On Saturday, Andy and I are leaving for vacation in California for a whole week! Andy and I never go on vacations like this and I’m super excited. I still have lots to do to prepare to go away. Laundry, pack, shop for a few more items I think I might need.

You know what I don’t need to do to prepare for this vacation? WORK. OR HOW ABOUT SIT IN THIS DAMN OFFICE?

*Explodes*

I rarely just randomly write in this blog. This is only the second time I’ve posted since January. I just don’t have a whole lot to say, especially about Sims and this post has nothing to do with The Sims.

That is how much I don’t want to be in the office right now. I’ve got about an hour until lunch and it’s just brutal. It’s not helping matters that I seem to be ridiculously tired this morning.

If I could just focus on one of the many projects I have going on at work that are going to bite me in the ass after vacation, I would be okay. But sometimes, often times…okay just about all the time…I have absolutely no will power. The only work I seem to be able to make myself do at the moment is piddly bottom of the barrel things of no importance.

Though I do have something to take care of after lunch that is important and doesn’t involve sitting in front of my computer, which is what I’m having a problem with the most. Hopefully it will occupy me enough that time goes by at a  reasonable pace.

RATHER THAN BACKWARDS LIKE NOW.

Somebody save me please?

How do you all like Sims 3? I like it, but I don’t think I love it. Yet. When I play, I don’t really feel like I’m playing a new game, because I feel like I play just as I did with Sims 2. It isn’t the same as the leap from Sims 1 to 2, but we all already expected that.

That said, I love the graphical enhancements of the game. The colors are so much brighter, and the scenery is amazing. Someone somewhere pointed out how they thought it was funny that the trees and bushes move with the “wind” now, but a Sim’s hair no longer moves like it did with Sims 2. And I think this says a lot for the game as a whole. It feels to me like they focused a lot more on the scenery of Sims 3 than the actual Sims.

Create-a-sim in Sims 3 is frustrating. You just can’t make a face move very extreme. Though I suppose there are already hacks on modthesims, I don’t like having to use hacks if I can help it. As usual, the hair / makeup selection that comes with the game is pretty lame. But compared to what came with Sims 2 it is great.

Having different body types is wonderful! I love that you can have fat, muscular, and everywhere in between. However, does anyone else feel like all their sims are super short? I hate that we can’t use the stretchskeleton cheat to make different heights. I really wish height was something they figured out for Sims 3. I think the default height looks weird–really, they all look very, very short. Big heads or something. I don’t know.

Also, I think the toddlers are scary, ugly string bean little things. Ick. They give me the heebie jeebies. And what is with the SUPER RIDICULOUSLY LONG toddler life stage?? Kill me now. They’re toddlers as long (it seems like longer!) as they are children.

When Sims 3 was still in the works, I thought I remembered reading that they were going to focus less on needs (bladder, hunger, energy, etc). What a bunch of horse shit. I find myself having to pay attention to them so much more in Sims 3 because they’ll get in a bad mood real quick if you don’t. No more forcing them to do things when they’re in the red on a need, it just doesn’t work as well.

I don’t like skill building in Sims 3. And I miss aspiration rewards. I don’t find most of these new rewards very exciting. And I miss the silly “supernatural” aspect of the Sims 2. Sure you can make Sims with blue and green skin, but it isn’t the same.

So, yeah. I don’t know. Some days I like it more than others. Maybe I’ll like it more once expansion packs come out and fill the game out more. Or once CC truly comes around. Though I’m skeptical that will work as well as it did with Sims 2. Modthesims for Sims 3 scares me at the moment. Yuck.

As many know already, storytelling in Sims 3 looks like a nightmare. And uploading to the exchange will not happen since they decided to shit on the pictures. Really, what were they thinking with that picture quality? It’s made even more ridiculous by the fact that each one of us gets a certain amount of space (a gig, I think?) for uploads. We should be able to pick the quality of our pics and allot our space as we see fit. Stupid stupid stupid.

I’ve come to realize, I don’t know how to take good pictures of Sims without pose hacks. Or maybe I just don’t know Sims 3 expressions like the back of my hand as I did with Sims 2 yet, so I get frustrated trying to portray anything. Either way, I’m not too jazzed about it yet, like I hoped I would be.

