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It definitely feels good to relax pretty much all day today, but why do I feel like I am now so far behind everything.  This is why I don’t like to take a day to relax and do nothing because I start to fall so far behind.  It is fine for me to take a little bit of time off and relax by watching a movie or something, but I don’t know, I just can’t do the whole day off of not doing anything.  I used to be able to turn the Blackberry off and not do any work, but that was different because I didn’t run my own business, so now things are a little different.

The good thing about today though was that my blood sugars were good.  I had Chinese food for lunch, pizza for dinner, and having some Reece’s peanut butter sundae as well and my BG is 114 now.  A while back I said I was going to create a sugar free Saturday, but that didn’t last too long.  On the better side of things, I have been eating better overall and am losing some weight.  Not as much as I had wanted by this time, but I am feeling better and am looking a little skinnier.

Well, it’s getting late and I still have some things to catch up on and then am going to do that relax thing again and watch a movie with Amanda because we have to get up early tomorrow to go to the Chili cook-off.

Ut-oh, those were my exact words when I went to put in a new infusion site tonight.  You know why?  Because I only have less than one box left of them.  I used to have a lot when I worked for that supply company last year.  I will never call them or use them for supplies ever, not just because of the way I was let go from them, but for other reasons as well, so I’m not sure where to call.  I am getting set up with my Cobra some time next week.  Let me get into that quickly as well.  I was expecting to pay almost $600 some dollars a month for Cobra, wow was I wrong!  The statement came in and said that it is about $300 something a month, but with the new law that came into affect, I am only responsible to pay for 35% of it, so you can do that math on that.  I was extremely happy about that.

My questions will come once I get Cobra.  Does it act just like my old insurance or is it a whole new insurance, so my supplies and insulin come from a different place again?  I haven’t had to order pump supplies in almost 2 years so I don’t remember how to do it.  I might go straight through Medtronic, but I’ve had nothing but headaches from them and bills that I never expected, so I’m not sure if I want to do that.

Well once I get it all set up on Monday, I will figure it out.  I just need to get some more infusion sets before it is too late.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Does anybody use the term resolution anymore as in New Year’s Resolution?  I stopped using that term because resolutions are always broken.  Instead I started to use the word goal because to me they are more achievable and I can set smaller goals to get to one big goal.  here is a list of my top 10 goals for 2010.

1. Lose 40 pounds
2. Be a better person
3. Test blood sugar more often
4. Grow my business
5. Be more active online
6. Travel to 3 new cities
7. Lower A1c every quarter
8. Become a larger community voice for diabetes
9. Spend more time with JDRF
10. Do whatever I can to help cure diabetes

Today is the first day that I felt somewhat normal.  I am not going to say that I felt perfect because that would just be a lie.  I was very careful with what I ate today because I am just tired of feeling like crap and being sick.  For breakfast I had a granola bar and then for lunch I had a 6 inch oven roasted chicken breast sub and felt fine during the day.  Today was my first day back to work since December 23, so I knew that was going to make me feel like crap as well.  Oh yea, I didn’t drink any coffee at all.  And for the record, I drink 10 cups between 8-5, so this was a big difference for me today.

I just finished eating dinner about 30 minutes ago, spaghetti and a garlic stick.  I am trying not to eat anything that will mess with my stomach that much, like greasy, dairy, spicy food.  Hopefully I can’t tell you how it all turns out before this post is over because than that pretty much means it wouldn’t be good.

Now, onto other things.  I am extremely tired right now.  First day back to work, no coffee, not a lot of sleep last night, so much stuff to do tonight, and my body is just drained!  My head hurts from the work.  I also think my body is a little weak from getting over food poisoning and eating less today as well and from being drained of energy, have I said that I’m completely drained right now?

Time to get off the computer and watch the Panthers for the first time in almost 2 weeks.  I will eventually get my “internet” legs back and be able to be on Twitter and read other blogs and do all the fun things that I once did.  Until tomorrow, have a wonderful day folks.

Well today is my first day back to south Florida.  My trip home was good for the most part, however the end of it was not so great.  Starting New Year’s Day night, I felt a little sick.  I thought it was just a sinus cold so I took some Claritin and went to bed.  Halfway through the night I woke up and my body ached so bad, so I thought it was just the uncomfortable bed that I was sleeping on.  In the morning, it was even worse, and to add to it, I felt like I was coming down with the flu.  You know the symptoms of the flu, so no reason for me to get into it.  The highest my fever ever got however was 100.6.

