A Birthday Gift

Yesterday I mentioned all the things to do and think about. And now I'm obsessing. Planning. Making lists in my head. Making lists on paper. Looking at the puzzle table and thinking Good Lord we have to finish this thing or buy one of those Puzzle mats and get it all set to get this out of here (I bought a puzzle map, just in case). 

I kind of see that table for setting up my sister's 3 container drink station, and a custom concoction mix of drinks setup. I wonder if they tolerate hot liquids? Probably not. I can use the crock pot for mulled wine or cider. For hot drinks.

I'm starting to build the fantasy party. Get all of my white lights out to hang along the ceiling (get a very tall boy to help), clean all the surfaces, rearrange the Bar cabinet and maybe that's where we put the drink station on top of and the chafing dishes over on the puzzle table. 

Hmmmm. 

Nothing will be done until I get to doing it, but it is fun to sit and plan and think. 

Today I had some free time, for once. I didn't dive into a thing that I need to do that I just didn't have the mental energy to get going. Maybe I'll read the stuff over the weekend, during football. 

An email came in that I had to talk about with my work bestie about, in order to come up with a good reply but we really just wanted to howl at how stupid it was. We talked for an hour or more about it and all kinds of other things about work and life and stuff. So that brought me up to the end of day pretty much. 

My sister messaged me, and we ended up talking about her trip here, when she was going to arrive, what foods. All the things. 

Again, feeling like the day is almost over and I am done with everything, I caught a voicemail from an actual client instead of a general public crank out in the world who was mad about stuff. So I called him back to help him out, it took a long time to figure out what exactly he wanted, a zoom screenshare was needed, and I ended up making up for all the time I spent not doing actual work by pushing to 6:30pm. 

Geoff made dinner while I saved the day. It was delicious and wonderful. 

I heard a bang on the door and went to see what was up. 

I saw a delivery guy walking down to the gate and opened the door to see a small package on the porch. My first birthday gift of the year from my most thoughtful best friend. 

First of all, the card is hilarious. Then the Swiss chocolate refrigerator magnet was delightful, a souvenir from her recent trip to Switzerland. And the photo of me and my sister in the Metro in DC, truly touching. I flipped it over and on the other side was a picture of us from when we were little.

Absolutely the sweetest. 

And it was wrapped in what appears to be baby shower or baby gift wrapping paper which cracked me up too. So adorable. 

What a great way to end a complicated and busy work week. Now I just need a sweet sweet picture of me and my friend in a little frame to go with. All the sisters! Digits below.

digits

exercise: pouring rain out. took extra steps every hour pretty much to try and make up for lack of steps through the day.

blood glucose:
9am: 190
5pm: 142
10:30pm: 148

food:
coffee, water
noon: some tuna fish; metformin
1:30: bowl of leftover chicken stew from the other night
6pm: 2 fajitas, chicken, onion, sour cream, avocado spread, low carb wraps
7pm: metformin+jardiance; white wine+diet 7up

Entertaining

We have Thanksgiving guests this year! I'm not sure if Doug is inviting his Aunt and his cousin. I expressed that they can come at Christmas, but if he invites them, they are welcome. Of course. But I'd rather. Not. 

Our friends who just moved here from Portsmouth NH are invited. I figured M+M won't want to be cooking a feast for their faces, so I invited them without asking Doug what he thought, so I informed Doug they are coming. 

Jess is coming. For the first visit here since 2019. First visit to this house that we're in for almost two years. Also, they're driving from MA to here, so ... hold them in your prayers. By age 30 Doug and I had driven all over the country but Jess has stayed very close to home. Jess will be leaving Tuesday, staying with their friend Holly in NJ, and then making the rest of the journey Wednesday. Again - hold them in your prayers. The MA to NJ thing is stressful enough. All of NJ is a challenge. Again. Hold in prayers. Again.... 

Linda is coming. I think Linda gets here on the 20th? Sunday? We are seeing Guster on Monday and Tuesday nights, I got a hotel room for both nights. Then she is staying here Wednesday, gonna do Thanksgiving with us, and drive home Friday morning. She has tickets to see Guster at Carnegie Hall in NYC and I'm opting out, because Jess is here.

