GPA-MCAT-MD-ABC?!

I knew getting into medical school was going to be complicated, but I didn't know it was going to be like this. This semester I'm taking a class taught by Dr. Goff and Dr. Moesinger. It like a " I wish I would have known or done this before medical school" kind of thing. We went through the stats of medical school and how much competition there is. I'm not sure if my professor was trying to discourage people or what, but after her lecture about how some people never make it, I still felt confident.

I'm also taking Human Physiology which is awesome! I'm actually doing amazingly well. I've aced 3 quizzes so far and I have high hopes for the exam this weekend. This may be why I'm feeling pretty good about everything right now- hope it continues!

I'm hopefully going to be signing up to physician shadow pretty soon. I really want to excel in everything so I have the best chances for getting in. I've been researching different medical schools and different programs. Of course University of Utah is my first choice. Others to follow would be University of Colorado and possibly Oregon and Seattle (WA).

I'm sick of being stuck in the same spot. I can't wait to get this going. Not only for me, but for Ollie too. I want the best life for him and this is a great way to do it.

Okay...now back to the books!

2011

Oh boy...a new year! See ya later 2010...you won't be missed. Sure there were some good things and not so good things. I started off the year with the most amazing experience to date....having Ollie! I got almost 5 weeks off of work. :D Though...Ollie didn't come out without problems so we had the long journey of hospital trips every day so make sure he was okay. Lauren got married in June and it was so nice! Another friend Jenny had her baby girl Trinity in July and soon thereafter my friends, Lauren, Lindsay and Torie, announced their pregnancies. All due this year! Andy and I celebrated our 1st year anniversary of being married and our 8th year anniversary of being "together."

I've had some moments of my fights with certain relatives and idiotic professors. Then to finish the year I slid on black ice into a UTA short bus...NOT causing any damage not even a scratch. After UTA said they didn't want me to be cited since I can't control mother nature. The Ogden ass said "I have to give you a ticket. It's the law." which we all know is a bunch of crock! Therefore getting me in a fight with him too...

We did ring in the new year with the Thorsted clan. We ate, played BS, Wise or Otherwise and then the boys played a game while Jenna, Ollie and I hung out & talked. It was fun! It was nice to see them when they come into town from WI!

For the new year I didn't make any resolutions. For one I never follow through with them and second I don't remember them to do them! LOL So let's just say I have "hopes" for this year. Andy and I are going to take a trip in the summer to California (probably) and maybe later take Ollie to Colorado. We love it there and we've been taking about how we miss it. I hope to complete most of my studies at WSU for the last time. Then take the MCAT. My goal is to apply in 2012 to medical school.

Ollie turns ONE! We'll be throwing him a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse b-day party with friends and family. I'm pretty excited and I hope it turns out well!

OK big day tomorrow. I got lab, Ollie's doctor appt for his one year and soccer so off I go. :D

X-mas

I was not even in the Christmas spirit this year. I tried to be for Ollie and everyone else, but I'm not sure how well I did. Christmas eve day I had to work and it was horrible. It was way slow and customers were so rude! I did, however, get off earlier than I thought. I came home and got ready and went to my mother-in-law's Christmas eve party where Andy and Ollie already were. We had dinner and opened presents. Then we headed over to my Uncle Dennis' house where my aunts, cousin and family were. I had dinner there too, but I also hadn't eaten all day either... :D We headed home for the night and I stayed up to help my mom wrap the left over presents.

Christmas morning came and I got up to feed Ollie around 7:30 and then Andy decided to lay with him afterward while we waited for my parents to get up. I decided to shower while we waited and when I got out everyone else went back to sleep. So I got ready and waited. Finally my dad got up and waited up with me. Around 9:15 Andy and Ollie got up then 10:30ish my mom got up. We opened presents where Ollie got a ton.


My sister and her kids and my brother showed up for the traditional Christmas day breakfast. I haven't seen my brother in years. He is always MIA so it was good to see him. We opened presents after we ate and the kids played with their toys for a little bit. Later we went to Andy's mom's house to open presents. Ollie fell asleep as soon as Andy's sister arrived so we had to wait for him to wake up to open presents. Ollie got opening the presents better the more the day went on. He got even more toys.

Blowing off

Today was the worst day at work. I had a total of 6 tables and 3 of them stiffed me because they were too cheap to eat out. My first table was a tweaker, my second table thought he was too good to tip because he works at Costco and my third table takes the cake for wanting to split a meal between 3 adults. I mean, if you can't afford to get an entree for everyone and tip your server who makes $2.75 an hour then don't eat out! Because guess what? We DO remember you!

The year is almost over and honestly I can't wait. I've personally had a rough year and I'm only hoping for a better one. Or maybe begging for a better one?! I've been thinking about all the things I would love to achieve, go and do, but I'm just not sure how much it is in the cards. I would love to go to Colorado again once summer comes. Show Ollie where his parents hung out and things we loved to do there. I love Colorado for the people, the activities, the food and the fact it isn't Utah! I left my heart there...

