Thursday, September 24, 2009

Intolerance

Intolerance
1. The quality or condition of being intolerant; lack of tolerance.
2. Medicine. Extreme sensitivity or allergy to a drug, food, or other substance: lactose intolerance.

I'll let you take a second to guess which one I am talking about... because I'm sure from just reading the title of this post your mind definitely went to one of those two!

Sorry to disappoint, but I am talking about the medical definition. Now I'm sure some of you will stop reading, but that's OK... I won't hold it against you!

I have recently come to the conclusion that I have a slight intolerance to dairy. Every time I eat/drink it I feel sick and I just want to die!

You may be thinking, "Alright Karen. What's the big deal?! TONS of people are lactose intolerant and they deal! WHY are you taking time to write a post about it?!"

See a normal person once they find out they're allergic to something tries to stay away from that certain something, right? Well here is where I prove that I am A-typical! I don't try to stay away from dairy at all!!! Sometimes I will even go out searching for it! Then after having any dairy products I always vow to stay away from dairy forever! Needless to say that doesn't last long... I wake up in the morning craving a milkshake or cheese or yogurt (mostly just milkshakes).

Recently the sickness after eating dairy has been getting worse and worse. I just have to say that I HATE IT!!!!

Last night at Strutter's Ball in Orange County I got so sick that I only danced 5 songs! I never only dance 5 songs even back in the day when my knees hurt like none other!

I had drank a Starbucks Vanilla Frappuccino from 7/11 on the way down to the venue and I wasn't feeling too great before dancing because of this dairy filled drink, but I danced anyway. By the end of the 5th dance I felt like I was going to heave up everything that I had eaten for the week!

Unfortunately, I have difficulty vomiting on my own, so I went to the bathroom and stuck my fingers down my throat (no worries I'm not bulimic and I don't do this on a regular occasion). Anyway, nothing came out, and I still felt like SH** the rest of the night! Right then and there I said, "That's it! I can't take it anymore!! NO MORE DAIRY!!!"

Less than 24 hours later.... I drank some milk - felt like crap after... then I had 1 1/2 slices of pizza - again felt like crap.

Moral of the story?? I am really just dumb. AND I hate dairy, but I love it at the same time! Now if that isn't tolerant intolerance I don't know what is!

Leaving on a Jet Plane

You know when you get into a mood and you just want to post but you don't have anything to post about?? Well that's me right now! Sooo I'm just gonna talk for a bit!

Yes it's 3 o'clock in the morning... and I'm not sleeping. Like the crazy person that I am for some reason I decide NOW is a good time to post a BLOG.

Well in life, contrary to my normal response of nothing, a lot has been going on. I am currently a full time student, I currently work full time, and on top of that I dance almost every night of the week! Something had to give so I have decided to drop a class which will still leave me with 9 or 10 credits which is a pretty hefty load.

I just had my 21st birthday on August 30th! I went to Vegas and let me tell you, that was a BLAST! The last month has been a good month as far as traveling wise. Out of the last 5 weekends I've only been home one. I have gone to Phoenix three times to visit friends and go to dance events and I went to Vegas once.

The traveling isn't going to stop there!! Next week on Wednesday (September 30, 2009) I am leaving for Montana to go perform/teach at a Jazz Festival and on the way back I am going to spend a few days (October 5, 2009 - October 8, 2009) in Denver since I have always wanted to go and NEVER have! THEN on October 16th I will be up in San Fransisco for a dance competition! After that competition I am planning on chilling and working as much as possible to save up for my AUSTRALIA trip on November 19th!!! After Australia I'm hoping to be able to go back to San Fran (December 4th - 6th) to compete at the Balboa Battle. Then I am HOPING to go to Lindy Focus in Asheville, North Carolina to throw down my and Shaheed's improved showcase!

MAN!!! That made me tired just typing about all of these travels!!! I can't believe how lucky I am to be able to travel all over the world!!

As you can tell I'm super stoked about all of it!

I just can't wait to do more traveling!!!

alright time to /geekingout