Misophonia

I thought I would talk about this since a girl sitting behind me in my class this morning (like inches away from me) decided to eat every single ice cube in her cup. I kind of figured this would bother anybody since it's a very loud crunching noise in a quiet classroom... but nope. This only seemed to be bothering me. I've always been extremely annoyed at any kind of crunching noise, when people smack their food/gum, and just any kind of noise like that. I could always tell my close family and friends to stop smacking their gum or to stop crunching their popcorn so loudly, but you can't really tell someone that you don't really know that well to stop making a noise. My family always made fun of me because of how much it annoyed me and thought that I was crazy. A few years ago I found out that this is an actual thing... called Misophonia aka fear of sounds. So I was really excited to tell my parents that I wasn't the only one that had this problem!

2 MORE WEEKS

We are so so close to being done with this semester and it kind of freaks me out! I would definitely be way more excited about graduating next year if we weren't all going to be freaking out all next year about grad school. Sometimes I think that taking a year off wouldn't be the worst thing... but I always convince myself otherwise. Anyways, I seriously cannot wait until these next two weeks are over so I can just be home and not have to worry about classes at least for a few months! I'm also supposed to be going to a beach near the Outer Banks with a bunch of my high school friends a few weeks after we get out, so I'm sure that'll be a great way to kick off summer break! And then my whole family goes late in July to Folly Beach, SC, which is the coolest little town you've ever seen. AH come on summer (and warm weather)!!

Another Netflix addiction

So I totally blame this one on Bobe... I started a new show on Netflix this past weekend. She was talking about the Vampire Diaries on Friday and she thought I would like it, so of course I got bored Friday afternoon and thought why not watch the first episode?! Bad idea! I watched WAY too many episodes yesterday/today and I should have been doing about a million other things. Oh well! I used to be a tad obsessed with Twilight when that was a thing (no shame) and I started watching Supernatural last year, so this whole vampire thing is right up my alley. I assumed it would be kind of dumb and like your typical vampire/werewolf thing, but there's actually a really great story behind it. Anyways, I'll just have to promise myself that I won't watch anymore until after finals (at least that's what I keep telling myself)!

Summer Job

So last summer I started working at a frozen yogurt place in my hometown called Fuzzy Peach. I was really excited about it just because it sounded like the perfect summer job and it was fairly new. The first week or so working went pretty smoothly. I was just learning how everything worked and the owner was letting me work all of the different shifts to see what all I would be doing. A few weeks after I started, our manager, who was in charge of making the schedules, quit and the owner did not think it was necessary to hire a new one. Oh and I forgot to mention that I was the oldest person working there after our manager left (all high-schoolers - yay). The owner just did not know how to schedule everyone to work and he always managed to get something mixed up. He would always send out the week's schedule the day before we were supposed to work, so I could never make plans until the day of. Anyways, it was a mess, but I still enjoyed working there just because it was a really cool place. I think I am working there again this summer so let's hope he's got everything figured out by now! Oh and I just found out he now owns Pelican's SnoBalls in Shelby so maybe he would want me to work there some too!

I heart monkeys

So I went home this past weekend so I was able to spend some time with my family, which was great!  I did absolutely nothing on Friday except watch Netflix (currently re-watching Grey's Anatomy from the beginning) and I'm not even ashamed. So ever since I started seeing the previews for Disney's nature movie called Monkey Kingdom, I was dying to see it. I have a weird obsession with monkeys... I don't know why. The only person I could convince to actually go with me and pay money to see it was my cousin but I was just grateful I didn't have to awkwardly go alone! Oh and of course it wasn't playing in the theater closest to my house, so we had to go to Gastonia (like 45 min away), which turned out better anyways. We ended up going to Buffalo Wild Wings before and then Krispy Kreme afterwards (no shame). Needless to say it was a perfect night (well for me anyways)! The movie was adorable and I recommend everyone go see it!! And plus part of the money made from tickets purchased during the first week goes towards protecting monkeys and other endangered species in their natural habitat!

