One Year of the Toffinator

Today Facebook reminded me that I got a dog. And my blog post from last year reminded me that we got a dog. 

This year feels like it has flown by so fast. And every day has been Toffee. I didn't anticipate I would have a dog like this. Big. Super Big. My little goofy tank. My happiest bean. 

And I'm all the better for having her around. Digits below.

digits

exercise: 11/12 hours. Missed 2pm because I thought I got it, but didn't. Oops. 2 walks inside 9 min/.41 miles and 16 min/.53 miles. 7200+ steps by bedtime

blood glucose:

7:45am: 200
5pm: 158
10pm: 154

food:
coffee/water
10am: large bowl of plain yogurt w/ blueberries & splenda
11am: metformin
12noon: english muffin w/ bacon and mayo (was going to make cheese/egg for a whole mcmuffin but but felt lazy
6pm: Nachos w/ ground beef, avocado, salsa, sour cream; vodka tonic; metforin+jardiance
7-8pm candied nuts

Planning

My sister was at mom's for a while for Thanksgiving and left this morning. I had expressed to Doug that I thought I ought to go up and visit her before the end of the year. Should I fly solo, should I take the train, take one of our cars? And he felt like he should come too. 

We started planning. 

We could take the dog, but, she can't stay at the hotel because she's too big. But also, Doug thinks we should stay at my mom's but I'm all against that nonsense because smoking and it is 90 degrees in the trailer AND the bed is a full sized bed. So two of us and/or three of us with the dog would be ridiculous.

He's not hearing me out that if we go together, the bed is small and close. Let that just stand. 

And dude is now such a big fan of Amtrak so the train together to Providence, rent a car, and spend like 3, 4 days. It could be a thing.

And probably the weekend before Christmas. If everything isn't sold out all the way. 

I'm happy he wants to go with me and figure out the best options. I just want to be not stressed, and comfortable and .... happy. I don't want to pay to travel, and be stressed for 3 or 4 days while there. 

I love my mom, I truly do, but for sure I just want to go visit her and have a nice visit and not be stressed out. 

More to come on that. He went to bed grumbling that the train would be 300 bucks each for us, and then renting a car, maybe we should drive, maybe this maybe that. I just need to know if it is too late to ask my boss for time off. Because I bet 4 other people on my team are taking the time off. And in theory, I could work while I'm up there, depending on the days we're up there. 

Sigh. 

Tomorrow, Doug gets to go into DC with his office team and go to the White House, and lookie lou at the Christmas Decorations... and then Wednesday he goes to a big holiday luncheon with his office people. Twice in one week, people. Work people. 

I don't envy him but I kind of would love a field trip. 

Hopefully he'll take a couple pictures for me of the trees and shit. 

On that note. Bed. 

Digits below.

digits

exercise: 12/12 hours. 20 min indoor walk / .75 miles; 7500+ by bedtime

blood glucose:

8am: 166
4:15pm: 168
10:30pm: 166

food:
coffee/water
10:30am: english muffin w/pb & cherry preserves
11am: Metformin
12:30pm: bowl of left over pot roast
4pm: candied nuts
6pm: 2 cluck pucks on one bun, some waffle fries
6:30pm: metformin+jardiance
white wine+ginger ale

With Quiet

We didn't do anything at all this weekend. We talked about doing things, like, today is the first Sunday of the month and it is plant swap day at a favorite brewery. I wanted to go since it was the last one of the year. 

"There will be one next year," Doug said to me. He's right. Hard to believe next year is in 31 days.

He did take Toffee for a walk yesterday which was an accomplishment. It was 37 degrees and your girl wasn't leaving the house. I think we're back into the official no leaving the house because too [weathery out there] philosophy of yours truly. Over 80? no. Under 50? mmmmm, no. 

I did play D&D tonight and we broke our DM's brain. That was a lot of fun. We are playing with two players who are VERY advanced, my friend Cori and I played another campaign together in 2020, so we're, as the kids say "Mid." And Courtney is new to this. She doesn't know what to do or what her character is allowed to do. So Matt has to coach her. And he lets her say "I defer to the team for .... suggestions?" 

I gave her such a good suggestion tonight that Matt was tickled. You could see it in his face. "That's a perfectly viable option." 

I love it when he says something is perfectly viable. 

He had to go off his own script for the game tonight because one of our fellow questers came in swinging in a situation he did not anticipate a fight would happen right off the bat. And then my character ran away from the situation. We split the party, essentially, so I knew I had to go back and figured out a good way. 

It was a lot of fun. I look forward to playing with this group. We don't play weekly, it is more like once a month at this point. We're all incredibly busy. But when we do play I feel like it clicks really well. 

So doing nothing, it was pretty nice. And I liked it.  Making the soup for dinner was really the only exciting thing that happened. 

Anyway. Digits below.  

Saturday digits

exercise: 12/12 hours. 30 min indoor walk about 1.36 miles; 8k+ steps by bedtime

blood glucose:

9:30am: 189
4pm: 181
11pm: 183

food:
coffee/water
forgot all the food i ate, mostly had a lot of turkey and some pie, and candied cashews. Meds taken at normal times

Sunday digits

exercise: 12/12 hours. no walk, tried to get one but got distracted by kitchen work... 5k by bedtime

blood glucose:

9:30am: 173
4pm: 159
11pm: 230

food:
coffee/water
12pm: english muffin w/pb & low sugar jelly; metformin
5pm: ramekin of pretzels; several slices of pepperoni
6:30pm: homemade turkey soup w/chinese white rice, shredded carrots, onion, celery, 3 kings hawaiian rolls. More pretzels through the evening while watching football.
7:30pm: metformin+jardiance
red wine+zero sugar ginger ale