Chicago Tattoo Convention, El Cid and dealing with my Diabetes

I had several friends working the Chicago Tattoo Convention over the weekend so Sunday I went with my bestest bud Emily Schmitt to check it out. She is a tattoo artist and so is her boyfriend, Ryan Nutini. Who, won piece of the day on Saturday, we were both very proud of him :) It was one of the better conventions I had been to in a while in Chicago. I scored some new artwork, got to hang out with some friends, see all the crazies who come out and just enjoy some good old fashioned people watching. By the way, what is up with all the dudes with cheetah print dyed into their hair?!? There were a good number of men with this hairstyle, for some reason it doesn't strike me as a "dude" thing. Anyway... So we all went to dinner after it was all over. We had a taste for mexican so I took them to El Cid, which is one of my favorite places. Keep in mind, I'm a sucker for mexican food so I'm usually pretty happy with any place I go. The staff at El Cid are all super nice and they like their food spicy! Probably part of the reason I love it. I know there are two locations, the one I always go to is on Kedzie and Milwaukee basically right across from the Logan Square blue line stop. If you haven't been, go! It was 4 of us eating and one person had a few beers and our bill was $51 and some change, not too shabby. 
    Today I had a meeting with a diabetic specialist to go over my new dietary guidelines. Luckily, nutrition was a class I paid attention in so I was already cutting back on the right stuff, just got a better handle on how to spread my carbs out throughout the day. Over all I don't feel very restricted like I thought I would. I'm sure some of that comes from not being a picky eater, but even if you were I feel like it still leaves people plenty of options on things to eat. I got a test kit to test my blood sugar levels after each meal, I did my first one after eating lunch, ideal number is to be under 120 and mine was 111, so YAYYYYY!!!! For some reason I was just waiting for it to be too high and like be in trouble right away, so thank god for that. I had an interview after that, it went very well and I should hear from them over the weekend, on the walk home I stopped at The Red Balloon Co. and bought the baby a stuffed ladybug... not at all needed but very adorable! EL CID  www.theredballoon.com RYAN NUTINI