oh yeah, i have a blog ...

i've been disconnected. not from like, ya know, life in general - but my blog and the DOC.

maybe that means i'm TOTALLY connected to life, staying busy and having fun! ...maybe you saw on twitter that i was at the state fair three nights in a row for concerts ... lady antebellum (thanks becca for taking me with the tickets you won), boyz II men (FREE concert, amazing) and jason aldean (free tickets as payment for a fun gig in a few weeks, stay tuned) - so much awesome! :)

lady A

boyz II men - minus one guy who had a family emergency

jason aldean - amazing show

i need to get my shizz together and focus on my BGs staying in range and staying healthy. i kinda fell off that wagon a little bit when i got bronchitis AGAIN a few weeks ago, missed about two weeks of bootcamp and then ate a bunch of AWESOME and bad for you junk food at the state fair.

this week, back on it. bootcamp twice this week, BGs going well ... i'm gonna continue this trend.

and be connected to my DOC friends and blog. :)

delicious pineapple whip at the state fair! 

ice cream!

i'm sorry, did someone say that people with diabetes can't have ice cream? and then not apologize for it? right. ok then. carry on* ...

*not all the people pictured have diabetes. but you can't tell by looking at them, can you? 

wordless wednesday

come back tomorrow to hear about this picture...

someone should give us money. or supplies.

after spending an hour on the phone with my mail order prescription company today ... and paying a nice big chunk of money for prescriptions that I MUST HAVE TO LIVE AS A HEALTHY HUMAN BEING, i have decided that we should have some super rich person pay for all of our supplies that we need to live as healthy people with diabetes.

we could just write some celebrity a letter, right?

i'll keep dreaming.


...now where'd i plant that money tree?

my first d meet up!!!

yeah that's right. i met people. awesome people of course.

we talked about babies, diet coke, pumps, pods, meters, schools, work, food, kids, insulin, doctors, diagnosis, nutella, peanut butter and jelly in the same jar (nothankyou), blood sugars, DSMA, traveling, pictures (did you really think i wouldn't take any?), d-police, greys anatomy, ... and oh yeah, cupcakes.

these awesome people were there:

and this drooly adorable little guy came with his mommy and kept us entertained:

and we ate these:

and there were presents (i always like a surprise)!! thank you mike!:

i'd say it was a pretty successful meet up!!

mmm ... cookies.

it's that awesome time of year right now. GIRL SCOUT COOKIE TIME. they're at the grocery, stalking you on the way in and out. they're good, those girls. with the sweet faces, smiling and asking if you'd like to buy some cookies. um, yes i do. thank you for asking so nicely! you take a check? even better, i'll buy MORE boxes!

i waited a few weeks before i bought my favorites (thin mints and samoas, duh). i  bought two of each because they are my man's favorites also, so that's our allotment for the year (or until we decide to buy just one more box).

now i had talked to my sister last weekend about the cookies, she already had hers. she said that the girl scouts have a new baker this year, and she said the samoas taste a bit different, and the thin mints have a scalloped edge. WHAT? why change a good thing??

when my man got to my house on monday (ya know, the same night that i had no insulin, i bought cookies. awesome timing), i was making dinner and he opened the box for a samoa. i told him what my sister said, and as he bit into it, he said it tasted the same but it was smaller. SMALLER? but the same price? what a rip. (like that would ever stop us from buying them, please.)

exhibit A:  

they are a smidgen smaller. i bet they're going to keep doing that, just like cadbury eggs get smaller every easter.

now on to the thin mints. when we looked at them, we noticed no scalloped edge. (different baker for different parts of the country? no way.) but we DID notice the sleeve was A MILLION TIMES SMALLER. WTF? seriously, it used to be the length of the box, and had that really thin plastic that kept ripping so you'd just have to keep eating them down to where the tear ended. um, look how much we're not getting now:

YEAH. people, try to tell me that is not LESS. and i think the cookies are thicker. so thicker cookie but LESS of them?? this is ridiculous. but oh so delicious. so we won't stop buying.

maybe we can work on serving size though, FOUR thin mints have 22 carbs. for real? can it be like, 10 thin mints have 22 carbs? that seems more realistic.

oh wait, i forgot, i have diabetes. i shouldn't be eating those. thanks diabetes police.