My favorite things--Day 7,8,9

Sorry I fell behind. I was in a bit of a funk this week. But I'm better now, no worries. I'll catch up my favorite things about Christmas in one post.

Day 7-I love cold weather. I am much more of a winter than a summer person. In the cold it's always easy to bundle up and drink hot chocolate, while in the summer it's hard to cool down. It's getting colder and colder here in Utah (even though we haven't gotten ANY snow yet) and I love it! I am starting to wear my long coat, which I love :) and I am patiently waiting for it to get cold enough to wear scarves because I love them too!

Day 8-I love Christmas movies. Many of my favorite movies are Christmas movies, such as the Miracle on 34th Street, White Christmas, and The Polar Express. They always make me feel warm and fuzzy and welcome in the season so well! I have already watched this year: The Miracle on 34th Street (twice), the Santa Clause (it's been on TV a bunch), Joy to the World, and The Polar Express.

Day 9-I love Christmas parties. Tonight is my ward's Christmas party and it will be especially needed as I have spent the entirety of the day in the library.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!
...only 13 more days till I come home!...

"There's a bite out of this!"

I have a funny story that happened last night to me. My roommates and I went to Carl's Jr. because Cha (my roomie) said she was in need of greasy food for the evening. We got there and I ordered the 6 dollar guacamole bacon burger (MMMM so GOOD!!!). I get my food and I sit down and take a bite of the burger and got a mouth full of mustard, ketchup and pickles. In my defense, the burgers are pretty big and wrapped in white paper so you can't really see what's inside them unless you unwrap and such, and I didn't I just dug in. So I take the bite and it's obviously not the burger that I ordered. So I went back up the counter and said, "I'm not sure what kind this is, but I ordered the Guacamole Bacon burger and this isn't it." The manager doesn't say anything to me, she just takes my burger and then a couple minutes later she hands me and new one and says, "here you go." A couple minutes later, I'm sitting down at my table and I hear someone at the counter really upset saying, "I've never seen this before! There's a bite out of this burger! This is insane! Yes, there's a bite out of it!" At first I was horrified and felt like dashing out of there before someone came and got me. I knew it was mine. But then I realized, I didn't really have anything to do with it. If someone hands you back a burger, isn't it the manager's responsibility to LOOK at it!?! And especially not give it back out to the public. What if I had laced it with anthrax or something? We all sat in the back kind of snickering at the whole thing and then left. It was pretty funny. Surprisingly enough the woman who got my burger and her husband still stayed. I think if that happened to me, I would boycott the restuarant.

OR Magic

Remember when I posted a couple weeks ago about my extra OR day when I got to see open heart surgery? Well here's some fun pictures from the changing room before the day started. :) I LOVE OR!!Jessica, Kim and I: couldn't get through school without these girls!

We were a little wound up and excited for the day :)

Me, Jane, Karen, Jessie, Kim, Robyn and Jessica! The OR strong!!!

My favorite things--Day 6

Today I love this time of years because it is the end of the semester. Today I had the "we're almost done!" feeling all day. Luckily this year, my finals load is going to be super easy. Mostly because the profesors were so mean during the semester. But it really is almost done!!!!

My favorite things--Day 5

Today I love new releases! Christmastime always brings new releases of books and movies and other things right in time to give as gifts. Prince Caspian, the second Narnia movie, came out today and I went and bought it and watched it this afternoon. I saw it in theaters this summer and I loved it so I knew I wanted it! =)

My favorite things--Day 4

Today I love good company. Christmas always seems to be a season when more people are in your house, parties are happening and everyone is in good spirits. Tonight was family home evening at my apartment. It was fun to sit around and make snowflakes and just laugh and talk with one another.

Back to reality

After a much needed week off, I am back to the reality of school, but only for 2 more weeks and then finals and then HOME!!! I cannot wait for this semester to be over, I have learned a lot but I am just so done with my classes, I've lost interest, and am quickly losing motivation. But the end is most definitely near!

I realized that I forgot to tell everyone, I did not get into the Ecuador study abroad group. I am really okay with it though, I forgot about it right away which is why I probably didn't let everyone know. For some reason, and I not sure why yet, the Veteran's clinical is calling to me. I really feel like that is where I am supposed to be. I just hope the instructors think so too when I interview. I don't think those interviews are going to happen until after Christmas break though, so I'll keep you posted.