Down South

I'm in South Carolina!!! That was the surprise. I flew in yesterday and surprised the crud out of my parents, it was priceless!!! :) We've been on the go ever since and I just wanted to take a moment to update real quickly... I'll be posting pics soon, its so beautiful here and I'm having a blast with all my family. I spent a few hours at the pool today with Elliot(14) & Douglas(12) and I'm excited to report that I'm gonna come home with one heck of a tan!!! WOOT! :) Little Alex (almost 2) is a doll and quite the handful but he's warming up to me and already cries when I leave the room without him... its so cute! Oh and Kong, their dog is just the cutest! Andres has him trained to pick up a ball and tear it to shreds when he's asked, "What do we do to the Boston Red Sox?" HILLARIOUS! Gotta teach Sirius the trick! ;)

Anyway, gotta run. I'll post pics soon!

The Girl in the Bubble strikes again... and other EXCITING NEWS!!!

I'm really good at hurting myself... really, really good at it! A few days ago I managed to jam my pinky finger and man, that hurt! The next morning I woke up and it was killing me, so I cautiously flexed it and heard/felt a loud and nasty "pop/crunch!" I decided to buddy tape it to my ring finger and see if that would help... After a day or so the swelling kinda went down and although it still looked bruised I figured I was on the mend... until today. I jumped up a little too fast from bed and had a little encounter with my ol' buddy orthostatic hypotension. (Sorry, I know I could have just said head rush, but I'm enjoying using medical terms now!) I started blacking out so I reached out to brace myself and smashed my pinky against the bookshelf by the bed. AHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Ya'll know I don't have a potty mouth, but I almost let a few choice words slip out... Oh man that killed! So I decided it was time to get something a little more sturdy to protect my poor little re-injured pinky finger... It looks funny, but I'm fairly certain this could withstand another smash or two... which knowing me is bound to happen before this thing heals up... *sigh*


By the way, its really annoying and cumbersome to type with this thing on so I'm very grateful I waited until after finals and my 16 page Psych paper was due before I busted my finger!!!

Ok, so now for the exciting news.... Matt's home! :)


This is my lil'bro-in-law. (Not so little, I know... he's taller than me!) He got home last night from his 2 year mission in Tijuana, Mexico! We're so glad he survived and made it home in one happy piece, albeit charred to a crisp, heehee... Welcome home Matt, it's good to have you back!!! YAY! :)


I have more exciting news to share (NO, I'm not pregnant.... ha! That'll be the day...) but I can't share it just yet, lest I spoil the surprise for those whom I'm planning on surprising... which is obviously a secret. Not that they read my blog... but just in case, right? I'll blog more about it tomorrow evening or Friday... more likely Friday since tomorrow will be a long day. Anyway, stay tuned and I'll post pics... Again, it's really not that interesting to anyone other than me, really.... but I'm excited so I had to get something out! :P

Results are in...

I conquered the beast!!! (Summer term, that is) I just checked and I ended up with a 95 in Pharmacology (Or how I prefer to call it, my "How not to kill your patients when administrating meds" class) and a 97 in my Psych class. I'm a bit miffed about the 95, but it's still an A so I suppose I shouldn't complain... For those that think I'm crazy for being unhappy with a 95... well, you should have known me in junior high and high school. I self-grounded if I scored anything under 95...

Yes, I'm insane.

Anyway, feel free to ignore this post, this is more for my own gloating purposes than anything else. As previously mentioned, I've had a rough past 6 months (more specifically past 2 months since my surgery) and the fact that I managed to keep up A's during the last 8 weeks is a big accomplishment for me, considering how everything else completely fell apart...

Anyway, I'm done gloating and patting myself on the back... but, as promised a few posts ago... here is my happy dance! (Well, not ME, but I can't film myself doing it so here's Balki and Cousin Larry in my stead!)

Please excuse the teenage girls...

... and their never ending SQUEALS! *sigh* This is going to be really annoying during opening night, since 1/2 the movie (I bet) is going to be comprised of shirtless Jacob and then Edward, Edward, and oh yeah... shirtless Edward :)
Anyway, here are 2 exclusive clips smuggled out from the Comic Con previews... enjoy them while they last, I'm sure YouTube will pull them off any minute until Summit releases them "officially." Sorry, I can't help myself...

Clip 1 (yes, he does that in the book)


Clip 2 (yes, he does that in the book too)


*sigh* Is it November 20th yet? Nope... dang.

Studious Finisimo!!!

That's my very happy I'm-done-with-school (at least for a few weeks) spell! (It just made all my books burst into flames and my notes self destruct like a Howler... minus the screeching.) Heehee... j/k of course.

So I just submitted my last project, all 16 pages of it (phew, glad that's over!) and am happy to report that I am almost positive that I got straight A's this term! I aced my Psych final with a 100% and my Pharmacology final ended up at a 96% or a 90% (worst case scenario) I'm not sure because 3 of the questions were not multiple choice and will have to be graded manually. I'd much prefer the 96, of course, but I suppose a 90% will have to do, if that's the case. Either way... I'm 99.9% sure I ended up with A's as my overall grades which is a big accomplishment for me given that the summer term started the same day I had my surgery, 8 weeks ago! (What was I thinking?!?!)

Now I just have to sit and wait for my 2 final projects to be graded and everything to be tabulated so I can see it with my own eyes... Tuesday can't come quickly enough... This is going to eat away at me until then... *sigh* I'm such a doofus, I know!

But seriously... YAY- I'm done!!! :)