First of all, I hope your weather has been as good as mine this winter. Otherwise, please just enjoy this picture. Secondly, I had the best “dinner” a few nights ago. I was practicing for my award-winning lip sync performance through dinner, so I was desperate for food later that night. There is a chain called Miller’s Ale House that … click to read more –>
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The D-Mom recently posted about her experience dining out at Cracker Barrel and the difficultly she had retrieving nutritional information. It reminded me of a story of something that happened to me at my favorite fast food restaurant shortly after I started using my insulin pump. I actually couldn’t remember if I had blogged about it or not yet, but … click to read more –>
I bought a new sweater, some hair extensions, and some new blue jewelry to celebrate the birthday of someone I have never met. I am extremely thankful to honor Dr. Banting, because without his discovery of insulin I wouldn’t be alive today. Ignoring the fact that it looks slightly like a kidnapping ransom shot (I hate posing so I needed … click to read more –>
I spent some time this past weekend getting lost on the bad side of town while trying to run some errands (tracking down my FedEx package). Once I figured out where I was, I knew I was only a block or so away from a Wal-Mart so I stopped in to pick a few things up. After spending more than … click to read more –>
I don’t even remember how it started or when I got involved but a few of us (C, Simon, Kim, Jess) were talking on Twitter about a week ago about the fun of “real mail.” Until last week, I don’t think I had ever addressed a personal letter to someone in another country. When I was in England for a … click to read more –>
I am not typically one who fights in every diabetes advocacy battle. I prefer to let the way I live my life to demonstrate my advocacy. But… don’t you dare try to threaten my ice cream supply! When Wendell Fowler wrote his “news” article questioning the logic of a fundraiser for diabetes that involved ice cream and likened it to … click to read more –>
Sam Talbot is hot. Sam Talbot is a chef. Sam Talbot also has Type 1 diabetes. Thanks to some sort of combination of those facts, Sam Talbot joined us for the Adults with Type 1 reception at Friends for Life. For those of you – gasp – not familiar with Chef Sam, he finished third on the second season of … click to read more –>
What you will need: 1 cake mix (box mix is fine or you can make your own, I’ve done both) 1 can of frosting (or the equivalent if you are making your own) sprinkles or other decorations I find the rest of this at Michael’s, I’m not sure where else carries it 1 bag of lollipop sticks 3 bags of … click to read more –>
Before I address the wildcard topic I chose for today, I wanted to share quickly about what I really learned this week. That is – there are WAY too many ways to sign in to leave comments on posts! Word verifications drive me nuts! I have an old blogger log-in, I can use gmail to log in, OpenID will only … click to read more –>