Hello people of the internet,
so this is a sort of not really continuation from the last post. I use the term sort of very loosely but it does stem from the type one teens facebook group and the way people handle their diabetes. Somebody asked questions about telling their friends/employers/first daters about their diabetes. My immediate answer is yes, I make no attempt to hide it and am all for answering any questions as this helps diminish the ignorance which is often shown in our media. But it always surprises me just how many people hide their diabetes and are embarrassed about it. So many people wont tell people about it and I'm unsure if they realise how dangerous that can be. What happens if you have a severe hypo and end up collapsing? If the people you are with don't know about your diabetes they won't be able to tell the paramedics and therefore the necessary glucose you would need as soon as possible you may not get.
Another scenario would include drinking and people may assume you're just passed out drunk and again the vital things needed you may not receive. I think my main point here is that you must tell someone about it, especially on nights out. Always have a form of medical id on you that way if you insist on not telling anyone then at least the medical teams will know.
I personally don't see why people are embarrassed about having a chronic condition that isn't your fault. However I have been very fortunate in the fact that I have never encountered the negative reactions many people have experienced due to the ignorance. So maybe I'm being a bit harsh about it bur the seriousness of not telling people is so much worse than being laughed at.
So in summary, TELL PEOPLE about your chronic horrific soul sucking illness.
Rhona x
Tuesday, 7 October 2014
Tuesday, 9 September 2014
Ignorance
Hello people of the internet,
So we returned to college today and i showed up, sat in tutor for half an hour and went home. Productive morning I know.
On facebook I'm part of a group called Type one teens which is basically a place for people to have a moan and ask for advice. One of the most common rants is people making jokes about diabetes such as this one:
I won't lie I'm as bad as the next person and have seen the funny side of these but on this facebook group people get upset by these jokes. They get upset, which I completely understand, because we as diabetics are the butt of these jokes. But the trouble is diabetes refers to both types and these jokes don't differentiate between the two. Therefore people who know that you have diabetes but maybe no more than that tend to assume all the negative stigma attached to diabetes, both types, is also applicable to you.
People hear all the vague information that goes with most illnesses and so any time they meet that they don't understand. Things like being fat means you have diabetes, I am yet to see (not that they don't exist) a fat type one diabetic. I also have met plenty of skinny type twos. The generalisations that I'm sure apply to other illnesses to prevent people from being educated in the differences.
It often happens that adults and teenagers will see my pump, give me an odd look and move on. Children on the other hand will instantly ask me what it is and I will tell them. I've never been one for hiding my diabetes and I know parents are worried that I might not want to talk about it and so they don't want they're children to ask. But things like this will cause the ignorance to spread. So parents allow you're children to ask questions and ask them yourselves, it should become obvious if the person doesn't want to talk about it.
Also don't make jokes about any illnesses not only is it insensitive but you don't know what people have been through and so jokes are not gonna help in any way. However to completely ignore that point some people will want to make jokes about it but let them start because they'll be able to set the boundaries.
There's you're advice for today also any diabetic teens on facebook check out type one teens it's an amazing group with some lovely people.
Rhona
x
So we returned to college today and i showed up, sat in tutor for half an hour and went home. Productive morning I know.
On facebook I'm part of a group called Type one teens which is basically a place for people to have a moan and ask for advice. One of the most common rants is people making jokes about diabetes such as this one:
I won't lie I'm as bad as the next person and have seen the funny side of these but on this facebook group people get upset by these jokes. They get upset, which I completely understand, because we as diabetics are the butt of these jokes. But the trouble is diabetes refers to both types and these jokes don't differentiate between the two. Therefore people who know that you have diabetes but maybe no more than that tend to assume all the negative stigma attached to diabetes, both types, is also applicable to you.
People hear all the vague information that goes with most illnesses and so any time they meet that they don't understand. Things like being fat means you have diabetes, I am yet to see (not that they don't exist) a fat type one diabetic. I also have met plenty of skinny type twos. The generalisations that I'm sure apply to other illnesses to prevent people from being educated in the differences.
It often happens that adults and teenagers will see my pump, give me an odd look and move on. Children on the other hand will instantly ask me what it is and I will tell them. I've never been one for hiding my diabetes and I know parents are worried that I might not want to talk about it and so they don't want they're children to ask. But things like this will cause the ignorance to spread. So parents allow you're children to ask questions and ask them yourselves, it should become obvious if the person doesn't want to talk about it.
