Slow forward lean

Yesterday I was doing a call with a client and asked him how he was doing. He said "oh, slow forward lean." 

I told him I was unfamiliar with that as a concept, what did it mean? He said his dad was a Marine and would say it all the time. Just keep moving forward, slowly, lean into it, go. 

It reminded me of a song by Guster called "The Captain," where they sing "Face forward. Move slow. Forge ahead." And he completely agreed. 

He emailed me this morning and said he listened to the song, and loved at the end when they sing Onward over and over. 

It made me happy to hear that. And yes, Onward. I kind of just feel like this. My friend Kacey has Onward tattooed to her wrist with little waves underneath it. 

I think it is a lovely tattoo. 

Anyway, work things were so busy today. C emailed me and asked if I was ok because she sent me 2 emails and I had not responded, which is not on brand for me. True true true. At the end of the day, I set the laptop down, and I feel like I am done with typing. I do not type well on the cel phone, and if I'm alone I'll voice to text, but ... once the laptop is down I'm not picking it up again. Except to throw together a blog entry, like this one! 

Tomorrow I have to dive face down in a spreadsheet and cross check all the possible URLs that we may have on our DNS at work (that's the project) because I'm down to my last client, the very last, and I just want to check to see if anyone is still accidentally on our servers. The infrastructure manager J is hilarious. She has this giant spreadsheet she shared with me and said "If they are not on our DNS, mark'em Red. Red is Dead." and I love it. 

So a couple days of good little mottos. Slow forward lean, Red is Dead, and Face Forward, Move Slow, Forge Ahead.... 

I'm glad I got out for a walk today. Doug took Toffee one direction and I went with Dahlia another. I came back 20 minutes before he did because I wanted to get dinner in the oven. So Dahlia could use a much longer walk, but she's so much better on the leash than Toffee and I felt like I just wanted to manage her, and not the distance. 

Had no problem hitting the 10k before 9pm though. Accomplishments! 

Digits below this picture of Dahlia from 7am. 

digits

exercise: 12/12 hours.  25 min walk w/Dahlia/ 1.18 miles. 10k+ steps by bedtime

blood glucose:

8am: 138
5pm: 105
10:30pm: 119

food:

coffee/water
8:15am: phentermine
9:30am: met+glip
10:15am: english muffin w/pb & cherry preserves
5:30pm: met+glip
6:30pm: chicken parm (3/4 of the serving I took)
8:30pm: jardiance