The Huntington School

This is stolen from Kevin and Justine. Thanks. :)


What was the highlight of your week? Seeing My Fair Lady at the OCT with my Mom

What color shirt are you wearing? Grey

Are you good looking? My Mommy says I am

Last movie you watched? National Treasure

Who were you with? Milo

Last thing you ate? A brownie!

Last thing you drank? LOTS of alcohol. Or was it water...

When was the last time you had your heart broken? My valves are in good working order

Who came over last? The Cannata's

Are you happy right now? Kinda

What did you say last? Night, I love you.

Where is your phone? Um... oh crap. Hopefully in the house.

What color are your eyes? Blue

Are you left-handed? No

Spell your name without vowels: Jlln

Do you have any pets? Fo shiz. Maggie Mae has really bad gas right now and Milo just knocked my ice water all over the floor.

Favorite Vacation? Holland/Paris. I'd live there if I could.

What do you dislike currently? My failing eyesight.

What are you listening to? The Golden Girls on tv.

If you could have one thing right now what would it be? I really can't say here.

What is your favorite scent? Water on the pavement.

Who makes you happiest? The twins. Picking them up from school, having them read to me, tucking them in, even when they are freaking annoying I love them.

What were you doing at midnight last night? Sleeping. Or maybe hearing imaginary noises.

When is your birthday? September 9th

Who has the same phone as you? My mom used to

Last time you went swimming in a pool? In Palm Springs when it was 113 degrees outside.

Do you read your horoscope? No

Where was the last place you bought something? A store

How do you feel about your hair right now? Fine

Myspace or facebook? Neither

How fast have you driven a car? 85? Never more than 90!

Have you ever smoked? I haven't been on fire yet.

What was or is your favorite subject in school? A&P

What type of boy or girl do you usually fall for? Hard to form a pattern from two people

Do you have any hidden talents? Still hidden from me

Favorite Song? At the moment, Jump (For My Love) by The Pointer Sisters

Three people that made you smile today: Luke, Livi, Cameron

Do you like to sing at all? I LOVE to sing!

Dream Job? Nurse Practitioner. It's helping others learn too.

Where does most of your family live? Close

Would you consider yourself to be spoiled? I think we're all spoiled.

What was the first thing you thought when you woke up? Food

Know any other languages? Some spanish and dutch.

Did you take a nap today? No

Who has the same birthday as you? Only the sexy people

Ever met anyone famous before? No

Do you want to be famous one day? NO

Any Pet Peeves? Unfortunately, yes

Are you multitasking right now? No

What is your least favorite chore? Doing dishes in cold water

Last place you drove your car? The twin's school and back

Ever been out of the country? Yes

Where were you born? Bellflower

Could you handle being in the military? I can't answer this without saying something very un-PC...

Who are you thinking about right now? My elementary school teachers

When was the last time you laughed REALLY hard? Today. It hurt

How many pairs of shoes do you own? That I actually wear... 5. Six if you include my super-sweet-granny slippers

What are you doing today? No idea

Have you ever been gambling? No

When is the last time you updated your page? Now

Do you like rollercoasters? For the most part.

Have you ever been to disneyland or world? Disneyland. When I was five. Never went back.

Do you have a favorite cartoon character? Yes

How's the weather? Dark

What's the stupidest thing you ever did with your cell phone? Dropped it?

Last time you were sick? Finals week.

What states have you lived in? California

Do you wish you could move? Not yet

What is your dream car? Something with awesome gas mileage and an old school look

Have you ever wanted someone you cant have? Some kids just don't grow up the way you think they will

If you could be anywhere right now where would it be? Here. There's a lot to do

Are you happy with your life? Yes

Have you ever lost anything down a toilet? Nothing I didn't want to lose.Milo the wildabeast attacks Livi's lamb.

Watch Over Me

Well, sometimes the world stinks. Maybe even sucks. I couldn't type anything understandable here... not even any "word vomit." So instead of forcing a post, I'll just leave it here.

Here's a new song that I really like. It's called The Way I Am by Ingrid Michaelson. Don't worry, I'm not buying Rogaine any time soon.

---EDIT---

HAHAHAHAHAHA

I'm Just a Kid

Taylor (my 12 yr old cousin) showed me this the other day and I got a laugh out of it. Get out your calculator and follow along. Whatever I put in [these brackets] punch into your calculator.

There was a [69] year old woman who was [2][2][2] big. She went to [51]rst street and saw Dr. [X] and had [8] surgeries. When she walked out she was... [hit = and flip your calculator around].

Immature? Completely. But funny!


6922251 x 8 = 55378008

Teeth and The Medicine Woman

Yesterday at around 16:30, I received my BLS card for healthcare providers. (BLS= basic life support). Wooooo hooooo! I can now legally help someone if they are choking/dying/going into vfib. Don't make me break your ribs and/or shock you. It was the most laid back, most "chill" class that I have ever taken. There was only three people in the class (a school teacher, me, and a guy who worked in the ICU) so they needed to renew their card, and I just needed to get one. So we just did the renewal course (a lot shorter... we were out of there in 2 hours). The only scary part was when I discovered that I knew more than the nurse who worked in the ICU at a hospital. It's a long story.
Today has also been a good day for everyone but Maggie May. My mom had to take Maggie to the vet (to get fixed) before her Bible study started, so she asked me to take the twins to school. So I set my alarm for 08:00 (only a 1/2 earlier than usual) and took the monkeys to school. Livi and Luke insisted on taking the "shortcut" to class so they could pass the water fountain. Then after school we went to the playground while we waited for Tay to get out of school. Kids are so freaking awesome. A bunch of Livi's friends were yelling at me to look at them, look at them, look at them! And Luke was off being a boy, playing some game of tag/throw the ball at anyone. But, there is a point to this post!
The first one: Luke lost a tooth tonight! I'll post the pictures later... but the cool part was that he let me pull it out for him! It was a bleeder too. What can I say, my brother's a little stud muffin in the making.
The second reason is just crazy. You really never know who you're going to meet at the most random times. My mom and I stopped by a tiny Mexican food place on our way home from Costco. You just park your car and then go up to a window or you can go inside to order. We walked up the window and ordered our stuff and stood back to wait for it. There was a Native American guy waiting for his food too. He randomly gives my mom his business card and we just started talking to him. As it turns out, he's an actor (in SAG) and he was in a bunch of tv shows! He was in CSI, and he was in Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman too! He even showed us a picture of him in the shows, and one of him with Jane Seymour! It was so cool! Like I said, you meet the random-est people! My mom and I went to my mom's car to drive home and he went and sat down to eat with his dog Compton. Cute name right? :)

I know a lot of you guys are still in school. I just wanted to encourage you to all keep it up! Just take everything day by day; trying to do too much can be lethal. Sometimes the days seem like they will never end... but time really does fly by.

Bennie and the Jets

It's officially my last week of school. My last final is on Friday from 1-3pm and Allyse and I are checking out around 3:45pm. Both of us are taking things off the walls and our desk and doing all of the miscellaneous things that need to be done before moving out. We're taking some before and after pictures too, so those should be up in around a week.
Three more finals!
I was on facebook the other day. Surprising, I know. I mean, I'm never on facebook! ;) Well I was on and I saw the funniest/saddest ad.
I didn't tickle the kid. Why would I want to watch a cartoon kid upchuck?

Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

Yesterday a group of Loma kids (when I say a group, I only mean six people) went to SeaWorld. We got in for free because we're so freaking legit. All of the shows were cool. We saw Shamu and a guy in our group decided that we were going to sit in the 3rd row... so we did. Can you guess what happened?Yes! We got soaked! All of us were so wet we felt like we had literally just stepped out of Shamu's pool. It was awesome. We got those sexy salt streaks all over our arms and legs.
We also met a very good looking mime. It sounds crazy, but it's completely true. Even through all of his white face paint he was good looking. "Oh, you so goo' looking? Why you no have boyfrien'?" (If you didn't get that quote, watch this.)
There was no way we weren't getting a picture with that mime.

Anyways, I forgot to wear sunscreen. The result? (yeah, I don't match...)

Burnt to the max!!! That's gonna peel...

And I have a question... does anyone remember going to SeaWorld or Knott's or someplace like that and standing in line while it was misting? I thought I remembered being at SeaWorld (waiting in line for Atlantis) and it raining/misting. Anyone remember anything like that?

Anyone Else But You

So, this week I had a very interesting lab for human anatomy. Some of you may have received a text/pic from me on Tuesday morning with an AWESOME picture in it. :) We all had our little beaker that we had to pee in (yes, I did feel like a criminal) and then we had to perform a bunch of tests on our urine. We checked the composition, etc. It was actually not a bad lab but it did get a little smelly by the end.
Anyways, that lab and some inquisitive questions from a friend led me read up about why pee is yellow. I described my pee as golden in my lab, but whatever. And here is the reason!
When the RBCs in your body die, the hemoglobin is broken down into two parts: heme and globin. The globin is broken down into amino acids and goes back into your bloodstream but the heme part is toxic to your body so it is taken to your liver and broken down yet again to form iron (stored as ferretin) and bilirubin. Most of the bilirubin stays in your liver or gall bladder but some enters your bloodstream and is delivered to the kidneys where it is converted to urobilins. Urobilins contain urochrome. Urochrome, as defined by medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com, is "a compound of urobilin and a peptide that is the principal pigment of urine."

Pretty cool, eh?
I wish anatomy class was that interesting. Oh, and I might be taking microbiology of infectious diseases over the summer. That means that from 06/02 to 07/11 I will be in a classroom from 8am-1:50pm on MTWThF. What fun! Anyone want to take it with me?
And did anyone else watch the return of Grey's Anatomy? Somehow I doubt it. Most of the bloggers who are still living don't really like Grey's. :)

Someday We'll Know

By Jon Foreman & Mandy Moore

On Sunday night a bunch of girls went to a restaurant in Little Italy to celebrate Emily's 20th birthday and when we got back to Klassen I went to buy a muffin from the box downstairs and realized that... I had lost my wallet. Argh! What a donkey! So, to make a long story short, I called the restaurant and asked them to look (twice) and they looked (twice) and then Rachel drove me back to the restaurant-- sometimes it does suck not having your own car on campus-- and I asked two different people at the restaurant and they both said they didn't see it when they looked. So Rachel and I headed back to the table where we were all sitting and asked the people who were now there if they wouldn't mind helping me look for my wallet. Literally three seconds later one lady holds up my wallet and asks me if that was it. Moral of the story: don't lose your wallet? AND don't believe anyone when they say they "looked" for it.
So that was my scare of the week! Has anyone ever actually lost their wallet and had to cancel all of their accounts and replace everything?

Grey's Anatomy returns in one week! Check out the event on Facebook. :)

I'll Tumble 4 Ya

Four more weeks! Sad and exciting!

This week has been fun, but it's not over yet. Tonight I'm going to hear Francis Collins speak. It should be really interesting, considering what his ideas are.

Have a GREAT weekend all!

Oh... just found this picture. It was taken RIGHT after grad. night.

Pressing On

Five more weeks left of school!? Right now, even that piece of information is not soothing. Because I honestly don't know how I'm going to survive another five weeks of this stress-ball. I have two tests, two projects due, and my research paper all due next week. But that's not the only thing happening. I have to have surgery this summer on my nose. There is an interesting situation with a guy right now (not what you think I promise). I hurt my back, can't play volleyball for another week, and according to my chiropractor I have to slow down. Apparently when females injure their lower back on the right side it is because they are mentally and physically exhausted and striving for perfection. Is that a bunch of crap? I'm hoping so. And just thinking about next year... it's too much. It's all so freaking stressful.

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Thank goodness I was able to come home this weekend. My parents are the best people ever. They help me see things in perspective and I'm not afraid to cry in front of them. They also helped me to realize that I'm thinking too much about the future. My dad told me that worrying about the future too much just ruins today. He's so right. At least when you worry about the things you can't control in the future. So I've decided to take things as they come, go with the flow, roll with the punches. Lucky for me I have great friends (like you!), great family, and a great God. Of that I have no doubts. Thanks for listening to me vent/stress out here. It doesn't happen too often.

BRING IT ON!!!! :)

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. "
James 1:2-6

Stronger

Has anyone else heard of the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's? It's a CLASSIC and last night I was finally able to watch it. It was on sale at Target. :) The movie itself was different than I expected. It's probably the type of movie that you need to see more than once to form a definite opinion on. But Audrey Hepburn is lovely in it, of course.
So, last night Shelby, Aleisha, Sarah, Allyse, Justin, Tim, Andrew, and I went to Dick's Last Resort. If anyone has ever been to Ed Debevik's, Dick's is just like it. It's basically a restaurant where all the waiters are mean and really loud. That doesn't sound fun, but it's hysterical. It's even better if you're mean back. :) Afterwards we walked around a large outdoor mall in Gaslamp and saw some very cute shoes (and some high-heeled Crocs, no joke).
That has been my weekend so far... except for the fact that I woke up at 10am today and did some homework and watched 3 episodes of Grey's Anatomy and the movie Catch Me If You Can. Productive, right? What my brother and sister and I did over Easter break was also very productive.


I also wanted to encourage you all to keep working hard! Or for those just ending spring break, to start STRONG! Keep up with everything... especially with your walk with God. Things start looking like this when you don't...

Thank You

What can I say guys? I forgot to trust God completely. I was relying on my own strength to try and solve everything and it wasn't-- and will never be-- enough. God is the Almighty. He is good. That's all.

Thank You
by 33Miles

What if in the morning when I wake up
Even before I fill my coffee cup
I said Thank You
Thank You
Thank You

What if I looked at the day and the hours ahead
And before I moved forward I bowed my head
And said Thank You
Oh I said Thank You

What if I looked at my life in a different way
Took a little more time to stop and pray
I know it would change all the moments in between
So here I go

Chorus:
Thank You for everything
Thank You for loving me
It don't even matter what tomorrow brings
I will sing my Thank You
For sun and rain
For what You give and take away
For all Your goodness I will always say
Thank You
I say Thank You

What if I lost everything that I have
I could smile and somehow still be glad
And say Thank You
Thank You
Thank You

Cause life is joy, life is pain
But the prayer of my heart will never change
I say Thank You
Oh I you
I say thank You

What if I looked at my life in a different way
Took a little more time to stop and pray
I know it would change all the moments in between
So here I go

Last Call

Two very funny videos for you to watch.

Kassie


Blood
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Sorry this isn't a real post. Maybe I'll do one tomorrow...?

AND YES 8 flavors at YogurtExpress.... but I think the price and the toppings makes up for that.

