Neat site with Adelaide pics

I stumbled into this site while looking for pics of articulated buses to show Chris. Well worth a visit if you've wanted to see what the city looks like. In and Around Adelaide

Thur 15 May

06:55:00   6.4  / 116  Fasting   
11:12:00   6.8  / 122  Post-Bfast
15:51:00   6.8  / 123  Post-Lunch
20:28:00   7.1  / 128  Pre-Tea   
23:03:00   5.8  / 105  Post-Tea 

Driving Totals: Daytime: 710 mins of 2400 req // Nighttime: 340 mins of 600 req
40 mins driving tonight.

W: 89.5

Scratchy: no win. 5318 steps

Total Steps: 5524 so far

Breakfast: half toasted cheese sandwich on low GI bread
Lunch: sausage roll and cottage cheese
Tea: roast pork, 1/2 potato, lots of carrots

Notes: Every night before I go to bed, I jot down my final number of steps for the day in a notebook I keep by my bedside. Then the next day I either try to remember the number to add to my journal or drag the notebook into the office for reference. Earlier this week, I decided to have little post it notes near the notebook so I could jot the number down and take it into the office with me. So when I got dressed yesterday, I popped the postit onto my chest, figuring I'd see it in the webcam pics and jot it down in my journal. Later in the day, I took the bus to go to the community centre and once seated (after passing lots of people on the bus), I scratched the base of my throat and OMG, there's the postit note on my chest!! You know you're a geek when....

I spent a lovely day at home working on web projects for about 4 very different clients/projects. And had wonderful readings all day too. We went out grocery shopping this evening which gave me nearly an hour of night time driving.

Wed 14 May

08:10:00   6.7  / 120  Fasting   
18:55:00   6.2  / 111  Pre-Tea   
22:04:00   7.1  / 128  Post-Tea

Driving Totals: Daytime: 710 mins of 2400 req // Nighttime: 300 mins of 600 req
15 mins this afternoon

W: 89.5

Scratchy: No win. 8184 steps

Total Steps: 8635 so far

Breakfast: half toasted cheese sandwich on low GI bread
Lunch: sausage roll from Jesters Pies. Can't say I'd recommend these. Rather bland.
Tea: Yiros lamb meat.

Notes: Village Walkers today. Went well. Bought 3/4 length gel inserts for my shoes before walk. Not sure about them as they have a texture to them I could feel on my feet, but probably helped as I didn't have as many problems with cramps. I also did the stretching exercises as well before hand. Then went off on bus to Colonnades as I had a Workskil appt. Basically just a catch up (health, etc) and for once all my news was mostly on the positive side. Picked up some milk and took photos of apples for the Monthly Scavenger Hunt. I did photos this morning of my fogged up mirrors, but I don't know how they turned out yet. Ran into A. at Colonnades - she was shocked that Rod wasn't with me (I don't think we've ever run into each other when we haven't been together), she was so thrilled that I had my 'L's too. Then I met Rod after his classes and drove home. Sorta missed the driveway and got the curb a bit on the turn in. Ouch.

Now home working on various websites and catching up with all my paperwork. My desk seems to be covered in little white reminder notes at the moment.

Tue 13 May

08:07:00   5.8  / 104  Fasting   
12:29:00   5.2  /  94  Pre-Lunch 
15:57:00   5.8  / 105  Post-Lunch
19:23:00   4.9  /  89  Pre-Tea   
23:05:00   6.8  / 122  Post-Tea

Driving Totals: Daytime: 695 mins of 2400 req // Nighttime: 300 mins of 600 req
15 mins this morning

W: 90

Scratchy: No win. 5869 steps

Total Steps: 10,035

Breakfast: half toasted cheese sandwich on low GI bread
Lunch: sausage roll & cottage cheese
Tea: seafood stirfry with my own invented stirfry sauce, and low carb noodles

Notes: RDNS dressing change this morning. Went well. Drove Rod to TAFE this morning. Took my walk at Colonnades. On suggestion of one of my fellow Village Walkers, I bought gel heel inserts for my shoes. She said it helps with back pain and helps cushion walking. Apparently (after she made the suggestion) she's a physio. They seem to be a help, so definitely worth the try. She suggested this after I mentioned having an abscess in my back. So hard with new people to know what and how much to tell them about my health stuff. Just enough so they understand that I'm not a power walker. LOL.

