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...