So that’s about it. I don’t feel much like talking in communities or taking pictures or making stories yet. I just play the game for now, and I don’t even get to do that as often as I’d like. I’ve managed to get myself into a busy summer. Or at least it seems that way. I’m traveling more often than usual this summer. Went to Colorado for work a few weeks ago. Been to Houston several weekends lately, went to Wimberley, TX the weekend before last. Next weekend going to DFW to see my parents.

After that, Andy and I are going on vacation to California for a week. I’ll be gone the first two weeks of August, the first in Colorado, the second in McAllen, TX, for work. I’m still doing Adventure Bootcamp every morning at 5:30. Oh, and Andy and I recently got engaged.

I just feel busy. I know it’s not busy compared to how a lot of people live. But I’m pretty lazy, and feel like I have a lot going on right now!

I’m also pretty grumpy at the moment about a shit project for work. Literally. A project about animal shit. And it’s just shitty (as in I hate it really bad). I’ll be happier after Tuesday is over because I’ll be able to ignore it again for at least a few days.

Maybe this fall I’ll find more time for Sims and actually creating things once again. I really miss it and hoped I’d just get right back into it immediately after Sims 3 was released. It didn’t quite work that way. Oh well.

I’ll try and update this site more, really I will.

Not a whole lot else going on, except work, which isn’t exciting and still eats up too much of my day. We had yesterday off, which was nice, but now I’m sad because we have no other holidays until March (we get a few days spring break). I should be grateful we have what we do! Andy doesn’t get shit until Memorial Day.

Anyway, it’s about a month until Sims 3 comes out. WHO’S EXCITED? I AM. At least, I hope I am. I got bored to death with Sims 2, so I’m hoping that’s just specific to Sims 2, and not Sims in general.

One thing I’ve been thinking about is a new place to “hangout” for The Sims 3. I will always love the Sims 2 Writers’ Hangout, but the more I click my bookmark out of habit everyday, the more I realize that place just isn’t for me anymore, and I don’t think that will change with Sims 3. If I could go back, there would be a LOT of things I would change about that place that I helped implement when I was helping administrate. A lot. I think the entire structure is just set up to fail and breed drama.

With Sims 3, I’d like a more general social site that has groups you can join/leave that focus on the various aspects of the game. I like writing stories. But that’s not all I like. I liked contests, games like legacy, and even editing pictures for a time. I think with the Hangout, part of the problem was that things weren’t catered to different interest groups very well, and that set the ground for lots of drama over editing and its varying degrees.

I would like a Sims 3 hangout that is more like one of those Ning sites (though not hosted on Ning, I’d like one hosted on a server where I have access to the database and files). These types of sites seem more user driven rather than admin/mod driven where you have to wait for a mod to do everything.

I think we were too strict at the Sims 2 Writers’ Hangout and it led to lots of bitchiness. Too much griping about things being out of place, and too many things being out of place in the first place! That forum just wasn’t very expandable!

If we had a site more like the Ning communities, users could help define the latest sim trends/interests rather than overloading a mod with a million PMs about each idea. And the users could take off with groups, and this would show the mods what needs to be focused on more, rather than a single thread before the idea takes off and then TONS of waiting for all the mods to converse about it, and finally the setup time. I really disliked that about the Sims 2 Hangout.

I also like the Ning sites and how the user profiles are set up with blogs, photo gallery, and other add ons making keeping up with people easier, and making things like intense and distracting forum signatures unnecessary.

Perhaps I’m just too obsessed with the TuDiabetes community as of late, and how wonderful and successful that place is. Basically, I would like a TuDiabetes for Sims, if that even makes sense.

Maybe I’ll do it too. If I like Sims 3 enough to be obsessed with it, of course.

By the way, I hope mentioning this in here doesn’t jinx things, but one of the first things I am going to put out with Sims 3 is a new version of Cornflake Girl. Entirely different–main plot elements the same, but written in a different form that I think makes the story more interesting. Hopefully I will stick with it. As for I Woke Up LA–I don’t know. I lost my place with that story. No plans to continue at the current time. Not until I figure out where it’s going for real, if that ever happens.

So, for Christmas Andy and I went to my parents’ in DFW (Dallas / Fort Worth, if you’re not from these parts) for about a week. Got some nice things. Books, gift cards to get more books which we already used, some clothes, DVDs, Spore (dying to play more–and why I haven’t yet you’ll find out in a bit), etc, etc.