Yay!! I bought the camera. I'm so pleased.

I finally got to see the pics and videos of baby Ricky, and the way he reacts to stuff on these, I'm sure he and I are kindred spirits. Gee he's a cutie pie. When the new camera comes and as long as it does video like its supposed to, I will try to have a weekly chat to the camera for y'all (but mostly for Ricky!). ;-) Anyway, I better get back (? Maybe I should start first) to work.

The sauce I used for tea tonight I mentioned in my April 28 notes. And I said there I thought my high reading was due to the 3 min noodles and not the sauce. Tonight, with a reading of 6.8, I proved that theory. Excellent!

Hey, it's 11:45pm and I haven't dozed off once. YAY!

Mon 12 May - A new record for me

07:47:00   5.8  / 105  Fasting   
10:55:00   7.4  / 134  Post-Bfast
16:25:00   7.4  / 134  Post-Lunch
18:31:00   5.3  /  95  Pre-Tea 

Driving Totals: Daytime: 680 mins of 2400 req // Nighttime: 300 mins of 600 req

W: 89

Scratchy: $7 on $5 (ticket was for Sunday and Monday). 13122 steps

Total Steps: 14531 (a new RECORD for me!!)

Breakfast: 1 small slice leftover pizza (thinner crust)
Lunch: hot dog on the run
Tea: fettucine carbonara (Thanks, Terry, Jennifer & baby Ricky!)

Notes: Took walk around The Strand and back up early this morning, hoping to catch a photo of low level fog. No such luck, but at least I got an early start on exercising today. Went and did walk with the Village Walkers and then went to shops for bread and stuff and walked home. I bought Rod a pink sticky bun from Bakers Delight - all proceeds go to BCNA (Breast Cancer Network Australia). He was shocked that I didn't want part of it, didn't have one on the way home, etc. Nope, I bought it to support BCNA and as a treat for Rod. My pleasure was seeing him enjoy it all to himself. :-)

It isn't even 3pm and I've racked up a record breaking (for me) 13,000 steps for the day already. I'm kinda blown away by that! The rest of my day will be at the computer though. Aside from tea. Am trying to figure out how we can have take away some how. Terry & Jenny suggested I go out for a meal and its stuck with me). Maybe the Emu for a pub meal.


We did go to the Emu for a counter meal. Was lovely. Was (for me) decadent. No, didn't involve any chocolate at all, it's just their portions are very generous and I'm sure I had more than my fair share of carbs for one meal (cough, ok, maybe for 3 days).

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I fell asleep at the computer last night before the pictures of Little Ricky that Terry sent me were finished downloading and Rod made me go to bed and said I was a danger to myself and didn't want to see me do myself harm. (Somehow my glasses ended up on the floor which was freaky). He was telling me about someone at school that fell asleep in front of her computer at home and came in with lots of scrapes and bruises... she'd hit the corner of her desk when she fell out of her chair. So maybe Rod's right and I shouldn't try to stay awake because it doesn't work and I could end up doing all kinds of stupid things. It just annoys me I can go from 55mph to ZERO and snoring in under a minute. Frustrating.

Sun 11 May

06:51:00   6.7  / 121  Fasting   
11:34:00   5.7  / 103  Post-Bfast
20:02:00   5.0  /  90  Pre-Tea   
23:05:00   7.9  / 142  Post-Tea 

Driving Totals: Daytime: 680 mins of 2400 req // Nighttime: 300 mins of 600 req

W: 89.5

Scratchy: No walk today, but over 8000 steps

Total Steps: 8879

Breakfast: low GI toast w/ cheese and vegemite
Lunch: scrambled eggs, 2 crumpet toast
Tea: 3 slices thinner crust pizza. (Big improvement over the last several weeks).

