Monday, October 28, 2013
Short cheetah bit there
Well in class I lack the interest into coming up with an idea to research into. maybe thats not the right way to word it....anyway so i got picked apart to get to my "self" and find what it is I might find interest in. I'm very indecisive and lack interest in really researching. I know what I want and cant pick anything out that I want to know more about soooo i was given the assignment to research an animal since I LOVE ANIMAL and hate people lol. Well my favorite animal is the cheetah. They are the most beautiful and cute animals alive. Their sleek and slender bodies to their long ring tails to their found face with their small round mussel to the "tear marks" from their eyes. Also they are FAST. Everyone knows that. The story of a cheetah is rather sad though. There used to be an abundance (~ 110,000) of cheetahs all over the western hemisphere (pretty much; asia, india, africa) but now they are isolated to certain parts of africa and a little in india (~90,000 - 12,000 today). The poor cheetah generally hunts early morning or late evening. He relies on tall grasses for camouflage. When the hunt is on and the cheetah is after a prey it usually last for 20-60 seconds cuz the cheetah is fast or the prey was startled and had a head a start. The cheetah can reach speeds up to I believe 60 mph, fast! Something that is sooooo cooool about the cheetah, even though a part of the big cat clan it can not roar but rather purrs in communication like domestic house cats. The cheetah can also mimic other sounds like birds.
Friday, October 18, 2013
Research, research, research... what to research?
So here it is, I need to find something that I am interested and in and would like to conduct research in a much greater depth. A few things do come to mind when it comes to myself personally; I have an auto immune disorder called hypothyroidism (low thyroid) and I have a sentimentality that I have never noticed before till someone brought it up, I also have a a few fears that prevent me from doing many things.
The Thyroid gland (located in the throat) is having a hard time producing the correct amount of hormones in my body for me to function "normally". I fatigue very quickly and easily, its like an all day struggle pretty much. The lack of hormones to the rest of my body creating a slow immune system causes my body to have a slower and much harder time at working away the "bad bacteria" or other things in my system. This can make an illnesses much worse and even make losing weight a much harder challenge than for someone else who has a normal functioning thyroid. The thyroid is sort of like the second brain as i like to call it because if something is wrong with it then there are going to many other problems with your body. Such as, the lack of the hormones, thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) which the thyroid produces is very important in child birth. When a child is conceived the mothers thyroid will have to produce twice the amount of hormones for the child as well, If the mothers thyroid can not produce enough hormones this can result in premature births and even miscarriages. There are also mental dullness and getting cold and many other things. I am medically diagnosed with the low thyroid because of a blood test. When the doctor found out he put me on a medication called Levothyroxine. This medication has to be worked into because some people require higher dosage on a daily basis than other people. However, this disorder cannot be cure but treated, meaning that once your thyroid malfunctions then you are stuck with it for the rest of your life. There are a few different kinds of treatments, some more drastic than others. I am taking a pill every morning when I wake up an hour before I possibly eat anything. Whenever I go off of this pill I get real sick, irritable, and fatigued. This, as you can tell, has a big impact on my life and I would like to research more into it but not sure what to really research in to.
Something else that I realized about my self is I am sentimental about certain things. A little hobby of mine is to collect beautiful flowers such as roses and other big-"ish" flowers or just bunches of brightly colored flowers and dry them. I don't let them sit out and be beautiful like most people i put them somewhere like on my dashboard in my car to dry out quickly. I like to try and capture their beauty before it withers away, so to speak. OR, I have basically all of my toys that i was given as a child stashed away for safe keeping to give to my kids. Some of those toys are also toys that were hand-me-downs, little pieces of my parents or grandparents. When I was young my mother and I would stop on the sides of the roads and pick flowers, I believe that this is the a hidden reason as to why I started collecting and drying flowers.
I also tend to be very very shy almost to the point of introvert. I really do not like being around a lot of people at a time. I dont like to work with many people. I do not like to talk to many people and or to talk about my feelings. I prefer to be alone most of the time or to be my boyfriend and thats it or family. I also have a fear of talking on the phone which is why I text all the time. I can not answer a phone call from anyone I do not know and also from many people I do know. Its hard for me I get really nervous and sweaty and I have an emotional battle with myself if I have to call someone I do not know. I just cant do it. That is why my boyfriend is such great secretary, haha. I have a fear of talking in front of people which actually is what seems to be a normal thing for most people. I really dont understand my fears and would like to dig deeper into this because no one else that I know has a problem like this so why do I?
These are some animal artists that I really like.
http://www.jerrylofarodesigns.com/ Jerry LoFaro
http://www.michaeldefeo.com/ Michael Defeo
http://limon-art.com/wordpress/ Jason Limon
The Thyroid gland (located in the throat) is having a hard time producing the correct amount of hormones in my body for me to function "normally". I fatigue very quickly and easily, its like an all day struggle pretty much. The lack of hormones to the rest of my body creating a slow immune system causes my body to have a slower and much harder time at working away the "bad bacteria" or other things in my system. This can make an illnesses much worse and even make losing weight a much harder challenge than for someone else who has a normal functioning thyroid. The thyroid is sort of like the second brain as i like to call it because if something is wrong with it then there are going to many other problems with your body. Such as, the lack of the hormones, thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) which the thyroid produces is very important in child birth. When a child is conceived the mothers thyroid will have to produce twice the amount of hormones for the child as well, If the mothers thyroid can not produce enough hormones this can result in premature births and even miscarriages. There are also mental dullness and getting cold and many other things. I am medically diagnosed with the low thyroid because of a blood test. When the doctor found out he put me on a medication called Levothyroxine. This medication has to be worked into because some people require higher dosage on a daily basis than other people. However, this disorder cannot be cure but treated, meaning that once your thyroid malfunctions then you are stuck with it for the rest of your life. There are a few different kinds of treatments, some more drastic than others. I am taking a pill every morning when I wake up an hour before I possibly eat anything. Whenever I go off of this pill I get real sick, irritable, and fatigued. This, as you can tell, has a big impact on my life and I would like to research more into it but not sure what to really research in to.
Something else that I realized about my self is I am sentimental about certain things. A little hobby of mine is to collect beautiful flowers such as roses and other big-"ish" flowers or just bunches of brightly colored flowers and dry them. I don't let them sit out and be beautiful like most people i put them somewhere like on my dashboard in my car to dry out quickly. I like to try and capture their beauty before it withers away, so to speak. OR, I have basically all of my toys that i was given as a child stashed away for safe keeping to give to my kids. Some of those toys are also toys that were hand-me-downs, little pieces of my parents or grandparents. When I was young my mother and I would stop on the sides of the roads and pick flowers, I believe that this is the a hidden reason as to why I started collecting and drying flowers.
I also tend to be very very shy almost to the point of introvert. I really do not like being around a lot of people at a time. I dont like to work with many people. I do not like to talk to many people and or to talk about my feelings. I prefer to be alone most of the time or to be my boyfriend and thats it or family. I also have a fear of talking on the phone which is why I text all the time. I can not answer a phone call from anyone I do not know and also from many people I do know. Its hard for me I get really nervous and sweaty and I have an emotional battle with myself if I have to call someone I do not know. I just cant do it. That is why my boyfriend is such great secretary, haha. I have a fear of talking in front of people which actually is what seems to be a normal thing for most people. I really dont understand my fears and would like to dig deeper into this because no one else that I know has a problem like this so why do I?
These are some animal artists that I really like.
http://www.jerrylofarodesigns.com/ Jerry LoFaro
http://www.michaeldefeo.com/ Michael Defeo
http://limon-art.com/wordpress/ Jason Limon
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