Also don't make jokes about any illnesses not only is it insensitive but you don't know what people have been through and so jokes are not gonna help in any way. However to completely ignore that point some people will want to make jokes about it but let them start because they'll be able to set the boundaries.
There's you're advice for today also any diabetic teens on facebook check out type one teens it's an amazing group with some lovely people.
Rhona
x
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
How not to piss off the waitress pt 2
Hello people of the internet,
It could be middle of October looking at the weather outside not August. The perks of living in Britain where we have three weeks of summer and then rain for the rest of the year. Of course the weather will dramatically improve on the days where I have to go to work because why would it not stay constant.
So over the past few weeks the customers have been oh so delightful and seem to forget that the waitresses are handling their food and therefore it would be very easy poison you if we so wished. So the other day, when the weather was glorious obviously, we had a coach load of visitors in and about double the normal level of public visitors too. Therefore after a couple hours there wasn't a lot of food left as we operate as a buffet style system and due to the sheer volume of people who wanted lunch.
Therefore when a women came in and asked about three quiche and salad, which was about the only thing we had left, I was only too happy to help. However after about thirty seconds it became clear she was going to be picky,
Customer: "Is that all the salad you've got left?"
Me: "Well we've got some more green in the back and this little bit of pasta left if you'd like"
Customer: "So what would you do for quiche and three salads?"
Me: "We'd give you more of two salads to make up for not having the third"
Customer: "Well that wouldn't be quiche and three salads then would it"
This customer then decided to send me off to make up a different lunch and three minutes later had changed her mind. I don't understand why the waitresses get all the crap about the food running out or not being hot/cold enough. It's not like we actually make the food, we put it on a plate and bring it to you. Which is really not a position you want to be in if you're going to make rude comments or be particularly fussy about it. Obviously if the woman had just shown up and asked these questions without the attitude, I'm aware I'm making her sound like a thirteen year old girl, the situation would have been much calmer. But she had been standing in a que for several minutes, which probably accounts for her attitude. She had seen me make up very similar plates.
When eating out be nice to the waitresses they are the last person to come in contact with your food before you eat it.
Rhona x
Customer: "So what would you do for quiche and three salads?"
Me: "We'd give you more of two salads to make up for not having the third"
Customer: "Well that wouldn't be quiche and three salads then would it"
This customer then decided to send me off to make up a different lunch and three minutes later had changed her mind. I don't understand why the waitresses get all the crap about the food running out or not being hot/cold enough. It's not like we actually make the food, we put it on a plate and bring it to you. Which is really not a position you want to be in if you're going to make rude comments or be particularly fussy about it. Obviously if the woman had just shown up and asked these questions without the attitude, I'm aware I'm making her sound like a thirteen year old girl, the situation would have been much calmer. But she had been standing in a que for several minutes, which probably accounts for her attitude. She had seen me make up very similar plates.
When eating out be nice to the waitresses they are the last person to come in contact with your food before you eat it.
Rhona x
Tuesday, 5 August 2014
The Name
Hello People of the Internet
Long time not writey, again. One day I'm sure I'll get the hang of writing on here regularly, though not sure that'll be likely in the near future. Reliability isn't one of my strongest traits but all we can do is work on that, si?
This time I thought I'd explain the name of my blog and now I've realized exactly how short that story is I may add some other odd ramblings on the end. In March 2010, I think, I received my first pump which was a Medtronic. I got to choose a colour, which for a thirteen year old is an incredibly exciting thing. So I chose purple which was and still is my favourite colour. Now the simplest way to explain the use of a pump to myself and my friends was that it was like a pancreas. The thing that was wrong with my pancreas was "fixed" by the pump. One of my friends first reactions was "so you've got a purple pancreas?" which is where the name came from.
A couple of years later I got an "upgrade" to the accu-chek pump which I do prefer as it has many more useful features such as being waterproof, except when being dropped at the bottom of a lake, but it's black. My thirteen year old self is still upset about the fact that I didn't get to choose a nice colour. You can get skins which are basically stickers on the pump and they do make it look really cool. However the amount of time i spend in the sea means that they get ruined fairly quickly and so I haven't got anymore which sucks.
