Yesterday was a weird sort of day,
but only in the sense that it did
not turn out anything like I hoped
it would. I think I felt fairly
content all day long despite not
doing some things I thought I
would like to do.
The most constructive thing
I did between reading and snoozing
yesterday was to make up two
pannini rolls with the last of the
sliced corned beef I had in the
fridge. With some salad leaves and
horseradish sauce they were tasty,
but a bit stodgy. It was because
things like that Corned beef were
almost, and then were used up,
that I wanted to go shopping, but
I never found the right time or
inclination.
There was one very tiny
constructive thing I did in the
middle of a very lazy afternoon,
and that was to spray white
vinegar cleaner on parts of the
bath tub. That stuff is fairly
mild, but good enough to dissolve
light lime scale. The end of the
bath where the plughole is looks a
bit better for it, but I could,
and maybe even today, do better.
For my dinner I had one of
those brainstorms where I became
fixated on the idea of pizza for
dinner (with a spare for today).
There is a place I have used in
Catford called pizza2nights.co.uk,
and I used them twice with no
problems after enduring the long
rides home in "patient transport"
from King College Hospital. I
ordered and they delivered with no
problem. Maybe it was because I
was ordering at around 4pm (if I
recall correctly).
Yesterday, and I think it
may have been last Thursday, I
tried to order pizza to be
delivered, hopefully, in time to
munch while watching the 6pm BBC
news. The first step, when using
their web site is to enter your
post code. It then tells you, yes
we deliver to your address, and it
will typically take about 45
minutes. You then go on to order
what you want, and finally get to
the checkout to confirm name,
address and credit car details. So
far so good, but yesterday, and
last Thursday, I could not click
on "Confirm" (or whatever it says)
because it says they can't deliver
right now. It does offer teh
chance to pre-order for maybe much
later at night, or a different
day.
Pizza2nights lost my
custom, and I used Chick Chicken
who were most happy to deliver. I
am not sure their pizzas are quite
as good, but they do seem pretty
nice. The main downside is that a
seafood pizza is not a standard
pizza, and you have to order a
blank pizza and select your own
toppings. It is mildly annoying,
but the end result is good. I
think my order arrived about 30
minutes later, and that was 15
minutes quicker than the estimated
time for the other place (but I
think on the two occasions when I
did get pizzas from them it was
quicker).
I ate the whole of the 12"
seafood pizza while watching the
news, and it was filling enough
that I should not have eaten any
more, but I couldn't resist some
of the grilled wings I had ordered
as a side. I was then full enough
that I found I didn't really want
to eat the portion of ice cream I
had intended to eat. I think I
still have a few grilled wings
left, and I certainly have a 12"
meat feast (or something like
that) in the fridge to eat today.
After the usual TV I went
to bed. I didn't seem to like the
episode of Have I Got News For You
that I might have watched, and so
I was in bed earlier than I
thought I would be by a whole
hour. That was probably good
because after reading for little
more than 10 minutes I felt ready
to try for sleep. I think I was
probably fast asleep 10 minutes
later. I seemed to have a good
sleep, and even the 3 or 4 times I
got up to pee felt almost
dreamlike (but I think they were
real), and I seemed to fall asleep
within minutes of getting back
into bed.
Just before I woke up I had
an interesting dream. In the dream
I was walking down a big tunnel.
It was like an expanded version of
the subway entrance of Hither
Green station, and I think the
station was at the end of the
tunnel I was walking down. Along
the tunnel there was an entrance
that lead into a sort of working
man's club - basically a bar run
by a committee drawn from some of
the drinkers.
I had never been in the
club before, and didn't really
think it was open to anyone but
members. I also thought you had to
be in certain trades to become a
member. (As a side note, on the
way to Hither Green Station there
is a club that was originally
meant for railway workers. It was
from the days when British Rail
had far more staff, and I think
that with railway staff much
diminished the club may be open to
anyone). I walked past the club in
the tunnel while walking to Hither
Green station.
I don't know why I walked
to the station because I didn't
want to catch a train. Maybe it
was just walking exercise because
having reached the end of the
tunnel, and the station, I turned
around and started walking home
again. This time I decided to take
a peek inside the club. No one
said a word as I walked in and
looked around. It seemed like a
fairly nice place, but maybe not a
place to drink alone. I didn't go
to the bar, but sort of did a
circle and walked out again -
seemingly from a different door.
More happened after that, but my
memory of it all has faded.
I got up a little earlier
than usual this morning, but I've
mostly wasted the extra time. I
did weigh myself after a pee, but
no poo (and still no poo as I
write this). After all I ate
yesterday I guess I should be
happy that I have only gained
100gm - and a decent poo would
probably slightly more than offset
that.
One other thing I did
yesterday, which I am now reminded
of now I am about to mention my
blood glucose readings, was to
have a Mounjaro injection from my
new injector pen. With readings of
7.2, 7.3 and 7.9mmol/l it seems to
be working well....well
considering the sweet biscuits I
ate as a late night snack, plus
all I had eaten during the day.
The average was 7.47mmol/l. That
is less than the last few days,
but slightly more than the average
of the previous 10 or 15 days.
Maybe tomorrow my weight
and blood glucose could be
smaller. I have made a conscious
decision to skip breakfast. On the
other hand that will do little by
itself, and if I do carry out my
threat to myself, and go shopping
in Aldi, everything could be far
worse tomorrow. Hopefully, if that
happens, things will settle down
after that. There is a slight
possibility that I may not go
shopping today, and will try a
medium length walk today. The flaw
in that idea is the dull weather.
It should feel mild enough to wear
shorts, but without hot sunshine I
wonder if there is any point.