Let me count the ways...

What makes me happy....Let me count the ways...
Could it be Christmas...
Could it be Winter is nigh...
Could it be the smell of snow in the air...
NO...No....No....
ITS I AM DONE WITH CLASSES..
No more tests...ever (except state boards)
NO more studying late into the night ( for 6 months)
No more sitting in class for 40 hrs a week (till july)
NO more lectures
No more BUSINESS PROJECT

I can see the light, I can feel the light


MANHATTAN.....HERE.......I......COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is not just me..GG is taking over the world

I would like to thank Mark for introducing me to this wonder sign website.

I am addicted to Gilmore Girls

So, a couple of weeks ago my sister told me that she thinks the WB show Gilmore Girls if funny.

I have always just flipped channels or scanned over it before so over thanksgiving break I caught a couple of shows.....well now I am hooked.....addicted maybe...no, I am obsessed.

I went to go rent the first season Friday night, but they did not have them...but they did have them to buy...so I bought it.

21 episodes with each episode lasting around 45 min. I had a marathon..instead of studying for the Pharmacology final tomorrow.
The marathon began around 6pm on friday and went till 2am. I slept till 8am and started again at 8:30am. I was done with the marathon around 6:30pm sat. (Cindy, this is where I was all weekend)

I did not plan to do this, but I could not press stop. In fact, a tear came to my eye as I was ejecting the last DVD.

So, the show is in its 6th season and I need to catch up.

I find it amazing that there can be something in our lives that we pass over time and again, but when we finally give in and take the time to "get to know it" we find that it makes our lives better for knowing it.

Yes, I realize that Gilmore Girls is just a TV show, and the characters are not real, but there are numerous lessons we can learn from this show. For example, A mother and daughter can be best friends and still have respect for the fact that one is a mother and the other is a daughter. Also, it shows that our lives can be blessed my having a variety of friends from different backgrounds who have different tastes. And another is that communication is the key to a successful realsonship whether it is with your parents, friends to significant other.

Laughter my friends. You can't frown when your laughing.

Take the time to look around and see what you are missing.

Remember, Don't be Jealous. Jealousy is bad. Jealousy can lead to jail, twice. .. Gilmore-ism
.......but to me giving birth was like doing the splits on a crate of dynamite....Gilmore-ism

AP

PT PROM 2005

Here are some pics from PT Prom. This is Cara and Dennis.

Here are the Guys, Jeremy, Dennis, Rich, Lee and Justin(with the face)

Here is Amanda, Judy, me and Dinah

This is Mindy and Sarah

Corn hole and walking down I-40

I sure some of you are wondering what exactly corn hole is. Well, I wondered that myself. It is a game that we all know, but we know it by various names. In the previous post there is a pic of the corn hole hardware. Two wedge shaped boxes with a hole in it are placed facing each other about 2.5 car lengths apart. The rules of the game are: 4 people play with 2 on each team. 1 member of each team stands with a member of the other team at one box. Each thrower has 4 bean bags. The other team members are at the other box. One at a time each player tosses a bean bag at the opposite box. If the bag goes in the hole it is worth 3 pts, if it land on the box it is worth 1pt, and if it does not land on the box = 0 pts. Also, when two bags land on the box from opposing teams they cancel each other out. so if a bag goes in the hole and the other team has a bag on the surface, the team that hit the hole only has 2 pts since the bag on the surface canceled one pt from the 3 pts.
The rules are really easy and if you do not understand from my description you have find the rules on the internet. Play, it is addicting. Oh yeah, the pic of it is not correct placement of the boxes. We changed it for the kids.

