Monday Morning

You can always tell how good a Monday will be by assessing the first words you utter. This morning it was an expletive...I woke late. I was late for school. I would like to blame this on the time change, but to be honest I have gotten into a pattern of staying up way past my bedtime. I was working on papers for grad class, and my brain was spinning when I finished. So much so that I could not sleep.

To those of you who know me well and all of my little -isms. You will be interested to know that I created a new intelligence (based on Gardner's Multiple Intelligences) for my grad class. It is the "hygienic intelligence", call Howie Mandel and other fellow germ-o-phobs and let them know that I embrace them. :)

On to more important issues, my diabetes. I made a resolution last Thursday, I called it my "Thursday resolution" because...it was Thursday. I visited with my endocrinologist and learned that my vitamin d level is dangerously low. She said that if I were an infant/child I would have rickets. That is something you want to hear on a Thursday *sarcasm*. I have started taking vitamin d supplements, and have started keeping much better tabs on my blood sugars. Over the weekend my fasting blood sugars were below 100. Saturday was great the highest sugar I had was 150 mg/dl and this was 1 hour after eating a snack, my insulin had not stopped working.

So my "Thursday Resolution" includes:
1. More frequent blood sugar testing.
2. Eating more healthy foods.
3. Eating on a more regular basis.
4. Listening to my body.
5. Getting adequate sleep.
Ok so #5 did not happen yesterday but all of the rest were observed this weekend.

As for #2, I made some TASTY recipes this weekend and I would like to share. They were all from scratch, Potato Leek soup (I added carrot to the boil the potatoes step) and Lentil Bro. The Lentil recipe I made less like a soup...not as much liquid and it was delicious.

Ok that is enough rambling for one Monday morning.