I am now done with my critical analysis, and passed my psychology test. Not much more to do tonight before I can call it quits and hit the sheets. Hooray for bedtime. :) Hopefully classes tomorrow won't be too bad, and I will be feeling better. I guess we will have to wait and see.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Feelings of an Allergen Free, Homework Overloaded, Sickly College Girl
I must apologize for all the complaining that is about to be a result of this girl.
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Here we begin with complaint number one... Or at least the main complaint... I guess really there are about a bazillion and one other complaints inside of this one, but for the sake of time, both mine and yours, let's just make this one giant complaint:
I feel awful. My stomach feels like it has crawled inside of itself and is eating it's way back out - okay, okay... Maybe not quite that bad, but you get the point - I am never full, and I feel like I have to eat constantly. I am tired of not being able to eat whatever I want... I want real food. I want bread. I want pasta. I want milk. I want chocolate. I want apples. I want cereal with milk. I want peanut butter. I want ice cream. Pretty much I just want everything my body has decided it hates. It's not fun having food allergies. Someone a couple of weeks ago asked if I was faking it... Why on earth would someone decide to make up allergies causing them to not be able to eat?!? Why on earth would someone do that to themselves? It isn't fun, and I definitely don't enjoy it. Ugh...
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Ready for number two? I promise the complaining will end soon... Or at least I hope it will. As Jeremy told me sometime in the past couple of weeks, I miss the old Amanda. The one who is happy all the time. I, like Jeremy, would love to find the old Amanda... but for right now, she appears to be lost in this overwhelming life of hers. Hopefully she will reappear soon... Anyways. Onto complaint number two:
My body aches due to a project for my Hawaiian Studies class. I had to go on a hike, which I was fine with. Dare I say it was even fun. But, 2 hours of climbing uphill definitely did a number on my muscles. So here I sit, feeling awful because of food, and homework.
Speaking of homework I have...
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Here we begin with complaint number one... Or at least the main complaint... I guess really there are about a bazillion and one other complaints inside of this one, but for the sake of time, both mine and yours, let's just make this one giant complaint:
I feel awful. My stomach feels like it has crawled inside of itself and is eating it's way back out - okay, okay... Maybe not quite that bad, but you get the point - I am never full, and I feel like I have to eat constantly. I am tired of not being able to eat whatever I want... I want real food. I want bread. I want pasta. I want milk. I want chocolate. I want apples. I want cereal with milk. I want peanut butter. I want ice cream. Pretty much I just want everything my body has decided it hates. It's not fun having food allergies. Someone a couple of weeks ago asked if I was faking it... Why on earth would someone decide to make up allergies causing them to not be able to eat?!? Why on earth would someone do that to themselves? It isn't fun, and I definitely don't enjoy it. Ugh...
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Ready for number two? I promise the complaining will end soon... Or at least I hope it will. As Jeremy told me sometime in the past couple of weeks, I miss the old Amanda. The one who is happy all the time. I, like Jeremy, would love to find the old Amanda... but for right now, she appears to be lost in this overwhelming life of hers. Hopefully she will reappear soon... Anyways. Onto complaint number two:
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| Uphill |
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| Me at Laie Falls |
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| The uphill killed my knee. |
Speaking of homework I have...
- A critical essay I have to finish by tomorrow.
- A psychology test I must take today.
- A biology midterm on Wednesday.
- A paper for Hawaiian Studies about my hike into the mauka (uplands).
- A test tomorrow in Hula on 5 of the basic steps...
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Oh boy. I definitely wish I was back in high school, and could just stay home and rest... Too bad college doesn't work that way. Now back to the books...
Thanks for listening...
Southern Belle in Paradise...
Good news? My camera is fixed and is on it's way to me as we speak. :) Yay for pictures of paradise.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Bye Bye Bertha... Hello Starvation!
So, as some of you may know. Anytime after I eat my stomach swells up and I have been known to look up to 6 months pregnant... Lots of fun. For a long time it was just what happened... No big deal. Right? Definitely not... After lots of tests and procedures and such we got some results... Nothing to do with my gallbladder. Not celiacs disease. But the culprit? I am allergic to pretty much every single thing possible. Want to hear the list? Well, hear it is...
- apple
- avocado
- barley
- green beans
- pinto beans
- broccoli
- cauliflower
- cottage, chedder, and swiss cheese
- clam
- cocoa
- eggplant
- gluten
- malt
- cow's milk
- green olives
- peanuts
- pears
- white potatoes
- rye
- safflower
- sesame
- soybean
- wheat
- baker's and brewer's yeast
Who knew you could have so many food allergies... A total of 27! That's got to be like a world record. Good news, I can still have air. I'll just become a breatharian or something. Either that or just starve to death. No big deal. I don't need food.
So much for paradise...
Oh Paradise... What happened?
Paradise... What a word. Too bad this is beginning to be anything but.
THE BUS system? Not my favorite. I spent both Friday and Saturday dealing with the dumb system. Friday me and my friend went to Walmart to buy us bikes. Well, we rode THE BUS, and it seemed easy enough. So we just waited at the stop and then got on THE BUS. We rode THE BUS hoping that maybe it would make it to the Walmart. After asking a couple of people, and riding the bus for forever we found our stop. After we got off we walked, and walked, and after asking 3 different people, and getting slightly different directions from each we finally made it. We bought our bikes, and then after getting some food we went back to the bus stop. Then we waited and waited and waited, and eventually THE BUS came. After a long bus ride home we finally made it.