Still wasn't very long in the end!
Rhona x
Long time not writey, again. One day I'm sure I'll get the hang of writing on here regularly, though not sure that'll be likely in the near future. Reliability isn't one of my strongest traits but all we can do is work on that, si?
This time I thought I'd explain the name of my blog and now I've realized exactly how short that story is I may add some other odd ramblings on the end. In March 2010, I think, I received my first pump which was a Medtronic. I got to choose a colour, which for a thirteen year old is an incredibly exciting thing. So I chose purple which was and still is my favourite colour. Now the simplest way to explain the use of a pump to myself and my friends was that it was like a pancreas. The thing that was wrong with my pancreas was "fixed" by the pump. One of my friends first reactions was "so you've got a purple pancreas?" which is where the name came from.
A couple of years later I got an "upgrade" to the accu-chek pump which I do prefer as it has many more useful features such as being waterproof, except when being dropped at the bottom of a lake, but it's black. My thirteen year old self is still upset about the fact that I didn't get to choose a nice colour. You can get skins which are basically stickers on the pump and they do make it look really cool. However the amount of time i spend in the sea means that they get ruined fairly quickly and so I haven't got anymore which sucks.
Still wasn't very long in the end!
Rhona x
Saturday, 5 July 2014
Funny Story...
Hello People of the Internet,
So a few weeks ago I told you I had absolutely no excuse not to write on here and yet I haven't written anything for several weeks so sorry about that.
Anyway so this week was mental and the title refers to the fun I had on Tuesday night and that is both meant in terms of sarcasm and not. I went paddle boarding and kayaking with a group of guides and it was really fun. Paddle boarding was about as hard as I expected it to be when I realised that that was what we were doing. So we paddles around on these large foam boards which are I imagine not dissimilar from surfboards and from that comment you can probably tell that I'm not a surfer although I would like to learn. I told my mum that and she laughed and pointed out you had to be able to balance to surf.
Anyway we got on to standing up and I stood up and promptly fell off again. I'd like to say that only happened once but it must have happened at least four times so it's safe to say I was drenched but in a good way. It was a really peaceful and once you got the hang of it it was fairly simple and I really enjoyed that part. Then we went kayaking, I have been kayaking so many times and its fun but when you're doing the same thing each time it does get a little repetitive. But it was fun and yet again I ended up in the water. Now my insulin pump is waterproof I've worn it sailing and in the shower and it's been fine. However I capsized came up for air and it was gone...
It hadn't even ripped the site out of my skin which is fairly standard if it's got very wet but the plastic connection had come apart. Now for me that was very unusual as I had had my pump hang off my body, not recommended tends to hurt a bit, and again had no problem with it.
Where we were kayaking wasn't exactly a nice shallow place the lake is about five metres deep and unless you have specialist diving equipment you're not getting it back as I was ever so cheerfully informed by the instructor who made me want to punch him as he grinned at me.
So yeah I manage to lose the most expensive thing I have ever owned and so followed a few days of insurance phone calls going back and forth but it's now sorted and apart from a lecture from my parents I've been incredibly lucky to be able to replace it.The message is kids wear suitable attachments when doing water sports with an expensive piece of kit like that.
Rhona x
So a few weeks ago I told you I had absolutely no excuse not to write on here and yet I haven't written anything for several weeks so sorry about that.
Anyway so this week was mental and the title refers to the fun I had on Tuesday night and that is both meant in terms of sarcasm and not. I went paddle boarding and kayaking with a group of guides and it was really fun. Paddle boarding was about as hard as I expected it to be when I realised that that was what we were doing. So we paddles around on these large foam boards which are I imagine not dissimilar from surfboards and from that comment you can probably tell that I'm not a surfer although I would like to learn. I told my mum that and she laughed and pointed out you had to be able to balance to surf.
Anyway we got on to standing up and I stood up and promptly fell off again. I'd like to say that only happened once but it must have happened at least four times so it's safe to say I was drenched but in a good way. It was a really peaceful and once you got the hang of it it was fairly simple and I really enjoyed that part. Then we went kayaking, I have been kayaking so many times and its fun but when you're doing the same thing each time it does get a little repetitive. But it was fun and yet again I ended up in the water. Now my insulin pump is waterproof I've worn it sailing and in the shower and it's been fine. However I capsized came up for air and it was gone...
