Mission Statements and the Women Who Love Them

It’s Theme Day here at b5media’s Science & Health area of bloggly goodness, and as has been the case on several of these theme days, I don’t have a clue what to say.

The topic this month is Mission Statements for our blogs, and if you think I’m organized enough in my thoughts to actually HAVE a mission statement, well, thanks, that’s awfully kind of you. But not so much.

Still, it didn’t seem like a bad idea to try to come up with something. So here are a few of the things that I will try to bring to this blog as a diabetic and a writer.

1. I will be informative. Sounds great doesn’t it? Yeah, I’ll be relying on Google for that one.

2. I will be amusing. Because when it comes right down to it, what better topic for humor is there than a disease that robs you of the best food in life, makes you stab yourself with sharp things, forces you to sit with friends and family and endure those TV commercials where fat old diabetics talk about how their wieners don’t work anymore, and makes you wear the kind of ugly shoes that would have gotten you beaten up for your lunch money when you were a kid? Comedy gold, friends.

3. I will only steal material from better diabetes bloggers. Which is, you know, pretty much all of them.

4. I will share the stories of other diabetics who are more inspirational and positive than myself. Again, that’s most diabetics, too.

5. I will freely offer my own experiences up as a cautionary tale when appropriate. Believe me, that opens the door to some fun material right there.

6. I will use language that doesn’t sugarcoat the issues. Because sugarcoating would obviously be bad for diabetics. Ha! I kill me. But seriously, do you get offended when I use the term diabetic when referring to a person? Would you prefer that I refer to you as someone with diabetes? A Diabetic-American? A person of glucose? DJ Beedie Flav? I’ll probably continue to call us “diabetics”. Sorry. But not really.

7. I will be skeptical of claims made by pharmaceuticals, doctors, and anyone else with All The Answers. And you should be, too.

8. If you start acting all smug because your country’s citizens are healthier than mine, I’ll be an ugly American and make fun of you for it. I’m talking to you, Canada. And Great Britain. Okay, fine, I’m talking to most of the industrialized world. I think India’s worse off than us, though. Go India!

9. I will only make things up when I absolutely can’t think of anything else to say. That’s a joke. As far as you know.

10. Having said that, I can’t think of anything to say for #10. It happens. Must be the Beedies, making me all crazy headed!