oh. so much to say about sophomore year. at the beginning it was all about learning how to do assessments.  I had the best fall clinical instructor. her name was joy, and she was like a really good mom to us.  she wanted us to succeed.  that was the quarter that  us nursing students got to know each other reallll well haha.  putting kailyn on a bedpan, meeting ruby, my first patient ever, who wanted to be called princess.  also meeting deanna.  she had MS, but she was a trip and loved watching movies.  also, doing my total assessment on a girl in my class's boyfriend, and asking about his sex life. awkward!! going to osu games with my dad.  the best! oh and taking amanda, that was so much fun haha.  that was also the quarter of the old band house, so messy, but such good times :) ho toof. late nights at waffle house with some of the best guys ever.  john playing dead in the backyard. gymnastics.  thrifting with brandon john and andrea.  random talks with keith. scene night with andrea. haha.  my first skull session.  exploring the creek with my jason rickey. late nights at waffle house with the band, driving in stiffler's truck bed (which was soon to be demolished by john and micah).

and then came the winter.

the first time i have ever snowboarded out west was spent in utah with one of my best friends, megan, and my dad. I will never forget this trip, so amazing.  first of all park city was just breathtaking.  i felt like i was on another planet.  fresh powder everywhere, snowcovered pine trees, driving up through the mountains.  seeing the olympic grounds. but most of all that first trip up the mountain in the morning, fresh powder covered the ground, the base disappeared as we passed over the first level of the mountain.  sitting by the fire and the christmas tree after a long day of boarding (7 hours i think) no stops baby!  amazing.  that trip i used my new board, the feelgood, it was fantastic.  oh but i had cracked my tailbone about a couple weeks before, and i fell on it again there, so that was pretty dumb, but whatever.  its still in the healing process haha. super dumb!  its almost healed though :) 

Then we went to snowbird which was also absolutly amazing.  dang. love it there.  junior's snowbowl and path to paradise, my first black diamonds (i think) out west.  jumping off rocks.  yeeeeeeee. good stuff, sucks though that megan kept getting sick!  oh and then we met those people from olantangy, what are the odds.  haha but i will never forget the first run of snowbird, my dad went off the path and took a black diamond, we couldnt find him at the bottom for about ten minutes, but when we did, he was so hot from the workout that steam was coming from his head hahaha.

we got back from that trip early morning on the 21, my 20th birthday!! megan wished me a happy birthday then left.  the day of my 21st birthday was spent with my family, we went to pf chang's.  it was fantastic.  then afterwards i went to the band house (the new one!) and had everyone sing me happy birthday haha. oh yea. i think this was also the time we went to the rendering plant (fall). that place was straight out of a horror movie.  big refrigerator doors and red rust that looked like blood.  gah. that whole winter was spent snowboarding, school, and hanging out with good people.  also, crying over late nights spent doing pre-clinical write ups.  dumb.  that quarter was med surge. shoot me in the face, i didnt like it too much.  i gave my first bed bath to a old man.  i also gave me first shot of insulin.  and passed meds.  also i saw my first leg amputation, and got to hang out with my client until his surgery.  i think i wanted to quit nursing on a regular basis. but me and olivia made it through together, studying for pharm and nursing together.  i loved late nights with her and bella.  talking about her ex  boyfriend and taking walks out in the snow at night :)  but my favorite time of this season is the snowboarding.  winter is all about snowboarding and making the most of the cold weather.  going up with jon jeremy nat and sonia, we  had so many good times.   but i loved spending that night with my sister and her friends when they tried thier first jump.   that season they also had the halfpipe filled, and i learned my first backside! those are so much fun, i dont know how i ever did without them.  haha i also went to MRM with ryan and did my first backside step up.  HAHA and busted my chin on ice.  i thought i lost my teeth.  i scared some little boys too :)  i totally slipped out on that rail. dumb. haha that year me and beck snuch into the christmas tree at easton.  eaaston at christmas is the best.  haha oh and sneaking into the tubing with emma, good times.  that day was SO WARM! i felt like i was boarding in mashed potatoes, or in the clouds or something haha.  i think that was my last day of the season.  what an amazing season, started out rough, but ended up with so much snow! and i dont know how many times i injured my tailbone haha. tooo many.

