Spring Break

I just finished posting a new photo album on MySpace after unpacking from my wonderful spring break at home. How time flies!!

Dave and I drove back Friday night (April 11th) in separate cars after I got off work. The Jetta was done getting fixed in Stockton and the Lincoln needed to get fixed in Bakersfield. Saturday my aunt and uncle from Seattle stopped by on their vacation, and Sunday we used our season passes at Magic Mountain.




Then on Monday morning at about 8 AM an SUV stopped in the middle of the road, a 4x4 crashed into it at about 50 miles per hour, and Dave slammed on his brakes and crashed into the 4x4 at about 40-45 miles per hour. Nobody was hurt and the insurance company got us right into a rental car after towing the Jetta to the body shop.


Thursday morning the insurance company officially declared our beautiful 1999 VW Jetta TDI a "total loss" (yes, I cried :) and by Thursday afternoon we had purchased a brand new 2007 VW Jetta GLI Fahrenheit!! Here are some photos, but you REALLY can't experience this car until you go for a ride:








Friday morning (April 18th) we used our season passes at Magic Mountain again, and then time somehow fast-forwarded and I'm already back at school...

My 6th (and LAST) semester in Stockton starts tomorrow morning. I take my last final August 1st and I move back to Bakersfield right after that! Graduation is set for May 2009. I say, "Bring it on!"

I just realized there is a button that says "add image"...wow! I thought all you picture people were computer geniuses, but maybe all it takes is the push of a button.

Let me try this...

These are my bowling shoes. I have officially used them 4 times now and they have not helped my bowling at all, but man am I stylish!!


This is my nephew, Elijah, who came to visit me right before Easter and really liked playing my guitar.


This is Elijah taking a nap at my apartment in Stockton.



OK, I'm gonna post this random hodge podge of nothing and see if it worked...and if it did, it's going to be picture-palooza from now on!!


Oh, wait...a VIDEO BUTTON, TOO?!?!

Here's "suitcase surprise" (this is taking WAY longer to upload than I originally anticipated) >:o|

You won't believe this...

A "bad guy" got busted in Bakersfield, today. What for, I don't know. The detectives/police found a bunch of nice stuff at the home of the person that got busted. The police ran the serial number on the PS3 they found to see who it belonged to...





and it was us!!!





WE GOT OUR NEW TV AND PS3 BACK!!!





Dave went down to the police station today and picked them up. I'm still in shock...I don't think I'll REALLY believe it until I go home this weekend for Easter and see them with my own eyes. Still no luck with Dave's ring and his laptop, but that's TOTALLY okay, because both those were paid off and not worth as much money (although the ring did have TONS of sentimental value, of course). We have been making payments each month on the TV and PS3 (hooray for Best Buy's no interest deals!!), and it was pretty sad having to pay for something we no longer owned.

When I bought Dave the PS3 for Christmas, I got to pick 5 Blu-ray DVDs as a rebate. I just got the DVDs a few weeks ago and it sucked being reminded that our stuff was stolen, but now we can watch them!!! This is so, so, so, so cool. You have NO IDEA...or do you?

Have you seen this??

I'm not sure if this link will work forever, so go see it now while I know it works! This is a clip from the Today show about NILMDTS. If you don't know what NILMDTS is, you NEED to watch this clip. WARNING: you may need tissue if you're a crier!!

TRY THIS NEW LINK THAT GOES DIRECTLY TO THE NILMDTS WEBSITE...IT HAS A LINK TO THE VIDEO I POSTED PREVIOUSLY:

http://www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org/eventDisplay.php?page=14

If I was more technologically inclined, I'd figure out a way to put the video in my blog...

Joe Proposed!!

I'm so proud of my biggest brother! Last night he took his girlfriend, Kristin, to dinner and got down on one knee!! I drove about an hour to the restaurant to gather with friends in the bar to help them celebrate...HOORAY! I posted pictures and added them as a slideshow to MySpace.

Family History

I went to visit my grandparents in Fresno this past weekend and snapped a couple photos. I've posted them in a new album titled "Family History" on MySpace. I have no idea how to add photos to my blogs, yet, so that will have to do!

