The entire time we were in Colorado we kept making jokes about our own mental mistakes. Doug said something was somewhere and I said no it is not. It is here... and he said "It's the altitude."
He also said "be sure to put me in a nice home" after making a big mistake.
Personally, my mental capacities were okay but I did feel dizzy. A lot. This is not helpful when you're on a cliff. Thankfully no injury befell me. I tripped twice during the trip, thankful for a bush that caught my fall before I landed on my face or shattered my knees.
We left Leadville at 10am since we had to check out of the tiny house. The altitude was seriously impacting Doug, and I had a horrible night's sleep thanks to muscle spasms in my shoulder like restless leg syndrome. Is there restless shoulder syndrome?
Stopping at Circle K for coffee, neither of us were hungry, we started our drive to Denver. Our flight was scheduled for 4:30pm, and I'm glad we left when we did. We hit traffic between Idaho Springs and Denver. Hours. Hours of waiting. Millions of cars. Three lanes reduced to two lanes reduced to one lane.
Absolutely maddening to come up to the end of the lane restrictions and not even see one guy working. Thanks. Thanks a lot.
We stopped for lunch at 1pm, and we re-organized our bags, getting our carry-on situation TSA safe, and all of our treasures like the antique things and the marble tucked into the big suitcases.
Our flight was uneventful. On time, but delayed then on time and delayed again. We did finally leave on time. Weather was touch and go for a bit. Glad we were able to get off the ground and back home.
Toffee lost her mind when we came in. As we predicted. So happy to see her. And I'll be honest, we had probably one of the best vacations we've ever had but coming home to her was the best part of it all.
My friend MS came this morning, she drove down from Maine so we can go see BNL/Guster in Baltimore tomorrow. When I reminded him last night that she was coming, Doug said he didn't remember me ever telling him. Thing is, I did. I know I did. Because when we were making our trip plans I told him I wanted to be home Friday so she could come Saturday (I thought it would be Saturday Night) and we'd go to the concert Sunday, and she'd head home Monday morning.
She likes to leave Maine in the middle of the night, a lot less traffic to deal with but this time of year, a lot more construction.
I didn't house clean too much since honestly, I got less than 5 hours of sleep and I was surprised when she told me she'd be arriving between 10 and 11. Like I said, I presumed she'd be coming around maybe dinner time. So having a full day to spend together was nice. She brought us gifts as thanks for hosting. Always a classy move.
Doug went to Aldi and she went too, because she'd never been to one and wanted to check it out. Such fun. I walked the dog while they were out. I didn't get my 12 hours of 250 in, missed the 8pm one because we were sitting around outside chatting after eating dinner.
And I didn't go take a good long long walk, not going to hit 10k today. Resigned to that fact. But we'll get it tomorrow for sure.
MS took this pic of Doug at the back patio. She wanted him to pose with the Bissell Brothers' On the Ocean beer from last year's fest.
Digits below. Good day today with an even better one to look forward to tomorrow.
Friday digits
exercise: 6/12 hours. Somewhat impacted by losing 3 hours of time in the airport+time travel. 10 min. walk around the airport before the flight (I procrastinated, could have done a lot more!) half mile total. 7600+ steps by bedtime
blood glucose:
8am: 90
n/apm: no afternoon reading, on the plane
11pm (ET): 135
food & meds:
8am: phentermine, jardiance
can't really remember times that I ate, but at 1pm we had lunch at Cafe Rio. Burrito w/steak, guac, sour cream, black beans, cheese.
1pm: met+glip
airplane snacks
10pm: mixed nuts while waiting for luggage. Met+glip
11pm: triscuits+peanut butter
Saturday digits
exercise: 11/12 hours. Missed 8pm because we were sitting chatting at the picnic table. Took Toffee for a nice but short walk due to the heat, 15 min/.65 mi. 7500+ steps by bedtime
blood glucose:
9am: 131
5pm: 102
11pm: 112
food & meds:
9am: phentermine, jardiance
1pm: turkey, provolone, lettuce in low carb wrap. met+glip
5:30pm: some mixed nuts
6:30pm: met+glip; cheeseburger over mixed greens salad, cherry tomatoes, ranch dressing, small scoop of potato salad
white wine
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