08:21 GMT

  Yesterday was not as awful as the day before (or was it the day before that ?), but a lot of yesterday was cold, damp, and rather grey. The temperature reached 15° C, then cooled off until rising back to 15° C at 7pm. It stayed there for a lot of the night.
  This morning has at around 13° C, and it is sunny. Before sunrise there must have been some rain because the road outside was looking very wet. A lot of the day will either feature sunshine or sunny spells, but maybe at 5pm it will cloud over, and we will get some light rain. From 11am until 4pm we should see sunny spells, although before 11am there could be (and is as I write this) full sunshine. The temperature could dip to 8° C during the night, but warm rain will mean it is warmer tomorrow morning. It should be only light rain, and may finish by 10am tomorrow. There will then by mostly sunny spells until the end of the afternoon. It will be a cool day with only 11° C forecast.

  I guess I allowed yesterday to be spoiled by waiting and waiting and waiting for my Amazon delivery. My box arrived at 4pm, but with not must more than an hour before it started getting dark, it felt like the day was almost over, and I didn't do anything at all once I had my freedom (from waiting).

  I think it was not too long after I finished writing that I got an update on my Amazon delivery. They initially predicted it could be delivered as early as 3pm. In theory I had plenty of time to have a shower, get dressed, and go shopping to Aldi. I definitely had time for a short lie down, and a rest before I had a shower. I also washed my hair - which was a bit overview.

  By the time I had finished my shampoo and shower, and had got dressed, I was not so keen to go out for two reasons. One was the old problem of feeling like my guts might be a unstable. It all seems a bit vague now, but I think it was not too long before I visited the toilet and relieved the unstable feeling. The problem than was that it was looking rather wet outside. It was not so bad that I feared getting soaked, but I did fear coming home with two leak proof shopping bags full of rain water !

  It was only a minor annoyance not getting to Aldi. I was getting short of non deep frozen food, but the cupboard definitely was not bare. A more significant thing was that I was getting short of any food that would be safe in a weight loss situation. As I will explain further down the page, I did just about manage to lose a bit of weight anyway.

  A quick aside at this point: This morning it seems I have forgotten how to type. I usually make a few spelling and/or grammar errors every day, but this morning it sometime seem I am correcting 20% of everything I am typing. I dread to think how many errors have escaped my notice. Oh well, that's life in 2025.

  My box from Amazon was finally delivered at just after 4pm, and until then I didn't have a lot to do, or at least nothing that would not distract me from hearing the doorbell. I would have loved a snooze, or maybe two, but I didn't dare go to sleep. I did do a bit of reading - both from my book, and some from the internet. It was not stressful, but it was sort of mildly stressful often doing nothing, and yet still staying alert.

  It was a great relief when my delivery arrived. It was the mini sewing machine I ordered weeks ago. Amazon did say there was some sort of delay, but once it had (probably) arrived from China, they did pull out the stops to get it delivered as soon as possible. I didn't waste any time before opening the box to see what I had bought. It is very small, very light, but almost recognisable as being the same as an ancient Singer sewing machine.

  I once was able to do some very basic sewing using a singer sewing machine when I was a kid. I think I can remember some of the basics, but I will not only have to learn how to set up this machine, but learn how to do it from scratch. After that I will have to get the feel of the machine. It all seemed to much to give it it's first test yesterday, and somehow I feel a bit reluctant to do it any time soon. Despite that fear, I feel sure that it will all fall into place once I start to set it up, and use it - provided it can do the job I want it to.

   I have a few ideas of things I can do with the machine - if it is man enough. One is to shorten a pair of jeans. A new hem on denim may take the machine to it's limits. The first thing I wanted it for was to sew some belt loops on some shorts that have none. Even with the sewing machine it will probably be quite a tedious job. Ideally the belt loops would be of matching material to the rest of the shorts, but for that I might have to wait until I have split a pair of khaki/light brown shorts. That could be a long wait.

  After spending little more than 10 minutes "admiring" my new sewing machine I was left with very little to do. I knew Aldi was open until about 10pm, but I just didn't fancy going there so late, and coming back in the dark and possibly the rain. I had concluded that I would probably go today quite early on yesterday. I just wasted time until it was 6pm and time for the news and for dinner.

  My dinner was rather basic. It was two Scotch Eggs with some brown pickle. It was quite nice, but did mot feel very substantial. I had stuff/vegetables in the freezer I could have cooked to bulk up the dinner, but I could not be bothered to cook anything, and some home it felt sort of wrong to make a hot dinner out of Scotch Eggs. Maybe if I had had some salad materials...  I followed the Scotch Eggs by rather more chocolate ice cream than was probably good for me.

  I think I will just say I watched TV until 11pm last night. I could comment on what I saw, but to do so would probably be pointless.  I didn't go to sleep straight away after going to bed. I felt a bit of discomfort in the gut area. It may have just been wind - a few very smelly farts made me feel a lot more comfortable, and that is all I cold manage. I did have a few interruptions to my sleep.

 I had to get up to pee more frequently than most nights (that was probably the excess chocolate ice cream raising my blood glucose). Slightly more annoying was feeling too hot at one point, and not too much later starting to feel cold after turning the heater fully off. I carefully, or as carefully as can be by nothing more than guesswork, set the thermostat on the heater to what I thought might be a good compromise. Somehow I seemed to strike the right balance.

  I woke up again at 5am. That felt far too early, but I did need a big pee. I thought I might need a poo as well, but once again it seemed to be just wind. After a pee I weighed myself, and rushed back to bed to try and get back to sleep, and also to convince myself it was all just a bad dream.

 Sadly it was not a dream ! when I woke up again I went for another fair sized pee. When I weighed myself again I was moderately slightly happy that this morning, after a few days of rising weight, my weight had at least dropped by 200gm this morning. There is a lot to go, and ultimately a huge lot to go, but 200gm lost is at least in the right direction. It is shame that the inverse law still applies to me weight v Blood glucose.

  This morning my weight was down a bit, but my blood glucose was up a bit. Fortunately it is still a little bit good. The Contour meter read 8.2mmol/l. That is the highest reading since September. The GlucoRX meter read 7.3mmol/l, and that is a sort of average reading, and one one reading on that meter was higher for the whole of October. The GlucoFix meter read the highest of all at 8.4mmol/l. All these readings would be considered normal (for me) before I started taking Mounjaro. Apart from the excess chocolate ice cream last night, it is possible that the Mounjaro was less effective because I too less than a full dose on ly last injection because I was trying to use the first pen up, but there was possible somewhere between half and 3/4rs of a dose left I could use.

  I can't say I am full of beans this morning - despite my health indicators being all reasonable. I have not I have to do today so I can take it nice and easy after I have finished writing this. I expect that will involve a snooze. After that, and a shower, I should finally get to go shopping in Aldi. If I am good I will be very careful what foods I buy, but that has never happened before !! There are a couple of gigs I could go to tonight, but one starts at the stupid time of 9pm (aka bedtime), and the other at the even more stupid time of 9.30pm. There is no way I can stay awake that late.