See, I'm not like a total monster. 

So in theory, bolded all the humans and added Doug, Geoff, and me, and we are probably 9 people for Thanksgiving dinner at my house. I am down for it. I was going to invite our friends Sara and Sean and their son Henry but they're spending Thanksgiving at a friend's house in NJ and then going to see Guster at Carnegie Hall, so they cut their trip down to an hour from the friend to the City instead of a solid 5, or more, the day after Thanksgiving. I may see what my former boss J is up to, invite her and the boys over for dessert? Uno? Cookie Decorating? 

There are a couple of challenges ahead but I'm up for it. I have to figure out how to seat 9 people. We have a couple tables, our main dining table and then either the small 4 person table I put in our bedroom or the big long table down the basement.  

I know we have plates enough but glasses, wine glasses, I have all different sizes and shapes so it'll be a mismatch and I'm okay with that.

Tablecloths. or runners. I kind of want that. 

I have pinecones and some essential oils called Thieves which always make me feel like fall, and won't compete or conflict with the smells of the meal. 

Menu. Gotta plan a menu. Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, yes. My sister wants to make deviled eggs and her signature spinach balls. Carrots. I love carrots. We will probably need a turkey, and a turkey breast that we can roast while everyone is eating dinner, so we have turkey leftovers for days. Cranberry sauce. from scratch. Pie. What other sides? green beans? We'll have to talk about it. I want to make sure there is high protein available, and some non-carbs options. I mean, I am going to eat stuffing and mashed. 

We have a chafing serving setup of 3 trays. I just need sterno and tin foil trays to put in there and to decide what goes in. Hmmm.

My refrigerator needs to be tidied up and reorganized and we will need to shop. I feel like we need another fridge. It's not cold enough here usually to keep stuff outside. And we don't have the screened in porch. And there are critters!

We have a cooler, so that'll be on the porch with ice, and beer, soda, etc. I may buy another cooler.

If the weather is nice, bonfire. Yes.

I'm really looking forward to it. I know I will go overboard with preparation and food. But it's my jam. I love to throw a party. 

Work was again super busy. I worked until 9. I'm now goofing off. 

No picture, but digits below! 

digits:

exercise: Dedicated 10+5 while onions/mushrooms were sauteing.  

blood glucose:
9am: 174
5pm: 180
10pm: 243 (huh.)

food:
coffee, water
10am: peanut butter (not low sugar, we're out) and low sugar preserves on 647 bread
1:30pm: metformin; 2 chicken cluck pucks from the freezer, baked in the oven covered in melted cheddar and a schmear of mayo.
6pm: beef stroganoff, with some egg noodles.
8pm: metformin+jardiance 

Post Election Teeth Cleaning

Election night last night wasn't scary and nothing broke. In years past, we've had problems. A lot of long term people are on super high alert. I'm not required to be there in person, but I was on call and felt I should stay up, monitor all the comms channels, make sure I get every issue or question. 

In the end, it was just a couple inquiries about ways things were being reported, display issues, someone didn't know how the thing worked and when it was on their website, they couldn't really wrap their head around it. The users in the community were all helpful to each other. Everyone shared their work. I created a chef kiss emoji, just so I could approve of everything they were sharing. 

I had a dentist appointment today at 4:30 so I bailed early after working very late last night. I'm deliberately not working now, although I did just go through my emails, and noticed that our training person wrote some documentation that I want to look at but will do that in the morning.

I love getting my teeth cleaned. But now he wants to redo a couple fillings and I'm like ugh. I just want to get my teeth cleaned. Sigh. So I made an appointment for fillings in January and my next cleaning in May.

