Family Walk Again

I had kind of a shitty stress-filled day. I did have a good troubleshooting session for a problem for a client with my boss. We punched and slashed and tried to figure a thing out - no dice. I was glad he spent 40 minutes with me on this problem because I thought I was just going crazy and he'd look at it and say "oh, this setting..." But he didn't find it either. 

Really want to get this figured out for the client, but we struck out today. 

I had another call with a colleague where we basically shot the shit and did a troubleshooting thing that I just needed one more set of eyes on. And we figured it out victoriously. 

Pounding away at sending out emails for a colleague on vacation for the training next week, I just needed to get that done and I could breathe. Doug came upstairs and suggested we walk the dogs together. Give me 10 minutes, yes. Yes do let's. I happily closed my laptop and we went. We did a different route, than yesterday, got a poop out of both dogs. Another Victory. 

When we got home, all he wanted to watch the news, which he does every day at 6. So I usually make dinner. But I said I didn't feel like making dinner. I was cranky, and tired.  Cranky. My ass was cranky. Between Geoff and me, we do 90+% of the cooking and he maybe cooks once a month. 

He said he'd cook, but it would be after the news, which meant it'd be after 7:30, close to 8, and I was a little pissed. That's late. I don't like eating that late. 

The other day at the market, I had bought some shrimp, which I wanted to grill. but he had other ideas and told me he'd cook. So I didn't care if it was grilled or whatever - I just didn't want to cook. So I'd be patient.

He whipped up shrimp and linguine, with olives and peppers and some other stuff. He had sauteed the shrimp and it was nice and spicy. I didn't want linguine because I've had pasta several times this week but hell. I wasn't going to pitch a fit. It was delicious. 

While Doug was cooking dinner, I wanted to go do some more steps. I was at 8k at 7pm, so, if I hoped to break 10k I needed to do more than walk my last 2 hours of 250 steps and walk around the yard with dogs. So I took myself for a solo stroll. I went up to the big corner, turned around and came back, still about 900 steps shy of 10k so... around the next corner and up a block, and back. 

As I was coming back, two deer crossed the road in front of me. I stopped, and waited, stood perfectly still. They nibbled grass in a front lawn and one saw me. I crossed the street to move away from them, since I was super scary, obviously. A man and his child came out of the house they were in front of and I waved and pointed. 

He stopped, the little kid stopped, the deer stood there for a minute, and then turned around, came towards me and into the yard by where I was standing, and they jumped the fence. 

I looked after them and saw 5 more deer standing in the yard. They all took off, jumping fences with ease up to the north. I heard the man say wow, and his kid said wow. I turned and smiled. 

It made my day a little less shittier and I'm glad I went for this finish-up-the-day walk. Dinner was just about ready when I got back, and I was thankful for the cook and for the alone time. 

Going into the office tomorrow to see my colleague and his family, so I can't dick around in the morning. I just checked the weather and it looks like summer is finally here. We had a low of 35 the other morning and this weekend, Saturday, is supposed to be 87. Bananas. Tomorrow will be in the low 80s, so I'm hoping I don't die from the heat since it has been perfect... in the upper 60s/low 70s. Just perfect. A half hour/mile walk with the dogs is cake at these temps. Not looking forward to balls hot. 

Digits below.

digits

exercise: 12/12 hours.  Two walks. One with Doug and Dogs, 30 min/1.22 miles. Second solo, 15 min/.63 miles. 11k+ by bedtime

blood glucose:

7:30am: 127
4:45pm: 128
10:30pm: 70

food:
coffee/water
9am: phentermine
10:30am: met+glip
11am: slice of banana bread
1pm: another slice of banana bread
2:30pm: chicken thigh w/peppers and onions mixed with mayo for a chicken salad
5pm: met+glip
7:30pm: linguine and spicy shrimp w/red sauce
9:45pm: jardiance