On another note...Ollie has finally decided to crawl and he also discovered clapping. We were watching Little Einsteins and we were clapping with the characters and now Ollie likes to applaud himself. It's actually quite funny. We also got a new car seat/booster seat and he used it for the first time today. He laughed the first 5 minutes he was so excited and...he was clapping. He is such a character! He is growing so fast. I can't believe in January I gave birth to him a year ago. It seems just like yesterday. What an amazing experience it was and the amazing baby I "made." LOL

I'm going to do my crafts

Looking through a catalog I saw this really good quote 'Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think." So I want to make a wooden board to put it on to hang on my wall to help me remember to believe in myself which is something I'm having a major problem with. Second project would be for Ollie. When I was little I had a bear mat that had a zipper, mirror, buttons, shoelaces, etc and it was like a learning how to get ready kind of thing. I want to make Ollie something like it, but maybe a monster since that's his nickname. Third, would be my picture purse which I think would be cool if I can figure out how to make what I want. Now whether I have the time to do these things is another question. We'll see. I hope I find some! :)

Christmas is just a couple weeks away. I only have 1 person left to shop for. I've done pretty good this year by starting early. Makes me less stress than I already am.

Wow...I'm super tired....

Hello 25

This past Veterans Day I turned a quarter of a decade old. Woohoo! I didn't do anything too exciting. The day of my actual birthday I went to work and then volunteered (on the slowest night) at the hospital, came home and went to bed. Friday after I went to school, to get a flu shot and work I met my family at Tepanyaki. My cousin and her significant other have their birthdays on the 10th & 11th so we decided to celebrate together which is always fun! Ollie was the biggest hit though as always! I got a lot of calls/texts and messages on Facebook to wish me happy birthday. It was a surprising amount and it was nice to feel loved for one year. :D

I usually really hate my birthday. I avoid it like the plague. Sadly I would like to do something fun next year because it is on a Friday and it is the 11/11/11. How cool, huh?! But I don't know, we'll see.

Things I received were money, new jeans, a new shirt, an owl rug and wall decoration, car mats, car emergency kit, new pandora charms, lotion, bubble bath (yummy smellin') and a book. I don't think I missed anything else. Fun stuff.

I have 3 weeks left of school which I'm excited to say. I should be doing some serious studying right now because I have an exam tomorrow/Tuesday. So more to come later....

Busy Halloween week

Our Lil Monster

We're dressed 70's style

Our pumpkins (owl and fire face)

Today is the official Halloween but since it is Sunday then everyone had to celebrate it on Saturday. I'm going to go a little out of order here. Friday we went to the Jones' Halloween party and hung out, had yummy food, saw everyone. Saturday we went and got Ollie's picture taken in his costume and then went home and carved pumpkins. We then dressed up and took Ollie to see his grandma Mitzi and then we made a few rounds to neighbors we knew really well and hadn't seen in forever. Some people were so surprised to see us and they were excited we came by which made us feel good. In the spirit of Halloween I made cookies that looked like fingers and that turned out awesome!

Friday I took the day off of work to go to a medical workshop up at McKay Dee which was pretty cool. We were split up into 4 groups and went to "classes" that were (1) labor and delivery (2) Radiology, (3) Ultrasound and (4) Patient interviews. So in labor and delivery we got to deliver fake babies on a model that OB/GYN's use to practice certain procedures on, play out emergency scenarios, etc. Ultrasound they had an actual patient who was 31 weeks along and we got to play with the ultrasound machine on her belly. Radiology we looked at x-rays, CTs, etc and case scenarios. Patient interviews we played doctor/patient and interviewed each other....not that exciting... Then we had lunch with some doctors. At our table we had an OB/GYN from my doctor's office, but sadly this girl next to me sat and talked about herself the majority of the time when we had the opportunity to ask the doctor questions, which pissed me off. Every group has one though, right? Then we listened to a guest speaker who was a little odd.

I've had a migraine for 3 days now which sucks obviously. Sadly I'm beginning to live with headaches since I can't seem to go a day without one. I take Tylenol or whatever which helps sometimes. I may have to go to the doctor though if it gets worse. I have "white outs" where all I have white blurry vision which is a sign I'm going to have a migraine any second. It's awesome....NOT!

In other news...we're being harassed by a Ogden cop. I got pulled over the week before we bought the LR3 and he told me I was speeding down 2 different roads while I knew he was behind me. Makes a lot of sense huh? Then Andy inherited the Xterra and has gotten pulled 3 times now. It's been under a month. The bad thing is too is the cop lives right down the street from us. He has pulled Andy over for going 2 mph over the speed limit, 4 mph the speed limit and going around a corner too fast in which he cut into the other lane. Very stupid reasons! Plus he has never given us a ticket for anything. I'm going to file a formal complaint with OPD tomorrow in case he decides one day to give us a ticket. And if the harassment doesn't stop then it might get ugly.