Anyway, while I was working post-election day stuff, my dog was snoring next to me. Sleeping with his eyes open. Weirdo. Digits below.

digits

exercise: Dedicated 10+12. Walked to and from the dentist. love that he's so close! 

blood glucose:
8am: 192
5pm: 162
9:45pm: 182

food:
coffee, water
11:30am: apple and peanut butter
12:00: metformin (set an alarm reminder. ha!)
1pm: one piece of 647 bread with Tuna Salad (mayo and celery)
6pm: 3 sausages in sauce and cheese
7:15pm: metformin+jardiance

Election Day and a Full Moon

Right  off the bat today I knew I'd be busy. I didn't expect someone reporting they'd deleted their whole homepage, another reporting that they let their domain name expired, they went ahead and bought a new one (instead of just paying to renew the old one) and they wanted us to make the new one be their website address so they could do their election coverage. But that's not how it works. Another frantic "I don't know how to do this" email "I tried to use the help documentation and it didn't work" email. 

My colleague said to me "what is going on today with these folks!"

I thought about it for a minute, and noted that several friends had gotten up early to see the eclipse. Aaah yes. Full Moon. 

On Election Night.

And many people have not learned how to use their new website (even though they've been on it for X amount of months, some more than a year) and they're freaking out. 

Aces. Awesome. 

Anyway. I'm super proud of some of the folks and the things they are building and making with their fancy new website. Super impressed. Very proud of them. Some of them are so good that it makes me feel inadequate in the stuff I built out for testing.  I'm working late tonight, monitoring the helpdesk tickets and helping if someone calls out for assistance on the slack channels. One person even put in a comment on another colleague's twitter feed that they couldn't get something to work

Tonight for dinner, I made a meatloaf, mashed potatoes, gravy and steamed broccoli. I've been wanting steamed broccoli for a while, so I got 2 heads, made them both. Doug and Geoff weren't interested, so instead of putting the leftovers away, I ate it all. 

I ate basically 1.5 giant heads of broccoli. 

Let's see if my belly survives the night. 

Here's a picture of Phineas bathed in sunlight during magic hour.  

digits

exercise: 

blood glucose:
8:30am: 177
5pm: 180
10pm: 228 (see the time of metformin, since I messed up the lunchtime metformin)

food:
coffee, water
10:30:  macintosh apple and pb
12:30: chicken salad (dried cranberries, pecans, mayo, cream cheese)
5pm: Metformin (forgot to take it at lunch! doh).
6:30pm: meatloaf, mashed potatoes, steamed broccoli (a LOT of steamed broccoli cause DWG & the boy were not interested), gravy
7pm: deep eddy lime vodka & tonic. two of them. Tempted for a third but I'll pass on it. Delicious though.
9pm: 2  yodels. (don't bring junk into my house on stressy work nights. I have no self control) 
10pm: metformin+jardiance

Dinner Out

Doug came upstairs at 4:30pm while I was in the middle of a product outage and said "oh, it looks like you're busy and bad things are happening."

Yeah, they were happening. Everything was bad. But. 

I knew he wanted to go out to dinner so I slacked a teammate and asked him to cover for me. He's an hour behind us so he still had 2 hours of work time to live through. He said he had my back and I should go enjoy. I alerted my team that I had to step away but would be back to monitor the helpdesk tickets that I'd answered before 7pm.

Doug wanted sushi, so we went to our favorite little spot. Even though I do not like Sushi. I figured this was about what he wanted for earning his chops with the certification. 

But they are only doing take-away right now (it's been a while since we've been there, I guess). We went to leave and I suggested this other sushi place that we sometimes go to, but he didn't want to go that far north with everyone commuting home in the dark. He suggested a Thai place I like, but they're closed permanently. Oh no. 

Another Thai place near our mechanic was our next destination. Open on a Monday night? Yes. No one in the dining room? Weird but okay. 

We had a fantastic meal, so good. I did a good job not eating all the white rice they put in front of me, and using our salad as a base for my curry, which was delicious. Doug got a crispy stir-fry duck. So good. I brought home leftover curry and shrimp and rice and gave it to geoff for dinner. I fully regretted it because it smelled so good I wanted it. Oh well. 