spring break came along, and i needed a definite break.  this marks the beginning of my semi career searching when i realized that nursing school is super lame and i hate it.  olivia would be leaving me, and it was just all around a sad time.  but the good thing about this season was that daylight savings started early, and the sun set later earlier!! as winter quarter ended, apring break came around and i got prepared for my OC nursing quarter.  little did i know that i would be spending it at grant again with a ok instructor, anne.  i changed my first diaper and held my first real baby (since age 5).  it was nice. babies. yea.  i saw a c-section with debbie and some grant paramedics in training.  there was one woman with a 9 lb baby girl, that thing was huge, and her placenta was enormous too.  i was scared for this quarter just because i would be taking stats, micro, and nursing. a lot to carry.  but i did it! bill harper, my stats teacher, is amazing.  he has such a great sense of humor, and wants everyone to succeed.  this quarter was all about making new friends.  since olivia left i didnt have any really.  so my first nursing class i sat down by coleen and asked her if she wanted to be friends.  so now were friends.  also, i met brittany and aubrey.  i love all these girls.  if i do end up sticking with nursing, i have a feeling that they will be my sanity through the long monotonous lectures.  but yea overall this quarter ended up being good ::) no more crying over papers, it was unroganized but managable.  less stress. haha good times laying out in the lawn and watching the theatre class practice fighting.  this quarter was filled with so many funny things.  like nursing breaks with aubry meghan, colleen, and brittany spent climbing trees and running around park benches and getting dirty.  who would have thought we were 20-24 years old. 

this quarter was also a quarter spent at the band house.  i like jeremy van scabies old house. but im really going to miss him when he goes to marry his lady in colorado! i actually got to meet her.  she seemed cool.  oh man, dance parties in the BWF house to techno and brittany spears.  playing pwn cone.  bonfires, blowing up cans of vegetables, talking the to neighbor through the window haha.  but BWF shows and friends, good times.  i love basement shows, one of the best times spent dancing with all my friends in the pit, listening to some reggea/funk band.  good stuff.  sitting on the roof.  going on adventures down to the overpass and the railroad tracks.  but how could i forget the foto adventures of me and beck.  some of my favorite times are spend with her photographing.  we went downtown and spotted a train that looked abandoned from 71.  so we drove over there, found some cool old buildings, and followed grassy tracks to where we saw the "abandoned" blue train. however it wasnt abandoned, and the enjineer took us on a ride up the tracks! he even wore blue pinstriped overalls haha.  oh and painting with micheal, good times.  this quarter i got to know some new people, mainly fancellii and his friends.  we climbed westerville south together, and i got some sweet bruises.  it was like a movie. i felt like tomb raider.  rita's and deep talks at planet westervile with jeremy and andrea.  letting a good friend down, emotionally. playing soccer with megan on osu campus with a flat ball!! gotta brush up on those soccer skills since i plan on playing this summer.  and seeing jason rickey off yet again after another fantastic year.  last year i remember seeing off him and jen (and having a very long talk with her beautiful twin!!) anyway, we layed under the tree for the last ten minutes i spent with him, it was hot, but it started raining. warm rain, so we just layed there.  then i went to class at 1.  i was late, but thats just the story of my life i guess.  after all i was late to clnical like 2 or three times last quarter.  i bet vanessa loved me for that.

this summer i want to start a children's book.  i really want to illustrate it.  and i hope to get my new camera too! i am looking at the canon D5.  beautiful.  this summer i just want to relax, maybe take painting, work at the pool. hand out with friends.  you know the deal.  but i must go study for exams.  and clean. woo. ciao