Procrastinating

I'm mostly doing this because I'm procrastinating cleaning my room. :-/ But let's see if you learn something new!

8 FAVORITE TV SHOWS
1. Heroes
2. Lost
3. The Office
4. House
5. NCIS
6. ER
7. I can't think of 2 more...
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8 THINGS I DID YESTERDAY
1. Went to culture class for England
2. Went groceries
3. Cleaned out the fridge
4. Chanted to a Hindu diety (more on this later (-: )
5. Got covered from head to toe in colored chalk
6. Got stuck in a mosh pit
7. Went to an Indian restaurant, still covered in chalk
8. Washed the chalk off
I bet you're thinking, "huh? what is she talking about?" just you wait!

8 THINGS I LOOK FORWARD TO
1. Graduating
2. The end of this semester
3. Going to England
4. Traveling Europe
5. Seeing my mom in two weeks
6. Having a clean room
7. Cutting my hair
8. Having a real job

8 FAVORITE RESTAURANTS
1. Puerta Vallarta
2. Olive Garden
3. Chili's
4. Carl's Jr.
5. Costa Vida
6. CPK
7. I don't eat out enough...
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8 THINGS ON MY WISHLIST
1. To pass the NCLEX (like the Bar exam for nurses)
2. To have a family
3. To win the lottery without gambling :)
4. An ipod
5. Better habits at keeping my room clean
6. For this semester to be over
7. Getting a job in an area I want after graduation
8. Having a summer romance

8 PEOPLE I TAG
1. I hate this part. Do it if you want :)
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HERE I COME!!!!

Updates, updates!!! Finally I know what I'm doing this summer, remember way back when I told you I was going to England for study abroad, well I FINALLY got details on Saturday at our first meeting about what is happening, and I am sooooo-soooooooo-sooooo excited. This is going to be a summer that I will have in the books for the rest of my life!

The group of six students, plus our instructor, will be going to the University of Huddersfield, it is located about 3 hours north of London, and about a 45 minute drive from Manchester.
I made a little red dot, about where the town is. We will be working in the hospital four days a week, for four weeks. In the dorms we stay at, each of us get our own room and bathroom! This will be the first time ever that I will have my own bathroom, so cool!! The hospitals in England are very infection-control-oriented, meaning everyone that works in the hospital has to wear special hospital issued scrubs so that they don't bring in bugs on their clothes. Everyone is swabbed for MRSA frequently, no name tags, watches, rings, or nails. As a result, their MRSA levels are way lower than the US, so I guess it's working.

On our three day weekends, we have to decide what we want to do as a group. We can go the Lake District (I guess this is a beautiful part of England that lots of rich people have summer homes in), go to the place where they filmed Pride and Prejudice, Leeds, Manchester (I want to see if there might be an off season game that we can go to). My instructor's sister lives in Scotland on a large farm and has offered for us to come stay at their place for a weekend too. After our four weeks of clinical are up, we will spend a week frolicking about London. We will hopefully see a few shows; Jude Law is currently starring in Hamlet, there is also an outdoor performance of Peter Pan in one of the large gardens.

After our week is over in England and "school" has ended, a few of us are going to stay. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity that is never going to present itself again! I won't ever have a whole summer like this that I have the freedom from obligations or responsibility or the time. We are going to stay 4-5 more weeks and see Europe. Personally, I want to spend the most time in Italy and Greece. These are places that I have always wanted to visit and see. It has been a dream of mine since I started learning about it in seventh grade, but it was always been just that. A fantasy and a dream. Well, now it's going to be a reality. I'M GOING TO SEE EUROPE!!!! Every time I say it, I get more and more excited! We hopefully will travel around and see every thing that we want to and then head back to London in time to catch Wimbledon, and then finish what we didn't get to see in England like the Jane Austen house, Stratford on Avon, anything else. I have a lot of family history in southern England that I hope to be able to explore while I'm there too!

I've started asking around to people I know have been there on study abroads, or missions, or vacations what they think the best places to see are, or the best hostels to stay at, best way to travel, little things that tourists don't know about. If you have suggestions for us, they are most certainly welcomed!

So, watch out world, HERE I COME!!!!

**I Will Survive Nursing School**

I'm dedicating this song to Brianne who thinks she can't survive nursing school. And all my other nursing buddies who have mid-semester blues.


At first I was afraid,
I was petrified.
Kept thinkin I could never be a nurse, then I cried.
I spent so many nights doing pathology trees,
And I grew strong, I learned how to get along...

with my instructors!
Their tests are hard,
And early clinicals,
They kick me in the butt.
I should have changed to MFHD,
I should have married early,
If I'd of known for just one second how hard nursing would be!

GO ON NOW GO!!!
Walk out the door
At 5am now,
Cause you're in nursing school!
Wait for just one second B-Y-U-C-O-N
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?

OH NO NOT I!!!!!
I WILL SURVIVE!
Oh, as long as I know how to change
A dressing I'll be fine.
I've got all my life to be,
The nurse I want to be,
I will survive,
I will survive,
NURSING SCHOOL!!!!!

I cried

I did something for the first time yesterday, and I cried. I helped deliver a baby. I don't think that this is an area of nursing that I want to end up in, for lots of different reasons, but there was a part of it that was incredible. It was emotional, and spiritual, and beautiful when that baby girl came into the world and took her first breaths.

The Bachelor =P

Who watched The Bachelor last night? I didn't. But I've heard all sorts of hype and Jason's-a-jerk this and I-can't-believe-it that. As soon as I'm done writing this awful 10 page paper, that's what I'm going to do. But three hours, I don't know...should I watch it? What did everyone think that saw it?

I haven't watched it all this season, so I really don't know any of the history, I just know what happened last night.

9th Ward Cartoons

Thanks to my sister, I just discovered this website. I quite literally was laughing out loud at some of these. These guys are a group of cartoonists that basically tease fun at Mormon culture. My two personal favorites:

This one is all too true sometimes here at BYU!

So long winter!

I'm getting excited for spring in case you couldn't tell from my new color scheme! Weather here has been so beautiful. I didn't wear a coat to class today for the first time in months, I loved it! I actually wore flip flops the other day and didn't get cold. This weekend I'm planning on going on a hike and playing tennis...OUTSIDE!!!!!! Hooray! I'm so glad that we had a short winter this year. Past winters in Utah have been bitter cold and snowy until the last weeks in March, or early April. I know Mother Nature will probably give us one more storm, but I'm just so happy for the weather we have had. Here are some pictures from this winter:
The first two days of winter semester it snowed for 40 hours straight, I think. It was a really long time. We had close to two feet on the ground!

This guy really wanted a parking spot!

I took this walking home from school one day, you can just see the coldness in the air!

The FHE family sledding at Rock Canyon Park

The real family sledding down our driveway.

WELCOME SPRINGTIME!!!!!!!!!