Turkey Day!

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. the Radio City Rockettes. Watching dogs on tv. Petting dogs on the couch. Cooking all day. Eating A LOT of good food. Being with my family. Cleaning dishes. Eating some more Sweet Potato Casserole AND....



The A&M vs UT game!!! Waaay fun game, finished 49-39...that means i get 7 & 1/2 kisses when I get back to aggieland (7 touchdowns & 1 field goal)...from one of possibly the sweetest ducks around.

P.S. Look how cute this page is by Elizabeth Kartchner!



P.S.S. and this one from Kelly Purkey!
P.P.S.S. heading back to the books tomorrow! :/ ...& setting up the Christmas tree!

Friday 11.20!

A couple of happenings today:

I heart labradoodles!


I love looking up new cupcake recipes!!
chocolate chip cupcakes


banana cupcakes with caramel buttercream icing

strawberry cupcakes with strawberry buttercream icing

& tonight, I'm going to see a movie with some girlfriends
..and I have a date! :D

Post- Final Exam Block 1C

On Monday, I took my final for block 1C...which means means I am roughly 3/4 done with my first semester of medical school!! yay!

I tried to take picture of everything I did this afternoon since I haven’t used my poor broken camera in a while…

I finished my Lower Extremity Final exam around 4pm (amazingly early!). Afterwards, one of my roomies and I went to Target & bought Christmas decorations (I know its not even Thanksgiving, but you should see how the other half of the duplex is lit up!!) and goodies to cook pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese icing

Steve getting in on the holiday spirit..


Giulia and I tried to order in Chinese food, she ended up going to pick it up while I vacuumed haha but it was still good!


We had some wine & I started baking!....





This was the second time I made these cupcakes & each time, EVERYONE adored them
They are soo festive & Delicious!







.... andI got to scrapbook a little!


...and then Samir, Giulia, & I met up with some classmates to watch the Leonid Meteor Shower! We found our way to Bryan Lake and had a spectacular view! We saw about 10-15 from midnight-2:30am...and I froze my toes off!! Here's an oh-so flattering picture of me as a enchilada, trying to stay warm & watch the sky


But it was such fun, even Claudia joined in!!

Happy Things

(We were just tested on pes anserinus and this guy appeared on our test...made me laugh in the middle of the exam :) )

I have been RIDICULOUSLY happy these days! I mean seriously, I am waaay blessed & I count my blessings every day!
I love my life here in medical school. I am amazed everyday at how wonderful things are here... also I've noticed that I've become less shy and more vocal since I've been here. Maybe it's because one of my roomies likes to talk or that all the people I hang out with are pretty vocal or maybe it's because I'm more confident in who I am & what I'm doing...either way it's pretty fun!
Oh and second development...Each time I go to the gym, I've been able to run a little farther and a little longer, with it becoming just a little easier for me to breath afterwards too. So. I'm going to give myself the goal of running a 5K by the end of the school year (next summer)!! I've walked in a few but I've never ran them before so this could be interesting...

And I love baking cupcakes these days..especially THESE pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese icing...I could eat just the icing but the two go together well!


Soo I'm thinking next I'll bake german chocolate cupcakes, or chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting, or chocolate chip cupcakes with buttercream + chocolate chips icing!
Or maybe BRAIN cupcakes since we are studying head & neck in this next block?! How cool is that!



My Aunt Patty posted this wonderful quote, which was great pre-test motivation: “Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice!” ~ Bethany Hamilton (awesome female surfer)

My wonderful friend Cari showed me this great song by Michael Buble called, Haven't Met You Yet …but I adore this video set in a grocery store!

Prehistoric necklaces at Anthro

Lucky Duck

I am feeling like one lucky duck these days.

I have been soo very happy with life in general (in between tests mainly haha) and today is just another reminder of how entirely blessed i am! I didn't have any lectures to attend this morning! Instead I was able to hear a genetics panel, in which people with genetic conditions or their relatives come to the COM to talk about their experiences. This was our second panel and while the stories are really touching each time, I always walk away feeling inspired, I remember this is why I am putting myself through the pain of medical school! haha. And also, just coming to be exposed to numerous diseases and conditions in lectures, I think it's a miracle that I am healthy at all!

For lunch, my roomies and another med school friend hit up McAllister's for lunch, where I had a yummy veggie pita <3 Then back at home, my roomies and I each took turns listening to each other's bowel sounds haha only medical students! But it's just so fun to hang out with them and all of my friends, I feel so very blessed to have them all in my life!

So now, I am getting ready to study for the rest of the afternoon but I'm really happy!
And I'm wearing my pretty new autumn red skirt today, because while it IS Novemeber 6th, it's a warm 75 degrees F outside! I don't know if I'm defying fall or it's defying me. I'm even going over to my friends house, where they're going to be grilling! in November!



OH & another nearly daily reminder of how loved i am (and how blessed i feel!), my Ba and Aunt send me mail!! I love getting their letters and packages in the mail because they are both just so thoughtful. Sometimes it's a cute halloween card just saying hi and other times it's a package full of Hersey's Hugs and Kisses haha



but I sooo appreciate the idea that they thought about me & they're soo supportive of me in my journey way out here! I am probably one of the most blessed personas in the whole wide world.
...sometimes I am just so happy, I could quack!