Brand New Eyes

Someday I hope my posts won't always be 7 months apart.

I bought the new Paramore album today. It's so bomb. I love Hayley Williams. If I ever was brave enough, I'd color my hair just like hers.

Okay here's something I'm super stoked about (Abby you'll love this)--
Over my 7 week break from school in Colorado, I visited an estate sale. This guy that lives down the road from my grandparents was put in a home because he has Alzheimer's and his family is all over so no one can come take care of him or anything. So his kids were selling everything. My grandparents came home with some sweet finds so I went over there myself. I bought a desk lamp for school (my melted), two old cigar boxes (very cool looking), a mirror, and two Polaroid cameras. One is just a regular snapshot one but the other is a Polaroid Land Camera, which came with all the flash bulbs and lenses and everything. All of that for 10 bucks. Heck yeah. I'm so stoked. Now all I need to do is buy film.

DISTRACTIONS

I should be working on a research paper currently, but I think I need a break so I wanted to post a quick blog...

Things are going really well in life! I try to stay as busy as I can with school, but of course, I have to make time for socializing too. :-)
Random--I applied to BYU Provo yesterday. I didn't even think twice about it. I just did it. I can't even believe it. I didn't even think about what I will do if/when I'm accepted! AH! It'd be freakin cool if I got in though...
Also, I was reminiscing today on fun times in the past..I talked to Korben yesterday who was helping Elle wipe her bum after a good dump, and it made me think of when I went to Disneyland with my family a couple years ago. SO FUN! and one of my favorite memories I have, aside from meeting Peter Pan!, was Elle dancing in the street right before the parade. and I feel lucky enough to have been able to take a video of it! PS--I tried to rotate it but it wouldn't work.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S/SINGLE AWARENESS DAY!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! Or... for some, like myself, Happy Single Awareness Day!

I have a love/hate relationship with this holiday. Hate, because of the commercialism this country gives it--NOT because of all the frilly presents and gifts and huge amounts of love everyone gets from their significant other (although, why should a holiday be an excuse for that when it should be a year-round thing? ha). Love, because of the history behind it. They should make a chick flick for that... Valentine's Day Special!

See...Saint Valentine was a martyr. He died because he wanted people to be together. In his day, there was an Emporer by the name of Claudius who felt like dude's who weren't married or had families, should stay that way and be soldiers. So he outlawed marriage for young guys. Saint Valentine thought that was stupid so he went on and married people illegally. But Claudius found out and imprisoned him.

This is a cute part--while he was in prison, he fell in love with his jailor's daughter who visited him often in jail. Before he died, he wrote her a love letter and signed it--"From your Valentine..." Awww... so sweet.

Anyway, my big VDay plans are not that elaborate but I am spending it with those that I love. Which is how it should be. :-)

Happy Valentine's Day. <3

PT/OT Society

So I was right about the snow. It's been pounding away for almost 3 days now.. I LOVE IT. I know I'm some kind of freak but... oh well. I love winter. There's just a certain caliber of peace to it that no other season can give. It's incredible.


Last weekend was amazing...having the opportunity to visit the Eastern Washington University and the University of Montana was such a blessing. It's like as soon as I made the decision to do Physical Therapy, everything has fallen into place.

Things were super cramped just traveling to these schools. There was I think 23 of us? and we were all cramped into two 12 passenger vans. It was annoying um...like 90% of the time. Thank goodness for ipods though. and phones! I'm glad I can text. Except there wasn't a lot of service traveling so... yeah.

Anyway, University of Montana is pretty cool. I really like their PT building. Of course, everyone is a hippie there so everything was really laid-back. I really liked how their program was set up though. They are doing research for quadriplegic and paraplegic people where they have them sit in recumbent bikes and they hook electrodes to their legs and then through the computer system, the patients are able to move their legs and have muscle contraction. It's amazing.

I think I liked Eastern Washington University better kinda. The overall atmosphere was a lot more like BYUI. They have a kind of dress code there and things were pretty organized. A couple grad students gave a us a tour of the facilities there and showed us a few labs. One of the labs we walked into was labeled "Anatomy Lab". Okay. I didn't really think anything of it cuz I've been in one before. Well. this was definitely different from the one I had been in. As I was soon about to find out...I walked in and there were ten stainless steel tables--2 rows of 5. Each table had a kind of lid to it that covered the entire table. Each table was about 6 feet long. the lids were like 2 feet high? My reaction was "oh cool! what are these for?" I'm definitely not the brightest crayon in the box... then i realize how cold it is in the room. I take another look at the tables. "OHHHHHHHH...." Yeah. it's a cadaver lab. Never been in one before. But it was definitely veryyyyy cool. Didn't see any bodies though. haha. dang.

Northern Idaho is beautiful by the way. I would live there. Maybe. It was AWESOME cuz I was right in the middle of Korben's soon to be mission field! Yes--Eastern Washington University is in Spokane. Freakin sweet. He's a lucky dude.

I'm so stoked about PT. It's gonna be so amazing.

PS--I saw Uncle Rob's grad picture for Pharmacy School at U of M!!!!! :-D

School...

So I'm in school. Back at BYU-I in good ole' rexburg, idaho. or iceburg. whatever you wanna call it. It's cold--it felt like -26 degrees the other day!!! So crazy. It hasn't snowed in a while though. But that only means we're gonna get POUNDED pretty badly in the next week or so.

