This morning when I weighed, I was 246.6 lbs. This was great because yesterday I had recorded my highest weight is several weeks, 250 lbs. About two weeks ago I was pleasantly at 243 lbs. and then just about four days ago, I started to gain weight. I know it was because I wasn’t watching what I was eating, or how much, or even trying some new items that ended up being high calorie.

The Hot Pork Sausage, Cannellini Beans & Shrimp Soup was delicious, but then I realized how high calorie the sausage was. I will make it again, even using Black & Pinto Beans, and substituting Bay Scallops, or Cod fish instead of shrimp. but using much less sausage. It will still be flavorful, filling, but less in calories per serving.

So, I was pleasantly surprised at losing about 3.5 lbs. in a day, but my resting Blood Glucose Level was up to 148. I went back and checked what I had eaten yesterday, but other than the corn on the cob for dinner, didn’t see anything that should have spiked my blood sugar levels… and then I went to the bathroom and while brushing my teeth, I looked over and realized that I had not taken my night time meds from yesterday. Damn, “well that answers that question.” Forget your meds and things will start to go south quickly.

It was time to take my morning meds just as I was realizing that I had forgotten those from last night. I’ve read that you should take the forgotten meds as soon as you realize you’ve forgotten, but I didn’t want to take duplicates at the same time. I did take the two tablets from the previous night, that weren’t part of the morning meds. I’ll try to slip the other 3 tablets in between, maybe at noon or 1pm today. *It’s 3 pm. I think I’ll go take the rest of the pills I forgot to take last night.

I had made a note, on a rose colored note card, reminding me to move any plants off my patio because they were going to be power washing the outside walls of my apartment the next few days. I moved the plants, and some of the containers that had potting soil in them inside. It doesn’t look like the power wash team has come by yet. No sign of my glass topped table on the patio being washed off.

I also started looking for my defunct Dell laptop and this time found it in a box with a bunch of other stuff. This is the laptop that had it’s battery die, and I think the recharge connector, that you plug your charging cable into, had probably also died. I recall having to hold the recharging cable “at just the right angle” for the charging light to come on, and after doing this for a while, the dead battery warning came on at boot up. I think it was going to cost about $25 for the charging connector, and maybe $67 for a replacement battery. *I just checked again, and it looks like the battery is now only $25 and the DC In Jack is about $8.

The Dell is a larger unit, but with it’s known issues, I might go with HP again, even though I think the HP has issues with the touchpad not being responsive enough when playing simple games.

I also re-attached a little rubber footer on the bottom of my HP laptop. It had come unglued quite some time ago, and while looking for my laptop last night I found the rubber strip with some USB connectors. I used three dots of Gorilla Glue to re-attach it. The problem, for the future, perhaps, is that there is one attachment screw just under this rubber strip, and you have to remove the strip to unscrew the screw, in order to take the back off the laptop.

*Mmm, I just thought that I could try and use the Gorilla Glue to re-attach the bottom frame of my bathroom medicine cabinet. It’s not completely off, but hanging partially off. I was able to re-attach the medicine cabinet frame with the glue, but I’m not sure if it will stay fastened. If not, I might try it once more and try to come up with a better way to lock it into place & then glue it again.

I took my defunct Dell Inspiron Windows laptop to Jeff’s new place this morning. Before I left my apartment, I plugged the laptop in, and held the charging cable “in just the right way” and the laptop started and I was able to login to Windows. I did manage to reformat the D: drive and it had something like 931 MB, which is almost 1 TB. As I recall, I think it will be about $25 to replace the charging port, and $67 for a replacement battery. *I’ve just checked on Amazon, and it only costs about $25 for the replacement battery and about $8 for the DC in power Jack.

He should only have to pay for a current version of Windows and a virus protection program besides the two pieces of replacement equipment.

I thought to make sure I had my replacement mirror for my Camry. I wasn’t able to press it in and lock it and was afraid I might crack the new mirror if I pressed harder. I thought Jeff might have more experience so I took it along with me. I remembered to ask him if he would look at my mirror and after some fiddling and hard pressing, the new mirror locked into place. I made it back home with my new mirror installed on the passenger side, and it didn’t fall out. The mirror motor wasn’t damaged, only the mirror glass shattered.

I stopped by the Chinese restaurant before I returned home and bought a couple of egg rolls.