6 Reason you know you are a Cheerleader for life

6. Anytime you hear your high school fight school, your arms start doing the motions without you even realizing it, no matter where you are.

5. Group pictures often end in a pyramid

4. When wishing your friends goodluck on an exam it requires a cheer, G-O-O-D-L-U-C-K, GOODLUCK!

3. While in the swimming pool, stunting is a must!

2. Lifting your leg for a picture occurs subconsciously and is out of your control.

1. When getting together for the holidays with your fellow cheer teammates and Best friends for life, this is how you pose!

A-B Honor Roll

Have you ever heard the saying C' make PT's?? Probably not unless you are in fact a PT or a student PT. I felt I was going to fit in with the saying quite nicely and was ok with that. I was just AMAZED that I got accepted to PT school in the first place and believe it or not 2 schools! Anyways, some how I have managed to pull off all As and Bs and have yet to get a C!! I hope I can keep this trend up, no guarantees but I will try!

I am bragging a bit which might be annoying to some, but I am just so happy and more than anything surprised that I have managed to pull it off! Now, I just need a bumper stick so my mom can put it on her car, right mom?? Wait that's just silly, I need one for my Dad's car too!

OCD at age 3

I have definitely not blogged about this amazing little guy nearly enough. Gage is my 3 year old gorgeous, intelligent, and obsessive compulsive nephew! During a recent conversation with my sister, she mentioned that Gage is very particular about certain things. He doesn't like to play in the living room when it is "messy" and would rather go to grandmas. My favorite of all is he can't stand when cupboards are left open or open at all JUST like ME!!! I hate when cupboards are left open!! The funnest conversation my mom told me about was Gage said"Grandma close the cupboard!! But Gage, I am in the cupboard getting something...close it Grandma!!!" Funniest thing! I can't wait to see the little cutie pie in 9 days!!!!

Offical Wine Taster...

I went to Palm Desert last weekend to meet up with Kellie and her girlfriends for a weekend of fun. While there we attended a private wine tasting at the Marriot. Although I got a pretty good starter lesson, I have so much more to learn. What I did learn is to: look at the color, swirl, smell (stick your WHOLE nose in the glass), and taste either by sucking it through your teeth or leaving the wine on your tongue and sucking air through it. The tasting included 6 different wines mostly from Napa Valley. My favorite wine out of the group was Summers Estate Cabernet Sauvignon paired with herb goat cheese and crackers, yum! It was a great experience and I look forward to learning more!

Why I love Kellie so....

She eats beans on toast for dinner. As an alternative she will just eat the can of beans "at least once a week".....Never a dull moment! Love Ya my darlin!

HEP (Home Exercise Program)

So what makes people think if they buy home exercise equipment that they will actually exercise?? I don't really know the answer to this question myself, however I have convinced myself that it would work! SO I found an exercise bike on Craigslist today (yes today the day I am supposed to be studying A LOT) and dashed out to pick it up. For $20 whole dollars I got an 80's exercise bike that I WILL use while watching tv, whenever that opportunity presents itself. It's convenient for studying, I already did for 20 minutes today.....

Yep that's right.

study break....venting session

This mini semester is almost over, I have finals Monday and Tuesday YIPPY! I start my first internship Nov 3rd at an Acute care hospital, can't wait to be out of the classroom!!
It has recently occurred to me that I learn a certain way and a certain way only. I am such a green personality type (add to my list of green) which means I am: analytic, rational, organized, responsive, independent, and need logical order.
SO being the Guinea pigs, is driving me bonkers!! I need structure, organization and very clear cut directions/instructions...is that too much to ask!?!?!?!?! Well it sure seems to be...
OK, Im done.

1 WHOLE Mile!

OK, well I have to start somewhere, right?? I am really sore which is sad really...but I feel really good and really motivated! (that's a lot of really's)I got my nifty running log book today and a new pair of running shoes, I am ready!

(The 1mile was running and I walked another 1.5)

SoCal Wildfire Season has begun....

Almost a year ago I was woken at 6am by a phone call from a classmate telling me they were being evacuated and needed a place to go. My roommate and I ended up evacuating to her mom's house for a night to get away from the smokey air. We missed a whole week of school and it took 3 weeks to get caught up with all the missed time, NO fun at all! This picture was taken from my apartment complex, the fires were within a mile or so from us. The fire season has already begun and are within 20 miles of us now again.....I am praying that we don't go through what we did last year, I have 2 1/2 weeks left until I start my internship and I don't want that to be affected by these fires...we will wait and see....

