I also want to see the new Strangers movie, but I don’t know if I will be able to sleep after seeing something like that.  The way the world is now, that could happen any day of the week.  What does all this have to do about diabetes?  Absolutely nothing.  I decided today, I don’t even want to talk about diabetes.  Well, I am right now, but this is the end of it, no more.  Let’s talk about some of the fun things in life, like the Indiana Jones movie, or Call of Duty 4, or hell even chinese food.

You know what really bugs me?  Since I started dieting, Taco Bell (my weakness) started the whole .79 , .89 , .99 campaign and I can’t eat it.  I have cut fast food out completly and now they decide to do this.  That irritates me.  Why does a rain cloud come by and then it clears up and then it starts raining again?  Why are there so many dragonflies flying around right now, do they really love the heat that much?  Who will win, Celtics or Pistons?  I hate Kobe Bryant, but I love watching him play, so I would love to see a Kobe- Richard Hamilton match up, that should be interesting.  What’s for dinner tonight, I usually go out to eat on Friday’s, but I don’t know where I want to go.

So, if you all wondered what goes through my head in about a 5 minute span, there you go!  Good news everybody, bowling league starts back up this upcoming Monday.  You know what the best part of it is, it is a Miller Lite league.  If I have never expressed this before, I ONLY drink Miller Lite.  My whole apartment is designed in Miller Lite and Eagles stuff.  $1 Miller Lite drafts throughout the night also, compared to their usualy $3.50.  I am excited!

So, these have been my random thoughts of the Life of a Diabetic

Next, I’m sorry to say but no more bowling and blogging Friday’s, at least not for now, I think the summer league starts up in about 3-4 weeks, but I don’t know if I am joining it.  It is $1 Miller Lite drafts during the league, which thats worth the money by itself.  This week, I am choosing to call it, Studying and Blogging Friday…and Saturday and Sunday.  It is all I will be doing all weekend long.

Also, it is time to do my diabetes inventory.  My parents are coming down in a week, and a lot of my extra supplies get shipped up there still, so I need to do a nice count to see what I need them to bring down to me.  This is always fun (sarcasm) counting how many strips, lancets, pen needles, infusion sets, reservoirs, insulin, insulin pens, and also their expiration dates.

See you all on Monday, have a great weekend!

To update you all on the bowling situation, we finished 1 point behind the first place team, which really irritated me.  We were tied for second going into the night, and the other second place team had the tie breaker against us, so they bowled the 1st placed and we bowled the 3rd place.  So we had to rely on the other team to beat the 1st place team, and they didn’t.  We did our part by winning all 3 games, not just winning, humiliating them.  Each game we won by over 150 pins!!!

There was also a lot of catered food because it was the final night.  So guess who just kept on eating and eating and eating all night long.  Pasta, chicken fingers, salad, wings, and 2 pitchers of Miller Lite.  I did not have my meter (what a surprise!) and took a guess on how much insulin I would need.  At the end of the night when I went to the car and found my meter in there,  I tested and I was around 98.  I was shocked, especially since I was really pissed off.

Over the weekend, I was flipping through the channels and came across this movie that was about these aliens that needed a lot of sugar to reproduce and they were nurses in a hospital.  These nurses would seduce men and, even women, and suck the glucose out of their body.  Well, what do you know there was a diabetic in the movie and as she was running from the aliens, she lost her insulin.  Later in the movie her sugar was really high and the aliens could sense it.  She went on a mission to find more insulin in the hospital and she came up with the bright idea of shooting the aliens with the insulin to kill them.  By this time, I am feeling like I am in a bad crazy dream, but I wasn’t, this was really a movie.  A weird, unique one, that made the diabetic the hero in the end.

Anyway, back to the diabetes.  My girlfriend and I had a talk the other night about diabetes complications.  She gets very upset when she hears something about someone dying from diabetes or some type of complication involved in it.  It is tough to explain to her the different complications and see the look on her face during the whole thing.  This conversation made me say to myself, ok you need to get more serious about losing weight, managing your diabetes, and eating correctly again.  Then, I test my blood sugar last night before bed and it is 376.  So I correct, and then wake up at 5:30 in the morning, sweating, shaking, and dizzy with a blood sugar of 50.  All over the map.

