Dental Prom 2012!

Hey guys, it's that time of year again!  Seriously, dental students look forward to this event with way too much anticipation (probably because of the open bar)...  This year was awesome since we didn't have any snow, meaning I could wear some rockin' heels!  We met up for dinner and after rejecting a two hour wait for the Cheesecake factory, we ended up at a place called Granite City.  It was pretty dang tasty.

Me and Will at the Prom.  We didn't even plan it, but we managed to be twinsies.  Haha, not really, but we were both wearing orange thanks to my sweet flower!

We eventually got bored of all the drunk people at the prom and went to a movie - that's right, dressed like this!  Funny story, they forgot to take the lens cap off the projector, so we had about five minutes of sound with no picture.  It was totally worth it since they eventually got it figured out, and then they gave us a free movie pass!  All in all, a pretty good night.

Some things

I'm sitting at my house on a Tuesday morning, and I decided that I've had enough random things happen in the last week or so that I could maybe salvage a blog out of it!  First of all, don't worry, I'm not ditching school.  Clinic is closed today for Mock Boards, so I got the day off.

Yesterday I took clinical Mock Boards, which meant I felt like I had been hit by a bus by the end of the day.  We decided to celebrate being done by going out to dinner at BWW!  Sadly the day got to me, and I built-up a massive migraine.  Thanks to that, I went to bed at 8:00 and slept for a solid twelve hours.  Huh.  Also, I had about five people either calling or texting me, which was awkward since I had photophobia and the light of my phone was just too much for me!  Therefore, I kinda dropped off the face of the planet last night.

In other news, this weekend I spontaneously decided to do something drastic

Okay, it wasn't really that spontaneous since I had been thinking about it for a while, but I finally got up the courage to do it on Saturday.  Yay!  It's been really entertaining to hear people's comments since I didn't tell anyone, I just showed up like this.  I've been told more than once that people didn't recognize me - it's like I converted to stealth mode!

New Year

2012 here we come!
I'm pretty excited because 2012 has been my ever distant "light at the end of the tunnel" year.  I will finally be graduating dental school, and moving on to real life!  However, instead of just looking ahead, I thought it might be fun to look back at 2011.
Things that happened in 2011:

I took my Part II National Dental Boards
I participated in multiple random road trips in the midwest, including Minneapolis (MALL OF AMERICA!), Kansas City, Nauvoo, and Des Moines.... I didn't say that all of my trips were awesome, but I have visited several more states!
I had my last summer break ever
I put my beloved house up for sale :(
I took a chance on a relationship
I saw two musicals - Wicked and Les Miserables
I lost my ability to become embarrassed in a public situation
I rediscovered my love of bright eyeshadow

I went on some really good dates, and a few crappy ones
I entered the world of smart phones, and became overly dependent on mobile internet
I grew my hair out all year long

I discovered Pandora

I undertook several home improvement campaigns, including painting, hanging new blinds, and replacing an old towel rack

I improved upon my amazing shoe collection

I participated in a bunch of midnight movies

I got a new favorite band

That's about all I can think of right now.  All-in-all, a pretty good year with a lot of firsts, including a bunch not exactly mentioned.  Here's to 2011, and hopefully 2012 will also be a lot more firsts!

Shut up!

I'm one of those people who gets a kick out of weird, random things.  Like this:



Okay, I like this song, but I gotta say, best part is the last two seconds.