No exercise or picture again. I'm slacking!

digits

exercise: 

blood glucose:
8am: 173
5pm: 186
10pm: 177

food:
coffee, water
10:15am: 2 egg omelet with goat cheese, 2 sausage patties
12:30: low sugar pb&j on 647 bread;
5pm: metformin (I forgot to take it at lunch time. oops)
5:30pm: thai food; crispy duck, assorted thai salad stuff with peanuts and pork belly and tofu, panang curry with shrimp, small scoop of rice. 2 Singha beers
10pm: peanut butter celery sticks

Oooof

I love when we do the daylight savings thing for just the first morning. I love the extra half hour of sleep. You can sleep until 9:30, and it's really 10:30, and that's a little gift. 

Last night I was in the bedroom on a video chat with my sister and Doug came in to get ready for bed, so I moved into the living room. Geoff came up to watch TV. He's working through the X-Files and Seinfeld, so last night it was X-Files. I pointed out I was talking to my sister, and he was like "I'll keep the volume down low." Nah, that's OK, I'll relocate again. Off to the guest room .

Meanwhile, I was in an incredibly good and fun mood so Linda and I chatted until late, and I was having a couple of beers. I kind of didn't think about the ABV (alcohol by volume) of the variety pack beers Geoff got, they were all over 8%. So that's like drinking a beer and a half or more. And I had five. Recently, Geoff picked up some Tripel IPAs and I told him to only have one, not 5 or something. Those are 11%  ABV usually. So they'll knock you on your ass quickly. I usually read labels, and most beers are 5%, but ... these were extra and I wasn't paying attention. It has been literally half a year since I've had that much to drink. Wild. 

It hit me when I was trying to fall asleep just how big a mistake that was. I went to bed in the guest room because Doug had closed the door to our room when he went in, and then I didn't want to break in there, make a ton of noise, disturb him. He had to be up incredibly early for his test, so I wanted to be merciful. I forgot to brush my teeth (woke up around 4 to pee and did) I didn't take my blood sugar or the blood thinner I take at night, oops. It's okay to miss one day.  I guess. I'm sure I'm in range still for the PT/INR values. I just kind of crashed. I put the laptop aside on the bed and flopped. 

Thankful for that extra hour of sleep because my fitbit said I fell asleep around 1:45. It was a struggle. 

I'm supposed to (I promised me) be using this time to clean the house but I have a legit hangover. Ha. Dumb, kid. Just dumb. You forgot what this was like. 

Finishing this post after dinner. While I was here  and he was there, I did a little tidying up, folded laundry, sorted junk mail, but not much else. Doug texted me at about 12:30 to let me know he had passed the exam. Initially he'd said last night that we would go out and celebrate.  

He got home around 2 and took a nap. I took a nap too, but couldn't really sleep so I got up at 4 to make dinner. I picked a very involved recipe that I've made before. 

He came out at 5 and said "oh, I thought we'd go out." 

I said oh... I thought maybe he didn't want to, he didn't indicate "after I take a nap, we'll go out..." and he agreed, we didn't set ourselves up for success on this. So he asked what dinner was, I told him, and he said that was great - he was happy to have that. 

We'll get our chance to go out. Our friends from NH just relocated to Frederick, and M said next weekend might be the best time for us to get together. I'd offered to come up and help unpack but she said her step daughter was in the DC area for business and was coming up to visit and help. So they had their family time. We'll be able to connect with them soon. She's already texting me cool places they've found near their house. I love it.

Anyway. not very exciting here but yay for doug and I hope he starts to get some traction on applications and his resume. 

And as much as I love the morning I am feeling like it is 11:30 when it is 10:30. ugh. I'm going to bed now. 

digits:

exercise: 

blood glucose:
9:30am: 210 
4:30pm: 182
10pm: 187

food:
coffee, water
10am: 2 good yogurt
2pm: giant celery stick with peanut butter. Metformin
5:30pm: French Onion Meatball soup. ground beef and not chicken. I don't make the meatballs the way she describes, I made them the way I always made them. Used lots of parsley in the meatballs and then sage in the soup. It came out great. I ate 5 meatballs, and 2 toasted croutons. 

