Obsession

You know when there's a song stuck in your head and you can't get it out? But that's good because you're still in love with it?

THIS IS THAT THING!!!

2CELLOS - Smooth Criminal

As you may or may not know I am an upright bass player, and while I hate people confusing my bass for a cello, I love classical strings making their way into pop culture!

And to clear up any confusion, from biggest to smallest: Upright bass, cello, viola, violin.

An upright bass is played standing or sitting on a stool (like a bar stool type thing), a cello is played sitting in a normal chair, and violins and violas are played on the neck and arm.

ANYWAYS

2CELLOS! You should listen to them! It's super cool :)

New Hobby

Well I've recently started doing something again that I haven't done in a while!

Can you guess what it is?

It's not riding an elephant!

And it's also not being Batman :(

I don't have enough money to be Batman!

Well university, but you get my point!

I found that while looking for other funny pictures. HA! It amuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuused me :P

And yes, as per the usual I am HYPER.

BUT I DIGRESS!

The hobby! What I've been doing lately! What is it? What could it be??

Drawing.

Yup. That's it. I can only do pencil sketches though :(

And I'm not very good at drawing living things, but here are the two things I've drawn so far.

A giraffe

And an eye.

And no I don't have any blank paper!

The eye is way better in the giraffe. What I want to do next is try to draw a picture of my friend. It'll obviously take a while but I'll post it when I'm done!

May the random be with you!

Exams!

Exams!

Exams!!!

The exams are coming!!!!

My exams start on Friday! AHHHHHH! I have one Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and the following Friday.

Wanna know the worst thing?

I'm a music major.

I live in residence.

There's a quiet policy put into place over exams.

You know what that means?

I can't practice unless I drag my bass across campus to the music building!

That's right angry little girl! I will not stand for this! But I have a plan!!!!

Ya you heard me right cat! I have a plan! So I don't have to walk all the way across campus! My plan is...

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I'm going to practice in the laundry room! It's separate from our house, no one can hear except people walking into Bartley hall (fyi Bartley is the residence hall and then off of that there's ten different houses). So it doesn't matter if I'm loud, people studying won't hear me!

Hospital again...

So this morning I got THREE calls from the hospital. I had to book a carotid ultrasound, another ECG (electrocardiogram), and I have to go to a stroke prevention clinic on Thursday.

I have no idea why the extra testing is being done, I don't even know who ordered it.

So tonight I had a carotid ultrasound, which is an ultrasound of the carotid arteries on your neck. I have no idea if anything was wrong with it because the technician didn't tell me anything.

At 7:15 tomorrow morning I have another ECG, which is where they stick about 10 sticky things on your body (mostly your chest) and monitor your heart. I don't know why they have to redo this test because no one is telling me anything.

I'm guessing that I actually find out what's going on when I have my stroke prevention clinic on Thursday, as I had to have all my testing done before then.

I'm thinking that they either found something abnormal in my previous tests OR they still have no idea what it is so they ordered more testing. Regardless it's terrifying! :(

And my ultrasound technician was kind of an ass. Other than not telling me anything he kept jamming his ultrasound thing really hard into my jaw. NEWSFLASH! My jaw is made of bone! You cannot push through it!

Hospital :(

Well today guess where I had to go?

If you guessed Oprah's house you would be incorrect!

I spent three hours in the ER today. So just in advance, this will not be a very funny post. I am experiencing some significant medical problems.

GIRLS!!! If you take birth control I recommend you keep reading!

Friday night while I was out curling I had sudden double vision that lasted for about two minutes. And I could see fine with one eye closed, so I think my brain was actually unable to match the two different images from my eyes.

I felt extremely dizzy, had numbness in my fingertips of my left hand and had difficulty moving my left arm.

What does that sound like to you?

A stroke.

However! Those symptoms went away with half an hour with the exception of the dizziness and I got a headache.

So what's a stroke that goes away? A mini stroke. A mini stroke is different in that the blood clot (or whatever's blocking blood flow to part of your brain) stops blocking blood flow before the brain cells die. So symptoms of a mini stroke have to go away within 24 hours or it is a stroke.

Until the symptoms go away, you are considered to be having a stroke.

So Saturday I went to the emergency room. After hearing what happened the doctor said the most likely cause was a mini stroke, but he doubted it because I'm only 18.

He performed a brain test, ordered a blood test, an ECG (the heart thing with all the wires and the things stuck to you), and a CAT scan.

All of the tests (minus blood since that hasn't been finished) showed up normal. So the doctor had no explanation for what had happened to me.

He was still concerned about it being a mini stroke though because if it was mild enough it wouldn't have shown up on the CAT scan.

He recommended that I see a neurologist (and this is where it gets interesting girls) and TO STOP TAKING MY BIRTH CONTROL.

Remember that girls? Estrogen (which is in birth control) seriously increases your risk of blood clots. I didn't remember that until he said to stop taking it.

So I don't even know for sure what it was, but it was terrifying.

In the future I will go to the hospital immediately after experiencing symptoms as opposed to waiting a day. And that's for any medical emergencies!

First Snow :)

So this is the view from my room today! Yesterday there was no snow at all! It's amazing how much everything changed overnight! :)

These are some of the pictures I took today!

This is Lake Tamblyn. It's frozen solid except for a hole in the middle. Apparently it's for the minks considering I saw them going in and out of the hole.

And these are the stairs I slipped on! There's at LEAST an inch thick of ice on the stairs in the shoveled parts! I was holding onto the railing so I caught myself but I'm pretty sure I almost dislocated my shoulder. Kinda hurt. Just a tiny bit. Nothing compared to that bear I fought that one time. Well that's just a guess, I didn't feel the agony I caused when I beat him up.

I was all...

(Get it?!?! Because I'm small? Hahaha I'm so hilarious.)

And he was all...

But I just punched the tree and it exploded leaving the bear at my mercy. It's what he gets for stealing my lucky charms!!

I'm a little hyper...

Can you tell?!

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...If you don't know who that is, YouTube Jenna Marbles NOW!! She's hilarious!!

Well that's all the pictures I have of snow. But I'm going curling tonight so I'll take some more pictures, which will probably include some epic falls. If I get any gross bruises I'll post those too! This is my right knee from the first time I went curling!!!

Sorry for being gross!!!

Much love!! <3

Hey guys!

Sorry it's been so long since my last blog! I keep meaning to post but never get around to it. I'm going to get back in the habit of blogging regularly! Promise! Pinky promise!

So I just wanted to bring you guys back up to date on what's happening in my life! So since I've come up to school I've been on a few dates, had a few short relationships, and I'm currently seeing a pretty nice guy :)

If anyone has any ideas for things that I can write about just let me know! <3 I'll do my best! I'm looking out my window right now and it's snowing!! I'll take lots of pictures for you guys tomorrow when it's light out! Finally some snow in Thunder Bay!