Cold can be handled.

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The drop in highs and lows, plus fewer hours of heat, was crashing my paradigm.  This time I have a plan.  I just... wasn't quite expecting to have to need it this early.  Warmer clothes.  I tried an extra layer here, a bit more there, ended up figuring out what I need.  It will always be a bit of trial and error, but... layering works.

Socks.  But not just wool socks.  Also an undersock.  Wool just won't do it alone, and my feet are hard on wool.  I finally have all that I need to regularly wear those.  And am prepared to do so.  I also have long underwear, of various types, tops and bottoms.  I don't quite need those yet, but will be ready this year.  Finally, I have everything ready for cold weather, and have started deploying it.  Oh, and in the cart are items by which to darn some of my wool socks with holes in the heels.  Yes, it's worth it.  Priced good wool socks lately?  Yikes!

I went on to bed with socks on.  I did need to take them off a few hours in, but I slept better being warm enough to sleep well!  It makes sense, but doing what is right and needed takes... a certain level of awareness I don't always have.  But, this year, it is on.  I will always keep myself warm enough.  As well, I have become heat tolerant, so... life should improve.  Oh, yes, it will.

From now on, if I sense discomfort, my job it to fix it.  It isn't just for comforts sake, it is in an attempt to become more functional.  I will always have problems with that, but I can optimize from my end... that and pray.  My life... that it continues... is a God thing.  Every doctor I have had for the last thirty years knows I should be dead, should have been dead before some of them were out of med school... or even grade school for the younger ones.  That I have dead cat bounce is... well... unusual.  Anything I can do is from half in the grave.  Not... bad... for a dead guy.

Dishes, and laundry.  Then a shower and setting up more dishes.  That is all I will focus on tonight, save cleaning off a couple of counters for ease of finishing the dishes.  Well, and trash.  I have most of it out, but need to bag trash cans.  And, perhaps, get a bit more out.  Sunday, right?  I... lost... time in there somewhere.  It feels like I hit Thursday and just got stuck.  I'll bet I've missed medicine?  It got cold, of a sudden, and I... lost myself in there, in that.

No food today, at least so far.  I may yet, as I am tinkering in the kitchen area, get chicken brining and then going.  A chicken salad would be good, especially with still warm chicken.  Though a single thigh, with skin on... as a treat... would be a delight.  Yes, I have to cut, give, surrender... if I want to lose weight.  BUT... I don't have to cut everything, every time.  I will be struggling with controlling calories for a while, so if I slip, as long as I am honest, I will... take it.  Honesty in reporting is primary, the rest will happen as it does.  The rest is useless without honesty.  If I can get back to absolute keto, and intermittent fasting, calorie control becomes much easier.

Later.