Celebration

We had a party to celebrate the end of Anatomy! We celebrated with awesome pina coladas and the movie 300, of which we ogled the graphically-enhanced abs of the Spartans and made toasts to us not anymore needing to know the name of the abs (rectus abdominus, transverse obliques, etc.) (I may know it, but I don't NEED to know it, and that makes it way different). 

I slept on the teeniest couch ever and woke up after 5 hours sleep to drive 45 minutes home before quickly showering and getting ready for work at 8am. I felt surprisingly good, and was just kind of hazy-headed. For a fun example, that early morning while driving through McDonalds (don't you judge me.) I ordered an egg McMuffin "and. . . .one of those potato. . . . things. . . . that you fry?" 

Silence over the microphone, and then she said "A hash brown." And I was too embarrassed to do more than pay and skedaddle off to work. 

But the night before was way fun! 

Hawai'i

Last summer we went to Hawaii on a 15 day cruise, (we being me, my family, my aunt and uncle and cousin Jess). It was beautiful and fun and sunny. (Man, I've missed sunny. We just had our first beautiful day of sun and I am so HAPPY!) 

Here's Troy and I dressed up for a semi-formal dinner. 

Mom's and my feet on Waikiki beach. Hot sand, warm water. Mmm. 

Mr. Monkey-melon head, one of the many awesome decorations at the dinners. 

Another formal night, in my bronze dress that I bought to match my multi-colored bronze/gold heels. First time I bought a dress to match the shoes!
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Mi familia on the Na Pali coast on Kawai, on a Zodiac boat. We got SOAKED--the waves were huge! Almost knocked us off of the boat! 

Dad, me, and Mom at a formal dinner on the cruise. I think I was moving the pepper thingy so it wasn't in our faces. Or I needed pepper and didn't want to give anybody the chance to steal it. 

We went to a seahorse breeding ranch and got to see baby seahorses and different breeds and we got to have a seahorse wrap its tail around our fingers. That's mom's hand there. 

I think this is is coming back from a submarine trip to see ze fishes. The light down there turns everybody blue! I had to get that swimsuit cover up dress because my shorts got all wet from my bathing suit after we swam and I didn't want to go around looking like I'd wet my pants. So mom and I went shopping! Teehehehe. 

Someday, after I'm done with Anatomy, and then Chemistry and Physiology, and then Chemistry and Microbiology, and then whatever else I need, I am going on a cruise again. And it will be FUN. 

Weeeeee are the Chaaampions

Anatomy: 1,198,738,726
Katie: 0

It's official. Anatomy kicked me up and down the street and then jumped up and down on my prone body--GEDDIT, prone? Opposite of supine? One of the terms we learned very early on in the course? Yep? Good. Carry on!--and then Anatomy stole my purse and dissed my haircut while running from the cops.

Yesterday my friends and I studied for ELEVEN HOURS. The day before we studied for SEVEN hours. I crashed at the house we were studying at since we didn't stop until 1:30am. We woke up at 6:30am. Then we had Anatomy class at 8am and studied for three hours before our test at 2pm. Which I don't wanna talk about. (Okay, fine. I feel sort of good about it but DON'T tell Anatomy, or else it'll jinx it and I will FAIL.)

Also, having one night every so often of sound dreamless sleep would be great. I fell asleep last night thinking "tibial tuberosity" and woke up thinking "oligodendrocytes". Gaaah.

We Interrupt This Procrastination Schedule For Fluffy Goodness And Some AGGHHH

Here's a picture of my adorable dog Sage, hogging the new(ish) dog bed that we bought because they ate the old one.

Sage and Kali won't share this nice comfy bed, even though there is plenty of room! (Seriously, plenty of room!) Spoiled girls. Now we own two of these and they are very happy with their beds. We just have less room in our living room. ^_^



Ahhh. Cute little girl.

I had to post something fluffy because AGGGGHHHHH, Anatomy is kicking my butt. Hard. I spent 7 1/2 hours on Anatomy today and should probably do more . . .but I also got rain soaked, so bad I was dripping from my hair and my jacket made me colder than just my shirt and my legs have been aching ever since they were encased in sopping fake leather boots for three hours. So. I'm thinking nice hot bubble bath and hot cocoa and a good book will help!

Busy Mundane Life

Firstly, I think I did well on my Anatomy test! Yes! *dancingwhirlingtwirling*

Secondly, the dogs ran away again. While Mom was yelling at them to come back. And they ignored her. AGAIN. Mom now wants them to be outside-only dogs, and I keep picturing the poor outside-only dogs at our clinic that are stinky and sick. Waaahhh!

