nice cool new style glass where the stem is an elephant trunk. Digits below.

digits 

exercise: 12/12 hours Toffee walk, 20 min/.96 mi (shoulda gone another block. lol); treadmill run, 15 min/1.05 mi; 11k+ steps by bedtime

blood glucose:

8:30am: 132
5pm: 161
10:45pm: 180

food & meds

8:30am: jardiance
12:30pm: BLT salad (the L is really Spinach) 
1:15pm: met+glip
3pm: 2 celery stalks w/pb; the last of the peanut butter cups from the candy store in Ocean City
6pm: tomato bisque soup w/gouda; steak salad w/bleu cheese; 2 beers
7:30pm: met+glip
2 more beers

Toffee Toffee Two Walks

I had a meeting at 5pm today, which normally isn't a thing! But we have folks all over the country and there's a big platform upgrade going down on Saturday night into Sunday that I am point person for on my team. 

My boss and the other director level person on my team are both out of office. My boss will be going to a conference and flying out at like 5am on Sunday. The other person is on vacation starting tomorrow. 

My boss will be "accessible" on Saturday, but I want him to not worry about it - get some damn sleep, don't think about this. Hell I used to manage being on call for code pushes, and we're not even doing the work! The contractors are. 

We chatted about the strategy and plan, the "stakeholders" and the "comms plan" and things are looking good. 

Basically, I have to send out a notification at like 11pm saying "this thing starts at midnight. Get out of your website until further notice!" It will start a little after midnight. It will run about 3 hours. 

Trusting 20,000% that it is going to go perfectly, I then send the all clear so out after it is done. "You can resume business as usual! Thanks!" 

And, if it does NOT go perfectly, the team has a roll-back plan, and I get to send out a "sorry things didn't go perfectly, we're going to reschedule" note. 

My work son is the point person on his team, so if nothing else, he's got a lot more pay attention and responsibility. I'm there for the clients and keeping them informed just in case. 

Emergency pages will not be something I expect, since our product will have a big "this product is not available at the moment, don't you read your email? Pencils DOWN, kid!" message across the top. 

So because of that strategy meeting, Doug took Toffee for a solo walk. While he was out, the meeting ended and I made dinner. Geoff came home when I was prepping everything, so he was very happy to see that he didn't have to lift a finger. He was wiped out, and said work was rough today. 

He also registered for his spring semester classes, and he called Doug's mom to get her 529 plan disbursement set up and they had a little chat. He should call her more often, but he says it is hard to talk to her because she can't hear him. 

I heard him. He was out on the back porch and damn he does talk plenty loud. Makes me a little sad that they can't have little talks. 

After dinner, I got the trash out (again, geoff - wiped out so he want to bed) and I decided to do the last 2k of steps outside. It was gorgeous out - no wind. Just the right temp for a sweatshirt. Very nice. I decided to take miss Toffee with me, and she was absolutely a joy on this walk. Usually she's pulling and zig zagging back and forth in front of me, leading by her nose. Gotta smell THIS side! Now THIS side! Back over here! No! Over here! and she's almost wiped my ass out. 

But. She got her ya yas out with Doug and it truly was delightful. I should have walked her further! 

Tomorrow, I'm going to go in and get that blood work done. Maybe hit the grocery store. It is supposed to rain tomorrow, starting about 6am which is when Geoff leaves for classes. I hope it goes okay. Sun's not up yet, and it is raining, and people drive like monsters. 

the "Be Careful" mom-mantra goes through my head sometimes. My plan is to leave around 8:30/9am. And hopefully everything will go easy. 

I forgot to take a picture of something today. So you just get digits. Sorry super fans. 

digits 

exercise: 12/12 hours.  Treadmill run, 15 min/1.1 mi; Toffee walk, 20 min/.93 mi. 11k+ steps by bedtime

blood glucose:

9:30am: 153
4:15pm: 130
10pm: 162

food & meds
9:30am: jardiance
10:30am: 2 small slices of sourdough toasted w/butter 
1:30pm: met+glip
2pm: bowl of 000 oikos berry yogurt w/ granola
4:15: last 2 small apple banana muffins
vodka tonic
6pm: slab of chicken parm
8pm: met+glip

Not Much

I feel like this week is a lot of not much to talk about before next week when I go to meet up with Linz again and go to Brooklyn to see Guster. 

Work. What's work. Who can concentrate? What day is it? It's only Tuesday? Ugh. 

