So much to do and so little time to do it.  My flight takes off at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, which means I have to leave to go to the airport at 4:00 a.m.  So, that would mean that I have to get up at about 3:15 – 3:30, so what is really the point in even going to sleep.  I will be up watching football until almost midnight, I have a lot of cleaning to do, I haven’t even started packing.  I have tickets to the Panthers hockey game tonight, which I’m not even going to the game because I have so much stuff to do.

My blog will be back up and running with posts about my great trip home next Monday.  Check back then

Less than a week until my vacation starts.  Monday night after work, it officially starts.  I have to be at the airport at around 4:30 for a 6:00 a.m. flight.  It amazes me how crowded airports are at that time.  I got so used to flying over the past couple of years because I have went back and forth to Pennsylvania for 4 years now, however, I haven’t been back home since Christmas of last year.  It’s been a long time since I had to fly and go through the Diabetes security check at the airport.

I don’t usually check my sugars on the plane because it is only a little over an hour flight and then I get off to hop on board another plane, so that is usually when I check it.  I have some fun things planned for when I do go home next week.  As soon as I get home, I can’t wait to go eat at the good ole’ hometown family owned places that I miss.  I also get to surprise my nieces by picking them up from school, which I haven’t seen them since I met them in Disney World in March.

Well, it is going to be one crazy hectic work week so I can not only try to catch up, but also get ahead.

What a weird weekend this was.  The worst part was the tie game between the Eagles and the Bengals.  This game drove me crazy, and was also one of the ugliest I have ever seen.  I remembered the last tie that took place because my dad is a huge Pittsburg Steelers fan and we were watching the game.  Also, on Saturday, I some how ended up at the local sports bar to watch the UFC fight.  This is where my blood sugars got all crazy.  My sugar went up really high when I was eating chips and salsa, but then they just dropped like crazy and went down to about 55.

I had a lot of chips in front of me, but they disappeared pretty quickly once I saw the number 55 on the meter.  I also had a really low experience yesterday that just came out of nowhere.  I was in the middle of cleaning up my house when it happened, so I had no problem stopping what I was doing, test and then take the time to eat some Skittles to get my sugars back where they needed to be.  The only part I hated about the Skittles is that I am trying to lose weight, so when I eat them or drink some OJ, it has like 150 calories, 15 minutes in the gym just to recover from a low.

Today’s weigh in is 238.  I didn’t reach my goal, but this week’s dieting is going to be a lot more intense.  I didn’t hit the gym as much as I wanted to last week.  I played tennis 3 nights, but I wanted to go to the gym right after playing tennis, but I never made it.

One final thought, my roommate was making fun of me because of the Eagles tying and being in last place, and then I stopped for a second, and said…. hey, we’re still the World Series Champs though.  So I wanted to take a little time today to recognize and not forget the the Chase Utley led Philadelphia Phillies, World Series Champs, Philiadelphia Phillies that is.

Well, nothing special going on today to celebrate world diabetes day.  There has been a million other blogs out there celebrating it, and talking about it, and doing everything, so I won’t waste all of your time by doing the same.

 I actually don’t have much time to write one today because of how long I spent reading all the other ones.  It reminded me of a sports team that has been horrible for 10 years, then all of a sudden they make the play-offs and now everyone is on board cheering for them and hoping they win.  Except in this case, people who haven’t posted in a year, since last November 14 are all up on the blogosphere this year.

Everyone have a great World Diabetes Day!

Not too many special “diabetic” things going on in my life right now.  Even though you live with it every single day of my life, it doesn’t seem to always affect me every single day, I guess that’s a good thing.  My sugar levels have been coming down and averaging to be pretty good throughout the day.

I don’t know what I am going to do tomorrow for World Diabetes Day, I really don’t think anything too special.  I will definitely just spread the word of diabetes, but I do that every day of my life.  Do I get to eat a big piece of chocolate cake tomorrow?

Can’t wait to read all the great posts tomorrow.

Well, it wasn’t such a good weekend for the Eagles, but what are you going to do?  I don’t want to talk too much about it.  However, my blood sugar levels were perfect throughout the entire game which surprised the heck out of me.  Today is the start of a strict, strict, diet to lose about 10 pounds before Thanksgiving rolls around.

