Good morning.

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I didn't make it to bed until 17:45, give or take a decade of minutes, if I think that is pretty accurate.  But, you know, when you've been up a long day, been pushing work efforts for a week, it's winter, dark or getting there, and... all else?  Short term memory can suck.  Still, I think so.

Then I woke right before two, 1:57, 1:52, 1:xx... a few minutes before.  I just can't be sure.  Actually?  I thinks it was 1:56, when I rolled over.  How long did it take me to actually get up, getting going, and leave?  I think it was nearly immediate, as in within a minute.  But I... can't swear to that, either.

I did sort the clothes from the dryer, that I took up as a last thing.  I did that last night before crawling into bed.  I really need to find an ironing board.  I may simply not have one?  Hmm, maybe in the spare room, in the closet.  From when mother was here.  I just don't know.  Another look around the place.

I could just buy one, or even a little table-top one?  But I don't want to if I can find one.  I do have a wool item, but that is more just for pressing.  Not really ironing something complicated, like a button down shirt.  I mean, you can use it, but it's... not convenient.  And... ironing boards have become so expensive!  Ugh.  You can get a cheap one, but cheap is relative, these days.  Hmm... I wonder about thrift stores?  It... might be worth looking.  There are several things on my list that might be available there?

Blood sugar is just a bit high this morning.  I did cheat, just a bit, yesterday... again.  But, this time, more into keto than into carby.  I bought a pack of cherry tomatoes, celery, carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower.  Oh, and some packs of blueberries.  Two for five, the latter, so... I... got two!  And... ate two.  And, yes, that is enough to raise (my) blood sugar.  I am very insulin resistant.  Well, and at tacos not that long ago.  So... it adds up.  Still?  At 128, fasting, off the wagon?  I... don't mind that, once a rare occasion.  I can do that, survive that.  That's down from ~230 as a regular daily, which is down from beyond the scope of my glucometer's ability to read, so 650 to 700, or higher.  There... is that.

Look, carnivore is much... more difficult than it seems.  I will fall.  YOU will fall.  Can just do your best.  Over time, improve.  Over time, the effects will happen.  Perfection?  That just isn't possible.  And yet, I am doing well.  I'll keep at it, keep trying.  I may fall off tomorrow, again.  Today?  Maybe.  And, then, I'll get back on.

Look.  I have quit tobacco.  That... was... difficult.  It took four or five? six? times?  Then it stuck.  Quitting alcohol?  That... was easier.  But I was getting older, no longer had drinking friends, and just... didn't see the economic benefit.  But, it... took Budweiser going full queer for me to dump the last of my habit.  A few beers, a few times a year.  Thanks, Bud.  I realized all corporations are like that, so it didn't matter which beer.  They were all fake and gay.  I'll... go without.

But sugar?  Carbs?  Wow.  Those are so ingrained.  From bread, to most veggies, fruit, to simple or complex sugars.  It's a component of beer, some hard drinks, breads, tacos, corn chips, tortillas of either sort, and almost every processed food.  That is a hell of a lot of dietary history to give up.  Even having gone keto, it's still not the same.

But... I will do it, or get close enough.  Blood sugar has been great, and as mentioned, even today's read is good, compared to my very long past on this issue.  And my weekly average, even with that, is 112.  A blood glucose level of 111 equals an A1C of 5.5, which is in the optimal range.  Thing is I am just there, and am pushing it.  BUT!  That is still very, very, good.  My last A1C reading was... 9.9.  So... there!  I have almost halved it.  Nice.  Still, back to the grindstone, innit.

Well, have a great morning.  I'll try to sort some things out.  If, today, is mostly a rest day.  I will look more for the ironing board(s), and see about sourcing one elsewise.  But other than that, today and probably tomorrow is a day of rest.  UNLESS I find an ironing board.  If I do, I'll get to ironing and hanging things.  When that pile is finished, THEN I get time off for good behavior.

Almost don't want to find a board, but oddly?  I'd still give my left nut (NOT LITERALLY) to find one, or two, boards.  Ugh.  Later.