Work was actually good. The big thing is on Saturday night after midnight we have a HUGE platform upgrade happening and my boss and the director of support are both out of office. So my work son and I are on duty. 

Please cross your fingers/pray/send mojo.

This has been rescheduled repeatedly since the summer. In the best of Chris' world, I'd love for it to get pushed back to the following weekend, because hey - I won't be available! 

But it'll happen, it needs to happen, and I'm kind of psyched to see new features and everything. But I do not want anything bad to happen at all to anything. 

I was all set to take Toffee for a walk and Doug wanted to come with, so Geoff made dinner, and we went. He wanted to go to the dog park and I'm kind of not a fan because Toffee can be a real jerk sometimes. Sure enough, we got in the gate, a dog tried to hump her (his name is Moose) and she turned around and attacked him. 

We got them separated, and then they... were friends. 

Moose's owners were sitting in the pavilion with their 6 month old puppy (who is really too small to be in the Big Dog side but I wasn't mad. Puppy was cute as hell. 

I apologized for Toffee being a jerk, and they said they get it. Moose needs to be told to fuck right the hell off and they said it was cool. 

But they left immediately, and I couldn't help but feel shitty. Like, maybe they were all ready to go anyway, right before we got there. I couldn't help but take it personally for a minute. 

Then, the other dogs that were in the park rounded up and left, not because of Toffee but you could tell they were ready to go. 

With no one to play with, we walked back home, a slightly longer route just to get more steps in. 

It gets so dark so soon, that getting up there at 5 was dark o'clock. Probably won't get better again until early February. 

Anyway. No picture, just digits. I am beat. 

digits 

exercise: 12/12 hours.  Pre dinner Toffee walk with Doug to dog park & back. 31 min total/1.41 mi total; short run after dinner, 10 min/.71 mi; 11k+ steps by bedtime

blood glucose:

9am: 123
4:15pm: 133
10pm: 168

food & meds
9am: jardiance
9:45am: 2 muffins (they are small)
1:45pm: met+glip; english muffin w/roast beef
6:30pm: bowl of chili, beans & meat, cheese and chips; sour cream
8pm: met+glip; slice of pumpkin pie
vodka & diet tonic

The baking and the running

Note: I did write an entry and post it much earlier today that wrapped up the Guster weekend. Go read it there, if you missed it and you're coming in fresh for today. 

Monday after a long travel weekend. I am so glad that I have an absolute boatload of vacation time that I can use. I took today off, as a gift to myself. So thankful I did. 

Doug's alarm went off at 8, mine at 8:30. he was already up and downstairs and I slept until 10 something. 

For most of the day I sat around happily doing nothing. At some point, I realized we had a couple bananas that really needed to be used. Two isn't enough for banana bread (I like at least 4) so I found a recipe for an apple banana muffin and made those. They were pretty great, even though I did not have any apple sauce. I used apple cider. I shredded the apples on the cheese grater, didn't even bother peeling them. Damn these are tasty! 

Then, I made a pumpkin pie. Doug had gotten a nice container of whipping cream from the fancy dairy, so I was sure to make that. It was super good. Justification for making pie! 

It got to be close to 5pm so I fed the dog, and got on the treadmill. I was listening to a podcast, finished the episode I'd started on the plane and the next one started. It was good enough for to hold my attention, and next thing I knew it was over 30 min. 

Why not do 5k, eh? Sure. I haven't gotten in any good distance in a bit so today I made use of my day off to do the baking and the running.

Here is a picture of my sister's dogs. All legs, all day. Digits below! 

digits 

exercise: 11/12 hours.  Missed 9am for sleepin'... Treadmill run 44 min/3.1 mi (5k) 12k+ steps by bedtime

blood glucose:

10:15am: 134
xpm: n/a - not recording because schedule out of whack
11:30pm: 103

food & meds
10:15am: jardiance
11am: 2 pieces of pork loin, last of the coleslaw 
3pm: met+glip; apple banana muffin
6:45pm: dirty rice+chicken by geoff; 2 more muffins
white wine
8pm: slice of pumpkin pie & homemade whipped cream
8:45pm: met+glip

Guster and Sistew and Ronniw Weekend

Gonna do my best to fully record the trip here. Some is a blur. 

Friday
I got to Long Island so late on Thursday due to flight delays, Lin picked me up, dropped me at the airport, and headed home. 

Sometimes when I travel, I have a really hard time falling asleep, and that night was pretty much a good example of it. I got almost 3000 steps before getting into bed, and falling asleep around 3am. 

