Mediterranean England
Feb. 4th, 2025 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
disappointed_lesbianLast night I dreamt that I'd traveled to England. But the architecture looked like stuff I'd seen in images of Italy or maybe the broader Mediterranean.
The dream started with me going into a rather posh-looking convenience store to find a snack (always a struggle for a vegan with chronic hypoglycemia). It was a bit awkward because I couldn't figure out what some of the items were or I couldn't decide on what I wanted because of the human bustle in the store (in real life this is distracting and makes shopping difficult). I found some good looking crackers that were sold separately rather than in a package. They were just lying out, the package open so that people could take individual crackers. I smeared something jelly-like on the crackers and went up to pay at the register, then the dream sort of faded out to the next scene, me walking down streets that looked like streets of Italy.
I did wake up prematurely last night, but I fell back to sleep easily and got nearly a full night of sleep. I'm not sure whether that was due to the mildness of the night (it was warmer than usual, as always when it rains) or because of the extra supplements I took : a second, lower dose of extended release melatonin, glycine in a capsule (instead of powder form, which is more quickly absorbed), and potassium citrate.
The potassium I took because I always wake up feeling dehydrated. But I woke up feeling even more dehydrated this morning, so I'm not sure what to do. Having extra salt before bed seemed to work, but I woke up with such a horribly puffy face when I did that that I backed off it. Having extra salt first thing in the morning seemed to work, but I still wake up with the beginnings of a dehydration headache, albeit one that fades away as the morning progresses.
My new shoes arrived today. Now that walking should be more comfortable, plus I have an updated diet plan coming up starting next grocery day, we enter phase 2 of my weight-loss diet.
I ran out of food today but put off going to the grocery store until this evening because of the heavy rain. I just kept going through the random bit of food I had left, which was mainly a small bag of oat groats. They weren't pleasant because I don't really have any sweetener here except molasses (which I tried yesterday on oat groats...it was bad). I ate until my stomach felt uncomfortably full, yet still I was hungry. That's what insufficient vegetable intake is like.
Finally I went out and bought a bag of rice and a bag of red beans. Five bucks, rather pricey. Now there's just twelve dollars in my checking account. I didn't have the energy to go to the cheaper grocery store up the hill. The payment machine wouldn't take my EBT card (for food stamps), so I had to pay the whole price with my own money. Annoying. I have a dollar something just sitting on the card, unused.
The dream started with me going into a rather posh-looking convenience store to find a snack (always a struggle for a vegan with chronic hypoglycemia). It was a bit awkward because I couldn't figure out what some of the items were or I couldn't decide on what I wanted because of the human bustle in the store (in real life this is distracting and makes shopping difficult). I found some good looking crackers that were sold separately rather than in a package. They were just lying out, the package open so that people could take individual crackers. I smeared something jelly-like on the crackers and went up to pay at the register, then the dream sort of faded out to the next scene, me walking down streets that looked like streets of Italy.
I did wake up prematurely last night, but I fell back to sleep easily and got nearly a full night of sleep. I'm not sure whether that was due to the mildness of the night (it was warmer than usual, as always when it rains) or because of the extra supplements I took : a second, lower dose of extended release melatonin, glycine in a capsule (instead of powder form, which is more quickly absorbed), and potassium citrate.
The potassium I took because I always wake up feeling dehydrated. But I woke up feeling even more dehydrated this morning, so I'm not sure what to do. Having extra salt before bed seemed to work, but I woke up with such a horribly puffy face when I did that that I backed off it. Having extra salt first thing in the morning seemed to work, but I still wake up with the beginnings of a dehydration headache, albeit one that fades away as the morning progresses.
My new shoes arrived today. Now that walking should be more comfortable, plus I have an updated diet plan coming up starting next grocery day, we enter phase 2 of my weight-loss diet.
I ran out of food today but put off going to the grocery store until this evening because of the heavy rain. I just kept going through the random bit of food I had left, which was mainly a small bag of oat groats. They weren't pleasant because I don't really have any sweetener here except molasses (which I tried yesterday on oat groats...it was bad). I ate until my stomach felt uncomfortably full, yet still I was hungry. That's what insufficient vegetable intake is like.
Finally I went out and bought a bag of rice and a bag of red beans. Five bucks, rather pricey. Now there's just twelve dollars in my checking account. I didn't have the energy to go to the cheaper grocery store up the hill. The payment machine wouldn't take my EBT card (for food stamps), so I had to pay the whole price with my own money. Annoying. I have a dollar something just sitting on the card, unused.
