Then a planned walk went wrong due to some intimidating young cows in a field. I was on my own and they kept rounding up around me, so I gave up and retraced my steps. Trouble was diversion was longer and along a road without a footway. Luckily some friends drove past, stopped and gave me a lift. We were all heading to a charity tea. It was all scones but I managed to swerve them by just having a strawberries and clotted cream.
I did manage to walk home choosing a different route through the bluebell woods. A friend came with me.
This sounds like the extra exercise may have dealt with the extra carbs!
Today was the first day of 3 again on the bridge.
I used my break to buy a cheap (99 euros) second hand laptop to use at work, and it looks like a very good deal so far!
After a few tries it turned out I did remember passwords for forum, email, and Facebook, so now the new computer knows as well.
Still completely frustrated with not being able to find settings to turn off the spell checker (I can't write with red lines uner my text, it prevents me from feeling the rhythm of what I write), and I can't find how to install a password to open the computer. I need one because the new laptop can live at the bridge, but I don't want colleagues to be able to use it with the passwords for various sites saved, they can bring their own laptop if they want to.
The delightful computer store where I bought it is just around the corner from work so I'll go back tomorrow and have them help me. It's a small store, crammed full of second hand computers, computer parts, a large workbench with several projects going on, and two or three men who are most likely on the spectrum who have made a business out of their hobby.
I had to wait for at least 15 minutes before someone could help me because the only employee capable of advising on buying was on the phone, patiently asking out all details for a computer related problem, not at all hurried by a customer waiting. Those are my kind of people, I'm sure they'll help me out.
Yesterday I prepared food for three days to be microwaved on the bridge: Runner beans (I can choose between butter and salt or blue cheese, today I chose a mild blue cheese), tuna melt muffins, and some experimental veggie and egg things, think omelette with very little eggs. Not bad at all!
Should I really don't want to eat the same thing on day 3, I gave myself permission to feed the fishes under the bridge and make a sandwich, or even order some food.
Can't really order food where I live, but I can in the city where I work. Provided I can find something suitable and tasty. Or something not as suitable to diabetes but very tasty.
I'm trying to wrap my head around it being not completely wasteful to maybe order a meal once or twice a month now I'm making some money. And maybe it isn't a bad thing to allow myself a harder to dose for meal once a month either, especially if I have the whole evening to get things right again with my BG on an evening where I'll have the day off tomorrow. I should have some leeway, my hba1c has been in the low 30's for years, and while I like the slow and steady weightloss, a once a month splurge isn't likely to make me gain.
