Infinite Power of Hope

Infinite Power of Hope

Ahhhh, It's like music to my ears, that sweet sound of ....clinking kits as I sterilize them????

Well I can definitely tell you that when I left for school last September I thought that I wasn't going to be back working for nine months.... but as it turns out I am working a little sooner that I had expected, for the time expected to have off. My body is not used to the 6 am wake up time either, but it will be whipped into shape soon!! I am very excited to say that I remember almost everything that I was doing though, in both the Record and sterilizing department. I can walk through X-rays as if I were sleep walking and drawer stocking is like second nature to me!
But honestly my very first morning when I started prepping for the Day and I moved the Kits around and they started clinking I smiled inside myself and realized how much I tuned out that noise by the end of last summer. It's really the little things that we take for granted, isn't it? Not that the kit noise is anything super exciting or meaningful to me, I just realized it's the little things that we remember, that make the difference.

Memorable Quote of the Day:
I like 'em black, just like my men. -One of the Ladies I work with talking about the sunglasses she prefers in her drawer.

My online classes are going okay, you know same ole same ole. I am taking an English Class and Nutrition online.

Culinary Front:
I haven't made anything new in the last couple of days, but we've planned out our meals for the week so we don't eat spur of the moment things.

I really want to be more healthy. I've gained 15 lbs since the beginning of last year and I'm not sure that my pants could take another jump like that this year. HAHA. So I've decided that I want to do better, with exercising, yoga, being more active (in everything), eating healthier (thank you Culinary Nutrition for your edu-ma-cation). You name it, I probably want to be better at it! I do know that my family and I are thinking of running in a 5K coming up here next month so that is exciting!

Craft Corner:
I also haven't made very much progress here. I did send out the Curtains to Kami and David and she told me today that she loved them, and I hope to be getting some pictures soon. I also have researched a ton into the new die-cutting machines including the Cricut Expression, which I think is what I have decided on. Now I just need to buy it! Also I bought the hinges to fix my hope chest and all of the supplies to make my earring and necklace holder, which I hope to do this weekend. What can I say? I have projects coming out of the Wazoo! But I'm working through them!

This is my brother and I.

See, Hear, Speak No Evil!

And now I am going to go read my homework until I fall asleep, which I hope is soon!

Once again I hope that those of you who made New Years Goals will keep them (and help me keep mine!), those of you who haven't yet, to make them, and that we can remember the little things are the most important things of life.

And these are the Musings of a Twenty-year old Something.

You Spin My Head Right Round, Right Round!

I have been meaning to Blog for quite some time now. For a quick catch up I'll do a quick little blog log.

Blog Log

• I turned 21 on Dec. 5! Yesss I'm finally legal! And i'm so thankful to all of my friends who came to my little get-to-gether, who I hadn't seen in quite a while.


• Finals week (which for me was the last three weeks of school) was Busy! What with schoolwork and projects, then friends and callings. I have never had a busier semester overall, but also I have never had to grow so much and experience so much! It was craziness! But I also am very proud to report some very good grades that I gleaned from my labors.


• The power outage was such a crazy night what with packing and pizza and helping others with homework (or more distracting, that is). But my oh my that pizza was delicious! My roommate Chrissy and I left the town in darkness in search of the first pizza parlor that we could come across that was open and had power and still had pizza. What then ensued you ask? ....Well, we then passed several open parlors and went way out of our way to the Little Ceasers in IF. What an adventure it was and I hope ne'er again to see the shady man with a mullet. (I mean seriously the mullet went out of fashion 30 years ago. It's dead. Let it die.)


• Then in a crazy whirlwind of events my parents came helped load up my stuff, finish off my clean check, go to dinner, and then get out of dodge ...after the people in the hotel room next to us kept us up most the night with a terrible fight.


• And now I am home.


• Home for a whole nine months. Working. At Molen Orthodontics again, which I am very glad to have my job back, btw.


• I did have a surgery, another gum graft as it were, on the 28 of December. Thought it failed, but found out today it didn't! Which means I may have come to the end of the road with all of my oral difficulties! Which is very exciting~ At least to me, and my family. But lets not count the chickens before they hatch!


• So what now to expect?

I surmise that the next few months may be a little lonely as compared with the previous two winters, but with good purpose. I will fill the bank only to return again triumphant! (of what I am still figuring...)

I have many projects I have finished, am working on or, hope to have underway soon! And Iwill update you as they come! Recently I have just finished a matching Curtain set to go with the bedsest that I made for David and Kami Summers. And hope to get some pictures up soon.

On the Culinary Front, I have not made very much because I have had a pretty serious cold for about two weeks now. BUT something good I have made but do not have pictures of is my Grilled Cheese Dippers with Spicy Tomato-Cheese Soup. Now you can easily make this not very spicy at all, or add more spicy-ness to your taste, (for example, if you were my roommate Jayme.)

Pic. (Unavaliable, just picture a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup. Original I know!)

Recipe

Dippers: 1 can Fiesta Style Chedder Southwest Soup (if unavaliable try Southweset Style Pepper Jack soup or something similiar) - 8 oz shredded Mexican Cheese Blend - 1 Baguette French Bread, sliced 1/2 " thick (now you don't need the French Bread, but it's delicious) - Butter

Soup: 1 can Tomato Soup - 1 can Cheddar Cheese Soup - 3 c Spicy Vegetable Juice - 2 tsp Hot Pepper Sauce - 1 tsp dried Basil

Mix the Fiesta Style Chedder Southwest soup with the Mexican Cheese Blend and spread across the buttered bread and cook as you would a grilled cheese sandwich. While making the sandwiches, mix the soup ingredients together and when both are heated serve together!

Very delicious! Be careful not to add too much cheese though it will make a sticky mess of your sandwiches!

I hope that those of you who made New Years goals, keep them, those of you who haven't yet, to make them, and that we all may keep our heads about ourselves, as life keeps spinning us around and around and around!