On Saturday, after we watched General Conference, me and my same friend decided to go rock climbing at the Volcanic Rock Gym. We got to THE BUS stop and waited for forever in the hot hot heat. We caught THE BUS and road and road until we passed Mililani, the same town with the Walmart, and then kept going because we knew the gym was just a couple of towns over. So we kept going, and then after we were on the freeway we saw an exit for the exact rode we wanted to take and then we passed it... So D went and talked to THE BUS driver, and we learned we were suppose to transfer onto another bus. So we got off at the next stop and waited for the transfer. We were told we could catch the 40, 42, or the 62, and so after waiting and talking to another guy at the bus stop, we say a 42, so we put our bikes on the rack, and asked the driver if he was going to where we were trying to get, and he told us no. So we got off, and took off our bikes, and then sat back down... And waited and waited and waited. Then a 62 came, and we got on, and were good to go. So we rode all the way to the road we needed to be at and then got off. Then we got to a gas station to make sure we knew exactly where we were going, and then off we went. We had a great time rock climbing and boldering. After a couple of hours we decided to catch THE BUS. So we rode our bikes back toTHE BUS stop and waited and waited. Then THE BUS came and off we went. We got off in Mililani to catch our transfer, and had to get change from a McDonald's. We got change thinking we still had about 20 minutes, and it only took us about 5 minutes. So then we got back to the stop... And we missed it. So we decided to get some dinner since we still had about and hour and a half until the buses stopped running... So we ate and then went to THE BUS stop and waited and waited and waited and a bus came about an hour later... And there wasn't room for our bikes, so we were told to wait for the next bus. So we waited and then decided that may have been the last bus. So we called the bus information number, and they said that was in fact the last bus... We were stranded.
We started to think about what we could do, and we road our bikes down the road hoping to find the Walmart or the shopping center. No luck. We started to make some phone calls to see if anyone could come and get us... No luck. Then we called my roommate, and she started to pull some strings. After we rode back up the hill I saw a shopping center just behind a gas station and luckily there we found a bike rack, and a 24 hour fitness place. There was also a foodland that was open for the next couple of hours. We pottied, and then we waited. After a while, our roommate had scored a ride. Then we learned that there were two other girls from BYU-H who were stranded in the same town. We were told to stay put while they found us. Eventually they did, and we waited for our ride. After about 6 hours of craziness we finally made it home, at 2 in the morning.
This morning we woke up to watch General Conference. In between the morning and afternoon session I got an e-mail from my mom...
TO BE CONTINUED...
THE BUS system? Not my favorite. I spent both Friday and Saturday dealing with the dumb system. Friday me and my friend went to Walmart to buy us bikes. Well, we rode THE BUS, and it seemed easy enough. So we just waited at the stop and then got on THE BUS. We rode THE BUS hoping that maybe it would make it to the Walmart. After asking a couple of people, and riding the bus for forever we found our stop. After we got off we walked, and walked, and after asking 3 different people, and getting slightly different directions from each we finally made it. We bought our bikes, and then after getting some food we went back to the bus stop. Then we waited and waited and waited, and eventually THE BUS came. After a long bus ride home we finally made it.
On Saturday, after we watched General Conference, me and my same friend decided to go rock climbing at the Volcanic Rock Gym. We got to THE BUS stop and waited for forever in the hot hot heat. We caught THE BUS and road and road until we passed Mililani, the same town with the Walmart, and then kept going because we knew the gym was just a couple of towns over. So we kept going, and then after we were on the freeway we saw an exit for the exact rode we wanted to take and then we passed it... So D went and talked to THE BUS driver, and we learned we were suppose to transfer onto another bus. So we got off at the next stop and waited for the transfer. We were told we could catch the 40, 42, or the 62, and so after waiting and talking to another guy at the bus stop, we say a 42, so we put our bikes on the rack, and asked the driver if he was going to where we were trying to get, and he told us no. So we got off, and took off our bikes, and then sat back down... And waited and waited and waited. Then a 62 came, and we got on, and were good to go. So we rode all the way to the road we needed to be at and then got off. Then we got to a gas station to make sure we knew exactly where we were going, and then off we went. We had a great time rock climbing and boldering. After a couple of hours we decided to catch THE BUS. So we rode our bikes back toTHE BUS stop and waited and waited. Then THE BUS came and off we went. We got off in Mililani to catch our transfer, and had to get change from a McDonald's. We got change thinking we still had about 20 minutes, and it only took us about 5 minutes. So then we got back to the stop... And we missed it. So we decided to get some dinner since we still had about and hour and a half until the buses stopped running... So we ate and then went to THE BUS stop and waited and waited and waited and a bus came about an hour later... And there wasn't room for our bikes, so we were told to wait for the next bus. So we waited and then decided that may have been the last bus. So we called the bus information number, and they said that was in fact the last bus... We were stranded.
We started to think about what we could do, and we road our bikes down the road hoping to find the Walmart or the shopping center. No luck. We started to make some phone calls to see if anyone could come and get us... No luck. Then we called my roommate, and she started to pull some strings. After we rode back up the hill I saw a shopping center just behind a gas station and luckily there we found a bike rack, and a 24 hour fitness place. There was also a foodland that was open for the next couple of hours. We pottied, and then we waited. After a while, our roommate had scored a ride. Then we learned that there were two other girls from BYU-H who were stranded in the same town. We were told to stay put while they found us. Eventually they did, and we waited for our ride. After about 6 hours of craziness we finally made it home, at 2 in the morning.
This morning we woke up to watch General Conference. In between the morning and afternoon session I got an e-mail from my mom...
TO BE CONTINUED...
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