I slept in a bit on Friday not too worried about getting the 9am steps. I got up at 9:30 anyway, so, that worked out. I knew Linda had to work, and check out wasn't until noon. 

For breakfast, I got myself a bistro sandwich at the Starbucks in the lobby. It was really good, and I kind of wanted another one but holy shit 24 bucks for a sandwich and a coffee? Nah, son. 

After I ate, I got my stuff organized and I hit the treadmill. I wanted to go super long but, I was watching the time. After my shower, I headed to the lobby. Linz came to get me. 

Fun times were then had - I got to meet their new dog, and play with both of the dogs, Gus & River. Absolute chaos and fun. 

Lin was ready to go after 1:30pm which had me a little nervous. Not because of being late for the show or anything, but neither of us see well to drive in the dark and I knew the weather was going to be a challenge on top of that.

Things went super well until we got rerouted through the back roads in some town in Connecticut (partly the fault of the roads because these bastards do not put "right lane must turn right" signs up and you don't know you're fucked until you get 3 cars back from the light. Thanks Connecticut, ya jerk!) 

But, we were rewarded with a kick ass rainbow and a burningly gorgeous sunset behind us, before, it got dark.

Pictures do not do it justice.

It got really dark. And then it got really stressful. Pouring rain, road construction. Jesus. I was doing my best to watch for any indications of paint on the right side of the car, she was doing her best to not hit any road construction things or invisible in the dark Jersey Barriers. Oh! Left lane? We have to exit to the left? 

Serious death fears for both of us at certain points. Not sure how we survived though!

We got to the hotel which I ... didn't think I reserved. I thought I booked us in East Hartford but when I looked up my reservation, I had us in Downtown. Kind of sketchy area but, the hotel itself was pretty nice and it was a really cool loft room. 

We were impressed and had a good laugh at me being extra forgetful and fucking things up a little, to our advantage! 

We poured glasses of well earned wine. Lin showered, I got dressed, we called an Uber. It was less than a mile away, easy walk and we did have plenty of time to get there, but it was raining too hard and we were ... tired. 

We want to go ENJOY a show, not fall asleep during it, ya know?

No pictures of us together, strangely. But Lin did get one of me here. 

It was so busy saying hi to friends and catching up it was hard to get pictures together. 

My friend Abbey joined us. She hasn't been to a concert in years due to some medical and familyissues. Lin had an extra ticket and I messaged her to see if she wanted to come. I'm so glad she said yes! 

The last time I went to a show with her was, I believe, Guster+Garlin in Boston. We made a point to sit together during intermission and catch up. What a joy to spend time with her. 

There was a wild mix up with tickets for a lot of people. Linda thought she bought tickets about 4 or so rows back, but, we were actually in the front row due to the orchestra pit being covered up by the part of the stage Guster would be on top of - the orchestra was behind them. 

But.

The venue actually sold the tickets that were under the covered part, the "pit" seats. Three or so rows of seats, a couple hundred people. Absolute screw up on their part. 

Folks were a mix of outraged and understanding, depending on the person. Some people absolutely lost their shit in the building and in the fan group. 

The venue did their absolute best to get people 

• Refunds
• Seats
• Comp tickets to a future show

To be honest, I think I would have been mad initially, but, if all those things were offered to me, I'd take them and be alright with it. After all, it is really nice to be in the building in the end. 

The show was amazing. I'm always absolutely impressed with them when they do an orchestra show. 

And seeing friends was so wonderful. 

Always good to have someone with a long arm to do a selfie! 

This is where they did the encore from
 I coulda reached up & untied Brian's shoes, we were that close

After the show, a bunch of people went to East Hartford to a late night mexican restaurant. Funny, had I booked us into the hotel in East Hartford it would have been easy to go out and have someone drop us at the hotel, but fate wouldn't have that. Also, I didn't want to go out there to E. Hartford, and have to find our way back at a very stupid late hour. 

The pizza shop next to the hotel was open until 11 so we got slices, and a piece of cheesecake, and that was a treat. 

Crashed.
Sleepies.
ZZZZ.

Saturday

In the morning I had made plans to meet up with one of my co-workers. She suggested a place for us to get coffee and chat. It was a lovely visit. We are on the same team and maybe see each other once or twice a year. Bonus, she got to meet Linda and I got to meet her husband! Good times! I love her, and I think I convinced her she should come to the holiday party in a few weeks. Let's see if that works out! I absolutely would love it.

