Saturday, December 1

Thanksgiving weekend - with captions

I spent my Thanksgiving in Arlington, VA with family. Here are the photos I stole from Erica's blog from the weekend.
After Thanksgiving Dinner
Watching the Lions disappoint me and simultaneously teaching Alex to cheer for the Lions - Gotta start young :) Every time I said, "Go Lions! Yay Lions!" she giggles, smiles, and claps her hands!
Apparently very exhausted after bouncing on my knees while Mom and Dad did tree stuff - I loved being an extra set of hands to watch this adorable girl
Playing Superwoman at the Tree Lot - notice the baby uggs that match her Momma's
Teaching Alex to put the gel clings on the door - every time she stuck one on she clapped and got so excited
She then discovered they stretched. And proceeded to take them all off the door and play with them
Please have some peppermint chocolate I just had in my mouth, Aunt Lisa (Notice the tight lips on my face? She was shoving them in my mouth haha)
ALEX LOVES CAFE RIO TOO! YAY!

Sunday, November 25

Weeks

It has been weeks since my last post. But, to be honest, not much has happened! Halloween was fun and I have my costume pics on here, Erica and Ben came up and I put those pics on here... other than that I have just been going to the gym, going to class, and trying to maintain a social life haha.
 I just got back from Arlington yesterday, where I spent Thanksgiving with Erica, Ben, and their daughter Alexandra who gets cuter every day. It was rough being on Alex's schedule - I do not know how Erica does it every day! The best part of my trip (other than spending time with my cute family of course) was that Erica took me to CAFE RIO and CARIBOU COFFEE!!!!!!!!!!! (I think I am too easily excited about food.) At Cafe Rio, I was positively giddy in line when I ordered and the lady who made my salad ended up being a manager who had to do a ton of training in Salt Lake, Logan, and Provo. She asked if I was from Utah and was also happy that I was getting my pork salad after 5 months. Getting to and from DC was quite the adventure: I rode a Greyhound Bus for the first time in my life! On the way back, we left an hour late because our bus' battery died. Turns out they do not keep jumper cables on the bus (because people will steal them) and the terminal in DC does not allow idling. Recipe for a dead bus battery. But after an hour, we got rolling and I got home in one piece. Yay.
What else is new? I got instagram. You can find a link to my account on the side of my blog. I am not ready for Christmas. Not even close. It is hard to get in the spirit when it doesn't snow and it was 60+ degrees last week. Hopefully the decorations and weather will melt my grinchiness. I guess I am kind of boring right now. School rules my life. Basically. But I love it, so it's ok.  

"Oooh A camera... I want to touch it."

Alex and Ben at Independence Hall


Apparently, We wanted a butt picture. Mine wins.






I will try to be better about posting photos and posts over the next month. Even if it is to count down until I go home for Christmas.
L

Sunday, October 7

Fam, Hair, Rio



Now that our anatomy block is done I can finally breathe! We had family dinner studying last weekend before doomsday. Once Tuesday came, I celebrated being done by hanging out with my friend Lina and then going out with friends. Followed by a very expensive trip to the grocery store on Wednesday, something I had not done in months. I ended up having to call a cab because I bought too many groceries that I couldn't carry them home. Fail.

Followed by BURRITO MAKING!

I have been craving Hector's and Cafe Rio something fierce for weeks. WEEKS. So I finally made some bomb burritos with made-from-scratch spanish quinoa instead of rice. I love using quinoa anywhere I can because it is a complete protein and has no carbs, but it will fill you up like rice and is cheap like rice. Win.

Followed by a weekend of awesomeness!

Went out Thursday, stayed in for movie night Friday, My fam came up from DC Saturday and then I went out with friends late, and stayed in Sunday. The weather here turned awful today.... only 50 degrees and rainy all day. Perfect weather for cooking comfort foods and staying in PJs to watch football. Which is exactly what I did today :)

Enjoy some pictures!
CAFE RIO, HOW I MISS YOU!

Dim Sum Family Dinner at school before the final

COOKIE-BROWNIES!!!

