The Doctor's Office

As I am down to my last bottle of insulin, I thought it would be expedient to arrange a visit to the doctor's office so I could get my prescription renewed before I was completely out.  I set it up for today, at 4:40.  At 4:10, I got home and found out that three of my roommates had the stomach flu.  Oh great.

Kristin drove me to the doctor's office on her way to pick up gatorade for our hypovolemic roommates to drink.  I got there and found out that their vaccinations office had already closed, so I couldn't get a last-minute flu shot.  Darn.  But I had a great appointment with my new favorite doctor, Dr. Fors.  She is awesome, and got everything taken care of (prescription, lab recommendations, and a referral to the podiatrist) in record time.  Then I got to go over to the lab and have some tests done.  I thought I just had to get some blood drawn - no biggie.  I arrived there and was handed the dreaded microalbumen cup.  Joy.  Much to my chagrin, I just couldn't do it.  So I got the take-home version of the test.  The blood test afterwards was a relief.  AND I got a bugs bunny bandaid.  Clearly worth the prick just for that.

I returned home and settled down to wait for the arrival of my own flu virus.  I'm not entirely sure I'm going to get it though, after Kristin cleaned everything down with disinfectant (thanks Kristin!  You're the bomb!).  Anyways, my method was this: I would make something so delicious that I would refuse to throw it up, and then I wouldn't get sick.  Creative, huh?  Well, the delicious part worked.  I am officially addicted to pan-fried tofu with spicy peanut sauce.  It's amazing.  I would suggest you go make it right now.  Go ahead.  I'll wait.

...okay, back now?  That was delicious, wasn't it?  All of my roommates were too sick to try it, so I ate two servings all by myself.  Ha!  Since that point, we've just been lazing about, the sick ones sleeping and the healthy ones studying.  We're all keeping buckets by our bedside though.

<3
Eliza


P.S. Look what I did!  I created these two pages, and I'm very proud of them:
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Eggplant-Pasta-Sauce
http://www.wikihow.com/Deal-With-the-Flu-when-You-Have-Type-One-Diabetes
Plus, I've been marked a "rising star" by wikihow editors.  I feel so cool.

P.P.S. Kristin is pretty much the most awesome person ever.  She is taking care of everyone who is sick and has disinfected everything so I won't get sick (diabetes and junk, ya know?).  Isn't she amazing?

Holla!

Hey guys, I know my last couple of posts have been in a kind of morose late-night maundering style, so I decided to inject some reality into this blog.  My classes are going relatively well - I'm only 2 weeks behind on my econ reading, I got a B+ on my Spanish test (ouch!  Who knows the difference between que and cual anyways?), I have a physiology test that I need to take tomorrow, an organizational behavior test that I have to do before Thursday, and life is good.

Last week I had a busy time studying until Friday evening, when I didn't do anything productive.  At about 10:30, I got a call from Heidi, and I went over to Katheryn's to eat chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough and watch Treasure Planet.  It was great.  Saturday morning I got up and did my cleaning checks, and then I went to take a practice LSAT.  It was quite entertaining.  I went to Target, returned a shirt, came back and got my results, and went to eat ice cream at the Creamery instead of going to the football game (It's okay; we lost terribly anyways).  I found out that if the ice cream server likes your choice of ice cream, she will give you more ice cream.  I ordered a child-sized ice cream scoop, but got enough ice cream for a double-scoop. This was opposed to Heidi and Katheryn, who got the right size.  Ahahahahaha.  Then I went and babysat Jared for Ken and Kelsey.  I had a marvelous time.  When I got home, the old roommate (she moved out a semester or two ago) Sarah was here (apparently she'd been here all day, but I wasn't here...)  She was sick and couldn't drive home, so we convinced her to stay here for the night.  Luckily, she decided 15 minutes before the corner store closed, so we went and got Saltines, Sprite, and Pepto.  It was an adventure.

Today I made this baked omelet for our ward break-the-fast brinner.  It was gone by the time I got to that end of the table.  I ate lots of good food, and got an awesome vanilla syrup recipe.  When I got home (I was the only one from the apartment who'd gone), I watched President Monson's talk from the RS broadcast last night that I didn't see.  I'd hoped to watch the whole broadcast, but apparently it started at 6:00 central time, not mountain time.  I loved his talk, though.  It chagrined and inspired me.  Next time I say something judgmental on this blog, please reprimand me.  Actually, scratch that.  I'm going to try not to say anything judgmental on this blog anymore.  We'll see how far I get with that...

Speaking of future plans, I'd better go to bed.  So much for no more late-night maundering :)  I'm looking forward to several things this week, though: teaching water polo to my FHE group tomorrow night, playing my second intramural bball game on Tuesday night, going to the farmer's market again, and Conference!  So exciting :D  I'm going to make kugen if mom will send me the recipe.  Also, I'm going to try and invite my home teachers over for dinner on Sunday, hopefully with Kristin and Megan's help.  What a great idea, right? Well, I can't take credit; it was mom's.  Here's hoping you all have a fabulous week!

<3
Eliza