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You may have noticed that lately, the past 2 weeks, my posts have been a lot shorter and not really that interesting.  I am aware of this and I do believe there is a reason.  It’s because I’m just tired of diabetes right now.  I haven’t had a job so there is a lot more time to think about diabetes and all of the things that go along with it, and I’m just tired of it.  At times I don’t really feel like talking about it.  I just want a break from it.  I can’t take a break from managing it, so I am just taking a break from constantly talking about it and typing 500-1000  words a day about it.

So, for this, you may see some different things come up in my blog that I totally not related to diabetes, things that will let you see the other side of me, the parts of me that have nothing to do with diabetes.  More of Chris and less of the diabetic kid.  If you don’t want to read about that stuff, then fine with me, send me an email and I will let you know when I write a post about diabetes if you want.  Or don’t, either way.

Obviously everything in my life will be diabetes related because diabetes is a part of me and I live with it and must manage it on a daily basis.  But I don’t have to talk about it every single day though.  So for today, this is enough about diabetes.  I will be over this very shortly, I get over everything quickly.  So there will be some good interesting posts that come up again soon, I promise.

Until then, have a great day and weekend.

Finally it was a nice day and I didn’t have anything to do and was able to go to the beach.  It wasn’t very sunny, but it was nice out and wasn’t too hott, in the 70’s.  But what would a beach day be without some sort of problem.  Last night I put in a new set on my backside so you couldn’t see it if I took my shirt off at the beach.  I went to breakfast and even used sugar-free syrup, but for some reason when I tested as soon as I got to the beach my sugar was 460!  How the hell did that happen?

I have no idea what went wrong, but I did know that when I have a high, it takes a long time, sometimes never for the sugar to come down when my site is in that area.  I went into the car because I knew I had another set in there, but didn’t think that I had my injector or iv prep pads.  When I went into my car I noticed my golf bag in there that I never took out, so this time it paid to not have cleaned my car out.  I went to the bathroom, which is disgusting because its a public bathroom at the beach, I’ve never seen a clean one, or one that at least smelled clean.

Once I left the beach about 2 hours later my sugar was down to 215, so I knew that everything was getting back to normal, but I’m still confused on why it went up so damn high.

Well, have a good day ya’ll.

Today I am starting something new.  Every Saturday I am going to try and go sugar-free, or as close to it as possible.  That means not allow myself to have any sweets that day.  No desserts, nothing with a lot of sugar or carbs in it.  This is going to be a day where I relax with the food on the weekends.  Saturday and Sunday is when my diet always goes straight down the toilet, so if I just dedicate this day to not allowing myself to eat this stuff, then I think it may be a little better.

I don’t know how long it will last, or how well it work, but it is always worth the shot.

Well it is off to start my first sugar free Saturday.

Well, it is about 8 a.m. on the Friday after Thanksgiving.  I am typing this blog post on my iPhone, so it will be short because I can’t type a long post on my phone, but I am not at home so I must do this.  I have not yet slept from the day before.  I went to the Sawgrass Mills at midnight to attack the stores.  Then at 5 Target was opening so I needed to get there.  I really wanted to get a Flip cam, but there weren’t any on sale, so I decided not to buy one.

My sugars were a little higher throughout the night because of the no sleep thing, and a lot of caffeine, so far 2 coffees and an energy drink, so quite honestly, I feel like crap, no other way to describe it.

I am going to end this blog before I start to ramble because of not sleeping for the last 24 hours.

Have a great Fight It Friday everybody.

Well it’s Thanksgiving morning, so Happy Thanksgiving ya’ll.  This post is going to be short and sweet, but not too sweet, so you won’t have to bolus for it.

Today I am going to consume a lot of insulin.  There is no way around it.  I will try to eat healthy, but it won’t work, I already know this.  So today I give thanks to insulin, insulin pumps, and infusion sets.

Without all these today, this day would suck.

So, it’s off to the in-laws for some good ole’ food.

Take care ya’ll.

I have had planned for almost a week to go to the beach today.  Today is the first day that Amanda is completely done with her student teaching, so to celebrate a day off together we were going to go to the beach.  Well at about 5 a.m. this morning we were awoken by the loudest thunder I have ever heard.  And about 30 minutes later I heard it again and could have sworn it sounded like it struck our building unit.