This lasted Saturday, Sunday, and still going on today.  My flight on Sunday was delayed which meant that there was no way that I could catch my connecting flight to West Palm Beach, so I had to come back in the morning and catch a different flight to Charlotte and then to West Palm.  My stomach feels a little better, but everytime I eat, it starts to feel the same exact way.

I am almost 100% convinced that I had some sort of food poisoning from some cold shrimp that I was eating on New Year’s Eve.

I don’t know, all I know is that my New Year has not been off to a great start.

Well I want to briefly take the time to wish everybody a Merry Christmas.  I probably will not be online at all tomorrow because I have a lot to do not just with Christmas, but having to pack and get things together because I am going back home Saturday morning.  Well, I will be back online most likely on Monday, so see you all then.

I am all moved out of my old house and for now am living with my girlfriend’s family until after the new year.  Reason being is because our closing date isn’t until after the new year, but I am going back up north for the holidays so it’s not that bad.  Moving was so hectic because I had to move things into storage, so I was not only packing but trying to back things in ways that some would go to storage and some would go to the house.  Obviously my diabetes stuff was going to the house, but not all of it because I have so much random crap that I don’t really ever use anymore.

I still feel that I put things into storage that I may have needed, but anyway onto more important things.  I’ve posted recently that I am working again doing some consulting work.  Right now it is only 25 hours a week for this client and obviously, no health insurance.  My insurance expires at the end of December, so tomorrow all I care about doing is getting my insulin re-ordered before coverage runs out.  I am also supposed to get my COBRA information tomorrow.  So all this stuff that I have to do tomorrow and Tuesday, it never ends.

Have a great week everybody, hopefully it’s a short week for you as well.

Damn am I tired or what!  My roommate and I started to move last night and we just finished it today.  I have never packed and moved that fast in my life.  We packed everything and moved within 48 hours.  I am so tired and drained of energy.  I can’t even believe that I am typing this right now because I just want to shower and go to bed.  Anyway.

I got good news today.  I found out that my insurance coverage is still good until the end of the month so that means that I can re-order my insulin before the coverage actually runs out.  This was such great news to me, especially when every bit of news that I have been getting has been bad.  My blood sugars have been good the past few days though which is a surprise because I have been so stressed that it’s not even funny.  Sunday is a relaxation day.  No moving, nothing but watching football and catching back up.  I used to be on my laptop for about 5-8 hours a day, I am now on it for about 20-30 minutes a day.

Well, I am slowly getting back into my blogging mode.

Take care.

Today was my first Monday working in over a month, what a long day it was.  I started working again last Thursday, so with all the talking going back and forth I didn’t have much time to continue to blog.  I had a lot of things going on with worrying about insurance and bills and being unemployed that I had to just take time off from blogging for a while.  Now I am back.  There has not been too much going on in my life, so there’s not much even to talk about.

I still haven’t even gotten around to downloading the USB Contour data onto my computer.  Did I mention that I have to move this week and weekend, so that doesn’t help things that much either.  The main reason that I am blogging today is because I received an e-mail from somebody telling me that they were sad to see that I haven’t blogged in a while because they read it everyday and they looked forward to seeing my blogs everyday because it made them feel comfortable with managing their diabetes.

That to me made me realize that I need to continue to blog.  If my blog has influenced only one person, then that is more than I have ever thought that I would.

With that, it is pizza and Wii night at the future in-laws tonight.

Wow, I haven’t even really been on my computer since last week, let alone had a chance to blog.  Things have been hectic, well not really.  My day’s have been filled with a lot of lazy / relaxing things.  I start my new job tomorrow with introductions and meetings to get started.  So, basically for the last week I was enjoying my last days before starting a new job again.  The weather hasn’t been great for me, but I have been trying to spend as much time outside as possible and as little time in front of a computer.  I guess I just needed this break to recharge myself and now I am ready to get back into things and get back to blogging and tweeting and Facebooking and Linking In, etc.

I am kind of scared about how little I now know about what has been going on in everybody’s life in the d community.  I have a lot of reading to do to catch up on.  So, enough with my blog I want to read about all your lives, mine is boring.  More from me later.