Lows

So not sure if anybody read my post about me being a type 1 diabetic, but if you didn't then here ya go. I've had it for over two years and I've never really had many low blood sugars; Instead, I've struggled with highs. This is good I guess, because there are not really any effects of highs (they just can just have really bad long-term effects on your body), whereas with lows, you get dizzy and could pass out. I've finally gotten my blood sugars controlled and they usually stay within the normal range (80-120). Well yesterday morning I left for class without eating breakfast (which I've been doing a lot lately - oops) and right after class started I got really hot (which I thought was normal since that classroom is usually a sauna). Well a few minutes later I started to feel like I was having a hot flash, and then I felt kind of dizzy and shaky. Then, I had a feeling that I was having a low blood sugar (which I had never really experienced before), so I grabbed my glucose meter and went to the bathroom to check it. It was 40... checked it again because I thought it was broken and it was 45. At this point I was sweating profusely and was light-headed, so I went back to room and ate my lunch, which helped thank goodness. I checked it again after eating and it was back up to 90. So yeah, I had a great start to the day yesterday, but it's all good. I guess I'll be making time to eat breakfast before class from now on!

I need sunshine

Because of the beautiful weather we've been having in Boone the past couple of weeks, I had been doing awesome working out. I went running at the greenway a few times a week and went to a few ab workouts. There's just something about running outside instead of running on a treadmill in the gym. The greenway is the perfect spot to go for a run, so I had gotten in a routine and a specific route I was running. But this week, the weather sucks! I now have absolutely no motivation to go run or work out in the gym! I need the nice weather to come back to Boone pronto! 

Dreary Mondays

I don't know about you guys but this rain today is killing my motivation to get things done! I was loving the beach weather this past weekend so to come back to Boone and have this kind of weather is not the greatest. I had the hardest time getting out of bed this morning and going to campus just for one class. The only work I've done so far today is an online lecture and a quiz, which was a bit stressful (just because it was physics... and I hate it), and now I just want to nap and watch Netflix. BUT I really need to work on some homework assignments due this week, so I'll just keep telling myself that we're almost done! Only a few more weeks guys!

Dirty Myrtle

This past weekend has been so much fun, but now I just want to sleep for days. I went with one of my good friends from back home to his formal at Myrtle beach. It was definitely a last minute thing... his date found out she couldn't go last Saturday so I told him I would fill in. Another one of my friends from high school (and middle school) is in the same frat so I knew it would be a good time! We didn't think we were going to have nice weather on Saturday, but it ended up clearing up around 1 so we got to enjoy the beautiful day on the beach (and didn't even get a sunburn). After dinner, we had to walk a mile to the bar (but thank goodness everyone changed out of dresses and heels) where the dance and everything was. I'm not going to lie... Myrtle beach is a little sketchy late at night! But anyways, we had a great time and I only wish we could've stayed a few days longer!

Why is everybody getting married???

Okay so over the past 6 months I have seen WAY too many people getting engaged! Normally I don't pay much attention to it because I mean usually they're not my age and I'm not really close to them. BUT there's a group of friends that are a year younger than me and who went to my high school... and four out of the six of them have gotten engaged over the past 6 months or so! Personally, that freaks me out because I can't even imagine settling down and getting married at this point in my life! Most of them have been dating their boyfriends for a pretty long time, but one of them is engaged to a guy she met in college. I don't know why this is so crazy to me, but every time I think about all of them getting married and realize that they're only a year older than me, I panic and freak out (for them and for me). Anyways, so happy for all of them because they're all super cute couples and sweet people... and more power to them!

VP Roomie

So my roommate was elected our student body's Vice President last week. Whoo! I'm so proud of her and am so glad that she has found something she is so passionate about. She's always been into politics and and has been in SGA here at app for the past 2 years. I have never been into anything political and do not care to keep up with anything having to do with it... I know that's terrible, but it's just depressing to me. Anyways, she has been so busy the last few months that I have barely gotten to spend any time with her. She is always having to leave to go to campus super early and usually doesn't get home until like 11 or 12 at night. I only saw her like 3 times all last week... and we live in the same apartment!

Where ya at warm weather?

