Month: January 2011

I was hoping this new year would not start out as hectic as the old year ended, but that hasn’t been the case. I have still been on the go or working for about 12-15 hours throughout the day and it is still taking a big toll on my diabetes control. Over the last 3-4 months I have had only a handful of blood sugars under 200, that is not good at all. It is mainly due to lack of testing and eating out all the time and no exercise.

Lately I have been eating better and getting as much exercise in as possible, but still not to the proper levels. Amanda and I will be moving to a new place together at the end of the month, so I think that will help calm things down after the first week or two of moving.

I always tell people, stop bitching and start a revolution, well it’s about time for me to stop bitching about being overweight and not fitting into clothes and not having good bg numbers, so it’s time to start a revolution.

Have a great weekend.

Happy Monday to everybody.  I went camping this weekend and had a pretty fun time.  I didn’t get to catch as many fish that I would have liked to, but I at least made it out onto a boat and went on a nice nature viewing ride through the Loxahatchee River in Florida.  We went to this place called Trapper Nelson’s, which is a very interesting story and place and I highly recommend it if you are ever in the area.  Other than that, there were the normal diabetes precautions to take while camping.

I made sure that I packed enough supplies for the trip.  Normally, I go through a few infusion sets because it is hot and you are outside the entire time, so you sweat a lot.  Fortunately, this trip was the complete opposite, it was pretty damn cold, especially during the night.  My blood sugars were pretty good throughout the whole camping trip.  A few highs here and there, but they were all fixed quickly.  The worst part is having a high blood sugar while camping, especially at night.  If it is too high, and you start to pee frequently, you have to try and get in and out of the tent several times during the night without waking up the others in the tent with the loud ass zipper noise.

Out of the times that I have camped since I’ve been diabetic, I think that diabetes is a fire side topic every time.  I enjoy that because it gives me an opportunity to educate people on the subject of diabetes.

Well, it is the start to another very long week.  The Eagles lost in the play-offs so I’m disappointed about that, however, busy work schedule, and Amanda and I just signed a new lease for a new place, and so it will be time to start packing everything up and moving again.

Have a great day.

Well, this sort of feels a little weird, logging into WordPress and posting something. If you were all wondering if I gave up on blogging, the answer is no. November was a very stressful month, especially with completing the NaBloPoMo. There were additional things that were just taking up all of my time, work, work, work, and a lot of plans on the weekends just did not allow me any time to relax and be stress free. So, I made a choice that in December I was not going to post anything or tweet at all and just take a breather and give myself that extra needed time. Unfortunately, there was still no down time at all. I can only imagine how much worse it would have been if I was blogging as well.

Since the last time that I posted anything on my blog I have decided to move again, I slept at an airport, I attended the first Tuesday night football game in who knows how long, visited my family in PA, and started working out at a new gym. Tonight is the Orange Bowl in Miami so you know I will be there for my Hokies, so I don’t have much time to blog today, so I will get into some of these subjects later on in the week.

But, I just wanted to let everyone know that I am alive and I haven’t given up on blogging, I just needed a month off and I feel somewhat refreshed, but feel that I am able to create some more time to blog once again.

I hope everyone had an excellent Christmas and New Year and look forward to reading the 3,000 + Google Reader list to see what everyone was up to.