The One I'm Waiting For

So Tina and Justine are here right now. We are reading out of Allyse's Valley yearbook. It's amazing. Tonight we went to dinner at the cafeteria at 5:30... and I believe we stayed until 6:45. It was so much fun. There were multiple sightings of flying carrots, cucumbers, honeydew, and bananas. After our freaking amazing almost food fight we walked back to the dorm and then left for Yogurt Express... which is the place that rivals Golden Spoon. You'll have to get their reviews on it. :) Hendricks (the guys dorm) just closed so we are back in the room after watching some of "No Country For Old Men" and having an intense game of Apples to Apples.

Please watch this video. I have been quoting this all night. The first time it might be kinda annoying but it's the best to quote.



Uh yeah, I just wanted to let you know that the back of your head is ridikulous.

Own that ponytail!

Good Little Girls

Today was Allyse's birthday. We went to dinner at Joe's Crab Shack and I tried popcorn shrimp. I told Sarah and Peter that I didn't like shrimp and they made me try it. Sarah even made airplane noises for the "baby". Anyways, I have another freaking test tomorrow in anatomy and I decided to say (in Julia's words) "hell to the no" to studying for hours. So I took notes from the lecture slides and read over my notes. I am so ready!
Has anyone ever seen the movie Disturbia? Or does anyone have a copy I could borrow to watch? :)

"Good Little Girls" by Blue Country. It's a funny song and very fun to sing to.

Who Am I?

I'm back from Maui safe and sound! Our flight was delayed so we actually got home at midnight instead of 10pm. On the way home we stopped by In N Out for some food and Luke was so tired it took him a good minute to figure out how to eat. He just looked at his burger. It was so funny.

Spring break was a lot of fun. It was filled with surfing (on tiny waves), ziplining, sunning, swimming, horseback riding, and weird dreams. I can almost guarantee that almost everyone was in at least one of my dreams.

There's not a lot to say right now. Tiredness has started to sink in, although Kevin's recordings of the guys playing video games is pretty funny. It's always funny to hear Cory yelling at Kevin and Dan. And hear Sunada yelling and Dan killing himself a lot. Awesome.

The one and only picture I have of all of us on the beach.

Island in the Sun

It is now officially spring break for all the cool kids at Loma! I've been home since Wednesday night, so it's old news to me. :)
But the reason why I went on break early was because I had an appointment with Dr. Kim, an ear, nose, and throat doctor. I had an appointment for 9:45am and I ended up actually seeing the Doc at 10:55am. What the freak?! It's a little something called overbooking... DON'T do it! But it wasn't really that bad. I got to fill out all those forms that my mom used to fill out, and my mom and I got to (quietly) make fun of some of the crazies in there. It was pretty darn entertaining. Sadly, there is actually something wrong with me. I have what is called an internal nasal collapse, which is why it can be hard for me to breathe during practice, why I get light-headed sometimes, etc. The really crappy thing is that there is really nothing-- not even surgery-- that can be done to fix it. It's just how I was born. So the Doc said maybe nasal spray would help a little bit, told me to stay on my Claritin, and said to use those breathe-right strips when I work out. Yep. I'm supposed to wear this when I work out. That's gotta be bad for my self-esteem somehow. Of course I had to try some of those bad boys on... so I'm wearing one now. I look ridiculous but it really does help. Anybody wanna decorate some for me to wear? ;)

But in better news......... I'm flying to Maui at 9am on Saturday! REALLY SOON! And that means I get to try and beat my Dad at surfing. It's gonna happen this time. Fo' reals yo! G'YEAH! And I got my bangs cut today for free. It's embarrassing to admit but... I had a mini photo shoot. So here is a picture! I can't put the actual picture up or else I'll feel like a bigger camera whore. Ugh.

Happy early birthday Rebekah!!!!!! :)

I think we're going somewhere.

We're on to something good here.

Out of mind, out of state.

Trying to keep my head on straight.

I think we're going somewhere.

We're on to something good here.

There's only one thing left to do.

Drop all I have and go with you.

-"Pressing On" by Relient K-

Picture To Burn

Last night I went to my friend Isann's concert. She performed a bunch of praise songs she had written. It was amazing. Seriously. I've been trying to figure out how to put one of her songs in my post but I haven't yet. Maybe for my next song. For now you'll just have to deal with a Taylor Swift song as my title. It's pretty bomb.

But not as bomb as Isann!

So this post is what I would call a post of procrastination. I don't want to study for my large human development test tomorrow. OR my practical-- covering arteries, veins, and the human heart-- that will be on Tuesday. Luckily I am going HOME on Thursday! Yay!!! It's almost spring break!!!

Have a great week y'all! Be safe and have fun!

Feel It Coming

What I am about to say is in no way, shape, or form a joke. This morning I woke to find all of our doors tied together with fishing line. I really wish I had gotten a picture of it. Luckily the line is stretchy so Allyse just opened the door a little farther so she could reach through and cut it so we could open our door all the way. The funnest part was ducking underneath it all on the way to the bathroom. There's no way I was going to cut that work of art! I had to give some of the others a chance to enjoy. As of right now our hall still doesn't know who did it. I think it was Mary; she lives about five doors down. It's the kind of thing she would do.
So that's today's story. Yesterday night Allyse had a volleyball game so of course I was there watching along with Mary, Sarah, Peter, Janae, Amy, Patrick, and Kelsey. We had fun even though Loma lost. :(
And after that a ton of us went to see Vantage Point. When I say a ton... I really mean a ton. Thirteen people crammed into two cars. That was cozy. If you are thinking about seeing Vantage Point, you should. It was really good. There was a pretty intense car chase and Dennis Quaid is-- as always-- amazing. But you know, you could always see 27 Dresses. That was good too. :)
And now I am off to study or clean my room. Or watch some Grey's Anatomy...

It’s so easy to complain
But it’ll make you insane
That same routine
The impulse to be mean
But the grass is oh so green
After winter rain

Have an awesome weekend!

Fill Me In

What the freak?! A couple of posts ago I believe I mentioned going to the library to study for anatomy and physiology for a good 4-5 hours. Studying should logically result in a better grade on the next test right? WRONG. I just got my second test back and found that I got the same grade (80%) on both freaking tests. So I have a choice here. I could skim my notes for about 10 minutes or I could study for hours and still receive the same grade. What to do, what to do...

FIGHT THE MAN!
-THE STUDY MAN!-

Something Good

Don't you just love short weeks?? Mmmmm... I'm soaking in the AWESOME smell that is the four-day-week. Don't question it-- just let it be. :)
I guess in every short week there has to be at least one bad thing that happens right? Well my bad encounter was around 8:45am Tuesday morning. What terrible thing hit me that early? It was a smell, but it definitely wasn't the excellent aroma I was just talking about. No, it was the terrible smell of dead cats that we have been dissecting for-- no joke-- almost two entire semesters. Gross. Luckily my gag reflex is small. Luckily my partner's lab reflex is small. I almost wish that the smell of fermaldehyde was deadly because then they would be forced to come up with an ingenious way to preserve cats without having them smell like death warmed up. That would be lovely.
So hopefully that was the low point of the week. Everything else went great today. I even opened up a large package of mint M&M's. That just makes this week so much better.

And the writer's strike is over! Yay! I'm definitely hoping-- although it is almost impossible-- that there will be just a few more Grey's episodes. Yeeeaah!

Have a fantastic week!

