Oddly Ironic

This is what I named my blog for many reasons, but mostly because I find it oddly ironic that this would happen to me... My family was always telling me I ate to much sugar and that I need to cut back, but then this happens and everyone is suddenly telling me I need to eat more. People were always telling me the more sugar I ate the more of a chance I would get diabetes and that I need to be careful. Now I have something as close as you can get to diabetes and can evidently lead to Type 2 according to some people and I haven't had a chocolate bar in soooo long. When all this started happening I thought I could reverse it by eating healthier. It hasn't happened yet, but I lost a lot of weight and I feel better than when this whole thing started. I guess that's ironic too. Something horrible has done so many good things in my life. It's weird for me to think that I could have gotten so many positive things out of downing juice boxes and checking blood sugar. It just keeps me thinking what else can I do with this? I plan on signing up a team for the JDRF walk in Vegas on November 18th to help all my friends with diabetes and to just keep my head up, because it's easier to see where you're going with your head up in my opinion. So that's my rant today and the explanation for why Oddly Ironic. :)

Keep your head up,
Ellie <3

Make It To November

If I can just make it to November. Everything starts getting magically better in November. I get my permit, I go on vacation, I have out of state band competitions, and I'm SUPER excited. But, it seems like November is soooo far away. There is still two months of homework, managing blood sugars, room cleaning, school, work, not acting like a complete hoolagin, I have to compose myself for almost a month. HOW IS THAT GOING TO HAPPEN?! Last Thanksgiving 4 of us kids got super bored and we decided we wanted Slurpees from 7-11. So off we went with $20 and one cellphone. Something all the adults for got to tell us was that there was no 7-11 in Suprise, Arizona. So we walked for 2 hours looking for a 7-11. We passed McDonalds, Arbys, a gas station, but never a 7-11. It was the longest 7-11 search I have ever been on! But, I brought back so many memories that weekend and I learned something too. To have something to look forward to like 7-11 or November, but use the journey as a learning experience remember the moments that stuck out to you on the road to November and be glad when you've made it through. We never did find a 7-11, but stopped at Arbys for chocolate shakes and curly fries. :)

Keep up your search for a 7-11,

Ellie <3

Day 5 of the 365 Project

Oh yeah I made cupcakes! They're my famous 4 chocolate cupcakes!! With chocolate mix, chocolate chips, chocolate frosting, and the new oreo frosting to top it off :) 

A Day of Uhggs

Today sucked. To put it plainly. My bg didn't want to cooperate at all, my left headphone blew and I live off of those things like they're air, progress reports came out today... and so. much. more. Here's a snapshot:
4:45-wake up
5:10- breakfast
6:10- morning test- 82- juice box to boost it before heading off for the bus
6:50-left headphone... gone. :(
9:00-mid morning test- 72- 17 carbs of protein bar to correct
9:05-progress reports are passed out. awesomely sucky.
9:15- retest to double check the low came up- 73 You have got to be flippin kidding me. (My health plan says anything above 70 can be corrected in class, anything below 70 must be corrected in the nurse or if I correct and don't come up) So I grab my pass and someone to walk with me.
10:25-after drinking 2 juice boxes and retesting 3 times (stupid blood sugar) I am sent back to class.
1:16- Hallelujah this day is over!
Yup that was how spectacularly awesome my day was. :/

Keep your head up,
Ellie

Day 4 of the 365 Project

Just another trip to Target. :P 

Casting Crowns and Free Hugs

last night i went to the casting crowns concert in vegas with my church. we sat in the soaked lawn and could barely see the big screen but the music and expierience was great. getting out of the parking lot... not so much but hey you get what you get. so while we were there i discovered a ben and jerrys ice cream truck and i went to by some. on the menu they had single scoup, double scoup, and free hugs. i bought a single scoup of chocolate and a free hug and the guy working totally gave me a free hug. haha it was a fun night.

Teenager and A Tiara

I was in a pageant. Scarry to think. I've always made fun of the girls and the moms on Toddlers and Tiaras (sorry if you're one of them), but I've never got the concept of pageants. My family decided to host one of our own and I was to be a part of it. There was a dinner before which was Mexican Stack Up or Taco Salad which ever you want to call it. There was also candy corn for the desert. Me, calculating out carbs and what my BG would end up looking like midway took three candy corns. About half way through I could tell I was dropping so I tested 3 minutes before I was supposed to go on. 86. Cool not low, but I should probably do something now to prevent something later. I drank a juice box. My cousin saw me guzzling juice and came to check on me. She started freaking out when I told her I was 86. She for some reason thought I was going to like pass out or something. I went out rocked the dance. Won a tiara and Dance Interpretation and didn't pass out. So I'll leave you with this like 20 second long video as today's picture. It's me dancing to Taylor Swift's Haunted.