Now, WALKING DOWN I-40
Last friday Cara, Amanda, Jeremy and I were on our way to Knoxville for the TN/USC game. We left NV around 6:30pm and at 7:45pm there was a crash ahead of that was really bad. We ended up sitting in one spot for about an hour. To pass the time we made a video. It is funny. At one point I got out of the care to video all the backed up traffic and as I stood in the middle of I-40 a trucker kept honking.
Jeremy started walking down the road to find the next mile marker while I was talking to Kristen D. on the phone to try to figure out what happened. I went to find Jeremy and on the way back to the car everyone in there cars kept asking me what had happened.
I got to talk to quite a few people who thought their destination was soo much more important than everyone elses. It made me see how self focused we all are.
I usully get frustrated in traffic jams, but I enjoyed this one. Had we not been stopped we might not have made our verison of THE Blair witch project..."WHAT WAS THAT?"

Sports day pics

This is Dennis getting creamed with whip cream

Look, my car is in the background
The kids were going through an obstacle course
Nikki and Joi help one child get over the bolsters
We all remember doing this is elementry school
This is Dinah, she is holding up the goal
Justin and Jeremy at corn hole.

Talking to cops at 5 am

Where should I start..ok yes..Picture it ..Sicily 1895..just kidding...but do picture this...A hard working grad student sleeping soundly with a smile on her face at 6am on her Friday morning off. Then wham..a jackhammer awakens her in a fright. Yes folks, I was that grad student. About 3 fridays ago I was awaken by a construction crew outside my window at 6 am. I got up anyway cause I needed to do some studying. No big deal. Well, the next day (sat) my class had to go spend the day with some children with special needs for their annual sports day. At 4:30am I am awaken by the sound of jackhammers..AGAIN. This time I had had it. The city has been redoing Church street since I moved in and for some reason they feel the need to work on sat mornings. Well, I was fumming. I slid open my window and stared the construction crew down. My death rays periced their souls. I got my video camrea out and taped the event. Can you picture me hanging out of my 5th floor apratment window shooting footage of a street repavement. I tried to go back to sleep but I think the jackhammer just got louder. Hang on a sec and let me describe this JH. It is not one you see busting up a little area, this JH was industrial strength..it was hooked to AND controlled by a tractor. After contemplating what to do I put on a sweatshirt and went on the search for the foreman of this crew. I make my way down to the street and find my neighbor getting coffee out of our starbucks dispensor ( he couldn't sleep either and was going to a hotel) I am on a mission..I find a cop standing on the sidewalk watching the whole thing take place. I asked him...very nicely and without attitude..Is there a reason this needs to be done at 4 in the morning. He tells me that yes, it must be done at night so that it will not disturb traffic in the daytime. OH why did I not realize that having cars detour a block over is much more distrubing then waking up 100 residents at night. Lets just say more words were spoken as the foreman came over, of course I did all the talking. he just stated that this was the Mayor's project. I bet the mayor would not want this JH under his window at 4 am.
By the time I came home that evening the street was paved and all jackhammers were sleeping.
This week they striped the entire street. I guess the mayor didn't like the job they did, so they get to so it again. Thats what we are paying for in taxes here in Nashvagas.
Here are some pics of the tractor + jackhammer and "sports day"

I will return soon

I have been a little busy and I will have sometime this weekend to update.
And boy do I have some info to share.
here are some up coming topics....
- Talking to cops at 5am
- Corn Hole
- Walking down the middle of I-40
- Tennessee football

I think I've got it

I just found the word verification tab.
Yes, I might be slow but I get there.

NO MORE ANONYMOUS

Lets get this straight right now. If you are not making a legitimate post, go away.
I do not care what product you are selling. I do not want your cloths, perfume or body oils.

Is it really.....

Is it really the week of fall break?
I thought I just got back from Panama.
Our class has already started the count down till Christmas break.
34 days left, not counting Fridays, weekends and holidays.

This week my intergration group is preparing for our teaching of the 1st years next week.
I remember sitting in intergration my first year wondering if I would ever be a 3rd year, and why does this semester seem to go on forever.

If it seems that I am sad it is almost over...I'm not, not yet anyway...too many projects, tests and practicals yet to come.