Anyway, came home a bit before the new year to a note on our apartment door reading: “Want more space? Ask about our amazing deal on a 3-bedroom apartment!” Or something along those lines.  Andy and I are instantly interested in checking it out. So the next day, we go by the office, get a key and take a look. The closet space alone is amazing. And I’m in love with the idea of having a third bedroom (now Andy and I can each have our own piddle rooms). The (good deal on) rent isn’t much more than we’re paying now. So we mulled it over for a day or so, then decided to go for it.

And now we’re moving. And we have to get it done in a week. When we asked the apartment people how long we could have the guy was like, “oh I don’t know a few days, this weekend?” Now really, who the fuck can move that quickly? I said, how about more like a week? And they agreed to that.

We have way too much shit to move in less than a week. As it is it will be pushing it. One thing we have a problem with is our exponentially growing movie and book collection and a lack of shelves to put them on. Well, now we have more walls and room for shelves. So Friday night, Andy and I took a spontaneous trip to IKEA in Houston.

Now, I have never been to IKEA. I have the Sims 2 IKEA stuff pack, and I’d browsed their website. But we don’t have one in our city (Bryan / College Station), so I’d never been.

Let me tell you, THAT was an experience. I don’t know what the hell I expected, but I did not expect a gigantic two floor building packed with more cars in the lot than a bloody Walmart.

It shocked me a bit just how large this place was. AND I could not get over my amusement at seeing Sims 2 furniture in real life. All the items from the stuff pack were there. Of course I knew the IKEA stuff pack was based on IKEA furniture, but just seeing it made my night. Ha.

Anyway, we got lots of shelves. I like their bookshelves because they’re very tall. And damn lucky they fit in my little car. Reasons like this are why I’m glad it’s a hatch-back with fold-down back seats. No way it would have fit otherwise. As it was, we had to slide them through between the front seats, so we were driving back to College Station ghetto style. And yes, I know you can get these things online, but one–I wanted them now, and two–I wanted to actually see them first. We might pick up more later.

But all our DVDs and books are over at the new place. Along with my clothes, which I sorted through before bringing them over. My throw-away and give-away piles are AMAZING. I go through way too many clothes, it’s absurd. Really, I don’t know what is wrong with me thinking I need about 30 pairs of jeans.

We have a lot of work ahead of us. It’s going to be a lot tougher with stupid jobs getting in the way. If only I could get paid to do nothing. Boy, that would be sweet…

Today is just one of those days defined by the weather. I woke up, saw the temperature is 70 degrees. Not a good, sunny 70 either. No, one of those wet, muggy, barf 70s. Which is torture to exercise in, by the way.

Went to boot camp and we did some of my least favorite things–intervals (run up hill 400-500 meters, walk down hill, repeat). But at least it was only 4 of them. I made it through that, but I think the extra exertion is what helps my blood sugar rise. It was around 180 when I got home.

Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention it was 40 when I woke up.

Well, after boot camp I went to shower. And wouldn’t you know diabetes really likes to kick you when you’re down.  See, I have this continuous glucose monitor, which is a clamshell-shaped piece of plastic attached to a sensor inserted into my stomach. Due to moronic design, you have to put tape over it, otherwise it won’t stay on. I use this expensive (insurance covers it at least) tape, IV3000. Never had problems with it before–it has withheld lots of sweat and showers.

Oh, but not today! Today it decides to completely disintegrate in the shower. Massive WTF. The top of the tape slithers off and leaves all the glue behind. Water-proof glue. Soap-proof glue. Apparently everything-proof glue. Normally when I change my sensor and peel off the tape, it leaves a bit of a residue that is easily removed with a bit of rubbing alcohol.

Not this shit though. I’m going to be rubbing glue balls off my stomach all day. I put a new piece of tape over the old sticky mess, and so help me if this tape comes off in the shower tomorrow, I will cut someone.

The rest of the day better pick up. I’m skeptical though.

Oh, and though it was 70 this morning, it’s supposed to be below freezing tomorrow morning. God damn it, Texas.

You can tell what I’ve been doing in my spare time the past few weeks.

I didn’t play Sims 2 for long. I like the Mansion & Garden Stuff Pack, however I’m just not in a Sims mood lately at all. It seems I can only like either Sims or SimCity at one time. And it’s completely ridiculous that the SimCity Societies navigation controls would get embedded into my brain like that. Why can’t we have some sort of standards as far as zoom, panning, and yawing?