Anyway, I've finally decided on a career! (i know everyone is celebrating...its a pretty huge deal. haha.) I want to be a Sports Physical Therapist (http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Explore_types_of_jobs/Types_of_Job/p!eipaL?state=showocc&idno=153). You know those people who run out on the football fields when players get hurt? Yeah that's what I wanna do. I wanna work for an NFL team (Broncos or Cardinals preferably...) and do physical therapy for them. It'd be SO tight. I can't wait.

And.. I feel like I'm already well on my way. I joined the Pre-Physical/Occupational Therapy Society up here at school and this weekend we're going to Missoula, Montana and Spokane, Washington to check out the universities up there for grad programs and for touring the school and stuff. I still have a LOT left to do...I probably have about 4 years left still, but I know I'm going to be successful in it. And hopefully I'll have a network built up so I can have a shoe in or something. That'd be amazing. Maybe I'll meet Tom Brady... haha.

The Power of 3...

So...it's been a while since I posted last! Sorry!

First off, my wonderfully lovely aunt Abby tagged me in a fun little "get to know you" thing a while back, and so first I'm gonna fill that out, then we'll see what else I have time for... :-)

3 Joys...

Snowboarding on fresh powder while rockin out to my favorite jams.

When there's a thunderstorm outside and I can just curl up in the covers and read a great book.

(It's hard to pick just three!!!)

Getting letters from my best friend in Tijuana. The mail takes forever to get to him and to get to me when he has the time to write, so when I do get that letter, it brings tears of pure joy to my face.

3 Fears...

The Dark. I suppose it's not really the dark itself but what's in it. And I have a very active imagination and so when those lights go off and I'm all alone, I can really freak myself out. :-\

Avalanches! I will probably never be caught in one (hopefully) unless I get that good at snowboarding that I can go in the back country, but thats not happening for a while. They're just wicked crazy, but I'm sure they're cool to watch.

Cougars. Pretty sure I wouldn't wanna be attacked from behind and ripped to shreds by a giant cat. My cat from TN has attacked me for no reason, enough for me to have a taste of what a mountain lion can do.

I have a few other fears worth mentioning, but not explaining--germ warfare, tornados, broken bones/sprains...

3 Obsessions...

Traveling!!!! OHHHH MANNN do I wanna travel. ALL OVER!!! Istanbul, Europe, Australia, Romania, India, Egypt, Canada, Peru...Oh goodness it just goes on and on. Abby, we should travel TOGETHER!

Frank Sinatra. He is AMAZING. I love his voice, he has classic good looks, and he's a pretty good actor too. I could listen to him anyday and I'm pretty sure I have more memorabilia of him than anyone I know.

Shopping. I'm shopping even when I dont have money. I love a good deal, and I usually can't pass it up. Who can really? But I mean, its pretty bad. The most I've spent on myself in one shopping trip is about 500 bucks. Hm.. yeah.. you might call it an addiction. No es bueno. :-)

3 Goals...

To travel the world and learn all its history I can. After all, when we die, thats all we take with us--our knowledge. No money, clothes... Plus there are soooo many beautiful places in the world.

To get a wicked awesome degree! I can't believe how stoked I am about getting an education this school year. I'm gonna kick some serious rear too.

To be trilingual. That'd be so tight. I think I'm gonna shoot for Italian and German or something. Maybe Spanish. We'll see. :-)

3 Surprising Facts About Me...

Some people already know this, but its still kinda surprising in a weird way--I still have a baby tooth that I haven't lost. And the permanent one is lying in my gums in the front. I'll never lose it. And the permanent one will always stay where it is.

I snuck into the boys' on-campus dorms at BYUI my first year, at 2 am. Me and 3 other guys watched the 40 yr old virgin, and hung out till about 530 or 6. Hm...yeah...if I would've been caught... haha.

I am pretty obsessed with the human body and how it works. That subject usually occupies my mind about 65% of the day. Lucky for me, I can multi-task and think about other things too. haha.


I think that about does it! Hope you all enjoyed that. Feel free to do it too. It's pretty fun. Thanks Abby!

Unfortunately, I dont have anymore time cuz I have to clean and stuff. But...hopefully I'll be better about this...

School and what not...

School is almost out!!! I can't wait. I'm in my last week of real school and then I have 3 finals next week and then I'm DONE. It's gonna be such a great feeling. What I'm really looking forward to, is not the fact that school is getting out, but that once school is out, I'll be moving to Colorado soon after to work and save money for schooooolll! I'm just really anxious to get out West..It's where I belong I think.

I've recently had 2 aspirations come to mind--

1. I want to be a stuntwoman.
2. I want to write a book.

I haven't thought about how I'm going to do either of these things yet, but I'm pretty determined to accomplish them. I haven't the slightest idea of what I would write about or who should be included in my story or anything of that sort, but it's gonna be awesome.

As far as being a stuntwoman goes, the reason I chose that to add to my list of things to do/be in my life is because I was trying to think of a way I could be on movie sets or something. I was reading Stephanie Meyer's blog about how she gets to go on the Twilight movie set and how she loves that and I was like "I wanna go on a movie set!" So...I'm going to be a stuntwoman. Cuz that's how I could be on a movie set.

Who knows though...I might change my mind in like...3 wks.

But then again, I could write a seriously amazing novel and then it turn into a movie and me be one of the stuntpersons for it! HA. how sick would that be...