I plan on cutting my calorie intake down to about 1,000, and burning about 200-300 per day from exercise.  Right now, I am intaking nearly 2,000 a day and that’s not working out so well.  The only part that is making me eat so much is the snacking at night that I am taking in almost 400-500 calories after dinner…. not a good idea when you are trying to lose weight.  If I cut out that snacking, I can lose 5-6 pounds a month just by that!

Today’s weight… the highest I have ever been is 242.  Every Monday I will put up a new weight and give a new goal, and we’ll see if I can meet it. My goal for next week is 237.  5 pounds in one week may sound like a lot, but it is just so much excessive fat that it will come right off with 1-2 games of tennis.

Also, A1C time is approaching fast.  I don’t remember exactly when the last one was, so I have to check up on it and see.

Hopefully this weekend is going to be a relaxed filled one.  I do not have any plans directly, however something always pops up and it gets hectic.  I plan on going to the driving range sometime this weekend, hopefully Saturday and then actually going golfing sometime on Sunday, but who knows, probably won’t get around to either one of them.  Sunday night is a big night because it is the Eagles – Giants game which is definitely going to mess with my blood sugar levels.

Sunday is also going to be a day that I am going out for pizza for dinner for my girlfriend’s grandfather’s birthday, so that right there also always screws with my blood sugar.  So that should be a fun night filled with testing my levels constantly.  Another thing this weekend is that I think my girlfriend is going to start on her photo album of our cruise, she always makes some awesome scrapbooking things…. hmmm maybe a business idea.  Send us your pics and she will scrapbook them for you!  Any buyers?  Well, I should probably ask her first huh?

Well you all have a great, safe weekend, and come back Monday to see how my sugars were throughout the game…. if you care…….later!

Finally, it’s over.  Whether you wanted him to win or you didn’t, it doesn’t matter now.  It’s time again for us to join together again…. which we should have been all along anyway, but I’ll save that for a political blog.  Since this is a diabetic blog, I don’t want to discuss politics, but what I will say is….. a lot has been promised, so like I said yesterday, I dare you, Mr. Obama, to do something to benefit the 23 million diabetics living in this country within your first 100 days.

But on to other things, my new insurance has kicked in and I am not paying a single penny for any of my supplies and I love it.  Enough strips to test 8 times a day, enough infusion sets to change every 2-3 days, enough insulin to go through over 150 units a day if I wanted to.  It feels great to be insured again.  The best part is that I didn’t even have to change companies.  The company I was getting them from while I was uninsured, just started billing insurances recently, so now I can stick with them and not have to deal with the headaches that I always go through whenever I go to a different supply company or pharmacy.

Well, this is going to be short and sweet today, but not too sweet because I don’t want all our sugars getting high.  Have a superb day all!

I am very surprised with how great my sugar levels were on the cruise.  I actually tested about 4-5 times a day which also shocked me.  We didn’t spend a lot of time in our room, but whenever we came back to the room I was testing my sugar just to make sure it was at a proper level.  My girlfriend was a little sea sick on the first day, so we didn’t really do too much, but once we got to the Bahamas, the fun was on.  We spent majority of the day at Atlantis, which is definitely a magically place.  I had a perfect scheme set up there too.

I took my pump off and left it in a locker while we went on different water rides.  I would test my sugar, then go off and do one section of the park.  We would then go back to the locker, check again and then do another section.  The best part was that there is a lazy river that goes around the whole Aquaventure park so when we wanted to go back to the lockers, we hopped in a raft and floated to the the exit where our lockers were.  Also, since it was my first time in the Bahamas, I was enjoying all the different tropical drinks that were just floating around at the bars, and I was able to maintain blood sugar levels under 200 the whole entire day, more like under 160!

Even during the buffets I was eating, my blood sugars didn’t spike.   The only day was Sunday morning, they were a little high and then after breakfast they stayed high for a while.  It took me a few hours to bring down the blood sugar levels.  But all in all the cruise was amazing.  I celebrated my birthday on Saturday, and then a 3 year anniversary on Monday, so it was an all in one cruise.

Now, it is time to celebrate the whole month of November and National Diabetes Awareness Month.  Whoever becomes the next president tonight, I challenge you to do something in your first 100 days that will benefit the over 23 million diabetics in this country…. go ahead I DARE you!  Let’s make our voice heard.