My Mom's parents and my Dad's parents live next door to each other in the same retirement community (they are all in their early 80s now), so although I met my mom to visit with her parents, I got to see my Dad's parents as well!

I want to move into this place when I retire...hopefully it's still as nice...and hopefully they will have installed some high-speed wireless internet, because dial-up doesn't work for me!

My grandparents are truly inspirational people and I'm blessed to be part of their family. Here's a glimpse into just what I'm talking about:

A few weeks ago, my Grandma Johnnie and Grandpa Harley had invited an older couple to Sunday school since the older couple hadn't been to church in awhile. They agreed, but during Sunday school the man's pacemaker failed. Ignoring her replaced knees, my grandma ordered people to lay him on the floor and call 9-1-1 before she got down on the floor with him and began CPR (she was an RN before she retired). She was calm, deliberate, and was able to bring the man back! Then the next week at Sunday school, my Grandpa said "Don't you try any stunts today, Herb (name probably not right)...if you go down this time I'LL be the one giving you mouth-to-mouth 'recreation,' not Johnnie!"

They are the best!

The Lottery

No, not the one where you can potentially win lots and lots of money. I'm talking about the lottery that happened at school yesterday during which all 223 (or so) students in my class chose our 3rd year rotation sites.

Is this a blog-worthy event? Probably not, but I'm tired of seeing the one about the robbery.

Because Dave and I are married, and because Dave lives in Bakersfield, I got a higher ranking. The top 5% GPA students as well as the people with spouses or dependents (if the spouse or dependent is living in the city where the rotation site is) got top priority and were assigned a random number for the lottery. I was pick #30! There were about 50 people in the top priority category, so to speak. The other 170+ people were also randomly assigned numbers. My friend Carolyn was #168...ouch! A lot of sites were full by the time she got to pick.

There are 20 possible sites, some of which allow 15 students, and some of which only accept 2-8. Some of the ones that only accept a few students are Portland, Hawaii, Redding, Chico, Loma Linda, Santa Rosa, Merced, and Monterey. The full sites include San Francisco, Stockton, Fresno, Santa Barbara, Sacramento, San Jose, Long Beach, Palo Alto, Travis, and LA/Orange County. This year, the Bakersfield site was expanded and now accepts 20 people!

Once your name/number was called, you had 2 minutes to make your selection. I was the 3rd person to choose Bakersfield, and the site was full before the lottery was finished! Santa Barbara didn't even fill up. Does that make any sense to anyone?? Who would pick Bakersfield over Santa Barbara? Besides me, of course :) Most people didn't need the two minutes, but once a lot of the sites had filled up there was some drama. One of my classmates bought a house with her fiancee in Elk Grove (up here near Sacramento), but Sacramento was full by the time she got to choose! So she was on the phone frantically trying to decide where to go in 2 minutes. She chose Bakersfield :)

I wasn't exactly worried about being able to get Bakersfield, because the chances weren't very good that 20 people in front of me would choose it, but it's really nice to know FOR SURE that I get to go HOME in August! I think I'll slowly start sending things back to Bakersfield with Dave when he comes to visit...or my mom...not that I have THAT much stuff up here with me. Maybe I'll make a trip home after midterms later this month.

YAY for being almost half way through 5th semester! Only 1.5 semesters left to go! Then 6 6-week rotations starting in Bakersfield in August and I'll graduate in May 2009. Once I graduate I just have to take (and pass) the State Board Exam to get licensed. There's a light at the end of the tunnel!

I'm really looking forward to rotations to find out what I really want to do as a pharmacist. 4 of the 6-week rotations are mandatory (hospital inpatient, community pharmacy(AKA retail, like at Longs), ambulatory care, and internal medicine). 2 of the 6-week rotations are electives, meaning we get to choose what else we want to do. One of the electives offered in Bakersfield that sounds REALLY interesting is physiatry (not a spelling error--I'd never heard of it either!) which deals with rehabilitation from brain and spinal cord injuries. I don't know what else I'll choose, yet.

Sorry if you read this whole thing and it wasn't til the end that you realized there was nothing interesting in it! Hopefully it helped you kill some time, anyway :)