Everyday

Doesn't it feel awesome to be home? You can probably guess that I'm saying that because I'm at home. I will always love being at home, even though being at Loma is also awesome. Wherever I am, I miss where I'm not. Typical.
Anyways... on to the fun activities of home! Tay and me are currently playing High School Musical 1&2 Sing-A-Long. Oh yeah. We are pretty much rocking it, although sometimes we end up singing the guy part. Ooops. So after this maybe we will start setting up Rock Band. Oh you know it's going to be a party over here. Right now we are trying to unlock Everyday, which is a pretty awesome song. :)
So, S.A.D. was actually a pretty good day. I have no class on Thursday so I met with the new volleyball coach at noon and then had practice at 2pm. It was an intense practice, but it was so much fun! We are going to be great this year. Our new coach is all about repetition, hard work, and competition all while having a good attitude and playing to the best of the abilities that God gave us. So we have an exciting year ahead of us! After practice a bunch of us went to the caf for dinner like we always do... but then I went to the library. That is definitely not normal activity for me. I have never been to the library to study. I was there for a good 5 hours studying for anatomy; that's probably longer than I've studied this whole year combined. That's pretty sad. So after all of that crap I went out for coffee at this really cute place called the Living Room. It was so cute! I said my mom would have loved it. It's a little 2-story house that was converted into a coffee shop so there are couches, tables, and chairs all over both floors. After that it was around 12:30 so I decided to start on my essay that was due and to study for another hour. I ended up going to bed at 3am.
Friday I took my anatomy test at 8:30am, did some peer-editing in my writing class, and skipped my last lecture so I could go home at 1:25pm! Sweetness. The train ride home was so uneventful; the only thing worth mentioning was that the guy who sat next to me wore waaaay too much cologne.
And that is all she wrote. Sorry it's so discombobulated (sp?).I hope the last two days of your 3-day weekend are awesome! Stay safe!

Baby, It's a Fact

EDIT

I thought this was hysterical. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not... but it's worth a read.

WoW

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This week has already been so busy! Monday was the worst. I had class from 8:30-2:20pm continuously, then from 2:30-3:30pm I observed at the ECLC (Early Childhood Learning Center), and then at 3:45 I went to a meeting with the volleyball team to meet our new coach. Yep, we finally got a new coach after all of the crazy drama of firing our old one. What's my impression of her you ask? I'll get to that. :) After that was over (around 4:30pm) I went back to my dorm room for 10 minutes and then went to a pre-nursing dinner from 5-6:50ish. The nursing dinner was so awesome! We got free food (pizza, drinks, and some cookies) and then we rotated around in four different stations. We used a miniature ultrasound machine at one station and at another station we learned how to take the blood pressure of a patient using these really cool manikins (yep, you can actually spell it like that). We put the cuff on the "patient's" arm and then used the stethoscope, etc to determine the blood pressure. The cool thing was that the nurses could change the blood pressure of the manikin with a push of a button. Apparently you can also change the way their heart sounds and a bunch of other stuff so the nurses can practice with them and have new situations each time. I think they can even say a few things. Creepy!

On to the new volleyball coach. She looks a bit like Mandy Moore, a woman at my church, and my older sister Nicole all rolled into one. She is very bold, and she says what she means. Yesterday we had our first practice with her but she didn't really say a lot. We mainly played against each other (2-on-2, 4-on-4, etc) so she could see how we played. I felt like a fish in a tank. Just being watched. I did pretty good though so I wasn't really thinking about her. AND I haven't actually talked to her one-on-one. That's tomorrow at noon. O.O eeeeeee......

Anyways, this week is going well. I just recently discovered this song (the title of the post) by Hellogoodbye one day when Allyse randomly played it. It's a good one. As is Curbside Prophet by Jason Mraz. And Sunday Morning by Maroon 5. Yesterday wasn't super exciting. I left my night Old Testament class an hour early because I thought I was going to be sick. But Peter, Patrick, and Sarah came over and it was a ton of fun, even though I did get owned in every card game known to man/woman. Ouch. Tomorrow should be a lot of fun though. My hall is going to go to Yogurt Express (THE BEST YOGURT PLACE EVER) for dessert to celebrate S.A.D! :)

HAVE FUN EVERYONE!

Open Doors

I have finally had the college experience that every college student should experience. Yes. At 8:32am on Friday, February 8, 2008 my anatomy lecture was canceled. Let me tell you, I yelled "WOOT!" at least 3 times in my head. It was a great feeling and now I am here writing this post after I looked up my exam schedule so I could write it on my amazing Grey's calendar. So here's the final list:
May 5th
-A&P @ 8am
May 6th
-Old Testament @ 6pm
May 7th
-Composition @ 10:30 am
May 8th
-None
May 9th
-Human Dev. @ 10:30am
-Sociology @ 1pm

Oh boy. Just looking at my schedule makes me amazed. This year has gone by so fast. There have been so many ups and downs. Right now would have to be an UP though! :) And apparently today is Pastor's Day here at Loma. I'm expecting to see a bunch of pastors filling up the Brown chapel today.
More coming about Foreman and the AMAZING shooting star Amy and I witnessed.

You've been watching me
Like the moon watches the sky
Pushing me to find
You open doors, you open doors
It's hard to make believe
When the sun slips out of view
And I don't care what they say
I'm in love with you, so in love with you

There's a Calm I Can't Explain

At the risk of becoming a dead friend (Jaws music plays) I am finally posting again. I really do apologize about my lack of posting. I know how disappointing it is to check someone's blog only to have it be the same freaking post from ages ago. It's a terrible feeling.
So tonight was open dorm! Most of you are probably laughing. Please do. Personally I find the rules of open dorm to be hysterical. And you do want to hear them.
1. Keep the door open at all times.
2. The overhead light must be on at all times unless watching a movie, then a small lamp (that can still illuminate all against-the-covenant-actions) will suffice.
3. Both feet must be on the ground at all times.
Pretty sure there are more but I can't think of them right now. Laughing at these rules is fine. I laugh, but I really like this "open dorm" thing we have. Well, I like the fact that there are only certain times when guys can be in our hall.
There are multiple reasons why it is such a good thing! The first is that I don't have to worry about running into some poor guy when I'm going to the shower with only my towel and flip-flops on. It's uncomfortable; trust me it happened one time when I didn't know it was open dorm. I promise I really didn't. I also don't have to worry about other clothing issues, etc because I know that it's not important in a dorm full of girls. My room doesn't have to be clean all the time. Period. And the last reason I'm going to mention involves room wars. Allyse and I were in a room war not too long ago. Luckily, only Allyse was really involved in it; meaning she locked two guys out of their room (with help from Kelsey), "destroyed" their room in a creative way, and left. In return she had her closet locked shut. And Kelsey had her closet locked shut with her comforter inside. :) Good times, good times.
Anyways, tonight was open dorm for my hall. Good old Klassen hall. It's the best hall in case you were wondering. Some people came over and we (me, Allyse, Peter, Andrew, Candyce, Nick, and Sarah) watched a bit of a movie, then we got bored and played Apples to Apples. I mostly lost... but I won the last game. Which, as we all know, is the only one that counts!

Chika chika yeaah...

