Stream of Consciousness.

Time for a bullet list of purged thoughts, brought to you by the bottom of my coffee pot.

• It’s not snowing.  I don’t usually have a rage response to winter, but this one has been more than we could properly manage.  (Like when our snow shovel broke under the weight of the drift we were shoveling through.  Or when our snow blower ran out of gas and the gas was in the shed out back and we couldn’t get to the shed because the show was up past our hips.  #fuckyousnow and I mean it.)  So for it to be #notsnowing and #melting is a good thing.
• Get these hashtags off my blog. #nottwitter
• For a solid five year period, I did not lose a single pair of gloves.  If one fell out of the car when I opened the door, I saw it immediately.  If I dropped one, it always managed to fall into my bag and not end up lost forever.  Gloves were among the most lose-able things in my wardrobe and yet they always managed to stay paired up and on hand (literally).  But this year, something happened to my glove mojo and I’ve lost four pairs this winter alone.  I don’t know how to recover my good glove karma.
• I have bought the same pair of moonstone stud earrings a dozen different times, and yet I still only have two singular earrings.  It’s unnerving.  Do these cheap little earrings go where the gloves go?
• This weekend, I’ll be at the Diabetes UnConference in Las Vegas, where there isn’t any snow and there are many PWD on tap to attend.  I’m looking forward to making new friends, seeing old ones, and bolusing for copious amounts of iced coffee.
• Way to GO, mySugr!!!
• Does emotional stress spike up your blood sugar?  Caroline dives in to find out.  (But the answer is yes.  A firm and confidence yes.)
• Did you guys see that the Spare a Rose totals have been boosted, thanks to a donation program from Asante?  426 lives saved, thanks to all of you.
• Thanks to #dblogcheck day, I found some gluten-free lemon bars on this blog.  And now I love this blog.
• At the Rhode Island JDRF TypOneNation event last weekend, I heard about a new sort of barrier tape to put underneath my Dexcom sensors to help mitigate the wicked rash.  It’s called Mepitac tape and I bought my first roll off of Amazon this morning.  I have no idea if it will work better/worse than the J&J Toughpads I have been using for the last three years, but I’ll try anything to keep the itch at bay.  Will report back after I give it a go.
• Ripped from DHF’s site:  “The Diabetes Hands Foundation is happy and excited to offer scholarships to diabetes conferences as a part of the Diabetes Advocates program. We offer these scholarships to help get advocates to the major conferences in the US so the patient voice is present.”  You can find out more about the scholarships here, and then you should APPLY because your voice MATTERS.  All caps and such.
• My friend Jenni Prokopy (the ChronicBabe) kicks ass, and I want her to continue to kick ass.  Check out her kick(ass)starter here.
• I keep circling back to this David Sedaris essay about his FitBit because I am in a hardcore week of competition with an equally-competitive friend on FitBit, and I’m afraid I may wear holes in the soles of my soul in efforts to win.
• But as I write this, I’m already itching to get up and clock a few miles on the treadmill in an attempt to gain some ground before traveling this afternoon.
• In related news, I am relentlessly competitive.
• And with that, I need to go run.
• While I’m gone, the cats will guard the door like little, furry sentinels.

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