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Dear roommate,

This is your contacts case:

This is my contacts case:
Please, use yours, don't use mine.

Love,

Amy

Summer 2010

Wow! It's nearly the middle of August already...where did my summer go?

Well, it started out with a lot of playing with my mini-BFF a lot!

Miles playing "drive drive" in my car

Mmmm...Smashers from Wallaby's...

Sleepy boy just woke up

Miles thinks ketchup is a food of the gods...

And it tastes even better if you're sitting where you shouldn't be!

Monkey boy. He's watching Finding Nemo on a little TV.

Then I was taking a floral design class through BYU for spring term and made a lot of cool arrangements, which I got to take home.

Wrapped Bouquet

Cube Design

Spring Design

Bridal Bouquet

Bouttonieres

Everlasting Design (a.k.a. fake flowers)

Random flowers thrown together

After applying for 20-30 jobs, I finally found one - I was hired to be an EMT at Raging Waters Utah. I ran the First Aid station and responded to emergencies in the park, like I did at Seven Peaks last year. Raging Waters paid me more PLUS I had to do even less work there! No audits, no in-services, etc!

At the end of spring term...I went home to Livermore for a week! While I was there, my parents and I went to the Rodeo Parade, San Francisco, etc. Lots of fun, and it was great to get out of Utah for a little while!

We went to the de Young Museum, where they have a lot of the masterpieces from the Musee d'Orsay in Paris right now while the Paris museum is undergoing renovations. Me, playing outside before going in.

The Golden Gate Bridge, on a remarkably clear, warm day in San Francisco

When I got back to Utah, I started a second new job - working as a Psych Tech at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. Let me tell you, they've been keeping me busy! (This week alone, I've worked Saturday, Sunday, Monday, then had Tuesday off, and am working Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, have Saturday off, then Sunday.) I've turned into a creature of the night and love working the night shifts (7pm-7:30am).

The hospital

Me, at about 4 in the morning, when a friend stole my camera

Then July came around, and we celebrated my birthday when my parents were out here, so Laura, Dan, Nolan, Miles, Aly, Avery, Zane, Cole, Tate, Mom, Dad, and I all went to lunch at one of my favorite restaurants - Tucanos!

The family

(minus Leslie, Pieter, Jonathan, Shalyn, Scott, Alyson, Fletcher, Conner, Alyse, and Blake)

I said goodbye to my trusty steed, my 1991 Honda Accord...

1991 Honda Accord EX

...and replaced it with a 2003 Toyota Camry, also known as the big comfy couch! My commutes to SLC are much more comfortable now.

2003 Toyota Camry SE

One of Aly's friends had a "toe party", so Aly, Shalyn, Laura, my mom, and I got our toes done (this is taken about 4 weeks after, so they don't look as good as they did).

Yes, I know my toes are ugly, and no, that's not dirt on my feet, they are light tan lines from working at the water park...

I quit working at Raging Waters at the end of July after the way I was treated by the owner of the park, so I had a little more time to play with my mini-BFF!

Helping water the plants, one of Miles' favorite things to do outside

Speedo Sammy!

At Wendy's...he didn't really like the glasses...

Nolan on the slip-n-slide

I've now started moving out of the apartment I've lived in for 2 years because my contract is up. I'm moving to a place that is literally across the street from campus and has cheaper rent, wahooo!

Most of my textbooks...they pretty much filled up my trunk all by themselves...

And finally...I've been waiting for a long time to order one of these...and it arrived in the mail yesterday! A brand-new, high quality stethoscope to use in nursing school! It's a 3M Littmann Cardiology III, if any of you care, haha.

The box

The stethoscope

The engraving

Well, that's about it for now. I can't believe it's about time for school to start again, but I'm excited!

(There, Laura...happy now? Blog updated.)

The Big Read's Top 100 Books

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.”

Bolded books are ones I have read.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4. The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling

5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6. The Bible

7 . Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9. His Dark Materials – Phillip Pullman

10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 . The Complete works of Shakespeare (Like Purplesque and Ramona I've tried, and failed. Evidently I'm uncouth)

15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16. The Hobbit --J.R.R. Tolkien

17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19. The Time Traveler's Wife

20. Middlemarch - George Eliot

21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 . The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 . Emma - Jane Austen

35. Persuasion - Jane Austen

36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41. Animal Farm - George Orwell

42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50. Atonement - Ian McEwan

51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52. Dune- Frank Herbert

53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72. Dracula - Bram Stoker

73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75. Ulysses - James Joyce

76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77. Swallows and Amazons

78. Germinal - Emile Zola

79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80. Possession - AS Byatt

81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White

88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92. The Little Prince – Antoine de St. Exupery

93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

94. Watership Down - Richard Adams

95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

96. A Town like Alice- Nevil Shute

97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98. Hamlet- William Shakespeare

99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

This made me smile

Oh, BYU...

Drowning!

I'll post something new in a few days...for now, I'm drowning in school work and am not quite sure how I'm going to get through this week.

Pharmacology midterm. N320 test. N330 exam. N320 final. 2 journal entries. Waltz test. Cha Cha test. Pre-assessment. Find 2 articles to present to my clinical group for wednesday about a patient I've had. Discussion questions to answer. Write a "critique of research". Write the intro/methods section of a literature review. Teach in the EMS class Thursday night. Write a paper due next Monday. Case study for class tomorrow.

Yikes.

Damsel in Distress

I got locked INSIDE my apartment this morning.

Long story short, the locking mechanism broke, so Mat had to come and kick the door in for me to rescue me.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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