The Difference Between Girls and Boys

I recently went on a trip to Washington for a friend's wedding.    
 - congrats again, Cristian and Cortney! -
I'm no stranger to road trips for the sake of a friend getting married.
However, I usually share these adventures with my friends of the female type.
This trip was different.
This time I went with 3 of my guy friends.
It was still a blast.
But definitely different.
I said I was going to write up a list of the differences and similarities between traveling with guys vs. girls.
Well I am a woman of my word.
Enjoy.

- The Car Ride -

Girls: Sing loudly to a wide range of music--from Celine Dion to Backstreet Boys to Broadway musicals.

Guys: Drive. Eat. Sleep. Repeat.

Girls: Stop to use the restroom every 2 hours.

Guys: Power through until the gas tank is empty.

- The Conversation -

Girls: Boys, hopes and dreams, frustrations, goals, periods, funny stories, sad stories, stories about animals...

Guys: New music they've discovered, places to eat, funny stories.

- The Photographs -
Girls: Take all kinds of ridiculous pictures....singing in the car, sleeping in the car, pictures of us with anything we deem slightly interesting, pictures of us making ridiculous faces when we're bored....
Guys: A good handful of the highlights from the trip.




- Getting Ready -
Girls: Fighting for mirror space, scheduling who will shower when, setting off breakers from all the blow-dryers, curling irons, and straighteners. Usually running behind.
Guys: Take longer to get ready than I expected. Therefore also tend to run behind.


- The Food -
Girls: Junk food. Fast food. Whatever is cheap and tasty.
Guys: More health conscious than I expected! Although still had their fair share of junk/fast food.





- The Entertainment Factor -
Girls: We are all freaking hilarious.
Guys: We are all freaking hilarious.




- The Dance Moves -
Girls: Awesome (and totally ridiculous) when we dance together. Try to avoid catching the eye of strange men.
Guys: So fun to dance with! Much better than avoiding "slow songs". Although not quite as awesome at the ridiculous dance moves.



- The Mugging Situation -
Girls: Get robbed at gunpoint.
Guys: So far, so good.




All in all, I had a good time! I would do it again :)

Yes, I know Sarah and Hannah will hate me for posting these....but I just couldn't resist :)

A Week of Mondays

Confession...
I ate at Panda Express twice this week.
It's been that kind of a week.
So now I'm grumpy and fat.
Happy weekend to you all!

The Perks of Being a Registrar

* You get to meet people with gender-confusing names (Lindsay as a man, Devon as a girl....)

* You also get to hear allllll about their medical problems. From the past decade. Forget the fact that it has no relevance to my job. People just love to share.

* When patients remember your name. That always makes me feel good and guilty all at the same time.

* Just hearing things people say:
     "So they have to have nurses here 24 hours a day? That is astounding!"

     "You should carry a whip." (Coming from a man who I convinced to fill out paperwork after he initially refused....)

     "Wow, that's some bright nail polish you have there....are you allowed to have such bright nails?"

* Inspiration for the latest trends. Like the guy wearing a red shirt, red shorts, and red shoes. At least they were all pretty close to the same shade.

* Those days when you just have it, and you get several compliments from patients. Regardless of which BSA-colored uniform you happen to be sporting that day.

* The awkward awesome moments when you try to pronounce someone's name and you completely butcher it. Thank heavens they don't usually get offended. Usually.

* When a patient goes to get some food, and they offer to get you something. Which they sometimes do, despite a polite declination :) (I have gotten egg rolls and hot chocolate from patients. Mmm...)

* Those times when patients recognize you from when they were here "a year or so ago." And you've only been working here for 7 months.

* You get really good at sanitizing things.

* When a patient you helped earlier in the day comes by again, and spouts something off that should make sense to you, but it doesn't because you have to rack your brain for at least 60 seconds before you remember who they are.

* When a patient is absolutely rude to you, and then later comes back and apologizes. This is seriously the best, and I'll tell you why. I never get offended when a patient is rude to me. I don't condone it, but I figure they're the ones that have to be in a hospital, so who am I to judge their grumpiness? So when they come back to apologize and explain, it just reaffirms my faith in humanity. It seriously makes me so happy that I didn't previously get offended, so they feel that they can do that.

* The awkward moment when a patient asks how much longer, so you check the time of their appointment and you realize you never checked them in. So you lie to their face saying, "They're running about half an hour behind." Oops....I'm only human.

I'm sure there will be a part 2 to this later on.

Blisters

I went running today.

For the first time since.....July?

Oh boy.

These little babies popped up about a mile in.

Resulting in my run turning into a walk.

I was super bummed.

It felt reeeeeeaaaaaally good to run.

Weird, right?

I've decided to become a runner.

Someday I'll run a marathon.

But first things first....I need to take care of these lovely blisters.

And get my new running shoes.

They should be here sometime next week!

Along with my pepper spray.

Two very crucial items for my new hobby.

Happy weekend, everyone!

Maybe if I spoke Spanish...

  

I have a total of two channels.
They look like this:

....................fuzzy spanish channel

            blue screen of death............................

Thanks heavens my internet and DVD player work.

By the way, if anyone knows how to correctly hook up a television for local channels........well........let me know.

Fo-taw-gruffy

Remember how I used to be really good at taking millions of pictures for every event that ever happened in my life?
I just realized that I now kind of suck at that.
Not really sure what happened.
I am now making a resolution to change that.
I am going to get better again at taking pictures.
Keep your fingers crossed.....and maybe don't hold your breath quite yet.

In the meantime, here are a few songs that I have been slightly in love with lately...I hope you love them!
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I mean...I guess it's okay if you don't love them. That's just something we'll have to work through together.
Also, I'm always game for new music, so any suggestions? I'll take 'em!

I'm Soooo Happy! ....For You!

:Disclaimer:
I am about to talk about relationships and marriage and stuff.
And I am a single woman.
Just...brace yourself.
It's not going to be all sappy or a pity party.
Just some of my thoughts.
It feels like lately most of my friends have been getting engaged, or married, or are having babies.
It used to be that whenever I would see a new post on Facebook announcing something like that, I would just give the complimentary "like" and move past it without giving it another thought.
I realized this a month or so ago, and stopped to wonder why I did that.
I came to the conclusion that I have conditioned myself to do so, so that I won't get jealous or upset.
Because I know that is the typical response for a young single adult woman, and I refuse to be that person.
I don't want to be angry or bitter about being single.
Especially because there are so many great things about being single.
But in the Church, getting married and having a family is something that is constantly being stressed to us.
Which is fantastic.
But I think it tends to make some singles feel like failures.
Anyhow, I digress.
So as I was evaluating why I had turned off my emotional valve, I decided to open that up and see what happened.
You want to know what happened?
I just felt so happy for all my friends who are at that point in their lives!
Like, ridiculously happy.
I was almost giddy.
These people that I love and care about so much are just living the dream!
I have had many conversations with most of these people about someday finding "the one", and having families, and what our lives will look like in the coming years.
It's just so exciting to me to see that it actually does happen!
It's not just a myth that happens to "other" people.
And I know that through the process of elimination, eventually it will be my turn.
Not in the near, foreseeable future.
But I know that when it does happen, all my friends and family will be just as happy for me as I am for them.
I am just so glad that I decided to switch my emotions back on.
Because even though this happiness is for someone else's sake, it is very real.
And any true happiness is fine by me!



Just a small handful of my close friends and their beautiful lives :)