Blogger's Block

Well, can I just say that I have a major case of blogger's block. Despite my attempts to think of something clever to post to appease Miri's plea for "more blog" I have failed. Apparantly I blogged 5 times in May, which is actually more than I thought I had. Once a week is not terrible, I guess, except that I'm pretty sure that the first 3 times I blogged all fell within like the first week. Oh well.

Random tidbitties:

1. My first primary activity is coming up! I am pretty dang excited about this, because I think we are going to go to Farm Country at Thanksgiving Point. I am excited to see all the animals, and feed them, and go on a wagon ride (because I'm pretty sure I'm too old for the pony ride), and pet the animals. . . Oh, and I'm sure the kiddies will like it too, of course. . . .

2. I am very excited for the little-er one to be born. I am very interested to see how my "goddaughter" (laugh) M will take to the new one. I plan on showering them both with lavish gifts (unfortunately not, since they won't really be able to take anything with them in the move, but I wish I could).

3. My allergy medicine does NOT WORK FAST ENOUGH. True, I have been taking it every other day instead of every day like I am supposed to, so that's probably the reason why. But it costs like $1 per pill so I'm trying to stretch them out. But I haven't been able to smell anything since April and it hurts to put makeup on because my eyes are so sore from all the rubbing. I splurged and got some soothing eye stuff from Mary Kay so hopefully that will help.

4. The doctor finally fired my assistant. Hooray! My stress levels have been just through the roof because of her ineptness and my workload feels like it's tripled. We've been doing interviews this week and they're going to let me have the final say on who we hire since I'll be the one working with her.

5. My abs rock. I am very pleased that my daily pilates/kickboxing classes are starting to do their thing.

Also I am pretty loopy today and I'm not completely sure why, so please forgive the craziness in the post. I'll likely delete it later.

Lastly, a comic that is funny from lefthandedtoons.com:

An Unpleasant Morning Surprise

This book is actually fascinating. I highly recommend it.

So I'm at the office, minding my own business, and a delivery truck pulls in. The guy brings in 2 large boxes and has me sign for them. After he left, I sat down on one of the boxes and started reading through the order sheet to figure out what they are. Finally, in one small corner, I find the words: "Goods Description: Exempt Human Specimens." At which point I promptly jumped up from the box crying, "ew ew ew!"

Working for a doctor is so startling sometimes.

Kavita

This is my beautiful sister Kavita!

I went to her vocal performance last night at the Northampton House. I haven't heard her sing solo in a few years, so it was really fun. I knew she had a good voice, but I had forgotten how good it actually is. As I sat there fiddling with my camera angle, all of a sudden I heard this deep, melodic, honey-covered voice resonating through the air, and realized it was my sister!

I'm so proud. :)

Free Health Screenings!

American Fork Hospital will be having a health fair June 7th and will be doing a lot of free health care screenings. Here's the link for anyone who's interested:

http://intermountainhealthcare.org/xp/public/americanfork/aboutus/news/article28.xml

"Hate" is not a strong enough word

I loathe birthdays.

Exercise

Starting Monday I am going to be taking a couple exercise classes at BYU. If anyone would like to come along please let me know! I am not so good at the working out by myself thing, as far as consistency goes.

The classes I am going to be taking are:
Kickboxing T/Th 8-9pm
Pilates M 5:30-6:30pm and W 7:30-8:30pm

Classes are $38, or $65 for two, and they run for 3 months. Like I said, if anyone's interested, let me know.

Haunted

I chose this title because I feel it accurately describes the way I've been feeling lately. Not by ghosts, but by my own dreams!! In the last year or so I feel like I've had WAY too many troubling dreams, the kind where you wake up feeling panicked, and then can't shake the feeling for days.

Lately there are 2 recurring dreams I've been having. The first is about needles. For instance, a couple nights ago I had a dream (or would my dreams more accurately be called nightmares?) where I was running around trying to find my sister Ayisha, who is also a medical assistant, because I needed an insulin shot and couldn't bring myself to do it. So I was searching everywhere for her, and finally found her, and then I couldn't find a needle to fit the syringe. And I was panicking because I knew that if I didn't give myself the shot on time I'd get sick.

The second dream I've been having usually involves this one set of my close guy friends I had in high school and college. (I don't dream about my female friends as much because I get to see them much more often) Last night I dreamed that it was high school graduation again, and they called me to meet me somewhere, so I just kept running all over the city trying to find them, and I was crying because I couldn't find them anywhere. All my dreams run along this line - either I'm trying to find them and can't, or I'm having so much fun with them that when I wake up and realize it was just a dream then I'm really sad.

It's so weird that I dream so much now, because during junior high and high school I hardly dreamed (or rather, remembered my dreams) at all. I remember one point my senior year where I realized that the last time I remembered dreaming was in like 7th grade. I think my dreams got kick-started again because when I sent my missionary off I started dreaming about him or my other friends that had left several times a week. And now I'm just a regular dreamer!

