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shadowkatBattled a sinus headache from hell today - I blame the barometric pressure, which couldn't make up its mind - did it want to rain or not rain? Apparently not rain. Also, while the air quality was much better today - the humidity was at 77% and it felt like walking through a sauna, so still hard to breath? (Air Quality dropped down from the semi-dangerous and smokey 138 to 100 (pesky Canadian Wildfires ) horrible in upstate NY as well - at least I have the water to dissipate it a bit. )
Mother got to see Mt. Rainer and sent photos. I managed to download one and posted it to FB (private) - so hopefully you can see it? I really wish DW would let me upload photos from my computer or phone, but alas, no. Maybe I should join Pillowfort just to upload photos from? Instagram is useless in this regard. (Actually Instagram annoys me - it appears to be little more than a marketing and advertising outlet for people. Everyone uses it to market or promote themselves?)
Mother is enjoying her vacation from her island visiting relatives. The relatives she's visiting are her closest blood relations, and the ones she talks to incessantly on the phone.
She called me - gave me an update on what she was doing and everyone else was doing, then said goodbye and hung up.
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I slept better the last two nights, then I had on Thursday, so feel a bit more rested. Also working on the blood sugar - discovered certain things make it go high (grains of any type, and anything high in sugar content), while other things don't (veggies, eggs, fruit, seafood, fish, nuts, seeds). My digestive system seems to be happier when my blood sugar is higher - which is annoying.
I'm kind of frustrated. But maybe I can make it work? I do not want to take insulin or shots of any kind - I have issues with "needles" - it's why I don't sew. Me and needles are unmixy things.
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Due to sinus headache from hell - which lasted for four hours - I just watched television. Reading was out of the question. Did manage to work on my novel a bit.
Read something online recently - that learning to control emotions was important, also it was important to remember that what other people do, think, or say is not as important as what you do, think or say. True to an extent. Except to the degree in which it can directly affect one's own life?
Television shows watched today?
Untamed - a limited mystery series on Netflix, not many episodes, maybe four or five if that. I spun through it pretty quickly, and still managed to take a walk, pick up groceries, listen to an audio book, talk to mother, go through my mail, clean up a bit of clutter, fix breakfast and lunch, and watch some of a Billy Joel documentary.
It's a bit on the dark side, and I felt a tad rushed in places. But overall compelling and good. Scratched an itch. I'm in the mood for dark gritty mysteries solved by PI's or cops, and kind of twisty like a thriller in cool locals right now. I may start watching Big Sky Country on Hulu or Paradise. If you have any limited series or mystery series recs - that fit this type of format, gritty detective mystery arc, not serial killer, that takes place over a series of episodes (kind of like the old Prime Suspect or Long Mire or Dark Winds...) - rec away.
I'd liked this - it stars Eric Bana and Sam Neill, and is about a Federal law enforcement agent assigned to Yosemite Park, who is solving the case of a young woman who fell from El Capitan. There are other mysteries entangled with it, that may or may not be directly involved with her death. It's character driven, and kind of gritty, with great scenery. Yosemite is beautiful.
Billy Joel Documentary - got rec'd to me by four people, including a close friend. So decided to give it a whirl. It's good. But long. So will watch in snippets dragging it out. I'm learning stuff I did not know about Billy Joel - such as - he was in four different bands before he began truly writing his own music. One was a heavy metal band called Attila, which broke up when he had an affair with his band mate's wife, then was homeless, and tried to commit suicide twice, almost succeeded. The doc starts out, with him stating that he discovered that one learns best by failure, and recovery. Failing and trying again. He may have a point.
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Off to make dinner. Headache is blissfully gone along with sinus issues. Most likely because I took a generic form of Excedrin, and an Allegra. The combination of the two - nipped it in the bud. Difference between sinus headache and migraine? I can get rid of a sinus headache, also if I don't get rid of it - it will become a vertigo headache, which is never good.
Mother got to see Mt. Rainer and sent photos. I managed to download one and posted it to FB (private) - so hopefully you can see it? I really wish DW would let me upload photos from my computer or phone, but alas, no. Maybe I should join Pillowfort just to upload photos from? Instagram is useless in this regard. (Actually Instagram annoys me - it appears to be little more than a marketing and advertising outlet for people. Everyone uses it to market or promote themselves?)
Mother is enjoying her vacation from her island visiting relatives. The relatives she's visiting are her closest blood relations, and the ones she talks to incessantly on the phone.
She called me - gave me an update on what she was doing and everyone else was doing, then said goodbye and hung up.
***
I slept better the last two nights, then I had on Thursday, so feel a bit more rested. Also working on the blood sugar - discovered certain things make it go high (grains of any type, and anything high in sugar content), while other things don't (veggies, eggs, fruit, seafood, fish, nuts, seeds). My digestive system seems to be happier when my blood sugar is higher - which is annoying.
I'm kind of frustrated. But maybe I can make it work? I do not want to take insulin or shots of any kind - I have issues with "needles" - it's why I don't sew. Me and needles are unmixy things.
***
Due to sinus headache from hell - which lasted for four hours - I just watched television. Reading was out of the question. Did manage to work on my novel a bit.
Read something online recently - that learning to control emotions was important, also it was important to remember that what other people do, think, or say is not as important as what you do, think or say. True to an extent. Except to the degree in which it can directly affect one's own life?
Television shows watched today?
Untamed - a limited mystery series on Netflix, not many episodes, maybe four or five if that. I spun through it pretty quickly, and still managed to take a walk, pick up groceries, listen to an audio book, talk to mother, go through my mail, clean up a bit of clutter, fix breakfast and lunch, and watch some of a Billy Joel documentary.
It's a bit on the dark side, and I felt a tad rushed in places. But overall compelling and good. Scratched an itch. I'm in the mood for dark gritty mysteries solved by PI's or cops, and kind of twisty like a thriller in cool locals right now. I may start watching Big Sky Country on Hulu or Paradise. If you have any limited series or mystery series recs - that fit this type of format, gritty detective mystery arc, not serial killer, that takes place over a series of episodes (kind of like the old Prime Suspect or Long Mire or Dark Winds...) - rec away.
I'd liked this - it stars Eric Bana and Sam Neill, and is about a Federal law enforcement agent assigned to Yosemite Park, who is solving the case of a young woman who fell from El Capitan. There are other mysteries entangled with it, that may or may not be directly involved with her death. It's character driven, and kind of gritty, with great scenery. Yosemite is beautiful.
Billy Joel Documentary - got rec'd to me by four people, including a close friend. So decided to give it a whirl. It's good. But long. So will watch in snippets dragging it out. I'm learning stuff I did not know about Billy Joel - such as - he was in four different bands before he began truly writing his own music. One was a heavy metal band called Attila, which broke up when he had an affair with his band mate's wife, then was homeless, and tried to commit suicide twice, almost succeeded. The doc starts out, with him stating that he discovered that one learns best by failure, and recovery. Failing and trying again. He may have a point.
***
Off to make dinner. Headache is blissfully gone along with sinus issues. Most likely because I took a generic form of Excedrin, and an Allegra. The combination of the two - nipped it in the bud. Difference between sinus headache and migraine? I can get rid of a sinus headache, also if I don't get rid of it - it will become a vertigo headache, which is never good.