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Well, I probably am too calorie deficit. I have drank water to the point where I jump up every 30 mins to pee. If I don't fall asleep before 4am I guess I'll just have to get up and make myself some pasta with soy sauce and marg. The fact I find the sound of it appetizing probably refers to me being too deficit as well
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I did fall asleep soon after writing that (without eating), just walked the dog and checked her paw - the lump is still there but now closer to the color of the surrounding skin, so the inflammation looks to be going down still! Yay!
I'm hungry but too tired to eat, I'll try to sleep a bit more. I'll get myself some feta, cheap blue cheese, celery, carrots and rye bread today. The feta will make my bean-based meals a bit more interesting, bread is cheap and handy, and celery and carrots work nicely with peanut butter, guac and the blue cheese.
The weather is finally cooling down and the apartment feels comfortable. It felt incredible to wake up in fresh sheets with the smell of clean floors. I think I'm over the worst now!
I'm hungry but too tired to eat, I'll try to sleep a bit more. I'll get myself some feta, cheap blue cheese, celery, carrots and rye bread today. The feta will make my bean-based meals a bit more interesting, bread is cheap and handy, and celery and carrots work nicely with peanut butter, guac and the blue cheese.
The weather is finally cooling down and the apartment feels comfortable. It felt incredible to wake up in fresh sheets with the smell of clean floors. I think I'm over the worst now!
Floater
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Any time you break your nightly fast it´s a breakfast
True!
I had a bit of a scare: I have some plants in hanging pots which I've hung from the plastic thingies you clip curtains onto. I congratulate myself about making sure none of them hung from one point only, because one of my plants had a thingy break off on it's own
Well, I used the opportunity to hang it from my bed frame instead (I have a metal canopy kind of thing over the bed and originally planned to use it for hanging potted plants, but never got around to doing it). Now that I have the momentum, I think I might buy some window cleaning spray on my trip to the grocery as well, and start washing the windows and re-arranging my potted plants, maybe even getting started with that macrame project? Window washing is decent exercise anyway with all the reaching and hauling water and climbing up and down a chair, and now that I feel motivated, it feels a bit silly to waste the motivation...?
Absolutely! Don´t overexert yourself but definitely keep the momentum going of you can. Using the warning of the broken clip as motivation to rearrange your plants sounds like a good idea as well.
Floater
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Thanks! After walking the dog I can say for certain that going to the gym is probably not a great idea anyway - it's "only" 24 degrees but high humidity, both me and the dog were completely wiped after walking 10 minutes.
My dishwasher seems to be broken. It sometimes just doesn't heat up the water so all the grease sticks to the dishes - I called the landlord and they said if the issue persists they'll come and switch it up to a new machine. I might have to do that.
Lunch: kidney beans and sweet corn in a spicy tomato and peanut butter soup.
Floater
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Uuuuugggghhhhhh I went to the store but it was so hot and I got distracted by a shady customer (goes to show I'm still having a bit of a PTSD moment) that I forgot the Windex. But considering that the pollen season is not done yet, maybe it's not such a catastrophe. I got feta, blue cheese, celery, carrots, and three mini cans of tuna. Forgot the bread, too, but I have plenty of couscous and rice left so it's not such a big deal anyway.
Floater
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Sigh. Gotta love having anxiety. I keep worrying about the hanging flowerpot (which now hangs from my bedframe) falling onto my dog (who likes to sleep under my bed with her head sticking out). I McGyvered some extra safety systems in place, so that even if all the knots and clips came undone somehow, it would fall onto the bed next to my head and not onto the dog and kill her, but I think I'll just move that cursed thing back to hang from the window first thing tomorrow, this anxiety isn't worth my decor visions.
It should be noted that this difficulty to deal with tiny changes is very part and parcel of being autistic. It's not that I expect there's real reason for the worst to happen, but it never occurred to me that this might be an issue, so my mind jumps into overdrive trying to figure out if there are other risks I just haven't taken into consideration. Sigh at least I've been at a nice deficit today so that's great
It should be noted that this difficulty to deal with tiny changes is very part and parcel of being autistic. It's not that I expect there's real reason for the worst to happen, but it never occurred to me that this might be an issue, so my mind jumps into overdrive trying to figure out if there are other risks I just haven't taken into consideration. Sigh at least I've been at a nice deficit today so that's great
Floater
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A thousand times this. Luckily, at some point I stopped worrying because there just isn't a possibility for the thing to fall off now. I still had trouble falling asleep, so I took Nera for a walk at 5 (the jasmines are in bloom!), fed and medicated her, fell asleep at 9 and slept until 3pm. I should eat something soon...
Floater
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Lunch: pasta with yesterday´s peanut butter tomato soup as sauce, kidney beans, corn, white beans, peas, and feta cheese.
I'm a bit shocked - I'm going to run out of beans and pasta before Friday, I have 7 euros left and that's going to get me 500g of pasta and several tetra packs of beans, but the next week is going to be tough for sure. Oh well, it's useless to worry, I'll just do my best stretching what I have out over the next days and then buy what I absolutely have to.
I'm a bit shocked - I'm going to run out of beans and pasta before Friday, I have 7 euros left and that's going to get me 500g of pasta and several tetra packs of beans, but the next week is going to be tough for sure. Oh well, it's useless to worry, I'll just do my best stretching what I have out over the next days and then buy what I absolutely have to.