Sorry, Friday. Welcome to Saturday

I had another extremely busy day at work Friday, so relieved it's the weekend but my brain won't turn off. I keep thinking about things and how to do them, or do them better. I tried to fall asleep last night but visions of data modules and panic on presentations went through my head. Horrible. so horrible. 

 This all comes from this time every other year when there's an election. I had a couple calls with clients who are in a panic about these digital embeds for their websites, or how to use this new live blog feature, and so we've been tag-teaming them to do hour long calls to walk through. We did 4 of them. I have 2 more Monday. 

Sometimes I can explain repeatedly how to do something in writing, and people just do not get it. Visual learners unite. Let's walk through it on a screen share together. Here, B or T, please take this ticket and arrange a screen share with this guy I cannot deal with him any longer.

Upside of things is I took time yesterday to meet with to two people who are new to our project, but no one has done any "introduction." I think it should be a  manager's job to send out an email, encourage people to reach out. I've heard from new hires that they feel lost, abandoned, alone, what with the vast majority of us working at home. We need to do more to connect. 

Both of them were happy to connect with people on the team and have a chat. Non-work chat mostly! One of them lives in Wyoming or Idaho or something, and we talked about "news deserts" where small papers and radio stations used to exist.  Those have been bought out by big conglomerates and Christian broadcasters. I love Jesus and all that but I don't understand the buy every radio station broadcast license and play the same program across  8 frequencies. 

Well, actually I do understand it. I just think it is rude and a huge mistake. My thoughts and feelings about getting the Word  and/or Message out have changed over time. Anyway. 

Another colleague lives in Brooklyn, loves Mike Birbiglia almost as much as I do and just saw his new show on Broadway the other night. So we fan-girled hard over him. She also really loves high school and collegiate a cappella and musical theater. Nice. She didn't like Hadestown, and I did. Well, I like the soundtrack. I like Anais Mitchell. And the tiny desk for Hadestown is pretty great. Her husband is going to see Guster the day after thanksgiving in NYC (her best friend is in town so they're doing a girls' nite).

 With all the busyness of business lately, it was a joy to spend some time getting to know some people. 

By the time 7:30pm rolled around I had finally almost caught up. I still have some things to do, mostly helpdesk ticket replies and a few emails. 

Doug put on the last 2 episodes of the Cabinet of Curiosities, which we both found disappointing (one was so dull we didn't finish watching. we were tired of nothing happening) The second I wanted to see what happened but he pretty much bitched that he wanted to turn it off). I got my way but he was right. It didn't pan out. I didn't like the ending, it wasn't what I wanted. Boo. I won't spoil it for anyone reading who may watch the series. 

Overall, excellent content. Gotta say it was enjoyable. So not a total loss. 

Then we saw a commercial for the Weird Al movie. I said "oh, we should watch that. It was 10pm. Doug put it on. I protested, I wanted to go to bed, damnit! But. We got into it and I am very glad we did.

It was probably one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. Daniel Radcliffe plays Weird Al, which is hilarious because he's like 7 inches shorter than the real life Al. Again, I won't spoil anything for anyone, but holy cow - if you like Weird Al, watch it. If you don't know anything about his rise to stardom, watch it. If you don't care but want to see some dumb cameos and pretty decent ridiculous acting, watch it. 

I enjoyed it greatly. 

Today, as of this writing (approx 12:30pm), Doug is studying for this certification test he's going to take tomorrow morning. 

He could take it proctored online, but they have all these rules about seeing the space you're going to take the test in to make sure you don't cheat. You can't have anyone walk through the room while you are testing, and he basically sits where Geoff has to walk through to get to his room. Not a big deal, Geoff could hang out up here, but it is a three hour test. Booo. 

