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Guess what everybody!  After a month off of no -blogging and maybe 1 or 2 tweets, I am back.  I took time off from all my blogs and all my twitter accounts.  I was feeling so overwhelmed with a lot of things and life was really getting to me.  So I just took away a lot of things that were taking up my time and just relaxed and gave my body and mind some time off.

There were a lot of new and fun things that went on during this time and I will try and catch you up on all of them.

Have a happy new year.

Home Sweet…. Second Home? I just got back home last night from my real home of Pennsylvania.  I am exhausted and tired and there is so much to get done today that I just don’t think that I will get it all done.  It is great to go on vacation and see family members and all that fun stuff, but when you come back, the first day sucks because of the to-do list.  I usually fly back on a Sunday, but this time I decided to do the Saturday flight thing so I can have all day today to get everything done that I have to do.

One thing that I have to do is make a list of all the supplies that I have left and which ones I have to re-order now and which ones I can wait until the new year when my deductible restarts again.  So, with that, have a great Sunday and a great week this week.  Finish off November strong.

Wow. Let’s first start with me by saying Happy Thanksgiving. I am back up north for the holiday and when I woke up this morning I thought I was still dreaming. Why may you ask? Because it is snowing like freaking crazy. Are you kidding me? If it doesn’t snow on Christmas and only on Thanksgiving then I am going to be pissed. I would rather it snow then instead of now.

Well, anyway.  I know everybody wants to go eat and spend time with their family and not read a long post by me.

So, Happy Thanksgiving all.

Planning for the holidays used to be easy when I was in high school.  Eat as much food as I possibly can, go to basketball practice the next morning and work it all off and then have the first basketball game of the season with a tournament on Black Friday night and then a Saturday night game as well.  This is how my life was back then.  Now it is totally different, in more than just one way.  I’ll save the diabetes part of it for later.

First, I live in south Florida now, but my whole family still lives back up north in Pennsylvania.  Amanda and I try to make it even by spending one Thanksgiving down here and then the next Thanksgiving up there.  My niece just turned 1 on November 3, and my birthday is November 1, so I would like to try and start going up there on the years that I am spending Thanksgiving down here because then I will be able to celebrate the birthdays when they actually occur and not almost a month later.  This is the first part of my planning process is when I am going to fly home for the holidays, and what days of the week because I need to worry about cheap flight tickets because I will be flying back home again for Christmas as well, so that is another expense and also planning event that needs to occur.  Once all that planning is done, it then comes time to the diabetes part of the planning.

I have talked before about what goes into my packing for a diabetes trip, but this time around it was more than just the packing.  I had to make sure that I had enough insulin ordered and testing strips ordered for my trip so that I can pack it.  If you read my post about the joke of a Target’s pharmacy then you will know that I just recently ordered a one month supply of insulin to get me through the holidays.  And sorry to get off point here, but it just popped into my mind that I have to get blood work done before my next doctor’s appointment on December 3, so I have to do that on Monday or Tuesday the week before, ahhh more planning that I need to take care of.

Things were so much easier as a kid.  I never flew before I was diabetic, so I don’t know anything other than how to fly with diabetes.  Although, the first few times that I flew I was not using an insulin pump and I only had to carry a few pens and needles with me, so there were not as many supplies that I had to pack and make sure that I had with me.

I am ready to just be up north and start eating some good food!

My COBRA coverage runs out November 1.  Normally I would be concerned and upset about this, but, my new insurance kicks in on November 1, so it’s all good.  I have now been with my new company for officially 90 days, so health insurance kicks in at the beginning of the following month, which would be November.  I am excited about this because it is a better plan than I had before and it also includes vision and dental which I did not have at my former employer because they were cheap asses.

I can’t wait to get new contacts, glasses, dental appointment, re-order my testing strips, pump supplies, insulin, etc.  But I’m also a little nervous because this first orders with insurance companies are usually a little scary and something always goes wrong.  My new insurance is from United Healthcare.  Who else has them?  I’d love to hear your feedback on them and how they handle fellow diabetics.

I have not been to a regular doctor’s appointment for a physical or a dentist or eye doctor in a long time.  A regular medical doctor has been almost 4 years since I saw one, yes I know, that is not good at all.  Dentist has been probably about 2 years and eye doctor about 18 months.  I’ll be making appointments for all of them soon.  Well I hope you all have a great night.