These last few weeks we've had a few days of warm weather... And of course some cold days. I'm just beyond ready for summer and warmer weather! Mostly because that means a few months off from school, beach trips, spending time with family and friends from back home, and my 21st birthday!! I know I'll be freaking out all summer about grad school and the GRE but at least I won't be doing that AND be in class everyday. Let's just hope this next month goes by quickly and smoothly! 

Workin' on my fitness

Before I came to college I never really had to worry about working out or gaining weight... And then I came to college and got lazy. I've grown up playing sports that involve a lot of running , so I was always in pretty good shape. I would go to workout classes on campus every now and then but lost my desire to run. Every semester I'll tell myself I've got to get back into a routine of running every other day and doing ab workouts every day but I always give up after a few weeks. I'm pretty sure it's the weather, but for the past month I've started back running (at a turtle pace) and have been going to ab classes at Quinn at least 2 times a week and then do ab workouts at home when I don't. I've stuck with it so far, so fingers crossed that I don't quit. It's so much easier to run when it's nice outside and when you can run somewhere like the greenway! 

Lost

So yesterday my cousin was on her way home and decided that we should go hiking when she got back to Boone. Well she didn't get back until around 5:30... She wanted to go to snake mountain, which I had never even heard of but apparently it's the place with the tower/pole thing that people climb and take cool pictures on. So we put it in our GPS and it said it would take us almost 40 min to get there. So we're headed towards Todd (off of 421) and find out that this place is in a town called Meat  Camp (creepy and the perfect place to get lost)! So our gps takes us to the elk knob state park and we just figure the snake mtn is a trail or something there since we didn't see any signs or anything. By this point we had missed a couple turns and its 6:30 and the trail closes at 7:40... So we start booking it up the mtn. We get to the top around 7 and take a few pics and find a map and realize that snake mtn is actually the mtn that's across from the one we're on. We felt like idiots but it's okay because the trail we hiked was pretty cool too! We made it down just in time (right at 7:40) and just in time to avoid the rain! 

Lazy Weekend w/ Bae (aka Netflix)

I was a little mad that all of my friends went home this past weekend and I was left up here to run a 5k Saturday morning, but I'm so glad I did! I have been so busy lately (even over Spring Break) that I haven't even been able to watch Netflix (bummer, right?). This weekend I didn't have any huge exams to stress about or anything really going on so I accidentally started a new Netflix series called The Fall. It popped up on my Netflix page and I thought it sounded pretty interesting and I thought the guy looked like Jamie Dornan, the Fifty Shades guy. Turns out it was him! It's set in Northern Ireland so they have pretty cool accents. Of course I started watching it to see how differently he acted compared to Fifty Shades and after watching the first episode I was hooked. There's only two seasons so far of the series and each season only has about 5 or 6 episodes so I knew I wasn't getting into some super long show that would consume my life (which always seems to happen)! This isn't a show I would normally watch because it's more on the dark side and more of a murder mystery type show, but it's so good! It's weird because you like his character and then find out he's actually murdering innocent women... yeah, it's a bit crazy. But anyways, I may or may not have watched all the episodes over the weekend... oops. Everyone should go watch it!!

WE GOT THIS

So glad that our speech disorders midterm is out of the way! Now only a 5 page physics paper, finishing my literature review, a quiz tomorrow morning, and a few other physics assignments stand between me and spring break! My brain is really looking forward to not working for a week... I'm also really excited about being at the isle of palms this weekend (even though right now they're calling for rain, but fingers crossed) and catching up on all of my missed tv shows! Let's hope the rest of the week goes by smoothly and doesn't result in a mental breakdown... Haha  

Weekend craziness

So I got home Friday afternoon and went straight over to our church to help setup for the zumbathon. Thank goodness it didn't take too long to put up all the tables and chairs and decorate. After that, we all went out to eat at our favorite Mexican restaurant! The men of the family decided they wanted to help us fundraise for the JDRF Walk too so they planned a BBQ Boston butt fundraiser. They were cooking them Friday night so we helped them package slaw and sauce after dinner. So Saturday morning we got up pretty early and headed over to the church to finish any last minute preparations for the zumbathon. We actually had a great turnout considering the cold weather and everything else going on! After the 2 hour zumbathon, we went back over to help give out the Boston butts. We were there til 5:30... It was such a long day and I was exhausted and ready for bed at like 10! BUT we were very successful! Just with the pura Vida bracelet sales and the zumbathon, we were able to raise $500! And then we also sold over 50 butts, so I'm sure that we made a great profit off of that! We woke up this morning and found out that church was cancelled because of the ice? Which was fine because that meant I got to sleep in an extra hour! Now I get to go back to Boone and study my life away! Yay.

