IzabelaKaramia

IzabelaKaramia, 3 days ago

@dkluft

Their tongue are incredibly rough! My cat will often groom my hands if she's lying on the bed and I put my hand on her. The tongue is like sandpaper.

IzabelaKaramia, 4 days ago

Of I course I won't actually eat cat treats and Ginza loves them and I don't want to take away from her supply of joy in a crinkly bag, but I am thinking of buying a gluten free frozen pizza this weekend and treat myself to a reward sort of meal -- easy to prepare, hardly any cleanup, and of course the wondrous joy of hot gooey cheese and tomato sauce upon a bread type of crust.

IzabelaKaramia, 4 days ago

Ginza fang and toe beans. #CatsOfMastodon

IzabelaKaramia, 4 days ago

Here's a pic of the best cat in the world, Ginza. Her head and face are blurry because she was squirming around and happy about being paid attention too, as she certainly deserves.

#CatsOfMastodon

IzabelaKaramia, 4 days ago

I'm so hungry today. I've been stuffing my face much of the morning and I'm thinking of trying cat treats for my own self.

IzabelaKaramia, 4 days ago

Chilly and damp as it is so often here. Heating up my second breakfast now to get calories and nutrients in me, along with the pleasant sensation of warm food down in the belly.

IzabelaKaramia, 4 days ago

@ninetiger

Sometimes zeros are the most positive things we can do for ourselves.

IzabelaKaramia, 4 days ago

I woke up once during the overnight and of course Ginza was tucked in against me. She's become a much, I don't know, clingier sleeping buddy than Brinkley was. Brinkley always tended to stay down near my feet though he would sometimes sleep up near my shoulders.

Ginza for the first months that she began sleeping inside would stay down near the feet, but now it's guaranteed that she sleeps near my stomach or back.

I still feel a sense that I could get sleepy

IzabelaKaramia, 4 days ago

Huh, I just realized that I haven't thought any about the idea of Ginza's birthday. Never picked up any info from neighborhood historians about a time around when she might have been born.

She deserves a birthday, a day to celebrate her entry into the world.

But what date should I choose?

IzabelaKaramia, 4 days ago

Ginza just scent-marked my bicycle helmet. Guess she wants to make sure that everyone knows I'm her human when I go out cycling in the world.

IzabelaKaramia, 4 days ago

much like I did yesterday, where it comes on fast and irresistible. So I need to be careful about pacing myself through the work hours.

But the physical body feels pretty good. I feel so much stronger than 6 weeks ago.

I also feel hungry. Definitely is going to be a 4 meal day. I need to eat and get nutrients in me and rebuild strength.

And work on that goal of getting me running again.

IzabelaKaramia, 4 days ago

The weather forecast for today and the holiday weekend is meh at best. Cloudy with chance of showers today, tomorrow, and Sunday. Perhaps mostly cloudy for Monday. Meh.

Meh meh meh.

IzabelaKaramia, 4 days ago

Took a 3 hour nap immediately after clocking out and closing up the work computer. It's a rare thing for me to fall asleep swiftly, I did that last evening and then this afternoon, so it's a sign that I need sleep. Sleep is important for physical, mental, and emotional health.

Gonna make a small pot of decaf tea and will probably get back in bed again in about an hour and try to sleep in until 6 tomorrow morning. Assess how I feel then. Hopefully I will feel alert and get physical activity.

IzabelaKaramia, 4 days ago

@ninetiger

It'd be interesting to see if she would like that if I felt I had a good safe means of doing that with her.

Would she like it? Maybe, maybe not.

She showed off with a big jump this morning as I was getting out of bed. She had gone up near the pillows and was hemmed in by me and my legs and the dresser next to the bed. She wanted to go check her food dishes so she leapt over my thighs and out on to the floor. Spring powered.

IzabelaKaramia, 4 days ago

Earlier in the week I tooted about recovery and sleep and making this week a step back week. Tooted about taking a zero day and I did that on Tuesday.

I've decided to take a zero day today too. Not because of a sense of physical fatigue in the body, but just how sleepy I'm getting. Pretty sure if I dove into bed right now I'd fall asleep almost immediately. That's rare for me. I did it last evening.

I need sleep. I need to listen to that.

IzabelaKaramia, 4 days ago

I'm still sleepy. Physically the body feels good but my brain and head are having trouble resisting the idea of joining Ginza who is napping on the bed.

I feel sleepy enough that if I do a bicycle ride after work, it's gonna be slow, short, and easy, only around 30 to 40 minutes.

Somehow right now I need sleep, lots of sleep.

IzabelaKaramia, 5 days ago

Sunshine was strong enough it helped to warm things up to make the ride much more pleasant than the prior day. I went 10.9 miles and did that in the bike's biggest gear. I feel like it's a good way to help me build leg strength on the rides near home on the flat terrain.

I can do hill climbs on the weekend.

IzabelaKaramia, 3 days ago

I was in a good situation with the blood sugar and the weather being relatively dry, but it was still very damp and very chilly to do that 35 minute bike ride.

IzabelaKaramia, 3 days ago

and the cassette as well. I don't know what the bike's history of maintenance is like, but it's a good idea to figure out what condition its parts are in and improve what needs improving. That'll likely make riding it more pleasant and make it faster too.

It's gonna get a lot of use in the next few months, I know that, so let's do it right.

IzabelaKaramia, 3 days ago

Have to run errands today and do some batch cooking. But with it being a day off and hopefully weather not too miserable this afternoon, I will take a bicycle ride and walk and get stimulus I need to grow stronger and better cardio fitness.

I've had 2 zero days this week but I'm confident those were beneficial for me and where I am in this stage of recovery. The best medical information I've been able to find about recovering from long term magnesium deficiency says it takes 10 months

IzabelaKaramia, 3 days ago

I definitely feel more energetic today and physically I feel well rested after not walking or cycling yesterday.

It's taken a long time, but the years of constant fatigue and nutritional deficiency have taught me good lessons about taking care of myself.

IzabelaKaramia, 3 days ago

because it's a gradual process with the need to eat well but also add in magnesium supplementation. You can only supplement so much a day, extra just gets pissed away and is probably hard on the kidneys to be filtering that much magnesium out of the blood.

Thus a gradual process.

I did learn some about bike maintenance yesterday and today I want to take time to measure the chain that's on the bike and examine the cassette.

It's a good chance that the chain needs replacing

IzabelaKaramia, 3 days ago

I showered which felt nice, as I hadn't showered since Wednesday. Plus I didn't shave yesterday, but in the shower I did a cursory shave of the facial stubble. I'll use the sink and mirror later to do a good close shave.

If I had more resources, I'd love to get electrolysis to wipe out the facial hair I still have.