It's May Day!!

It's officially May.  Which means that it's May Day.  I feel like I need to make some of those little colored baskets.  I made stuff like that when I was little with my mom and brother.  And I also made some for the last round of door decs my second year as an SA (or RA, as they are known everywhere else in the world).

I thought that as we were entering the fifth month of the year, I should put together a little "status update" of my life.  And not just the dinky one liners that are found on Twitter.

The first thing that jumps to mind is how I only have 12 weeks of work left.  I know that it seems like I could just put three months, but it is all of May and June but only the first three weeks of July.  I'm quitting on the 22nd so that I can start to move some of my stuff back up to the 'Ville and I can hit up an awesome wedding in Marceline.  Which I am super excited about.  I'm also ready to quit.  The job just isn't what it used to be so quitting is something I'm looking forward to.

As most of my friends are going to graduate soon, I am excited about getting to see everyone.  And I really missed my friends so I'm glad that they are coming home.

Finally, I'm continuing my preparations for Medical School.  I might but some Anatomy and Physiology flash cards so that I can learn some more of the human body.  It will also help me to pass time at work.  I know I'm a big dork, but it's whatever.  I LOVE the human body.

And at that, I'm signing off.  Peace out!

I'm glad I didn't grow up in the 1970s...

So, I just went and saw The Runaways.  

It was pretty good, and even KStew kind of did a good job.  Although in the scene when she was supposed to be mad, there really wasn't much emotion.  Surprise surprise.  

DFan, however, did a pretty good job as a drug addict and alcoholic.

But for reals:

1.  The Hair.  Not so cool.  I know the rocked the mullets and stuff, but mullets, "Farrah Bangs" and extremely long straight hair = not so cool.  Well I guess it was at the time, but I don't think I could rock that look.

2.  The Clothes.  Really, no offense mom and dad, but what were people thinking?  (And in that end scene where KStew is wearing a hot pink jacket circa early 1980's, what's with the shoulderpads?)

3.  The Shoes.  They're sweet and all.  

But who would really wear six inch platforms?  

As I'm putting together this list, I think I just came to the conclusion that the 1970's were actually pretty cool.  But, go see the movie and decide for yourself.

Side Note:

This is what I've been doing with my spare time and I'm desperately going to miss this.  I mean having down time.  I've seen lots of movies and read several books.  And I feel that in medical school this will not happen.

  

My next step for my spare time is to work on my emotional life.  It's kind of all over the place here.  Hopefully something can be done about that.

And here's the real Runaways.  And they actually wore copies of these outfits in the movie.  Promise.

What happened to April?

It's almost May...AHH

Good Things.

Here are some things that are good right now.

I got to see my friends.  This is good.  I had a lot of fun in Kirksville this weekend and was probably the most college-like (in partying) this weekend then ever before.

I got to spend time with Whitney and hand-sew for her.  Whitney is cool.  The only thing that could have made it more cool was if Kaitlin was there as well.  And Whitney, you're welcome.  

Cardinal's baseball is going on right now.  WHICH IS AWESOME.

Even if we lost in our 20 inning game.  Trade 'em.  Lol...

Driving.  

Yup.  That's what I got.

The Benefits of Uncle Sam

Sometimes taking all the effort to fill out taxes has more benefits than just not going to jail.

I've wanted a Coach purse for a long time.  And last summer I bought a little pink wristlet.  But I wanted the real thing.  (See above picture)

I didn't really plan on buying one this early in the year, I figured I would just wait until my mother and I went down to the outlet in Osage Beach, because the Coach outlet tends to have sales.  Well, they always do, but really the purses are not that much cheaper.  

So anyways, today I went out to West County Mall with my mother.  We walked around some, played with the new iPad, which really isn't worth it, unless you want an eReader that does a little more...

So then we walked past the Coach Store and Mom was all like "you should go and look."  So I went, and didn't plan on actually spending any money.  But then, I fell in love with the one I bought.

I guess the conclusion here is that I must thank Uncle Sam.  And my accountants for doing such a nice job on my taxes.

Troll!! In the Dungeon!

