Back to fairly normal today, but not the stable 5's that I did manage a week or so back. Usual amount of basal insulin and small amounts of bolus to deal with food has kept it in the 7's most of the day. My diabetes nurse will be more comfortable with that.
Makes perfect sense with that one half dose of Tresiba missing from a couple of days ago, you're still having a little less basal than you're used to with the long action time of Tresiba.
My life has been perfectly hecting still, ever since my neighbour Astrid split up with her husband some two weeks (?) ago, life has revolved around her, Tale (neighbour in the garden) and I doing things together, and a lot of listening to her working out what went wrong in her relationship and getting to terms with this, plus the occasional stern talking to from our side.
Hectic and emotional or not, a lot of good times have been had, and I think the three of us are all working very hard to protect a 3 way friendship with complications.
I expect my sleepovers with Tale have ended, he's very much in love with Astrid. I'll miss those a lot, but I already found out that serious 5 minutes long hugs are still in.
Astrid feels bad for me for taking this away from me, but it's not her doing. Tales feelings and enthousiasm for her are stronger than the other way around, at least at the moment, no matter what she says, he's not likely to want to share a bed with me at the moment even if she'd like us to.
In the longer run, I do expect them to get together, and I wish them all the happiness they can find.
For now, she's the one making sure I'm included, possibly partially to give herself some room from Tale who seems to be going a little too fast with all his feelings.
Have I mentioned not having a television before? I'm sure you'll understand we need to create our own soap series around here!
Anyway, today was pretty much a typical day during the weekend:
Fed animals, brewed coffee, went for a quick swim before Astrid came to pick us up at 10 am.
We went to visit a friend who is drowning in her household chores, and the 3 of us spent 3.5 hours cleaning at her place so she can have people sleeping over at her birthday party next weekend. We brought 5 washing machines worth of laundry back, lots of room for drying here so we can get through it in a day.
After that it was a saltwater swim, absolutely amazing newly discovered swimming spot!
Over to Astrid's place, she has a leaking roof. Tale will have 3 weeks of holiday in a week, we bought wood for repairing earlier and went to measure and saw today, so Astrid and I can sand and paint this week before Tale has time to fix the roof.
I hung the first load of laundry while Tale and Astrid prepared dinner, chilli sin carne, difficult but not dramatic on the diabetes.
It looks like the next weeks will be full of work done together: First the fixing of Astrid's roof, which will be a lot of work but at least Tale knows what he's doing and we can simply follow orders. Then Tale wants to pave the area in front of his trailer with tiles because of the mud, which means shoveling sand and carrying tiles, we'll see how my arm like that. And then they have decided it's time for a serious spring clean in my house.
Oh, and there's also a party next weekend, where we'll sleep in the house of Tale's ex wife afterwards, and a small festival where we'll be sleeping in a tent for two nights the weekend afterwards. How many tents for the 3 of us, and who will sleep in which tent is still to be decided. Astrid has already said she'll use a separate tent and Tale and I can snore together, apparently we're both pretty bad, not sure Tale is up to this arrangement though.
I'll need to learn to dose for caipirinhas, the signature drink of this festival...
So don't worry if you don't hear much from me, it's just that I'm very busy!
edit: I did manage a quick swim every morning this week, rather proud of myself!
With the occasionally added later swim, I went swimming 9 times in the past 7 days.