It hadn't even ripped the site out of my skin which is fairly standard if it's got very wet but the plastic connection had come apart. Now for me that was very unusual as I had had my pump hang off my body, not recommended tends to hurt a bit, and again had no problem with it.
Where we were kayaking wasn't exactly a nice shallow place the lake is about five metres deep and unless you have specialist diving equipment you're not getting it back as I was ever so cheerfully informed by the instructor who made me want to punch him as he grinned at me.
So yeah I manage to lose the most expensive thing I have ever owned and so followed a few days of insurance phone calls going back and forth but it's now sorted and apart from a lecture from my parents I've been incredibly lucky to be able to replace it.The message is kids wear suitable attachments when doing water sports with an expensive piece of kit like that.
Rhona x
Wednesday, 11 June 2014
Freedom
Hello people of the internet, long time no speak.
My exams are finally over and this means I have absolutely no excuse not to be writing on here anymore and so I'm back! You lucky lucky readers. Recently I saw a large debate going on over twitter after this article was published on the internet and having only just read it I mistakenly assumed, from the twitosphere, that the author was saying that YA novels weren't good literature. However having read the article I get the feeling the author was trying to almost shame adults into reading books only aimed at adults. Also according to her I won't be in the YA demographic this time next year and so cannot lower myself to the embarrassment of reading a YA novel. What?!
I have always had a passion for reading and have never put a book down purely because it wasn't aimed at my age group. For example at the moment I'm re reading Pride and Prejudice but the next book I'm thinking of reading is aimed at 8-12year olds. But I'm going to read it because I read the first one in the series years afo and remember loving it and now I'd like to finish the series. I certainly won't be embarrassed about reading any book, except possibly books along the lines of Fifty Shades of Grey.
Another example is a series of books I read as a 9/10year old and due to the sheer length of the trilogy, about 900pages I think, I lost the motivation to finish it in one go. I think it took me a year to finish as I put it down halfway through and forced myself to finish it and I'll be honest I didn't enjoy it. So last year I picked it up again and read it cover to cover in half the time I had first time round as well as enjoying it. However apparently because the series wasn't aimed at my age group I should be mortified to be reading this book.
However I do feel it's important for people to read a wide variety of books. My bookshelf contains books from Alice in Wonderland to Harry Potter to Jane Eyre. Also on the point of The Fault In Our Stars not being good literature I have to agree, while it's an incredibly thought provoking, heart breaking and well written book I wouldn't class it as good literature. But I would not class 90% of books that I've read as good literature and I'm not sure I could define good literature. It would probably be books that have dramatically affected me and still do after I've finished them and there are very very few books who do. However YA is one of my favourite genres and calling Divergent "transparently trashy stuff" is a whole other ball game.
I think my main problem with this article is that the author seems to have forgotten the main reason people read books which is because they enjoy them. I read books that look interesting and exciting and just because they're not aimed at me I don't see why I shouldn't read them. For years people who enjoy chick lit or trashy romances have been frowned upon by `literary snobs` who only read Dickens or Bronte and that's their choice of books and who am I to judge them for it? Yet it seems OK for them to judge us for what we read. Many people use books to escape the confines of their lives and I strongly feel that people should be allowed the freedom to read what they want without being judged and nobody should ever be embarrassed about what they're reading.
Rhona x
My exams are finally over and this means I have absolutely no excuse not to be writing on here anymore and so I'm back! You lucky lucky readers. Recently I saw a large debate going on over twitter after this article was published on the internet and having only just read it I mistakenly assumed, from the twitosphere, that the author was saying that YA novels weren't good literature. However having read the article I get the feeling the author was trying to almost shame adults into reading books only aimed at adults. Also according to her I won't be in the YA demographic this time next year and so cannot lower myself to the embarrassment of reading a YA novel. What?!
I have always had a passion for reading and have never put a book down purely because it wasn't aimed at my age group. For example at the moment I'm re reading Pride and Prejudice but the next book I'm thinking of reading is aimed at 8-12year olds. But I'm going to read it because I read the first one in the series years afo and remember loving it and now I'd like to finish the series. I certainly won't be embarrassed about reading any book, except possibly books along the lines of Fifty Shades of Grey.
