I’m in the middle of a creative lull, so you’ll have to forgive the lack of exposition.

If you’ve ever Tumblr’d, then you’re likely aware of the prevalence of animated gifs on the Internet. It’s a thing. And it’s not going away.

I saw one of Carlton dancing that inspired me to tell a brief story of what living with diabetes is like.

I know it’s dumb, but there are times when I treat a quest for blood glucose control as a quest for blood glucose

I know that I should be more reasonable about my ambitions, especially when trying to figure this stuff out is a bit…complex

And there have been plenty of moments when I felt

But every time diabetes tries to

and all I want to do is

I know all it takes is a little extra focus

And I can figure this thing out

And when I get it right…

(Images from here, here, here, here, and here.)