20181119 – Monday – Home again
I really enjoyed my green tea in Darren’s company yesterday afternoon.
We sat under an umbrella which shaded us from the sun which had a bite in it.
My eyes were filled with blue skies and an expanse of shimmering sea.
There are a couple of islands just out from the mainland and between them we could see the flashes of light that sprang from the windshield of a boat that was sailing between them.
The sea is so calming.
They say it is because your eyes do not have to adjust to objects close to you and your vision is able to extend right to the horizon, and that is why it is so calming to sit beside the sea.
I would say, add to that the company with whom you feel completely relaxed.
I could quite happily have sat there without saying a word for ages.
But we didn’t have the luxury of that sort of time available to us, so Darren and I covered every subject under the sun in the time allotted to us, which we estimated would be about 1/2 hour.
I have known Darren now for the 33 years of his life.
I met him first when Ali and Trev returned from Canada to Adelaide and Ali was pregnant with Darren at the time.
If I had known who would be emerging from her womb I would have shown a lot more interest when we had a “Welcome home” afternoon tea at our place, held in the newly built 5 car garage and flat in our backyard.
And I never could have guessed that that flat would become my home in latter years.
Life is so strange.
Now, Darren is a tall 6’4” streak (don’t know what that is in metric).
My Dad would have called him “a yard of pump-water.”
We were in business together for about 5 years, and how he years have flown since then.
Now he lives in Darwin and I in Adelaide, so our conversations are all conducted over “Whatsapp,” because our times are too difficult to coincide enough to make phone calls viable.
In the evening was the giving of gifts,and Darren had got Ali to do his present shopping here in Adelaide so he didn’t have to carry them down to Adelaide.
He got me some pillows and sheets for my trailer for my travels which will be just great.
I still have to get my trailer insulated in the nest few weeks and then everything will be ready for me to go on further adventures “somewhere.”
While I still can, I will just love the freedom my little trailer gives me.
I find the Gs a rather amazing family. They are all so ORGANISED.
While I sat at the breakfast table Sunday morning the topic of conversation, was “Where is our NEXT family holiday going to be?”
They haven’t even got over THIS one and they are planning the next.
Where would it be? Tasmania? New Zealand again? No, it was to be Darwin.
Immediately Darren and Amanda are scanning the net for “deals” and “accommodation” and then “hiring cars,” and a “plane trip to Bali” on their return.
In not time at all Everything is pretty well organised to everyone’s satisfaction.
I was bemoaning to Darren that Jeff likes to bring me food and brings me “the wrong stuff” time and again, so Ali immediately builds a lists of suitable foods for me to give to Jeff, so that he WON’T buy unsuitable food.
They are so ORGANIZED.!!
The WHOLE FAMILY is!
It would take me a month of Sundays to DECIDE to go, and if it took organisation, I would not be going.
That is why my little trailer suits my personality so well.
It requires NO planning.
All I have to do is make sure I have PACKED the “right stuff” and then, once I get into my little car I head off into the blue horizon and NEVER know where I am going, I just go.
If I take a “wrong turn” then that is the direction I am going to be going, and I will just readjust direction as I go along.
Who cares about an extra 50 k or so if I take a wrong turn?
We are all so different.
Well, my living plan for yesterday.
Bogged at Goolwa
Cafe at Goolwa
Fay: 5.27 at 10.0 sugar level
Darren: That’s good, should try and see how much insulin needed to get to 7.
Fay: 9.28 pm at 15.7 sugar level.
10 units of Lantus,
10 Novarapid.
Just arrived hoe and unpacking car.
Exhausted, hate the south eastern freeway.
Darren: Have a good sleep.
U will be good as new in the morning.
Fay: Darren, Ali told me it was u who gave me the two pillows and the sheets.
Thank u sooo much for them.
Darren: lol, I said that to you 5 times last gift when I gave them to you lol.
Fay: You are so good to me.
Darren: You kept thanking them though lol. Was actually pretty funny.
Fay: You did??
Sorry, I was just pretty overcome.
Why didn’t you just shake me?
Darren: lol.
Fay: I enjoyed talking with u so much today.
I think I managed pretty well getting up and down those stairs all day.
Darren: Yep u did well.
Fay: And I stuck to the ….A’s as well.
Darren: A’s?
I meant the diet.
Are you ready for. Your speech tomorrow?
Darren: Practically, now.
Fay: Record it and send it to me.
Darren: Other than the big piece of Xmas pudding!!
Fay: That doesn’t count, and it was yesterday, anyway.
Darren: Can’t, it’s commercial in confidence material.
Fay: Ok
Your Mum and Dad were amazing this week end.
How long do.u have to speak for?
I’ve still got that cough.
Darren: Best to go to bed then. I need to practice anyway. Speak later.
Fay : Ok, bye!
Bed time at 9.53 pm
6.03 am at 12.9 sugar level.
Darren, I have been wondering what would happen if I don’t take any insulin at all and just try to regulate by diet alone?
Wake up, Monday 19th November 2018
Darren: Yeah, absolutely, but only once the doctor gives guidance when you are getting average ranges between 4 and 7 with less than 30 units of insulin today.
Fay: I want to try it now for few days to see what happens.
Darren: Your levels are too high.
I advise against that.
If you are going to try you should see your docto first.
Fay: Ok
Darren, I just looked at the price tag (which Ali left on) those sheets and pillows, you have spent $100s dollars on me!!!
Thank you so much.
I am glad it was you and not Ali and Trev as I first thought, because they could not have afforded that.
Thank u.
You do soo much for me!
8.17 am at 14.6 sugar level.
Darren: No probs. Enjoy.
Also, can you let me know EXACTLY what your food is over coming days.
Levels are creeping high again.
Fay: Ok.
Breakfast, 1 chilli egg, 1 mushroom, 1 small tomato, 1/2 avocado, 1 small nectarine, Green tea.
Going to Inc for the green tea.
I still have a throat tickling cough.
Forgot to bring food with e so will have to find something for lunch.
Darren: Just go back hoe and grab something.
Fay: Have to process all my thoughts for the morning.
Darren: It’s also only 8.30, lunch isn’t for another 4 hours.
Fay: Need to find SOMETHING off their menu!
Darren: Just ask for 2 boiled eggs then.
Should be cheap and give u what you need.
Fay: Yes, but I don’t have food at home either.
Have to go shopping.
Jeff’s gone and dropped off food as well. And OF COURSE there are grapes in what he brought me.
Darren: Throw those out!!
Fay: Throw out? There are also strawberries!!
He sabotages me at every turn.
I hate throwing food out.
Darren: Strawberries are fine. No ore than 2 a morning though.
Throw out the grapes though, or give them back.
Fay: Ok, will do.
I am going to use little book you gave me as my “TO DO” book.