Where ya at spring break?

So panic mode has just set in... this next week is going to be the death of me. I'm the world's worst procrastinator and i've tried to work on that but it somehow always seems to happen. I have put off the lit review but I am going to try to get a big chunk of that done tonight... thank goodness Dr.Klein moved the due date! I'm supposed to have a quiz tomorrow morning in my special ed class that was supposed to be last Tuesday, but it looks like it might get pushed back AGAIN because of the snow. I'm okay with that because I studied for it last week and haven't even looked at it this week (oops). There's the phonological processes revisions due Friday and we have physics homework due then too.    There's the lovely midterm in phono disorders monday (who knows when I'll get to start studying for that), a midterm in my special ed class and eval research, AND a 5 page physics midterm (not going to lie... I kind of forgot about that). I just hate papers.
On top of all of this, I have to go home this weekend to help with the Zumbathon I've been planning. For some reason I have a really hard time doing schoolwork when I'm at home...but i'll have to make myself do it. UGH please just let me get through the rest of this week and next week in one piece!

More on my personal bizz

So I guess I'll continue my story from my last post, which was about my diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. 

It took me a while to get used to all of the baggage that came along with my new diagnosis. I became a pro at counting carbs and remembering to always carry my insulin with me. After a few months of changing the dosage of insulin i was taking, we were finally able to lower my blood sugar levels! By this point my family and all of my closest friends were done feeling sorry for me and were eager to learn how to help me with my diet and how to give me a shot (which nobody has ever actually done to me, thank goodness!). Everyone was very supportive and I felt overly blessed to have such loving people in my life, especially during a hectic time like that. 

So now, 2 years later, everything is under control and what used to seem very very annoying and time consuming is now just part of my routine. Of course there's days when I ask "why me?" and get mad when I can't eat a bag of skittles or a piece of cake (without shooting up beforehand)... BUT I'm just so very thankful that I found out when I did and that it didn't stay hidden any longer than it already had! 

Okay, now I'm done talking about my problems. Hope y'all enjoyed my diabeetus story :) 

Getting personal...

I don't think I ever did a bio on here so I'll give you guys the basics...I'm from a small town near Shelby ( if anybody even knows where that's at), have an older brother, played soccer most of my life, and yeah that's about it. Pretty boring. And then came my freshman year of college...

A week before we came back to school from Christmas break I was at the doctor for a checkup. They noticed that there was glucose in my urine (gross, sorry), so they asked if I had a soda before I came. I hadn't so they checked my blood sugar. The nurses didn't say anything and went out of the room. They came back in and told me my glucose level was almost 400 (the normal is between 80 and 120). They then said that they think I might have diabetes. At this point I'm freaking out, my mom is having a heart attack, and all I can think is "Well ivy, you've eaten too many Oreos and sour patch kids. Good job." So the doctor comes in, says he needs to run some more tests, but he also thinks I have type 1 diabetes. I learn that type 1 is completely different from type 2, which both of my grandmothers have, and that it's not my fault. My pancreas is just dumb and doesn't want to produce any insulin. I didn't notice that I was having any of the symptoms, but once I found out what they were I realized that I actually had been thirstier than usual. They get a few blood samples and schedule an appointment for a few days later. 

I go back, they confirm, and teach me how to take care of myself. I learn how to check my blood sugar, give myself insulin shots, and how to count carbs. So they tell me until I can get my blood sugar under control, I have to check it before and after every meal. That means 6 pricks a day, 1 long acting insulin shot, and a short acting shot before every meal. At the time, I just did as I was told and dealed with it. Of course, I was upset that this happened to me and especially my freshman year of college!