I know that Harry Potter is the subject of a lot of my blogs.  Well, he's been a pretty significant part of my life.  In fact...I'm currently watching HP1.

But for real, there are sometimes Trolls in the dungeon of myself.  Does that make sense?

This Lent I couldn't really decided what to give up and what to do.  Normally I do something like give up Soda or Sweets or French Fries (Seriously, I did that in middle school).  I just wanted to do something different this year.  

On the day before Ash Wednesday I wrote in a blog entry "There is snow and a little grass poking through, but there really isn't much life.  Recently I've been feeling that way."  I then proceeded to see a post on my Aunt's FB profile for a website called Busted Halo.  On said website, there is a current dealio called "Fast-Pray-Give."  Each day there is something to fast from, something to pray about and...something to give.  Somedays it has been food or a meal or even facebook (which was difficult!)  Somedays, however it has been personality traits such as pride, jealously, even feeling sorry for oneself. 

Now, my mother seemed to think that some of these things were just an easy way out.  But, have you ever tried to be not jealous for a whole day?  It's a lot more difficult than one may think.  I believe I was at work that day.  Everytime I started to (or had) a jealous thought, I said a little prayer and asked for forgiveness and strength.  I thought that it would get easier throughout the day, but no.  I struggled until the end of the day when I went to bed.

As we're approaching the end of Lent, I've been thinking about how I was feeling at the beginning of Lent.  During that particular blog, I also mentionned how I wanted to declutter my life.  Physically, I was good at this.  I went through most of the stuff that I had left over from college, etc and I gave/threw a lot away.  I've slowly done different parts of my room over the last 40 days.  Emotionally, this was not so easy, but I think I'm getting there.  I really have been thinking in a more simple fashion, trying not to overthink things and in a sense, chill out.  I'm a huge type A personality and this is not easy for me.  So I guess that goal is getting met.  

I liked FPG because not only are there little things to do each day but there also quotes each day.  These are sometimes little gems of wisdom and sometimes thought provoking.  I often found myself reading them several times over and thinking about what it means.  It was just a few minutes I set aside each day, throughout the day.*

The real question that remains is what did I get out of all of this?  Well I gave up time for God each day.  That was nice, to just spend some one-on-one with the Big Guy.  He's pretty neat and always understanding.  I also got to think about things in my life that I may not have thought about before.  And I got to learn new things and quotes each day.  And the few times that I forgot to look, I was able to make up for it the next day, as the plan was "foolproof," in the words of the website.  So I really think that this was a good thing for me.  

Do I think I'll do this again next year?  Maybe, maybe not.  I may just fall back on my oldies but goodies.  We'll see.  I found some Trolls in my dungeon though, and I'm working on Wingardium Leviosa-ing them out of my life.  I do, however have Easter to look forward to.  Easter is a joyous time, and I'm excited to celebrate this year, and am going to try to go forward with the Easter season in a truly prayful manner.  

*As a side note, check out FPG.  It really is interesting and has some great quotes.

Gosh, I'm bored.

So, as everyone knows, I've had a broken leg for a while.  Well since I just had surgery a few days ago, I have yet to be cleared to transport so I'm only working a few days a week still.  I decided that I needed something to do.

I have this really neat friend named Whitney, and she's a fibers major.  One time we even sewed her halloween costume together.  It didn't really turn out well.

As one can see, it's kind of grungy.  And the "boot" that she wore made it awesome.  I copped out this year and wore a costume that I already had.  I know.  Lame.

Well anyways, I can sew well, if I want to.  So I decided to make something.  I did some searching around and have decided on a rag quilt.  Rag quilts are cool in that they really don't involve any hemming or anything.  You actually even sew the wrong sides of the fabric to each other.  Since there is little hemming, this is definitely something that I can do.  And I chose really cute fabric that is pink and yellow.

In my endless search to do things before I get to medical school because I know that I will not have time, I guess that making a quilt will do.  Maybe I'll even try to make my own halloween costume or something, before school starts in August.  We shall see.

Oh and for anyone who reads this, which I don't think is many, here's the website that I got the info from. Rag Quilt Instructions.  Enjoy it, if you like.