Shadowing

Well I went in for my first official shadowing. It's weird how chill the back room of radiology is. Because really, they just sit and wait for a call. People are on their laptops, reading books, really just doing whatever. Which is pretty cool. I can handle that. But I think I went during a slower section of the day. I saw in the hour and a half I was there, I know not very long, but I saw a chest x-ray done 3 times. That's it. Cool the first time, and the lady I was with was sweet and talked to me... but the last 2.. eh it wasn't too great. But apparently I'm allowed to shadow in the ER so I'll look into that next time. And I need to go earlier, the guy that needs to see that I'm coming in shadowing was not there so no brownie points this time. I'm also going to try and shadow in the Cath Lab. Hopefully things pull through there. I'd like to see an actually procedure done start to finish, instead of just video footage from the x-ray. Which I do love looking at, but I want to see the procedure... see how things work.

But walking out of the hospital, there's an 'information' desk. And it made me smile, all of the 4 people in that tiny area were cute little old ladies, all of their hair curled to perfection with their glasses. They all just looked sweet, I'd walk up and seek information from them.

Coming Up!

How does time just slip away like that! Right now, there are 22 days left until I leave for Europe. And 16 days left for me to memorize music. dah.. I should really get a move on.

But I got my credit card today! Platinum baby. Silver and kind of sparkly, I'm thinking it'll blind me once I get it in the sun.

I register for classes on Wednesday I believe... I still need to call and figure a couple of things out but hopefully I get the teachers I want, and my schedule works out!

It's been a week since I went off sugar and today at my aunts house, they made those really really good rice crispy treats, just the plain ones all marshmallow-y... I couldn't resist. :( So I guess I'm starting all over again. We'll see how well it goes second time around.

New Testament

I'm finally getting around to this post but I finished the New Testament with the ending of my high school year and here are some of my favorite scriptures I discovered.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

St. Mark 12:27
He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living.

Romans 12:21
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he man be wise.

1 Corinthians 15:53
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immorality.

2 Corinthians 6:14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?

Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

2 Timothy 1:17
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Sugar

So for the summer, I decided I was going to go off sugar. Cause lets be honest I eat completely not healthy. And my mom is worried for me in college.. so I was like, okay going off sugar. And so far I've been given
-cold stone gift card
-a neighbor bought me a truffle at my work (which are extremely delicious fancy chocolate bars... also unhealthy but yummy! and it was mint chocolate too)
-and free ice cream.. being a giant ice cream cookie and a pint of ben and jerry's ice cream.

The gift card is tucked safetly away in my wallet where I can't see it, the truffle went to my parents, they enjoyed that. And the ice cream is sitting in the freezer. Why can't I get all this free junk food when I'm not deciding to be healthy!

Medical Camp

So I went to the medical camp again this year. And my new finding was the Cath Lab. The Cath Lab is where a tube is placed up the femoral artery and up towards the heart. They then pump a dye and with x rays you watch the dye move through the veins in the heart and look for blockages. The Cath Lab also works with pacemakers, stents, angioplasty and other things with the heart. So radiology + the heart = my soul singing. So now I have two for sure interests where I want to go into, I'm gonna have to do some research. I'm shadowing at the hospital this summer though so that should help.

Other news.. I got my laptop! My dad found an awesome deal so we grabbed it... after I checked it out to make sure it was a good one. Which of course it was.

Other then that, not too much going on. It doesn't feel like I'm graduated still, summer hasn't come yet and Utah weather can't decide what it wants to be.

Graduated

I am now graduated from high school! It's weird but I don't think it's really set in yet... it probably will when I attend my first class of college and realize I know no one there. But I'm glad to be done with high school. I finished out my last term with a 4.0 amazingly! Had to talk my grade up in a couple classes, but mostly it was an awesome year. I also was on the list for receiving a gold cord for graduation because of my GPA but I didn't say anything to my parents, so we never bought it.. they weren't too happy about that but what can I say, I was in a daze the last 2 weeks, things weren't entirely registering in my mind. Senioritis only came the last week and a half or so, and by that time I could sluff classes and the teaches wouldn't care. They practically told us to leave.


I've loved my senior year. I think it's been the best out of all of them. There hasn't been really any drama with the girls I haven hung out with this year, the four of us mesh pretty well together when we aren't all sleep deprived and grouchy. But I love them. I'm sad none of us are going to the same college. Ariel's going to California, her true home and she can't wait to leave us and get to a beach. Amber is staying home and going to UVU. KaLee is moving down and going to Snow, and I'm traveling up, and going to BYU Idaho. So we're all separating. Which is sad, but I'll be excited to start a new portion of my life, and meet new people.

Grand Total

With the closure of my high school career, I have decided to finish my list. A list I started in 9th grade, and of course what I kept track of, was books.
The books I've read and page numbers.
It's kind of ridiculous.
But I love it.
I would separate it into school year, then summer reading, then the next school year, and summer so I could compare when I read more. Which is definitely during the school year.
But my grand final total after 4 school years of reading is...
174 books
60,880 pages

Wonderful Neighbors

I really do have the most amazing neighbors. They do so much for me and are so wonderful to me. So this summer I'm going to Europe and Tammy went there last summer, so we were discussing money last week, and the exchange and what's the easiest to take, and today I come home and there's a letter for me. Inside is Euros, for my trip, and no small amount. Oh my goodness I just about died! So I immediately went over and gushed out my thanks. They really are so good to me. They said, "We just want you to have a wonderful time in Europe and to spend lots of money! You know how much we are for traveling!" Which is so true about them. With my Europe trip there was an extension you could take to Greece but I couldn't afford it and they wanted to pay for it. Which is ridiculous! I would never be able to repay them, well I never will be now anyways. I think I'll always be in debt to them. They are awesome. Thanks so much Aaron and Tammy! :D

Busy Weekend

Things have been so hectic with me lately! Crazy. My weekend started off with a chamber retreat up to Cameron's cabin up in Timberlakes. And I'm so glad we did another retreat because it was so much fun. There were a few 'interventions' where Todd and Cameron shouted out their issues, but no worries all was resolved. The boys played the wii for a large chunk of time, and well into the night, but a lot of it was just hanging out, eating AMAZING food, and talking. We had lots of conversations ranging from deep discussions, to embarrassing things people shouldn't walk in on. We rehearsed our songs, which was very needed in some areas but I think we'll be okay for the concert tomorrow. But chamber retreat was so much fun, I love all the people in there.



So I came home the next morning, Saturday and got ready for my Morp day date. I took Todd and we had a really fun time! During our day date, we had an ice cream sculpturing contest with our hands, and oh my freak I thought my hands were going to freeze off, the ice cream was so cold. And the activity turned into a HUGE ice cream fight. It was matted in my hair, my arms were sticky, i could feel the hardened ice cream on my forehead when I would move my eyebrows, which were also stiff was dried ice cream. So we tried washing ourselves off with the pump at the park but that only does so much... so went all went to Ariels house and jumped into her pool.. in all our clothes. Like the jean shorts and whatever we were wearing, full on clothes weigh you down goodness. You try to swim and your dragging and extra 30 pounds so your slowly sinking. It was so much fun! We all loved it.

For dinner we tied every ones wrists together and ate spaghetti with weird utensils. Like ice cream scoopers, whisks, wooden spoons, just a lot of physco utensils. Oh my word it was a blast. Morp was just so much fun. I really think it was the funnest day date i've ever been on. I'm so glad everything happened as it did!

Inspired Bicyclist

My dad showed me this video about this inspired bicyclist. It was intense. I was inspired.
He literally has no bounds, he can go anywhere.