Best Day Ever!

Today was without a doubt the best day I've had all year and probably extending back into last year as well as far back as my trip to the Catskills, and spent with the same person.

Let's put aside the "diabetic" for today and talk about the "fittest" part.

Day started with a hearty breakfast and a quick rearrangement of my schedule and then the fun began. I went down to the Russian and Turkish bathhouse on the Lower East Side and accompanied by fellow actor Seth Numrich and his friends went from hot to cold then back to hot then back to cold. The Turkish room is kept at a little over 120 with mostly cedar wood and an ice shower up front. The Aroma Steam room is constantly pumping clouds of eucalyptus scented steam into the air until you are convinced your the only person there. The Russian room went to what felt like 180 degrees and makes your face feel like it's burning right off minutes into the experience. The only way to make it past five minutes is to dump buckets of the icy water that fills a well in the middle. Three hours later my pore had been opened and closed and drained so many times that when I finally dried off I felt newly born. I felt alive again, at peace, centered, baptized in the cleansing waters of the NYDWP.

From there I used my powers of persuasion to wrangle Seth into joining me for an introductory Krav Maga class at the Krav Maga institute. The first 10 minutes nearly made my heart explode out of my chest. Blood pumped so fast and so loudly around my body I felt like I had a subwoofer in my head, or that I myself was a subwoofer, thump thump thump. But then we stretched a bit and finally got to the nitty gritty of it, working strikes and blocks and kicks. It was a blast, a pretty good though not amazing workout, and armed me with a few skills to work on outside of class before returning. I finished the class aware that loads of little muscle fibers had torn and that I would be sore tomorrow and stronger next week. This is a very good feeling.

From there we took turns walking and sprinting to the Angelika Film Center on Houston St. where I paid a whopping $1 to see what is probably the best film since Amelie. "The Artist" is everything a film should be, transcendent, beautiful, provocative, hopeful. I left the theatre feeling alive, feeling filled with love for the world and love for my life. It is a testament to the creativity of man and a stunning realization of the value of life and the power of love. I couldn't go straight home after that and had to walk around Manhattan, snowflakes treading gently in the air.

When I finally made it back to Astoria I had a dinner of AMAZING turkey stew*, salad and two apples. Read a very exciting email from a dear friend in Maine and then I watched "The Descendants" with Cat on her new 40' flat screen. I can see why it's getting award nods. It tells a very good if highly predictable story of a man reconnecting with his family after tragedy befalls his wife juxtaposed with the paradise perfect backdrop of Hawaii. It's a great film, but falls very short of "The Artist."

Now for the doctors:

pbpk: I dunno, I felt like skipping this today.
11:42 -> 131 Good, popped up beautifully from my final evening snack last night. Had Cereal 135c and an apple 20c and 2 pieces of toast with an egg 24c and my vitamins = 179c = 2 units Novolog.
3:54 -> 215 Okay, okay, I know that's higher than I've been in awhile. Do I think I overshot breakfast? Not really. I actually just think this is the affect of three hours of super hot temperatures at the bath house. Cold makes you go down so it stands to reason that hot makes you go up. Right? I had 2 units Novolog with chicken and roasted veg 40c, potato salad 40c and beet salad 20c = 120.
5:15 -> 101 I could feel myself dropping, but since I quickly treated the symptoms with a Lara bar 24c and since I checked as soon as I felt the drop I don't know what the lowest I got was. What I do know is that I felt all the symptoms and that I dropped 114 points (or more) in about an hour. Because I ate the right amount of carbs per insulin, I can only imagine this is the result of finally "coming down" from the heat.
11:58 -> 121 Yes! Greek Salad 15c, Chili 165c, chips 24c, 2 apples 40c = 244 = 4 units of Novolog and 5 units of Lantus.
3:36 -> 134 And I am good to go to bed!! :)

Tomorrow I go to acupuncture, then another movie, some delicious food and then I get to perform the lead role in a hit Broadway show. LIG my friends, LIG.

*
I took a pound of turkey and browned it in a bit of olive oil in a 4 quart saucepan, then removed it from heat. I threw some minced garlic and half a chopped onion in a pan with more olive oil until the onions softened, then I added it to the turkey and returned the whole thing to heat. Next I added a 15 ounce can of tomato sauce, 30 oz of water and then 15 ounces of mixed legumes (lentils, peas, mung beans). I brought the whole mixture to a boil and then reduced it to a simmer. Now I added the spices, a ton of chili powder, a healthy amount of cumin, oregano, basil, thyme, garlic powder, salt, cinnamon and pepper. I also added a square (1/2 ounce) of baker's chocolate. Then I let it do it's thing and came back for the occasional taste. When I finished it was divine. The best chili I've ever made. I shredded a few ounces of english cheddar over the top and used tortilla chips in place of a spoon. I could eat this once a week forever.

Day 28.