Speaking off: There are only 2 dreams that I had as a child (under the age of 10) that I can remember, and they both involve my sisters. In the first one, a lion escaped from the zoo and came to my house and so we all ran into the house to hide. But my sister Kavita didn't make it in time, so she jumped into the sandbox to hide and the lion jumped in and ate her. In the other dream, my sister Ayisha was hit and killed by a car in the street. Both gruesome, no? I must have been learning about death for the first time at that age or something.

Sorry for the random post. Though I suppose they're ALL random. . .

Embarrassing

Oh, boy.

Yesterday I wore a white skirt to work. I was feeling all confident, and cute, and composed. . .

AND THEN.

I went to a medical luncheon at AF Hospital. On my way back out to the car it was my horror to have pointed out to me that I had something on the back of my skirt. For half a moment I thought it was something else, but upon closer inspection, I decided it was chocolate. Since we had been served chocolate chip cookies for dessert at the luncheon, I concluded that there must have been a chocolate chip on my chair. The chair I had just vacated, which means only one person had seen it.

Feeling much better, I then realized something else: I had patients coming into the office in 20 minutes, and the drive from AF Hospital to my office takes 10 minutes.

SO. Quick as a whistle (what does that even mean?) I decided my best option was to buy a new skirt in the next 10 minutes. So I zoomed into the Lindon Walmart, picked up the first skirt I saw that matched my shirt, paid, and left. I got to my office just in time, and the skirt looked great. Saved!

. . .and then this morning when I got in my car to come to work, I brushed some dirt off my driver's seat, and remembered how my windows had been open a couple days ago when we had that dust storm.

Dang. Maybe I DID have the stain on my skirt all morning.

Pie

Remember:

The difference between hostility and hospitality is pi(e).

Spicy

My Indian grandma is visiting because of conference (my mom's family does conference translation). As a result, I anticipate eating a lot more Indian food this week than normal. This is of course fine - but if only it weren't so spicy!!! My grandma definitely cooks way spicier than my mom does. My mom brought me some lunch at work today that apparantly my grandma had made for me. It's so hot it's making my nose run! (To be fair, I have a lower "hot-spicy" tolerance than most people.)

10 Things You Don't Know About Me

I've been encouraged to do the A - Z Tag thing that's been going around lately. However, I am not nearly as eloquent as most of you, and not nearly as patient. :) Instead, I am taking the main idea and twisting into a shorter version, something I like to call. . .

10 Things You Don't Know About Me

1. I went to Japan for the 1998 Olympics
2. I am a Rubik's Cube master
3. I have been in 7 car accidents and 1 motorcycle mishap (almost always as a passenger, don't worry)
4. I have never broken a bone unintentionally
5. I heart Coke
6. My grandpa is a potato farmer in Idaho
7. I secretly don't like dogs very much.
8. I am a crazy mad Batman fan. I have boxes upon boxes of Batman memoribilia.
9. I am super good at home repair and construction. I could totally manage an apartment complex if I wanted to.
10. I have a green thumb of death. All my plants die. I couldn't even keep my cactus alive.

My Other Car is a SAAB

Well, as most of you know, I won the car! This is my new Mitsubishi Eclipse! Or, as I've decided to call her, Mitsy:

It's a really cool car, and I'm really excited to have it. It's only flaw is that it's. . .

SIGH. . .

Japanese.

Not that I really have anything against Japanese cars, it's just that after the SAAB I swore I'd only buy European cars for the rest of my life.

Maybe. . .

maybe. . .

Lederhosen Mitsubishi?!

Anyway, Mitsy and I have been bonding over the last few days. Observe:

Mitsy pummeling me in chess


Me and Mitsy rocking out to some Guitar Hero tunes

Me and Mitsy on night patrol (hence the mask)

Strawberries!

On Thursday we had cooking club at my house. We did chocolate dipped strawberries, because as everyone knows, the only foods I can make are desserts. It was really fun. Thanks to everyone who came!

My Everest

This picture accurately describes the way I felt while climbing with Cara and Lina at the Quarry last night.

Mostly it's because I'm a big baby and am terrified of heights

So I looked up at that big wall and growled, "You. . .are my Everest!"

And then I conquered it. Ha.

Props to Il Divo

If you've never heard of the group called Il Divo, you seriously should check it out. It's like pop opera. They're a 4-man group, with guys from America, France, Spain, and Switzerland. My best friend introduced me to it saying that she fell in love with it immediately, and 30 seconds into the song she chose I fell in love with it too.

You can go to YouTube and search for the songs. My absolute favorite is one they do in French with Celine Dion, called "I Believe In You". Another really good one is "The Man You Love."

Check it out guys, seriously.