Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day - William Shakespeare

Just this time last week I'd come home from Brussels and now a week has passed. Time really does fly. I had another good weekend and now I really have to knuckle down this week. I did some work today by getting book from the library and having a bit of a read on the train. Tomorrow is when the actual work starts.

Excited about Brussels

I'm excited about Brussels on Friday and I've been packing today with a determination to fit everything into a 41cm tall suitcase. So far, I think it may be possible. I'm looking forward to going to the cottage tomorrow too. I'll get the chance to wear my swimming costume, it is my favourite and the one that I think has fit me best over the years.

I just can't wait to go! My holiday mentality always starts when I start packing so I actually feel like I shouldn't be going to work tonight as that's now what you do on holiday. Roll on 9pm tonight. :-)

On a less happy note, I'm having an ugly thigh afternoon. I know this will pass soon though......hopefully.

Fat Day

That is what I am having. Forget podgy evening. I am having a full on fat day where I feel podgy-middled and yucky. :-(

Sometimes I think too much

I get myself in such a tizz and make me think things that only distract me (not in a good way). I need to stay focused on everything else, more importantly everything that makes me feel amazing.

A day of new things.

Today has been a day of new things.

Firstly I had my diabetic review. All tests came back ok except my three monthly blood sugar level which was an average of 9. Not ideal but today is/was a new day so time for me to start getting those numbers down again. I'm going to start anew.

Secondly, while I was there, I was given a new blood glucose testing meter (Am I crazy for thinking that was a little exciting?) I have been having trouble with the other and putting the brand new battery into another meter like mine proved that my meter has something wrong with it. Anyway, she gave me a completely different brand. It's an Accu-Chek Aviva Nano and I love it. Why? Simply because it requires 'half the steps to test, proven less painful and no lancet handling'. (That's what it says on the box and it turns out to be true!) I have not been the best person at using my meter and one of the reasons was because of the stupid lancets. They are fiddly and annoying. (Consequently, because of this, I never changed the lancets as often as I should have done.) This meter has the lancets built into little barrels and they retract into the barrel and so you don't handle the lancets (which you are supposed to change after every single use) so that makes the whole thing less fiddly - saving me time. And finally, yes it is actually less painful. (Also, the case is softer which is nice, the meter glows in the dark and the testing strips come in a very cute tub)

Thirdly, today I have joined a gym again and yes I know I have very little money but this gym is just £10 a month and there's no contract so you can leave when you want. It opens in March in Warrington so I am going to go back to the gym and get fit. I need the exercise and I always went when I was at the other one except around the time I started working at borders and go out of a pattern. I really enjoy the exercise and apparently there will be exercise classes which I enjoy.

Finally, I got some new hair straighteners today. Yes, I have already have some but they were tearing my hair out. They didn't glide through my hair and I had to keep running the straighters through the same bit of hair over and over. It was causing too much damage. I now have some better straighteners which go to a higher heat and so I only have to run them through a section of hair once! I can see the difference straight away!

So tomorrow, new meter (I have to order more strips and lancet barrels though), new straighteners, new attempt at keeping my blood sugar below 9 and something new to look forward to in March. :-)

A mini pourquoi story

Ok, so I have written over 50 blogs so far and my blog remained titled as 'Nat'. When I originally decided on the name it was only designed to be there for a little while. So I finally decided to change it. I hadn't wanted to change it until I knew I had found the right thing. Then yesterday it hit me. I started thinking of things like books I had when I was younger and I remembered one of my favourite books Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. So with a little modification, I have it, my title.
I don't assume that my blogs are anywhere near the literary greatness of Rudyard Kipling's stories - that's not why I chose it. My blogs and his stories are two separate things entirely but I always loved the book. My favourite story in it was The Elephant's Child - the story of how the elephant's trunk became long.
So why have I titled this blog as a mini porquoi story? This is because Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories were a collection of porquoi stories and this short paragraph tells the origin of how this blog finally got its title too.

Podgy Evening

Well, I am having a podgy evening which is a shorter, slightly less bloated version of a fat day. Now I'm not sure what has brought this on, the few biscuits I ate, maybe. But other than that I've been good. So it seems rather unfair to feel podgy when I haven't eaten too badly today. It feels more unfair as there was a day about 2 weeks ago I think when I ate three quarters of a (big) tub of Worthenshaws chocolate frozen dessert and felt less podgy. I need to do some exercise or something I guess......

Hopefully I'll be feeling less podgy tomorrow. A little bit of hip wiggling with the hula hoop may make it all go away.