It makes me worry about Sims 3 a little bit. Hopefully they won’t shit it up.

What else… I had something I wanted to write about earlier, but now I forgot what. I hate that. Umm… I saw Twilight on Friday. I really enjoyed it. There were a lot of people critical about it, but I just can’t relate to what they’re saying. I was worried about it being all MTVed-up, stupid, and too different, but it wasn’t. I rather liked the portrayals of Edward and Bella. I think they had great chemistry, and I thought it was actually quite similar to the book in that respect.

There were some moments of the movie that were so much more awesome having read the book. Like Jasper for instance. The second he showed up the first time was quite classic. Hilarious. I didn’t expect to like him so much because I thought the actor looked odd (haha), but oh man, it really worked.

Another funny one was Billy. I think he was more awesome than in the book. I liked Jacob, but am bugged by the fact that the actor will never be a million feet tall like Jacob in the books. And his hair bothered me because it really looked like quite the ridiculous wig.

The theater was packed when I went. I actually wasn’t sure if it would be in my town at the 11:00 showing. I went by myself, haha, and good thing because I don’t know that I would have found two seats next to each other. I ended up sitting in the lone chair with the wheelchair space next to it.  Some woman brought her new born to the showing and it was annoying as all hell. I mean really, lady. Your little baby to a packed movie theater at 11:00 at night? REALLY?

Bunch of savages in this town.

In other, completely unrelated news, I decided to try out a meal delivery program. Why? One, I am utterly incapable of making good food choices everyday on my own. Two, I’m even less capable of keeping up the horrendous routine of grocery store, cook, clean day in and day out. I just can’t do it. Cannot. I might could keep it up for a week, get completely burnt out, then eat out the next two consecutive weeks for every meal out of retaliation.

Why I just can’t be normal about one thing in my life, I have no idea. I truly am incapable of functioning as a normal adult. The past 7 years or so of deterioration have proved this. Other people go to the store, cook, clean, exercise, go to work, have families and don’t seem to have any issues with it at all. I can’t even do one of those things without turning completely neurotic. There is truly something wrong with me.

But I’m trying to get better. I started my third Adventure Bootcamp today (I’ve already signed up for a year). I’m so glad I signed up for this back in September. I don’t think I could handle exercising in a gym, and God knows I won’t do it on my own. Now with the meal delivery program, hopefully I can become more functional. I started it last week, and am enjoying the meals so far.

I do well with routines like this that don’t require constant effort. Next I just need to hire us a maid. Not even kidding. I’ve seriously considered it before, though I’m not entirely sure it would work well.

Am I pathetically lazy or what? But fuck it. Really. My problem is that I get upset thinking about how my entire life is filled with these obnoxious tasks that are never ending. NEVER. ENDING. It seems like a giant waste of life, and I have a hard time getting over that fact, which is why I blow it all off so much, and end up not exercising, not cleaning, and eating like a 10 year-old whose parents aren’t home. Which helps nothing in the end, except ensuring an early death. So my compromise is these new routines. Hopefully I can keep it up. It’s looking good so far.

During lunch I needed to change my infusion set for my insulin pump. (Some background: the infusion set includes the catheter you put in your skin and the tubing that runs from it to the pump. I change it every three days.) First, I take out the old one, which normally is no big occurrence, you just pull the tape off and out comes the tiny little plastic that was in your skin. Well, for whatever reason, I pull this one out and it starts gushing blood. GUSHING. It doesn’t hurt at all, but oh boy is it pouring out. I’m in my work clothes of course, so I really had to scrounge for something to mop up all the blood before it stained them. Luckily I had some napkins left over by the TV tray.

Anyway, I get that cleaned up then go to insert the new infusion set. It’s a pretty simple process: you hook the tubing to a reservoir of insulin and then place that in the pump. You prime your pump (fill the tubing with insulin), then you place the infusion set into a little device that will inject it into your skin. Well, I did all this–except one thing: I forgot to take the tape off the back of the adhesive. So I got it all inserted and even pulled the needle out of the catheter before realizing the tape was still on. Yep, so that was wasted. Had to pull it out and do it over.

Second time around, repeating entire process, I go to inject and made sure I took the tape off this time. However, I forgot to take off the cap around the needle! BRILLIANT. But luckily at least, this didn’t waste anything as it couldn’t go very far with the cap. Haha.

Next time I got it in without any issue. Finally.

