A girl gone country..

No, not me, y'all. I'm already country ;)

I'm talking about one of my greatest friends, Sara, who just came to visit my little eastern NC town for the first time Wednesday and Thursday! How is she one of my greatest friends yet just came to my town for the first time, you ask? Well, let me tell you.

Two years ago (WOW!) when I was searching for roommates for my freshman year at UNC, I stumbled upon this website called "URoomSurf" --basically eHarmony for roommates. But really, it was! And it was great. You had to pay $10 (totally worth it) and you filled out a very lengthy, but very appropriate, questionnaire and it paired you with people who were attending your chosen college in the fall and gave you a compatibility rating! It was great, and this is how I found Miss Sara. 

 (Sara is on the right. This was her URoomSurf picture and therefore the first picture I ever saw of her)

She already had a roommate (the lovely Anna), but was still looking for 2 more suitemates. After talking back and forth for about 2 weeks, she oh-so-graciously agreed to be my suitemate and was a HUGE help in finding me a roommate, the hilarious Devin.

Because of these three girls, I had the best freshman year of college possible. I knew I would only be living in a dorm for one year and wanted to have a good experience with it, and I had a wonderful one.

L to R: Devin, myself, Sara, Anna

L to R: myself, Sara, Anna

L to R: myself, Anna, Sara, Devin

Each of these girls hailed from pretty large towns in central NC (with about 20,000 stoplights), and I came from a super tiny town in eastern NC (with 2 stoplights). They're city girls, and I'm all country.

Funny story/side-note: The first time I actually called Sara, instead of texting, she answered the phone ..

Sara: Hello?

Haley: Hey, what are you doing?

Sara: ...long pause.....nothing, what about you?

Then our conversation carried on as normal, but I would later find out (like 6 months ago) that the reason Sara paused for so long is because she was so shocked by my accent and "didn't expect me to sound like that". HAHA! Love her. 

Anyway, to make this already long story a little shorter, a country girl and a city girl were thrown together in the hopes of not killing each other, and now she's become one of my greatest friends and one that I know will forever be a part of my life. 

SO, with all that said, we had been planning and scheming trying to get her down to Pinetops (she has a very busy summer schedule) and she was finally able to break away this week! She arrived Wednesday afternoon and left Thursday at noon, but it was better than nothing and we made the very best of it!

She came to hang out with me in my "box", as she so affectionately referred to my ice cream stand, for a few hours and then we headed back to home to get all dolled up and headed to Greenville for a late dinner at Winslow's Tavern with 3 of my other best girls, Jordan (whom you all know), Jen, and Kelly.  

 L to R: Jen, myself, Jordan, Sara

 Back row: myself, Kelly, Sara

Front row: Jen and Jordan

L to R: myself, Jen, Jordan, Sara, Kelly

And as a rather interesting end to the night, we headed to Sonic for dessert and Sara made a friend..

Sara: Hey, look! It's a cat!

Me: Mmm..Sara. I don't think that's a cat. I think it's a....fox??

Sara: No way! I'm gonna go feed it. 

So yes, that is her Sonic blast that "Willy" the fox is eating. 

Oh, the things that happen when you bring a city girl into the country....

;) 

P.S. I'm guest posting over at the wonderful Asha's Aspects today while she's airborne to Portland for vacay! Go check it out!!

Hope y'all have a fab Friday and wonderful weekend!! xo

pain, ER, and kidney stones...oh my!

Happy, happy Friday my lovelies!

Hope y'all are already having a fantastic start to the weekend!! 

This post was supposed to the start of a fun weekly Friday post that I plan on doing from here on out, but something much more...interesting?...came up and I just had to share. 

But, make sure you come back next Friday to see what this post was really supposed to be about! ;)

I'll give you details in a minute, but just because I dislike when people make me wait for something..I'll go ahead and tell you the gist of what happened.

I was in the ER last night for 5 1/2 hours with kidney stones.

Translation: I wanted to die for about 3 hours last night. Worst pain I have ever and I hope will ever feel in my life. (They say childbirth can be equivalent on the pain scale, so I guess I'm all prepared now for the future)

So let me give you the lowdown on how it all played out.

