Finally cooked a bit.

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Burger, out on the griddle.  I cleared and cleaned the griddle.  It's usually in pretty good shape, didn't need much.  Didn't make burgers, created burger crumble.  Works in lots of things.  Added beans to some of it, then cheese.  Beans?  Right, but... yeah.  Yea.  I know.

Not much else today.  Tired.  Very tired.  Drinking too much fluid?  Even my hands feel bloated.  Not sure what is up with that.

A very good sleep.

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Just, what, half before 19:00, down?  Not awake until 5:30.  Wow.  A long sleep.  Must have needed it.  Did push through from three yesterday morning, or so?  Something.  All good.

Sassy has been fed and watered this morning.  Litter is on the list.  I just wasn't ready to hit that first thing.  

I... did well.

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It's 18:16.  I was able to stay up a bit longer.  It's such a struggle, but... I do put in effort.  Whether I succeed or not is a whole other thing.

Blood sugar has slowly been coming down through the day.  At 121, at bedtime, that works.  Still surprised it isn't higher.

Not much.

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Mostly just catching my breath from yesterday.  Gaming.  I'm not even going to eat.  Just... not.

Looks dirty out there.  The sun is dim.  It's... just... not a pretty winter day.  They can't all be, I suppose.

So... complicated, sometimes.

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The order, for my mother?  Was to be delivered today.  Was... delivered today.  But?  It went to her old nursing home!  Ugh.  Which... is closed.  So, UPS let me know, or amazon?  And wanted me to contact UPS.

So... I found their contact number and called.  Not... their problem.  So, back to amazon.  And... around and around and around we went.  Finally, I found a way to get them to call me.

Awake!

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Sometime shortly after three?  Or so.  I first woke at about two thirty.  Was able to go back for a bit.  Then around three turned the space heater on.  That just cuts the frosty nature of the air in the morning.  I probably won't use it every day though.  Shouldn't have used it today, didn't need it.  But... it's... novel.

Sassy was fed first thing.  She was begging pretty hard.  So be it.  I'll get to her litter and water shortly.  Then I started in, looking around the web.  Seeing what is being said, suggested, and such.

A long trip.

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Just to the V.A., but that's a two hour drive, and I am getting old.  Longer if you don't take the interstate, but I won't do three hours, or four.  Then, I usually arrive an hour early.  Which would have been fine, but some stinking slot was watching oprah in the waiting room.  So I left, came back a quarter too.  The only other person, a man, was in the waiting room, but was reading.

I asked if he was watching the news, or listening on the side.  He said he wasn't, so I clicked it off.  CNN.  The VA had stopped playing that on every tv.  Looks like their back to their old tricks of boosting the networks ratings.  *click*  All good.  Best news, I told him, I had heard all day.  *grins*

A good start.

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A bit of gaming.  Then a nice long hot shower.  The wound on the leg... the fresh scab didn't come off.  It's fresh and strong, not dry and old like the previous one.  Clean, love that feeling.  Scent.  Nice.  Though, to be honest, since going keto, and then onto carnivore, my body doesn't become as... unclean... as it used to.  Sweat just isn't the same.  Even... bathroom... residue.  There isn't much, often none.  They call it ghost pooping, because when you wipe, there is nothing on the tp.  Seriously.  Very strange what eating the old way does.  

And, yes, it shows up in the shower... sort of... by needing little cleaning.  You need antiperspirant, or other, because you eat bad food.  Seriously.  Now I understand how the french could use bidets, and other nationals.  It was because of their diets.  Or... at once.  The French are slowly giving up the bidets.  As they... eat like moderns.  Sad.  Well, for as long as France will remain French.  I wonder what the muslims will rename it?

Ah, I think it might be the device.

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BP, on first read, was 178/142?  That couldn't be right!?!  A second read, on the other arm, gave me 114/82.  I know it didn't drop that much from switching arms and waiting fifteen seconds!  Can't remember the pulse, was so unnerved about the bp that I didn't remember that part.  But my watch says 68.  Okay.  Okay.  Yes, I think the device is out of trim, or low on batteries?  Something.  I'll change batteries before next use, see if that helps.  I've been using it for a long time, a decade?  I don't remember changing the batteries.  So, all good.

Yes, I took pills this morning.  I'll see about backing it off, tomorrow.  Taking full dose tonight, then... relaxing things a bit tomorrow.  It is good that it came back under control so quickly.  Wasn't sure... about that.  It got pretty high, there.  Sure, I have had it much higher, but... for recent norms, very high.

About right?

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Down at 17:45?  Or... so.  Up at 1:15?  Nine hours, if I am counting right.  Tried to stay down longer, but sometimes it just won't happen.  Didn't need more sleep, just wanted to push my day along.  Wouldn't happen.  

Space heater, this morning.  Technically wasn't needed.  For some very strange reason, it was 64 up there, in the main, 62 near me.  That wasn't the space heater.  It hadn't run for five minutes when I got out of bed.  And, that thing barely budges any of the readings, from the times I have tried it.  not sure what is up with that.  It is usually between 53 and 57 up there.  It was just 57 when I went up last night, after a warmer than usual day.  Very strange.

Perfect?

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Perfection is for others.  I... will make do.  And?  I do'ed!

I had to check twice, but was able to get 146/89 and a pulse of 70.  Not a lot of fuss, or multiple checks.  Just... used the other arm, a few seconds after the first try.  Good enough.  I was... worried, that it might take a lot more to bring it down.  My guess, beyond, is that, in a day or two, I can probably just go to the lower doses again.

Bad.

