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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: Decorating
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After making those Christmas lights the other day, I got to thinking about what else you could do with the flotsam and jetsam of life with diabetes. A few ideas were:
1. Test strip bottle garland - using fishing line, thread thru where the cap joins the bottle. 100 bottles should make a manageable garland.
2. If you really want to drive yourself mental, make garland out of used test strips. You could either thread them on fishing wire using an upholstery needle or you could glue them together. I have doubts as to whether the glue would hold up for very long, though.
3. Syringe icicles. Snip the needles off (obviously), put fishing line or ribbon around the plunger end and hang on the tree.
4. Syringe icicle lights - using the same Tiny Lights that I used for the insulin bottle lights, string the syringes (again, snip the needles) onto the lights. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Real Life
Tags: Christmas Decorating Family religion
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One of The Other Half's family holiday traditions has been to redecorate their entire houses in Early, Middle, and Modern Christmas. Everything from the knicknacks on the end tables to the rug and hand towels in the guest bathroom is redone in red, green, snowmen, and old-fashioned Santa Clauses. The centerpiece of it all is the Christmas Village.
While some folk pride themselves on collecting all the pieces in a particular name-brand collection, most of these villages are odd collections of pieces purchased from sale racks here and there, or made by friends and family.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Real Life
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A day at the Make-A-Wish Foundation picnic will give you some of that.
Maeve and I volunteered for the event which was sponsored by my company. We worked the cupcake decorating station for half the day and a frog launch carnival game for the second half. We saw some difficult things, for sure, but we also saw some priceless smiles. Especially when they thought it would be much more fun to launch the greasy rubber frogs at my head rather than the lily pads.
While promoting the “Make Your Own Cupcake” activity to families passing by, most came right over.
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Categories: Type 2 Food Real Life
Tags: Christmas Cookies holiday eating portion control recipes
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It's that time of year again -- time to report on this year's results of the WebWarren Cookie Laboratories.
Lest you think I've had a bit too much of the nonexistent "adult" eggnog (or given the outdoor temperatures, the nonexistent hot toddy), The Other Half's parents like to have several varieties of cookies on hand for Christmas Day visitors (i.e., the entire extended family) -- and with his mother no longer able to do the sort of baking she once did, we try to take up a bit of the slack. The first time we did cookie baking up here, I was trying to develop some new cookie recipes, and we brought down the results in a carton repurposed with Christmas wrapping paper and labeled "WEBWARREN COOKIE LABS -- EXPERIMENTAL SAMPLES". The name -- and the mock pretentiousness -- stuck. While were not able to get down south this year, the Cookie Labs have been in full force.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions
Tags: depression Diabetes emotions
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Christmas is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year but for so many it is not. The holidays tend to be a time that people reflect on the past year and sometimes that can be a real downer.
This Christmas will not be so “Holly Jolly” for me.
My health was pretty good as far as my diabetes goes. I had no major incidents like DKA or hospitalization of any kind so that front has been pretty good. In fact, I may have some really good news to share soon but I will wait for the official word on that.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Children Food Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: children with diabetes fire fundraising Halloween halloween candy religion trick or treat walk to cure diabetes
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Hallowe'en is a time of transformations.
In the ancient Celtic traditions (and the modern Wiccan ones), Samhain is the time at which the Goddess — old, and lonely, and missing her lover — goes to the Summerland to be with him. With her goes light and warmth, fertility, and life. The Samhain Sabbat denotes the end of summer/fall and the beginning of the winter seasons, a time when the last harvest has come in and when the herds are pared down to what the community can feed through the winter, and what will be able to reproduce in the spring.
It is a time of plenty, preceding a known time of famine.
It is also the start of the new year.
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