Lastly, I don't usually take pics of myself. But I had a rare exception the other day. I had the best hair day possibly EVER. See for yourself :)




Monday, September 24

Light at the End of the Tunnel

I am almost done with the anatomy block of my first year of medical school! I am so close that I can taste it and I am so excited!!! But now to update from the past...

Two weeks ago I went to New York City!!! My friend Ryan from the UUSOM was in Brooklyn for 5 weeks for an abroad rotation at King's County Hospital and I got to see him for his last weekend. We spent Friday and Saturday in Brooklyn and Sunday in Manhattan. It was pretty cool, I could live there I think :) I sucked at taking pictures, but I do have a few to share...mainly of the Highline Park.





This is Ryan

This is Me

This is the view from the balcony in Brooklyn

Best Pizza Ever in Chelsea off the Highline. Thanks to my friend Gabi for the recommendation!!!



That's all for now :) pray that I will survive this last week in Anatomy and my final next Tuesday!

L

Tuesday, September 4

The Not-Study Game

I don't know what it was about today but I couldn't get a good thing going. My day started by oversleeping and being nearly an hour late for class! It would not have been a big deal except our class had a midterm on Friday so our schedule for this week was a tad different than usual. 

We normally have a one hour "lecture" from 08:00-09:00, then cross-teach, and finally  dissection or self study depending on the day. But today, we had dissection at 08:00 until 11:00, which is when the other half of our group came in for cross-teach until 12:00. I felt terrible about being late and leaving my dissection team a man down. 

After that whole dissection mess (dissection was particularly difficult today and I was unable to get all of my prep done...) I was excited to meet up with a friend to go climbing. Which ended up not happening for various reasons. Bummer. 

But in the end, I decided to stay in, do laundry (something I have never done since moving to Philadelphia), and watch hulu. This plan was aided particularly by the weather: it has been a torrential downpour here in the city for most of the day - lightning, thunder, the whole bit. These rainy Mondays make me want to snuggle in bed with a movie on. 

Which is exactly what I did today aka played the not-study game. And I feel great about it.

L

Monday, September 3

Made it in America

This past weekend was one of the best in my short life. I spent 48 hours with my amazing friends and some of the best musical acts from around the country (and Canada :D ) 

Day one:

Started in the DJ tent where I met some new people and had a BLAST dancing at the front with Janice! 















Next we headed to Passion pit and then to Calvin Harris!


We stopped at Skrillex on our way to the last show of the night... Jay-Z!!! But, don't worry, Jay-Z brought out Kanye West, Common, Big Sean, Swizz Beatz, and Young Boi too!!!! SO AMAZING. I had such a good time at the show that I couldn't believe there was a second day of the festival on Sunday!!!


 HOVA AKA JAY-Z

KANYE








DAY Two:

Run D.M.C., DRAKE, alesso, and Pearl Jam (boo... they were awful).















Basically, it was amazing. I can't even describe how blessed I feel to have had the opportunity to go to the festival with my friends and have such a great Labor Day weekend!!!

L.

Tuesday, August 28

The man

LITT-man, that is. My stethoscope came on Monday! Woo! I love it. I love even more that it is PINK.
I guess my tote bag speaks the truth as it shouts "LOVE PINK LOVE PINK LOVE PINK" at anyone who glances. 

I look haggard in this picture. Case in point: Med school can ruin your beauty sleep, beauty routine, all things beauty really. But I am keepin on with my studies. We have a midterm this Friday and I want to cry a little... or a lot. I also want a shake. Like a legit oreo shake that Bre and I would make for girls' night. 

So I was going to post a picture of an oreo shake right here, but when I google image'd "oreo shake" the following picture came up...



Which reminds me that I have a date with the gym at 06:30...eff. 
L

Sunday, August 26

21 Days

Here are some photos from my first 21 days living in the city of brotherly love!
Phillies game for orientation!

My disgusting visitor... I won.
Mural

More murals...they are all over Philly!

Mutter medical oddity museum
Sunrise over my neighborhood

Drawing the lumbo-sacral nervous plexus

My favorite place in the city to study :)