Lab Awareness week!

The best thing happened today...Being lab awareness week and us being CLS. WE got to party hard with temporary tattoos. That's right temporary tattoos. Nothing beats a temporary tattoo, a perfect little picture on a piece of paper that with the wettening of a paper towel and with 15 seconds of pressure becomes my own little picture...ever so artfully placed on my very own cheek! Bravo to the temporary tatoos!

School is hating on me!

I have a huge parasitology exam tomorrow and I have been studying like there is no tomorrow...but if there was never a tomorrow I defiantly wouldn't waste my time studying parasites so maybe I was studying as if tomorrow was today or something like that. I am totally getting "AhhHHH" out. Why do we have to know the size of every trophozoite, cysts, worm, proglottid of every amebae, flagellates, coccidia, and helminth...does anyone know what I am talking about??? of course not because to normal people living in the normal world theses things are not important and so I'm having a hard time believing that in the Clinical Lab world they will be any more important. I don't know what they are trying to prove by forcing us to learn huge amounts of information that after tomorrow I will totally puke out and never remember again!

The Killa and Tina = unstoppable at nerts!

Yesterday was the day for our ever anticipated Lost party. I've been eagerly awaiting this night and so I thought "Why not make some special food?", because that's what I do when I think something is special. So I spend many an hour working on preparing wonderful caramel cheesecake, a yummy cheese dip, and well some totally nasty cheese stix that I'm trying to forget about. Content that I not only remembered the party but also was able to remember to bring food, and boy was I going to BRING FOOD! AT about 6:30p.m. trish and I are getting ready to go when she gets a phone call that results in us finding out that the season finally of Lost is not that night but some unknown date in the future! At first I was disappointed because I thought all my wonderful foods would not be eaten (well they would be, but I would be the only one, and no one should eat an entire cheesecake!). But luckily Jenny and Kara also didn't realize until that very day that lost was not that evening, so we decided to still have our party and substitute nert for Lost! It turned out pretty, the Killa and I rocked at cards! Tina

Rip Roaring angry

Sometime people do things that just totally get under my skin and the only way that I don't turn completely postal is by venting my rage, either via blog or close friends! I think this world would be a much better place to live if every, over competitive, cereal-box sunglass wearing, same sweat-shirt wearing, raise your hand for every question, kiss the professors butt, self-centered, over-studying, back-stabbing, Ha I did better than you, urrr I hate you because you scored better than me, lame-joke telling, stick your nose where it doesn't belong, get out of my way, I'm so much smarter than you... if those people were just washed off the face of the earth living would be so much easier!!! AHHHH... do I feel better. I suppose people like that just don't know how much it hurts to step on people! I suppose what they really need is a good friend that can tell them to their face that they are being a jerk! But being nice to these people is soooo hard. I guess that's why God repeatedly tells us to love our enemies and bless those who curse us. If it was easy He wouldn't have to remind us. But, ohhh she is making it so hard! Tina

Spa Night

Totally had a fun night last night. My friend jen's mom hosted a spa night. 9 women got together and the one rule of the night, "if you wanted something done you couldn't do it yourself". So, basically we were being pampered all night...by each other. I got a face mask and tried this really cool massage thing. Then I painted a couple of peoples toes and that was really fun. But the best part of all was the food...crab sandwiches, corn chips, cheese dips, salsa, cream cheese spread with cracker, chocolate covered strawberries, mini pecan pies, toffee brownies, ohhhh it was all so yummy I finally resorted to just hanging out in the kitchen because I was getting tired of walking back and forth....sooooooo good. Then at the very end we got to do this little present game and I scored some really pretty nail polish. All in all I say that I totally am a big fan of spa nights and anytime it involves jen's mom cooking....I'LL BE THERE!

Science Fair: What fair about it!?!

So, today I volunteered to help at the science fair that NIU was hosting for all the area junior high and high school winners. I thought, hey I'll pass out some juice, do some directing it will be a snap...Right?....I don't think so. I get there and I am going to be a judge!!! That's right judging. So there I was wandering around, trying to pretend like I knew what the heck I was doing; when really I didn't have a clue. And man, these kids...They are like way to smart for their own good. I'm thinking at 12 or 13 I was lucky if I could get my shirt on straight and if it matched my pants...Hey I was having a really good day! So, this whole volunteer to help out and get a little "feel good about yourself" boost totally back fired and as far as judging goes, I feel bad for the kids because most the time I didn't know what the heck they were talking about... I just nodded my head and try to pretend like I was thinking deeply about what they said. Hey at least I was good at passing out stickers!! Tina