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Blood pressure was way off.  The first time, it read 196/119?  I did a second read, used the better arm.  The second read was 172/109.  Still pretty high.  So, I took medicine.  A morning dose earlier.  Then a final night dose just a bit ago.  I'll be trying to stay up a few hours in order to check bp again.  I took stronger doses, by a bit.  But it may take a few days for that to have any affect.

Too much, and I about die.  Too little and... I about die.  Bah!

Frigid?

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Yes, yes I am.  I checked outdoors.  It's only 22, so not terribly horribly cold.  but it sure feels like it.  Not sure why.  Though there are things which can make the temperature feel colder.  Barometric pressure?  Air moisture levels?  No wind out there, so it isn't that.  But that can definitely play a part, rip the heat right out of a building, body, automobile.  But... cold, baby.  And I really can't be sure why.

Having coffee.  Not drinking it fast, so have had to heat it up once.  Might have to heat it up again.  Though, if I have something else warm to drink, I think I'll do chicken bone broth.  I'll need to salt it, and will add raw cream.  And, of course, heat it... just in the microwave.  I do have small pans clean, finally, now.  But... I... don't want to dirty them.

Almost made it to midnight.

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I think it was 11:43.  That's as long as I could stay down.  I woke a bit before, turned on the space heater, gave it five or six minutes.  Wanted to give it more, just couldn't stay down any longer.  That did take the crisp out of the air.  Nice.  Didn't warm it to any great extent, just... eased the cold from bed to my dressing bench.

Sassy came up.  Would have napped a while with me, but I just couldn't sleep more.  A rough morning, a bit.  Achy neck.  Sleep wrong?  Or... something else?  Not terrible, just enough.  And a bit of a headache.  I'll check bp this morning, some time.  Blood sugar is 129 fasting.  Okay.  Not great, but I've definitely had worse.

On to bed.

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I made it to 14:00.  Just turned the minute after the dot.  So tired though.  But... I was able to push through.

Nothing else, save another blood sugar test.  It was 119.  While not great, it's better than 150, much better than 215, and far better than 350, let alone 650 or higher.

Well, maybe not much more.

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I am mostly just trying to stay awake until early afternoon.  Slowly falling, though, and it's not even eleven.  Food would be good, as would coffee.  Do I have a drip-through "coffee maker", or something else around?  Or an actual electric drip maker?  One little piece, and the french press is useless.  I'll go look.  That might help.

If the space heater warms a space, it doesn't stay warm long.  Okay, I reset it a while back, to run for two hours.  And... it... takes the chill off the room, or has so far.  As well, you can use it more directionally.  Still, it will work... for a few things.  More or less.

Doing... things.

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Not always successfully?  Yes, and... no.  I mean, I did figure out how to get the p-trap, or whichever, off the bathroom sink.  But... the doohickey is not in there.  It must have just washed on through.  And, now, while I have it back together, and in place, after half an hour of wanting to cuss... but strangely going without?  It... leaks like a sieve.  So... I'll... have to do more down there.  I... really want to cuss.

Actually, that's not true!  I feel no need or want to cuss.  I feel like I would like to feel like cussing?  How about, and more like, I thought I should want to do what I have absolutely no inkling of doing?  Something.  Not a single foul word, or even really the want for such, even while the thing goes completely sideways.  I'm... good with things.  I'll get it, in time.  All good.

Not much.

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And it feels so cold to boot.  I did find a few lids, for the next set of water jugs.  Half gallon jars, just to keep a supply of water from the r.o. on hand.  Otherwise, if electricity goes out, or I just need more water than the thing spits out quickly, I have it.  I keep three jugs full, plus the caraf.  And the reservoir is usually kept topped off, for the next batch.  That gives me two gallons of reverse osmosis water on hand at any time.  It takes about fifteen minutes to churn out a half gallon.  So... an hour and a quarter, if I could keep right on top of it.  That in reserve.

I haven't washed the first jugs since I started.  They smell good... in that they don't have any odor.  The water tastes fine.  I... just... wonder.  So, I decided to change jugs.  Should do that once in a while?  Dunno.  I just don't know.  I know the potable water tanks on submarines smelled nastier than the sewage tanks.  But, they got no sunlight.  My jars are on the counter.  While they don't get direct sunlight, it might be enough, especially in clear jars?  Seems so, it's... probably been over a year.  Ordered April 22, 2022.  So, a year and a half, give or take.

Up so early.

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Well, it seems so.  Down a bit after fourteen hundred, up at twenty three hundred.  I guess that is nine hours down.  It just seems... short... because I am waking so late?  Early?  I feel like I am waking at the wrong time.  Time shifting stinks.  To be regular is a good thing.

Sassy was fed right away.  Blood sugar was tested, and is 145 fasting.  Coming back down, but... annoying.  No more allulose.  Cream, yes, sweetener of any kind, no.  I'll use the allulose when eating with other things that might be questionable.  It actually can help then.  No guarantee, but it's... possible... to fill the insulin manufacturing input slots when eating things with more or faster carbs.  It just... no sweetener seems to work as a daily driver.

Made it.

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Nearly a quarter after fourteen hundred... two pm to some of you.  But... I'm about to crash.  It's been a very good day.  Dishes are still drying, probably dry.  Oh, I will put the laundry in the dryer, turn that over.  Trash was taken out, and the barrel even brought back.  A number of things.  Even put bags back in the various trash and recycling cans.

The new glasses are truly working out well.  I just need to try to take care of them.  I was able to get five pair of glasses for less than the usual cost of two.  Not, truly, cheap.  But, that they work, well, are progressives, and second to the lightest lenses?  Not... bad.  I want to take care of them.  They all die of scratches eventually.