We're walking...we're walking

The ADA Walk for Diabetes went GREAT!! The weather was AWESOME, the turnout was GREAT and the Camp Needlepoint Team was the first place team! Yessss! It was so great to see all of my camp friends again and to be a part of something that was that huge! Derick and my mom accompanied me on the walk this morning, and, Tucker started out with us too, but then we were told that no dogs were allowed. So Derick took him home, came back, and lo and behold, we saw three other dogs on the walk route...lame. Oh well, it was a great, tiring day! After the walk, we came home, made lunch and pretty much took a nap. We were exhausted! (and now it is 12:30am and I cannot sleep - darn naps!)

On another note, I had my "lady parts doctor" appointment just this past week and I swear to you that not one doctor thinks that a diabetic should have a baby or that is is not in your best interests. NOT that we are ready or even THINKING of it right now, but you know doctors - trying to tell you things way before you need or want to know them. It is just depressing the things that they tell you. I also think that some, if not all of the expectations for diabetics on a medical scale, compared to "normal" people are just plain absurd. There is pretty much NO possible way that one person can achieve a diabetic stage of "Nirvana" - healthwise. It is just not that way with us, I am sorry. I would like to for once, have a doctor who IS a diabetic and gets it - really gets it. Not that I do not like my doctors. That is not the case. Just the fact that I feel like they do not really fully and truely understand and for that, I sometimes feel completely and utterly alone when it comes to my health, which has been a lifelong deal and I am in it for the long haul. Goody. I love my camp friends who get it and we can all say something without the nagging, the ridicule or the plain weirdness. We've all been there.

Sorry, I don't really know where that came from, just thinking of my last doctor appointment as the paperwork from my bloodtests sits in front of me - need to file that. Haha maybe that is my new career path -- Endocrinologist. I'd be up for it. I commend Dieter for going with that (he is a fellow camp counselor who is currently in school perusing said career path.)

Well, since the leaves are somewhat turning and falling to the ground and the weather has been getting cooler, I decided to pull out some of my Halloween and fall decorations. Now, when I say few - that is what I mean - FEW. I don't have many things fall-ish, which I am sure will change in later years if I have inherited that "decorating for every conceivable holiday gene" from my mother. But that is alright with me that I do not have many things as I am liking the new minimalist approach I want to be perusing more anyway (Living in a townhouse will do that to a person - limits your space to save and store things).

After the Walk today and lunch, and nap, Derick and I played lazy and had a Big Bang Theory season 2 marathon. Wow I absolutely love that show. I could watch it almost all of the time and to top it off, one of my all-time favorite episodes was one of the ones we watched! (the Christmas one with the gift-swap -Penny vs Sheldon).

I am going to start a new book - The Time Traveler's Wife. and No, I have not seen the movie yet. I prefer most books to movies as they turn out to be so much better than the movies themselves. (take Twilight --books = awesome. movie = horrible beyond most reason.) So, in my geek-dom, I am pretty excited about that. I might also be playing a board game with the hubby tomorrow (for my sake, pray it isn't RISK) and might try baking a new cookie. That seems to be a new weekend tradition. Nice.

Hmm, I think that is all of the updateable things that I need to get out at this present juncture.

Until then,

L