Because we didn't want another repeat of we can't see in the dark to drive, Linda was carefully monitoring the traffic. We thought about the ferry, but there were all kinds of indications that Bridgeport was gonna be a shit show with road closures, so we opted to drive through the city and whatnot. 

We hit the road and got home to Linda's just before it was super dark. She can get around in the dark around her house, but it truly was a relief to not have to white-knuckle though traffic! 

We opted to go out to eat with Ronnie when we got back, and picked a restaurant they've been driving past forever. 

One of our friends likes to send us pictures with fancy drinks or craft beers so we took one for him! 

The restaurant is named Shenanigans, so, how appropo, right?

I stayed over with them on Saturday since every single hotel on Long Island was either booked or 900 a night. 

And, their new dog River really really REALLY loved sleeping with me. 

Sunday

We all were up and active around 8:30am. I thought about us going for a walk with the dogs but we wanted coffee, and Linda started making brekkie, and then there was wine, and a 9:30am football game followed by the Giants game. My BIL is a big Giants fan so we had to watch the game, no dog walkies. 

The game finished just in time for me to go to the airport. I usually like getting there a lot sooner, and maybe walking laps or finding a beer, or both. In this case, I did the laps. 

Doug picked me up and we stopped for gas, and there was a Burger King next door. Part of me wanted "nice" restaurant but at 9:30pm, Burger King was sufficient! 

We got home, watched football, and I passed out. 

Travel, man. Wow. Exhausting. 

I took Monday off, so I'll do a whole separate entry for today (I am writing this on Monday) but that, my friends, was the Guster and Sistew and Ronniw Weekend! 

Friday digits 

exercise: 12/12 hours.  Treadmill at hotel (google health app won't let me see how far)  13k+ steps by bedtime

blood glucose: 

9:30am: 121
xpm: n/a
11pm: 90

food & meds
9:30am: jardiance
11am: starbucks breakfast sandwich w/ bacon, egg, cheese
at some point (not sure when) split 20 mcnuggets w/linda on the road
wine at the hotel. wine at the venue
11pm: slice of pizza, cheesecake w/cherries
wine 

Saturday digits 

exercise: 7/12 hours.  Missed many hours due to being in the car. 5k+ steps by bedtime (lolz, did not even try) 

blood glucose: 

9:30am: 121
xpm: n/a
11:30pm: 71

food & meds
9:30am: jardiance
11:30am: caffe Nero brekkie sandwich, egg, sausage, green goddess dressing, english muffin
2pm: met+glip
6pm: wings, french onion soup; 2 beers
8pm: met+glip

Sunday digits 

exercise: 12/12 hours. 26 min. walk in the airport. 15 min run on the treadmill at home 1.14 mi. 11k+ steps by bedtime

blood glucose: (have to backtrack and record)

xam: x
xpm: x
11pm: 175

food & meds
8:30am: jardiance
11:30am: brekkie by linna; grits w/ egg & shrimp; biscuits
wine wine wine
1pm: met+glip
8:45pm: burger king Bacon King; met+glip

A quick touch base post travel

 For the two or three actual humans who read this, as opposed to the thousands of bot hits I get on a regular basis, I just wanted to say hello. 

Too tired to write everything up since like Friday night or whatever but I'm home safe, in bed, Toffee is snoring and soon I shall as well. 

more later. good night.

bumpy ride

Post dating this to Thursday since I am writing it Friday morning.

Whew. So. 

I took the morning off, got a haircut, went on a non-successful search for shoes. I got home in time for a 1:30pm meeting that I scheduled deliberately, and sometimes I am amazed that in person, people can be nice but in writing? Holy shit. Jerks? Jerk Much? 

We had our monthly team meeting after that, and then our office hours with our clients. My favorite meeting. 

I washed clothes and then folded them after office hours, packed. Doug was still working but we left around 6 and stopped for dinner at a diner in Ellicott City on the way to the airport. Great meal, and he got my dessert that came with the Greek Dinner. I hope he loves the baklava. 

When I got to the airport, hilariously I had 2 hours to kill. I walked up and down the entire concourse and stopped for a beer at Miss Shirley's and watched some football. 

My flight got delayed, once, twice, again, and I was seriously sweating it that they were going to call it.

But we boarded and got off the ground at 11, with the captain telling us "Yeah, this is not going to be a fun trip so I'm having the flight crew stay seated. No beverage service, and please do not get out of your seat to use the bathroom."

