my ode to good managers

So this is a silly little post but I would have never appreciated good managers until I started my top secret new job! There amazing and so flexible and make work so much fun! I love my job, yes this love will probably only last a week or maybe 2, actually I worked my second shift last night and the love already started to die down after my first series of annoying customers!, but I actually don't really hate the customers just the system of trying on clothes is little flawed... But I am trying to find a way around that... Maybe I will suggest cubbies in the dressing room to store over the max of 5 items? but until then I am proud to be an employee in this smelly retail place! :) And i thought at first i thought it was all about the cool discounts, but haven't used my discount once! Ok back to homework... 2 MORE WEEKS! and this countdown began 11 months ago.

lol timeless

this took hours to find on avas blog i knew she had a baby picture of me... they need it for GRADUATING! YES

BridesMaids! :)

stay young go dancing

"Lost in a maze of a thousand rainy days
Of a thousand rainy days
But when I heard her voice, oh it led me to the end
Yes it led me to the end"

"Cause when she sings I hear a symphony
And I'm swallowed in sound as it echoes through me
I'm renewed, oh how I feel alive and through autumn's advancing
We'll stay young, go dancing"


I cannot bring my self to write this paper! Ah school can be such a drag... most of the time! I am loving the new death cab for cutie soundtrack! I never had such appreciation for their lyrics until now! They are so talented! repeat. My cat is sooooo cute! Ohhhhhhhh the blissfulness of dancing with my sleepy feline- yeah hehe i gotta the lyrics goin on now too ;)

AVRIL and Trav duo come in 2 weeks! Then they all go on a cruise without me :(

4 more weeks till graduation! LOL pinning december 8th 2pm sharp LOL

LALALALALALLALALALALALALLALALALLALALLALA

Mi hermana ana y Yo fue a Busch gardens! Ella es muy generoso! GRACIAS y buenos noche.

I love this song! Oh delightful Monday. Advil and coffee and class.(the bully isn't so bad anymore) the time change didn't help at all that's for sure. Gosh I love RBC and my lovely sister violette with her fluffykin song. Fluffy fluffy tape you down... Oh boy I forgot about band practice again.... that's ok girls 5 more weeks until terminando el  classe de boringness!!!!!!!! Oh I can't wait to see bri's cat and dog and child! This is going to be fantastic!

Leadership and communication class is the best! and so is this teacher; she already said we are getting out 2 hours early YAY!

fivefingers. i think. yes.

Ok so this is a silly little post but I honestly never want to forget how thrilling this silly little experience is! It all started last thursday... I was sore from the 8 mile run me and nina did together over the phone and groaning around the house still feeling good from the endorphines from endurance but my hips felt like they were going to pop out and worst of worst my knees were killing me. I just kept thinking to myself I want fivefingered shoes because I read they make your knees not hurt. And then voila awesome schol refund check came in the mail and next day after service I got kathy to go to travel and country and try on the alien shoes!!!!

I am totally and 100% sold on the fivefinger minimalistic running shoes. And I have yet to read born to run book. I am in love with running! I have only done 5 miles in them over the past week and my feet and ankles feel so much stronger! My calf muscles have never been this big! Not that I was particularly going for big calf muscles as my goal, but I am now seeing that maybe those calf muscles support the feet muscles which make running easier, faster, and more fun. All I have been doing is starting my normal run with a mile or 2 in the barefoot shoes and then the whole rest of my run feels easier. With no sore knees. This my friends is a revolution to running! sold.

Special times in Limon

Stars...her voice is so pretty

Julia Gulia

WOZERS Julia gulia tulia mulia got married to Eric!! WOW! Congrats!

Oh what a hot Summer...its dark out but still 90 degrees

Boston.. where no one knows my name... I never thought Augustana was all that amazing, but belting that song out along with Ava's way out of tune baby grand piano, or whatever that amazing instrument is called, is so fun!

Wisconsin is so beautiful. And so slow and relaxing (tract work in the country hehe) I miss you avril and katelin travis :( and kelsey :) and Cori...

