It's official....

No, I'm not pregnant... LOL

BUT... I GOT IN!!!!! I got in, I got in, I got IIIIIIIINNNNNNN!!!!!!!! *insert Alex doing Balki Bartocumous' "Dance of Joy"* ;)

I got my acceptance letter today for the RN clinicals program for the Fall!!! Oh man, these past 8 weeks have been a killer, just waiting and waiting, and waiting... But its over now and I can rest easy and just be excited for the fun to start!!!

WOOT! WOOT!

New Muse Video!!!

Hooray!!! Here is Muse's new song for the Eclipse soundtrack:
Neutron Star Collision(Love Is Forever)

Muse - New Music - More Music Videos

Love love LOVE the song!!! Lyrics here. It fits well with the doom and gloom circumstances surrounding the plot and Bella's choice in the end. No spoiler scenes to speak of, pretty much stuff we've already seen. Enjoy:)


Aaaaaaaaand because I just couldn't resist... a snippet of one of my favorite scenes in the book. I much prefer Edward's quiet fury/threats (in the book) to the movie Edward's sort of manic tantrum. Plus, Bella(and her broken hand, heehee) is supposed to not care if Edward rips Jacob in two, not stand between them! *Sigh* They always mess with stuff. However, gotta love Charlie! I wonder if they'll leave in his, "Good for you kid!" line... that would be classic. I guess we shall see... Anyway, here it is.



Jacob is a punk... Boo!Hiss!

Scary day

So as most of you probably already know (unless you've been living under a rock with no TV) we had a nasty tornado outbreak on Monday. Thankfully, we are ok and our home did not suffer any damages. Sadly, many were not so lucky... NOAA has confirmed 12 tornadoes in the state, 4 of them in the OKC metro area. There were 5 fatalities and 60+ injuries.

Here is a video shot by a local submitted to our ABC news affiliate, KOCO5. It starts off silent but the audio kicks in after about 30 sec. The guy on the radio (about 1/2 way through) is my favorite Meteorologist, Rick Mitchell. The others get too boisterous and scare me senseless...

Also, some crazy pics... courtesy of KOCO5!

WOW... seriously, wow.

Baseball size hail... this could kill you.

So where were we when this all went down? Well, Ben was at work, hunkered down in their safe room. I was at school, after just taking a Chem test. I was trying to decide whether or not to drive home (and try to beat the storms that were racing into the city) or stay put. Fortunately for me, the security guards made the decision for me because as I was texting back and forth with Ben, they started shouting, "Tornado on the ground, everyone follow me... NOW! No one leaves this building!" So... off I went, to the the science building's safe rooms (i.e. labs) and hid there for a good hour or so. They pulled up KOCO5's live streaming coverage online and we watched it on the overhead projector screen. Ben and I stayed in contact for most of that time via cellphone. Once the tornadoes were well to our east, they let us go. Fortunately, we only got golf-ball sized hail, which yes... left dings on my already dinged up car. Such is life in OK. At least my windshield/windows were intact.

I raced home to check on our home since a tornado had touched down in Bethany, which is a neighborhood (or rather subset of OKC) just a few blocks away from where we live. I had purposely left the pups locked up in the kitchen, hoping their instincts would tell them to hide in our pantry/safe room. Thankfully, the pups were just fine, as was out house. Nothing but a messy backyard (branches, leaves, and random debris) to show for it... phew!

My school has been closed for 2 days though, as it has no water because of some damage. My last final has been rescheduled, which I guess is a good thing... although I much rather get it over with, but whatever. All in all, we were VERY lucky and blessed to have escaped unharmed and with our property undamaged.

Well, looks like this evening will be active as well. Tornado warnings are popping up in western OK. We'll be in for some of this later on tonight... *sigh*

Get a tissue first!

Some of you may be familiar with NieNie, but for those of you that are not... well, she is an amazing woman who exemplifies the meaning of "turning lemons into lemonade." I love reading her blog because it always leaves me with a smile and reminds me to keep an eternal perspective. She reminds me not to take even life's simplest joys for granted and to look for tiny miracles (because they are there!) all around me.

On perspective, trials, and motherhood:



Enjoy!!! :)

Ahhhh!!! Attack of the killer Teddybears!

This has got to be one of the funniest singles cover/music videos I have ever seen. I don't know if its because I've been re-reading The Hunger Games series and The Host (and watching "V") or what, but I can't get this song out of my head!



I'm so excited Muse is coming to OKC in October!!! Ben is taking me to their concert, I can't wait!!!