So he opted to do it in person. He has to be there at 8:30am and the testing center is right by a brewery we like. I was kind of disappointed, I wished it was later, I'd go to the brewery when it opens at noon, wait for him to come over. Or heck, I could run errands, go to target, drive around a town I've never been to, catch some Pokemon or whatever. But three hours is so long to futz about. I will stay home. I have a dining table to clean, and a lot of dog hair underneath this table thing that I can see from here. And I can vacuum, he won't be here to complain. 

We're being very quiet right now. All the windows are open, it's wonderfully pleasant. Phin and I are sitting on the couch being quiet. We are listening to some beep beep beep alarm going off in one of the houses in the neighborhood. If I had some music on, it wouldn't be noticeable. 

I folded laundry. I gathered up a bunch of trash that was on the bedroom floor (our bedroom trash basket had overflowed - nothing dirty or gross, it just needed to be emptied out so it was. 

Ha. 

I didn't do anything today, with Doug studying and then I took a snooze with Phin, I guess I missed out on today. We had most of the day with no power tools and equipment being used, until now. There's hammering and leaf blowing and a saw going across the street now. 

Geoff went to the market to grab something for dinner for us. Doug takes his test in the morning and told me that if he passes, we'll go celebrate. 

digits for Friday and Saturday

Friday

exercise:

blood glucose:
9am:183
5pm:153
11pm:198

food: 
coffee, water
9:15am: 2 good berry yogurt
1pm: chicken salad in low carb fajita wrap; metformin
6pm: chicken breast mexican style ( bacon, spices, cheese, etc) Wine
7pm: metformin+jardiance
8:30pm: ramekin of mixed nuts. More wine

Saturday:

exercise:

blood glucose:
9:30am: 192
4:30pm: 155
xpm

food: 
coffee, water
11:30am: 2 slices of rye bread heels with butter (just to get them out of the cabinet)
12:30pm: metformin
2:30pm: 2 good yogurt
4:45pm: mcintosh apple
6:30pm: metormin+jardiance; 2 hot dogs; beers
11:00 a pb sammitch before sleep

Self Care

There are days I literally can sit on my butt all day. Days like today. 

I was going to screenshot my outlook calendar for today, with all the meetings including noon to 1, with conflicts, and with a huge meeting at 3. I didn't because it would include words and emails that are not for public consumption.  If I didn't have to be on camera for meetings, chances are I would not shower. I have to remind myself to get up and walk around. To go get food. 

My trick is to drink a pint of water pretty much every hour. Then I have to pee. Then I get more water. then I have to pee.

Some days, I have to pee in the middle of a meeting. Days like today.

Getting up and walking around is good self care. Taking a shower is good self care. Telling people I'm stepping away for 10-15 min when it's all almost back to back. Asking people to hold off until after x pm for me to get through meetings and then I'll get back to them. 

I'm often a minute or two late for meetings because I go to the bathroom, then the kitchen, and put dishes in the machine, or start to prep for dinner, even if Geoff is the one cooking, like tonight. 

And I get more water.

I don't think I could ever go back to the office full time if I behave like this when I am there. But if I went back to the office I'd be awake at 7am, showered, dressed and out the door. I would probably take more breaks to talk to people in the building. But right now I talk to people on slack while I am sitting in meetings, listening when it isn't my turn to talk, or drive, or do. 

Today I did get up and get water and walk around a bit more, thankfully. I took a break at 5, Geoff made dinner for us, and then I worked again. I didn't take my inside walk. Doug took the day off to do some of his certification test stuff and go to a dentist appointment. He was completely in my way and cramping my style. 

Not a lot of update here. Sorry! 

Drink plenty of water, stay hydrated, find your self care.

digits

exercise: nothing official just a bunch of walking around

blood glucose:
9am: 177
5:30pm: 151
10pm: 188

food:
11:30am: 2 slices of 647 bread toasted, topped with low sugar peanut butter & low sugar preserves
12:40: metformin
2pm: 2 good cherry yogurt
6pm: cheeseburger (on a bun, 26 carbs in that sucker) with sliced pickles, mayo, and catsup
6:30: 2 ramekins of mixed nuts (there were dried cranberries in there, I noticed)
7pm: Metformin+jardiance

Chicken Soup

 Been too busy today to get a post going before now. I usually set one up to add to through the day but it was just crazy. And tomorrow may be just as.  

