Grace has no trache at the moment!
This is such an exciting new chapter for Grace! The advantage of catching up on a day's posts is finding out that surgery is going to happen and getting the results in a few minutes. Much easier than real time. Also, that toilet looks like great fun.
Anyway, we had a fun conversation about the difference in mindsets between a competitive swimmer (even an ex) and someone like me.
I've had this conversation a couple times with my friend and now coworker. She competed in 4 Olympics and after she didn't qualify for her 5th attempt we discussed workouts for fun vs competition. I am her polar opposite. I enjoy madly many sports, but suck at all of them. I love to swim, but both my form and times are laughable. I did several marathons, but never did them in less than nearly 7 hours. Any injury stops me completely. She feels that I would benefit from learning how to work through the discomfort and would enjoy the activities a lot more if I were to get some coaching to up my game. She also knows that she has to find a way to find joy in the activity without comparing her performance with others.
I know she is right and that I should make more effort, but wimp here! She coaches a lot and what should happen is that I should go under her wing and let her push me. (but she is so strong and powerful, wimp out, wimp out)
It's amazing how much better my morning is if I let myself have three double-chocolate Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies first thing when I'm trying to wake up. Nomnomnom
My breakfast is looking pretty sad right now.
I am fretting because I cannot figure out how to add veggies to my lunch. I have kale and carrots and broccoli and lettuce but they seem to all take more prep than I am willing to take on this morning.
ETA: I remembered I have a powdered supplement for just just an occasion. Whew.
So excited for Grace! Yay!!
Oz, the cat, seems to basically have stopped eating. He has lost weight in the last week, I am sure of it. He is drinking water and I think he ate a couple of treats today.
msbelle, that's what happened with Damien when he first developed diabetes. It might be worth getting him checked out. Or, he could have just been missing you. Either way, fingers crossed for Oz's continued health.
My morning, or why fasting blood tests are a bad idea.
As I started down my driveway, several cars honked at me and I couldn't figure out why. There is no universal honking code for "The trash people left your can in the middle of your driveway, and you're about to hit it." Then I got to Kaiser, where they're installing a new computer system. That added quite a bit of time to testing and picking up a prescription. I got an apple fritter on the way home, because blood sugar. It was thrown on the floor when the person ahead of me suddenly decided to do an illegal U-turn. When I got home, there were county trucks in front of my house doing something to the pipes under the street.
Oh boo! Apple fritters are delicious and that U-turn driver owes you a new one!
I am listening to a "work/life balance" seminar on my computer, to earn points for some work program or other. Notably I am only vaguely listening to it, since the audio is through the computer and I can barely understand it...and I disbelieve that they have much to tell me about work/life balance other than "sorry, your job sucks for that"
