The Outside Like the Inside

By Scott Coulter My wife and I have been updating our house this summer. We repainted about half our rooms with a new color, tore up some carpeting along our stairs to reveal the hardwood underneath (which, perhaps next summer, we might sand, restain, and get in better shape), put in new curtains, updated the window blinds to something more substantial and modern, put in some new furniture, and put in a new bookshelf that I built and stained myself (I'm somewhat proud of that one…). What started as just an idea to update the color of one room has turned into a pretty hefty makeover. Our house is currently looking better than it ever has, and we've culled through stacks and stacks of old stuff that was lying around in piles. We've organized, created actual places for the everyday things, gotten some old filing cabinets, and really made an effort to get all of our stuff into some kind of order. In the midst of all of this, I've noticed my rate of monitoring has gone up and I've been much more diligent and organized about my blood sugar. I've also noticed a few new patterns in my blood sugar that I wasn't really tracking before. As we've organized our house and the multitude of little items within its walls, it's rubbed off on me and my own management of this very important condition of diabetes. We are systems We are each a combination of multiple systems. We have our work lives, our home lives, our Diabetian lives, our financial lives, our sex lives, our creative lives,...
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