Being diabetic

I have been diabetic for 30 years and have managed to control it by diet and two pills. All those years my blood sugar has been ok and on the normal level. On my last A1C test it went up ba a point which is really not good.

So now I am on strict diet and exercise regimen. I usually walk a lot - I walk to work and go home at lunch to add more steps on my fit bit. I also volunteered to do our banking which is walking 17 city blocks. Next week is my second month of doing it and I hope it is enough that I won't  be put on insulin.

I will have my next lab tests mid September. I hope by then I would have lost the weight since as diabetic we cant carry extra weight. I do 20,000 steps most days unless it is raining and lately we've  had thunderstorms. My highest has been 27,000 steps, more than 10 miles. Now when winter comes i might have to go down to our fitness room.

Here is my playlist when I'm walking which I have only done last few days. Before I always felt I will be listening and get engrossed by the music so I just did it while I'm walking along the park close to my building. But I only have put it on my one ear.

Fort Edmonton Park

Our company team building was held at this park. This is a recreation of old Edmonton. There are a lot of activities to do here. We took the old trolley to go to the farthest part of the park and go back to the start.

I took quite a lot of pictures so I will let the pictures do the talking. I have had problems uploading pictures and so I googled the problem and looks like i am not the only one. It says to use Chrome which I did and the same. So i will try to try some of the suggestions i had read but will take time.

In the meantime, I will just upload some music I have found on my fave site.

This station is inside a bus which goes around the city and sometimes parks on the street. The artists do song covers and opm-original Philippine music.
I like this cover.

Four guys doing Bruno Mars cover

This young guy is a Canadian and from Calgary. I first saw him on The Voice Kids Phillipines. 

He was the runner-up but is now more famous than the winner.

I hope you enjoy them. It's  nice to see talented people from the Philippines.

Thanks for stopping by.

Farmers Market

I found this on Wish 107.5. I hope you enjoy listening to him.

It has been a while since the farmer's market opened downtown. I have been there a few times. I bought mostly vegetables and fruits. I tried one or two spice rub, one I really like, the other one not too much.

There was a stall for all kinds of nuts flavoured like coconut and cheesecake almonds. Pepper and dill nuts. Twice I bought sweet and salty popcorn. 

I have taken pictures the last time I was there.

                      

Margaritas and Nachos

Last week was long weekend for us, Victoria Day. On Saturday, a friend and I went to Camrose. This is a small town east of Edmonton. We had gone there a few times because there are a few nice ladies wear store and a nice shoe store. Every time we had visited there, I always come home with a pair or two of shoes. This time, it was a comfortable leather sandals and walking shoes. Both on sale!

On Sunday, I visited my brother who is in an assisted living after I got upset with him when he ate the snacks I had brought in just a few days and his blood sugar went to 30. Lucky for him he did not go into a diabetic coma.

Sunday afternoon, a few friends came by and we had nachos and margaritas. We started to watch Netflix and a few videos on You tube. We found one which was played on wish 107 5 bus which is a radio station in the Philippines.

The guy won the Philippines Got Talent and this is a compilation of all the fans who have their own You Tube channel and this was a compilation. It is a bit long but worth it.

It is posted on the next post. Enjoy.

Wish 107.5 | Marcelito Pomoy "The Prayer" Reactions Compilation

Blogging again

It has been a while since my last post. But I had been really busy and having a lot of problems with my eyes. I got a different eye drops in addition to the two I am already using. I came back from my vacation about a month ago and it has been chaotic.

The two and a half weeks of vacation was needed. I had enjoyed the time spent with relatives and friends I have not seen in 9 years and longer for one of my friends. I still have about a week of vacation left to take this year and I would have used up my 2015 vacation days.

As usual I did some cooking and baking and they enjoyed it.  I just started my spring cleaning and donating some of my clothes, shoes and purses to charity. I am also crocheting dish cloths for my sister and she also requested a blanket and I might have to find the instructions of the granny squares she likes.

I had a bit of a problem with my laptop and also forgot my blog password. So hopefully, I will be blogging and sharing all kinds of stuff.

I heard this song and it sounds like Filipino music. I have not seen this movie. I will wait for it at Netflix.

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Thank you....

A big thank you to Grace, Tracy and Darron. Just before New Year's eve, I glaawent to my dental hygienist and while there and she asked me to wear the eyeglasses to prevent water and other stuff that could get in my eyes. As soon as I put it on, I became dizzy so I took it off and told her I will not wear, I will just close my eyes. I was ok after that. But after I was done and got up, I again felt dizzy. I stayed there until I felt better and went to the reception area. As soon as I got to deal with my account, I felt so dizzy that I almost fainted. They gave me banana to eat thinking my blood sugar has been low. I was only about 1/3 of a block away from home. I was scared to walk by myself and my son has already gone to work. I called one of the staff at my building and she sent our building operator and maintenance guy to pick me up and escorted me to my suite. They made sure I was ok before they left so I would like to give them my biggest thank you for the support and help.

I am glad I chose this building to live. I am still recovering from that and went to see a new doctor who was so thorough in finding out what was wrong with me. I had a special blood test done last October and just found out I have a hereditary blood disorder. I am in the process of the treatment I would have to take. Unfortunately, I could give this to my son. He will probably be tested sometime too.

Again, thank you to Grace, Tracy and Darron.