Two years

I’ve been extra busy lately, and also feeling kind of quiet. Seriously, you pack a trip to North Carolina, commuting, working, errand running, exercise, a multitude of TV sweeps episodes and series and season finales and grappling with a life altering medical diagnosis in to one week and let me know how creative and energetic you feel. Plus, my laptop (oh, how I miss you, beloved laptop) is still off at Toshiba getting fixed, so I have to thumb-wrestle John for the control of our remaining computer. And this is kind of embarrassing to admit, but sometimes, I lose at thumb wrestling.

But mostly I’ve just been feeling quiet, which means you’ve been spared a lot of self indulgent whining about how I don’t want to have diabetes, and I don’t like this and I hate pricking my finger to check my blood sugar, and I don’t have good control over my blood sugar and blah, blah, blah, oh-poor-me fucking blah. I’m working on accepting what is and moving on, really I am. I’m just not quite there yet. I am making progress on the acceptance and the control fronts though. I started on Metformin on Friday, and that, plus exercise plus restricting carbs (beans are fine, sandwich rolls not so much, and pasta is somewhere in the middle) seems to be having a positive effect. Of course a) I’m already a vegetarian, and if I keep having to give up foods, I’m going to be left eating nothing but almonds, zucchini and chick peas for the rest of my life and b) I love carbs. After cheese, I think bread, potatoes and pasta are my favorite things. So, wah.

You kind of wish I had just stayed quiet, don’t you?

Anyway, I realized this weekend marks the two year anniversary of when I started my first blog, and I couldn’t let that pass without comment. I can’t believe it has been two years already. And yet I also can’t imagine starting my day without checking in on my friends on my blogroll, exchanging comments, poking around and discovering new and interesting people, and participating in this whole new world I didn’t even know existed three years ago. It’s been a great experience so far, and for so many more reasons than I thought it would. The best part, of course, has been all of the people I’ve met. People of the Internet – you are very cool. Thank you for being a part of my life.