Sun is up so now he sleeps
Feb. 21st, 2021 09:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisBiggie had a major manic episode last night that lasted until this morning. About 30 minutes after I had gone to sleep, he started tearing ass all over the house. Climbing onto the bedside tables and trying to knock pictures off the wall... over and over again. Jumping on the bed (and me) and jumping right off... over and over again. Finally, after knocking my phone charger out of the wall socket and taking one last run at the pictures on the wall, he settled down. Only to start up again with a repeat of the whole thing from 4 until I finally got up at 7.
It's now 8:30 and he's gone to take a nap. In spite of his shenanigans, Fitbit says I slept well and Fitbit knows so no harm but really. I am adding a spray bottle to the night stand tonight.
I watched a movie yesterday, I Care A Lot on Netflix. It's been bugging me ever since. Both the idea behind the plot and the way the story went. Preying on the elderly. The main elderly who got preyed upon in the movie was one year younger than me. I'm just not a fan of that whole preying concept.
Tomorrow is labs day which, annually, is chock full of stress for me. It's silly really. But, it happens every year. It's a fasting blood test and pee in a cup.
The latter. If you have a penis, pee in a cup is NBD at all. Even if you don't have to go, you can donate enough to make them happy. But, sans penis, it's a giant mess and if you don't have to go, you have to come back. Several years ago, I finally invented 'backup pee'. When I get up tomorrow morning, my first pee will go into a plastic bag (why they hell they don't provide those instead of cups has always been a major mystery to me). The bag will go into a tightly lidded container that I will smuggle into the lab bathroom after they give me my cup to fill. I actually haven't had to use the backup pee in a couple of years but just having it relieves half the stress.
The other half is diabetes. My blood numbers have kissed the edges of pre-diabetes for years. My doctor always seems a little disappointed that I didn't get there. He so wants to put me on a restrictive died. But until I cross the line, he can only threaten. Ha! This year, I have a secret weapon. The graph of my weight loss. I think, as long as my numbers are below pre, that graph is going to change his tune.
I don't really have that much of a problem doing what I want in terms of eating, instead of what he says but he's such a good guy, I really don't want to defy him.
I'll go in first thing in the morning and do the labs. I'll get the results by early afternoon. Then go in to the doctor on Thursday and not have to worry about it again for a year.
Turns out, I was a little premature with turning on the Mariners cable TV. The first game is a week from today but the first televised game isn't til mid march. So, I wasted about $30 bucks by getting it turned on too early. Oh well. I'll have to watch a bunch of MSNBC and CNN and Food Network and HGTV to make up the difference.
I feel like I should go in the bedroom and play loud music and turn on the lights in the closet where Biggie is napping and generally make it impossible for him to sleep. But, I won't because I am enjoying the peace and quiet.
It's now 8:30 and he's gone to take a nap. In spite of his shenanigans, Fitbit says I slept well and Fitbit knows so no harm but really. I am adding a spray bottle to the night stand tonight.
I watched a movie yesterday, I Care A Lot on Netflix. It's been bugging me ever since. Both the idea behind the plot and the way the story went. Preying on the elderly. The main elderly who got preyed upon in the movie was one year younger than me. I'm just not a fan of that whole preying concept.
Tomorrow is labs day which, annually, is chock full of stress for me. It's silly really. But, it happens every year. It's a fasting blood test and pee in a cup.
The latter. If you have a penis, pee in a cup is NBD at all. Even if you don't have to go, you can donate enough to make them happy. But, sans penis, it's a giant mess and if you don't have to go, you have to come back. Several years ago, I finally invented 'backup pee'. When I get up tomorrow morning, my first pee will go into a plastic bag (why they hell they don't provide those instead of cups has always been a major mystery to me). The bag will go into a tightly lidded container that I will smuggle into the lab bathroom after they give me my cup to fill. I actually haven't had to use the backup pee in a couple of years but just having it relieves half the stress.
The other half is diabetes. My blood numbers have kissed the edges of pre-diabetes for years. My doctor always seems a little disappointed that I didn't get there. He so wants to put me on a restrictive died. But until I cross the line, he can only threaten. Ha! This year, I have a secret weapon. The graph of my weight loss. I think, as long as my numbers are below pre, that graph is going to change his tune.
I don't really have that much of a problem doing what I want in terms of eating, instead of what he says but he's such a good guy, I really don't want to defy him.
I'll go in first thing in the morning and do the labs. I'll get the results by early afternoon. Then go in to the doctor on Thursday and not have to worry about it again for a year.
Turns out, I was a little premature with turning on the Mariners cable TV. The first game is a week from today but the first televised game isn't til mid march. So, I wasted about $30 bucks by getting it turned on too early. Oh well. I'll have to watch a bunch of MSNBC and CNN and Food Network and HGTV to make up the difference.
I feel like I should go in the bedroom and play loud music and turn on the lights in the closet where Biggie is napping and generally make it impossible for him to sleep. But, I won't because I am enjoying the peace and quiet.
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Date: 2021-02-21 05:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-02-21 06:16 pm (UTC)Thank you for giving me a place to nerd out about my love of the Mariners!
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Date: 2021-02-21 06:21 pm (UTC)One week. At least the MLB free subscription does get me the radio broadcast. My condo's old thick brick is not AM radio friendly.
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Date: 2021-02-21 06:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2021-02-21 06:28 pm (UTC)my cat does the staring as Ross the room and following something that only she can see. I very much believe cats can tune in to things that we can’t see. So who knows?
And the diabetes thing? I was diagnosed about 5 years ago and never went much above a 7 on my A1Cs. But even so every time I go in to see him, my doctor wants to put me on metformin. Every. Single. Time. I refuse to and I still eat fairly normally. His last time he tried again. I reminded him that I do not trust many prescriptions and, again, no I do not want it. Wouldn’t you know about two months after that appointment, we hear in the news that now metformin has been found to have a cancer causing additive! Think on that, Doc! I do not like having doctors or anyone for that matter, getting into my business of the way I live. It well and truly pisses me off.
BTW.... I think you missed Biggie’s portfolio photo yesterday. (At least I’m not seeing it!)
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Date: 2021-02-21 06:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-02-21 06:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-02-21 06:52 pm (UTC)I read an interview with Rosamond Pike recently about that movie. She said she really enjoyed getting to be so evil - I'd like to see her performance, but as you say the premise is unsettling. On balance, I think there's enough negativity right now without letting any more into my head and I'll give it a miss.
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Date: 2021-02-22 03:36 pm (UTC)It never occurred to me to bring a backup supply.
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Date: 2021-02-21 11:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2021-02-22 09:33 am (UTC)I absolutely agree that a plastic bag would be much easier for women to pee into! I guess it would then need to go into an outer cover to go to the lab, so making it infinitesimally more expensive than the small plastic bottle we get to pee into :(
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Date: 2021-02-22 12:41 pm (UTC)