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Up by 10:00, or maybe just a couple of snooze like time periods after. I did not hear the alarm until a bit after. I have not let Sam sleep in my bedroom since she disgorged on one of my blankets. The vomit itself, gross as it was, is not the problem. I do not have another cover blanket to lay until I get this one washed, all my work is backed up, and I will not negotiate until I get to the laundry (of course the vomit has been removed, but the blanket has to be washed to satisfy my hebee-jebee factor). Anyway, her and Sassy were banging at the door on top of the alarm. Sam knows she gets to go out if she can get popo's butt out of teh sleepiz. The alarm is her call to action... I love that. See, cats can be helpful.

Anyway, up and ready. I have not felt this good in some time. I know I suggested I was in recovery. And I still believe that. It is just that recovery is only marginally faster than the fall. It is the physics, you see, of the illness. One cannot expect someone who has been bed ridden for a week or three to suddenly pop up to full function in a few days. Considering my full function is less than optimal to start with, and recovery is what it is. I will take it. Yesterday was a 15:00, or slightly after, wake up. With alarms and some other things. Rather than worry, I just kept plugging.

Nothing was done yesterday, but that is the way of it. Well, I did cook a nice supper (might have been what got me up?) and I started reading a more intense tome, or so I thought, regarding problem solving. The problem with it is it borders on the inanely obvious to over-the-top. Asking for a solution to a 5 or 6 piece end-game chess set? Well, uhrm, I could manually maneuver the solution... but mathematically? Then asking for a proof? Well, I can see the proof, it just is not in my math blood if I could wrangle through this one, sort of. But nearly a page describing, as a politician might, minor details of the problem, from "givens" to "goal", which I have pretty much known since my first word problem? Still, I will hang with it for a bit. I am hoping to find 'trade secrets', if I am dubious and becoming more so. I would love to find a serious mathematics logic treatise which is at once eminently functional in shortcutting the solution processes using both logic and known insta-paths and yet is approachable from a reading standpoint. Yeah, I know, good luck with that!

Today I must get to the county seat and deal with taxes. Auto and home are on the slate. With this letter, there are other things I can do but I will worry about those options at another time. For now just taxes. While in town, since it is still before payday, I will do little else. I may call my friend, however, and see if he wants to go for a sandwich, window shopping a television, and do some grocery shopping. There is a shop that makes excellent beef sandwiches. They also offer fresh baked bread of several types. Further, their whole grain no additive breads are not much more expensive than store bought and taste a whole lot better. Add in that they make a half and half white to wheat bread, much along the lines of my 2:1 white to wheat, and I am there. Bread is food, food I can afford. I may do some other minimal shopping as well. Adding a few cans of this, a bag of flour, cooking oil, or other item(s), and something tasty as a current treat to whatever else I buy when grocery shopping and my short term larder does build more quickly than I had thought. Buying it all at once, while tempting, just has not been possible.

Oh, something I thought I would mention. In spite of my diabetes being well and truly under control, at least at the last check and that being my A1C, I should admit that I continue to eat sugar and other sweets. I do not do this daily. I try to keep my treats to a weekly event, though often I slip and make it twice or even three times a week. I also drink a few beers a week or every other week. I eat potatoes and beans, both of which are starch heavy. Starch, of course, is supposed to translate to sugar in less time than it takes a doctor to drop a stethoscope, or figure something out on there own, which of course must all be false. All I am saying is... I think neither doctors nor dietitians know a thing about either diabetes or nutrition. Just a thought.

Have a great day. If you cannot do that, then at least figure out one thing, do something on your sometimes forgotten little list, smile at one total stranger and not just a pretty one, and mean it when you say something nice to one other human. Then return to your grumpy cynical ways and avoid work again. Ha! Actually, I try to be rather decent most of the time, and succeed easily. I make up for it by not doing a damn thing. *sigh* Hrmm? Yep, my doom and gloom is all mostly mine and to some extent yours. Go figure? Anyway, have a good day.