Party! Blood sugar!

Update!

I'm throwing a party this weekend. That's pretty much taken up all my spare thoughts and energy for the past 2 weeks as I use this event as motivation to finally get every single thing in my apartment clean for the first time since I moved in in Jan 2005. This includes pulling furniture away from walls so that I can sweep or vacuum behind them, wiping down the baseboards, dusting, throwing things out, moving other things into more appropriate places, etc.

I'm mostly done. The living room looks great (new couch! clean desk!), the kitchen does too (clean floor! clean fridge!), and I wiped down everything in the bathroom last night. My bedroom, however, is kind of scary and I fear that when people go in there to put down their coats and purses, no matter how clean and sparkly the rest of the apartment looks, their opinion of me is going to drop based on the state of the room in which I sleep.

Also, there are boxes I pulled out of my "fainting room" (aka, the random extra doorless closet) that I was supposed to go through last week and discard most of the contents. And I forgot to clean the hood over my stove. And I have to re-vacuum the living room. And did I mention the scary bedroom?

Anyway, the next few days will be rather busy, since I also have to do party stuff, not just everyday cleaning stuff - buy chips, dips, cheeses crackers and meats and drinks. Maybe hang some Christmas lights, get out all the candles I own (candlelit parties are the best - everyone looks great!).

In other news, I have a couch. The photos are off the camera, but haven't been uploaded to Flickr yet. They will be. Soon. Probably as a procrastination tactic as the pressure increases to Get Stuff Done Before The Party. It's a lovely couch, and very comfortable. Last Saturday was a whirlwind of activity, as only the day before I had found someone who wanted a futon. So instead of living with two large seating options in my living room for an unspecified length of time, we picked up the couch from SF, came back to Oakland, moved my futon out, moved the couch in (moving some paint onto the floor in the process), then went to another friend's, got his massive 200+ lb 35" tube tv out of his 2nd fl apartment, down the windy stairs and into my truck, and then it all went to the lucky person who, in one morning, got everything she's been scouring CL for for weeks.

Then I went home and fell asleep on the couch for 4 hours. And then I went to a birthday party for a 1 year-old that was not kid-themed at all. It was awesome.

Oh, and the best news of all: I finally went and got my A1C done this week, and I have brought it down from 8.2 in July to 6.5!! Most of the time, I feel like I'm not doing a very good job keeping my blood sugar in check, but this gives me a feeling of accomplishment and some hope that things aren't as bad as I feared.

Next week, I'm heading to Dallas for a week of not-relaxing. Then it's Thanksgiving! And then the Holiday Season™ starts, with concerts, parties, opera and ballet! And Christmas!

I'm having a great time. Hope you are too!