Congrats y'all for making it into the new year! You can now add another year to your inventory (hopefully a good year) and enter into 2008! Make it a great year! Everyone talks a lot of crap on new years resolutions (including me) but it's really not a bad thing. It is waaay too hyped up, but it is as good a time as any to reflect on your life and where it's going. If your reflections happen only once a year... then that's probably not a very good situation.
Here's some of my thoughts as we continue in our new year.
Faith. My faith to be exact. :) The last couple months of last year, now that I look back on them, seem to be where I started getting a little distant with God. How did that happen? It was like a sound wave (not physics! anything but physics!) where I kept going back and forth. Close, far, close, far... etc. A few weeks ago I picked up my Bible, wiped away a layer of dust, and began to read. I continued to read up till now and I'm gonna keep it going. God's word is so important in my walk.
Volleyball... there's a thick layer of dust on that. My last team practice was in November. :o
I've only had two days of classes (and I still have a Bible class tonight) so I'm not really sure about how the semester is going to turn out. My anatomy teacher is from England so he has a great accent, but he's also a bit weird. He paces back and forth in the front, and when he gets really into it he does this little squat thing and moves his hands in circles (doing the motions for some chemical reaction) and looks at his hand while his eyes get really big. Yeah. Very fun to watch. My sociology teacher is very direct on the verge of being rude (kinda like my Grams so I'm used to it) and my human development teacher is nice but expects a lot of effort. Bible teacher... I haven't met her yet but my composition teacher is very nice. All in all it's really not bad. And I have no school on Thursdays so my very busy Mondays and Wednesdays will be worth it. :)
Health-wise I believe I am fine. Before I came home I was having some shortness of breath and sometimes I would kinda lose my balance when I was standing... but I went to the doctors and they said it's probably nothing. I am now on Claritin-D (yeaah I'm Claritin clear :) So I guess you can make fun of me because I am now "medicated".
On the subject of guys... I'm a stereotypical woman (I hate admitting to a stereotype) and I don't know how I feel. Luckily I am still a good driver so at least all the stereotypes aren't true!

And I reorganized my desk shelves/desk! It looks pretty sweet and I couldn't resist taking a picture.


I've started my re-watch of Grey's seasons 1&2 before I break the plastic on season 3!! Wooo! It's ok, intense jealousy is a normal reaction. :)

"So this line... is it imaginary or do I need to get you a marker?"
;) EXCELLENT scene

Rest in Peace <3

This post is dedicated to Walt Vlasschaert. Walt passed away December 30, 2007. He was like a grandpa to me and would always greet everyone with a big smile and a bigger hug. It's especially sad for his family but as Walt said, he had lived a long full life and he was ready to go. He knew where he was going.

PLNU Halftime Show

Earlier in the year Loma had a powderpuff football game (girls football) where they put the freshman and sophomores against the juniors and seniors. The game itself was actually really good but the halftime show was the best because there was a guy cheerleading squad that was actually LEGIT! You should watch this video... it's a slow start but it's hysterical. Seriously.
P.S. I didn't film this I found it on youtube. The guys in pink are freshman or sophomores and the guys in black are juniors and seniors.

It's business time...

Wow... finals are almost half over to me. I had my chem final Monday morning and then I have anatomy tomorrow morning and then psychology Friday morning. I love how my exams are spaced out but it also stinks because that means I go home later when I could have gone home Tuesday. But oh well... all in all it's not bad.
This is going to be really short because I need to study for anatomy. I have a voice recorder and I am going to record myself saying some notes into it and then play it while I sleep. Weird? Yes. But I wonder if it will work. :)
So my friend Janae (who lives 2 doors down) made me listen to this song yesterday called Business Time by Flight of the Concords. It's sooooo weird... but it's also really funny. You can listen here The chorus on youtube is a little annoying, it sounds better on itunes but youtube is better than nothing right? Human tetris on youtube is also really funny. :)

Good luck to all on finals! If you've already had all your finals... darn you but I hope you did well.
Good night!

Makes me cry every time...

NEWSONG
The Christmas Shoes


It was almost Christmas time, there I stood in another line
Tryin' to buy that last gift or two, not really in the Christmas mood
Standing right in front of me was a little boy waiting anxiously
Pacing 'round like little boys do
And in his hands he held a pair of shoes

His clothes were worn and old, he was dirty from head to toe
And when it came his time to pay
I couldn't believe what I heard him say

Chorus:
Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my Mama, please
It's Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size
Could you hurry, sir, Daddy says there's not much time
You see she's been sick for quite a while
And I know these shoes would make her smile
And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight

He counted pennies for what seemed like years
Then the cashier said, "Son, there's not enough here"
He searched his pockets frantically
Then he turned and he looked at me
He said Mama made Christmas good at our house
Though most years she just did without
Tell me Sir, what am I going to do,
Somehow I've got to buy her these Christmas shoes

So I laid the money down, I just had to help him out
I'll never forget the look on his face when he said
Mama's gonna look so great

Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my Mama, please
It's Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size
Could you hurry, sir, Daddy says there's not much time
You see she's been sick for quite a while
And I know these shoes would make her smile
And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight

Bridge:
I knew I'd caught a glimpse of heaven's love
As he thanked me and ran out
I knew that God had sent that little boy
To remind me just what Christmas is all about

So I've got this feeling...

this lovin' feelin'. Hahaha no I'm just kidding. I actually almost feel like I'm back in senior year at the very end when I didn't want to do any work at all. And I felt burnt out. Luckily I don't feel really burnt out, I just don't want to do any work! I'm getting so lazy! And it's worse than high school because I actually have a lot of time to be lazy now that volleyball is over. I start at 8:30 most mornings and I'm done by 1:20 on T-W-F. On Monday I'm done at 12 and Thursdays just suck. But I'm having major post-Thanksgiving-itis. Maybe all that tryptophan is stuck in my system in large quantities. So I'm trying step it up and finish strong.
My exam schedule is pretty nice. I wish I were done on Tuesday (which could have been a reality) but as it is I have an exam on M-W-F. Nothing on Tuesday or Thursday. So I can't really complain. And I won't! :)
As we start to make plans to see each other over Christmas break I am getting increasingly excited. I really can't wait to see you all. Be prepared for some of the biggest, most awkward hugs of your life. Be ready.
Here's something I learned in anatomy today. A lot of times when someone has a spinal injury i.e. a football player who got tackled by the Hulk, they are paralyzed. Doctors tell the patient that they don't know if the paralysis is temporary or permanent. They have to say this. When a spinal cord injury occurs that means that a lot of spinal cells are now dead, meaning they have ruptured and spilled potassium (K+) into the body. Until the body cleans up all the excess potassium there can be no action potential in the cells and therefore no movement. So the doctors have to wait for your body to clean up before they can accurately tell if someone is going to be permanently paralyzed. Isn't that cool????

It has to be said...

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!

I hope you are all having a fun, happy, lovely Thanksgiving. Remember, it is a day (among many) to give thanks.

<3

No parkin' baby...

Holy moly, the past couple of weeks have been so crazy!! There has been so much going on! And I have an 8-10 page paper due on Wednesday and I have my muscle practical (where I'm responsible for knowing almost every muscle in the human body) on Tuesday. Oh yes. Fun stuff, right?
Volleyball season is also almost over. We have what could possibly be our last game of the season on Tuesday against Concordia at Concordia. We had our last home game on Saturday so it was also the day that we recognized all of the seniors on the team. I was crying and I'm only a freshman so I haven't even known these seniors for a whole year. But if you met any of them you would love them. But anyways... you have no idea who those people are so this must be intensely boring for you. :)
Has anyone else registered for their classes yet?? It was one of the most stressful things ever. I was freaking out! I had a really late registration time so what seemed like a million other freshman were able to steal that classes I wanted away from me. So I checked the classes that I wanted about a half hour before my registration time begins only to find that all of the classes I wanted were taken, the other classes were filling up fast, and that had to rearrange my entire schedule in a half hour and try to make it work while also managing to steer clear of all the professors that I knew I didn't want thanks to ratemyprofessor.com. So I was late to small group (my leader was completely fine with it, she told a tale of her own horror stories) and I registered in the beginning of my chemistry lab. Seriously, some of the people here are pretty cool. And I'm sure that there are many people at your college who are pretty cool. It's just an awesome world that God has made!!!
I had a point when I started this post but I think I lost it when I started randomly bustin out some dance moves to my iTunes. Riiiiiiight. But at least I'm not in danger of being a dead friend!
Happy Sunday everyone and have an incredible week!!!!