Notes: Spent the day again working on stuff around the house. Mopped both inside and completely swept and mopped the patio. It needed it after the last dust storm we had. Rearranged patio a little bit.

The most annoying thing after putting in a good days effort was my dressing started to leak and the fluid on my skin was like acid. I took a shower and took the dressing off in the shower and oh it was just so nice to clean my skin in that area myself. I can't reach the hole to change the dressing, but at least I could get the fluid off the rest of my skin and give it a good scrub. So Rod changed the dressing and it's feeling much better now. Just kinda ticked me off that it was reminding me I'm not done healing.

Sat 10 May

08:46:00   6.3  / 114  Fasting   
11:37:00   6.0  / 108  Post-Bfast
19:48:00   4.6  /  83  Pre-Tea   
23:17:00   7.3  / 132  Post-Tea 

Driving Totals: Daytime: 680 mins of 2400 req // Nighttime: 300 mins of 600 req

W: 89.5

Scratchy: no win. 9880 steps (but had 6200 before even leaving home)

Total Steps: 12320

Breakfast: low GI toast w/ cheese and vegemite
Lunch: 2 eggs, bacon, 2 crumpet toasts
Tea: chicken, 2 slices low GI bread

Notes: I really want this camera. The price seems good and it does all the things I want. I could buy it with PayPal funds, but I'm holding back just in case it ends up on sale or the site does a free shipping thing.

Spent all day doing household stuff. Did laundry, vac'ed, dusted, etc etc. So now at nearly 10pm, I'm pretty beat. (Fell asleep several types updating stats tonight).

Fri 9 May

08:05:00   8.3  / 150  Fasting   
10:49:00   7.5  / 135  Post-Bfast
13:38:00   5.1  /  92  Pre-Lunch 
16:35:00   7.1  / 127  Post-Lunch
18:56:00   5.7  / 103  Pre-Tea   
21:50:00   10.6  / 191  Post-Tea

Driving Totals: Daytime: 680 mins of 2400 req // Nighttime: 300 mins of 600 req
20 mins this morning.

W: 89.5

Scratchy: no win. 5002 steps

Total Steps: 6462

Breakfast: toasted 1/2 sandwich with cheese and proscuito
Lunch: salad, cottage cheese, 2 low carb tortillas (1w/ cheese, 1 w/PB). Took my walk after lunch.
Tea: Fish and Chips.

Notes: RDNS this morning. Dressing was very saturated so she suggested changing even daily if it needs to be done. Nancy dropped in before we left for appointment. I had my walk in the afternoon and stopped at bank on my way by. Window shopped for cameras while out and Target had a few on clearance. I jotted notes (Product name, manufacturer, etc) so I could compare item pricing on ebay and look up reviews and such.. Mind, I really am just browsing at the moment.

5:48pm ... just nodded off. Must be time to make a change and stretch a bit.

Thur 8 May

09:38:00   6.8  / 122  Fasting   
12:18:00   8.9  / 160  Post-Bfast
16:27:00   6.2  / 111  Pre-Lunch 
20:59:00   4.4  /  79  Pre-Tea   
23:41:00   7.1  / 127  Post-Tea 

Driving Totals: Daytime: 660 mins of 2400 req // Nighttime: 300 mins of 600 req
50 mins night time.

W: 90

Scratchy: no win 6141

Total Steps: 6808

Breakfast: 1 slice low GI toast w/ cheese
Lunch: 3 small sausage roll bits, cottage cheese
Tea: kfc

Notes: Took lots of pictures of buttons today. Worked on a few different projects but honestly don't feel as though I've got anywhere with anything. Did late night shopping (which means the stores stay open past 6pm) tonight, which gave me another 50 mins of driving time. I'm halfway there on the required night time driving hours. Wow.

