A day of new things.

Today has been a day of new things.

Firstly I had my diabetic review. All tests came back ok except my three monthly blood sugar level which was an average of 9. Not ideal but today is/was a new day so time for me to start getting those numbers down again. I'm going to start anew.

Secondly, while I was there, I was given a new blood glucose testing meter (Am I crazy for thinking that was a little exciting?) I have been having trouble with the other and putting the brand new battery into another meter like mine proved that my meter has something wrong with it. Anyway, she gave me a completely different brand. It's an Accu-Chek Aviva Nano and I love it. Why? Simply because it requires 'half the steps to test, proven less painful and no lancet handling'. (That's what it says on the box and it turns out to be true!) I have not been the best person at using my meter and one of the reasons was because of the stupid lancets. They are fiddly and annoying. (Consequently, because of this, I never changed the lancets as often as I should have done.) This meter has the lancets built into little barrels and they retract into the barrel and so you don't handle the lancets (which you are supposed to change after every single use) so that makes the whole thing less fiddly - saving me time. And finally, yes it is actually less painful. (Also, the case is softer which is nice, the meter glows in the dark and the testing strips come in a very cute tub)

Thirdly, today I have joined a gym again and yes I know I have very little money but this gym is just £10 a month and there's no contract so you can leave when you want. It opens in March in Warrington so I am going to go back to the gym and get fit. I need the exercise and I always went when I was at the other one except around the time I started working at borders and go out of a pattern. I really enjoy the exercise and apparently there will be exercise classes which I enjoy.

Finally, I got some new hair straighteners today. Yes, I have already have some but they were tearing my hair out. They didn't glide through my hair and I had to keep running the straighters through the same bit of hair over and over. It was causing too much damage. I now have some better straighteners which go to a higher heat and so I only have to run them through a section of hair once! I can see the difference straight away!

So tomorrow, new meter (I have to order more strips and lancet barrels though), new straighteners, new attempt at keeping my blood sugar below 9 and something new to look forward to in March. :-)