Joel Terrell

Maybe I was expecting some sort of Christmas miracle or something but yesterday I was completely out of control.

We had our Christmas Breakfast at my unofficially adopted sister Candee's house. She was up early brewing coffee, scrambling eggs, frying bacon and sausage, and slicing up coffee cake and other breakfasty pastries so we could all dig in when we got there. (READ MORE)

Everyone needs to take a personal day every now and then. At least that's how I feel. Lately, It seems like I have been running around like a chicken with its head cut off. I have been putting in some long days of landscaping work, I just returned from a weekend trip to Omaha, and my girlfriend is in the process of getting a job back in her home state. And needless to say, all of the chaos and daily schedule changes have my blood sugars going a little crazy. (READ MORE)

I dropped into a local fast food joint for none other then fast food. It is an awful habit but since I always seem to be running around somewhere, fast food is the choice for me.

After ordering my food I walked over to the soda fountain to fill up my "biggest size you have" cup.

Let me explain that. I once asked for a 'Jumbo" soda and I got a large. I asked, "don't you have a size bigger than large?" And the worker said, "Yeah it's a 'Super Quencher'" I replied, "well yeah I wanted a "Jumbo" size which means the biggest size you have!" He said, "You have to say 'Super Quencher.'" I told him that I feel stupid saying that so I just took the large and left. Now back to the story.

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