#dayofdiabetes 2014

This year, I decided to participate in #dayofdiabetes. This is a social media movement where on one day every year, diabetics on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and any other social media platform share everything they think about or do because of diabetes. It was created to show the world that even though diabetes seems like an invisible illness that is rather "easy" to control, it is actually all consuming of your thoughts and actions. #dayofdiabetes let's the world see how much effort it takes to be a diabetic for just one day. It also shows people (including the participants) how a single chronic illness can differently affect every person that has it. (Sorry if that sentence sounds really weird. My blood sugar is in the 400's and wording things when I'm high is not my strong suit.) So here is what I tweeted, retweeted, and could relate to on this year's #dayofdiabetes.

That's 24 tweets from me alone, and I didn't even start until around 11:30ish! I'm sure I could have tweeted a lot more if I had wanted to. And that was a good day. My bad days would have had a lot more tweets and pictures to go along with them. I had a lot of fun participating in this and I also got to explain the hashtag to a few people at my school that asked about it, so it was cool to know that non-diabetic people were also interested in what was happening on Thursday. I'd say it was a success since the goal of the movement was reached- to educate people on what being a diabetic for a single day is like.

Moral of the Story: In the immortal words of Kim when talking about how #dayofdiabetes was supposed to be a simple feat, ""Simple". Ha! Ha ha hahahahahahahapioenaoiepnfdklnaf;ioehaopifehoi;ah."

Did you participate in #dayofdiabetes? What did you think about it?

Cringing with a Side of Amazingness

This will totally be one of those randomy posts where I just talk about whatever. Because I can do that since this is my blog.

First, let's talk about the fact that I found my old blog today while scouring the internet to figure out why Bigfoot Child Have Diabetes commented on my super angry late night blog post (the best kind of blog post, really,) to say congrats. I was confused. I was pretty sure I hadn't posted anything exciting that has happened to me on here or on twitter. What could I have done? While looking through the vastness know as the internet, I googled my blog's name to see if there had been some other blog post mentioning my blog, or something else of that nature. Guess what I found. I had found my really old and started in seventh grade diabetes blog. I looked at it and cringed. I cringed even more than when I look at my first post on this blog. And that's saying something.

I read through the whole entire thing and laughed at seventh grade moi. I had  my name as nautilus. (I didn't even have a capitalized 'N.' It was cool to type in all lowercase in 2010.) Did I mention that my obsession at the time of that blog's creation was the nautilus? My twitter username used to be 'nautilusofdoom.' (Wait, why did I just share that with the whole world?) I used those text emoticon thingies in almost all of my posts. I made a whole photo album on Photobucket about getting my Contour USB. I don't remember making any of these posts, but I obviously did. Seeing my old blog made me laugh and cringe* and it was a total #tbt in the most entertaining way possible. (I laughed even more when I found my other old blog from seventh grade. I was pretending to be super girly and care a lot about make up and fashion. You can ask any of my friends and I promise they'll tell you that I'm pretty much the opposite of that. I've since given up on trying. I also got a kick out of my attempt to sound vague, but also cool with my tumblr's name. 'Insecure Light,' Sarah? Really?)

#tbt to my first CGM picture on twitter

Well, now let's get back to the whole congrats-on-my-blog-post mystery. After laughing at myself for a while, I finally went on my main blogger page so I could start typing a post about my laugh worthy find. I clicked onto my main blog page and saw that one of the main sources of traffic to my blog was from Meri's blog. I clicked over to her blog and read through her Best of the Betes Blogs post and oh my gosh, my blog was on there! I was in total shock and I was in even more shock once I realized that I had one the art section of the post with my flow chart! (I also feel like this was pretty ironic, considering I'm the least artistic person in my family.) I feel so incredibly honored to have won in one of the categories. I always look at those posts and hope and hope and hope that maybe I will have won in a category, and for that to actually happen is pretty amazing. Thank you so much to the wonderful person that nominated my blog post. You rock.

Moral of the Story: Today has been pretty unexpectedly awesome.

*The most cringe-worthy thing I read on the old blog was this: "I will just post about my life as a diabetic and topics that align with the purpose of this blog." That sounds like a portion of a legal disclaimer or something. Why on Earth would I have thought to say something like that?

When was the last time that you accidentally found something cringe-worthy from your past?

The Best Food of All Time

Try not to get overexcited if you love food blogs because I promise that my blog will not be turning into one. I pretty much dislike cooking, but this is pretty much my favorite recipe of all time. I would eat this stuff every day of my life if it was up to me. (Then again, I am also a person that really likes habit, so maybe that's not saying much...)

This mysterious looking green stuff is actually the best food ever.

Ingredients:

• 6 servings of your choice of pasta
• 2 medium avocados (peeled and seeded)
• 1 1/2 cups spinach
• 1 1/2 cups arugula 
• 1 packed cup of basil leaves
• 3 tablespoons of lime juice
• 2 garlic cloves or 1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1/2 teaspoon of ground black pepper

Yay for having an organized picture of the ingredients! 

Directions:

1. Put your pot of water for the pasta on the stove. This will give your water plenty of time to boil, and it will be boiling by the time you finish making the pesto.
2. Throw everything but the pasta into your food processor. I usually start with the avocados, grind those up, then put in the arugula and spinach, grind those up, and then put everything else in the food processor. 
3. Take your magical pesto out of the food processor and put it in a small bowl. Then put the sauce in the fridge.
4. Cook your pasta according to the package.
5. Strain your pasta.
6. Put half of the pesto in the bottom of the bowl, put the pasta in the bowl, then put the rest of the sauce on top of the pasta, and then mix it up. (My mom taught me the half on bottom, half on top trick. It makes it 1000 times easier to mix the pasta sauce.)
7. Eat and revel in the taste of the most delicious pasta* you have ever made and/or eaten.

Extra step: feed some of the leftover veggies to your favorite herbivore.

So this is pretty much my favorite recipe of all time because it includes my favorite fruit, the avocado; it takes minimal effort to make (I'm all about being lazy;) it takes maybe 20 minutes at the most; and it is in the rare healthy and delicious category of food. And technically the sauce has no carbs... (The pasta is a whole different story.) 

Moral of the Story: Yum.

* This is an obviously unbiased statement and if you think this is untrue, you may need to seek help.

And the original recipe came from here.