A Gift For Me, From Me!

I love it when I come home and there are boxes on my desk!

Packaging peanuts drive me nuts but its cool to wet them in your hand and watch them disintegrate.

I have been wanting to get a custom skin for my pump for a while but all of the ones on Minimed's site seemed either too girly or more for little kids. I think all of you know that I am both girly and childish BUT believe me, I would have been beaten up by third graders if I used any of the skins I saw online.

Until now...

I was just surfing around the Minimed store and came across all these very cool skins! They have Sponge Bob, Mickey Mouse, Tinkerbell, Camo, NBA teams, and Baseball team skins! AWESOME!

This was my gift for my Blogaversary. It has been 2 years since I started this blog and I thought I should celebrate.

If there is no cure for Diabetes, I might as well make my pump "disappear!"

Times .10

If you have read my Blogabetes post today then this will just be review.

Last night during lots of Wii gaming I had to change my set. I must have had a bad set or something because before I went to went to bed I had the scare of my life! I checked my BG and the little screen on my machine said “Hi.”

For a second I thought, “That is crazy I have never seen that. Weird. Oh wait! HIGH!” I freaked out. My heart beat was pounding in my head. I checked for ketones but came up clean. I washed my hands just to be sure and when I checked a second time, I was at 520. Dang.

At least I knew then what my BG was. I got so scared because “HI” means my machine cannot register my BG level. The only time I have ever had that show up on my screen was when I was DKA and ended up in ICU for 3 days. After watching my BG slowly drop down over the next hour I went to sleep.

It sucks to lay there thinking about what could have happened. What would Jasmine have done? What about the kids? It is late at night and everyone is in bed. It just sucks. Those were all of the last thoughts I had as I fell asleep.

Until I woke up kicking the blankets off of myself. Covered in sweat I grab my machine to check. 52. I have 4 glucose tabs and immediately thought of the name of this post.

Do any of you bloggers think about how you are going to blog a situation as it is happening? Is this some kind of sickness? I saw a T-shirt that said, “I am going to blog about this” and I think I should wear one. I can have a scary low and think, “What should I name this post!” Do you guys have that happen?

Anyhow, I love blogging but I would much rather focus on Movies instead of diabetes. At least I have major love for movies!

I hate diabetes.

Fears

I am scared of some strange things. Not the run and hide or scream kind of scared but more of the "I will not get near" "Do not get me near" "I do not think that is funny" "I refuse to participate" kind of scared.

Horses. They just freak me out. I have total respect for Horses in that I think they are beautiful and useful creatures. I like betting on them. I do not want to ride one or be anywhere near one. Their strength and power scare me. I have this vision in my head of getting on a horse, it bucking me off, and then stomping my face in the ground! No thanks.

Birds. I should say that only ones with sharp beaks that fly freak me out. LOL I know that sounds lame but ducks are cool. Here is the thing, a bird can fly up to you, peck out your eye, and then just fly away. It would be like nothing happened to the bird while I am scrambling around on the floor with only one good eye! If I get bit by a snake I can find it and kill it but a bird, it can just fly away and even poop on my if it wants too. Birds are scary.

Clowns. Clowns are just evil. They are scary. And this morning I saw an article on Yahoo's homepage that prompted this post. The picture on the home page is so flipping scary. 250 kids from 4-16 years in age were asked if they liked clowns. 250 said yes. HA! I am not alone!

Here is the thing, you never know what a clown is thinking. They can have a painted on smile while they are secretly plotting to kill you and everyone else at the party. I am not a fan.

Anyhow, I know this has nothing to do with Diabetes but I thought I would share my strangeness.

Do you fear any of this stuff? Are their any other things that you fear that others find funny or strange?

You Tube Tuesday #55

When this video started I did not think I was going to even watch it all the way until the end. But then I found that I really wanted to keep going. At the very end I found myself smiling from ear to ear and literally applauded.

I hope you like this clip and I would really love to hear what you thought of this.

Enjoy.

Christmas 2007 is Official Over

This weekend my family celebrated our Christmas together in Laughlin Nevada. If you are familiar with Las Vegas and Laundry mats then you can guess what Laughlin is like. It’s a very tiny, very simple casino town. It is right on the Colorado River across from Arizona and only 4 short hours from my home. My mother and sister from New Mexico are 8 hours away but seemed like a good place to meet up and hang out for the weekend.

And it was. We had a blast! When we got in Friday night we met up with my sisters and started the partying. My mom had spent the day gambling so she stayed in the room with the kids and my wife and I with my sisters hit the town. Now Laughlin is not a busiest city this time of year and especially at the hour we were out. After 10 at night the traffic in the town drops off considerably. Most of the tourists are elderly folk so the mornings are the busiest times which left the night wide open for our clan.

We hit a Casino called The Pioneer. This is my favorite place to gamble period. Even as compared to the casinos in Vegas, the Pioneer in Laughlin always has my vote. It is not because they have the best drinks, or the best restaurants. It isn’t due to their fancy decorations or the view of the river. The one reason I love the Pioneer is the people. Every dealer, pit boss, stick man, waitress, and even the security guards are all nice. They just have this laid back and friendly attitude which I find addicting. I love feeling welcomed and I can’t imagine anyone who wouldn’t.

One thing you usually lose at big casinos is the friendly dealers. Dealers that let you know if you are making a lousy bet and that are willing to teach you a little table lingo so you sound as cool as the dude who just dropped 2 C-notes on the table to buy in. I love that about the Pioneer.

We played roulette for hours and had a blast. I was doing really well and a few times I even called out the numbers before they hit! The dealer was really impressed and I told her, “Sometimes I am magic!” That was the line I used each time I won anything all weekend.

Now I didn’t win enough to afford the CGMS I want to get but maybe we need to plan an OC trip to Laughlin. Then all of us can win money to pay for all the Diabetes junk we have to buy! That would be cool. Saturday morning we did our Christmas gift exchange up in my mom’s hotel room. The kids had a blast opening gifts as usual. I think they forgot about Christmas so this was a cool extension of the Christmasy goodness all kids love.

My gift was from my sister this year and she decided to have a little fun. I was hoping to get drunk enough to hit the casino floor in this thing but I never got that crazy.

Hey, maybe I can deliver some Cheesy Tots to Scott!

Anyhow, we had a great time and are probably going to make this an after Christmas tradition for years to come.