Happy I Am Here

Today was a pretty good day. Meeting light but meeting meaningful. I got to the gym but only spent 15 minutes there because I had afternoon meetings, and I didn't time my departure right. 

I made up for the shortfall and did a walk in the evening while talking to Linda on the phone about mom stuff. 

I'm happy I am here because she got two pieces of mail today that upset her apple cart. One was an easy peasy call to confirm, the other a bit more thorny. But if she had to do either of these on her own she'd bust a blood vessel. 

I went over to the shopping center to take care of something for her, and got wine, some snacks, some food from Target (salad fix'ns, turkey and cheese, that kind of thing). 

Linda and I pledged to one another that whosoever is here last will make sure they leave wine for the next person's visit. Amen and so be it.

Another thing I've been wanting to get in my life is bluetooth headphones, so I can walk or do the treadmill and not run the risk of hitting my earbud cord and sending my earbuds or phone flying. 

Target had a good selection and I bought some cuties that work great with my android phone, as evidenced in a test I did with Linda. I haven't tried them out on the mac yet for work, but.... I'm anticipating they'll be great there too. I may still use the earbuds for work because I'm not sure how the mute part of things work with these, and on the mac, I can mute on the keyboard. I don't need to think I muted and have someone hear me groaning about the contents of a meeting or telling my mother that I'll so a thing for her later.

My mom turns the internet off before she goes to bed. Which is hilarious to me. 

Tomorrow, I have to see what she does but I think the router/modem/whatever and her computer are on the same power strip. So she turns the entire power strip off, instead of just shutting down her computer and leaving everything else on. 

And I think by doing this, she may be epically fucking up her computer? Windows needs to be shut down properly and not just the entire computer powered off. 

Last night, she wanted to turn the internet off at like 8pm. I asked her to not. So I could .... do shit on my computer like read about our work OKRs and goals and objectives for a meeting today. Thankfully she turns it on first thing in the morning when she wakes up at sparrow fart, so if I'm up early, I can ... access the internet! 

And also thankfully, my data plan is absolutely unlimited. So I can use my phone if I need to do anything internetty. 

It's not quite 9pm right now, but I know she wants to go to bed, so, I will see if I can access blogger on my phone before bed to record the last blood sugar reading. If not, I'll edit this post in the morning. 

To be very honest, I dread being old. I dread not knowing what to do with things, or technology or people trying to always trick me. I asked Jess on our trip north to please make sure I do not turn into my mother.

 Jess has assured me that is impossible. I'm too smart for that. What a kind thing to say to me. But honestly, if you knew my mom in her 50s you would not believe how good she was at all this computer and tech stuff. I may still yet become that person and need someone to be the me that I am for her. Jess says they will take very good care of me, and guide me. And I promised I'll never answer the phone, or open mail that seems like a scam. 

God help us all. This is a sad and crazy world on so many levels, and oldsters get fucked over all the time. I do not want to be a fucked over oldster. 

Digits! below. 

digits

exercise: 12/12 hours.  Treadmill, 15 min/.78 mi (Had to get back for a meeting). Evening walk with Linda on the phone, 16 min/.77 mi. 10k+ by bedtime.

blood glucose:

8am: 122
5pm: 101
10:30pm: 113 (update on phone a success!)

food & meds:
8:30am: phentermine+jardiance
10:45am: protein shake
1:30pm: pb and low sugar j on low carb bread; met+glip
5pm: chopped salad w/cherry tomatoes, buffalo chicken bites, bleu cheese dressing; white wine
7:30: honey roasted cashew snack mix - a couple handfuls 
8:45pm: met+glip