A retraction

Judy has informed me of a mistake on the blog intitled...Taaake me out to the ballgame..and it is not the word taake...that was on purpose. The Nashville Hockey team is not the Sounds, but the Predators. I am very sorry my little Canadian.

Taaake me out to the ballgame..

On Friday nights I play on a co-ed softball team in Brentwood. Last night I was playing third base. I had not been playing well and I decided to go back to the basics like catch with two hands. you know what I am talking about. We were in the last inning-2 outs-a dude at the plate. I hunker down and wait for Dinah to pitch...the guy hits the ball..straight at me...the ball curves to the right at the last second so I ihave to reach across my body with my left hand but I don't get it there..but oh.my right hand was there to catch the line drive (due to the basics). I stopped the ball dead with my index and middle fingers. I felt my fingers touch my wrist--backwards. I look down at my hand and see that those fingers are stunned into the paralytic world..which freaked me out. My fingers looked werid, which freaked me OUT.
I have caught many softball barehanded before, but this hurt. You wern't there..you don't know..it hurt bad.
Tears came..I think I even said "my hand is broken"
I couldn't move my fingers..whether it was due to pain, brokeness or that I was freaked out I don't know..yes I do...I was freaked out. My fingers are not broke. I now know that if I was not truely see deformation of one of my extremities I pretty sure I would pass out. I am going to be a PT...is that a problem?
Well, there is minimal swelling and tenderness, but my fingers are letting me know they are there. Actually, typing is making my 2nd and 3rd MTPs ache (the joints between the finger and hand).

Man, I am glad thats over.

The week of the never ending studying has ended...I started studying last thursday after lunch till about 5pm, all FriDAY, and all Sat and Sun. I did not leave my apartment from Friday night to Mon morning. Class till 4 on mon..studied till 11pm, Tues studied from 1-11pm. Took the first test on Wed am. Class till 5 on Wed and studied till 11:30 last night. Then I got up this morning at 7am and studied till about 9:30am--went to school and took the test at 10am. It took me about an 1 hr and 45 min to take it. I have never been a fan of studying of any sort and I have met my threshold for the semester. Is that a problem?
I am celebrating my freedom by going to the Nashvilles Sounds game tonight. (Hockey) This will be the first hockey game I have gone to since my senior year of high school. I excited. I am going with my friends from school...Amanda, Cara, Justin, jeremy, Dennis and I do not know who else.
BUT, it all starts again on Fri for the pharmacology test on Tues.
I know I complain about studying, and it probably sounds like I hate school...I don't. I am glad I am doing what I am doing. I puts me in chains now, but it will give me freedom in the end.
Sound familiar?
NetFlix ROCKS!!!

I would just like to say...

I would like to take this moment to say that I have been a little busy this week and next week is going to be murder, so this might be my last blog for a week.

I just looked at my calander for next week and saw that I have a Cardiopulmonary exam and a current topic report on Wed, then on Thurs I have Pediatric exam. On the Following Tues I have to have (along with my research group) a rough copy of our research paper along with a format for our poster, and ALSO on Tues I have a Pharmacology exam, which is a bunch of words I cannot pronounce.
Needless to say I am a little stressed. But, I only have 11 weeks of classes left and finals, but our finals schedule I will address at a later date.

But in all of this......I know God has me here for a reason....what it is I do not know.....I 've been saying that for 2 years now...I can't wait to find out!!

BRING IT!!!

Belly laughing!!!

So, I just read Abe's response to my last post. My eyes are still red from laughing at the shout out comment. I happened to be in a room full of my classmates and thay all thought I was on something. I tried to read the comment outloud, but I could only get a couple of words out in between laugh seizures.
What is the deal with random people leaving random comments?

My health insurance is feces.

