Gahhhh!

Well, today I took my first of three tests that I have to complete before Fridat night. Then after I finish them, I can go to State with my mom and dad. State is saturday. Hopefully I can get my test done on Friday before mom and dad leave IF. So a big skills like test for Nursing thursday, then on friday a patho physiology test. Then Saturday state XC in Boise, then back for church on sunday. Whew! I'd better stop procrastinating studying for that skills test.

OUCH!

Lets see, I went to the public health clinic yesterday (as a patient), and got two shots, one in each arm. I got a flu shot and I decided I wanted to get the guardasil series. So I got the first in that series. My arms hurt to lift them up. And while the guardasil shot hurt more initially the arm that got the flu shot is definately hurting more now. And they hurt to put any pressure on them which is sad because I sleep on my side, so I didn't sleep well.
Yesterday at FHE was actually fun, for a change, we had the lesson, and then we actually sat there and joked around for a while like humans. It was fun, sorry Dan, no mission stories, though I'll try to remember next time. : )

THE FOLLOWING IS MEDICAL WHICH,OF COURSE OBVIOUSLY, I DON'T MIND SHARING, BUT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ IT DON'T!!!
Then today I went and saw the doctor, 1. because my YAZ is supposed to make it so my periods are at least less painful, and over the past seven months they have become more and more painful. Not quite up to the point that they were before the YAZ, but still, also I am kinda sick of being such a witch when I am on my period. I wind up staying in my room because everything (and everyone) anoys me! (not a good thing when living with 5 other people) : ( 2. I have been exercising more, and because I have I needed to refil my Albuterol Rx, and of course 3. I apparently have really high LDLs(bad cholesterol) which for a person my age is not a good thing. I also have high triglycerides but I have a good blood glucose and my HDLs(good cholesterol) are in the upper range of normal.
So I made an appointment to go and see someone at the healthcenter, 1 because they are open when I have time to see them, 2 they are on campus, and 3 chances are good that they are less expensive than other places. Also a bonus, because they are here at BYUI, and to be here I have to be following the honor code, and as I am single and not sexually active going there means I don't have to have another pap to get more BC. : )
TOday I went and saw her, she gave me a Rx for Nuvaring, for BC, hopefully this will help, and she renewed my Rx for Albuterol, and after discussing my diet for a while, she decided that my diet is not unhealthy, and decided there might be some genetic factors in the LDLs and triglycerides, so she gave me a low dose statin drug, with instructions to go back in three months to check and see if it is helping. The only thing that makes me concerned is that I may wind up taking statins for the rest of my life if it works.
I have had some more headaches, sensitive to light, and sometimes sensitive to sound, though I wonder if they aren't because I am in the middle of switching BC?
Better go so I can actually get something done today.

OCTOBER!

Ok, so its the middle of October and I haven't posted anything for a while, but I don't know that I really have had much to post. Last weekend was Mother's weekend, and my mom came out Saturday and we went to some seminars in the morning, and then went out to lunch-Tai food, YUM-then we went shopping and mom bought some stuff for people and then that night we went to the International Culture Night, which was fun because some of the associations performed, including the poynesian and korean, which means all sorts of fun dances, and really loud drums. Megz has been driving my car to Teton to the Haunted Mill for work, with a group of other students that work there. If I had another year in Rexburg I might want to do that. I always liked working behind the scenes and knowing what all goes on.
I started the first part of my clinicals with public health. I got to give shots, which was kinda fun to do that again. I forget how much I miss working until I go to clinicals. Now I only have two more clinicals to go.
We are almost halfway through the semester which seems really strange to me because I feel as though school just started. It has been pretty crazy with my classes and tests etc.
I enjoy my calling, and since I last vented about my FHE brothers we got another one who is a recently returned missionary and seems more mature than the others who have been back for 2+ years. At least he is not distainful about FHE, and I don't dread going to FHE because I know he'll have a good attitude.
It was hillarious at our last FHE, we were at our ward clerk's house with another FHE group, and we were going around the circle introducing ourselves, and as part of introducing ourselves we told what we learned at the last general conference. It got around the circle to this one boy, and he started talking about what he learned in the priesthood session, he started talking about this one speaker who spoke about priesthood holders fulfilling their responsibilities no matter what they are, and then he recounted a story of a man who was working on the SLC temple. This man's family lived 22 miles from the temple to on friday night he would walk home, get home and spend the weekend working on his farm and with his family, on time while he was at home, he got injured and shattered the bones in his leg, which resulted in amputation. This brother continued to say, "and if I remember correctly he went on to invent the prostate...er prosthesis..." to which we all laughed of course and he jokingly made fun of his own slip of the toung by continuing, "prothesis, I'm sure his prostate was fine." I though this brother had great character in that he was able to make fun of his own blunder and make light of it instead of becoming embarrased as many people would have. I thought KUDOS to you sir for having the character to continue on and make light of an awkward situation.
So that is my story for this week, I should go study for my Patho-phys test so I can make it to the XC race this Friday afternoon.

New Calling!

Yeay, I finally have a calling! I am an extractor for my stake. I get to read really old census records that have been scanned onto the computer and then I type the names down. It is part of the process of geneology work as well as it gets the temples names(after a few more steps that I don't have anything to do with). Allthough, some of the names are strangly written so it takes a bit of guess work to figure some of them out. Others are a piece of cake. So sunday I learned how to do it, and got my log in id and password and all that, though I do have to say I need more patience because I was getting a bit frustrated with the elderly man who taught me and logged me on. I think I might need to slow down, and enjoy the sceneery more.
I am in a new ward, I don't know if I mentioned that, and so I have a new FHE family. I am not impressed. First of all none of our brothers want to be there, just because they don't want to be there, also they all(except one) have the mentality of high-schoolers, today I thought they were going to actually make fun of one of my more exuberant roommates and I was afraid they might have gotten mauled by at least six very angry females. It is one thing to not want to go because you don't want to go, but quite another to not want to go because you dread the experience of meeting with your FHE brothers and dealing with their emotionally draining distainful attitudes not only toward the institution of FHE, but also toward all of the people there. Grrrrr. But I am being good and I go, and at least pretend that I enjoy it, and then when it is time to go I can leave and feel no obligation to stay and "hang out" or any such thing.
I believe it is about time for me to get back to my homework. Sorry about the rant on FHE.