So two days later I head back up the mountain to my college dorm room, not looking forward to breaking the weird news to my roommate and closest friends.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Winter Cleaning

So this was the perfect day to just drink hot chocolate and watch netflix all day right?? Well, of course our apartment's wifi hasn't been working all morning... but it's finally working! (knock on wood) So anyways, since we were bored and refused to do school work, we decided to clean the apartment. We were just going to clean our rooms and bathrooms and maybe vacuum and mop... but it turned into a major cleaning project. We have cleaned every inch of our apartment including things that we haven't really cleaned since we moved in. This is actually disgusting considering we've been living here for 2 years... oops. I mean we're both pretty clean and neat people but sometimes you just don't think about cleaning the baseboards, window seals, and stuff like that. So thank goodness for days off so that we could do that.
Hope everyone stays warm and doesn't have to even go outside!

Sledless

I love waking up to a winter wonderland outside my window. And even better, emails about classes being cancelled! I was supposed to have a pretty important quiz this morning and I put off studying for it because of all the snow we got yesterday. So I was very relieved when we got the email late last night because that meant I wasn't going to have to cram. Anyways, I'm sitting here looking outside our window and I'm wishing we not only had a sled, but we had a good place to actually go sledding. Crazy right? We live on top of a mountain and we don't even have a good hill besides the road up to our apartment (which is now scraped). Days like this I wish I was home to go play in the snow. I live in a very small town and my house is surrounded by fields so all of my family gets together and goes sledding. But of course, they didn't get nearly as much snow as we did so it wouldn't quite be the same. Okay I'll quit rambling.
Hope everyone enjoys their snow day!!

SNOW SNOW SNOW

So thankful that I didn't even have to worry about going on campus today! My roommate usually drives to campus everyday, but thank goodness she decided to take the bus this morning. I sent her a picture of our hill to get to our apartment and I didn't get a response. So about 3:30 I look out the window and see a long line of cars going about 2mph up our badly scraped hill, and then I look over to the sidewalk and see a girl walking up the hill. Then I realize it's my roommate... lol. One of her friends drove her back and got to the bottom of the hill and realized that they couldn't make it up. With that being said, let's hope and pray that classes will be cancelled tomorrow! We haven't had a good snow day in forever! 

Hope everyone stays warm and safe and enjoys the snow!!

XOXO

Well I survived the week. It was without a doubt one of the most stressful weeks I've had in college. Having my 1st physics exam, that phonological processes homework, and just other random things popping up, it was a lot. After turning in the homework and my physics exam (which wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be), I was finally able to breathe again. 

A lot of people who are single try to avoid Valentine's Day and don't like to celebrate it, but I think it's great. I mean who doesn't love a day where it's okay to eat excessive amounts of cholocate and candy?! My roommate and I decided that we would be each other's Valentine this year since neither of us have boyfriends... And it has been great! We went and got our nails done this afternoon and have decided we're just going to stay in, watch a chick flick, eat a heart shaped pizza, maybe have some cookies, and drink wine. Also, my parents are the sweetest. They just sent me a package with all kinds of cute valentine-y stuff in it. So sweet.

Hope everyone has a beautiful weekend and a great Valentine's Day! And enjoy the snow! :)

Stressed x72736238

AH it's only Monday and I'm already ready for this week to be over. Honestly, my main problem is the fact that I have my first physics exam on Friday and I couldn't tell you one thing that's going to be on it. On top of that we have a short (ha except it's not actually short) homework assignment that's due Wednesday. And then there's all of the assignments for my other classes AND I'm having to plan fundraisers for my walk in March. It's just going to be a loooooong week. But... Friday at 12:50 it'll all be over!! (Well, the first physics exam anyways)

Planning

I'm home this weekend so that I could go out for my cousins 29th birthday (she's getting so old)! As always, I tell myself that I'm going to get some homework done while I'm at home... But that's a joke. So far all I've done is eat, watch tv, plan a fundraiser, and order t-shirts. We're going in a few hours to Bullfish in Charlotte and none of us has ever been, but we've heard it's really good. They apparently have sushi and hamburgers? I don't really know how I feel about that combo but we'll see! 

