60 Seconds to Sleeping Kitty...

Yeah.  Zoram fell asleep on my keyboard.  If you watch my laptop screen, you can see things moving around on it. :-)

Introducing...

ZORAM!!!

Yahoooooo!!

Guess what my apartment just did!

WE ADOPTED A KITTEN!!!

Pictures will be posted soon, I promise! He's 10 weeks old and orange and white. Sheri's bringing him home and will be here any minute now!

Life just did a 180!

It's amazing how quickly things turn around in life sometimes. Yeah. It's pretty much amazing.

Life's not fair sometimes.

Why do things have to be going so well and then all of a sudden life seems to be full of disappointments?

Life is Grand!

I absolutely love being able to participate in BYU EMS.  I'm having so much fun!  I've had 3 "real" calls, 1 walk-in patient, and 1 call where we didn't actually get to do anything because dispatch messed up (they didn't think we were on duty for some reason...) and they sent Provo instead.  For the calls that I've been on, there have been 1 busted hand, 2 faintings, and 1 laceration.  The one call that we SHOULD have gotten to go on, but didn't get dispatched to in time was severe abdominal pain, and that person was actually taken to the hospital via ambulance, so Provo would had to have come anyways, I guess.  I've learned so much just by observing the EMTs who have been doing this for a while.  I definitely have some favorite ones to work with already.  Several people have asked me what kinds of calls we get, so I guess I could just post them on here.

~faintings

~sprains/strains/broken bones/other things like that

~lacerations

~diabetic emergencies

~seizures

Anyways, I'm just so excited about my "job" (it's a volunteer agency, but I get 3.0 credits a semester for doing it) - and I'm learning that life is incredible when you like doing what you're doing.  I'm so much happier now than I was this summer, simply because I love my job, whereas I didn't exactly feel that way about my job this summer.   You know, it was actually kind of strange/neat, but the other day, one of my roommates said, "I am so jealous of you right now.  Your life is just incredible.  You love your job.  You come home with awesome stories from it.  You're excited about life.  You have a boy who loves you to pieces and whom you love too.  Things are just so great for you right now."

No one has EVER told me anything like that before, and it made me think a little bit.  Life IS great.  I'm enjoying my classes, I love my work, I love what direction my life is headed right now, I love my family, I love my apartment, I love my friends, and I love my boyfriend.  What could be better?

Well, what could make it better would be if Sean weren't 800 miles away, but even that won't be an issue in a couple of days because HE'S COMING HERE!!!  I am so thrilled and cannot wait.  Unfortunately, I have to share him with some other people while he's out here, but I'll just have to deal with that.  

Something that I think is awesome is seeing the difference between me now and me a year ago.  Things have changed so much!  One thing, and most importantly, is how happy I am.  I can't exactly remember the last time that I felt this happy and excited about life!

First EMS Shift Tonight!

I have my first shift tonight with BYU EMS - and I'm SO excited!  Well, that's all well and fine, EXCEPT that I don't have my EMT pants!  Well, I had them (they came via UPS this morning), but when I put them on, they were ginormous...so I mailed them back to Dickies and bought 2 more pairs of EMT pants off of eBay.  They're the exact same pants, except a smaller size and are coming pre-hemmed (unlike the other ones, which were unhemmed), and I'm saving $25 (minus the $8.75 it cost me to return the other order).  Anyways, I probably won't have the pants before the end of next week sometime, which is a slight problem because I have a shift tonight, a shift tomorrow night, and shifts on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.  Dress pants it is for me, then!

Anyways, I am really really really excited about running shifts (just in case you couldn't tell).  I bought one of those retractable badge clip things for my EMT badge, and hopefully someone will have the key tonight so I can get my BYU EMS shirt!  I also had to buy a new pair of tennis shoes because I only had one pair and I didn't really want to wear them while EMT-ing.  So I went to Payless this morning and got a cute pair of brown and pink shoes from American Eagle.  Leslie even gave them her stamp of approval!  I also bought a black men's belt to wear (because mine were either pink or brown with flowers), and while I was out, I got the finishing touches to my room - a thing of fake flowers to go above my window.  Pictures will be posted as soon as I hang up the mini-painting I have, the clock, and the flowers!

I'll have to fill you all in later about how my shifts go!  Hopefully I'll get a call!

Me!

I've been so busy the last couple of weeks that I don't even know where to start.

So...here are some highlights of my life:

-I'm back in Provo going to BYU full-time.
-I love, love, love my apartment.
-My roommates are AWESOME.
-I love my room (I'll post pictures when I'm all done decorating it).
-I love having my OWN room.
-I'm an EMT for BYU EMS now! Woohoo! I'm super excited about that, in case you couldn't tell.
-Sean is coming out here in 11 days! I REALLY can't wait for that!
-I'm grateful for sisters who let me borrow their vans to move my stuff out of their house or who let me spend the night.
-I'm really grateful that all of my family is still alive (yes you, Leslie. Gas leaks are serious, and you definitely don't want to be lighting matches then!)
-I'm not sad that I missed the insane heat wave Livermore's been having. The weather has been gorgeous here, with a few thunderstorms every once in a while.
-I cooked meat (chicken breast) for the first time by myself. It tasted pretty good!
-The BYU football team is 2-0!
-I love how much longer a tank of gas lasts here than it does at home because I basically walk everywhere I need to go. AND, gas is cheaper here in Provo (finally. What was up with it being more expensive a couple of weeks ago?) than it is in Livermore. $3.69 (Orem Costco) versus $3.74 (Livermore Costco).

Although there are several aspects of being away from Livermore that I miss (seeing my parents, eating my mom's cooking, and being near Sean), I really am kind of glad to be back in Utah. I wasn't very excited to move back, to tell you the truth, but now that I have, I am happy here. Utah's grown on me a little bit...which probably has something to do with being out of the dorms and all of the drama associated with that.

So there's my life in a nutshell. I've probably missed a bunch of things, but I need to head up to campus for class soon!

Thanks Aly and Laura...

I wasn't going to fill this out...but then Aly and Laura both did it and I felt kind of left out. :-)

A. Attached or Single? Attached.
B. Best Friend?
C. Cake or Pie? Pie!
D. Day of Choice? Fridays. No school!
E. Essential Item? Cell phone
F. Favorite Color? Pink
G. Gummy bears or worms? Gummy worms. Especially the sour ones.
H. Hometown? Livermore, CA
I. Indulgence? Haagen-Daaz Sorbets
J. January or July? July. It's my birthday month!
K. Kids? No
L. Life isn't complete without? Hugs.
M. Marriage Date? Not married.
N. Number of brothers or sisters? 1 brother, Scott; 3 sisters, Laura, Aly, and Leslie
O. Oranges or Apples? Apples. Unless you're talking about mandarin oranges.
P. Phobias? Snakes
Q. Quotes? "When I die, I want to die like my grandfather, who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like the passengers in his car." Or, on a more serious note, "Trials are blessing I haven't learned how to use yet."
R. Reasons to smile? Sean loves me.
S. Season of choice? Summer
T. Tag some peeps: Nope. Aly and Laura have already done it.
U. Unknown fact about me? I could eat fresh-picked, homegrown, cherry tomatoes all day long.
V. Vegetable? Cucumbers and cherry tomatoes
W. Worst habit? Arguing with Leslie
X. X-Ray or Ultrasound? Well, I've never had an ultrasound, but I have had x-rays before...
Y. Your favorite food? Spaghetti!
Z. Zodiac Sign? Cancer