Oversharing, Overthinking, and the Wonderful New World with Odin (Warning: Cuteness Alert)

So, I was going to write about a lot of things, and then THIS showed up in my YouTubery: 

And I realized that I'm pretty much guilty of at least five or six of the seven things, at one time or another. About the only thing I never talk about online is anything I may have donated to or done for any random being. Just not my style. I've been publicly thanked, and even that made me uncomfortable. I just don't do things for people to garner praise. The only times I have done such things, it's never worked out in my favor. Live and learn. 

Otherwise, I am wholeheartedly guilty of oversharing on a variety of topics, including health, goals, family issues, routines, etc. and believe you me, every time I do overshare, the first thing that usually crosses my brain marquee is "Does this really matter to anyone at all, let alone me?" But still, I do it. I guess it's because of the FOMO aspect of our online world, and also because I know the few people that DO read my blog are people I know, and interact with outside of here, so it's more like your everyday average phone call. 

That being said, I don't know if I'll keep all my ideas and plans and goals to myself just to appease some gods of Stoicism, but the video does make a good point. Shut up and live. Stop talking about it, and just do it. 

And just to NOT follow directions, which is my passion in life, I'll tell you that I'm still on keto (after what, one week? Two weeks?), still in peetosis, and have not had sugar, by way of candy, snack foods that are not keto, and I eat approximately twice per day, and only once have I had a snack of Elote almonds in the afternoon. The solution thus far has been to eat first meal sometimes earlier than lunch, other times at lunchtime, and then dinner, earlier, and ALL the TV-watching snacking at the same time (which has been pork rinds and chip dip, sugar-free Jello and whipped cream). That's about it. 1/2 to one cup of coffee in the morning, and another in the afternoon that typically gets sipped on til early evening. 

I can't say I've lost all that much weight, but my breathing is exponentially better, now that the cold is over with, and all the inflammatory junk foods have been eliminated. The achiness is better. No random joint pains. No random chest pains. More energy. Blahbity blah blah blah and so on. Oh, and after all the steroidy "anti-inflammatory" respiratory treatments and drugs, my sugar was at 106 today before lunch. It hasn't been that low in a LONG LONG time. I have confidence that it will continue to decrease, and I'll be NON-diabetic within the next month. Woot. 

As for overthinking, this is where I'm doing it differently this time. I am NOT listening to this, that, and every other keto channel in the universe. I'm not counting carbs or macros or anyfucking thing. I'm just doing me, and doing what I know works for me. I know what foods to eat, what foods to not eat; I know how to meal prep if I want to, or order Factor keto meals if the urge strikes me. I'm just done being on a "diet." I am merely trying to be as healthy as I can and avoid the drugs, and bullshit for as long as possible. 

I will not talk about my beliefs regarding Big Pharma and Big Medicine because we all have to do what works for us. Ask me, I'll tell you. Otherwise, minding my own beeswax, and keeping on keeping on. 

In OTHER news, we have achieved a puppy. 

Meet Odin. Took a few days to find the right name, but here we are. Odin - according to Wikipedia, is this, based on Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him. It associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet. 

I never knew a thing about Odin (also father of Thor) until we watched American Gods a while back. While some would say he was the villain, I got a kick out of him. 

And, while I don't know about death, war, the gallows, or the runic alphabet, I do know that his shelter name was Prince Eric (royalty), he's a very intelligent tike, he has been victorious in stealing Nettie's heart, and he's got frenzy down to a science with those super-sharp puppy teeth, and what seems will become a high amount of energy! 

See below for proof: 

I'm trying to take a picture daily in mostly the same position, so we can do a time lapse (after he's grown) and see how quickly he progressed. 

He's just an excellent gentleman and a much-needed addition to our family. 

I'm sure I'll make you nauseous with a magical metric fuckton of pictures at least over the next year, but for now, I've got dinner to eat. 

Happy Sunday. Have a great week! 

Cutting a Rug, Puppy Love, Public Banking, Undying Love for Aging Mob Actors and Fine Meals

 And so, it begins ... and is probably 50% completed ... 

Bean, doing a quality inspection on the first section

When working by oneself, one must be creative in the art of moving objects and have zero actual plan

Three States, 45 grams and 10-ish Hours Later ...

Friday: 

Apparently, all the cold drugs, and the breathing drugs do make the blood sugar skyrocket. No wonder I was all jitters yesterday, despite eating very, very low carb, probably keto level. I did a breathing treatment at 8:30, which was far too late, so I stayed up til 11:30, but clearly, I should have just went for an all-nighter. I laid on the couch, staring at the moonlit ceiling for hours, listening to the low-key bubbling of the aquarium filter. 

Well, It's a Start

So, I weighed in at 216. Not my worst. Not my best. Just is what it be. 

Makes me look like this: 

This is what I do to get ready for a meeting with a client ... and hope to ALL HELL that I am NOT in the actual meeting room when I'm playing around with the filters! 

How Time and Common Sense Fly Off into the Sunset Together

 Yes, it's been a hot half a year or more ... I'm not feeling very Zen, so I thought I'd dust off this old diary and say some words. 

Back in June, I was in the process of minimizing my everythings. I kind of gave up on any attempt at trying to lose weight, and was focusing instead on different goals. I even started the Zen Polar diary in attempt to veer away from constantly thinking about "self" improvement. Since then, we've done a significant amount of work on the homestead, which you can read about here. I'm not here though to talk about that. 

In betwixt old and new ...