I'm baaaaack!

Well, it sure has been a long time since I posted on here. I originally had this blog as part of an assignment for my college English class. I was required to write in it so much that I kind of got tired of doing it, so I think that is why I stayed away for so long.

But now I find that I need some place to vent my frustrations and "someone" to talk to about what is going on in my life. So that is what this is.

Right now the most previlant thing in my life is my trying to control my diabetes with diet and exercise. I was diagnosed in September of 2010. My A1c was at a 7, which is the magic number that doctors use to decide if a person is diabetic. I just had another test on Feb. 22, and it was down to 6.8 which is technically not diabetic, but close enough that I still consider myself diabetic. The last five months of my life were probably the most stressfull since my husband died five years ago. Yes, even my cancer diagnosis and resulting hysterectomy wasn't this stressfull. God must have given me a special kind of calm. But I digress. I had a falling out with my best friend, my daughter's birth mother found us and started a bunch of crap and my son who has bipolar was hospitalized and was really becoming a handfull. He just moved out a couple of weeks ago, into a special apartment complex for folks that have mental issues... so he is getting some help and I am getting a much needed break. So, all this to say it has been a very stressfull time in my life. I eat when I am stressed and stress also causes blood sugar to go up. So it was a double whammey for me.

I found a great, online calorie counter/blood gucose tracker that has been wonderful for me. It is at www.livestrong.com and I plan to keep on using it to help me keep track of my eating.

So, yeah. I am hoping that this is a start to a new way of dealing with my issues.