Still not fun but better

[susandennis]

I got up and brushed my teeth and did my inhaler and other meds and then put my shoes on, turned on my audiobook and fired up the new treadmill. I did 30 minutes. It was still boring and not fun BUT it was way better in my own bedroom!

There's a safety key in the front that is on a lanyard. Biggie thought for sure that it was a toy just for him. I had to get up twice last night to fix it from dangling. Finally I just wrapped a sock around it. He still tried but eventually gave up.

The treadmill itself is pretty darned smooth and nice. I was worried about the carpet - that it would interfere - but didn't need to be. I could do it barefoot but my flat feet are so bad anyway, I think having an arch is better and at least I don't have to wear socks. The cup holder is too small for my every day water bottle but that's ok, I've got a bunch and will now just designate the one that fits as the Official Treadmill Water Bottle.

Day 1, I'm delighted.

At the end of the baseball game last night I was beat and starving and so decided to try out delivery. I had a $10 Door Dash credit to use with Ezell's Chicken. I ordered 1 pound of fried chicken livers and 1 pound of fried okra and peach cobbler. I placed the order just as the game was finishing (4:30) which was about as mean as you can get since it meant my neighborhood would be packed with people leaving the game and regular rush hour. It was a trial by fire.

My last/first Door Dash delivery was a failure on every front imaginable and, frankly, if there were someplace else that offered delivery of fried okra, but didn't use Door Dash, I'd have tried them first.

The app told me that they would be 15 minutes late. I figured that meant 35 or 50 (the last time the app told me it was delivered a good 50 minutes before I saw it). BUT, in the end, a really really nice guy had my food at my door 10 minutes after it was originally promised which I thought was actually a miracle.

And the food was so good. The chicken livers were perfect. Crunchy and tasty. The okra was floured (the other place in town uses cornmeal which I like better but they also use too much hot pepper) but really good and the peach cobbler was perfect. And I have enough of all of it for dinner tonight and maybe lunch tomorrow! So very much a success.

I discovered yesterday that the $340 inhalers (3 of them) I got at Costco are the wrong ones. I think I know how it happened - regular doctor vs. lung doctor - overlapping prescriptions. I have been using Spiriva 2.5 and the ones I got are 1.5. There is likely nothing I can do about it even if I wanted to wade through the morass of doctors and insurance to try. But, instead, I've decided to embrace it. I did not even know you could get a lower dose version. If I can get by on the lower dose version, that will be great! Right now I have 2 lower dose and 2 higher dose. Plus the one lower dose I started yesterday. That will take me through to January when I go back to lung doctor. By then I should know if I can get by on the lower dose and can get him to refill that one. I honestly think it will be fine. If It's not, I'll deal with it then.

Today I want to cut the neck band off the shirt I made the other day and redo it so it has a bigger neckline. The glory of making your own clothes is that a fix like this is easy peasy.

And that's it for plans for today! It's supposed to be way cooler out but I really don't have any reason to find out for myself and I love that. Plenty to entertain right here.

I interrupted a private session and got the eye from both of them.

Comments

[xina-g.livejournal.com]

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

[xina-g.livejournal.com]

It is pretty boring, walking on the treadmill. I totally need distractions after a while.
That's why I have a laptop on mine now, plus a spot to set my phone if I want to listen to music or audiobooks (that way I can just grab the phone and take it with me if I get done walking, instead of trying to figure out if the laptop player will sync with the phone one.)

I figure if catching up on social media/journals, playing games, listening to music, reading books, or watching videos gets too boring during a walking session it's obviously time to step away from the treadmill and do something else for a bit. *lol*

Here's my set up mess right now...
(https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/xina_gee/65224933/1061394/1061394_original.jpg)
(https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/xina_gee/65224933/1061823/1061823_original.jpg)
Since I have it next to the bookshelf, I set my drinks on that. The cup holder generally ends up with tissue or what not in it. XD

[dadi.livejournal.com]

[hopefulspirit.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your first time out with the treadmill went well! You make me want to get on mine, I've been slacking. I'm one of those weird people who doesn't mind the treadmill at all, but it helps to have good music or something to pass the time a little easier.

[susandennis]

Knowing there are people like you makes me hopeful. If I stick with it, maybe I will learn to not mind it! :)

[timbear.livejournal.com]

I've been asthmatic all my life. Since the new drugs came along about thirty years ago I've been fully controlled. Every year I have a review involving about thirty minutes of tests and discussions and every year they say "your lung function is great, we should reduce the dose" to which I reply "my lung function is great because I never let you reduce the dose".

You may want to think about my strategy :-)

[susandennis]

BUT, but, but...

My COPD is degenerative. If I can get along fine on less now... when I get worse, I can step up to the high powered dose and not even have to change medicines. Right now, the next step after the higher dose is a pretty ugly medicinal cocktail so my goal is to stretch out Spiriva working for me as long as possible.

See?

[timbear.livejournal.com]

Ah! I keep forgetting that it's COPD in your case, different situation entirely.

[meowmensteen]

You've inspired me. I'm going to get some of that frozen okra I always see at QFC and try frying it. I'll use the same technique I use for fried fish. Dip them in flour, then dip them in eggs, then roll them in crumbs, and fry. We shall see how they turn out. It's weird, my mom is from Texas, and she never fed me okra. I remember eating it once at a restaurant, but it was boiled and all slimy. I need to give the vegetable a new look.

[susandennis]

They will be delicious. And yeah, whoever thought of boiling them should be boiled.

We always just rinsed them with water and then rolled them in corn meal and straight into the hot oil. Messy but so wonderful.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Can't say I'm a big fan or chicken livers - but hurrah for yours being both tasty and arriving efficiently.

Also - I d like your patchwork quilt.

[mhaithaca.livejournal.com]

I don't remember how chicken livers came up a week or so ago, but we were talking about them! Back when you bought a chicken from the store, even if it was cut into parts for you, and it included the liver and other bits that the average consumer today wouldn't know from Adam, my mom used to freeze the livers until she had enough... and then made liver and onions for my dad. I guess it was a childhood favorite for him. I never disliked chicken livers, but preferred them in chopped liver form!

Don't think I've ever tried fried chicken livers, but if it's the sort of thing you should eat with fried okra, I'm certain I'd enjoy it.

Now I just need someplace like Ezell's Chicken to make it for me.

[susandennis]

My Mom used to save them up and also got the butcher to save up any he had spared and then Daddy used to barbecue them. They served them as appetizers over crackers. Huge fan favorite.

[mhaithaca.livejournal.com]

The century-plus-old restaurant that used to be near the railroad tracks and closed several years ago used to have three choices as an appetizer: a cup of soup, a glass of tomato juice, or chicken livers. That third choice faded away years before they closed, and I can no longer recall how they were prepared.