Unfortunately, this is not the end of my afternoon escapades. After getting my pump settled, I needed to go check my blood sugar. When I pressed the button to eject a strip however, it gives me an error message. NEVER had that happen before. Tried changing the test strip drum first, didn’t help. Tried changing the batteries, didn’t help. Was ready to eat lunch, so I gave up for the time being and pulled out another meter that came with all my pump stuff that I decided I didn’t want to use. Checked my sugar, everything went fine, but then I dumped the little bottle of strips on the floor and they scattered everywhere.

Next I just ate my lunch, including a Boost shake, which I had opened and set out prior to all this fiasco. Well, it had been a few minutes, so I wanted to shake it up a bit again before drinking. Of course, I didn’t put the cap on very tight, so when I shook it, lots of it went flying everywhere. UGH.

After all that, I decided to figure out the problem with my meter, so I finally just dug through to the very back of my diabetes junk cabinet to get the manual for the meter to look up the error message. Turns out the little area where it reads from the meter was just dirty. I wiped it with a wet cloth and all was fine.

And that concludes the stupidest lunch hour I’ve ever had in my life.

God damn it, fucking shit crap.

So after about 3 times of that, I finally pulled out Sim City Societies. I bought this quite a while ago for $10 off Amazon. Reviews for this game were pretty bad, and that fact that it was only $10 a few months after being released is never a good sign. When I first put the game in after buying it all that time ago, I couldn’t get into it. Mostly, I was just in a Sims phase and didn’t feel like it at the time. But also for some bloody reason they decided to make the navigation tools fucked up beyond belief in Societies. I do not understand why they would stray so far from previous Sim Cities in this regard. It’s just awkward. I have to use the arrow keys to pan, which drives me nuts because I’m used to right clicking with the mouse and dragging. And the zoom is ridiculous. You can’t zoom out very far at all. And unless you’re turned a certain way on the map, the edges of your city get hidden. Whoever designed this aspect of the game should be fired.

Anyway, despite all that, I got over it a little bit this weekend and actually tried to play past the tutorial. And it’s actually quite fun! Ridiculously different than any previous version of Sim City, but I knew that going in. I really miss zones. Placing every single house gets a little bit old. But I like placing individual work places and venues. (The combination of this is of course City Life, haha!) The graphics are cute, and the variety of the buildings is entertaining. So far I’m just loving creating areas that produce lots of spirituality. I made a totally cool Amish-like area in my city yesterday. LOL.

If I wasn’t at work procrastinating, I would show a picture. Maybe I’ll add it later.

The other thing I’ve been eating up all my free time with is reading Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark Hunter novels. Oh these are so much fun! Haha. They’re a little silly, and I say that mostly because the endings are all over-the-top happily-ever-after for the main characters involved. And they’re all very similar in that regard. But man these things are entertaining to read! I absolutely love the world she’s set up. Vampires and Greek mythology? HOW FUN! I just finished reading Seize the Night. And I’m already super stoked to read Acheron’s book, but I’ve got a few more before that one. So yeah, that’s my guilty pleasure as of late. If I could spend the entire day just reading these books, I’d be happy.

In other news, I still hate work. Maybe it’s the time of year and the fact that I’m preoccupied with other stuff. Maybe I just need a serious career change. Which is scary, because I’ve never had thoughts like that before. I’m just sick to death of what I’m doing right now. It doesn’t interest me anymore. It might also be just that I haven’t had any new and interesting projects fall into my lap in several months. Whatever it is, I’m struggling to make it through the eight hours every day big time. Last week, I didn’t show up until 10am a couple times. I should be grateful I can get away with bullshit like that. Sigh.

Countdown to a 2-week Christmas break starts now. It won’t be long enough, it never is, but it will be something.

On Friday, Andy and I drove to Broken Bow, Oklahoma to visit with my family in a cabin by Beaver’s Bend. I think I would have been miserable had I not been on the pump yet with the poor control I was having with shots recently. With the pump I was able to eat whenever, and go on a long hike without worrying about balancing insulin shots.

Adjusting to the pump was so easy.  And I don’t mind it being attached to me in the least. I quickly learned that most of the time, I can hook it to the middle of my bra and you can’t see it, and I don’t notice it at all. I had always assumed I would have to have it hooked to a waist band, and this always made me hesitant because I knew that would annoy me. But the bra (or the top of my shirt if I’m lounging around the house or sleeping) is perfect.

