So Friday I ventured off to Orlando with my girlfriend for her birthday (yes we found silver heels!)  First thing of the night was going to Downtown Disney and visiting Cirque Du Soleil.  If you have not witnessed this event live, you MUST!  It was the most incredible, shocking, speechless thing on earth.  I want to go back again already.  At times there is so much going on that you don’t know what to look at.  But overall, it was magical.

After that, we headed over to Pleasure Island because my girlfriend would be 21 in 15 minutes, so we stand in line to get into a club and at 11:54 exactly they say “I’m sorry but you have to wait 6 minutes”  I was furiated because I timed the line wrong and figured it would be midnight by the time we got up there.  So we went back in line and made it right at midnight.  We had a lot of fun in the “Motions” nightclub, and then headed over to the “BET Soundstage” for about 15 minutes.  I was pretty disappointed in the fact it only stayed open until 2 a.m., I would have figured at least 4.

Saturday morning came and we spent all day (10:00 a.m. – 12:30 a.m.) at Magic Kingdom.  We were able to accomplish every single ride and attraction to see.  We watched the fireworks, which are just magical and worth the price of a ticket by themselves.  They give you a little button that says “Today is my birthday” and when I went in March with my aunt, they gave her free water, ice cream, and etc. at every place we went, my girlfriend did not get a single thing free i was mad.  Well, she did get happy birthday sang to her at the Noodle Station (in Tomorrowland) and they gave her a little dessert!

One of the things that made my day had nothing to do with Magic Kingdom.  We asked a gentleman to take our picture and he did and as I was walking away I heard him say, “Hey, are you diabetic?”  And I turned around and proudly said, “Yes, I am for almost 5 years now.”  He pointed to his daughter, about 7-8 years old, and says, “she is too, she’s had it since she was 8, show him her pump honey”  She showed me her pump, same one I had.  Then came the cutest thing I ever heard in my life (I can’t believe I just said cute), she looked at me and said, “My last number was 104, what was yours?”  I responded with, “I haven’t tested for a few hours, but it was 180″, and the best advice I ever had followed, “Well, thats a little high, you should probably test again!”

Like I said, a magical experience!

Well, I think it has been settled where my next place of living is going to be.  A nice 2 story, 2 master bedrooms, and 2.5 baths, for only $1,100 a month.  It all sounds good to me.  Life has been crazy busy lately, so I haven’t really been able to post anything on here.  Also, nothing exciting has been going on either.  I do have an exciting night tonight of going looking for silver heels for my girlfriend for this weekend since we are going to Orlando for her birthday.  I mentioned earlier in a post about not being able to tell anybody what I was planning because it was a surprise, but I told her so now I can tell all of you.

I am taking her to Orlando to go to Cirque du Soleil and then to Pleasure Island afterwords for when she turns 21 at midnight.  The next day we will be going to Magic Kingdom and spend the day with the Princesses, since that is what she is.

Well, I must finish up some things before I head out of the office.  Have a great day everybody!

Well another Monday, so another day of bowling and blogging.  And a million other things with only enough time to  do a few of them.  First, we MUST win bowling tonight, if not then we must be prepared to make the greatest come back in bowling league history.  I think my girlfriend’s younger brother will be substituting tonight for his mom since her and my girlfriend both got tattoos over the weekend.

Next, my roommate and I went looking for places this weekend, and I think we found a place that is great and I am ready to sign a lease, but I don’t know if he is, so we are taking the chance that when he is ready, it will already be gone.

This morning when I went to Dunkin Donuts I overheard the word diabetic, so I kept my ears open and started to listen.  There were 2 older gentleman who I heard state that they were diabetic, and there was a younger kid who was on a pump and was describing to them exactly how the pump worked.  I was really tired and didn’t have any coffee in me yet so I didn’t decide to join in on the discussion.

Well, I need to end today’s post now, no tears, please, seriously, no tears!

My next A1C visit is not for another month and a half, but I actually feel pretty confident about this one now. Other then all the highs in the morning, there haven’t been too many during the day, so I think I will hit my record low, which shouldn’t be too hard to beat because I think the record low is right around 7.3, nothing to brag about.  I am still working that morning low, but man is it taking forever to figure out.  I don’t have good sleep patterns, so it is tough to test at 3 a.m., because some nights I’m not going to bed until then, so I probably ate something after midnight, then some nights I fall asleep earlier and haven’t eaten.  So, everything varies way too much.

This weekend I am going back out to look at some more new potential places to live.  Last week I went looking for individual home, but this week I am looking at more townhouses, condos and apartment complexes.  I am going with my actual roomate this weekend instead of just my girlfriend (who is my roomate’s sister), weird huh?  He’s not really ready to sign into a lease, but I know we need to soon because our move in date is mid-August, and these nice places will be rented out right away.

Well, no fun plans for me this weekend, although my girlfriend may be getting a new tattoo, so I guess that makes it exciting for me also!  What are all of your feelings on diabetics and tattoos, I have heard its not good for you, but then again I know some diabetics all tatted up!  I’m thinking about a Philadelphia Eagles tat.

Usually when I am pissed or in a bad mood my sugar goes really high, but today it has been running a little low which isn’t a bad thing.  But what put me in this mood is.  I went to my car to go to work, it decided not to start.  Finally after about 30 minutes it started up, and I come to find out that my head gasket is blown!

This isn’t an easy fix for anybody who doesn’t know about cars, and it’s not very cheap either.  Especially when you want to buy a new car within the next 6 months anyway.  Like I need something else affecting my blood sugar levels!  Stress, stress, stress, you gotta love it.!

Well, just another day in the life of a diabetic!

