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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

dunelm said:
Good morning eveyone on a simply gloriously silent start (for me) here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.6 this am. I think that 4.2 sans decimal is the answer to everything. Near disaaaaster daaarling this morning when I peered into the depths of my koffy can (not koffie - that’s very Amsterdam). Anyhow, koffie verkeerd - just the dregs!!! A quick scrabble in the cupboard of all things to do with hot drinks and hey presto! The day was saved. A nice fresh bag of that there Italian roast. These small things are important - to me- my early morning routine keeps the black dog firmly away from the rabbit hole and the chimp locked inside its box. Art bit. Messed up a postcard sized picture so when it dried, flipped it over and just did a quick sketch. Wet paper scraped with some dry paint left on the blockbuster video card. I hope that you have as pleasant a day as you can. I shall make more koffy and have a read of Epictetus before the blooming, buzzing confusion of the C21st crashes into the day.

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Definitely a winner @dunelm
Satisfying to do...
At least I think so...

Enjoy that Italian coffee....
 
Fbg 6.7

Oh what a lovely day...it rained all night, as usual. Paddling pool round bungalow. Stray cats are sitting on swing waiting for breakfast...
I am finishing my cuppa tea first, then I will get my wellies and rescue them...

Grey and murky and sunless out there...will have to keep my fairy lights on indoors today.

Birdies are all okay, a paddling pool doesn't bother them. I refilled the fatball feeders last night, and put seed on the bird table, to the delight of mousey last night whose beady eyes could be seen leaping through the clematis up to the bird table. Cat Jade was watching closely but did not get that acrobatic mouse last night...


Wildlife nighttime video.
Cat Midnight watches Badger & Cat drink water
1 min

Sometimes I get 1k plus views on YouTube, but it is usually much lower, and I am getting more comments which I am happy to respond to. But on Instagram, I consistently get 1k to 4k plus views on every single one of my daily videos, usually 1k within an hour of posting! That makes it worthwhile, especially when last night my iPad was refusing to play ball with downloading the trail cam video clips, and I was fighting with it until gone the time of midnight. It's the iPad software update that seems to have messed things up. It has messed other things up too.


Creative is a flower sketch from that old Chinese paintings source sketchbook I have for learning from. These same flowers are flowering at the wrong time in my front garden outside my window. The winter bumble bees like it...

That old Chinese paintings book appears to be worth money now. I bought it and more early 1990's. eBay tells me 99 American dollars for each one! Really!!! I have rooted all mine out...nearly 20 of them!!! They are worth their weight in gold for me, but it is nice to know I made a good decision in buying them all those years ago.

I had a parcel arrive from an unknown person to me from Kazakhstan yesterday. It is sitting on the dining room table and I keep looking at it each time I pass... I have never had any mail from Kazakhstan before....

I think I'll enjoy the mystery for a little while longer...

Life is exciting....

Have your best day...

A cuppa tea now...


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0330: 9.4. Still only 9.5 so a better day seems to be on the cards (but shush, don't say that too loud in case my body takes it as a challenge).

Managed to lose about a pound in weight since last week, so that's good too. Still got a long way to go, but slowly, slowly ...

It's supposed to be a bit warmer here today, but a bit on the windy side and wet. At present, it doesn't feel very warm but I can hear the wind and see the rain. The heating has come on, but it isn't enough so the little convection heater is doing its thing as well.

I've been told by the nurse to drink only decaffeinated tea or coffee, but Neil couldn't get any in the supermarket. Does anyone know how much caffeine is in cocoa? The only references I can find online are about chocolate but the way I make cocoa it only uses a teaspoon of cocoa powder and is all water, apart from a tiny splash of milk. To me that would be a good alternative to tea.
 
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gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Oh what a lovely day...it rained all night, as usual. Paddling pool round bungalow. Stray cats are sitting on swing waiting for breakfast...
I am finishing my cuppa tea first, then I will get my wellies and rescue them...

Grey and murky and sunless out there...will have to keep my fairy lights on indoors today.