Another late night post, sorry ya’ll.  I will be going away this weekend to Busch Gardens in Tampa.  I am very excited because I haven’t been to Busch Gardens in almost 15 years.  The last time I went, it was the one in Virginia though and I don’t remember too much about it.  I am leaving as soon as I get out of work tomorrow night and I haven’t even packed for the trip yet.

Well, I promised some new announcements on October 1, but I wasn’t able to get online to post anything and majority of the items have been pushed back, but I will still announce them and estimated release dates of things.  Let’s get started.

• In the month of November, I want to be able to do something for people with diabetes.  We all want to do something, but finding that something may be difficult.  I figured, what do I do best in life? I do SEO and web design for a career, so how can I use that? We always talk about how blogs help us in so many ways.  What about those that read blogs and want to start one, but haven’t gotten around to do it, or don’t know how to.  Well in the month of November, I will be building 20 new diabetes blogs for people that (1) currently have a blog and want a new design or site, etc. (2) create a completely new blog for people that want a blog.  If you want to be included in these 20, please contact me. By the way, I’m not charging, it’s free.
• Now that I work full time for a top online marketing agency, I no longer am running my business full-time.  However, I still do make money from affiliate programs (you click on a link and purchase something and I get paid).  Any money that I do make from these programs, 50% will be donated to JDRF.
• The new #dsma is fully functioning.  I’m not at home during that time to participant, but I read the whole chain that night when I get home and get a chance to catch up.  Don’t forget to send all of your ideas to Cherise for #dsma chats.
• All of your #bgnows are going to become a lot more useful.  The beta version of the #bgnow tracker is almost ready for launch.  Basically, it will pull all of your #bgnows into an exportable excel sheet, including graphs, and along with date and time of your tweet.  Stay tuned for a more accurate release date.
• I’m currently writing a diabetes book, and I promise it’s not going to be like most diabetes books that are out there, because let’s face it, most suck!

Well that is it for my news, exciting or boring, take it as you wish.  Have a great night everyone.

Achieving something does not happen automatically.  In order to get to the end, you have to follow a certain path.  There is no written path, well there can be, but I choose to create my own path, thanks to Robert Frost in fifth grade.  Small steps are needed to reach a larger achievement.  This is for anything in life, but since this is the Life of a Diabetic, lets relate it to my diabetes.

This food that I am about to eat, is it going to help my overall goal of losing weight and lowering my A1c?  Will testing my sugar before I eat instead of just guessing what it is, or just inputting a blank bg reading on my pump before I eat help my longer goals?  These long term goals can seem like they are almost impossible to achieve if you look at the end result.   So instead, let’s just create smaller goals that will equal to your larger goal.

So if I want to lose 3-5 pounds this week, then I need to accomplish that a daily basis, not on a weekly basis.  Take it one step at a time, that is the only way to get there.  I am writing this post also as a note and motivation to myself, because I am so focused on the end result, that I fail all the small little steps in between which will never lead me to my destination. I have an A1c test that I need to get done over the weekend and have my first endo appointment in nearly 9 months, so I am scared about this appointment, because I feel that I am letting myself down and letting my doctor down who is trying so hard to get me under control.

There are no excuses for the decisions that I have been making that result in my weight gain and lack of exercise.

Let’s end this on a positive note. I ate a salad for lunch today 🙂

Take care ya’ll

Wowwwwwww. This may be the longest that I have ever gone without blogging since I started back in 2005.  I don’t really have any excuses for why I have not been blogging.  I have been busier than I have been in years, but that is still not an excuse.  My blood sugar has not been as good as I want it to be either.  I haven’t been tweeting lately either, but I’m still there reading tweets.  I am working on a few diabetes projects right now and hopefully by the beginning of October I will be able to announce some of them to you all.

I will try and continue to blog some more and let you know how things have been going with me.

Until then, have a great evening.

I want to say sorry for not being here and not blogging or reading or tweeting or anything at all for that matter. As you may know I went on a vacation two weeks ago and I started a new job two weeks before that. Last night was hectic anf crazy trying to catch up at work. So bad that I wasn’t even able to coach my little league football team at all last week. We have practice again tonight anf I can’t attend because I have to take care of paperwork issues for something else. That something else is a new car.

So I have a lot going on now but I will be getting back to blogging because it really is one of my best stress relievers. Also, reading tweets and communicating online is great. If you have emailed me or sent me messages over the past few weeks dont hate me just understand I have had a lot going on recently so I will be getting back to all of you this week.

For now have a great day.