Another example is a series of books I read as a 9/10year old and due to the sheer length of the trilogy, about 900pages I think, I lost the motivation to finish it in one go. I think it took me a year to finish as I put it down halfway through and forced myself to finish it and I'll be honest I didn't enjoy it. So last year I picked it up again and read it cover to cover in half the time I had first time round as well as enjoying it. However apparently because the series wasn't aimed at my age group I should be mortified to be reading this book.
However I do feel it's important for people to read a wide variety of books. My bookshelf contains books from Alice in Wonderland to Harry Potter to Jane Eyre. Also on the point of The Fault In Our Stars not being good literature I have to agree, while it's an incredibly thought provoking, heart breaking and well written book I wouldn't class it as good literature. But I would not class 90% of books that I've read as good literature and I'm not sure I could define good literature. It would probably be books that have dramatically affected me and still do after I've finished them and there are very very few books who do. However YA is one of my favourite genres and calling Divergent "transparently trashy stuff" is a whole other ball game.
I think my main problem with this article is that the author seems to have forgotten the main reason people read books which is because they enjoy them. I read books that look interesting and exciting and just because they're not aimed at me I don't see why I shouldn't read them. For years people who enjoy chick lit or trashy romances have been frowned upon by `literary snobs` who only read Dickens or Bronte and that's their choice of books and who am I to judge them for it? Yet it seems OK for them to judge us for what we read. Many people use books to escape the confines of their lives and I strongly feel that people should be allowed the freedom to read what they want without being judged and nobody should ever be embarrassed about what they're reading.
Rhona x
Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Cute
What up people of the internet?
It has been so long since I was last here but life has gone crazy recently due to all the exams coming up. So for this post I'm going to just show you lots of cute pictures to try and cheer you up in this miserable time of year, well if your doing exams it's miserable.
Those eyes are just so pretty and the whiskers and the fluffiness. Ignoring the fact that it'll grow up into a deadly predator.
Cat stuck in a t-shirt .Second picture I will admit is not cute and is slightly terrifying but hey ho
Anyone remember this one. Dancing polar bear 
This by far is the best one the duck is just so happy
Sleeping otters, all fluffy and cosy
It's a sloth, no scratch that it's a baby sloth that yet again in fluffy and cute.
It has been so long since I was last here but life has gone crazy recently due to all the exams coming up. So for this post I'm going to just show you lots of cute pictures to try and cheer you up in this miserable time of year, well if your doing exams it's miserable.
Those eyes are just so pretty and the whiskers and the fluffiness. Ignoring the fact that it'll grow up into a deadly predator.
Cat stuck in a t-shirt .Second picture I will admit is not cute and is slightly terrifying but hey ho
Anyone remember this one. Dancing polar bear 
This by far is the best one the duck is just so happy
Sleeping otters, all fluffy and cosy 
It's a sloth, no scratch that it's a baby sloth that yet again in fluffy and cute.
So theres a healthy dose of cute fluffy animals to brighten your day. Keep going through the incredibly monotonous revision if you're stuck doing it.
Rhona x
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Like Owner Like Dog
Hello people of the internet
Getting round to doing this a bit earlier this week. So recently I've notice how similar my dog and I are and I went to do a bit of research for this so I google dogs like their owners and this came up:
Anyway my dog is tall, blonde and an idiot,like me. We have far too many similarities such as both getting very excited over everything. Though for Milly, the dog so we're clear, it's more about the doorbell which I have to say is not the highlight of my day.
We also love food! Honestly I care more about food than my figure and that I see as a good thing. I have a pretty bad diet but I do a fair bit of exercise, hockey 2-4 times a week and then running on top. Milly will eat anything and everything that she can get her hands on.
Therefore it could be twisted that we both quite like exercise. Milly runs laps on the walk, just constantly sprinting backwards and forwards.
However there are obviously major differences between me and my dog. I personally don't think that chasing tennis balls is the best fun in the world. I used to play tennis though so I guess you could call that a similarity rather than a difference.
