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Secret Talents...

Maybe you remember my post about Silly Bandz? ( www.flickr.com/photos/disneygurl/4718412539/ ) I was saying that " when you look at me, you can see my hair color, eye color, clothes I'm wearing, but you do NOT see what's inside. What (or who) I really am. You can't tell that I play guitar, love palm trees, or am a type 1 diabetic."

Well, there's another thing about me that you can't know by just looking at me. I braid hair. I've been doing this since I was 12 or 13. I saw my friend's mom do his hair one day and it just didn't look hard . When I got home I parted off a section on my head and started braiding and ...it looked like a cornrow....I braided the entire front part of my hair, walked out of the bathroom and my mom almost had a heart attack when she looked at me, mouth wide open "who? how? when did you do this?" I was like "just now. it's really easy!" She still to this day tells everyone the story of how I walked into the bathroom and 20 mins later came out braided up LOL

Now I did this whole thing backwards though because when someone came up to me and wanted me to do their hair I was like umm....I don't know if I can do other people's hair, I have only done my own. LOL (usually people learn it the other way around,,,but of course, not me :) )

What did take a while to figure out completely was the parting though, because the actual "art" is how you part the hair, not the braiding itself (because that part is easy). I got more and more intricate and creative over the years and have since cornrowed hearts, dollar signs, even people's initials into their heads.

I also do extensions and loc maintenance so if you need a cool do' holla atcha gurl ;)

So anyway I had a great time with these two girlies up here! We were having a blast discussing which Disney Channel guy is the cutest and chat about our favorite Sonny, Wizards, and Jonas L.A. moments. I think all 3 of us really appreciated each other's profound knowledge of every episode ever made LOL

I did put some big heart shaped beads at the end of Lil Baby's style (on right) when I was done. Both girls chose their own style.

As fun and relaxing as sessions like these are for me, they are not as smooth as they used to. I was "lucky" because Lil' Baby is only 5 so she needed lots of little breaks which I used for BG checks so it all worked out but standing and moving around and all for extended periods of time seems harder now than it was pre-D. Not sure why.

BG wise I was pretty good all day...got hot dogs and pasta salad for lunch so I think the pasta prevented a low (since I did miss my afternoon snack) and ended up perfectly fine again for dinner.

So all in all a perfect day, and I made some extra cash (which will all go out towards test strips for the next month).

Yay for: my awesome lil girlfriends
Yay for: hair time = bonding time
Yay for: good Disney talks :)
Yay for: cooperating BG levels

So tell me, do you have any secret talents?

20 JULY Love Will Tear Us Apart and 115

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Work in progress, time to serve dinner, nice BS...

20 JULY Thank You

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21 JULY Sunset at Max Indian

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21 JULY 107 at Max Indian

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How fast can you go?...

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...and how low will you end up?

This was the third day in a row that I had rockin awesomtastic numbers....went to the gym clocked in at 175 (which was where I wanted to be (between 150-175 is perfect for me to start my work out) went on the treadmill and 22 mins later BAM! 42. (did I mention I had already taken 4 sips of gatorate DURING those 22 mins?)

The worst part was that I didn't do the 15 min check because "I felt fine" but after a lil longer I was like, eh I better check you never know. my reaction was like "holy crappola!" I stopped the treadmill (yeah i test while I walk fast at like 3.4 miles per hour LOL) and then put my meter in my bag and THEN noticed the shakeys. 4 tabs only brought me up to 84 12 mins later...another 2 to 94...so then I decided to stop trying to get it back up higher bc I did not feel like spending the rest of the night in the 250's. No thank you.

So I had to sit out....I was so mad and I had a headache too after I was back up and just felt miserable. I feel better now but still have the headache.

Yay for: 2.5 days of awesome numbers
Yay for: fast acting sugar
Yay for: an awesome 1hr SWAC special episode last nite. Sonny With A Secret was awesome! :)

"there's only 3 things I read: my scripts, my reviews and my check" - Chad Dylan Cooper #classicCDC :D

So tell me, when was the last time the Big D got in your way of trying to live a healthy active life?

19 JULY Sucking in Fumes

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I got to the bank after 6:30 and there was a line of cars, spewing fumes. I have always wondered why people don't shut their cars off while they wait in these lines.

At any rate, I got a chance to step back and test my blood and take a photo. I'll correct when I arrive safely at home!

18 JULY Collage

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18 JULY Changes will come and 144

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Next Bad Dream in progress. I took it in to work today to flatten the pieces of paper that are being unruly.

Looking good and now I can really get working on details.

This one has a really great series of photos in the background. Made me think of how with diabetes, at times you only see the small picture, not the whole of life.

144 after a roller coaster of a day for me. Actually, this is the highest the BS has been so I guess you would call the day a "Zipline down".

18 JULY Mezboy wanna be starting something

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In the studio!

17 JULY Roasted Tomatoes

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Hey, do you want an easy, delicious way to cook and peel tomatoes for sauce? Roast them! I used a recipe from Mark Bittman. I let the tomatoes cool for almost an hour and I just grabbed the charred part and the skin came right off!

17 JULY Roma Tomatoes Roasting

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17 JULY Roma Tomatoes

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pincfridge

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Magic Gnome on Handmade Pincushion looking for food in the fridge.
O look! There is a Goldfish, made by the lovely Jo! Will it be dinner???

nb, such an empty fridge! I am on a ketogenic diet, can you tell? The butter and cream are my staple, the egg(yolks) and organic sausage are just for fancy noms. I eat 2 or 3 eggyolks per day and perhaps an inch of sausage. Not more protein.
My bloodsugar reacts fiercly. One eggwhite would spike my insuline, as would the milk. I do not eat milk, it is just here because I am making scones. Badly.
A small scone is alright if I use the resulting bloodsugar spike immediatly, say for spinning group.
No, I do not consume vegs or fruit. Fruit is way too sweet. Vegs I do eat, about one fistfull a day. Merely for digestion aid than for vitamins. When one does not eat cereals one does not get robbed of vitamins, an eggyolk or small fatty piece of organic meat gives me all amino-acids and vitamins I need.

the reason for this diet is thricefold: a very calm bloodsugarlevel + easy digestion to battle previous illness and malnutrition + healthy brainchemistry because I am very sensitive to that (akin to Asperger/autism)