Thirdly, Troy is rebelling in his teenage way, but this is the kicker! He TOTALLY DOES NOT UNDERSTAND how darn GOOD he has it! Mom was so much harder on me when I was his age! (She admits it!) And now Troy's bitching about how he has to come home "at 5:45pm for dinnnnneeer, like Moooooommmmm, I don't waaannnnnaaaaa, and maybe I'll come home after 6pm instead? OK? You're lucky if I come home at 6pm! Whiiiinnnneeeee." And Mom is like "Be home at 5:45pm or come home RIGHT NOW AND LOSE YOUR CAR." She be the awesome.

Fourthly, I abandoned Nick at school so I didn't have to wait 2 1/2 hours for his class to get out, and now I feel bad. Except he has my car. So hah!

Fiftly, this list sucks. I need to go eat something. And watch a movie and veg.

Sixthly, I am going to do some homework because that is how awesome I am. Nutrition, here I come!!!

Mental Note: ZzzzZzzzZ

A brilliant fact I just figured out on my own:

DO NOT DRINK THE EQUIVALENT OF THREE OR FOUR CUPS OF COFFEE AT STARBUCKS BEFORE TRYING TO SLEEP. My venti caramel macchiato and my tall white mocha (and my Subway soda) all combined to keep me awake until about one. I have gotten five somethin' hours of sleep. AWESOME.

BRING IT, Anatomy!

Gaaaaahhh!!! VentiCaramelMacchiato Plus TallMocha Gaaaahhhh!!!

There are a lot of bones in the human body. Also foramens, fossa, (fossi?) and other things that I cannot think of because I just left a study group (at Starbucks! My brain is over-caffeinated!!!) and big words are jumbled together and I keep randomly pulling things like "canaliculi" and "synarthrosis" and "temporal process of the zygomatic bone" out of nowhere. Oh! If anybody is wondering about that sneaky eleventh organ system that you just cannot remember, it is the lymphatic system. (Ten minutes of going over every system in the body with a friend and we just COULD. NOT. REMEMBER IT.)

Also, Troy and I went through HUNDREDS of Grandma's music books (which is really only about half of them) and inhaled dust and hurt our backs and now we have some of our own and a LOT of boxes of music are going to the Music Teachers Association and I feel kind of sorry for them because that is a LOT of music to deal with. (But YES! So long as we don't have to figure out what to do with it...SCORE!)

Now, I think I am going to take a bath and mule over different types of joints and why the heck a synarthrosis joint doesn't have the synovial fluid, it is the diarthrosis joing that has synovial fluid, and that just screws with my head a bit too much.

Test tomorrow AGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Sudden Happiness Is Now Turning Into An UhOh Feeling...

First: YEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS I AM IN ANATOMY! YES!YES!YES! (happy dances all around!) YEEES! YAY! WHEE! SPIN! SPINSPINSPIN . . . and then fall down. 

Second: Ouch. Since I got Anatomy I'm now taking 16 units. (For you non college savvy peoples... 12 is considered full time college work and 18 units is the maximum allowed without special permits). 

Third: I did not get into Chemistry. Boooooo. There were 27 people trying to add an already full course that only could accept 26 TOTAL. Fifty people crowded into a room is not fun. 

Fourth: Stooopid chemistry teacher made us wanna-be-adds suffer by waiting through 1 1/2 hour lecture, taking a diagnostic test, and then 1 1/2 hours in lab before telling us "Oh, btw! I am not adding ANYBODY. Until at least next week. And maybe not even then! Mwahahahahaha!!!" And then we all killed her and were arrested and I'm writing this from a dank jail cell. 

Fifth: I'm quite tired. Waking at 6 in the morning sucks. (I see you rolling your eyes). 

Sixth: I may soon be unemployed! Like 8-10% of our population currently is! Granted, this was started by me, but I wanted to work part-part time, and now my boss thinks he may have to dangle all my hours to entice a new technician. Soooooo yep. Cool. 

Seventh: Because of #6, Nick may have to buy all of my sushi! SCORE! ^_^

Eighth: Why is it I can spell big long words but the word EIGHTH stumps me? I seriously retyped that three times before I got it right. 

Ninth: I picked up Grandma's old wedding ring--beautiful braided gold, that was missing parts and too small--from the repair jeweler's and it is beautiful and shiny once more and Mom is excited to wear it now so I'm excited for her! Yay!

Tenth: I'm typing this outside because it was a GORGEOUS day today--again! Short sleeves = happiness! And Troy just came home, and my dogs are more excited to see him than they were to see me, which bugs me, so now I need to go pick on Troy for a while. Or possibly play with the dogs so they like me better. But I'll probably just go to work!