DIET TIME AND GERANIUMS

 Well here we go again.  I went over my lab results with the doc today and she is putting me on insulin.  I feel like a giant failure. Giant being the key word there.  Sigh.  So a dieting we go. Again. Double sigh.

Monte and I just spent the last hour going over our plan, grocery shopping on the Walmart site for our plan and committing to it.  Also we have made a consistent walking routine and blood sugar measuring each day.  I was just telling him that there are three things you need to look at closely when you notice you are avoiding them.  Weighing, checking blood sugar and only wearing stretchy tights instead of finite jeans.  And I am avoiding all three and have been for quite a while....and it is showing on all fronts.

I think I am going to put off the insulin thing, not tell the doctor, and spend the next three months being severe with the eating and exercise.  Then if my a1c is still too high I will do the insulin.  Keep in mind my currant a1c number is acceptable in Europe.  Here in Canada the standard acceptable number is three points lower.

I am not happy about the new covid showing up.  I was just getting comfortable stepping out again.  And nobody is wearing a mask anymore in this town.  I am kind of shocked at just how many aren't. I went into Shoppers today and picked up my test kits, and it's about time we were able to get them.  I feel a bit better with them around.  Having people around is just unavoidable.  I was thinking about Stu, the handyman and his side kick.  They see hundreds of people, go into their houses etc...and don't wear  masks.  The same goes with the delivery guys from the Brick.  And now Ange is moving in, along with all the people she sees.  She told me though that she will be super careful.  Like they say, everyone is going to have it before its over.

I am going to grow geraniums this year.  Bill always told me to grow them.  So this year is going to be a geranium year.  I just don't know how.  Do you buy baby plants and plant them or do you buy seeds and go from there?  I think I shall have to YouTube it.  The only problem with that is it seems to only be zealots that make those videos.

  "You must purchase small starter pots, 3" by 2".  Then you purchase special starter soil mixed with sea sand and potassium, three parts each.  Fill the pots five eighths full and bury the seed 2/10ths below the surface. Add two tablespoons of water per pot,  five minutes post seed planting. Place in a cool, approximately 18.5 degree, dark dry place.  Place two tablespoons of water in each pot daily at nine o'clock in the morning."  Jeeeeeez!!!!!!  Gimme plastic ones!  It never turns out the way I see it in my head anyway. 

 Last year I planted sweet peas in containers all along the balcony.  In my head I saw a beautiful wall of gorgeous multi coloured heady smelling flowers.  Sure.  The reality was very very different.  Straggly green vines with some droopy leaves, not even trying to climb the wires up put up and I literally got about six sad little flowers. I am so not a gardener.  But gotta keep trying!

Well I am tired and my brain is buzzing out.  Welcome to Marg, a fellow Port Albernian! Stay safe people and wear a mask if you can!  TTYL