A few things:

Just a few quick things of late:

1) It's open enrollment season for health insurance! And I'm excited! Is that weird? Probably. But I USE my health insurance. EVERY DAY! So, you can imagine, that if the opportunity to get some better benefits arises, or maybe some different options, I am excited to find out what they might be! Also, we will definitely be increasing our coverage this year, because our insurance company totally lied to us last year (those evil and conspiring men!) and we got stuck in a super high deductible plan. So, I'm excited about having a much lower deductible this year. Also, that means I can GET AN INSULIN PUMP! Woot! I have been told that our open enrollment packet should be arriving in the mail some time this week. You better believe I've been anxiously waiting by the window to see when the mail man comes, EVERY DAY THIS WEEK! So far, nothin'.

2) Speaking of health insurance, a gigantic miracle happened. My health insurance authorized my request for a prescription of 8-10 blood glucose test strips a day, the first time I asked! Without fighting me about it! This is practically unheard of in the health insurance world. For some reason, insurance companies think you only need to test 6x a day (because, you know, they have extensive knowledge about what it takes to manage diabetes), and they almost always fight people when they ask them to pay for more strips. What does this mean for my life? Well, I don't have to ration my test strips, and can get better control because I can test more! No more will I have the following conversation with myself: "Hmmm, I feel like my blood sugar is high. . . is it high? I'm not sure. Maybe I should take insulin. What if I'm not high? Then I'll go low! But, I can't test, because I don't have enough strips, so I better just wait and do nothing until it is absolutely necessary to test." On rare occasions, the insurance gods show some compassion. Emphasis on RARE.

3) In non-diabetes related things, we have been Halloweening it up like crazy here in the Carper household. Halloween is my favorite secular holiday. I feel bad saying it is my favorite holiday, because I feel like that should be Christmas or Easter, but I just have this nagging, deep and abiding love for all things spooky scary, and, ok, it's my favorite! I admit it! It just is! I will devote an entire post to our Halloweening activities later, but just to give you a little teaser, I will tell you that we dressed up for our church trunk-or-treat party and we WON A PRIZE! Oh yeah!

Okay, friends. That's it! HAPPY HALLOWEEN WEEK! Mwa ha ha ha! I think I'm going to go watch Thriller now. And fantasize about health insurance options.