Pharyngitis.

So Monday night during my Art Appreciation class from 6:00 to usually 9:00, my throat started feeling a little scratchy, but I didn't think anything of it.

Tuesday morning I woke up and my throat was killing me. I took some DayQuil, gargled, sprayed some chloraseptic, made some tea with honey, and left for work. Almost my entire shift at work my throat was feeling way better, almost like it completely went away. When 2:30 rolled around (30 minutes left until the end of my shift), my throat started hurting me again. I finished what I needed to finish for my shift, and then left 15 minutes early.
I stopped off at CVS to buy more DayQuil and went home where I tried to take it easy but then had to leave to go back to work because I left my sketchbook, then went to my night class for American Literature. All throughout the class I wanted it to go by faster so I could go home because my throat was starting to throb. And for some reason throughout the entire class I was freezing, and I'm pretty sure I was the only one. I finally get out at around 9:15, and went home where I took NightQuil, put on flannel pants and a long sweatershirt (I was still freezing) and then went to bed.

I kept waking up in the middle of the night because my throat was hurting so bad; swallowing was so painful. So at around 5AM I woke up and decided to go the bathroom to spray some Chloraseptic on my throat. As I was putting the chloraseptic away, I started getting really dizzy and broke out into a cold sweat. I had to lean against the wall to avoid from falling. I don't even know how long I was in that position, but I'm assuming not long after I fell to the floor and remained there for a while. I don't remember how I got to the floor, but as soon as I regained consciousness, I somehow walked to my parent's bedroom on the other side of the house and sat down in their chair and my back was in extreme pain. I woke up them and told them what happened and sat in the chair for about 20 minutes until they got up and told me to lay in the bed for a while. I fell asleep and woke up at around 8am and told my mom I needed to change into different clothes because I was sweating, so she walked me by to my room where I was going to change my clothes. As I was standing in my room waiting to change my clothes, I started getting really dizzy again and felt like vomiting. As my mom was walking me towards the bathroom I blacked out again and so she brought me back to my bed.

I went to the doctor's at around 9:30 and they ran some tests and told me they would call today if I had strep. He then told me that I should go to the ER because I fainted twice. So I spent about four hours in the ER while they ran tests. They ran me on an iv and pricked me like, 3 times to get a vein and gave me some antibiotic that had steroids in it to reduce the inflammation of my throat and then gave me liquids to rehydrate me. After about four hours, missing my afternoon class (in which I had a test due and had to pick up another test), they diagnosed me with Pharyngitis, which is just a fancy word for a bacterial sore throat.

They prescribed me a pill for my throat and cough syrup (which I refuse to taste because A. When I was a child, cough syrup never went very well with me and B. I don't have a cough). So I went to bed feeling a lot better than I did earlier, but my throat still hurt.

I woke up a few times in the middle of the night last night, not neccessarily because my throat hurt but maybe just because of all the sleep I've been having. I woke up this morning at around 7:45AM and my throat feels almost 50% better.


So the moral to this story is....if a boy says that his throat is a little scratchy...don't kiss him anyway, you'll end up with Pharyngitis.





But good news, my laptop should be here by next week!

Change of plans

After 7 days of this Juice Fast...I had to stop.
Yesterday morning I woke up and was extremely lightheaded throughout the rest of the day.

I decided that weightloss isn't worth losing health over, and I never want to feel that way again. So currently, I'm on a 7 day plan to help ween me off of the Juice Fast. Which is pretty much introducing new foods to my diet day by day.

And even though I've decided to do this...from yesterday to today I've lost around 3 1/2 pounds...which leaves me at losing 10 pounds total.

The Juice Fast

For the passed five days I've been on a 30 day juice fast. Meaning, I've been only having fruit juices, vegetable juices, water, diet iced tea, herbal tea, and organic vegetable broth.

But it's definitely been a challenge so far. Sometimes just drinking water isn't enough to suffice my hunger, but eventually I forget about it.

I've lost 6 pounds in 5 days, but I'm presuming that it's water weight. After researching this juice fast on the interweb, I came across the fact that on less strict versions of this fast you are allowed one meal a day.

I wish I would have known this from the start, because I would have done that...but thats okay. --So tonight I had a salad for dinner, and I'm okay with that. My stomach on the other hand...might not be considering all I've been having for the passed two days is juice. And I've come to terms with the fact that by doing this alternative I won't lose weight as fast...but I don't think having one salad a day followed up by juice, water, vegetable broth, followed by exercise will be too much of a problem once my stomach gets used to it again.

And after 30 days I will go off of this Juice Fast and continue with a fruit&vegetable diet for two weeks before I gradually bring back other foods into my diet, proportionally of course.

I decided to also use this blog to document changes I will be experiencing on this diet, as well as photos.

My picture from Day 1 isn't the best to start with because I was wearing a flowy top, so I will start with today, Day 5:

And you can also see my new dykey haircut :]

Me vs. Morgan Freeman

Yeahyeah, I know, I haven't updated in ages. I've been working nonstop, always busy with school...never any time for anything.

BUT I bring one of my newest art projects for my Design Basics class and probably one of my favourite pieces I've ever done.



So, the assignment was to create a self portrait using texture. So I did just that.
I embroidered the outlines of my face, hair, lips, nose, used acrylic paint for the rest of the portrait as well as fabric for my headband and felt for my top.

My mum loved it so much that she framed it and hung it on a wall in the family room so that when I look out of my bedroom door I am literally staring myself in the face.

This is the view from my bedroom:


And what I find to be the funniest part is that My mum hung it on the wall next to the portrait my brother drew of Morgan Freeman his senior year of high school. Now, my brother is an extremely good artist...and I think my painting pales in comparison to his...but my mum insisted on them being right next to each other.

This is my brother's portrait of Morgan Freeman:


And this is what my family room looks like with them both in it:



PS: I can't even begin to explain how excited I'm getting to be in Chicago for an entire month. I'm overjoyed.

my red dress.

so I'm creating this dress:


but here's the problem, the fabric I'm using is stretchy lurex and it won't hold the regular stitching when i'm sewing things together.

Someone buy me a Serger machine, please?

More of my art.

I apologize for my lack-o-updates because I've just been so busy with school and work. Speaking of work, I got a promotion! I am now the Accessory Manager of Forever21 Boca Town Center! I don't get my pay raise until the 1st of March...but hey, I'm excited for my promotion anyway.

As for school, my studio classes are so tedious. I love them though.
My most recent project that I absolutely love was for my Design Basics class. We have to make a triptych depicting Order, Disorder, and Chaos.
I took the inspiration for my project from this great fake plant that sits in my Grandmum's room.''

ORDER:


DISORDER:


CHAOS:

My art.

So for as long as I can remember I've always been drawing. When I was a little girl I was convinced that I would grow up and become a famous artist. But after awhile...I stopped thinking that because I didn't think my drawings were any good. Once I hit junior high and high school, I started drawing again and without taking drawing classes...I would doodle everywhere and eventually got better.
So for my second semester in college, I decided I would take two art classes...because since they don't offer any fashion or sewing classes at a community college level...I might as well perfect my drawing skills to help better my renderings.

I am completely in love with my art classes. I take a drawing class every Monday and Wednesday and a Design Fundamentals class every Tuesday and Thursday, and only one week in and I am already excited to take more art classes in upcoming semesters.


My first project for my Design Fundamentals class was to create 6 drawings using any materials we wish, and take a certain viewpoint of a picture and recreate it.
These are 5/6 I came up with: