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It's been a longgg time.

Just wanted to jot down some thoughts on what I want to accomplish in my final year of medical school. Now that I will actually have some truly free time on my hands

1. Learn Spanish for my ecuador trip in April
2. Sell some stuffs I've amassed (hoarded)
3. Read for fun
4. Learn how to cook some delicious Vietnamese dishes
5. Run a full marathon
6. Watch the top 200 movies of all time
7. Keep up with current events

just for starters.....

this was a pretty boring, picture-less post huh

Sorry & Thanks

 I haven't been the easiest person to be around lately. SORRREEY It's a stressful time for everyone, with finals (CUMULATIVE  -_- ) coming up and STEP. Gah step .... but anyhoo I'm so super grateful to everyone that has put up with me. My unreasonable mood swings, my bitching and moaning, and my lack of response or contact. :/ Every week I wonder how I'm gonna get through it, while still keeping my sanity intact and I realized it's all because of YOU! The people that mean the most to mee and my parents of course. I love how my mom sends me the most random pictures all the time and she does it even though I don't respond all the time (worst daughter evar :( , but she puts up with me) and I almost cried when my dad text me about charlie. I know I don't call nearly as much as I should, but every time I do, it reminds me of why I'm doing all this. NOT that med school was for my parents alone, but it feels good to make them proud. ALSO I got this sweet postcard in the mail and I hung it on the wall near my desk, loved it! My cousins are the best, Jeanne especially always supports me no matter what. whoops not trying to give special shoutouts or anything because everyone means so much to me. I don't know what I would do without my group of friends in SA, prob curled on the floor in the fetal position crying in misery.... hehe maybe I'm a bit dramatic. 


Took some good advice and made a game plan for tackling step for the month of May aka HELL MONTH. So sorry again when I disappear. I will be back! June 6th

THANK YEWS <3 br="">

Some People

UGH my upstairs neighbor is such a FREAKKKK, why are you up at 3:30 AM stomping around and taking bubble baths. I hear it alllll the time. The sound of a tub full of water being drained followed by excessive stomping all over the place. YOU SUCKKKKK!!! I finally ran into him this morning too, he even looks creepy. why is my apartment surrounded by weirdos? yeah, lady that feeds the strays, and neighbor that chains the baby seat to the stairway! 

Now I'm wide awake... this is the latest I've stayed up in a long time. I was plannnningg to wake up at 7 am to study but that seems unlikely now..................... *annoyed

Done

This was supposed to be a long post but I just ran 10 miles and nothing seems to be working right now. This morning I woke up and literally jumped out of bed because I had so much energy. Maybe it was because I got 7 hours of sleep but mainly it was because I got my 3rd year schedule the night before! 

BOOM! I'm super excited. Although I wanted medicine before surgery I don't think it really matters in the long run. I'm partly motivated by fear though, because that actually means I need to know what I'm talking about when they pimp me. 

I feel like I had more to say but I need to zone out now. 

Baiz

Hurr

 This post is dedicated entirely to my hair haha. I went through a perm phase last semester when I thought I really wanted a digital perm but I decided I didn't want to put my hair through all that damage. Then I had an ombre phase... but I finally did it. So it came out more blond then intended but the whole process took so long that I didn't ask her to leave it in longer. She kept saying "you have so much hair!!" She bleached my hair for 2 hoursss and then dyed it "toffee" and then trimmed an inch off and layered the front. The same haircut I've been rocking since 10th grade. Anywayyy I still luv it and she said I could come back another day to darken the middle so its more of a gradient. I like how the ends look in the light, makes me feel happier haha, maybe blonds do have more fun. But also my mom is going to kill me haha 

I just needed a change, girls tend to do that I guess. As if chopping off 6 inches of hair or coloring it makes you a different person. Sometimes you just need to start over :) Also I would definitely not be able to do this next year, it may be too crazy for rotations....

My hair doesn't seem damaged or dry yet. At least I can always cut off the ends if I don't like it.

 

The color really depends on the lighting, these pics on my DSLR made it look more copper/orange. But at least me and charlie have the same color hair now!

Trying to take image shots with chawly :P

 Interesting fact: guys seriously do not notice a girl's hair

 

Weirdo

So yesterday while eating with some friends at the Cove I received a phone call from a 281 number. I picked up cause I didn't have the number saved and it was a Houston area code. The following conversation ensued....

BBD: Hello?
me: hello...?
BBD: Who is this?
me: uhh I don't know, who is this?! 
BBD: I got a text from this number
me: uh I didn't text you.. What did the text say?
BBD: It said.. ....*mumble muble*
me: wait it said whatttt?
BBD: IT SAID that you were PREGNANT
me: WHAT THE! NO definitely not NOO (I'm sure all the color drained from my face at this point) 
me: uhh uhhhhhhhhh no no no I think you have the wrong number 
BBD: well you texted me ............... 

Anyway I think I was so flustered I just hung up on him and he called me back right after, but I was so confused I just ignored it. So I feel bad for this guy, who might now be a baby daddy or maybe the girl that is pregnant text the wrong dude..... if that is the case, it explains a lot. Also, BBD stands for big black dude... not tryna be racist but he sounded like it.....  My friends could obviously see that I was taken aback and when I told them we all had a good laugh... hahah 

Yesterday I went to the anberlin concert at backstage live. Pretty cool place for SA, but the crowd was mostly high school kids, although I prob fit right in cause at the door they asked how old I was and the bouncer dude thought I was under 21 forsure. My favorite songs from them are Art of War and Impossible, which they played neither. I loveee going to concerts though and I managed to weasel my way to the front of the crowd haha. Then afterwards I went to a bday partayy for a friend :) and we sang the night away. 

peeks 

  

 Happy Buttday!!