Warning: This may be quite the wordy post. But I promise to throw in some random pictures at the bottom for entertainment ;)

 So, I'm currently taking 'drama' as a class here at school and we have to go see 3 plays throughout the semester, one of which was last night. Everything was fine and dandy until I got up at intermission to use the bathroom. After I got back to my seat, the pain hit me like a ton of bricks. I couldn't still still for squirming and trying to find a comfortable position. I ended up having to leave early because I felt like a distraction to those sitting around me. (Sorry, you guys!)

I miraculously made it back to my car and drove home. On the way, I called my sweet nursing student roommate, Steph, and told her that I thought something was seriously wrong because I'm generally a very pain tolerant person and I'm hardly ever sick. She was at dinner with friends but went ahead and left to come to my rescue.

**she will be receiving a complimentary roommate of the century award, no worries friends!  

When Steph got to the apartment, I was lying on my bed writhing in pain and she told me that it sounded like my kidneys and gave me one option: go to the ER. I normally would have put up a bigger fight about not going and wasting my time..but I was in so much pain (about a 7/8 on a 1-10 scale) I couldn't even think straight. So off to the ER we went at about 10:30pm!

We got there and naturally, had to wait forever. At about 12:30am, I was sitting in the waiting room, pain had escalated to about a 9/10, and I closed my eyes to try not to think about the pain, and it just stopped. Instantly. And no sooner did it stop than I was out like a light. I dozed off for about 30 minutes and woke back up to the triage nurse telling me there was blood in my urine sample and that it was most likely a kidney stone. I had mixed feelings about her saying that, though. On the one hand I was glad that it was actually something and I wasn't just overreacting, but I was also super scared because I was afraid of when it might start up again. 

I ended up having a CT scan of my renal area and an ultrasound of my kidneys. The ultrasound didn't show anything, but the CT scan did. I had one larger kidney stone in my bladder (the one that was causing all of the pain) and a bunch of little ones in both of my kidneys (not what I wanted to hear, obviously). So, they gave me a strainer to catch the little boogers when they pass and sent me on my way! I got to sleep around 4:30 this morning, and missed both of my classes today. I'd already been up to 5:00am once this week and still went to class but it wasn't happening again.

I'm not kidding when I say this y'all.....but PRAY that this never happens to you or anyone else you know, for that matter. And if it already has, I am so, so sorry. I wouldn't wish that kind of pain on my worst enemy. It was unbearable, and nothing eased it. I mean, nothing.  

I've never had kidney stones before, and neither has anyone in my family. So needless to say I was little shocked and unpleasantly surprised to know that I had more than one. But hopefully the little ones won't be quite as painful as the one trying to pass last night, and please, please pray for me that after these are all gone...I never have another one, because I know that tends to be the case when you have a kidney stone.  :( 

Now, I just want to give the best roommate AND her boyfriend the biggest thank-you I will probably ever give to anyone. They stuck by me for the entire 5 1/2 hours and I am so, so grateful. I don't know many people other than my family that would do that for me and I will forever indebted to them because if it weren't for Steph and Coleman making me go to the ER, I would have lied in bed all night just hoping and praying it would go away.  (yes, I'm that stubborn)

Here's a picture of them:

love them so much

   And last but not least...

I BLAME THIS ON FRIDAY, THE 13TH.

Granted, my pain started on the 12th, but I got the "diagnosis" on the 13th. So there. It works. UGH! 

dun, dun, dunnnnn

Ok, maybe that was a tad bit dramatic. But, oh well. 

Here are some funny pictures I found on #WhatShouldWeCallMe  so I can leave you guys on a happy note! Enjoy them and your weekend! xo

 

WHEN I REMEMBER THAT MY BIRTHDAY IS APPROACHING

WHEN A BOY FLIRTS WITH ME ALL NIGHT, BUT THEN DOESN'T MAKE A MOVE

 

WHEN MY FAVORITE FRO-YO PLACE IS ABOUT TO CLOSE AND I DON'T KNOW IF I'LL MAKE IT THERE IN TIME

WHEN I'M IN A DRESSING ROOM AND SOMETHING ACTUALLY LOOKS GOOD

and one more...

WHEN YOU SEE YOUR FRIEND IN PUBLIC, BUT THEN YOU REALIZE IT'S NOT THEM

 

 Make sure you guys check out their website...hilarious and so true!