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Both hands and feet are blue for World Diabetes day

I left in as long as I could, then piddled around with Windows 7 on my curriculum notebook. 

I had a Bandster's support group at 2:00 pm — interestingly enough, at a Mexican restaurant.  Had chips, chimichanga, eating the guts, and a bit of the shell and broken down and got a frozen margaretti, haven't had one in years and it was good.  Good company and good help.

My biggest problem right now is sleep, I'm only sleeping about 6 hours a night, no matter when I got to bed, and I've got a message out to my sleep doctor about it.  My mask is due to be replaced on the 19th, and it might be as simple as that.  I also asked if there were new masks.

By the way, I decided to go back to Windows XP on the curriculum , didn't have two major drivers.

Yesterday was a good day — but not with food, oh well, but Friday's never are.  I'm tired, I'm stiff, etc.

Figured out that my 7th and 8th period classes go better if I shut the door when it rings.  About half of my 8th period were in the hall, and only 2 made it back.  It was MUCH calmer.  I'll be doing that every day now.

Personal trainer came and I did a good work out, then Macy and I tried Rally for the first time.  Rally is a cross between agility and obedience, but more toward obedience.  You have signs, and you have to do what the sign says.

Macy heels pretty, but needs to learn to turn, and not to forge so much.  Also needs to learn fronts and finishes.  We had a good time.

Okay, we call them "classes" in agility. But we had our best run ever last night.  No food in the hand, 18 obstacles, including teeter, chute and broad jump.  We were fast, we were good and we had a good time.  I even did a front cross in the last third of the course.

Progress!

And it feels so good when you run together.

Didn't do well on the drinking thing, but did get 12 minutes in on the treadmill.  Slept all night be didn't get to bed before 11:00 pm. 

But had a good run!

Blood sugar was 118 this morning which was good.

Between Superintendent's Meeting and just a long day, no treadmill time.

Did take Macy to agility class but spent most of the time working with her with me on the floor — teaching her bang it.

Got home to late to treadmill.

Food quantity and quality was better.

No drinking.

Dummy me decided to load Windows 7 on my Thinkpad.  LOVE it.  I love Windows 7.

See my computer science blog at http://www.kweaver.org for the rest of the day.

Blood sugar was 179 this morning — yikes — put in 50% basal increase that usually helps fix those kinds of things.

May have to up my over all basal as my classroom was incredibly hot yesterday and that seems to make my blood sugar go up.  Not sure if it's the kids complaining and falling asleep or the physical stress.

Got in 11 minutes on the treadmill, I've been consistantly doing 10 minutes, so now I'm trying to get to 15 minutes again.  Still have an incredible amount of pain.

Got an H1N1 shot — we have a local company that provides the shots no questions asked.  Giving out about 800 a day.  Took all of 15 minutes and will remember them next year for regular shot, as they are quite good at getting people processed.  Fill out form, give $20, get shot and out the door.  Dallas Morning News hates them so more reason to go with them.

Got in 10 minutes on the treadmill, did much better on testing, though I haven't yet tested today … better stop to do it.

Starting out the day at 135, which isn't too bad.  I did leave my pump suspended a bit too long but that will show up on the next test not this one.

Water was slightly better, need to work hard on that.

Having lots of pain and have decided to fire the chiropractor, he leaves me hurting for days, and the old guy didn't.  This guy bought out the first guy's practice, so it wasn't my choice.

Still having trouble sleeping all night.

I don't really like Halloween and it's been worse since I've been diagnosed with diabetes.

Last year I had decided to skip it and my husband decided he wanted to make a big deal.  <sigh>  Really made me mad, as he went ahead and did it even though I expressed my displeasure.

Drove me nuts, drove the dogs nuts.

Now I wouldn't mind if it were just the neighborhood kids because we're across the street from a park, and people were dropping their kids off and picking them up at the end of the street.

Really urks me.

Last night was great, we left everything off, and only one group ran the bell.  Dogs barked and they sent went off.

I'll probably skip Thanksgiving too.

Though I did pick up some emergency sugar at the after Halloween sale at Walgreens.

My diabetes control has been sucking — A1C of 8.1 and I still am not losing weight the way I would like to, so I'm going to try blogging on the Living with Diabetes/Lapband blog everyday and see if that helps.

So far, my blood sugar is 119 which is excellent the day after Halloween.  The only bad diet things I've done was to eat an ice cream cone.  No Halloween candy.

I'm also planning to get in at least 10 minutes on the treadmill daily and keep my bag with me — I left it upstairs for a while yesterday and as a result missed a blood sugar check.

Also trying to drink more during the day.

Yesterday was treat me day — got in 10 minutes on the treadmill, but also got my hair done — I'm going to try to wear it more curly and keep it from frizzing.  Got my nails done and let the salon talk me into a facial.  The hair place is hair only, and dropped by my new regular nail salon on the way home.

I'm torn — it's more expensive than the ones close to the house but I like the cleaniness better, the atmosphere better, but it is farther away.  However, I'm in that direction a couple of times a week now.

Having things like my nails done just make me feel more together.