Spinach Salad

The blood work I frequently have to have done is to monitor my blood thinning medication, how it is working. A bummer about this medication is that Vitamin K directly impacts the efficacy of this medication so I tend to avoid it. 

What foods contain Vitamin K? This article from the Cleveland Clinic has many exmples, and I've gotten a graphic from another site to share here to show you (in case you do not want to go read the article).  

Most of what I like to eat is on that list. Except Natto - I don't know how to cook that/use it in food. Give me all that green leafy loveliness, give me that fish. Do not give me beef liver, thank you very much. 

My last check in with the blood people showed my reading was too low. Before that, it was too high. There is a very happy medium with balancing this, and sometimes if I travel or if I'm lazy about meal prep, that can impact the readings. 

I also cannot take a multi-vitamin so I take individual supplements and vitamins like B-12 complex with C, Vitamin D, Magnesium, Potassium. 

My bureau top looks like a pharmacy. I wish there was a Multi-vitamin minus K. That'd be great. 

I went in (finally) today to do the blood work, and when I got home I was absolutely desiring a salad in a big way. Geoff recently bought nice mixed greens, and we have some spinach in a bag that I had been holding on to. It was still good, so, BLT Salad day but replace that L with S and we are down to party. 

I made a big ass bowl of salad, completely delightful. I thought of my friend S who when we travel will get to a certain point with vacation food where they say "I need something with a vegetable/green thing next to it." 

This hit that spot. 

After lunch, I got a lot done, and one of my clients was a no-show for a meeting. I emailed her but the internet is super busted today and all my emails are sitting in the outbox on my Outlook. Damn. I'm not sure if maybe she tried to email me, and it didn't go through from her end too. 

Around 3:30 I took Toffee for a walk, I wanted to go before it got dark and 3:30 is a perfect time right now. So thank you to the person who didn't show for our meeting.  It's really windy, but about 52 degrees and that shouldn't be too intolerable. 

We could have kept going but I wanted to get back. I did have some work to do. 

Tonight is the one night a week Geoff is at a hotel for school. I love when he leaves on Thursday mornings and texts me from the driveway and says "see ya when I see ya." I try to text him back before class starts at 9am that I'm looking forward to it. 

Last week when I was in NY he came home, which is kind of wasteful but he said he wanted to be here and watch football with dad. 

I cannot be mad at that. 

Around 5pm I asked Doug what he wanted to do for dinner, he suggested a restaurant that we went to the day we closed on the house in 2025. We haven't been back, and it is really nice so I thought yeah for sure let's do it. Dinner was great and they have one of our favorite beers on tap there, you can't get it a lot of places. We had a nice meal and talked about our trip next weekend where I fly out and he comes out to join me to hang out in NYC. 

We got home and I needed 3k steps so I hit the treadmill for a quick run, not a big long run, just enough. We had a couple beers that we bought at RAR that literally tasted like melted sherbet. Amazing. 

That's about it, here's a picture of the favorite beer, in a very nice cool new style glass where the stem is an elephant trunk. Digits below.

digits 

exercise: 12/12 hours Toffee walk, 20 min/.96 mi (shoulda gone another block. lol); treadmill run, 15 min/1.05 mi; 11k+ steps by bedtime

blood glucose:

8:30am: 132
5pm: 161
10:45pm: 180

food & meds

8:30am: jardiance
12:30pm: BLT salad (the L is really Spinach) 
1:15pm: met+glip
3pm: 2 celery stalks w/pb; the last of the peanut butter cups from the candy store in Ocean City
6pm: tomato bisque soup w/gouda; steak salad w/bleu cheese; 2 beers
7:30pm: met+glip
2 more beers