Well training for a marathon sure is harder than it sounds. Niner beaner is organizing a half marathon Nov 20.... I ran1.3 miles today and thought my feet were going to fall off. But yeah I am feeling the determination!! oh yeah. bring it on sofa soph

awwwwwwwwwwww relief!

my little bloggy blog its been so long. Well. I am so happy I passed my test today!! It was on mental health which was very interesting to study.  Sooooo Augusto I need sooooooo much service time. Passing my last few tests was super hard I studied soo much just to barely pass. so I missed a lot of service days. Now i just have my final next week....holy moly more studying for that yikes. and then 3 weeks off=lots of service. I really want to go visit ava but the tickets are so expensive././/./././ hmmmm... same for the convention in new york... But conveniently Julia Gulia Mulia is coming to visit in august and she said she wants to go out in service hehehhe yeah you'll get to go out in service alright hahah til you drop because I need like 150 hrs+++! This will be fun!!

durrrr hopsital safety orientation zzzz

Last week was amazing! How I love doing nothing but service... and writing in this blog. No work, no school, just a whole lot of service. I got more time last week then I got for all of last month. Pioneering is the best! It felt like Costa Rica except with a beautiful ACed corolla instead of the beautiful beach. I got my windows tinted!!! Corollas are pretty awesome cars. I mean they have a lot more leg room then jettas... hehe ok enough of that.

Ok so nursing school really isn't all that bad. The summer semester lined up is going to be a lot of studying but the book is really interesting and I am kind of looking forward to reading it and I am doing clinicals at the hospital (Soph told me there are more places to hide there compared to the nursing home) So that's a plus plus plus.      :-D

However, we have to do this hospital orientation and boy is it sooo dull. I'm sitting at barnies drinking delicious decaf coffee...I have been listening to recordings about safety for such a long time. And then oh no I forgot to actually listen sooo then I have to play it again....

Mmmm I love coffee..... and iced chai tea hehehheheeh and the national! "nobody knows where you are living, nobody knows where you are....you're so far around the bend (dedededelallaa) and there's no leavin' new york...."

the master plan

I have officially applied for like 12 scholarships. It is such hard work. They all want different essays. Some 2 pages. some 300 words. some history, some future goals. I've been doing for the past 4 hrs! I sure hope it pays off. The motivation------ Nina and possibly some friends from Hindi group are going to India and other places in December. Oh yeah you know what I am thinking.....If I could pull this one off!!! I'm done school December 9th right when the tickets start to go down..supposedly. Oh i hope this works!

This nice lady in my class who sits behind me kindly told me that she was going to tell our teacher on me if I didn't stop being so distracting. Me distracting? I sit quietly in my bubble typing essays? But apparently "move around a lot." hmmm yes it was interesting. (I think someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed, wishing they were eligible for seventeen magazine-are you pretty awesome scholarship.)

DOLPHINS!

DOLPHINS!
Originally uploaded by Aussiali

I just love this song!

ra ra riot

I always thought their songs were kinda mediocre. But they are so good live and the cello and violin are beautiful and they are super happy on stage and I am amazed how the cello girl stands and dances around! And the violinist jumps around to and still sounds great!

LET THE COUNTDOWN BEGIN

Nursing school is so crazy!!!!!!! I wish I could blog about my patients at the nursing home, but I signed this HIPPA thing. But I will say, the one thing I love about the nursing home is trying to talk to the spanish old ladies who don't speak any English!  All and all it is pretty exhausting. The teachers are always trying to scare me! But I keep telling myself what soph told me, that it's really not that big a deal. Thursday is supposed to be my service day but yesterday "accidently" forgot to set my alarm and woke up the next day at 2:30! Sleepying in felt amazing... But not so great for the service time or bible studies...

We get to start giving meds next week. YES! no more bed baths! These patients sure do get medicated a lot! It is crazy how drugs are the go to solution! So different from my family of herb takers! Unfortunately its influencing me, I took more than 2 advil last month, but with moms great training felt so guilty, like I was killing my liver! (so  i drank 3 cups of detox tea)!! I had a super annoying cold a couple of weeks ago and my mom walked in the kitchen right as a I was swallowing cold medicine and I thought she was going to cry- all she could talk about was how I was ruining the green beans I just ate. I felt pretty guilty. But cold medicine works way faster than green beans.


