How to use up bits of things when you don't quite have enough of any one thing; a dinner for two ( Read more... )

My doctor is taking me off one of metformins. wahoooo! so now i'm only at 1500! If I'm still doing okay in March, then i'll be doing really well. I'm excited, and nervous, and anxious and excited, and more excited.

I found soybean spaghetti at the grocery store the other day, and I wasn't sure what to make with it. Today, I came home from using the gym (BG 82, baby!) and decided that today was a day to experiment. So what did I do ( Read more... )

Actually, Maria is not a problem at all. In fact she is exact opposite of a problem. Perhaps that should be phrased "How do you solve a problem, if you're Maria" (though that doesn't have the same ring to it ( Read more... )

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Well, no, not exactly part trois. It is my third bout of it this week, but I just kept that title because a previous title was insomnia ... part deux. Still, I went to bed around 11, saw the clock at 2:25, 3:30, 4:40, 5:15, 5:45, got up at 6:10 because I was just done with the mockery that was sleep ( Read more... )

Thank you for those of you who sent positive messages. I appreciated it. And apparently, i was a great example of what hearing you're a diabetic can do for you. my a1c went from a 8.8 to a 5.6! Five point Six! Plus, fitting into jeans much smaller than i used to fit into and have lost weight and rah! yay for me.

now i just have to keep it up

tomorrow is my first 90 day doctor appointment since being diagnosed as a diabetic. i got my blood drawn last monday and hopefully will see some positive results. who knows. i'm nervous. i'm hopeful. blah blah blah. doctors. blah.

I've been watching The Closer marathon. I'm thoroughly enjoying myself. I should be doing about half a million things. I have a whole list of things I ought to be doing. Organizing my lesson plans, working out, writing, plotting, cleaning my nails, doing my feet, dealing with my own emotional fluctuations, knitting, crocheting, beading, etc., ( Read more... )

Still no snow days. Plus side, however, is that I think we've now experienced more snow than, say, TUCSON or PHOENIX Ari-Freaking-Zona. Sheesh ( Read more... )