Birdies are all okay, a paddling pool doesn't bother them. I refilled the fatball feeders last night, and put seed on the bird table, to the delight of mousey last night whose beady eyes could be seen leaping through the clematis up to the bird table. Cat Jade was watching closely but did not get that acrobatic mouse last night...


Wildlife nighttime video.
Cat Midnight watches Badger & Cat drink water
1 min

Sometimes I get 1k plus views on YouTube, but it is usually much lower, and I am getting more comments which I am happy to respond to. But on Instagram, I consistently get 1k to 4k plus views on every single one of my daily videos, usually 1k within an hour of posting! That makes it worthwhile, especially when last night my iPad was refusing to play ball with downloading the trail cam video clips, and I was fighting with it until gone the time of midnight. It's the iPad software update that seems to have messed things up. It has messed other things up too.


Creative is a flower sketch from that old Chinese paintings source sketchbook I have for learning from. These same flowers are flowering at the wrong time in my front garden outside my window. The winter bumble bees like it...

That old Chinese paintings book appears to be worth money now. I bought it and more early 1990's. eBay tells me 99 American dollars for each one! Really!!! I have rooted all mine out...nearly 20 of them!!! They are worth their weight in gold for me, but it is nice to know I made a good decision in buying them all those years ago.

I had a parcel arrive from an unknown person to me from Kazakhstan yesterday. It is sitting on the dining room table and I keep looking at it each time I pass... I have never had any mail from Kazakhstan before....

I think I'll enjoy the mystery for a little while longer...

Life is exciting....

Have your best day...

A cuppa tea now...


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Highly respectable numbers for the viewings .

Marvelous stuff.

Bonus for book values.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Oh what a lovely day...it rained all night, as usual. Paddling pool round bungalow. Stray cats are sitting on swing waiting for breakfast...
I am finishing my cuppa tea first, then I will get my wellies and rescue them...

Grey and murky and sunless out there...will have to keep my fairy lights on indoors today.

Birdies are all okay, a paddling pool doesn't bother them. I refilled the fatball feeders last night, and put seed on the bird table, to the delight of mousey last night whose beady eyes could be seen leaping through the clematis up to the bird table. Cat Jade was watching closely but did not get that acrobatic mouse last night...


Wildlife nighttime video.
Cat Midnight watches Badger & Cat drink water
1 min

Sometimes I get 1k plus views on YouTube, but it is usually much lower, and I am getting more comments which I am happy to respond to. But on Instagram, I consistently get 1k to 4k plus views on every single one of my daily videos, usually 1k within an hour of posting! That makes it worthwhile, especially when last night my iPad was refusing to play ball with downloading the trail cam video clips, and I was fighting with it until gone the time of midnight. It's the iPad software update that seems to have messed things up. It has messed other things up too.


Creative is a flower sketch from that old Chinese paintings source sketchbook I have for learning from. These same flowers are flowering at the wrong time in my front garden outside my window. The winter bumble bees like it...

That old Chinese paintings book appears to be worth money now. I bought it and more early 1990's. eBay tells me 99 American dollars for each one! Really!!! I have rooted all mine out...nearly 20 of them!!! They are worth their weight in gold for me, but it is nice to know I made a good decision in buying them all those years ago.

I had a parcel arrive from an unknown person to me from Kazakhstan yesterday. It is sitting on the dining room table and I keep looking at it each time I pass... I have never had any mail from Kazakhstan before....

I think I'll enjoy the mystery for a little while longer...

Life is exciting....

Have your best day...

A cuppa tea now...


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Wonderful flower.
As to the mystery package @gennepher, I am wondering if it’s something called a brushing scam. You might want to read This article.
 