Saturday clinicals tomorrow! YIPPEE


rough calculation 9 months and 10 days till graduation!!!!! for life.....no more community college!!!!! I just don't see how some people can go to school for life, I am going stir crazy from all these boring lectures!

Sooo tired!!!! I got a sore throat and do not want to get sick! So mint tea and honey and toy story 3 here I come! We learned how to give enemas in class the other day... Yeah gross. I did not know what an enema was and all week prior to learning the teacher would say things like ok next monday demonstrate enemas... I had a feeling it was something gross by the way her tone of voice changed.....and yes it was. 

We also learned how to check peoples glucose levels. Where you have to prick their fingers. It was sooo freaky, we weren't really going to prick each others fingers,, just pretend/demonstrate, but my lab partner is this tough, ex military, pregnant lady, and as she was massaging my finger to get the blood to come to the tip and then she pulled out the needle!!! AHHHHHH. I got so scared and dizzy and red in my face and i pulled my finger back! it was so weird!!

Listening to tokyo police club reminds me of latifah, which reminds me of our uhh "band" :D. Oh to just be naturally be musically talented, I wish! But I think we should have a come back! A new debut! A band practice, hmmm if only we had a latifah replacement!

Stupid school books they are so boring and thousands of pages long. We had a 3 hour math class today after the 3 hour lab, but we do get a 1 hour lunch break, which has turned into "let's watch mind melting bachelor" TV show on hulu! YAY It really would be the perfect time to open one of these thousand page book,s but my brain just hurts so bad and its better to learn awesome things like how to give a bed bath and fan fold(this week) hands on, not from a book...RIGHT?!.   I found out there is actually 2 witnesses in my class!

Tokyo Police Club - "Wait Up (Boots of Danger)" Official Video

lalala nature sounds at night and pandora radio in the AM!

So I am waiting for the service group to come meet me at my house.....and its pouring rain.

NURSING SCHOOL! Is everyday, except for holidays like today, thank you MLK, and only 11 more months to go. Let the count down begin! There is a witness in my class. woohoo. I learned how to wash my hands...very important. check your pulse and blood pressure. The teachers try to freak you out by saying if you are more than 2 counts off when couting pulse you will get kicked out of school. But sophie told me they lie and you won't get kicked out. So they don't scare me!!! HAHA Although I was like 40 off on our last practice, but this girl had an odd pulse. (coffee and no food and non bounding/jumping pulse)

Nina moved out!!! INDEPENDENT, throw your hands up in the air! Awww I would say I miss her but, we see each other a lot still. And it's better because I don't irritate her in the morning and she has an awesome place and she is so happy!. In Winter Park right next to gardens and a perfect workout parks! (haha I am going to slowly move in with her.............mwahahhah)

More about Panama

The meeting was so cute in Panama. They only have 13 publishers in the English Hall and one elder! There were a few need greaters there too. The person who read the watchtower actually knew my sister. He was asking me if I knew where Lake Helen was.. which happens to be the obscure town close to where my congregation is. He asked me if I had a sister who got married in Vegas....yeah your describing my family...weird.Apparently he sat next to Nina at a wedding in Minnesota, such a small world.

There is also a small nobay (I don't know if I spelt that right) group in Bocas. Which they do not even have a Bible in their language yet! and one ministerial servant takes care of the whole group! I heard they are having much growth!

Bocas was a neat place, although it is very touristy, there are still indigenous people walking around the streets in their native looking clothes.

Panama

The meeting in Bocas del Toro

Crossing the border

home sweet home

not. this cluttered mess of room is demanding some immediate zenifying. Oh how I will miss Limon and my darling roommates. It was so sad seeing them walk away at the airport and the last day of service was so bitter sweet.

I gained 7 happy pounds on this trip... YET still the guy at customs, was like how old are you?! why are you alone?  I am 18 buddy(he gave me this look of strong disbelief), you can check my passport (because it's in your hands).

HI!!!!!

So weight doesn't make you look like an adult. Hmm more makeup. I feel like Nina,  I must be taken seriously. ahhhhhhhhh