Then for the rest of the day it was pretty much ugly and nasty and raining.  When it finally stopped raining, there was no point in going to the beach because it was just so soggy and wet outside.  So that really sucks, so now here I am stuck inside all day.  Good news however is that tonight I am sitting in the box seats at the Panthers game with free buffet style food.  Not sure how good of an idea that is the night before Thanksgiving.

Since I am moving soon, I am going to take today to start the packing process.  I don’t have many boxes right now, but I just want to get everything organized and then just throw it in a box.  I’ll clear out a corner in my room and dust everything off and then put it into groups, so then when I get a box it’s all good to go.  I am going to count how many random used strips I find laying around the house when I move, I have been here for a little over a year, so my guess is going to be around 100 strips I find.

Any takers, high / low?

Well, you all have a wonderful day.

Yesterday I received a Contour USB in the mail (Disclosure).  I haven’t had enough time to play around with it yet.  So, I will give a full review of it as soon as I go through all 25 samples strips, as of right now, I love it, but I will go into more depth at that time.  Today is going to be a long day.  I will begin working 40 hours a week in an office setting again, hopefully starting on Monday.  I haven’t been hired as a full time employee, but rather CSI Marketing Solutions, LLC has been hired as a consultant agency.  This is good because I enjoy the work I will be doing and my company is finally picking up.  The bad news is that there is no insurance offered through this, so I will have to pick up Cobra at the end of the month.

I haven’t received my paperwork for Cobra yet, but I should be receiving it soon in order to get it all started.  I have a lot of work to do today, a lot of refreshing on some things I will need to do on my new job.  Remember those classes you took in college where you sat there and said, “this is so stupid, I will never need to know this stuff in real life” so then you just faded away and started thinking about how awesome this weekend’s homecoming party was going to be?  Fast forward 4 years – “Hey Chris, you need to know this stuff in order to get paid!”

I’m going to spend majority of the day at Barnes and Noble, it’s crazy how much work I actually get done there.

So until tomorrow, talk to you soon.

Today I am going to the Sawgrass Mills, in about 20 minutes, so I don’t have much time to type this post, but I want to get it in as fast as I can, so sorry if there is any grammar or spelling errors.  I need to go so I can get some new “dress” clothes.  At my previous job there was not really a dress code, I went to work in beach shorts, a tee and usually flip-flops, and a backwards hat.  I had some stuff that I wore to conferences or meeting  days or whenever I had to dress up, but not enough.  And since I’ve been unemployed I have put a lot of weight on, even though I have so much more time for exercising, but that’s a different story for a different day.

I hate going shopping.  For one, I hate spending money, I wish I didn’t have to spend money ever, like I’m sure we all do.  I hate trying clothes on because of my pump.  You have to connect / disconnect, make sure it doesn’t fall out of your pocket.  Then clothes don’t fit because I just ate at the food court about 10 minutes before that.  I just hate it.  Now, take me to look at new shoes and you can’t get me out of the place.

Well, Amanda is ready to go now, so that ends this post.  Have a great weekend all.

I have been unemployed for going on my second full week.  Working for a diabetes supply company for almost 3 years kept me connected to the diabetes industry on an everyday basis.  Now I am a lot closer to the diabetes community because working for a supply company kept a guard up between myself and a lot of you.  I have a job interview today around 11 so I am very excited about it, as well as nervous, I’m not used to interviewing.

I think that I learn more and get news faster now from the online community than when I worked inside the industry.  I was worried that I may be on the outside of a lot of things, but the complete opposite has been true and I thank the whole diabetes community.  This is a short post today because I do have to get ready for the interview today.  That means ironing, ironing, and ironing.  It takes me about 3 or 4 tries to finally get the wrinkles out, I’m not so good with an iron.

Have a great day ya’ll

Enough said.  Stop reading here and move on to the all the others that have been doing amazing things today.  The only thing that I will be posting here is this amazing video from SugaSheen which is made up of George Simmons and Cherise Nicole, you can check it out on DiabetesMine.

Also, don’t forget about the Big Blue Test.