Rod has a nasty nasty rash everywhere at the moment. We think it's from the antibiotics he's been taking for one of the areas where he had teeth removed. It's listed as one of the side effects. He sees the dentist in the morning so will ask about it. Otherwise, I'm sending him to the GP. We've ruled out soap and laundery detergent/softner as I don't change products due my own skin allergies.

Wed 7 May

07:47:00   6.4  / 116  Fasting   
11:10:00   8.1  / 145  Post-Bfast
14:05:00   4.3  /  77  Pre-Lunch 
16:27:00   6.6  / 118  Post-Lunch
19:13:00   4.6  /  83  Pre-Tea   
21:56:00   8.1  / 146  Post-Tea 

Driving Totals: Daytime: 660 mins of 2400 req // Nighttime: 250 mins of 600 req

W: 89.5

Scratchy: $4 on $3 steps 6832

Total Steps: 9736

Breakfast: toast w/ PB & drop honey
Lunch: Bakers Delight roll with butter and cheese, cottage cheese
Tea: 2 thin pork steaks grilled, stirfry veggies, 1/2 ramen noodles (Rod had the other half).

Notes: Wow, slept through the night last night. Spent morning working on this new project and further exploring Drupal, and then left at 11:30 to catch the bus to go up to the Reynella Community Centre as it's the day that the 'Village Walkers' have our walk on the walking trail. I did better today at keeping my own pace and walking on the side of the path (where the stones are) so my ankles get good movements, as per instructions from GP. Thought I'd quit about half way to the first road, but after a brief stop to let my calves settle down, I managed to do the rest of the way. Meanwhile, I'd let the others go ahead as those ladies are far faster than me. I am still having problems with my ankle trying to turn sideways when I walk for any distance, and that in turn pulls on the calve muscles which is really quite painful. But the key is to stop and rest it before the pain gets too much. Then I can recover from it and carry on much further. If I ignore the pain it means I definitely will have to stop before I plan to, and then it takes a LOT longer to recover from. After finishing the walk, I got on the bus home and took it to the shopping center stop, where I did my usual walk routine (in other words, I bought myself a scratchy). I'm on a slight winning streak at the moment. $10 on Monday, $15 yesterday and another $4 today.

After lunch, I worked some more with Drupal, but took a break when my eyes started closing... and went off and did non-computer stuff for awhile. And, here I am back at the computer again. Hopefully I will be able to stay awake for the rest of the day. (Fingers crossed)

Tonight I caught up on some reading and then added a few entries to the Monthly Scavenger Hunt group on Flickr.

Tue 6 May

08:31:00   6.3  / 113  Fasting   
12:36:00   5.3  /  96  Post-Bfast
14:08:00   5.7  / 103  Pre-Lunch 
19:36:00   4.6  /  82  Pre-Tea   
22:19:00   10.9  / 197  Post-Tea  
23:22:00   8.1  / 145  Bedtime 

Driving Totals: Daytime: 660 mins of 2400 req // Nighttime: 250 mins of 600 req

W: n/a

Scratchy: $15 on $3. Steps 6344

Total Steps: 9365

Breakfast: egg and sausage mcmuffin
Lunch: sausage roll & cottage cheese
Tea: Satay beef stirfry with packaged rice

Notes: Had dressing change at RDNS, which means I went to TAFE with Rod this morning. Walked from TAFE parking lot to hospital and back again, then behind the school to Colonnades. Had a quick breakfast, walked to end of Big W, then to Woolies and picked up some marked down meat for tea. Was back home by about 12:30, and home in the nick of time before it started pouring down. Spend part of afternoon discovering how to use Drupal, which is a 'Content Management System' for setting up websites. This is for my next project that I'm working on. About 2pm, I was overcome by 'couldn't keep my eyes open' and napped for a couple of hours. I am so getting tired of this 'can't do anything I'm enjoying without falling asleep' crap. I'll be right with something and busy learning and doing and all of a sudden my eyes are closed and I'm snoring. I'm just so over it. Spent rest of evening learning for this project as well as spending time having tea with Rod and watching some telly.