Rest and Relaxation

June 20-26, 2011
Rest and Relaxation.

Another week, another blogpost. I'm sure all of you want to know who was the lucky 1000th viewer of my blog?? I was so suprised that within minutes of me posting the semi-contest, I had an email in my inbox! I was so shocked there had been so many views. I even wondered if there had been some 'refreshing of the browser' action going on since one of my friends told me he had done that about 5 times in class :) haha! anyways this winner was....*drumrollllll* Daisy Rogers from Sherman, TX! She is a family friend from back home with 4 very cute boys! Daisy, if you are reading, you will recieve your gift in about 53 days when i come back home for my break! sound ok?

Question--i have had several people tell me they try to comment on my blog, but have troubles! if you try to comment but have trouble as well, will you click the box at the end of this blog that says "not working" next to the "this blog is..." thankya :)

R-idiculous amount of stress when i took physical diagnosis test on wednesday- written part was super hard (alot of diagnosis) practical part was ok. I had my classmate Carrie as a patient. I WAY overcalculated her pulse and then couldnt figure out how to lay the table down, and then forgot to palpate her sinus'. oops- wont ever forget them again
E-wwww, said my bff, Hayleah. I grossed her out when talking about cadaver meat ;)
S-tudytunes now consist of christmas music. i start early, dont laugh :)
T-unnel/Middlesboro flooded from all the rain-- if you wanna see video footage from the flooding, that was posted in Facebook click here

A-TV awareness is my group's topic for our community service project. This past week we solidifed where we would present our information: Tommy's Motorsports in Middlesboro, KY
N-ational and state organizations that support PA's... another one of my group's paper topic! turned in my first group paper this past week. it was semi-difficult to write a 2 page, single-spaced, paper with 5 people who all have different writing styles.
D-idnt realize how much the state of Texas makes an impact on the PA profession and the nation in general until I moved here. it makes me miss just the state in general. i miss being familiar with roads and knowing i can find my way around.

R-ejected contestant for the free trip to Paris from Oh Happy Day. thats ok because I'm not sure when I would have been able to make the trip. Click on the blog link above to read who won! Congrats Beth!
E-arthquake of catagory 7, Hurricane Hermey warned us of the upcoming anatomy lectures. This next block of material contains the thorax, abdomen, and peritoneum. this means the test over this info will cover 3 CHAPTERS in GRAYS!! unthinkable! each previous test had been over 1 chapter and had felt like studying for finals. im not sure how I will be able to conquer test 3 alone. I see extra Jesus time in my future :)
L-azy for a WHOLE hour. on thursday I was on a roll studying, then i started texting like 4 different people and realized i had wasted a whole hour. felt defeated by my evil phone, but realized it was some good chat time with my friends :) it was a re-energizer!
A-lisha invited me to her condo for the weekend in Gatlinburg, TN see pics below of the town
X-cited to get away for the weekend for some R&R. we had both studied very hard and been successful on our tests, so we deserved some time off :)
A-lternate routes to gburg.. 3 to be exact. it was dark and the signs were either misleading or completely invisible! we finally made it to her cute place there after about 2.5 hours
T-ried several different restaurants while in gburg: Crawdaddy's (had a yummy shrimp po'boy), Fannie's Corner Kitchen (got a delish sausage/hotdog thing filled with onions and peppers--see pic below), and Flapjacks (got traditional breakfast foods). There are a TON of pancake places there. I counted, literally, 10 on a strip of road as we went to WalMart.
I-nteresting to see Taffy being made as we walked up and down the strip on Saturday afternoon. It was fun to see how it goes from being pulled apart on the machine to packed little pieces. I bought some of my favorite kind: banana and peppermint! Also while walking on the strip, Alisha and I went through a Ripley's mirror maze. It was a dark maze filled with nothing of mirrors and the goal was to make it through without touching a single mirror! im proud to say, we did it!! we kinda cheated by looking at the smudges on the mirrors, but for the most part, we used our smart PA judgement :)
O-n a t-shirt, Alisha got a airbrushed t-shirt for her boyfriend as a joke! It turned out great and I cant wait to hear about his reaction to!
N-ever thought I would miss my family as bad as I did on Sunday night. Being in gburg really made me miss summer vacations, just spending time at the pool with them, and being in their company. speaking of missing people, i really miss my boy :) i think he's kinda cute/funny/everything, so follow his blog too... Dylan's Blog

***DISCLAIMER: these pictures were jacked from gatlinburg searches on google.com. I didnt take any of these.***