Splurge!

We bought Guitar Hero! There was a really good deal on one for PS2 (which Matthew got a couple years ago for Christmas so he could play some baseball game) and it has TWO guitars! It's so fun! You can do all kinds of battles, and do your own band, or a "co-op" band with bass and guitar, it's so fun. And there's a ton of awesome songs. I'm so glad I married someone who likes guitar hero ;) I'm so excited for Mike and Mandi to come visit and play, though I'm not sure who could be in a band with Mike, he plays on the expert level!

Friday night we went to a concert at the Marquis downtown (it's sounds fancy, but it's just your run of the mill bar with a stage really) to see this band called Hurt that Matthew had hear on the Denver radio station, and they were really amazing, I guess they're actually a fairly big name band, this was just a small gig for them. I was going into Mandi withdrawals, and we were talking about how much Mike would have definitely liked the show and Mandi too! It's like caffeine, when you have it everyday then all of a sudden don't have it anymore, it's really hard! haha

I had GRE nightmares last night, I take it again Thursday. I've been studying quite a bit and I think the book has been pretty helpful but we'll see, some words really are just crazy! I had a dream I showed up to take the test and they gave me the paper test and I was all freaking out and yadda yadda, okay, it wasn't an exciting dream.

When does Lyshy apply for nursing school? Soon I'm sure, that's going to be so exciting. I've been thinking of the pros and cons if I don't do well on this GRE. The pro's are the house is most likely going to officially have a buyer this week, so during a year and a half off I could probably actually get an awesome job and we could get back on our feet before going into debt for school. The downside is, I'm going to be making a lot more money on the side so that would do a lot more good, also I'll be really embarrassed moving all the way out here and having to wait another year for school :P Another plus would be that we would be full out residents, right now we would pay one term out of state.

Wow, I completely meant for this to be short and sweet...so much for that idea!

PS. I ran 4 miles of intervals on Saturday and it kicked butt!

More of the same

I interviewed for a job on Wednesday, the interview went amazingly, the guy was awesome, and he SAID my class schedule wouldn't be a problem. Well, I didn't get the job, he said I was a perfect fit and exactly what he was looking for, but he thought the schedule would be an issue, and also since it's a new clinic he wants someone that can be there for at least 1-2 years, and I'm hopefully starting graduate school soon. It make sense, but I was just really upset because I had my hopes up. He invited me back to intern with him once I'm in PT school though. At least it's good interviewing experience, I used to suck at interviews, but the last couple times they've gone pretty well. There's another offer on the house, a little better than the other, he would want everything painted back to a neutral color though--shame, because the accent walls Matthew painted I think are awesome, especially the green in the staircase. With the current offer we'd have to pay $2,000 I think, but at least it'd be done with, I think Matthew is making one more counter to see if he can close the gap a little. I just hope I can get a good job soon, I think I'm going to have to start looking for more run of the mill jobs, because physical therapy aid jobs and whatnot are looking for more permanent people, which makes sense. I had an anatomy lab test today over all the muscle, origins, insertions, actions and innervations, and I think I did amazing, so that helps the disappointment a bit :) Now I need to watch Grey's Anatomy from last night--I hope it was a new one! Yay for the weekend! With lots of GRE and Anatomy lecture studying! It's never ending...but at least a break is coming!

Life these days ;)

Crazy stuff going on. I think I've vented to most of you about not making the minimum on my GRE. I can get a 3.9-4.0 if EVERY science class, but can't make the minimum on the GRE! I have one chance to retake it--November 1st. If I don't make the minimum then, there's no way I can go to graduate school this year! I'm kind of freaking out :P Quantitative was fine, Verbal was low. Hmmm...what else is new, I had an interview for an awesome PT aide job but the hours swill probably be a problem will school, and I'm interviewing for another one on Wednesday which is advertised as having full benefits, so hopefully that will work out with my schedule. And my amazing in-laws are helping Matthew and I out so we can go home for Thanksgiving! So since we don't have that added expense it should work out fine to go to Florida for the marathon-yay! We are planning to drive home for Christmas so that will save a lot of money, need to work out the schedule so we can spend a couple days in Spokane with Mandi and Mike, and go visit Poppa and Becka. Also, there's been some crazy stuff going on with one of my favorite teachers of all time from RHS. I haven't really brought it up because I don't want to fuel the fire of gossip, mostly I don't want it to get to certain people who work in the school district who may not already know, and may start more rumors than what I'm sure are going around already. He was escorted to his car by campus security with paid administrative leave pending an investigation. At first some people who know about such things suspected a threat had been made against him, but it turns out there were some serious accusations made. Luckily the school district has done a good job about keeping the nature of the accusations quiet, so this guy doesn't loose his career over bogus allegations, avoiding that whole "tried in the media" thing that seems to happen so often. I felt like there was more to update on, but I guess maybe that's it--but I did kick butt on my neuroanatomy test so that was exciting! Hope everybody is well--exciting news is I'll see all of my siblings within the next four months!