Back to School

I have returned to school!!! I have 17 credits this semester so I may not post much. I have the feeling that my pathophys class is going to be quite time consuming. After the first week of classes I believe the rest of my classes shouldn't be quite as bad. I mean I'll have tests and such, but I have the feeling this patho class will have me studying as much as I did for my nursing classes (gasp) I know sooo much studying. (note: nursing classes required 8-12 hours of studying outside class per test) I have a good ward this semester. No calling yet, though that probably has something to do with the fact that my the relief society president (who happens to be my roomie) was just called and has not yet told the bishop who she would like to have as her counselors. So no other RS callings have been filled either. We'll see what I'll be doing this year.
Yesterday I went to IF to see Ben run, and I took Megz with me. She was at first sceptical when I said that XC was the best sport even if running isn't your favorite past-time, but after talking to my mom, and hearing the XC story from the last race then watching the race and of course cheering Ben on, she believed me. She actually said that the energy was what was so great about it. Everyone has this great energy.

STORY
OK this actually could go on the family blog, but I remember it now so I'll just post it here
At the star valley race after the team had rested a bit, the boys were looking around and couldn't find one of their teamates. He hadn't crossed the finish line yet, so all the boys team went back out to the course and ran well over half of the course again running in this teamate. He is generally slower than the rest, but the whole boys team was out there cheering him on and running again. After you give your all to a race, running is not the first thing you would normally think about but because there was one of their teammates missing they went out and brought him back in. It was a great story. Mom said she and my aunt were almost in tears watching it. AHHHH.

Grrrr

Greetings from Victor. Yes I have returned home, briefly. Though it was quite the obnoxious time to get here. Tuesday we(My roommate and I) planned to come up in the morning so I could help dad a little bit on the farm in the after noon, but my car wouldn't start. So after thinking, well maybe its the battery and having one of my FHE brothers come over and try to jump it, we decided that wasn't it, so of course I called my dad, and he said, Uncle Doyle was comming out to get grandma's eyes checked, and that he would stop by and see if he could help. He came, and said,"I dunno what's wrong with it." and towed me to a repair shop where we left the Jimmy and rode back to Victor with Grandma, Uncle Doyle and Esther. Wednesday we gave blood, all of us old enough except Ben, 'cause he's in XC and coach would get mad at him. Then I went and moved a line of pipe out of the way of the swather(that was exhausting with 1 pint less blood than usual). Then I went to back to school night for mom, 'cause she was at round table. Whooo, thursday I went on the swather. The old one. After fixing guards and sectoins several times I finally shut down when one of the sections on the knife head broke and was making it difficult to cut the all ready heavy and leaning hay. Dad and Uncle Gayle hauled the entire knife out of the header, and the goal is to replace the rivets with bolts so the sections are easier to replace next time. Today I woke up, sore and stiff, and after a little bit of moving around I finally got so it didn't hurt quite so bad. Then I packed up and got readyu to head back to Rexburg, 'cause we intend to head back with Uncle Gayle when he goes back. Though he was out on the swather first thing after they fixed it this morning and mom had us go and wash and vaccum her car while we waited for Uncle Gayle to decide he is ready to go home.

Another update

Well I came back to rexburg a week ago saturday, then on monday mom, the boys(Jake and Zac) and I went to the street dance festival then we went to rigby lake to camp and play in the water. The boys liked playing in the water whenever they wanted to. We spent about five hours of tuesday by the lake, and poor mom got sooo burned. Then we went to rexburg and saw a movie. Wednesday we packed up camp and then we played in the water for a couple of hours. The wind was blowing so it was not so comfortable for anyone who was not actively playing in the water who was at all wet. We all sunscreened up again, but even though I sunscreened up I burned my back and shoulders. Grrr. Then we came back to the 'burg and ate at Original Thai! YUMMMY! Even my little brothers loved it. Well then I came back to my appartment and cleaned up my room a little and my appartment a little, and went to the library and got some books. Yeay! I am reading something besides textbooks again, and not for a class either. I also went to IF on friday to get food, and while there megz and I went to Michaels and picked up some cross-stitch fabric and threads for me and some chain and sculpey for her. We discovered that my hobby is less expensive than hers. : ) (which doesn't really surprise me). So I started a new cross-stitch. On Friday our bathroom was also torn apart , the flooring ripped up (it was kinda gross as it was starting to grow mold underneath it) the floor cleaned and new flooring layed down. It is a way cool looking tile/lynolium. And then they(my landlady & children) painted the walls changing them from a strange off white to a more tan color. They also discovered that the only thing holding the toilet down was glue. It wasn't even bolted to the floor. So they went and got a device that would bolt the toilet down. Lucky for all of us the glue was holding the toilet down really well. Anyway so now we have a toilet and freshly paintedd walls and they are supposed to put the sink back into the bathroom today. But the bathroom looks a lot more welcoming. Unfortunately for all those in my appartment who are adverse to cleaning when our landlady came down she saw what a mess the appartment and the rooms were and decided to do a cleancheck on tuesday (the first one I've had in the middle of the semester since I came back to school). I had better get going on cleaning as there are only four of us and the appartment is divided into six jobs so I am one of the ones who gets to pull double duty.