Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving I spent with my friend Zach, the missionaries from our ward Elder Wilky and Elder Overson, and a wonderful family here in Nebraska.  They were kind to take in some strays for Thanksgiving.  We had all kinds of delicious appetizers, all the traditional fixings, and a never-ending supply of Diet Coke!  I even went home with leftovers - yum!

Saturday I drove to Des Moines with Zach to see the musical Wicked.  It was amazing!  Have I mentioned how much I like random road trips?  All-in-all a very nice, very relaxing Thanksgiving holiday.

Back in Utah, my parents went to Zion National Park to celebrate with the Brown family.  My mom's birthday was on Thursday, so I called to apologize for not sending her anything.  She told me it was okay, then said it was pretty low-key, and even my dad didn't get her anything.  She then revised her statement, saying he had gone to the store to get her Diet Coke and Cheetos!  I guess that's a pretty good birthday when someone will go to the store just to get you DC and Cheetos.  Love ya, mom!!!

Too early?

Due to Thanksgiving holiday, I only had class on Monday and Tuesday.  Naturally by Tuesday night I was already bored.  Guess what I did?  That's right, I pulled out my Christmas decorations!  I had been holding off till Thanksgiving, and to be fair I'm not the first person in my neighborhood to bust out the decor.  Far from it, actually.  Anyway, I was slightly excited because I got a bunch of new ornaments at the end of the season last year that I didn't get to use until this year, plus I added a bunch of black and red "Utah" ornaments to my repertoire.  Yay for my red and white Christmas tree!

You know I was hardly in the Christmas spirit when I was putting this crap up.  I'm nowhere near ready to listen to holiday music - on the contrary, I was listening to my Pitbull Pandora station whilst decorating my tree (is that too anti-Christmas?!).  It's strange, I really just enjoy the ambiance of Christmas lights.  That would probably explain why I have a string of white lights hanging over the window in my bedroom year round.  

Seriously, I found it oddly cathartic to lay under the tree and look at the lights - something I'm told I did when I was a child.

I will admit that I am an avid Grey's Anatomy watcher.  This reminded me of a particular episode.

http://youtu.be/G9xQAn1cHwk

Skip to 3:05.  (This is really only for those friends of mine who I know watch this.  It's just nice to know that I'm not the only person who has ever thought of this!)  So if you are having a bad day, come over to my house and we can lay under my tree and look at the lights.

New hair

I realize I haven't put anything interesting up for a while.  So here you go!  It's been getting cold around here, and despite my extreme dislike for driving in the snow, I have to say that I love it when it gets cold.  It is Thanksgiving holiday for us, and I decided to just hang tight here in Omaha instead of going home to Utah this year.  We were off school today, so I celebrated by going to the movies, sleeping in till noon, making a stop at the homemade candy shop, and getting my hair done!  I've been growing my hair out, and I was extremely tempted to do something drastic and chop it off today.  However, I just got some color.  Yay!

Seriously, it's like one of my favorite things to do.  Besides, I think this is about the only time when you will see my hair curly.  I'm just too darn lazy to do it myself.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

Running hot and cold

I had a conversation tonight that went something like this:

"Do you have a pillow that is not an incubus of viral plague?  Do you have a functioning heater?  I'm freezing, please turn the heat up."

~About 5 minutes later after offering a blanket and letting the heater kick on~

"It's too hot in here!  Turn the air on!"

Sometimes you just can't win...  In the meantime, no oral pathology was learned.

Mayhem

Okay, I don't have Allstate, but I have to say, they have some of the best adds I've seen in a long time!


Seriously, there is just something entertaining about seeing a grown man in a suit behaving like a child...

Completely Bonkers

 Yay for Halloween!  I got excited and went for a Depp-inspired look.  In case you guys haven't seen the movie, I dressed up as the Mad Hatter from the new Alice in Wonderland.

Since it was on a Monday night, Halloween was pretty uneventful for me.  However, the ward did throw a party for FHE.  This is one of my friends who is my hero for going all out!  She was the she-Hulk, and had painted her entire body green.

You can't tell, but my coat has some pretty sweet tails.

I made a last-minute run to Wal-Mart to stock up on candy for the neighbor kids.  While perusing the Halloween isle I discovered, among other things, fake eyelashes, and black tooth paint.  Being the dentist that I am, I fixate way too much on teeth, and was all too aware of Johnny's diastema.  My artificially created gap added the perfect touch of crazy.  However, I think I was scaring the trick-or-treaters when I was handing out candy!  Also, since several of the parents in the neighborhood are fellow dental students, I got a lot of comments.  I guess I should just be glad no one offered to fix it for me...

I had this whole crazy costume, and everyone fixated on my diastema!
My orthodontist would be horrified since I just spent about a year getting rid of all my spaces...

This was my very favorite part of the whole costume - the makeup!  My regular eyeshadow now seems incredibly bland.

This was my first experience with fake eyelashes.
Hopefully I'll find an excuse to use them again in the near future!

I did have some misadventures with the orange eyebrows and the fake eyelashes.  Especially removing them at the end of the night...  I was tempted to just leave it and go to clinic looking like this!