This is the one where I recognized him.

You know when you’re watching a movie and you see an actor that you’re certain you’ve seen before, but you can’t immediately place where you’ve seen him?

That hapened to me this afternoon when I was watching Watchmen.  There’s this one character named Dr. Manhattan and he’s this really powerful blue guy.  Everytime he was up on the screen I thought, “Where do I know him from?”

And it turns out…

He’s my Wii Fit Trainer!

I’m glad he’s gotten some more work, because, to be honest with you, he’s not getting tons of work training me.

This is the one where I solve the economic crisis.

I’m going to be a national hero after the right people read this post.  Seriously.

I’ve got a solution to this crazy economic crisis that were going through.  This morning Dan and I were watching a little Anderson Cooper, and it just suddenly dawned on me.

The unemployment rate is at 8.1%, and that’s the highest its been since Ronald Reagan days in 1983.  People don’t have money…which means people aren’t spending money.  Problem solved: Print more money.

Like $10,000 per American.

Correct me if I’m wrong blog readers, but wouldn’t a $10,000 stimulus check do you good right about now?

This is the one with 2 truths and a lie.

This is the one about breakfast burritos.

I woke up this morning to the great smell of bacon.  Daniel was downstairs frying up 2 pounds of bacon.

On Monday we went grocery shopping and bought stuff to make breakfast burritos.  Too often Daniel skips breakfast.  And too often I find myself searching for something to eat in the morning (I never skip a meal).  After he made the bacon, I threw potatoes into the oven and then fried some eggs.

The result is a dozen aluminum-foiled burritos in the freezer.

Cute, right?

This is the one about Twitter icons.

My Twitter icon is a picture of my face.  It’s actually a work photograph.  We have a “Get To Know The Staff” bulletin board, where there is a photo of each member of the staff and I Photoshopped all of them so they were black & white, and it looks like we are all wearing the same color blue shirt.

Do you use a real photograph of yourself for Twitter?  Or do you have a cartooned version?  Or is it some random icon?

Until very recently, my Twitter icon has been a drawing of myself that I made.  And then I started realizing that an actual photo might help people connect with me and what I’m tweeting.  There is also the chance that there are some acquaintances out there that could recognize me in a real photo, as opposed to a drawing or generic icon.

I’ve been spending a lot of time on Twitter lately, and I’ve been trying my best to be honest: honest about my diabetes, honest about feelings and honest about replies and support to other Twits.  So why not honest in my photo too?

Last night my boyfriend updated his Twitter icon.  Awhile back his icon was a photograph of his cute face taken at a bad angle…you could see right up his nose, and he was looking down so it looked like he had 2 chins (even though he is very skinny).  Just straight up unflattering.

And Dan is a big Steeler’s fan, so when they made it into the NFL Playoffs he changed his Twitter icon to the Steeler’s logo.  And that stayed there for about two months or so (maybe more).  And it wasn’t until last night that he felt that he could change the picture.

He took this adorable picture with Olive.  And that’s his icon right now.  Cute right?

Or does she look a little freaked out?

She’s a Pug/Beagle (Puggle) and like most pugs she has a lot of skin up in the neck and face.  It’s cute how it’s all bunched up.

Here are some icons of other Twits that I really like:

@starryskye81 Nice black & white with color (like mine)

@janaekrell A highschool friend.  Everytime I see her face I smile.

@diabeticizme Doesn’t that photo say so much? She’s loving, she’s a mom, she’s happy & positive. Why wouldn’t you follow her?!

@ninjabetic Do I need to explain?

This is the one where I #didmine

This week on Sweet Talk, we talked about exercise, and I brought up the fact that I too often drop out of traditional exercise programs because they require you to be somewhere and to do something specific.  That just doesn’t fit into my lifestyle.

So I’ve made the comitment to do some sort of physical activity everyday.  And I’m being intentionally vague.  Some days it might be a little walk around the block with Olive.  Other days it might be an hour on the Wii Fit.  And some days I may go and take a class at the YMCA.  Whatever it is, I’m going to do something every day.

And during the podcast discussion we also discussed the benifits of positive public pressure.  And I was thinking that I can blog my daily physical activity (boring) or I could start Tweeting it.  We began using the tag #didmine at Twitter.  Every day after we’ve done our daily activity we will include the tag #didmine to signify that we did ours for that day.

The cool part is that you can search using Twitter and see who has #didmine for the day.

We aren’t focusing on losing weight – getting up off the couch and moving is about so much more than weight loss.  And this isn’t just about diabetes.  Anyone can Tweet #didmine and show up in the timeline.

So, have you done yours today?

This is the one where Olive shakes hands.

I taught her that trick last week.