6 weeks ago my husband & our roommate got home from their 3rd deployment. For my birthday I got a computer desk and a nice computer chair, that I rarely got to use because everyone wanted to sit in my chair, use my lap top, and use my desk. With the boys being back and so close to getting out of the Marine Corps their friends wanted to go out, come over, and run around everywhere. This made it difficult for me to get my school work done, a lot of times I would cram school work so I could hang out because this is the first time in a long time that I have had weekends off. Mainly the entire time we were in Twentynine Palms I cooked, cleaned, cooked, cleaned, and tried to find time and space to get my school work done. I became pretty depressed being away from home, friends, and family, being in a crappy place to live where it's so hot you can't even leave the house. Having people over all the time and doing so much cooking and cleaning and not being able to use my computer desk and chair when I needed or wanted to started to make me feel very unappreciated and not respected at all as the woman of the house. Most times I would hide out in the bedroom to attempt to get school work done. Last week we drove all the way home to Washington and I swear it was the worst road trip I have ever been on in my life. We left in the middle of the day when it was well over 110 degrees instead of the night before or early that morning, California campgrounds are a total joke to me (what happened to tent camping?), we got stuck for 4 hours in Northern California because the tow bar was literally tearing away from the frame of our 74 Dodge Ram Charger (that could have been really bad if we wouldn't have stopped), we finally camped at 5 am, had to stay extra days (cutting into my school work time), ran into traffic from Portland, all the way to our town in Northern Washington. When I got home I had to cram so much school work in to one day that was all I did from dawn till dusk. Now we have been attempting to unpack our stuff, while trying to do school work, and see friends and family. I took 2 days off from school to find out that there is a lot of work to do this week... But when I think about it, all of my terms thus far have had some pretty major obstacles and bumps in the road and I have still managed to get my work turned in on time, get good grades, and get the terms done. If all of my terms were easy breezy I wouldn't be as apt to take obstacles and bumps in the road head on as well. I have been trying to slowly change my school schedule so that I can still get school work done, take care of responsibilities, and have fun, without having to cram, stress (freak out!), fall behind, etc... It's a work in progress...
On the topic of my topic of how dangerous fake sugars are my ideas about the subject are very passionate. When I was a little kid I was a sugar-aholic, there was one incident where I was at a restaurant and grabbed a packet of sugar and poured it into my mouth... it was a packet of fake sugar! Worst taste ever! Another incident my mom had bought me one of those flavored sparkling waters, after a couple of sips I started to get an excruciating migraine, I looked at the ingredient list and saw Phenylalanine in bold so I decided to look it up online. The first thing that popped up was "causes cancer, kills brain cells!" No wonder my brain was hurting! My husband thinks that I am a fanatic about sugars but what I try to get him to understand is that my body is super sensitive to what I put in my body and what I put on my body. Most chemicals are a no go. However even though I am a very passionate person does not mean that I am a 100% biased when it comes to any of my research. I research both sides of a story, the pros, the cons, peoples opinions, and my opinions and I try to show people the information that they probably don't know, or if they do know it is an opportunity to have a intellectual conversation/debate (and I do love to talk). Even though I love to talk about almost anything and everything and am open to ideas and opinions I know that not everyone else is and I respect other peoples opinions and feelings. If I am talking to someone about a subject they had no idea about I tell them to not believe everything that I tell them, but to also look into it themselves because I'm not trying to make up their minds for them I'm just trying to inform them. When it comes to future research I am going to look mainly for information that is going to back up my opinion and the point that I am trying to get across. For research papers in the future, I more than likely will pick subjects that I feel are important, need to be talked about, and that I find interesting. Granted I can research and write about whatever I am assigned because we are learning to be health care professionals so most of what we are going to research is going to be in that field and is going to pertain to what we are trying to learn.
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