Thursday, March 27, 2014
I woke this morning at 10. All by myself, no alarm. I was kinda proud of myself - I haven't done that in quite a while, and with this cold, I didn't think it possible. But I did it! I also managed to get up and do things and get ready to go walking without taking any meds (aka DayQuil) again today, although I probably should have. My lungs would have thanked me, I think.
I met Lois at noon, and we took off walking. As we approached the shortcut (what we call a shortcut - it's where you can cut the walk in half or so if you so desire), I was getting ready to tell Lois that I was going to have to flake out and take the shortcut when it started raining on us and she asked me if I wanted to cut through. I answered YES very quickly, and we took the shortcut and headed back over to where we started. My lungs (my chest) felt very tight, and I was breathing - not deep, but kinda full, if you know what I mean - and I was glad to be done with walking. My legs were starting to tell me 'don't push too much' and I still had shopping to do today! So, all in all, we walked over half a mile, but it still took about 20 minutes, and I wasn't very proud of that. But I gave a valiant effort, and that's gotta count for something, right?
I just sat in the car and breathed for about 5 minutes, then took off for Georgetown. I had to go to Rumpke for the stupid health insurance health-fair thing, which is mandatory, or they will charge Ron $10 MORE every week because we didn't do it. Ugh. So, since they'll be testing sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol and all, I can't even go home and get a bite to eat before going! They also have to fit me in inbetween all the Rumpke drivers, secretarys, mechanics, and other spouses that are there for their tests also, so this is gonna take a while. And it did. I didn't get out of there until after 2, closer to 2:15. I was starving! And getting mighty peckish, too. But my numbers on the tests were good - even my weight! They still say (my BMI) that I'm obese, but I can live with that. My Wii tells me every time I get on there, too. But I'm not morbidly obese, like before, and I can definitely live with that! My sugar was a little higher than I thought it would be, but I guess my pancreas had started eating itself or something, because I was starting to not feel very well at all - then again, that may have started after they did the blood test and I had to sit around and wait for results and talk to them, which took longer than the testing did.
Finally, I could leave! Yay! I called Ron - he was out on a run - and told him my news, and that I needed to eat, and go shopping and all, and he told me to go eat RIGHT NOW and do everything else later. He told me not to try to do anything else first. I told him that I shouldn't spend any money like that, but he said I should wreck the car because I didn't eat, either.
So, I went to Country Inn and ate my lunch. At 2:30 in the afternoon. Now, I know I eat lunch at 2:30 at home all the time, but today was a little different. I really felt different. I dithered between the fish sandwich and the BLT double decker for a few minutes, then went with the BLT, because I'll have fish tomorrow. It was good! Of course, I had the steak fries with it. I don't like their chili, so...
Now -- shopping! It's only grocery shopping, but still, shopping! I go back up to SaveALot to pick up some meat at their wonderful 5-for-$20 section, and to get milk. Last time I was there, milk was $1.99 a gallon. Not today - it's gone up a dollar a gallon. Yipes! I only got one gallon. Ron is just gonna have to cut back on his milk-drinking, too. Wow.
I thought about taking these groceries home, and then driving down to Walgreen's for our prescriptions, but in the end, I just drove straight on down to Amelia. I was just being lazy - I didn't want to unload the car twice. At Walgreen's, I checked out the Easter selections and made a few choices, then got Ron's Fish Oil pills and Advil - ibuprofen - and when I checked out, I used $20.00 of what I've built up in the Rewards program. Yay, me!
I got home, got the car unloaded and things put away, and was playing on the pute when Ron got home. All in all, I would say it was a very successful day! Walking, shopping, stupid mandatory testing, prescriptions picked up, and my pute time. Beats sitting on my ass all day playing on pute, that's for sure!
We just cooked some hamburger patties for our supper, and he munched on his beet-and-sweet-potato chips as his side, while I didn't have a side, just the hamburgers. I cut them into little pieces and took my time eating them.
When I put my food into MFP, the lunch (sandwich & fries) weren't as caloric as I expected. I thought they'd be around 1000, and they were less than 700. O-kay. The hamburgers by themselves weren't all that much, either, and I had plenty of exercise today, too, so I had LOTS of calories left, so I put in for a bag of popcorn and a milk. Then I went and made me that snack. I ended up 360 calories short for the day, which is about normal for me, not that there is much normal about me. LOL
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