I blogged last week about my JDRF walk in March and how I was selling bracelets to help fundraise. I just ordered our team's shirts and I'm really excited about how they're going to turn out. This past week my family came up with a new, last minute fundraiser... a zumbathon! Two of my cousins are certified Zumba instructors so we came up with the idea to have a Zumba marathon at my church, which should be interesting. I haven't done Zumba in like 2 years. But anyways, we've got it all planned out and it's set for the 28th. We're just hoping for a good turnout so that we can meet our fundraising goals! 

Hope everyone has a beautiful day (it's 60 degrees here, which feels like summer compared to the normal Boone temps) :) 

And then there were 2...

So I told myself I wasn't going to talk about physics anymore on here but I couldn't resist. I meant to write about this last week but I totally forgot... Oops. Let me just start by saying that physics class is confusing enough so once I get to lab and they're telling me to hook wires and batteries up to things my brain is overwhelmed and I am only looking forward to walking out of the door. Anyways, our first two weeks in lab it was me, Bobe, and this other girl that has to be a physics genius. She was rushing through the steps and we were just left behind looking at her like "so what did you just do". But we were just thankful that she was there to pull us along. Last week right before lab we were joking about how bad it would be if our 3rd lab partner went to a different table or something since she seemed to be about a million times more into physics than we are and we were sure she was probably thinking we were idiots. So we walk into lab and sure enough our genius of a lab partner (our only hope at getting through lab) was sitting at a different table with some other guys that are probably more on her level of expertise. So ha jokes on us.... Luckily a girl came and sat with us so we had three people again. We struggled struggled through our lab, asked lots of dumb questions, and yet managed to finish and understand more than we had the past labs. Needless to say, we were proud. 

Physics sucks but we're determined to come out with an A, dang it! 

Snow day

Today has been such a perfect Monday. Thankfully, both of my classes today didn't meet and I was able to do my work in my warm, cozy apartment. I knocked out my homework this morning while watching it snow outside my window. I'm sure I wouldn't have appreciated it if I would've actually had to walk outside and face the terrible sounding wind and freezing temperatures.

I had some time to kill today so I started working on a t-shirt design for a fundraiser in March. This will be my second year having a team go to Charleston for an event called Walk to Cure Diabetes. It is put on by JDRF, which is a non-profit organization that raises money for type 1 diabetes research. This is a cause that is very dear to my heart so I feel like it is my duty to help any way I can, especially by raising awareness. They're accomplishing a lot through research and even think that they are close to finding a cure!  I'm also fundairisng through a really cool company, Pura Vida, by selling their "no sugar added" bracelets. I'm hoping that we can raise a pretty good amount of money this year! I'm sure I'll be giving updates on here... So hope you don't get tired of hearing about it! Haha 

Weekend

Well the halftime show is over so I thought it would be a perfect time to blog... Right? It has been such a fun, relaxing weekend in Boone spent with family and friends. My cousin who graduated from App about 5 years ago came and stayed Friday night so I'm sure it was great for her to be able to re-live some of her college memories. We went to Makotos and then met my other cousin and her boyfriend at Melanie's on Saturday. I mean what's good family time without some good food? It was basically a family weekend because later that afternoon my parents and older brother surprised me with a visit! It was great being able to spend some quality time with my family and for them to visit Boone on such a beautiful day. 

Guess I'll get back to the Super Bowl now... 

The Struggle

I always tell myself that the upcoming semester is going to be the hardest one yet... And I finally agree with that. Don't get me wrong, I have taken quite a few classes that I was sure I was going to come out with a solid D in, yet somehow managed to do way better. This semester, I thought I would be smart and get the physics needed for grad school out of the way. Already regretting that one. The closest class that I've ever taken to that was probably chemistry in high school (which I remember absolutely nothing about). We're only a few weeks into the semester and I'm already completely clueless about basically everything that we're supposed to know right now, which is for sure boosting my confidence (ha). Everyone says that they come out with an A, so I'm just going to trust that and try my best to understand the impossible. 

Okay, I'm done complaining. I'll try to not rant about physics ever again because it's pretty depressing.