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Diabetics R Us

Morning all

I've got a very sore finger :(, one of the joints is swollen and the skin is red.

Have a good day.

H :)
 
SaskiaKC said:
Ow. Did something bite you?
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No, don't remember anything happening to it :(. Seen the doctor today and he thinks it's an infection so has given me some antibiotics. I'm also putting some ibuprofen gel on it.
 
Morning all

Lashing down here this morning. Just catching up with some TV while I have my cuppa.
Finger's still sore :(

Have a good day.

H :)
 
Lots of good things today and some bad too. Started bad, with my male chicken (yes I know what to call a male chicken but forum rules won't allow speaking about male chickens) dead in the chicken pen. His name was Dapper ('Brave' in Dutch because he was a very little funny looking male chicken of a very ugly race without much of a voice but he cockadoodledood for all he was worth and kept the hens happy).
Lots of things to do today but did have time to see if they had a nice new male chicken in the farm store.
So now I'm the proud owner of a new male chicken that goes by the name Monsanto! That's what it said on the box they put him and his pretty pale gray girlfriend in when I bought them and I figured it's a fine name for my new male chicken.

After that it was off for a long drive plus underground to Amsterdam for one of the best plays I've ever seen. Stunningly beautiful!
It was a rewrite of Death in Venice with a big role for an orchestra, very impressive.

And I managed to navigate the crowds in the theater without giving in to threatening panic and managed to ignore the slight panicky feeling in the cramped theater during the whole play so it really was a wonderful evening, and even diabetes played pretty much along. (that promptly ended when I got home but hey, it can't be all sunshine and flowers :))
 
@Antje77 Congratulations on your victory over the panic! That is so hard to do. I need to start trying to overcome it for some errands in my neighborhood -- and farther afield.

I'm sorry to hear about your rooster (good old American English -- we can post it anywhere! :)). Interesting that your new one's name is Monsanto -- they are in the doghouse with some people here (OK, I just looked up details and saw the tribunal was held in the Netherlands so you may know more about that than I do).

I wouldn't worry about posting about male chickens here anyway as someone made a hilarious typo on another forum here about a week ago, about setting their clock forward -- only they left out the L.
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I wish you happiness with your two new chickens. What is the hen's name?
 
Antje77 said:
Lots of good things today and some bad too. Started bad, with my male chicken (yes I know what to call a male chicken but forum rules won't allow speaking about male chickens) dead in the chicken pen. His name was Dapper ('Brave' in Dutch because he was a very little funny looking male chicken of a very ugly race without much of a voice but he cockadoodledood for all he was worth and kept the hens happy).
Lots of things to do today but did have time to see if they had a nice new male chicken in the farm store.
So now I'm the proud owner of a new male chicken that goes by the name Monsanto! That's what it said on the box they put him and his pretty pale gray girlfriend in when I bought them and I figured it's a fine name for my new male chicken.

After that it was off for a long drive plus underground to Amsterdam for one of the best plays I've ever seen. Stunningly beautiful!
It was a rewrite of Death in Venice with a big role for an orchestra, very impressive.

And I managed to navigate the crowds in the theater without giving in to threatening panic and managed to ignore the slight panicky feeling in the cramped theater during the whole play so it really was a wonderful evening, and even diabetes played pretty much along. (that promptly ended when I got home but hey, it can't be all sunshine and flowers :))
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Coq a doodle doo!!!!
 
Morning all

I was in bed by 8 last night and slept like a log.
My first "finish at 3 Friday" today and we are off in the motorhome for the weekend :D

Well done @Antje77 for going to the theatre & welcome Monsanto (& friend). I have a terrible fear of heights & bridges that actually stops us going to certain places when travelling :(

Have a good day.

H :)
 
I don't want to get out of bed.

Its not Saturday yet but my body is telling me it needs less stress.
I wonder if I'll jump out of bed, this time next year?
Now wouldn't that be a sight to see?!?!?! Ha ha
 
SaskiaKC said:
Congratulations on your victory over the panic! That is so hard to do.
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The biggest problem isn't the actual going but the losing sleep over it for days beforehand, debating wether I shall call off and regret that or just go on and face it. I miss the looking forward to things involving people, public transport or not having a place to myself without fear and anxiety. I loved looking forward to things in an uncomplicated way.
In this case it was very much worth it!

And it was a good training session for the rest of this month, april holds enough social gatherings to last me until christmas! All good things I like very much and all involving not sleeping in my own bed, and worse, not having the last 4 or so hours of the day to myself.

Next weekend is family weekend: 30 uncles, aunts, cousins, half cousins and their children in a hotel seeing various museums and guided tours and eating out for lunch, breakfast and dinner. This year I did the planning with my cousin, which surprisingly doesn't seem to give me additional stress :)

Easter weekend will be 'family' weekend of my friend with the ship: part of his family, additional friends, all people I like but still...

Weekend after that will be a big (I guess over 100 people), weekend long party at my cousins, a 4 hour drive, half of it over raods I hate to drive. And I haven't found a dog sitter so the dogs will have to stay home alone for a bit over 24 hours. Which means I'll have to drive back with not nearly enough sleep and a hangover. Can't go to bed early because the party with bands and everything will be in the garden and my bed will be in a tent in that same garden...

SaskiaKC said:
rooster (good old American English -- we can post it anywhere! :)).
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There's a simple solution! On the other hand, I like having a laugh at the Brits and their puritan beliefs about what one can or cannot say. Remember, I'm Dutch. We're the people freely saying things that are perceived as insulting while genuinely believing we are being helpful.
SaskiaKC said:
Interesting that your new one's name is Monsanto -- they are in the doghouse with some people here (OK, I just looked up details and saw the tribunal was held in the Netherlands so you may know more about that than I do).
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I know a little about it, which is why I found it such a funny name. And I thought it's a very pretty name for a rooster as well :)
According to the box his last name is Roundup, but I thought having a last name is a bit over the top for a simple rooster.
I didn't name the hen because I can't remember the names of my other hens or the guinea pigs so I don't bother naming them anymore.
 
I think Roundup is the reason people wanted to sue Monsanto. Carcinogens. Are you sure that's the rooster's name and that they didn't just put him in an old Roundup box with holes punched in? That is just a little too ironic!

You sound like me about wanting to be with people you like but ...

Wanting to go and be with them but ...

One "good" thing about being poor and without a car comes with a built-in excuse -- "I can't get there." It sucks, but it's also a graceful back-out. It's lonely, but the stress involved is different from the stress involved in going.
 
Very good-looking coq and hen. :)

@heh when I had a car there were places I could not drive because of big bridges, including one Spaghetti Junction where I had trouble even driving under the bridges and ramps. I seem to be OK if someone else is driving -- a friend took me on a couple of beach trips a few years ago and we crossed bridges and I was happily surprised that I was OK. After one bridge I asked him if he'd had a problem with it and he said something like, "What bridge? I didn't even notice it."

I don't want to freak you out posting a pic here but if anyone wants to Google "Talmadge Memorial Bridge," that's it.

I don't think I could cross the Chesapeake Bay Bridge even with one of the official drivers they have for travelers like me who have gephyrophobia.
 
Yesterday I had a phone call which broke my heart my best friend of over 38 years has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer I cried all night and still am.:bigtears::bigtears::bigtears::bigtears::bigtears:
 
JohnEGreen said:
Yesterday I had a phone call which broke my heart my best friend of over 38 years has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer I cried all night and still am.:bigtears::bigtears::bigtears::bigtears::bigtears:
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I'm so sorry, John.
 
Thank you for your kind wishes

Could I ask if you can find it in your hearts to say prayer for him or if not send some positive thoughts his way. It would be appreciated as he is a person of great faith.
 
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