Morning all. @Annb I tried CoFID but couldn't find caffeine levels but did find some here - basically seems like a plan to me. @dunelm thanks for sharing the latest art. As for koffy was that a grand, grande or even Trenta? @gennepher good news on the views, the valuable books and (hopefully) Kazakhstan parcel - is it big enough to contain an illegal immigrant? Thanks for sharing another wonderful creative. @Krystyna23040 busy, stressful week but Mr K is right (he's always right), time that magazine rack was sorted :D Bloods for Weds analysed and phone consult done here, on to next round and scan late Jan/early Feb. Fbg around 9.00 am Weds was 3.1 lab test but does degrade after 3 hrs. Realistically T2 isn't really my issue anymore. Currently I have a cold and LC/Keto has never offered anything good there since July 2015. Salmon later today then Spurs this evening may be my best bets.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all. @Annb I tried CoFID but couldn't find caffeine levels but did find some here - basically seems like a plan to me. @dunelm thanks for sharing the latest art. As for koffy was that a grand, grande or even Trenta? @gennepher good news on the views, the valuable books and (hopefully) Kazakhstan parcel - is it big enough to contain an illegal immigrant? Thanks for sharing another wonderful creative. @Krystyna23040 busy, stressful week but Mr K is right (he's always right), time that magazine rack was sorted :D Bloods for Weds analysed and phone consult done here, on to next round and scan late Jan/early Feb. Fbg around 9.00 am Weds was 3.1 lab test but does degrade after 3 hrs. Realistically T2 isn't really my issue anymore. Currently I have a cold and LC/Keto has never offered anything good there since July 2015. Salmon later today then Spurs this evening may be my best bets.
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Thanks for that link, Ian. It does look as though cocoa would be a good substitute drink to reduce caffeine intake.
 
dunelm said:
Wonderful flower.
As to the mystery package @gennepher, I am wondering if it’s something called a brushing scam. You might want to read This article.
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Thank you for the flower compliment @dunelm

I didn't know the stuff in that article. I did wonder how some reviews and Amazon were so many on a particular product (the "reviewers" should use some kind of word generator to come up with different phrases of their words etc), and it was obvious there were made up somehow but I didn't know how. Now I see how that can happen.

Thank you

I am still staring at the parcel ..
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all. @Annb I tried CoFID but couldn't find caffeine levels but did find some here - basically seems like a plan to me. @dunelm thanks for sharing the latest art. As for koffy was that a grand, grande or even Trenta? @gennepher good news on the views, the valuable books and (hopefully) Kazakhstan parcel - is it big enough to contain an illegal immigrant? Thanks for sharing another wonderful creative. @Krystyna23040 busy, stressful week but Mr K is right (he's always right), time that magazine rack was sorted :D Bloods for Weds analysed and phone consult done here, on to next round and scan late Jan/early Feb. Fbg around 9.00 am Weds was 3.1 lab test but does degrade after 3 hrs. Realistically T2 isn't really my issue anymore. Currently I have a cold and LC/Keto has never offered anything good there since July 2015. Salmon later today then Spurs this evening may be my best bets.
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Thank you @ianpspurs
I have sniffed the parcel ..it doesn't have a fragrance...
 
6.3 tgif!, Don't know why I put that.
I have read, re-read the replies, and in tears, to them.
I am lost for words. Many, many thanks you lot, so kind, so friendly and I appreciate every word.
I would love to answer individually, But in a bit of a state.
So, so true, thanks, so comforting.
I know deep in my heart, what you all say is right, and I have always been tough on myself and I wouldn't be anything else. However, the anxiety, stress and worry about what is to come, is always foremost in my head.
I can't help it.
The tools necessary to be more positive, have alluded me, but I will get there!
My latest thoughts are now, what do I need to get through this, am I so in need of needing a reward, for what I have to do anyway? Never thought I needed someone else's compliments. Am I that shallow?
Self motivated always.
But maybe, that is my anxiety yet again?

My best wishes to each and every one of you lot, appreciate the support and kindness so much.

Be back later, more to do and think through.
 
Lamont D said:
6.3 tgif!, Don't know why I put that.
I have read, re-read the replies, and in tears, to them.
I am lost for words. Many, many thanks you lot, so kind, so friendly and I appreciate every word.
I would love to answer individually, But in a bit of a state.
So, so true, thanks, so comforting.
I know deep in my heart, what you all say is right, and I have always been tough on myself and I wouldn't be anything else. However, the anxiety, stress and worry about what is to come, is always foremost in my head.
I can't help it.
The tools necessary to be more positive, have alluded me, but I will get there!
My latest thoughts are now, what do I need to get through this, am I so in need of needing a reward, for what I have to do anyway? Never thought I needed someone else's compliments. Am I that shallow?
Self motivated always.
But maybe, that is my anxiety yet again?