... no parkin' on the dance floor!

Fiiyuh!

SO currently there are over 10 wildfires blazing crazily in the San Diego County. At least 3 of them are out of control. It's super scary to see them, Candyce and I watched CNN and saw the fire in Irvine. It's really horrible because over 90 no 112 nope 150+ members of faculty and staff have been affected by the evacuations and I know for a fact that some students here have already lost their house. We don't have classes tomorrow, but it's hard to enjoy when I know that so many people are suffering.

Please pray for everyone affected by the fire!

Problems and Pain

Not my problems or pains... but this is an excerpt from what we have been reading in psychology class. It's pretty awesome.

"Life is difficult.
This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult- once we truly understand and accept it- then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others. I know about this moaning because I have done my share.
Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them? Do we want to teach our children to solve them?"
The Road Less Traveled 9 (pg 15) by M. Scott Peck, M.D.

I like it. But yeah, I've definitely been there before. But tackling your problem head on (with God's guidance of course and some friend talk-age) seems to be the best way to go.
And I'm listening to some Grey's Anatomy songs. They are BOMB.COM!!!!!!

Life in SD

So I don't want to become a dead friend so here's a funny Will Ferrell video. Skip ahead to about 7:27... that's the funny Spartan skit. I don't know what the beginning skit is.


I do have things to say but I don't have time for a long update. So just know that I miss you all and I hope you are having fun!

You might want to rethink that Dungeon and Dragon club. You might turn into this guy... :P

SATURDAY

Well this short week is finally over. It was only a four day school week but it felt so darn long!! All of my classes seemed to drag on and on and on and on and oooooonnnn...
But it was still a surprisingly fun week.
Yesterday I had my first test. I was so freaked out!!! I totally forgot about it until WEDNESDAY so I was studying like crazy. And now after the test I have no idea how I did. The short answer section was a piece of cake but the multiple choice was a bit iffy. It could go either way...
And today is a HUGE GAME AGAINST CONCORDIA!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOT!!! I know I definitely won't play in this game but I am still so so so excited!!! They are #2 in our division and we are now ranked #6. Our coach said that we are now rated higher than we have been for the past six years. It's awesome. Volleyball is going pretty well. Yesterday was a rough day for me, one of those days where you are just off and it's hard to figure out why. But I have gotten some playing time so I'm not complaining. When we played Hope I played libero for the entire match and I also played against Madonna (a freaking huge team). So at least I get some playing time.
And my parents, Luke, Livi, Tay, my Grammy, and Kevin are all coming down to SD for the match today. That's going to be a lot of fun. The match starts at 3pm... pretty soon!
The past couple of weeks have been rough being away from home and all of you guys... but I think I'm really settling in here. And I'm praying for all of you that everything is going well for all of you. :)
<3

Time

I cannot believe how fast time can seem to go. So much of the day is spent studying. But don't worry, you can usually fit in a nice movie if you want a break. Or go running or something.
I don't really have time to do a nice long post right now since I have to study some more for anatomy but I was really proud of this. We had a tournament in Salt Lake City on Friday and Saturday and I got to play. The school's photographer was there taking pictures and I was on the school's website!! So I'm excited about that and I wanted to tell you guys. I already told my Mom and Dad. :) It was labeled "Jillian Doornbos with a perfect pass."


And a couple of the girls on my hall are already in the nursing program (they are sophomores) and they have had some really good advice. They came around tonight and wanted to practice doing an examination on me and Candyce. It was cool!
I miss you all.

Pictures

Well... I did promise some pictures. AND I have some!

View from my room

View from the bathroom

First building on my schedule

The first classroom

Walking back from class

View from gym

Well... classes are going pretty good so far. I have some hard classes, some hard teachers, and some easy classes and easy teachers. I feel like I've been at Loma for months. But I was really really overwhelmed the first and second day. It just felt like everything was crashing down on me, especially since I had to get the assignments I will miss on Thurs. and Fri. But all in all... it's not bad at all.
And for all you Calvin girls... its only like 4 months till Christmas!!!
Love you all.

Official Move-In Day

After Kevin, Sarah, Dan, and Kristen departed (THANKS YOU GUYS FOR COMING TO SEE ME! :) I found myself to be inexplicably sad. I felt like crying... but I have no idea why I was sad. So I popped in my "Feel Good" CD by Dan Kim. The music was very good Dan. I enjoyed it a lot. But somehow, I felt a little bit sadder as I was listening. But by the end of the CD I was back to feeling good. So I guess it really is the "Feel Good" CD. Sweeeeet.
So today I helped people move in, went to my own check-in and got my sweet photo id taken, and picked up my books. They were over 5oo bucks. Used books. And I still have to get 2 more. I would encourage you all to buy your books online from a reliable source like amazon or cheapbooks. Seriously. That's what I'm going to do next semester.
Anyways I don't have much time... it's getting late and my eyes are falling closed. But I am having fun here even though I do miss you all. <3

I'm writing this from...

my dorm room in San Diego! Yep, it is way official. I'm here at Point Loma for the 07/08 school year. It feels like I'm just at camp for the week and that I will be home soon.
I can't post pictures yet since I don't have the software on my laptop yet. So I will post pictures as soon as I get that. I have to go now... see you guys later!!!!!

Switch-A-Roo

Tonight Sarah and I pulled a switch-a-too on Dan and Kevin and took THEM out on a date. We traveled to LA and proceeded to have a great time. It was pretty awesome. And I would like to add that I won a game of bowling. One out of two isn't bad if I say so myself. Happy 2 month Kevin!! :)
H-PIDDY!!
EGGPLANT!! :)
Anyways, I can't believe I am leaving on Monday. It's so darn soon!! I still haven't tested myself to see if I can run a mile in under 8 minutes! We have to be able to do that. That's a little scary to be honest. Oh dear...
Well, at a certain point in the evening I almost started crying because I suddenly realized how much I was going to miss everyone. Really guys and gals, you are the BEST. I'm having a goodbye party on Aug. 5th at my house at 3. Come.
Okay enough sad stuff. Here's some funny youTube videos. The first one is another HP rap... not as good as the first one but still funny. The second one is from Reno911. It's funnier if you watch Reno911. But still funny now.

