anywhere, anything

The time has come for me to find and commit myself to a job. Not just any job though, we are talking about the beginning of my career here. The decisions that I make right now will effect me for the rest of my life. Kind of a big deal right?

The problem isn't so much finding a job as committing myself to one. The sky is the limit, literally. Medical Technologists are needed at basically every hospital and reference lab in the country. I can go anywhere I want and work in essentially any department that I want.

Now, the question is where do I go? What do I do? Do I stay in Utah and get a good job here or do I explore the world? Should I go somewhere on the east coast or somewhere with a beach? I have no commitments or ties to speak of really so it all comes down to what I want to do. I just don't know. All of these options.

Input will be graciously accepted and welcomed...

easter thoughts

Since it is the saturday before easter and all, I thought that it would be approriate to share this video that I found at lds.org.

All of the commentary is from Elder Jeffrey R. Holland's last conference talk. It is a powerful reminder of the Savior's atoning sacrifice. May we all remember that each and every day!

Happy Easter everyone!

it is an art

If I had lived in ancient Greece I would have a special God/Goddess for massage therapists. Allow me to explain why.

I have two massage therapist friends. This comes in very handy when your neck and shoulder decide to go postal and make it so that you can't look from side to side. It is especially helpful when they are good at what they do, like my two friends are.

I woke up on Thursday morning and seriously couldn't even look from side to side. Because I am who I am, I decided to pretend that nothing was wrong and hoped that in doing so the pain would go away. Wishful thinking on my part.

Friday I decided that I needed some intervention. My lovely roommate Emily is a fresh graduate of UCMT and really knows her stuff. She was nice enough to help me out. After about 30 minutes of massage and marks from her fingers that looked strangely like hickeys we decided that we should give my muscles a little rest before working them some more. About six hours later, my friend Steve came over. Because my shoulder was still hurting and Emily hadn't seen anything like it before, we decided to see if Steve could tell what was up. Yet later still, my shoulder was still hurting. At this point Emily whips out her books from school and does some research. After assessing all of my symptoms, she gave it another go. Fifteen minutes later, and after a fifteen minute icing session I think that I am finally starting to heal.

Much thanks to all of my friends' dedicated work yesterday (and the follow up session later on today) I am able to function again. I can look all around me. Oh the things that we take for granted when they work as they should! Thank goodness for having a full range of motion!

it's official

I am officially half way done with my internship.

I graduate in less than one month - with my bachelor's degree.

I will be done being a BYU student in 3 months. I will have a career.

I am a grown up. When did that happen?

my week as a phlebotomist

During my internship I have the opportunity to rotate through all the different areas that a lab can have. This week is phlebotomy.  

Allow me to tell you how day 1 went:

8:00 am:  I arrive at American Fork Hospital. I go into the phlebotomy area and watch a few draws.

8:30 am: I am set free to draw people all on my own.  I have drawn blood before because we did it every single week during class. This is something that I should be pretty proficient at, right?

Draw #1:  A cute little old man came in for a simple blood draw. I do the whole phlebotomist thing, feel for a vein and confidently stick the needle in. Much to my dismay I didn't get any blood-meaning that I missed the vein. Awesome start.

Draw #2: See draw #1. Definitely not the start I was hoping for - and probably not what those men were hoping for when they came in to get their blood drawn.

Draw #3: This time I was successful! I even had to draw 6 tubes of blood and was able to fill all of them!

The rest of the day went much more smoothly. Apparently I just had to get it out of my system at the beginning. Hopefully the rest of the week goes as well as the last part of my day did today. 

fixed at last

Good news: my bumper is no longer held in place by a bungee cord.

the next mrs. cullen

I would make a really great vampire.

Here is why:

1. I rarely see the light.

I leave to go to my internship in the morning before it is light outside. I go running before I go to my internship. I have to work afterwards (also at the hospital...), which means that I don't leave until it is once again dark. No one would even see me glitter. I could totally get away with living in a sunny place - like Provo for example.

2. I am surrounded by blood all day.

Not just any blood, but human blood. I run tests and pipet and mix it up all day long. What better of an environment for a vampire? I could just sneak some samples in my pocket and no one would notice. Lunch would be ready made.

3. I have very dark hair and pasty white skin.

Both of which are essential characteristics of being a good vampire. Everyone knows that.

Look out Cullen's...here I come! I am in line to be the next new vampire. I will even try to control my violent urges as a newborn. I don't make any promises though...


*Disclaimer: I'm not really sure where I stand on the Twilight books. I would like them except that I really don't like Bella. When you don't like the main character it is hard to love the books... But, I will say this - being the person that I am, I had to finish them once I started and the 4th book almost justifies my reading the other 3 even though I didn't really like them.