Well another Monday, so another week of bowling.  If we perform the way that we did last week I will be extremely mad.  I went over the weekend, I think it was Saturday night and bowled a few games with my girlfriend, she beat me once straight up and then she beat me with the handicap that I gave her.

I had some highs over the weekend that I wasn’t too happy about.  Friday night was bad.  I wanted to grab a McFlurry quickly, but it was midnight and service in south Florida sucks to begin with, but when you go that late, it’s 100 times worse.  So my girlfriend and I decided to go to Sonic.  Of course I had to get a chili dog because they were only a dollar, plus I had some Sonic ice cream type thing.  My sugar went sky high, my tubing was cracked again and it was leaking, what a surprise.

Well, I must get back to work.  Have a great week everybody!

The following are thoughts from my head while at work so far this week:

Monday – 1:00 p.m. Beautiful day outside, I can’t wait to go home and run.  5:00 p.m. Hmm it is going to storm really bad. 5:30 p.m. well no exercise because it is raining.

Tuesday – 1:00 p.m. Beautiful day outside, I can’t wait to go home and run.  5:00 p.m. Hmm it is going to storm really bad. 5:30 p.m. well no exercise because it is raining.

Wednesday – 1:00 p.m. Beautiful day outside, I can’t wait to go home and play tennis.  5:00 p.m. Hmm it is going to storm really bad. 5:30 p.m. well no tennis because it is raining.

Thursday 1:00 p.m. Beautiful day outside, I can’t wait to go home and run.  Is this starting to sound like the movie Groundhog’s Day or what?!!?  No exercise at all this week because of the rain so STOP RAINING!!  I have not been able to do any type of outdoor exercising at all, and it is making me mad.  As soon as I started to get into a little groove here, the weather takes me out of it.  I can see the clouds rolling in already.  There are only a certain amount of sit ups and push ups that I can do trapped inside.

Anyway, on a better note, I am going to look at a few houses this weekend so I can finally get out of the apartment I am living in right now.  End of August can not come fast enough.  But before that comes, my girlfriend’s 21st birthday is approaching fast, the end of this month, and I am just finalizing all my plans for it.  She doesn’t know what I am doing as a surprise, and I can’t really tell you all now either because she may be reading this, (I love you, if you are!), but I will tell you all later, not like you all care as much as she does .

Well have a great day everybody.  Today is a busy day in the Life of a Diabetic!

My blood sugars were really good all day yesterday.  I had one high of 250 after I ate some pasta, but other then that, they were excellent.  Once again, pasta makes me high.  You know what really ticked me off this morning?  I love to come into the office in the morning and check out some of the most recent posts from all my fellow d-bloggers from the diabetic news headlines, but this morning the past 20-some posts were nothing but recipe after recipe.  That is what I consider spam.  I like to see new recipes, but 20-30 all at once?

I don’t know if anybody else really cares about that, but I basically use that as my blogroll and skim through the latest posts, especially with the ADA San Francisco just ending people have a lot of interesting posts and comments from it.  Well, anyway, yesterday it stormed really bad so I couldn’t go running, but I tried to get a work out inside the apartment.  Any quick indoor exercise techniques anybody uses, with no exercise equipment being used?  Today is tennis day and it seems like as of right now it shouldn’t rain, but who knows in south Florida.  I always say that weather people and baseball players are the only ones who don’t get fired for being right or doing good only 30% of the time.  But if the weather people down here were baseball players, they would be getting sent to the minors because they’re only batting about .100 right now.

Today is the sad day I hate, opening my last box of infusion sets and reservoirs, that means time to re-order, and with still no luck with my insurance coverage, its back to paying for them myself.  Thankfully I only pay about $110 for my infusion sets, because I had to get more of them one time before and it was almost $200.

Well since I can never remember to watch the DLife show on Sunday’s, I just set my DVR and watch it whenever I remember to.  So, last night I watched this week’s most recent episode and is it just me or is everybody else inspired and ready to go grab a bike and start riding?  It amazes me that Team Type 1 can manage their sugar levels that damn well with the intense workouts they have.  I exercise for 15 minutes and my blood sugars go high.  After I get done running my sugar is usually 30-50 points higher.

I was really motivated and have been testing my sugar a lot more often, I know it’s only been about 12 hours since I watched it, but I have tested almost 10 times so far since then.  The race starts tomorrow and I am going to be staying tuned to see how well they are doing.  I hope they take first place again!

I have been wanting to go riding for a while, but I don’t live in the best neighborhood to do it, and I can’t throw the bikes in the back of my car to go to a bike path.  So that is why I was going to by an exercise bike until I couldn’t find one for a reasonable price.  Anybody have one to donate?!!??!!??  No, but I really am going to buy one soon, I think I am going to wait until I move because I will have a third bedroom for my office / weight room.

The skies are looking scary down here in south Florida!

Another Monday, another day of blogging and bowling.  My life has been pretty boring as of late so there hasn’t been many things to blog about, that is why I didn’t blog last Friday.  I had nothing exciting to talk about and I didn’t want to bore anybody and waste their time.  I lost a vial of insulin and it really makes me mad.  Last Thursday I took it to work and I know I put it in my shorts when I left to go home.  I looked for it this weekend, couldn’t find it, so I thought hmm, I probably left it at work.  Nope, its not here either, so now I have no clue what so ever where it is, and it still had two refills left.

Well, what are you going to do, crying about it won’t help anything. Bowling is going to be instense tonight because all the other teams suck, and since our averages are so high, we could be the worst team because of the handicaps.  I don’t like losing!

Well, sorry this is so short, but it is Monday, so there is work to be done!