I still have work to do tonight but I'm basically over it. I have a short list of things to dive into first thing tomorrow. Doug put on Cabinet of Curiosities and it's pretty good but the one we've got on right now is ridiculous. I should set up content sharing for all of Ohio. Or test all the election embeds. But it can wait.

Lately first thing has been 9:15am, or 9:30 ... unfortunately. I hate getting up. I hate starting work. I have been absolutely stressed. Today I had about 90 minutes during the day where I wasn't in meetings. 

At about 10:30am I put on some chicken breasts for chicken salad and boiled them, turned off the heat and covered them. And at 11:30 I snuck into the kitchen to whip them out of the water, air cool, and then made chicken salad. Doug had a doctor's appointment at 1, so I wanted to get it made for the both of us before he left and I went into another meeting. 

At 3pm I grabbed the chicken carcass from a couple nights ago and whipped it into a stock pot, filled it with water, added carrots and chopped celery and set it to boil. I was waiting for Geoff to get home from the market so I could put onions in it. He got them chopped up and while I was in a meeting he sauteed them for me to caramelize. 

I love soup season, but I have to admit, it was 70 plus degrees here today so we opened all the windows. The house doesn't smell as amazing as it could, if it was super cold out. 

The soup was good. Managing to squeeze little runs into the kitchen to do things like tear the meat apart and pull out the bones, it all worked out great. 

There are enough leftovers for one person to have lunch tomorrow. That is usually my goal. Someone at work asked me if I freeze my stock and I laughed. I never lasts long enough. 

Anyway. No picture but I did get some steps in. And that's good.

Oh and I sucked it up and did that Ohio thing that I needed to do, emailed the stations, and now it is bedtime!

digits

exercise: Dedicated 10+5 while dinner was cooking

blood glucose:
9am:  174
5:30pm: 182
10pm: 148

Food:
coffee, water
10:30am: mixed berry 2 good yogurt
12:45pm: metformin; large bowl of chicken salad
3pm: a bunch of carrots
6pm: 2 bowls of chicken soup (onions, celery, carrots, homemade chicken stock)
7pm: metformin+jardiance
Wine
10:30pm: Triscuits while building Ohio.

Are you happy now?

 A favorite tradition around here is to listen to this song: 

There are some live versions out there, but this original studio version from way back in the day is perfect.  The day after halloween, what a song. It's such a story. I love Richard. 

Anyway, today's the day after Halloween here and we don't have streams of paper filling the trees or shaving cream covering the car "that we picked up in Baltimore..." It poured overnight, but today is sunny, cloudy, blue, white, beautiful and the trees are still doing their dance and undressing for us. Today was a stressful work day, thankfully I have some amazing coworkers, and we got through the day with a couple of laughs. Not enough laughs, but a couple. 

I was very happy to be done with today. Geoff has class on Tuesdays so he likes to eat dinner before it starts at 6:30. We had talked about soup, but he forgot a few things at the market the other day (I'll be sending him back) to get the stuff I need for stock. I was thinking of making both chicken stock and French onion soup. I'm a weirdo. 

I was going to say it is soup season but today it was 72 degrees, surprisingly. Which isn't exactly soup season but when you're in the mood. It just sounds good. 

I saw on the news that it is going to be very nice out, so maybe I can convince Doug that we can go somewhere. Maybe.

digits: 

exercise: Dedicated 10+22, inside while dinner was cooking

blood glucose:

9am: 202
5pm: 166
10pm: 170

food:

coffee, water

10:30am: pbj sammitch, low sugar preserves, 2 pieces of 647 bread, low sugar peanut butter

11am: 3 forkfuls of mac&cheese with ground beef
1pm: leftover stuffing & gravy with several slices of turkey sandwich meat; metformin
6pm: chicken parm
7pm: hostess ding dong, ramekin of mixed nuts (no dried fruits); metformin+jardiance