I have a food processor, it isn't a cuisinart or some high-end fancy machine. I bought it to help with Boy Scouts to slice peppers and onions for the annual big town bbq. It may be a Kenmore of all things?
I rarely use it. Mostly because in the last two houses, it was stored in cabinets that made it hard for me to get to the stupid thing.
But here, it is super accessible. We have wonderful cabinets. I have drawers that are currently empty, that's how many cabinets we have. Doug accidentally bought cabbage the other day instead of iceberg lettuce. He suggested we make corned beef and cabbage but no one has any corned beef for sale at the market right now. Naturally. Because. Irish thing.
But I can make coleslaw. In between meetings, I got the machine out, and bonus fact - when we moved, I found the disk that I need to use to do shreddy dealies. I've been using a blade thing that chops things up but doesn't shred.
Moving was awesome for me to find the things I need. And now I still need to find the things I need. Ha.
I also had a small bag of baby carrots that needed to be used, so ... in you go. I got a recipe for slaw dressing, it was a little more watery than I would have liked but, still tasty!
Using the food processor was tons of fun. I'm easily entertained I guess.
Doug and Geoff went to get our car from the shop, and I got that all made and happy. I expected Doug to return with a new propane tank but he forgot to take it with him. So okay. I can't grill the chicken I wanted to. That is okay. Geoff had a back-up plan, and we had the coleslaw to go with his backup plan.
I took myself for a walk. Geoff had taken Toffee earlier in the day and Doug wasn't in the mood to go with. So, activate playlist and let's get out there. I extended my walk longer than I planned mostly because the Beastie Boys and Stevie Wonder encouraged me to loop another block.
After dinner, Doug's mom called and it appears we are planning a mid-November journey up there to help with some things at the old house. There are a couple pieces of patio furniture I have always wanted, that she isn't moving to the new place and we've been hearing for years that she's just going to stick this really nice set at the end of the driveway. But now, we have a place for it.
It may be me and Doug, it may be Geoff and Doug, but people are going. And Linda and I have been planning a trip up to our mom, so that will probably be November 1.
Still figuring that out. Time to go visit the mamas.
And tomorrow, I'm going to go into the office. A colleague is visiting from away and I wanted to see her. I gamed out the trip, I could drive to the MARC train, which is almost an hour from here, and then take an almost 90 min. train ride, and then walk 3/4 of a mile to the office. i'd be looking at a 2.5 hour trip. I could drive all the way in, but our parking garage is under construction. So I'd have to street park and I don't know what that'll be like. And, it used to take way over an hour to get there from our house 12 miles away from the city.
So I'm opting to ride to the nearest Metro station, which hopefully will be an hour drive, and then a 45 min. subway trip to my office stop.
I sometimes question why we did this. I also could have planned better, gone to S&S's house and stayed the night but we didn't have our car back from the shop until late this afternoon. Wish me luck here, kids!
So a good day with kitchen gadgets and a long walk. No picture, but digits below!
digits
exercise: 12/12 hours. solo walk, 33 min/1.67 miles; 11k+ steps before bed
blood glucose:
7:45am: 105
4:30pm:127
10:30pm: 122
food & meds:
7:45am: jaridance + phentermine
8:15: 2 chocolate chip cookies w/coffee
11am: bowl of mac & cheese and hamburger
1pm: met+glip
6:30pm: 2 fish filets, some homemade coleslaw, some curly fries
8:30pm: met+glip
no wine/alcohol