Well on the brighter side of things, its the weekend!!!!  Oh wait, whats so bright about that, its not the weekend to me, it’s “lets spend all weekend reading and studying because finals start in a week and I need to pass so I can graduate”

I just signed up for my final class in order to graduate.  One final online class in the first half of the summer and then I walk down and get my degree, and by the way start studying for the GMAT. 

I am getting low on my pump supplies.  I opened up my last box of my resevoirs, and I thought I had another package coming, but somehow the automatic shipment was on hold, so luckily I called to find out when my next shipment will be sent.  I have about 3-4 reservoirs left to last me until April 14th.  I should be fine, since I am “dieting” and I’m not using as much insulin as I did when I was eating 8 tacos from Taco Bell or 5 burgers from Checkers.

It has been beautiful all week long, so I want to go to the beach this weekend, but lets see, any takers that it is going to rain alll damn weekend so I can’t go to the beach?  I’ll let you know how it went on Monday.

I’ve been controlling my eating habits the past couple of days, and my sugars have been more stable.  I am trying hard to fight the hunger problems.  Yogurt has been the most frequented food, and yogurt smoothies.  I played tennis the other day for about 10 minutes because I caught up with my girlfriend and her mom when they were just finishing and tired out.

A1C test is next week, hopefully it turns out well as well as the JDRF walk did!

Tomorrow is the local JDRF walk and after that, a day of nothing but school work.  It has been beautiful all week long and then the weekend comes and it is rainy all weekend, isn’t that great?  I don’t mind this weekend, because like I said I have a lot of schoolwork that I have to do.

Michigan State plays tonight, hopefully Monday’s blog title will read “Michigan State Spartans to the Final Four!”

Anyway, last Friday’s bowling had gone pretty well.  My high game was a 179, not too bad.  It was higher then my sugars finally.  I had a fiesta taco salad before I bowled.  Afterwards we went out for a friends birthday.  It was a fun and exciting night, it ended at midnight though, so wasn’t too long of a night.  I had a “Philly” cheesesteak, and I put that in quotes because these steaks down here are so generic and fake Philly’s.  There is only one place that I can trully call a real Philly cheesesteak.  Anyway, didn’t affect my sugars at all, which I was surprised because drinking and eating usually does.

I might be going away again tomorrow and Wednesday for two days on vacation.  Hopefully it will all be good.

When my girlfriend goes through and asks me different things that I may have packed and she asks if I’m sure I’m totally packed my answer always is, “I have my pump, my insulin, some infusion sets and reservoirs and my wallet, everything else I can buy.” Which, to an extent that is pretty much true. If I forgot shoes, no big deal I’ll buy a pair, but I don’t think I can just go to the infusion set store and pick out which ones look best on me.

Luckily, I don’t have to fly this time. Going through security never bothers me, even though my bagged is usually checked because they look at the infusion sets and the insulin, but I’m always early, so it does not affect me. However, once on the plane is when it gets nerve racking. Not including, the turbulence, and lifting off, and smashing against the ground while landing, it is the thought of getting a low blood sugar on the plane. I know there are plenty of treats and soda and juices to cure it, but then it draws unwanted attention, not to mention I will sweat tremendously and have to go the rest of the plane ride all sweaty.

No Blogging and Bowling Friday tomorrow either. I will attempt to, but for one, I will be at an event all day, plus I won’t be bowling being that I won’t be back in time to bowl.

I forget half the time to test during the 3 hours that I am there bowling, drinking, and eating.  Last week I didn’t have any chips, but instead had boneless buffalo wings, which were amazing.  I overestimated the carbs and took too much insulin and then the run to the candy machine for Skittles followed.  To add to it, it was my turn to bowl, and I threw a strike even with a low blood sugar.

It’s going to be stressful tonight while bowling because I have to be doing homework along with bowling, so no drinking tonight, and who knows what I am going to eat, hopefully something good.

One last thing, hopefully some of you will give me feedback on.  I don’t eat fish, I know I need to, I eat a lot of canned tuna fish which does contain Omega 3, but this isn’t good enough, any suggestions on a good fish, that well, doesn’t taste like fish?