the blog of a disabled mother who likes to game, and "get in the pit"
I tried to use the crop feature on my phone as well as I could, I really did.
But according to Ancestry, this is all I am. White bread. White on white. I can make these jokes all day.
These are recent screenshots of my ancestry composition as… estimated by 23andMe, or however you would word that. Of course, the only thing that I omitted from the screenshot was my full name, which would have shown up to the left of the 100% percentage on both screenshots. In hindsight, given that my full name can be found on our Amazon wish list if anyone purchases anything off of it, and the link can be found on the right side of my blog… maybe I didn’t need to crop it out, but since it’s a picture that can theoretically be saved to someone’s computer, I don’t exactly mind having done so. At any rate, all of these ancestry kits seem to say something completely different, which will illustrate itself when I post the screenshot that I have of my Ancestry results. I thought that those would be a lot more varied, as I’ve seen friends’ results where they have a lot of different percentages broken down and a lot more detail… and then you have mine, which I will eventually be getting to, which is a lot more boring and dull in comparison. At least my 23andMe is more interesting, even though more than half of my ancestry starts with “Broadly” and doesn’t get more specific…
Setting the FitBit up was a breeze, especially syncing it to the app that I have for it.
On the other hand, what hasn’t been a breeze has been the fact that my immune system is back to what it normally likes to do when it gets bored… so the feeling of the strap on my wrist, even though I tried to place it as comfortably as possible, is bothering me because all it seems to do is itch. I need to find some way to get over this or, at the very least, ameliorate this symptom. But should I really be surprised? This post is, after all, being written out by the very same person who has chronically rejected all piercing attempts made (three earlobe piercings), who had to have a medical implant moved because her body chronically rejected that to the tune of an emergency room visit. It’s still annoying that my immune system, as with my disabilities, limits my life in the manner that it does. The least that some people can do is actually take it seriously when I say that it does that. Because I am bound and determined to make this Inspire HR function in my life, damn it…
One of the things that I have tried doing is to move it around on my wrist as best as I am able to without making it so that it can’t read vital signs, and on occasion, taking it off of my wrist for short periods. There’s also the fact that I take it off of my wrist anyway when it needs to be charged. But based on the use that I’ve gotten so far out of it, the Inspire HR does hold a decent charge… the only functional limitation as far as actually using it goes is the itchiness that persists when it is worn “too long”, but that’s not the fault of the FitBit itself as much as it is the fault of my immune system being like a bored, petulant, small child. Seriously.
I am proud to say that I received one of these as an early birthday present!
Not only do I have the app on my phone for it, which makes… using the whole thing a lot easier (as well as, well, Googling everything that has to do with it), but I am pleased as punch because this thing actually attempts to track which stage in your sleep cycle you are in, as well as how long you spend in that stage, and I’ve been wanting to know more about my sleep stages for awhile now. Years ago, I was gifted a more basic FitBit that I used until it barely held a charge, but that one was a lot more basic, and it only tracked how long you slept and when you woke up. This one tracks your heart rate, more metrics in general, and the stages of sleep you’re actually in when as well as how long you sleep and when you actually rouse during your sleep… things that you might not consciously be aware of or remember because you went back to sleep.
I also look forward to seeing how much exercise it actually logs taking Bub on Pokewalks and to the park.
As time goes on, I intend to take pictures of it and screenshots of the app, and post them up here as well. I should actually do that with my Ancestry and 23andMe results, come to think of it… have I done that yet?
I got a lot of pictures of Bub’s first excursion to the park that’s down the road from our house, but this one happened to be my favorite of them all. We’ll probably walk down there more often since he likes it so much.