Do not ever get Fortis health insurance, as it is now called Assurant Health, which really means: You can be Assurant that nothin is gonna be covered. I have had this insurance since 2003, and during that time I have had to have an MRI and a x-ray due to sporting adventures, neither which were covered. I just got my gyno bill for the enitre amount because apparently Assurant doesn't cover that either.
In US healthcare systems class this semester we are discussing ....The US healthcare system. The trend in healthcare is moving from fixing the problem to prevention of disease, which includes preventitive measures like yearly check-ups to smoking cessation classes. To me, and maybe it is just me, it would seem that a freaking pap would fall under preventitive. I went and looked up my health plan on-line to see about this womens health issue and come to find out that Assurant (under the student plan) will only 1 mamograma yr, but only for women over 35 yrs old. I can see the 1 a yr thing, but My gyno told me that if you have breast cancer in your family you should start being scanned 5 yrs younger than when your relative was diagnosed, which for me would be now... and I would have to foot the bill if I was to follow my Dr's adivce because...I'm assurant that Assurant won't cover it.

Assurant health insurance is for the birds..that my opinion and it ought to be yours.

A view inside my mind

Bare with me..There used to be a time in my life when I did not have a problem sharing what was on my mind or on my heart. But lately it is extremely hard for me to share my feelings..so what better way to fight through it than to put it all out there in my blog.
I am a Christian..I do believe in ONE God and I have always been able to talk freely about my faith without holding back, yet over the past couple of years I have led a very apathetic life when it comes to my faith and my relationship with God.
Sometimes I feel that I don't have the right to talk about how God has worked in my life because I have not shown him in my life. Of course there are things in my life I regret, that I wish I could go back and change, but from those things I have learned alot.
I am still learning...about who I was, who I am now and who I want to be in the future. God has used my family, old friends, new friends and strangers to show me, in hind-sight.
I never want to claim to be anybody else than who I am. So..who am I? Well, I am just a person striving to be who God wants me to be and do what he wants me to do, but very likely always falling short. I have bad days, I do bad things...but I strive.
You all are my accountance, the Holy Spirit is my conscious.

"Listening to God is a firsthand experience. When he asks for your attention, God does not want you to send a substitute; he just wants you."
"Will I learn what God intends? If I listen I will."
Max Lucado, "Just like Jesus"

What is to come..

Ok, The raffel is over and the talleys are in..here is where I am going to be next year.
In Jan and Feb I will be in Jackson Tn at a rehab center for people who have had strokes or total joints replacements, then I am moving on to the great state of FL where I will be doing my acute care rotation (hospital) at Venice Regional Medical Center in Venice, FL. My last stop will be Manhatten baby!!!!! I will be at a out patient orthopedic (healthsouth-type place) called Sports PT of New York.
Come see me.

Great reads...

I like to read...all kinds of books....
I was introduced to an amazing author this summer..Francine Rivers..she has been around a while, and how I did not hear about her before I do not know. The first book you have to read is Redeeming Love. There are no words to express how amazing this book is. It is christian fiction...and did I mention it was amazing? Some of her other books I have read are: "The last sin eater", "The scarlet thread" and "and the Shofar Blew." I recommend "and the Shofar Blew"...especially if your church is about to go through a change or is in the process of growing and changing. This book will make you think about your purpose in what you are doing is, and for me at least, gave me a new found appriciation for our elder who question our desires and wants (or phase plans). I learned that we need our intentions questioned so that we don't self implode because we "think" we know the answers, or "what God would want." To me...questioning doesn't always mean that they don't want it done, they just want to make an educated decsion.

The first week of school

So I just finished my first week (actually 2 days) of the last semester of classes. So far this week I have taken 2 tests and 2 lab practicals. I passed the practicals, but the tests are still in the air.