Milly is scared of everything that moves. Not even things that are bigger than her but everything that's not alive, and even things that are, and smaller than her. No joke she will stop and refuse to move if a small dog walks up to her. She is genuinely terrified of them,she has no reason to be one swipe of her paw would knock them over. Other things shes scared of include:pieces of paper, dog toys, cushions, her own bed and of course like every other dog the hoover.
So basically I'm a lot like my dog and I'm not sure it's a good thing.
Rhona x
Getting round to doing this a bit earlier this week. So recently I've notice how similar my dog and I are and I went to do a bit of research for this so I google dogs like their owners and this came up:
Anyway my dog is tall, blonde and an idiot,like me. We have far too many similarities such as both getting very excited over everything. Though for Milly, the dog so we're clear, it's more about the doorbell which I have to say is not the highlight of my day.
We also love food! Honestly I care more about food than my figure and that I see as a good thing. I have a pretty bad diet but I do a fair bit of exercise, hockey 2-4 times a week and then running on top. Milly will eat anything and everything that she can get her hands on.
Therefore it could be twisted that we both quite like exercise. Milly runs laps on the walk, just constantly sprinting backwards and forwards.
However there are obviously major differences between me and my dog. I personally don't think that chasing tennis balls is the best fun in the world. I used to play tennis though so I guess you could call that a similarity rather than a difference.
Milly is scared of everything that moves. Not even things that are bigger than her but everything that's not alive, and even things that are, and smaller than her. No joke she will stop and refuse to move if a small dog walks up to her. She is genuinely terrified of them,she has no reason to be one swipe of her paw would knock them over. Other things shes scared of include:pieces of paper, dog toys, cushions, her own bed and of course like every other dog the hoover.
So basically I'm a lot like my dog and I'm not sure it's a good thing.
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| She looks so serious and chilled in this but she's not like this often. |
Friday, 14 February 2014
Crappy D
Hellooo people of the Internet
Okay so the past 24 hours have been crap diabetes wise...
It all started when I woke up on Thursday morning. I thought that I was meant to do a set change around then, I'm either really good and remember exactly when I'm meant to change it all or completely forget and leave it too late. Anyway I woke up and checked how many units of insulin I had left and it was 26. That to me was cutting a bit fine but was probably okay. So through out the day I constantly checked Phil and ended up getting home from college with less than one unit left. Oops! So I changed it all and went off to hockey.
We started training and about ten minutes into the ninety minute session someone goes "Rhona, you know your legs bleeding?" Glancing down at my leg, I kid you not, it looked like a small animal had been murdered on it. There was blood all over it. My sites have ripped out before and ones that have been bad often bleed a lot but this one bled a beautiful trail all the way down to just below the knee. To make it worse I hadn't even noticed, if someone hadn't pointed it out I would have got into the car to go home and wondered why I felt so high.
By the time I got home my sugar levels were 20mmol which were high but not high that I was worried. So for the second time that day I put a new site in and carried on. By the time I went to bed I was 15.4mmol and I happily went to sleep thinking I'd come down fully overnight.
Eight o'clock this morning I got up did a blood test 22.7mmol! What the fudge?! There was no reason to still be this high. I came down to 18.3mmol so assuming the ridiculous amount of insulin I had administered would bring me down nicely I went out for my driving lesson. An hour later I felt like I'd run a marathon, I was so tired. So we cut the lesson short and went home to find my sugars were 20! Still high. Apart from that slight dip as I went to bed I had been hovering around 20 for 14hours.
So for you non diabetics out there being high is crap but being high for such a prolonged period of time is exhausting. I'd slept for at least eight of those fourteen hours and I'd felt like I hadn't slept a wink. I eventually came down to 9mmol in the middle of my English lesson so we're all good now.
Rhona x
Sunday, 9 February 2014
Brownies
Hello people of the Internet
So a few weeks ago I discovered this life changing recipe. Unfortunately it hasn't made me a better person it's probably only made me fatter. It's a brownie in a mug. It is a single serving of cake that takes all of five minutes to make. Do you understand how incredible that is? FIVE MINUTE CAKE! So I thought I would share this incredible recipe so other people can get fat too.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup of flour
1/4 cup of sugar (adjust to what you fancy less or more both work if you're so inclined)
2tbsp butter (I've started melting this first but I think it would still work if you didn't)
2tbsp Cocoa powder
Milk (enough to make it cake mixture like)
Method:
Put all your ingredients in a mug and stir until cake mixture like (technical term I know)
Cook in the microwave for 1min and then 10 second intervals to it's cooked to your standards. For me 1m 30s seems pretty perfect.
