Tuckered

I stayed up way too late last night watching Ryan Hall's live stream.  And the night before...

Then I fell asleep and dreamed I was watching Ryan Hall's live stream.  Clearly, I have a problem. 

Ironically, enough, I was not watching Ryan Hall's live stream the day the big storm hit here and knocked the neighbor's tree over -- so I'm watching it now.  Seriously, I am.  I got curious about what he would have talked about, so I went back and found it.  I skipped ahead, though, to the relevant part and am not watching the entire eight hours of it. 

All that to say, I'm a mite tuckered.  

All righty, then....on to more relevant topics. 

Except that I can't remember what it was I was going to tell you, so let me just show you this.  I got the last of my basil planted yesterday when I got home from work and Walmart. 

This isn't the best place for it, because it's in shade for most of the day, but I had to put it somewhere.    I'm sure it'll be OK.  It just might not grow quite as big as it would in direct sunlight.  That may be a good thing, because I'm not completely sure what I'm going to do with so much basil.  

I'll cut and dry most of it and probably give it to Cody and Brennan, and I want to collect enough to make another batch of pesto.  Maybe I'll find a smoothie recipe as well.  And if all else fails, there's always the compost bin.  

While I was out there, I grabbed a quick picture of the other side of the planter.  You can see my Greek oregano in the back of the photo above, and on this side I have lemon balm, peppermint, and what was labeled as orange mint, but I'm having my doubts about that. 

I eventually want to have a whole bed of lemon balm plants once I get my herb garden set up and going.  I'll have to research what else you can do with it except make tea and season cooking.  I know it has lots of medicinal uses, so I'll look into those as well. 

In other news, one thing I've really been missing since developing this insulin resistance is a good bowl of cereal.  I've tried one of the bran cereals and they don't taste good.  The one box I bought is still sitting in the pantry mostly uneaten because it tasted like cardboard.  

I tried the Magic Spoon cereal, and didn't like it, either.  To me, it tasted like sour milk.  So, I had this ibotta rebate for Cheerios Protein cereal, and bought some. 

I had a bowl of it last night, and it tastes pretty good.  This morning, I checked my glucose, figuring it would be through the rood, but it was only 96.  So maybe, just maybe, I can have a bowl of cereal after all. 

While I was at the store yesterday, I bought myself a new floor lamp for my living room after the old one started behaving erratically.  It was 20 years old, after all, and was a cheap lamp to begin with. 

It's kind of sad the things I get excited about now...

And finally, I'm still playing the piano -- working my way through my lesson books, but it's become a struggle.  I think I'm going to set aside the Faber book for a while and concentrate on finishing my Alfred's Level 2 book.  Then I'll go back and finish the Faber book before doing Alfred's Level 3. 

I don't think I'll do any more of the Faber books.  Oh, it's not a bad course.  I just don't see the point in doing course after course.  At some point, I need to just start playing. 

Well, since it looks like Ryan Hall won't be going live tonight, I'll have to find something to watch.  Don't know what, but I'll find something...