Half Marathon!!

Yes, that's right I am going to be running 13.2 miles on February 1, 2009. http://www.runsurfcity.com/ . I will be running with Kellie and Allison and possibly some of my PT classmates! I have always wanted to do this, so no better time than the present! It will give me something to train for and maybe motivated me to workout more regularly. I plan to keep a training schedule and journal...more on my training schedule later. There is just something about keeping a journal that will motivated me to want to fill it up with running times and distances, etc... I am so excited right now to go buy the journal tomorrow so that I can enter my first workout into it from today. My run this morning consisted of: 0.6 mile run and then a 1 mile walk followed by a 0.5 mile run, hahahahahah! HOW SAD that I couldn't EVEN run one mile before taking a break!! I have A LOT of training a head of me!!! I know I can do it, I just have to put my mind to it and stick to my training schedule....I am very excited!!! Wish me Luck!!!!!

"You Crazy Cupcake lady, you are ruining our game!!"

So I think I have officially become a crazy cupcake lady. I really enjoy making cupcakes for people's birthdays. So over the years I have made many cupcakes as well as cake....so you would think I am a pro by now right!?! WRONG! I still can't figure out how far to fill the wrappers to avoid this....


I just bought a cupcake carrier that holds 36 cupcakes!!! wow! I was almost afraid I wasn't going to be able to find one...they were all sold out online at Bed Bath and Beyond (I have a 20%off coupon) and when I called the store they said they wouldn't have anymore for 4 weeks! So obviously very disappointed as well as shocked at the demand on these things...but some how they located one for me and I dashed out to pick it up (who cares about studying when a cupcake carrier was located!?). However, they only had a clear one when I wanted a pretty pink one....The man I talked to on the phone clearly thought I was crazy when I showed disappointment about not having a pink one.....clear will do. http://www.cupcakecourier.com/

The whole point of making cupcakes this weekend?? Kellie's 25th birthday! SO we went out to a really cool restaurant in downtown Long Beach to have Tapas and wine(Amazing food!) with some of her girl friends and I brought along the cupcakes. One of Kel's friends Allison is seriously one of the funniest people I have ever met (and if you know me I love to laugh)...so anyways at the end of dinner and birthday candle fun, the server asked if I need a container for the left over cupcakes... Allison quickly replayed "NO, she has the mother of all cupcake containers" (Me- Dying laughing) So walking out of the restaurant I was carrying the left over cupcakes, walking through crowds of partiers by this time.... Allison turned to me and said "You are ruining our game with those cupcakes"

I got a great ab workout that night from all the laughing and because I really couldn't get over how much conversation we had about the damn cupcakes! TOO Fun!

Kellie & Leslie Both celebrating birthdays....check out those candles the restaurant had....

Grey's Anatomy

How can a TV show be so darn good!?! I absolutely love Grey's Anatomy! I have watched Grey's since the first episode and thank God for ABC showing the full episodes online ensuring I never miss an episode. It's lines like "I had a leak in the morning at home and thought it was nothing but when I got home I was standing in poop water" I guess I love the show so much because everyone is so straight forward with each other, which I love! I can't stand that people are afraid to just tell it how it is but insist on sugar coating everything. Nothing is accomplished and everything seems to be going around in a circle that never ends. SO the fact that the characters on the show hold back nothing.....You can call is rude or bitchy but I call it fabulous!!

Uff Da! I am still undecided.

Oh golly gee, I absolutely love Governor Sarah Palin's accent. I don't recall hearing that she is from North Dakota or Minnesota(originally) but where ever the accent came from, I like it! (obviously I am from ND).

Even watching the debates, I am still undecided. Who is going to stop emptying my pocket is, what I want to know!? I have been spanked when it comes to taxes the past few years due to owning a small business. How dare Mr. President George W. Bush screw us so badly. I have NEVER been one talk politics, but I am fed up with send in more and more money to the gosh darn government. Hopeful for change....Very good then.

My hands are open....

To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did. When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better. Concentrate on this sentence..... The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.