Ouch, Tep!

Using the same machine will at least show a general trend. The numbers might not be perfect, but they will show improvement or hie thee to a physician information.

My blood pressure reads lower at those machines than doctor's offices. Cause I get panicky in Dr places and when humans are poking at me.

I don't think any numbers are completely accurate in my situation, but it's a range.

and it's shocking to read the labels for sodium.

It's depressing. I stopped buying some things.

I feel weird talking about how my family owned an MG Midget when I was a baby.

It's the actual name. Huh. I've never felt weird about that. If I heard someone say MG Little Person, I would blanch.

So last week (or so) I was trying to avoid stepping on a cat and tripped over my pedestal fan and broke the blade.

Owwwwwww.

But I feel better not throwing away perfectly good stuff.

My family doesn't get my ~issue~ with this.

I have a ton of platelets, so many that they clog up the line while donating and then they have to stop the whole process and toss out what little they got from me. I'm back to donating whole blood instead.

I know with me BP is pretty directly tied to weight.

Sure, but I've been this weight pretty consistently for years.

I have no-the-machine-is-not-actually-broken-just-take-it-again-trust-me, low blood pressure. And, I've always been a sodium ho.

But since I've been living clean this last month, my need for salt seems to have gone down considerably. Where once I would grind the salt into my hand and eat it as a snack, using Trader Joe's Everyday Seasoning is really working out for me...and seems almost too salty...which is just weird.

Sure, but I've been this weight pretty consistently for years.

Sorry, Nora. I think I was massively unhelpful there and could have been read as being judgy. I was surprised to find out how connected it was FOR ME, is what I was trying to say--not for everyone. And even knowing that, I STILL can't seem to lose the weight, so I got nothing, I guess...
Well, I'll stop talking now.

Steph's back!! Behave, dammit.

Hey, Nora, where do you do yoga?

I have low BP, but bad cholesterol.

Lunch was fun. Going to see XM:FC tonight with girl from last night, so of course now I'm doing the "OMG what if she likes me likes me and I don't like her?" thing. Yay.

Just finished dinner (everyone is taking turns cooking; tonight was our turn). We finished up as the fucking O'Reilly TV show was coming on, and Tim's dad HAD to watch it (the TV is in the family room, which is really just half of the large open family room/kitchen combo, so hanging out upstairs means being confronted with that vile propaganda.

Conveniently, my back hurts and I need to lie on the heating pad.

I love Tim's father, I do, but I also can choose what I'm exposed to in the way of media, and this is my goddamn vacation. So I'm lying on a heating pad and surfing the internet.

Apologies to any buffistas in the UK who are feeling a burning sensation. My death glare at my colleagues over there is set at 11, so there may be some spillover.

Steph, you just described the last 4 years of my life with my MiL. Fox News on from 8 to 8 every day on not one, but two TV's (family room and bedroom). I had to cook every night wearing my iPod. Now that she's in assisted living I don't know what to do with myself in the kitchen. I can actually cook and watch what I want. (Hope the back feels better soon!)

I once complained about the constant TVs on at a friend's house and he said it was just like that at my house, too & I said, "But just during football season... and baseball season... but that's sports!"