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I woke up last night to my insulin set poking me. Yes, was disconnected, and too tired to care.  I pulled it off, rolled over and let my pump deliver insulin where it wanted.

And isn’t Easter a bad day for most diabetics?  Wish I could have stuck to hard boiled eggs, but wanted a rabbit and some jelly beans.

My blood sugar is slowly going down below 200.

Best news if that I actually got to eat lunch today, uninterrupted.

I have to test students on line for the next three days, but I don’t have to deal with our favorite student so I am getting a bit of a break.

The thing that bothers me about the whole Jamie Oliver thing, is that I think it a huge publicity stunt and that the hard work is already done.

Remember, I teach high school and I have been in a Texas (Dallas), urban school for 17 years.  When I first started at my school, they had pie at every meal and the neighborhood would order and buy them. 

That was the first to go.  Two problems, the possible abuse of money and the fat and sugar in the pies, but man or man, they made fabulous Chess pie.

Then the cookies left.  They had huge-mongous cookies for $.50  Former students would sneak in at lunch time to buy them a few times a year.

I think the fry vats are finally good, one of the last to go. 

Our cooks cook and man they can make a mean whatever they make.  Most of the prep work is done at a central location, but is fresh food.  They have chicken at least once a week, baked, and very good.  I will admit that the most popular items are pizza and burritos.

By the way, I don’t have problems with breakfast pizza – what is the difference between breakfast pizza versus a bisquit, eggs and meat?  It will get kids to eat breakfast, all the power to you.  It depends on the fat, processed sugar, and processed content.

Oh, yeah, and when I wouldn’t breakfast, my mother made low fat and low sugar oatmeal.  Just enough to bind the stuff and make it seem like a cookie.

Our vending machines are off until after lunch, along with any other food fundraisers.  In fact those don’t happen until after school.

I am finally at a lower weight again.  I got a fill in December, it was going well, got a stomach bug at Christmas and after all of that hit my lowest – a 40 pound loss.

Then I hit a series of events that caused a lot of stress and my band tightened.  I couldn’t get my normal food down, and ended up gaining about 10 pounds.  This was frustrating in itself.  Got an unfill of half of the original fill.

I’ve slowly lost that 10 pounds, and I am at 40 pounds loss again.  I am at the weight I was before I was made Campus Tech, and I was at the weight for about two years. I have lots of clothing from that time period and that’s a time period I was very successful at agility.

Everything I’ve been going through has been very difficult and this is the first spring that I’ve really looked forward to the end of the school year and especially this early.

Does anyone else have trouble maintaining their blood glucose/insulin levels in heat?

Our chiller isn’t working, so we have no cold air yet (though I swear it was one Friday afternoon late).

Custodian is on it.

FYI: If I do get caught in my classroom with no clothing on, it will be because the room is 95 + degrees and there will not be another teacher there – besides, Spanish and French go together, but what goes with Computer Science?

Last week, I saw the TLC Dietician because I’ve been having problems with my blood sugar.  I think it was a combination of not knowing how to estimate carbs and carb stacking.

My blood sugar was in the 300’s just about every evening and between 150 and 200 in the mornings.  Not good.

Good news, she seems to have helped.  She gave me some hints on estimating carbs which is always scared me a bit, because I hate going low.

Since I’ve been to see her, my evening blood sugar as been in the 200-250 range, which is a heck of a lot better.  Morning blood sugar has been better too.

Think the weight is going better if this morning weigh tells me anything.  I also stopped obsessing about my TDD for a while.

Got on the scales this morning and I am back to my lowest weight since the beginning of the lap band process, which means I am 40 pounds down.

Bad news, not sleeping again.  I think it is a function of spring, part of it, is that next year starts feeling uncertain.  Part of it is dealing with the special ed lawsuit.

I grew up north.  Indiana until 10th grade.  Detroit in 10th grade.

For as long as I could remember, I had to shovel the stuff whenever it snowed.  Especially when the family were managing apartment complexes.  If we had a snow day, we had shovels.  The worse was Detroit when I was in high school.

And seriously the only thing I liked about Mississippi was the no snow thing.  Okay, we might get some once a year.

Dallas was the same way until this year.  I’m perfectly fine with hibernating.  It snows, and I’m back in bed.  Unfortunately though I’m a teacher, at a school district that really takes their responsibility to feed and supervise children seriously and it has to be a big deal for us to have a snow day.  And yes, we used one of ours this year.

That also bums me out.  I hate wasting the weather day on snow.  Can’t go anywhere, and yeah, I spend the day in bed.  I’d rather have the day off Easter weekend when I can go out in the sun and do something.

Yep, hate snow.  And we’ve had what – 5 or 6 snow storms this year?

If I can figure out how to post this as an Audible book that I get commission on I will.

This book actually helped me – I wanted to purge my closet, but I had something they call “decision paralysis”.  I couldn’t decide what to do about winter clothing.  Did I want to get rid of it?  Because I couldn’t decide, I couldn’t purge the rest of my closet.

Once I realized that the winter clothing was causing me a problem there was a simple solution.  Toss all of it aside and only deal with spring/summer clothing.

As a result, I have one Farmers Branch trash bag full of winter clothing and one Farmers Branch trash bag of clothing that is either stained, too big, or won’t wear.

It’s much easier to figure out what I have.

On day 3 of my spring break.  The first two days were slightly unsuccessful dog agility days.  Meaning I had a good time, enjoyed playing with my dog and visiting with friends.

Got to sleep out completely all three days of spring break.  “Sleeping out” means going to bed when I am absolutely exhausted so that I know that I won’t wake up through the night and won’t have trouble sleeping, and waking up when I can’t stand to be in bed anymore.

Very nice!

Tomorrow is about taking care of myself.  Seeing the TLC Dietician about diabetes management and going to McKinney to get my hair done.  If I had had a schedule this weekend, I could have done the hair thing, but I also like knowing I can go to McKinney, hang out and come back when I want to.

This break is about cleaning things up and purging yet again.  I need to go through my closet, etc and get rid of all the clothing I don’t see myself wearing.

I need to go through my office, scan any paper I think I should keep and throw everything else away.

One hint – don’t keep your printed manuals unless it is a piece of ham radio equipment.  Download them off the internet and keep them in one place.  I have my bluetooth stuff on my Mesh folder.