HP Rap



Reno911 Groping Course

Manic Mondays

So... this is my first post that is being written from my bed! Meaning that I am using my laptop in my bed right now to go on the internet. I love having a laptop. It's nice and little. However since I am trying to set it all up I have had to call the people in India about 3 times. In one day. That's a little embarassing but it's no big deal. As long as my computer works well I will call as many times as I need to.
So today was really really fun. I was woken up around 9am by a phone call by Debra, my counselor at PL, which was interesting. I was going to just ignore the call but then I saw the 619 area code and I couldn't ignore it. The lesson is: if you call me early in the morning and I haven't had enough sleep (at least 5 hours) I probably won't answer. Just don't be offended. I'll call you back later when my mind will actually function. There are a few exceptions to the rule. Those exceptions are my Mom, Dad, or God.
Anyways. Then....... I found out that I will need to put ALL of my songs from my iPod on my laptop manually. Lucky lucky me. You really don't want to know the details. It's not that interesting and it includes me not being very smart.
My (half)sister was over that day (and the previous night) so we talked a little bit. I worked on my songs for a long long time. And talked to a man in India for a while. It's so hard to understand the accent over the phone. He had to repeat everything twice. AND he couldn't tell me what a router looked like. Geez!
And I just found out that my registration is being blocked until I can fax in my immunization records so I had to run to my old doctor's office to sign for them. Sadly, they didn't have my MMP record so I have to find that somehow. And SOON. Otherwise bad things will happen. Obviously.
Then I saw Hairspray with Sarah for the second time. It was amazing! Even better the second time since I knew the songs much much better. It was so good. I know a lot of people will disagree for various reasons but they are all wrong. It is amazing. All the actors and actresses are awesome. :) I highly recommend it. Then we went back to Sarah's house and waited for Kevin and Dan and Wes and Kristen. They took forever. Darn them! :) We were getting antsy waiting.
We all went to youth group and played a painful game of soccer. I don't remember who won, but Dan got NAILED by the soccer ball so many times it was hilarious. He would fall to the ground in his girl pants and we would all (obviously) laugh. Good times.
Then we all went back to Sarah's house and laughed at some funny things on YouTube. And now I'm home... calling India and putting CDs on my iTunes.
Sorry this post jumps around so much. At this time my mind isn't working enough to make it into a cohesive flowing post. Have fun ladies and gents.
I LEAVE ON MONDAY SO WE BETTER ALL HANG OUT.
POOL PARTY AT MY HOUSE ON AUG. 5TH... LATER ON IN THE DAY.
SAVE THE DATE!

Listening to:
I'll Take You There by The Staple Singers
AND
The entire Hairspray Soundtrack

An Update

Currently listening to: "Put Your Records On" by Corinne Bailey Rae. It is such a great song, puts you in a good mood.

I'm back from MN. It was really really fun. I had forgotten how much fun those volleyball trips are. The team is so close it feels like you are there with a big family. I will really miss my teammates... and even my crazy coach. She sent us an email filled with advice for us, since she is now allowed to be "more than your mean club coach". She made a speech to us and the parents and in it she said she was grateful to the parents for putting up with someone who made their kids "feel like crap a lot of times". The funny thing is that I am so grateful to her. She wasn't my friend, she was my coach. A great coach.

I leave for Colorado soon. July 21st to be exact... after the Harry Potter party of course! That will be pretty cool. Speaking of Harry Potter we (Me, Sarah, Dan, and Nori) just saw the new movie last night/this morning. It was a good movie even if it did differ from the books a lot. Harry Potter is hard to mess up. It was definitely better than the Chamber of Secrets movie which was so boring I fell asleep. We had a lot of fun waiting in line doing Sudoku, talking, and listening to Dan be like a gay Dr. Phil. But it's okay Dan... we trust you.

I just got a new camera and I am having a lot of fun taking pictures with the cool color accent feature that Canon has. I'll put some photos up at the end of this post. It's a fun thing to do. I took Maggie May out for a walk today with my camera strapped to me. Lots of fun. There are so many beautiful things out there that I drive past everyday without really noticing them.

I have a dentist appointment on Friday. We are going to have to continue our monthly chat, right Sarah? "So, have you been flossing?"

Guilty look, fingers crossed behind the back, "Uh, yeeessss."

"This isn't like talking on the phone. I can see your fingers."

:)

I have been working like a madwoman getting all of my college stuff straightened out. I think I have called Loma every single day this week. They know my name. Me and Nancy are getting to be pretty tight. Sweet foo.

And Kevin comes back extremely soon!!!!! So, as you can imagine, I'm pretty happy. :)

"Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill

Fifteen percent concentrated power of will

Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain

And a hundred percent reason to remember the name.
"Remember the Name" by Fort Minor

My 9 Names... yeah I was bored after practice today... :)
1.Name: Jillian

2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 4 letters of real name plus izzle.) Jillizzle

3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (fav color and animal) Yellow Cat

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (your middle name and street you live on) Alexandria Stanbridge

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name.) Dooji (hahaha I like that one)

6. YOUR SUPERHERO NAME: (Your 2nd favorite color, and random thing) Pink Candy

7. YOUR ARABIC NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, 1st letter of your middle name, 2nd letter of your moms maiden name, 3rd letter of you dads middle name, 1st letter of a siblings first name, and last letter of your moms middle name) Ioaacon

8. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (Parents middle names) Micheal VanHorsen

9. YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one of your pets) Black Maggie

In other more interesting news I leave Sunday morning for Minneapolis, MN for JO's. Yay! It's gonna be tight. Crazy, since my team is a little loco, but so much fun. I actually do have more to say but my mom needs the computer so I will post a little later. Bye!!!!!

So I said to myself...

Why not do a crazy thing and post BEFORE I start getting all these dead blog warnings? It's a pretty good idea if I do say so myself.

So the first days of summer have been pretty lazy (with the exception of the awesome go-kart racing yesterday) and already I can feel myself settling down and getting comfortable in summer. Luckily I made myself promise that this summer wouldn't be too lazy, that I would still stay on top of things. And there is a lot to do.

My dad built a cool treehouse/clubhouse thing. The twins put around 10 pillows, three blankets, and a sleeping bag in there so I decided to sit up there for about four hours and finish a book my mom got me for graduation. It's called "The Last Summer (of You & Me)" by Ann Brashares, the same woman who wrote the Traveling Pants books. And this book was really good too. I think it was much better than the pants books but in a different way. It was all about moving forward, to not be afraid of the future. The message wasn't said in the traditional way either, you could just see it through the characters, etc. I would recommend it.

My graduation gift from my parents is going to be a laptop, and it will be a mac (apple). If anybody has some COMPELLING reason why that would not be a good thing then tell me because I would like to know. :)

Some pictures of the cozy nest:

Graduation

I started this post a couple of days ago... I'm not going to edit it, just keep movin forward.

So. Today was the last day of high school. And if I'm being completely honest here... it didn't feel different than any other day. Sure, we messed around in class WAY more and took a million pictures but it still felt like we would be coming back to school next Monday. I expected to cry and I didn't. Again, honestly it feels like we have school on Monday.
But there is a difference because we DON'T have school Monday. We don't have any more chances in high school. This chapter of our lives is coming to a close and it's time to reflect on what we have done and what we want to do. Not only what we want to do... but what God wants us to do. Shouldn't they be one and the same?

Now high school is over. I would like to say I feel sad... but it was so nice to wake up at 11am today! It was SWEET! Really, with no school we have time to hang out with all of our friends together, not in a room with a dozen other people.

In other related news I have found a dress for graduation and Shiloh and I did do some sweet sunbathing today. I think I was too white for it to do anything but it was still fun. And now for some pictures.

Bible class ROCKED!

AP English ALSO rocked!

even if Mrs. Terhorst was a little forgetful.

Lunch Bunch '07!

It's official.

And pretty exciting.

:) :) :)

The Last Weeks.

