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So here’s the first lesson I’ve learned being self-employed.  Um, you may have to check your emails more than twice a day.  I was up by 7 on Monday and I think I checked my email around 8 before heading out for a walk and then getting ready to go downtown.  By the time I caught the train at 10:08, I’d already walked 5k steps! ...

I thought my last day of work was going to drag, but surprisingly it went by pretty quickly!  Around 3 in the afternoon we got together in the small conference room and had some treats – my co-worker Janice knows me just a little too well – she knows I love cheese and I’ve always found red velvet cupcakes insulin worthy!  Although I do scrape...

It’s so weird to me sometimes that a few simple ingredients can create such delicious food.  Take flour, salt and eggs and a splash of water.  What have you got?  Homemade pasta! So we’ve declared Thursday nights as “spin the fridge wheel” and use up/eat up just what is on hand.  And I didn’t cheat all that much!  Last weekend my store had roma tomatoes...

Healthy Chicken and Dumplings It was interesting because usually I view the weekend as “get all the shit done and keep going, going, going.”  But knowing that I only have two weeks left at my job, well, the pace felt a bit different.  Yes, I had a list of things I wanted to get done, but not all of them got done, and well, it...

You guys!!  I am overwhelmed with the comments on my last post, the email messages, Facebook messages and messages in Instagram about me quitting my job.  It only solidifies that I am making the right decision.  It seems there is a general consensus that “it’s about time!” that I do something I love.  And I do think that having that Chef coat on last week...

Social media is a remarkable phenomenon to me.  When I think back in high school when my sister and I got an EXTENSION telephone in our bedroom we thought we were hot shit!   With social media you are connected to so many more people than you ever would have encountered in your normal day life.  There are so many inspiring people out there to follow,...

If you would have told me in December that I would have gone the whole month of January and not have a sip of alcohol I would have laughed in your face.  But in a nice way, because you know I am polite like that.  But seriously, I didn’t think I could do it.  I’ve been contemplating cutting down on the alcohol for quite a...

My twin sister joined WW yesterday.  We are both WW alums – both having lost 70+ pounds on the program back in 1999.   She tried to start a WW program at work – she only needed 15 members out of an office of over 100 (possibly more!)  365 and couldn’t drum up enough people.  But she didn’t let that stop her, she found another office...

My sister texted my brother and I on Friday that she was taking her youngest through our high school because she’ll be starting high school in the fall and is already picking out classes and seeing what kinds of extra curricular activities and sports are available to her.  Um, it’s a lot.   Um, try 23 sports including field hockey (duh!), water polo and badminton.   And...

I am a few weeks away from finding out if I qualify for an international double blind study for a new diabetic medication.  They provided me with the meter, the test strips, everything I would need.  One thing they also gave me was test strips for ketone – which I’ve never even tested before.  They told me if my blood sugar was ever over 250,...