Is it really Thursday night already? I could have sworn that I just woke up for work on Monday morning.  This week has been one hell of a week.  Traffic this week has been worse than ever, it is ridiculous.  Yesterday morning, there was a fatal crash on 95 involving a motorcycle, so my heart goes out to the family of the man that was killed.  It was pretty crazy to drive by that accident and see the motorcycle under the car, ya kinda knew what happened when you drove by.

It’s sad news and makes me realize that when my 35 minute drive takes me two hours, that I should just be happy that I got there safely.  This week has been hard for me though. I am leaving for work at almost 7:30 in the morning now and staying later, so by the time I get home, it is about 7:30-8 at night.  I lay down for bed around 11 now that Amanda and I are living together.  So that leaves me with 3-4 hours in the entire day that I am actually home and awake and have time to spend with Amanda.  This is the main reason why you haven’t seen me blogging or on Twitter a lot because I just don’t have the time.  I want to start my days at 6:30 in the morning now in order to get my blogs written and anything else that I have to do.

As I’m sure you can tell my diet has not been going according to plan with living hours like this.  But I am not killing my diet like I have before.  When we order out, I am eating only my portion and not finishing Amanda’s portion like I usually do.

Well, it’s Jers-day, which I can’t believe that I just said that and admitted to watching this show, but it’s funny, and it’s a good time to make fun of these people.

Well, I finally moved the rest of my crap out of my old condo on Sunday.  I thought moving all the stuff was brutal, but now I’m realizing that unpacking it all is even worse.  I am gone for nearly 12 hours during the day, so when I do get home, I don’t feel like doing anything at all, so I’ll most likely be living out of boxes until at least Saturday when I hope that I can get it all unpacked.  Amanda and I are both serious about losing weight and eating healthy and not spending as much money.  We have been together for over 5 years, but this is our first place together, so we are not all over the place trying to see each other and always going out to eat or bringing bad food home to eat.  For the first time in a very long time, I actually packed a decent, healthy lunch and I am excited to eat it today and continue to eat healthy at lunch.  Lunch and breakfast are my two main goals that I am trying to conquer right now.  My breakfast goal is to eliminate Dunkin Donuts to save money and calories.  My lunch goal is to pack a lunch, and not over eat at lunch time.  Dinner is a different story and will take a little longer to overcome that, but I will.

Let’s get into the blood sugars now.  My blood sugars have been a lot better over the last few weeks.  Now, even though I said a lot better, that does not mean that they are still good, it’s just that they are better than before.  I have managed to keep my sugars under the 225 range and under 200 for the most part.  But it’s still not where they need to be, but hey, ya gotta start somewhere right?  My internet was down for like a week at my new place and I couldn’t get Comcast out there soon enough to fix it.  I really, really, really, hate Comcast, but that’s a side note.

Well, I need to get ready for work, so have a great day everyone.

Blogging two days in a row, wow you would think that I’m used to this!  Well, I am and it sure does feel good.  It feels good to get up every morning and type a blog post with a hot cup of coffee, and no snow, sorry people, I do live in Florida.  Over the last two months I had a lot of time to think about things going on in my life and what things can be eliminated and which I need to spend more time on.  Obviously the number one thing that I need to spend more time on is my health.  I also plan to start spending a lot more time on my book.

Then I came to think about my blog.  When I first started blogging I had no idea what was going on, I was just typing how I felt and about the things that were going on in my life, hence the name The Life of a Diabetic.  I began to think that a lot of my blog posts were, well, useless.  They didn’t talk about anything, there was nothing exciting, why would people want to read a blog about nothing at all.  But then I realized, it’s a blog about my life with diabetes, so not everything is going to be exciting and fun and interesting.

So that is exactly how my blog will continue to run, with a few additions.  The main addition is that I will be discussing some more controversial topics and creating discussions for your feedback and responses and dig into current events.  The other thing that I am going to do at least once a week is a spotlight on somebody doing something good for diabetes. It may be from a news article, or a blog post, or a tweet, anything.  I think it is always good to continue to spotlight those that are doing something great to support the cause of diabetes.

Well, I hope everyone has a good day today, it is going to be a long, busy, hard day for me.

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.