To make it even worse I've been adding a rather large spoonful of nutella on top and letting that melt, things like chocolate chips would work to. I've become slightly addicted to it, to the point where I've had three in as many days, gasp. I hope you lot enjoy this as much as I do, I did some tweaking to that recipe to make it perfect for my tastes.
Rhona x
So a few weeks ago I discovered this life changing recipe. Unfortunately it hasn't made me a better person it's probably only made me fatter. It's a brownie in a mug. It is a single serving of cake that takes all of five minutes to make. Do you understand how incredible that is? FIVE MINUTE CAKE! So I thought I would share this incredible recipe so other people can get fat too.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup of flour
1/4 cup of sugar (adjust to what you fancy less or more both work if you're so inclined)
2tbsp butter (I've started melting this first but I think it would still work if you didn't)
2tbsp Cocoa powder
Milk (enough to make it cake mixture like)
Method:
Put all your ingredients in a mug and stir until cake mixture like (technical term I know)
Cook in the microwave for 1min and then 10 second intervals to it's cooked to your standards. For me 1m 30s seems pretty perfect.
To make it even worse I've been adding a rather large spoonful of nutella on top and letting that melt, things like chocolate chips would work to. I've become slightly addicted to it, to the point where I've had three in as many days, gasp. I hope you lot enjoy this as much as I do, I did some tweaking to that recipe to make it perfect for my tastes.
Rhona x
Monday, 27 January 2014
Bucket Lists
"I'm 17 and I have terminal cancer. I've created a bucket list because there are so many things I still want to do in my life ... some are possible, some will remain a dream. My blog is to document this precious time with my family and friends, doing the things I want to do. You only have one life ... live it!"
These are the opening words on Alice Payne's Blog. Just over a year ago Alice sadly passed away but her bucket list has inspired me to make one of my own. Some of them are silly, some are very unlikely to happen but hey ho!
1.Go Scuba Diving - Some of you may no about my love of the sea, except in the winter it's too cold, so now that I've sailed on top of it I fancy going in it. Obviously I've swam in the sea before, sailor with a tendency to fall off the boat here.
2. Skydive - I've wanted to do this for years looks terrifying and amazing all at the same time.
3. Paragliding - Sensing an extreme sports theme here?
4. Get kissed in the rain - Hey I'm a girl I watch movies don't judge OK?
5. Make a reading list and stick to it - My reading list for 2014 is about the length of my arm so should be easy to complete.
6. Spend a night under the stars - As in "sleep" under them, I did this when I was eleven after a week long guide camp so was asleep after a few minutes. The stars genuinely fascinate me but while there isn't much light pollution where I live I would love to be able to see them in much better detail which leads me to my next point:
7. Visit New Zealand - A few years ago I saw a picture someone had taken when camping in New Zealand that vaguely looked like this and I've wanted to visit ever since.
8. Photograph the stars - time lapse maybe, came up with this one recently and would need a serious upgrade equipment wise but I've still got years of life left, hopefully.
9. Volunteer abroad - This one is being worked on as we speak for summer 2015, no plans yet just an idea. I've done a fair bit of volunteering close to home and it's taught me so much about other people and so I thought I'd extend my horizons a bit.
10. Turn down a cure for diabetes - As I've said before (see this post) I wouldn't want to get rid of my diabetes it's a part of me. However I would love for other people who struggle with it to be able to lead a life not dominated by it and so I can't wait for a day when a cure for type 1 diabetes becomes available to all those who need it.
Okay so some like the last one are completely out of my control but a girl can dream.
Rhona x
Friday, 17 January 2014
New Diabetes Myths
Hello people of the internet. Really quick post here of this awesome picture, you can work out for yourself which ones are true.
Rhona x
Saturday, 4 January 2014
New Year!
Hello to you people of the Internet and Happy New Year!
