The Last Day

The Last Day

Tomorrow is January 1, 2015.  Today is the last day of 2014.  If you are wondering the answer is, “No.”  I haven’t got my goals written down for the new year.  I am a firm believer in setting and achieving goals.  In contrast, I have never been good at it.  No excuse for not doing it.

Morning coffee needs a refill.  I have to wait till my sweet one is up.  OK, it’s gone now.  Blood sugar was 129 this morning.  The last banana and a handful of pills and I’m here.

A good friend of mine has been telling me about an MLM business she is in.  It looks good.  In fact, the more I look at it the better it looks.  She has a mastermind group.  I joined that.  I visit the web site often but I am still not sure what to do there.  It's like walking into a big room with no one there and nothing to do.  We will have a big deal there soon.  

Last night, before I was called away, I met one of my friend’s down line.  Nice guy, not real clear what he wanted to talk about.  He said something about end time prophases but not anything in depth.  He said that he was in a handful of businesses under my friend.  (I have got to get the OK to use names.  This can become confusing.)  If I were to join, it would be ONE business.  I will not over tax the budget on so many things above what is necessary.  Grow your business.  Grow your income.  Expand your business.  Increase your income. 

Don't buy more tables for your Mackey D's until you are selling enough burgers to need them.   

Out of instant decaffeinated coffee.  BUMMER!  Let the dog out and looked for it.  Had a triple regular earlier.  That should be enough. 

Goals!  Goals!  I must set my goals!  Do you have this much trouble setting your goals?  Have you ever made a do list?  That is goal setting.  Have you ever written on a calendar a coming event?  That is goal setting.  My biggest challenge is getting too detailed when I do set goals.  Be specific, not detailed. 

It’s better to set goals and not reaching but a few than to not set goals and have no direction. 

Terry   

I QUIT!!

I QUIT!!

At least I hope I did.  All the holiday sweets must come to an end.  We were out late last night.  As a result I had no time to cook a meal.  KFC came in handy.  The bad thing is that we got dinners that had only 2 chicken pieces.  I was hungry enough to eat a full bucket.  What we had was sufficient.  To make up for it we stopped at DQ for a round of blizzards. 

Let’s check the scoreboard.  My sugar was 131 this morning.  I did drink my Bragg’s late last night, recon that helped?  This is day 4 of taking Fulvia.   

I think last night caused a set back for my sweet one.  She is hurting more than yesterday.  We’ll see if it gets better as the day progresses. 

[ I am interested in that Fulvia.  I wonder if I could sell that.  If my wife will help me, why not?  That is the only way I could do that.  Oh well, that is another blog for another day. ]

Well, I Done a Bad Thang

Well, I Done a Bad Thang

Yeah folks, I really messed up this time.  We have Dr. Peppers and a very few Cokes.  Do you know the last time I had a sure enough Coke?  Me neither.  What the hey!  Early enough in the day that the caffeine won’t keep me up.  What about the sugar?  I poured the bottle into a large plastic tumbler with a generous amount of low salt peanuts.  What about the sugar?  I had missed that!  Coke with peanuts in it. 

After supper we finished off the last of the Pumpkin Dump Cake from Christmas.  What about the sugar?  My Sweet makes a mean dump cake.  Pumpkin stuff, cake mix, butter, pecans all come together in a taste treat that you just can’t beat!!!  YUM YUM YUM!  What about the sugar?  Of course was put cool whip on top so it wouldn’t be lonesome. 

What about the sugar?    This morning I tried 3 times before I could find a finger with an acceptable sugar count.  I ended up recording 147.  I don’t want to tell you what the other tests said.  Today, no sugar!  Can’t say that.  I’ll keep it down as far as I can.

Let’s see.  My sugar was too high for yesterday’s Bragg vinegar and Fulvia.  I knew better but that doesn’t mean that I was going to behave myself. 

New Year’s Rez?  Got your’s?  I tend to break mine within the week I make the resolution.  I’ll simply say that I will make goals to do certain things that would make for a better 2015.  No specifics for you at this time.

A thought.  If I make goals that someone else or circumstances keep me from reaching it can't me my fault if I don't... 

                                  (It worked last year....) 

Happy Half Caff

Happy Half Caff! I’m the first one up. I can’t sleep passed 7:00 very well. I sent the dog out to do what he had to do and got my mug of half caff. My sweet is still sleeping. Not knowing what kind of night she has had, I want to let her sleep all she wants to. Good news. She is showing improvement from her crochet injury. That was hard on her for a long time. Last night she said that it seems to be letting up quite a bit. Praise the Lord for that! Fulvia. A great friend of mine sent me a bottle of this. I took one yesterday. I’ll take another today at breakfast. Along with my usual ramblings I will chronicle how well it helps. Blood sugar was 121 this morning. That will have to get closer to the normal range before I can credit fulvia for that. I can’t check my blood pressure until we get groceries next. I take 2 meds for blood pressure. I take one for cholesterol. The kidney doc has me on something too. Old folk need baby aspirin too. Along with my prescriptions I drink Bragg vinegar and lemon concentrate in water. Each night I drink aloe vera juice. Now I am trying fulvia. Time to go. My sweet wife is up now. We had our oatmeal. She has a monstrous headache. She took a pain pill and went back to bed. I put water on the stove to add water vapor to the air. That may help her. Second mug of half caff is almost gone. Time I best get to doing other things. I need a sign off, don’t I? Got to slop the hogs, dig the well, and plow the south forty before everyone gets up. Until tomorrow….

December 26

Here we are, the day after Christmas. New Year's celebration just ahead and Christmas is pretty well in the rear view mirror. Most of it is anyway. We will see Santa in TV commercials on into January.
I am ready for 2015. I hope I am anyway. It's coming, ready or not. The thought comes around like every year, "What will I do different in the new year to make it a better one?" As every year I have high hopes and great ideas. It makes you feel better when you look at things optimistically.
Got to be honest about it though. Persistent health problems that come with life as you age remind me that I am not as young and able bodied, as I would like to be. As I look around the house I see the same deterioration expressed there. “How long will you live with that crack in your wall? Cracks are bad!” asked Nolan Ryan on a TV commercial. Every home repair show reminds me of stuff we have to get fixed. Every fitness commercial reminds me that I need to do something to drop about 100 pounds.
Soon my sweet will get up. She had a rough night. The dog had her up a lot and she has an injury caused by crocheting too much. Christmas was coming on and she was determined to crochet gifts for a few loved ones. When she gets on a project she won’t let go till it is finished. Some projects should be done a little at a time.
I took her to the hospital a week ago. The doc gave her a sheet of recommended exercises, a cortisone shot and 2 prescriptions. The first time she took those pills it knocked her plum out. Now she suffers 3 hours before they kick in. I want to get her to our regular doc.
It was about 7:00. Time to get up for me. Heard the dog barking at 5:30 so I had gotten up to let her sleep. He went out, came back in, he went back out... We heard cats near the window. I’ll fix that. While I had him closed out where he couldn’t get back in I took a pitcher of water out to douse the cats. Don’t worry about the cold. I think it is in the 60’s this morning. They were gone anyway. Got the trash out and I checked my blood sugar already this morning. (112) Had my first coffee. There are a handful of pills waiting for me too. Time now is 8:11. She and the dog are sleeping.