Wore this to do my first female pelvic exam... was a bit traumatized afterwards and took the rest of the day off

charlie loves to dress up too :)

Life

Picked rotations today for 3rd year, after an hour my head was spinning. Even though the 2 paths lead to the same outcome I agonized over the survey wayy longer than I needed to. I ended up choosing:

Internal Med

Surgery 

• Surgical Oncology
• Transplant
• Anesthesiology 

Elective (er researchhh?!?!)

3 week vaycayyyy with the fam!

Fam Med
Peds
OB/GYN
Psych 

This is all assuming I pass my step and don't fail any classes this year *crosses fingers* hahhh..................................

Just thought this was a life topic I should document.

This is gettin too REAL!

There we go... this post really needed a picture of charlie sleeping from another angle to lighten the mood. :)

Happy Place

 

 This week I went to the store to buy an extra large bottle of advil, teardrops for dry contacts, and a 14 pack of AAA batteries... it's one of those weeks. 

Beaaaauuuttiful

I fell in love.. hard

This post is mainly for girls :)

 

Kenneth Cole iPad case aka perfect makeup case

       

    

    

Last two pictures are from theglamourai. what a brilliant idea I wish I had thought of it first, and also that the case was not 300 dollars haha. Anyway I love what I use now to carry around makeup/other essentials but it doesn't fit brushes or my naked palette. 

Adorable gift from my girlfrans that I use all the time and still looks spankin new, despite how messy makeup can get. Trying to find an alternative to this kenneth cole case, but it's pretty unique.

These Days

Recently two of my friends have created blogs, maybe with a little encouragement by me. I always suggest that people create blogs though, because I know how glad I am every time I reminisce and I look back on my posts no matter how silly they seem after. It makes you appreciate the good times you had and gain perspective on the difficult moments. Anyway I also love to live vicariously through other people's blogs since the only thing that excites me nowandays is a quiet study spot with wi-fi, outlets, and if I'm lucky an ottoman.

Peektures... I haven't touched my DSLR in forever, but I decided to give charlie a photoshoot last week and I caught this gem...

Chawly yo teef!

foxy :)

 

What I wore to happy hour with the girls after our test yesterday. I don't care if it's justtt HH! I don't want to look like a tired slob anymore haha. My love for skyhigh wedges has grown and I added these beauties to my closet I would stay they're borderline 6 inches.... but I luv! Even though they make me tower over everyone meh who cares. 

Embrace

Hi 2013!

22 days into the new year and I finally feel like I'm starting it off right. I spent MLK weekend catching up with friends and meeting new people. Now that the date of my STEP exam is finalized I'm slowly and painfully getting into the groove of studying for it as well as balancing regular school work (one of the reasons this blog is not gonna get a lot of lovin' this year). I'm hoping to start/work out some sort of research proj soon so I can graduate with my MD with distinction in research... wooooo Those are the highlights of my year so far haha 

More boring updates soon :)

Reality

I'm back! from an extended vaycay. I haven't studied in so long my brain is pooping out on me so I'm gonna blog a bit. This past month has been amazing. November is my favorite month of the whole year. The weather is always the perfect in between (although in texas it's always on the warmer side), Thanksgiving is always a food marathon and I get to celebrate my birthday with everrrryone I love because everyone comes home for break. 

I couldn't get all the girls in the picture we had a kewt little tea party a few days ago at Madhatter's Teahouse.

Just a few pics of some amazing people I got to spend time with this week.

Better Off

Things that are making me happy ... starbucks rice krispies with big chunks of marshmellows, chawly, amazing friends and foxtails. 

Have hope.. be happy!

Be Better

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past as better than it was, the present worst then it really is and the future less resolved than it will be

- Marcel Pagnol

When people doubt you, it's easy to start believing them. Instead, challenge yourself to be better. 

Ever since I've moved to San Antonio my room has never been as clean, except for that one time my parents came up to visit me and I stashed my mess under my bed :p Anyway it was a good reflection of how I was feeling. Kind of lost, in a rut, with no plan or direction... So I changed all that today. I picked up the pile of clothes, dusted off the shelves, and made my BED! It makes all the difference when I go to bed. Instead of shifting things here and there and curling up in the one corner of my bed that has not been invaded by clothes or books I have the whole bed to myself! When you want things done you just have to do it. Don't get bogged down in the little things that happen day to day that don't go right. 

Also, don't over-analyze things. There are things you have to accept that you cannot change. Like the way other people feel or what they think of you. Try as you might, it is hard to change their perception of you. It's good in the beginning when the slate is clean, but once it's been dinged, it's pretty hard to smooth things over again.  

Oh yeah... and don't get fat. I fall into a vicious cycle of binge eating when I'm down or stressed.. then pants start to get tight and it makes me even more depressed. So put down the pizza and don't go to jack in the box AND wendys in one outing. 

Photo vomit...

Charlie taking the stuffing out of the already stuffing-less bear. 

 

No shame...