These are the last weeks of our senior year. Holy moly people!! I don't want to go any further and start crying so I will simply say that I will miss all of you!! I'm talking mainly to the people out of state of course. The rest of us will HAVE to hang out.
Anyways.
I had a volleyball tournament on Saturday that was a lot of fun and very tiring at the same time. My scary coach Melissa (seriously, we are all scared of her) wasn't there so it was our day to have some fun!! We did really well in pool play and in play-offs. We lost to Mizuno even though we KILLED them 25-15 the last time we played them. Our team is growing so much closer, it's amazing to look back and see how far we have all come together. We had to write anonomous notes about each player and turn it into our coach. She put a packet together for each person with all of the notes about them in it and gave it to us a couple of days ago. Just reading the note from coach and seeing the things your teammates write about you... it's such an emotional experience.
I can't really gather all of my thoughts up at the moment to create a decent post, but I knew I had to say something or else I would become a dead blogger. And that cannot happen!!! NEVER!!!!

CUCHARA DE ORO FOREVER!!!!

JSB 2007!!!

Hey y'all. How much fun was JSB!? It was awesome!
Unfortunately my mom seems to have a problem with picture taking so most of my photos are blurry. I'm depending on you guys for some photos!!

Two of the coolest people.

AKA Kevin and me. :)

The Boutonniere Battle.

I lost.

I stole this one from Stina.

The coolest girls ever!!

Seriously.

My Cat

Well! All I can say about the volleyball canoe trip was that it was very fun but also very unfun. I have a ton of stories I will tell tomorrow; I need to use major hand gestures. But I will say that NO I did not fall out of the canoe. Whew. That is a huge relief. It would almost be worse to have to come home and tell everyone that I fell out of a canoe. I would never hear the end of it. People still tease me about leaving my car running sophomore year.
Anyways, my cat is really stupid. I don't understand cats. When i got home he (Milo) came running up to me. Later I went to sit down in the computer chair and he was laying there. So I start to gently move him and the freaking cat bites me! Ow! So I muzzle him with one hand, pick up the fat cat with the other hand, and sit down and put him on my lap. He gave me a major dirty look (I can understand cat expressions) and ran off. About two minutes later he comes out of nowhere and jumps on my lap. He has now been on my lap for about 30 minutes. First he rubbed his head against my chest and now he is grooming himself. What is going on in that tiny brain??! (This was a pretty cool story, I realize. :)
I sure don't understand cat language but I am pretty good at this language.

A plane is on its way to Houston when a blonde in economy class gets up and moves to the first class section and sits down. The flight attendant watches her do this and asks to see her ticket. She then tells the blonde that she paid for economy class and that she will have to sit in the back.

The blonde replies, "I'm blond, I'm beautiful, I'm going to Houston and I'm staying right here."

The flight attendant goes into the cockpit and tells the pilot and the co-pilot that there is a blonde sitting in first class that belongs in economy and won't move back to her seat. The co-pilot goes back to the blonde and tried to explain that because she only paid for economy she will have to leave and return to her seat.

The blonde replies, "I'm blonde, I'm beautiful, I'm going to Houston and I'm staying right here."

The co-pilot tells the pilot that he probably should have the police waiting when they land to arrest this blonde woman who won't listen to reason.

The pilot says, "You say she is a blonde? I'll handle this. I'm married to a blonde. I speak blonde."

He goes back to the blonde and whispers in her ear, and she says - - -

"Oh, I'm sorry." And she gets up and goes back to her seat in economy.

The flight attendant and co-pilot are amazed and asked him what he said to make her move without any fuss.

I told her, "First class isn't going to Houston ."

Canoes and Camping

Well, Spring Break is coming to an end. It is all very sad, especially since I still haven't started any of my homework. If I even have homework. I am leaving in about an hour to go on the volleyball retreat with the rest of the Point Loma volleyball team. We are going to the Colorado River and we will canoe down it for three days. I return to San Diego around 10pm on Sunday night, meaning I will get home at around 12am Monday morning. At school I will either be extremely crabby or extremely hyper, either way watch out. :)
I would like to say to all of the mission trippers I hope your trips went well, I was praying for all of you. And to the people who stayed home (like me) hopefully that also went well and you are ready to start school with renewed vigor!! No more procrastinating! Right?

I know, I know. Wrong.

See you guys on Monday!!! <3

P.S. Please pray that no one gets hurt on this trip. I can already see myself falling out of the canoe...

Have you seen my tires???

Can I just say that things have been going amazingly well? Hopefull I don't jinx myself here...
But things have been going really well with the exception of a stupid english test. Yesterday I had an appointment with Debbie (my hair person) and we had a fun time just talking while she cut my hair. She is pregnant!!! That is amazing news! She and her husband have been trying for 10 years, and it finally just happened without any medicinal interference! Prayers would be awesome for her right now. And I cut 3-4 inches of my hair off. Which feels great.
And, as of last Friday, I have a cool date to JSB! Woot! Kevin asked me while we were all leaving Spoons in the cutest way ever. And I'm happy I didn't get a parking ticket. ;) And I actually already found my dress. Normally I start shopping a week or so before the dance, but my volleyball tournament ended early one day so my mom and I decided to shop. It's a little too hard to explain, but it's really pretty (obviously). =D
Since I am extremely bored and I would like to put off my letter to the president for as long as possible, here is a lovely survey stolen from Kevin.

-Prologue-

1. Where did you take your default pic?
At Sequoia, right before we went snowshoeing up a HUGE mountain.

2. Exactly what are you wearing right now?
Old volleyball pants, cami

3. What is your current problem?
The knot in my left shoulder. It hurts!

4. What makes you most happy?
My family and my awesome friends

5. What's the name of the song that you're listening to?
City of Blinding Lights by U2

7. Do you like MTV?
Noooo

8. Name something that annoys you about people:
Making fun of others, ignorance

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Chapter 1
YOU

1. Nickname(s):
J, JJ, J-Dogg, HOMESLICE

2. eye color:
blue

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Chapter 2:
FAMILY

1. Do you live with your parent(s)?
Yes

2. Do you get along with your parent(s)?
Oh yes.

3. Are your parents married/separated/divorced?
Married <3

4. Do you have any Siblings?
An older sister Nicole, and a younger brother, Luke, and sister, Livi

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Chapter 3:
FAVORITE

1. Ice Cream:
Mint Chocolate Chip/ Chocolate Malted Crunch

2. season?
Spring

3.Color(s):
Yellow

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Chapter 4:

DO YOU-

1. Write on your hand?
Sometimes

2. Call people back?
Usually

3. Believe in love?
Oh yes. <3
"Love is a many splendid thing, love lifts us up where we belong!"
-Elephant Love Medley (Moulin Rouge)

4. Sleep on a certain side of the bed?
Usually the right side

5. Any mental health issues?
Nope, although I'm sure there are some who would disagree

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Chapter 5:

Have You...

1. Broken a bone?
Never

2. Had physical therapy?
Once

3. Gotten stitches?
Yep, one time in my pinky toe

4. Taken painkillers?
Si

5. Gone SCUBA diving or snorkeling?
Snorkeling in Tahiti. A HUGE stingray stuck to me.

6. Been stung by a bee?
At Catalina on a Girl Scout trip

7. Thrown up at a doctors office?
No

8. Sworn in front of your parents?
NO

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Chapter 6:

Who/What was the last...

1. Movie you saw in the movie theatres?
Catch and Release, I think. I can't really remember.

2. Person to text you?
Sarah

3. Person who called you?
My Daddy

4. Person to tackle you?
My brother. He went down.

5. Thing you touched?
My hair

6. Thing you ate?
Cornbread

7. Thing you said?
"Our prom theme should be 'Booty!'"

8. Had a detention?
Freshman year. Mr. Rinks. Grrrrrr...

That was some fun procrastinating. :)
See y'all tomorrow! Last day of school before Spring Break!