THERE WAS A WHITE MAN.

Woohoo!

I got a call yesterday from the receptionist at the MS Clinic saying they just had a cancellation and they had an appointment to offer me...THIS MONDAY.  I’m totally stoked because if they didn’t have that cancellation spot I would have to wait foreverrr.

I’m bringing my big binder of medical history with me because I’m sick of having to re-explain everything every time I go see a new doctor!  I have a chronological list of my symptoms and my appointments and stuff all typed out so that I don’t have to try to remember it all off the top of my head.  It’s way easier to have the doctor just read it all than have to spit it all out for them!

Anywhooo, I will let you all know what the doc said!  Maybe monday, but probably tuesday cause I’m lazy!  And it’s all the way out at the UBC Hospital... And day trips take a lot of my energy, damn the fatigue.

Also, it’s super nice out so we’re all going to the beach tomorrowww.  I’m so albino I need some sun!  I bought some shorts today and my legs are so freakishly pasty it’s ridiculous.  So it’s time for some tanning!  Real tanning.  Not that fake n’ bake crap!

I have a major issue with fake tanning... I mean it’s bad for you and it LOOKS fake.  Why do girls do that to themselves?  I rather have my pastiness than cancer and an orangey unnatural looking fake tan.  Going fake tanning  When I go “tanning” outside I still have like SPF 30 sunscreen on and I still get sun!  The reason I’m so white right now is because I have been working indoors for 2 years and I can’t just go tan during that day cause it’s a 9-5 job.  And the health problems don’t really help the situation, you don’t really feel the need to drive down to the beach and stuff after work when your back is killing you!

Oh, and I haaate waiting.  A lot.  Did I mention that before?

I’m still waiting to know if I’ve been accepted into that school program!  Ugh.

WHEN YOU JUMPED THROUGH MY CEILING YOU LET AN OWL IN.

Hargle Blargh.

I hate waiting for doctors.  I have been referred to an neurologist at the MS Clinic at UBC.  It’s been over a week since I’ve been referred and I have yet to get a call about getting an appointment!  I’ve been told the wait list is about 12-18 months.  Woot.  I’m so not excited to wait a million years to see a doctor, just so they can tell me that I either have a debilitating disease...or that they still don’t know what’s wrong with me!  In the mean time my GP has started me on medication so I can at least continue to work until I get that appointment.  So far I think the medication has been helping, but it makes me sleepy and I don’t ever feel like I’m hungry!  And when you don’t feel hungry, you forget to eat... Like today!  

I ate lunch around 2:00pm at work, I had about half a sandwich from a little deli/bakery (and it was a super yummy chicken caesar panini) but then I was full so I kept the other half.  And that was all I had eaten all day!  So when I got home and started organizing my new room... I started getting really dizzy and everything was spinning.  And when you feel like that the last thing you want to do is eat!  It really sucks that what fixes the spinning is food, but you feel like if you eat...it’s just going to come right back up!  So I sat on my bed and slowly drank a grape juice box and ate a whole bunch of soda crackers so I didn’t pass out.  I am apparently not quite used to the whole medication dealio!

Oh, and I have officially applied to a college program :O

Yeah.

Never thought that would happen.

I’m kiiind of excited and I’m just waiting to see if I’ve been accepted so I can register for the fall program.  It’ll be weird because I have never actually done a real college program.  All the other “post-secondary” type things I’ve done have been kind of a “do it in your spare time” kind of thing... So this’ll be interesting!  It’s kind of nice to be slowly figuring everything out, at least there are some answers in my future.

The boyfriend is almost done school and then he gets to join the real world... Just as I take myself out of it!  I get to start school basically right after he finishes his program.  There is some time in between there for a little bit of a vacation though, so I’m happy!

My new room is nice!  My sister started her new job and moved to Whistler, so I get her old room.  It’s painted and everything is moved in now, and I’m allllmost done organizing it all.  All my clothes are either on my clothing racks or on the shelves in my closet, my make-up is organized (I just have to clean my brushes!), and my food cupboard looks awesome!  And I finally have ARTWORK ON MY WALLS!  I’m so stoked on that because in my old room I had zero art and now I have art and plants and awesomeness :)

I'm sort of, slightly, just a little bit addicted to owls.  I absolutely love them, so when I found this awesome colourful owl painting at IKEA I really HAD to have it!  It was like $12.99 and It's actually a decent size.  And the Vancouver skyline painting was done by a friend of mine (Holly Johnson).

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I also got a little bonsai tree (I've alwaaays wanted one, and I found this lil' guy at Home Depot for just a couple bucks!  Needs a little TLC, but they're so cute!)

Oh, and I got this awesome new sweater (at Value Village of course!), it's originally from Spain and I think it's awesome.  The top red part is made out of real leather, it has an awesome lining on the inside and it's super comfy... And it cost me a whole $5.99+tax!

WHEN HE WAS SWALLOWED BY A YAWNING HIPPOPOTAMUS.

Chaaaange.  Lots of it.

I’m slowly but surely attempting to plan out my future!  It’s rather stressful and the current lack of money is not helping.  I’m in the process of figuring out how to get into the school programs I want, and I’m have to try to find a way to work full-time while I’m also in school full-time... Yeah... Ugh...

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This past weekend was my one year anniversary with my amazing boyfriend!  We went out for dinner and then drove all the way out to the middle of no where to watch a movie in a big field.  Drive-in movie theatre’s are awesome.  You pay the same amount as a regular theatre, but you get to see 2 or 3 movies!  We saw the Avengers again (which is an awesome movie, so we didn’t mind seeing it again even though we had just seen it the weekend before).  We would have stayed for the next 2 movies (John Carter and Underworld: Awakening), but the Avengers didn’t start until 9:00pm and it’s a looong ass movie!  And I had to work the next morning so we didn’t want to stay out until 4:00am.  We will probably do an all-nighter at the drive-in sometime this summer because it’s awesome, and once it hits July/August it’s nice and warm out at that hour!

Super awesome boyfriend of mine also bought me a new charm for my Pandora charm bracelet.  It’s a really cute silver one with a bunch of tiny peace signs all over it!  It’s perfect because we both happen to have peace sign tattoos :) <3

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I’m looking forward to getting some more ink after the summer.  I don’t want to get anything until the fall because you can’t go out in the sun, or go swimming with a fresh tattoo!  And I’m hoping to get some time off work to head up to the boyfriend’s trailer at Cultus Lake.  It’s super pretty up there and I need some vacationing!  There is a pool and a hot tub up there (and I’m hoping some sun!) so I don’t want a fresh tattoo to hold me back from enjoying the summer.

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I get to go to yet another doctor appointment tomorrow.  Woot.  I’m really getting sick of these!  It’s been a year and a half since I started doing all this and it has gotten me no where.  No one seems to know anything and the specialists don’t really seem to care!  All they say is “Well you certainly are an interesting case.” which really means “I don’t know shit about your condition, so lets just take a random guess at a treatment and hope it works.”

I’m really hoping all this crap gets figured out soon so I can actually enjoy this summer!  It’s no fun when doing absolutely any activity causes a crap load of pain :(

Oh and I can’t do the school full-time and work full-time thing until it all gets figured out... Cause I can barely work part-time as it is!

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