My best wishes to each and every one of you lot, appreciate the support and kindness so much.

Be back later, more to do and think through.
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Needing some kind of appreciation is normal, even for the very self-sufficient. You shouldn't beat yourself up over that aspect of your humanity. It just indicates that human is what you are and not a robot. None of us can interact with others without some kind of support or appreciation of our efforts. But some of that appreciation has to come from yourself. You need to acknowledge what you do, even if it is flawed, because what you do, you do out of love.

Given a different situation, most people can succeed in getting things just about right, but under pressure? There is a saying "to err is human, to forgive is divine" and remember - human is what you are, not some super high performance robot. (Leave the forgiving to One more capable of doing that, and far more experienced.)

I regret things from the past but when I do I have to remind myself that the past is gone and can't be changed. We have to look to the future - even if the future appears grim - and prepare ourselves for that. Learn lessons, draw a line under the past, move on. If nobody else is in a position to appreciate you, that's sad but unavoidable, you have to do that as well as everything else - on her behalf, as you do everything else. If she were able, Mrs L, I'm sure, would really appreciate all that you do, but if she is not able, that's not her fault. It's one of the painful things we 21st century humans have to endure. That's not to say it didn't happen in the past, but things were different then.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Oh what a lovely day...it rained all night, as usual. Paddling pool round bungalow. Stray cats are sitting on swing waiting for breakfast...
I am finishing my cuppa tea first, then I will get my wellies and rescue them...

Grey and murky and sunless out there...will have to keep my fairy lights on indoors today.

Birdies are all okay, a paddling pool doesn't bother them. I refilled the fatball feeders last night, and put seed on the bird table, to the delight of mousey last night whose beady eyes could be seen leaping through the clematis up to the bird table. Cat Jade was watching closely but did not get that acrobatic mouse last night...


Wildlife nighttime video.
Cat Midnight watches Badger & Cat drink water
1 min

Sometimes I get 1k plus views on YouTube, but it is usually much lower, and I am getting more comments which I am happy to respond to. But on Instagram, I consistently get 1k to 4k plus views on every single one of my daily videos, usually 1k within an hour of posting! That makes it worthwhile, especially when last night my iPad was refusing to play ball with downloading the trail cam video clips, and I was fighting with it until gone the time of midnight. It's the iPad software update that seems to have messed things up. It has messed other things up too.


Creative is a flower sketch from that old Chinese paintings source sketchbook I have for learning from. These same flowers are flowering at the wrong time in my front garden outside my window. The winter bumble bees like it...

That old Chinese paintings book appears to be worth money now. I bought it and more early 1990's. eBay tells me 99 American dollars for each one! Really!!! I have rooted all mine out...nearly 20 of them!!! They are worth their weight in gold for me, but it is nice to know I made a good decision in buying them all those years ago.

I had a parcel arrive from an unknown person to me from Kazakhstan yesterday. It is sitting on the dining room table and I keep looking at it each time I pass... I have never had any mail from Kazakhstan before....

I think I'll enjoy the mystery for a little while longer...

Life is exciting....

Have your best day...

A cuppa tea now...


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@gennepher an amazing number of views on YouTube and Instagram. The parcel from Kazakhstan is a real mystery.
 
Lamont D said:
am I so in need of needing a reward, for what I have to do anyway? Never thought I needed someone else's compliments. Am I that shallow?
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A winner for finding some truth & comfort in the replies.

And an apology if my post made you feel that way, certainly was not my intent, honestly.

Just more to note the loneliness ( I think my dad felt, ) when he would have always got a kind thank you from mum, previously regardless...a reward if you like for his kindness

That simple acknowledgement of all he did, just disappeared as mum's mental decline progressed.

Was he shallow to feel it, I don't think so at all.

Was he just doing what needed doing, absolutely.

Just like you , he dug in and just got on with it, but I think that that shared understanding & appreciation from her, would have made the tasks relentlessly but
lovingly performed, easier to bear, imho.

So "shallow"....not in a million years
 
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