Just a reminder

Just wanted to let everyone know I have the Honduras blog spot as well. I am done with it, but It has some awesome pics on it.
http://www.underthebeechtree.blogspot.com

A 3 hour tour...a 3 hour tour

I got back from FL last night and here is the one story I will tell. On Sunday we rented a pontoon boat to go out on. The first thing that is written on the map provided is DO NOT GO OUT INTO THE GULF. Well, the first thing we did was go out into the gulf. As we were out there we noticed that a storm was approaching. A full fleged, back hand of God Thunderstorm. We decided that we should probably move our location to like...not is the middle of its path. We started back toward to dock which is about a 10 min ride for all boats but ours. OUR boat had a max speed of around 5 mi/hr. It was so slow that a boat getting towed back in pasted us. OUR boat was so slow that another boat passed us that was idling while we were going full throttle. Lets just say that I could have swam the butterfly faster than what OUR 50 hp motor could push a fly. So, as we are trying to make it back to the dock all kinds of boats were passing us creating wakes that tossed our tiny ship to and fro. And yes, we were headed straight into the perfect storm. ......You know how you hear the thunder after you see the lightening...well not for us, the thunder was simultaneous with the lightening. The lightening was so close that we smelled grilled grouper. Did I mention that we were in a metal boat in the middle of the ocean? I gave up driving and got the life jackets out and hunkered down. The rain was so thick that you could not see 30 yards in any direction and it felt like cannon balls hitting you in the face...even though we were only going 5 mph. We did not make it back to the dock..we gave up and headed toward a beach. We ran the boat up on the shore and ran to safety. We made it out safe..thanks to the courage of the fearless crew or the pontoon would've been lost....except Cara who ran over a cactus barefoot.

My luck

I am cat sitting this weekend. The awesome thing is the family has a rad pool and I have been waiting all week to jump in. As we all know it has been 100 degrees and dry for like forever, oh but not today. It is still warm, but as my luck would have it...thunder storms for Nashville for the weekend. I am fixin to do the opposite of the rain dance.."rain, rain go away come again another day" dance. Don't think I won't go outsude and do it, cuz I will.
I guess i'll just sit here with my cute suite on and stare out the window.

Here are some photos

As I was packing I found random undeveloped film. Here are some pics from them..

This is (L-R) Marie, Amanda and Jess during class

This is the mtn that we climbed up (3 miles) in Colorado at Young life camp in 2003. At one point I could only take about 5 steps then I would have to take a break.

This is the North side of my parents house in Dyersburg as a storm is approaching.

This is Virginia and I at the top of the mtn in Colorado.

Leaving home...again

Well, it is time once again to bid Dyersburg farewell...farewell. I am almost done packing and then I am heading out. I am ready to get school over with, but not so excited to get back to studying, which I think is different from learning. Learning to me sounds fun, while studying sounds like work. Maybe if I look at it like learning I will look forward to it.
Anyway, this is the 6th summer of leaving i have done over my many, many college adventures. I should be my last. At least I hope so. Please God let it be.
I know that this town is boring, but I do get teary eyed every time I leave and I see it in the rearview mirror (I shouldn't cause as my track record shows I probably be back for an extended stay soon) but, it is not the building it is the people. I love you all!!
See ya Dyersburg.

So, I got my hair cut and colored today. If you knew me before you proably will not be able to tell a difference. My hair stops about at the bottom of the pics. Those are some nice clean pics from my phone..nothing but quality here folks. And, I not talking about those qualities Hope Mitchell.

Little things....

Little things amaze me somtimes...Like this for instance. I am watching Dawson's Creek. It is just a little drama that I have not watched faithfully since the first season in 1998, yet I find myself crying for one of the characters who is now dying. It is not a few tears, but the ugly face cry. I think that is why I like films so much...it allows you to feel, and sometimes come to face things your otherwise trying to push back.

A Tuesday night in August

It is Tuesday night and I am in Nashville for a meeting for school. This next week is going to be busy. I go back to Dyersburg tommorrow and pack up for school. I come back on Friday and leave for FL on Monday for a week. I have enjoyed being at home this summer..my..last..summer.
I just got off the phone with Jeremy Bopp. We were trying to figure out how to put our pics in the profile..it was a tough fight but I won!!

Here I am as Deb from Nepolean Dynamite.  

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