He was apologetic about the weather conditions but in my heart I said honey, don't apologize unless you're the one making it be stormy and gross out there.

It actually was not that bad, until the last 10 minutes when it got mad rough. I heard a woman crying. 

I sat and read my book. 

The guy next to me was fast asleep. 

What should be over an hour (slightly) flight worked out to less than an hour, amazingly. The captain said that we were delayed in taking off so he could get special super fast gas in the tanks and boost us to NY in a hurry because they love us... 

Southwest may be nickel and dimeing us to death, but thankfully the flight crew and pilots still have a sense of humor. 

Lins got me and brought me to my hotel for the night. I felt so bad that it was so late. But. She got me wine, and we had a short tiny visit and I sent her home. 

One of the super nice things about getting here so late is the "pre loading" of the steps for the day. I am already up 2300 steps just from walking out of the airport, walking in the hotel, going in search of ice.... that was a journey. So hopefully I won't have to work too hard to make the goal.

Tomorrow, it's off to Hartford, off to Guster, off to Friends and loved ones. Lin has to work in the morning for a while so I'm going to be a woman of leisure, hit the treadmill, get some coffee and bistro thingies in the lobby (not free or complimentary but. I'll be hungry by then. 

Digits below. A beer from Long Island at a place named for my mom. 

digits 

exercise: 12/12 hours. Airport concourse walk, 30 min/1.23 mi. 11k+ steps by bedtime

blood glucose: 

9am: 120
4:30pm: 125
after 12am on Friday: 139

food & meds
9am: jardiance & new meds
11:15am: small bowl of chicken salad
2pm: met+glip
4pm: new meds
6:30pm: greek diner dinner, lemon egg soup (gotta learn how to make this); open face gyro w/some spinach/rice mix, small wee adorable potatoes; met+glip
9pm: beer at the airport
after midnight: wine at the hotel

Hot Glue is Hot

Today I started my arts and crafts portion of the cork board.  My "correctly" sized glue sticks came last night and now the glue stick is perfect. What a difference.

And hot. 

I have some cute wee glass bead that I was putting around the frame of the cork board and was holding one of the little buggers in my hand. I put a dollop of glue onto it, and whoa! the heat transmitted through and burned my fingers.

Not the glue itself. But the freaking little monster flipped over onto the cork board and then would not come off. So I had to decorate around it. And I learned to apply the glue to the frame and plop the little stone thingie onto the glue. Much better.

And it dries very very quickly. 

And it leaves stringy gossamer threads all over the damn place. So I have to figure out how to clean all that up. 

It was fun doing what I've done so far but I'm realizing I'm missing a bunch of things from this summer's shows. Some stickers that I really want to put on the board. 

I'm sure that they'll turn up, because I also was looking for my multi-color thin point sharpies (found them) my lobsters (I have a ton of rubber lobsters, I do), my strings of flamingos that I forgot to bring with me last year, and this year (found them) and some other little things that I've wanted to use towards this project. 

Tomorrow, I did take the day off but there are three meetings in the afternoon that I am interested in attending. So in the morning, I think I'll head over to get a haircut, maybe. I need a haircut. 

This time tomorrow, I'm on an airplane. Not using a hot glue gun to burn myself while trying to make beautiful things. 

Digits below! Oh and you do get a picture today. 

digits 

exercise: 12/12 hours. Treadmill, 20 min/1.53 mi; Toffee walk, 34 min/1.4 mi. 12k+ steps by bedtime

blood glucose: 

7:30am: 120
4:30pm: 94
10:30pm: 148

food & meds
7:30am: jardiance & new meds
11am: pb&j on 647 white bread
12:45pm: met+glip
2pm: last small piece of fish
skipped new meds
4:30pm: baby bell cheese wheel 
6:15pm: chicken breast, some stuffing, coleslaw 
white wine
8:30pm: met+glip

Up With The Sun

Huzzah, the glue sticks arrived, they seem to be the right size, and I can arts and crafts tomorrow. Fun! I got too busy today but did have a nice hour gab, yap, catch up with the work wife. There was a lot of work things going on, and our team had a really good meeting, which is always nice. I like our little team.

I slept through the night, which as you know happens not very often, and I had to get out of bed at 8:15 to pee. So desperately. Doug was already up working, so, I didn't have to start work until 9 and didn't feel like dedicating some extra time just to dedicate extra time. So I hit the treadmill. 

