Diet Coke-cicle

This is what happens when you leave a 24-pack of DC in your trunk overnight. Oh yeah, especially when it happens to be an ice-storm that night.

Haha! Is it weird that I kinda want to keep the exploded can? I don't know why. I'll probably just recycle it with the rest of the non-busted cans. Seriously, I thought this was hilarious! (Just in case you were worried, only two of them exploded. The rest are still intact, and perfect for drinking in their icy deliciousness!)

Studying woes

Today I will be completing my last two finals. It has been rough to keep myself motivated, and it has required a lot of self-bribery! Ha ha. For some reason I focus 5 times better if I'm wearing my headphones. I don't know why, because I'm home alone - it's not like there are any noises distracting me. Whatever works, right? Well anyways, I can't hear a thing, so I'm paranoid that someone may come to my door, or my fire alarm will go off, or something!

Yesterday I totally overdosed on both caffeine and sugar! We had a Christmas dessert day at the clinic yesterday, which meant that all the assistants and secretaries made us all kinds of delicious goodies. It was just what I needed after the two finals yesterday morning. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm growing about five cavities under my braces thanks to that. Good thing I know a lot of dentists who are almost eager to do free dental work! I'm just excited because after today I'm mentally checking out for the holidays, and I'm officially going to start a Diet Coke diet (we all know it needs to happen). We shall see if I am at all successful!

In other news, we got another snow storm last night. It actually started out as this weird hail/rain/ice thing. It totally freaked me out because I wandered out of the house around 8-o'clock to get me a fountain drink, and the sidewalks were all icy. It was one of the more strange things I've encountered out here, but I'm okay with it because we only got maybe 2 inches of snow. WAY better than last year's snow-fest.

Punched

This was pretty much how I felt after Dr. Dowd's glorious pharmacology final today. Just snuck up and punched me in the face while I was minding my own business...

No seriously, I thought this was hilarious. It must be on account of the lack of sleep and fun in my life right now!

Around the house

Check out my socks. I had to cut them so I could wear them with these sweet shoes!

Yep, these are like boots but they are high heels! Just thought I would share, especially since I've been wearing the socks around the house all day. In fact, if someone came to my door I probably wouldn't even take them off! I think they are really funny, and they are the perfect socks for me because they keep most of my foot warm while my toes still have freedom to move!

So basically it's finals... two-and-a-half-weeks. (Yeah, we don't do finals "week" anymore.) This is my attempt to distract myself from studying. Unfortunately, I must return to the joy that is pharmacology!

Thanksgiving fun

Okay guys, I pretty much failed to take pictures during this trip. However, I did have a really good time (minus the travel fiasco). The dental school gave us three days off, so I decided to head back to Utah for some family time. I had a great time hanging out with the brothers, the parents, and the dogs. I ate tons, and tons of delicious food, and I even managed to make up a sweet potato recipe that my whole family loved. Plus, we had the usual pie buffet which always makes me happy.

As far as the travel situation, I will someday make it back to Omaha. I have been delayed, switched flights, delayed, canceled, re-booked, delayed, until now I think that I practically live at the airport! However, I think the airports at Cedar and St. George are just plain cute, especially since it takes like five minutes to check in, and the people there are super nice. I was supposed to fly out last night, but instead it got cancelled and I got to sit and watch like four hours of Malcom in the Middle (Hi-larious by the way)!

Okay, so probably my favorite part of coming home was the fact that there are five little puppies hanging out at my parents house!

Look how flippin' cute! I had almost convinced myself to try and bring one home with me (don't worry, I didn't). However, playing with these little guys comes with a price - I have scratches all over my hands. I don't really care, though!

Airplane versus blizzard

Okay so it is Thanksgiving, and I decided to head on home for the holiday. Yay, right? Well about an hour before I leave for the airport, my dad calls me and tells me that there is supposed to be a blizzard in Salt Lake, and that he wants to get me a flight going into Cedar so I don't have to drive down. I say "okay" even though I already had plans to stay with a friend in Salt Lake. After the hassle of purchasing a flight last minute, I make it to the airport. I did manage to set off the metal detector with my earrings, but at least I wasn't traveling with a cat! (The guy in front of me at security had a cat which he had to take out of the carrier before they would let him through.)

The flight from Omaha to Salt Lake went well until the pilot announced that there was a storm, and they were trying to clear the runway, and that it would be another 40 minutes. Over an hour later, with several threats of possibly landing at another airport, we managed to touch down. Now comes the wait for my delayed flight to St. George. The lounge, which was packed with frustrated, delayed passengers, is now getting pretty sparse. It is about 12:20 my time (Nebraska), and I'm getting pretty tired. I hope that someone will wake me up when they finally decide to board my flight. Luckily I have a computer, which means I have about a million movies I can watch to keep myself entertained!

This reminded me of a Seinfield episode, but I couldn't embed it. Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NienKmtknI

Plethora of Blankets!

At last winter is here, which means I am able to snuggle under about seven blankets at night. I sleep with the window open, and who cares that my actual house reaches freezing temperatures. (That does make it more difficult to wake up, but I have a hard time with that anyways.) So yes, that is probably the best thing about winter for me. That, and the fact that it is almost Thanksgiving, and then it will be Christmas. Yay!

In case you were wondering, this is my fabulous bed. I got to have a lovely Sunday afternoon nap today - it was fantastic!

The other thing I love about this time of year is that I can leave my DC in the trunk of my car, and it's almost like keeping them in the fridge!