Jobs and pictures!

Yay! I finally figured out how to post pictures! (and by I, I mean Matthew!) I don't know why some of them are fuzzy, but you get the idea! I stole a couple from Hershy Bar--thanks! And the rest are mostly from Mandi :) I'm excited to get our ones back from the photographer and from some of the family who took pictures--we need more of the candid ones! All the ones from the photographer are posed and of me and Matthew, we want ones of our guests, dangit! haha.

Well, I have another job! Not a full time one, it's a per diem thing, but at least if I show up I know I'm getting paid! It's for a company that goes to various corporations around town and puts on health fairs. I'll be doing cholesterol testing, body fat assessments, blood pressure, etc. It's $20 an hour, so at least I'll be getting some money. They put on quite a few events actually, I was pretty surprised. The lady I talked to said they have about 25 more this month, and most are 4-10 hours a day. It's a first come first serve for signing up, so I just need to check my e-mail a lot! I start on Thursday with this job, and have been applying for a lot of other jobs, writing cover letters for the ones I really want, so hopefully one will come through! I just need to make sure I'm going in to Bally's enough to keep my insurance. The nice thing with this new job, is you just sign up for what you want/can do, so even if/when I get a steady job, as I have time I can still do this to make some extra money.

Well, time to get back to studying! I have a session tonight at the club, so hopefully there isn't any crazy confrontations with you know who!

And the ROCKIES win the wild card!

Man, that was a great game! I hope everyone was watching! I called Dad right after and it turns out he was watching a WWII documentary by Ken Burns that Matthew and I had been planning to watch too but forgot--but we couldn't miss that game! Man it was tense, the end was a little crazy, but even if Matty didn't hit the plate, that homer was stolen from Atkins so it all evened out!

We're all moved into our new house! Hope Hershal, Michelle and Edward's move went well too. Ours was just painful, Matthew and I started at 7:30am, help arrived at about 10, and then with 5 of us working we got our 24' truck packed and unloaded just before 8pm. It only took about 1-1 1/2 hours to unload, it just took FOREVER to load, since we were on the 4th floor, with storage units on the other side of the building, our truck didn't fit in the loading dock so we had to take it all out to the street, but it's done so no worries! There were a lot of little things left so Sunday we went back and filled the whole truck, just one layer high, and that was that! Still a ton of unpacking to do, but that part's not bad. It's exciting to have an extra room now for company :) I have a huge test next week that I've hardly gotten any studying done for, and I've finally made the decision that when I get a new job I think I will be leaving Bally for good. I had some new clients that bout a few start up sessions when they joined and the last two SIX AM appointments they haven't showed for, and their numbers don't work, so that's that, and then my other client just has a few sessions left so I think I can make a clean cut. I don't want to quit before I have a new job set up, but we'll see. I'm just not cut out for training in this environment I don't think, I'm not the kind of person they want me to be. I'm not the kind of person who is going to push people to spend hundreds to thousands of dollars they don't have, and pick apart their life to convince them they can afford it. Yeah, it's good for their health, but the rates are up there and it's just not in me to push people, I don't like it when people pressure me to do things, and I just can't do it to someone else, or I guess I won't rather. My blogs are always so long and rambly, haha, maybe I should just do it more often so they're more concise!

Time to hunt for some jobs and then do some studying. I'm going to call Eastern and see if I can withdraw from that independent learning class I don't need. I didn't think I could, but a letter I got awhile ago mentioned withdrawing, and it'd make me REALLY happy to not spend hours on a class I don't even need! I need to pick Chelley's brain about what med school interviews are like, physical therapy is in the school of medicine so I think they may be similar. I need to register for the GRE's! I better do that now before I forget....