It's kind of nice knocking that requirement out of the park so early in the day. Note to self, maybe do that again? Maybe? 

After dinner, I took Toffee for a walk, the weather is so perfect. My sweatshirt was a little too warm, to be honest. November 3rd and I'm loving this. It could please stay this way please for a while longer please. 

Doug has a doctor's appointment in the morning at 9am so he has to be up and out the door to deal with traffic. He's been feeling extra shitty lately, and so I'm glad he made the appointment. Let's see what's going on. Probably "you need more exercise, and your A1C and blood sugar are  too high, again," kinds of things. As we're heading into the winter, when he tends to slow down anyway, and get more hibernatey, less active, I'm hoping she encourages him to do good things. I think he needs a fitbit. 

Maybe then he'll stop mocking me for doing my hourly steps and 11pm treadmill walks to make it to 10k before I go to bed. Although, lately, I'm managing to knock that out of the park too by 7 or 8pm! 

 I think Geoff is working, I forgot to ask.Thursday he'll be in Virginia at school and Doug will be taking me to the airport for my late ass flight. I asked myself why I booked such a late flight and then I looked at the ticket prices for the earlier flights and said, "oh, yeah. That's why..."

 Gonna go have some Linda Fun for the weekend and see some band, you've probably never heard of them. Guster or something. 

Anyway. 

Not much else to report. Just looking forward to arts and crafts at some point tomorrow. Digits below. 

 

digits 

exercise: 12/12 hours.  Treadmill 20 min/1.46 mi; Toffee walk, 27 min/1.23 mi; 12k+ steps by bedtime

blood glucose: 

8:30am: 120
4:30pm: 179
11pm: 152

food & meds
9am: jardiance & new meds
11am: English muffin w/pb & j
2pm: big bowl of left over chicken soup, 2 kings hawaiian rolls; met+glip
3pm: new meds
6:30pm: 2 chorizo sausages w/sauteed onions and peppers in a lemon sauce
8pm: met+glip 
8:30pm: apple pie slice (small)
white wine

Arts and Crafts

I had a little time mid day today and thought I'd do some bedazzling on my corkboard (that I built into a frame and then ignored for a week). I had ordered a new glue gun, since the one I have had for years was kind of dead. Wouldn't charge, wouldn't heat. DED Dead.

The glue gun arrived and today I was all psyched to use it. I charged it, I put glue sticks in it, and it all backed up out the opening where you put the glue sticks into the body of the gun. 

Dafuq? I hate you. 

I read the instructions, I didn't do anything wrong. But. The troubleshooting guide said that a certain size of glue sticks needs to be put in, and that is 0.43. Nothing on the boxes (and, I have many) of glue sticks said what size my sticks are but OBVIOUSLY they ain't the right size. 

Damn. 

So I ordered some 0.43 sized sticks from the actual manufacturer of this glue gun, and hey - if you have a freaking glue gun and want 9,000 glue sticks, I've got your hook up. 

Waiting now for the hopefully right sized glue sticks to show up. 

Still don't have a desk setup downstairs anyway. 

I strung up some tiki lights on the mantle and added cute little party shades that should go over bulbs on a string of lights. I also have hot chili pepper bulb covers and more tikis too. I should pull out one of my strings of white lights and get everything looking pretty. 

It's almost time. It isn't fully time until the Sunday after Thanksgiving, but we can at least get the strings of lights organized and all. To coin a phrase, thinking about starting to think about getting ready. 

I decided to go for a Toffee walk while it was still light out and we got home just as it was starting to get dark. She was very into all the cats and squirrels we saw along the way. I think I like walking her in the dark better! 

Linda and I had a chat while I ran on the treadmill, and I got plenty of steps in to make up for yesterday! 

No picture again, I had hoped to have one of my bedazzled corkboard, but. Nope. 

Digits below.

digits 

exercise: 12/12 hours. Toffee Walk before dinner (while it was still light out) 38 min/1.69 mi. Treadmill, 20 min/1.48 mi  12k+ steps by bedtime

blood glucose: 

8:30am: 105
4:30pm: 179
10pm: 161

food & meds
8:30am: jardiance & new meds
8:45am: slice of apple pie 
12:45pm: grilled turkey and 2 slices of muenster on 647 bread
1pm: met+glip 
skipped afternoon new meds, forgot to take
4:30pm: 2 celery stalks w/pb 
6pm: small bowl of spaghetti and meat sauce; red wine
7:30pm: met+glip