And words cannot express how cool it is to press a couple buttons to figure out exactly how much insulin I need for a meal.

I’m not hooked up to the continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) yet. The training for that is tomorrow, and she’s coming here, so I won’t have to travel this time. I’m quite excited to see what my blood sugar is doing during the times I don’t prick my finger! I honestly don’t know what to expect there, but I know finding out is going to help me a great deal.

How the CGMS works is that it’s a separate thing attached to your body and it takes glucose readings from under your skin and transmits them wirelessly to the pump every 15 minnutes or so. You still have to prick your finger 2-4 times a day to calibrate the CGMS. But pricking only 2-4 times a day is much better than 6-8! Plus, the CGMS shows a graph of your BG throughout the day and will alert you if you’re going too low or high.

Haha, I can’t wait to see what’s going on during exercise and sleep.

So far, on my pump, I’ve been setting my basal rate (rate of insulin delivered per hour throughout the day) to about 50% during the night while I sleep. Otherwise, I go low. This amuses me for some reason, given my history of nasty night lows. I really wonder why my body does this at night.

Anyway, similarly, I’ve been increasing my basal rate to 125% of normal while I exercise and for a bit after. And this worked out fantastically today and yesterday. Friday, I didn’t adjust it (kept at 100%) and was high afterward.

My blood sugars aren’t completely awesome yet; there’s an adjustment period for figuring out the right basal rate, correction factor, and insulin/carb ratio. But the first guess at these rates is already a billion times better than how I was doing on that god awful 70/30 insulin.

And instead of taking 100 units of insulin a day, I’m already down to 60-65. YAY!

In other news, check out this fucking rat. My god, the TAIL. I just cannot get over that picture. A friend of a friend posted it on Facebook. This is R.O.U.S. come to life!!!

Friday was an extraordinarily awesome day. It was the last day of Adventure Boot Camp (for one week, then we start again), and we only had a half-day of work due to this state employee charity thing.  I also got my monitor back from the Acer repair center, got some books I ordered from Amazon, and my insulin pump came in.

I was pleasantly surprised with how quickly everything came together with the pump.  I had my doctor appointment last Monday, where we discussed my options and my doctor agreed a pump would be the best solution.  The pump company called me right away, got everything squared away with my insurance company, and by Friday afternoon I had everything. Everything except training with one of the pump company’s representatives and my doctor that is.  It’s not so simple that I can just start using this thing, so I have to meet with them first.

Well, I tried calling a couple different people last week. One told me to call the other, who happened to be out of town. So I left an email and heard back today that she’s still out of town the rest of this week and will call me Wednesday.

Now that is a huge amazing disappointment. Everything else happened so fast, and to get stuck at this point is nothing short of sheer evil torture.  This week would have been so perfect to set this whole pump situation up.  It being my off week with boot camp being the main reason for that.  I don’t really like the idea of starting the pump right in the middle of the week with boot camp in the mix. I’d like to get used to it for a day or two before dealing with it in boot camp.

Plus, at the end of next week, I’ll be going on a trip with family and would also like to have as many days as possible under my belt before that as well.  Going out of town with diabetes is always an adventure as it is.

So I’m really not happy that this lady is not available for training. Every time I talk to my doctor’s office, they tell me to call this other guy because he “gets things done” and I wonder if this is why.  But when I called him, he told me to email her, so who knows. I might try him again tomorrow out of desperation.

I’m probably being a bit impatient, but then I remember just how expensive this insulin pump is, so I don’t feel so bad.  My insurance company is covering 80% of it (plus this continuous glucose monitoring system that comes with it), and my total payment (which is the remaining 20% plus whatever my deductable is–I think maybe $300) comes out to around $1500. So yeah, not so cheap, this insulin pump. But hopefully worth it. If I ever get to use it that is.

Having this thing sitting on my floor is also making it harder for me to give a flying shit about my blood sugar readings at the moment; in other words, it’s difficult to try very hard with dealing with shots when I’m looking forward to starting something so new soon.

Anyway, with boot camp not meeting, getting my insulin pump set up was the only thing I had to look forward to this week.  This week is such an in-between waste of time week. Last week was good with boot camp and Friday’s schedule to look forward to. Next week will be good because boot camp starts again and I have a trip to look forward to the following weekend.  This week contains nothing but work, oh joy! >:|