Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Random Dozen


I feel as if I don't have anything great to post about so here goes the Random Dozen!


1. What is your favorite Mexican dish? I love chicken rice and cheese! I don't care what you call it: Pechuga Frita, La Preferido, or Tim's Special. It's all the same to me!


2. When you were a kid, did you get started on your homework right away after school, or did you procrastinate? I procrastinated. I would start after dinner typically and do it in my bedroom with the TV on.


3. What is your favorite store for home furnishings? I love me some Kirklands! I love hitting their sales. I bought a massive painting for our living room for only $20 and it was originally over a hundred.


4. When you were young, did you like school lunches? I didn't appreciate school lunches until I got into high school. We had our pizza line, our hamburger line, our plate lunch line, and our salad line. There was always something for you and you just couldn't beat Turkey and Dressing Day!!


5. Is religion a crutch? For some people it is. Going to church and participating in church sponsored activities don't get you closer to God though. Having a relationship with the Lord is way more important.


6. In your region, what is the "big" (most popular in the community or state) high school sport? Typically it is football, except in my current town-we won the national tournament in basketball.


7. Do you consider yourself rich? No. You don't become a social worker to make money. Between being in grad school and paying back hubby's school loans we are not rich. I know that in comparison to the world we are very blessed though.


8. Which of these would you have the best chance for success in administering:

A) CPR

B) Heimlich Maneuver

C) Changing a flat tire

Probably changing a tire because I have seen it done enough times to figure it out and I have less of a chance at hurting someone while changing the tire


9. Which dance would you prefer to learn & why:

A) Salsa

B) Hip Hop

C) Waltz

D) Swing

This one is the hardest one for me to answer. I think I would love to feel confident in my Hip Hop skills. In the privacy of my own home, I'm the best hip hop dancer, but I would love to know that I looked good doing it in public.


10. What's the worst news you've ever delivered to someone?

I had to work at Walgreens on Thanksgiving day in the photo lab. A man came in and told me that some guy had called him and told him to go to Walgreens to pick up some pictures because he had something he had to show him. The pictures were of his wife cheating on him with the man who had contacted him to pick up the pictures. The husband was in tears and was laid out on my counter. I told him that he didn't have to pick up the pictures if he didn't want to and he told me that he thought he would have to have them for court. As he opened his wallet to pay for these awful photos, I noticed that he had a picture in his wallet of him, his wife, and their 2 little children. I have never felt so bad in my life.


11. Name something you learned in college that had nothing to do with classes or academics. The best memories are made while making late night trips to random locations or deciding to skip class on a sunny day to go to the park. I once skipped class while it was raining and my best friend and I put on our rainboots to go puddle jumping.


12. New variation on an old question: If there's a song in your head that just won't get out, what is your favorite (or most repeated) line in that song?

"Your love, your love, your love is my drug"

Monday, August 16, 2010

Really, Commercial Appeal?

My sister's nursing friend had her picture in the Memphis newspaper beside the story about graduating. That was why I originally clicked on the article.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/aug/15/friends-congratulate-university-memphis-graduates/

The article begins with talking about a special relationship between a teacher and a student and how she came to watch her graduate. It also includes several other stories in the article about how special this particular graduation was. It was going good until the last few sentences...

"The same could be said for Sara Rayne, who received her doctorate in psychology Sunday.
In six years, Rayne finished her master’s degree and her doctorate, but it wasn’t easy.
Since childhood, she’s battled a learning disorder that affects her ability to perform math.
“I don’t know what percentage of people with a learning disability have finished their Ph.D.,” she said. “I just tried really hard.”


Really, CA, Really?

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Updates

Typically I write about a certain topic and then say that I will update you on that topic, and I never get around to doing that. But TODAY I will update you on the topic that I'm sure you were sitting on the edge of your seats wondering about: My 7 Day Cleanse!!!!

I'll try not to be too disgusting but I'm a very open and honest person who sometimes doesn't use her filter, so bear with me on this one.

I ended up only doing the cleanse for 4 days. The reason being was because I didn't think it through when I started it and forgot that I was leaving on a mission trip that week. I did not want to be that person who had to stop every 30 minutes to use the restroom. I would have also had the struggle of finding a decent bathroom on the Mississippi roads.

It took about a day and a half to get the cleanse going. I took two pills before lunch and two before bed. I had a hard time remembering to take the pills before bed. With this cleanse you have to drink A LOT of water, which I did. Once the cleanse started, I had to pee a lot and 85% of the time that I peed, I pooped. It wasn't painful. My stomach didn't cramp up and I also never had to run at lightening speed to the restroom. I would do it again, but this next time I would make sure I wasn't leaving in the middle of the week for a trip. I'm not sure how much weight I lost because I don't own a scale, but I felt better.

I would not recommend this to anyone who didn't have access to a restroom during the day. I have a bathroom right off of my office so it wasn't a big deal.

In my Paul Harvey voice," And that is the rest of the story."