I hope everybody had a lovely Christmas and not too drunk New Year. My Christmas was good lots of good food and company I was given lots of money for that little driving thing I can do now. We went to my uncles for lunch and I managed to leave my testing kit at home which meant we had to spent the whole day guessing what my blood sugar levels were, but as far as I can remember they were pretty good.
I guess you could say my new year was pretty average, I spent it with the famalam which was nice and we watched Life of Pi which was surprisingly rubbish. It was just so depressing and that really didn't help my excellent mood, anyone else detect the hint of sarcasm? My crappy mood was based on the fact that at my old school there was a party for everyone and a few people had said they would get me a plus one so I could go and it never actually happened. To be honest with you I wasn't so much annoyed that people forgot to invite me because I can't say I was that surprised it was more the fact that I felt a bit like EVERYONE was there. I'm well aware of the fact that obviously not everyone was there also I hadn't had any contact with any of them for over a week which was unusual, not for all of them just a few. Any attempts to contact them appeared to fall on deaf ears and it all felt a bit like a one way friendship. However some of them have resurfaced and recovered from, by the sounds of it, a very messy night out so perhaps it was a good thing I wasn't there.
Now that we have exited the limbo land between Christmas and New Year I am going to do some shameless self promotion. I have almost every social networking site under the sun and apart from this most are non diabetes related, and I don't always talk about diabetes here either. Anyway most are merely for entertainment/stalking famous people:
Twitter: @_snitchseeker
Instagram: rhonamacgregor7
Tumblr: mypacreasispurple
However one of my passions is photography and although I don't get to do it as often as I would like I have set up a small facebook page to prevent me spamming of my "friends" news feeds. It would mean a lot to me if some of you could have a look and maybe a cheeky little like. I'd like to say I use it often and my photos are good however neither of these is true and I'm not expecting you to look it would just be nice. It should come up under Rhona MacGregor Photography however here's the link just in case it doesn't: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rhona-Macgregor-Photography/339320579501719
Shameless promotion over have you guys made any New Years resolutions? Have to say I'm so bad at keeping them I just don't bother anymore but I might set one to write on here more regularly, you lot would love to read some more of my ramblings wouldn't you?
Rhona x
I hope everybody had a lovely Christmas and not too drunk New Year. My Christmas was good lots of good food and company I was given lots of money for that little driving thing I can do now. We went to my uncles for lunch and I managed to leave my testing kit at home which meant we had to spent the whole day guessing what my blood sugar levels were, but as far as I can remember they were pretty good.
I guess you could say my new year was pretty average, I spent it with the famalam which was nice and we watched Life of Pi which was surprisingly rubbish. It was just so depressing and that really didn't help my excellent mood, anyone else detect the hint of sarcasm? My crappy mood was based on the fact that at my old school there was a party for everyone and a few people had said they would get me a plus one so I could go and it never actually happened. To be honest with you I wasn't so much annoyed that people forgot to invite me because I can't say I was that surprised it was more the fact that I felt a bit like EVERYONE was there. I'm well aware of the fact that obviously not everyone was there also I hadn't had any contact with any of them for over a week which was unusual, not for all of them just a few. Any attempts to contact them appeared to fall on deaf ears and it all felt a bit like a one way friendship. However some of them have resurfaced and recovered from, by the sounds of it, a very messy night out so perhaps it was a good thing I wasn't there.
Now that we have exited the limbo land between Christmas and New Year I am going to do some shameless self promotion. I have almost every social networking site under the sun and apart from this most are non diabetes related, and I don't always talk about diabetes here either. Anyway most are merely for entertainment/stalking famous people:
Twitter: @_snitchseeker
Instagram: rhonamacgregor7
Tumblr: mypacreasispurple
However one of my passions is photography and although I don't get to do it as often as I would like I have set up a small facebook page to prevent me spamming of my "friends" news feeds. It would mean a lot to me if some of you could have a look and maybe a cheeky little like. I'd like to say I use it often and my photos are good however neither of these is true and I'm not expecting you to look it would just be nice. It should come up under Rhona MacGregor Photography however here's the link just in case it doesn't: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rhona-Macgregor-Photography/339320579501719
Shameless promotion over have you guys made any New Years resolutions? Have to say I'm so bad at keeping them I just don't bother anymore but I might set one to write on here more regularly, you lot would love to read some more of my ramblings wouldn't you?
Rhona x
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