futile attempt: christmas photo edition

i'm thankful for you

the longer i go without making a post, the harder it seems to be to do so. i'm just going to plod on through anyway and make a post and if it is not interesting and doesn't make sense then i apologize. anyway. a lot has gone on. i took a very difficult exam and am quite worried about the outcome . . . if only it didn't take so long to get our grades back! 

 

after my exam was completed i finally got to see harry potter #7, part 1 with the ever pleasant a squared duo (abby + adam). they were so sweet to wait for me to go see it with them! it definitely did not disappoint, although since it ended smack dab in the middle of the storyline there was obviously a lack of closure. july 2011, i'm looking forward to you!

i didn't head home this year for thanksgiving because i wanted to relax, organize my school stuff, and do some sightseeing. upon hearing this, my friend katie from college was ever so sweet to invite me to join her family for thanksgiving. i brought a bottle of wine, pumpkin cake, and tofurkey/gravy and her family brought the fun, friendliness and an awesome meal! they were so welcoming and relaxing to be around. i am very thankful for them!

so far, i haven't really gotten much sightseeing done. i've gotten a lot of relaxing done. however, today was a very productive day of organizing, decorating, and cleaning. i'm pretty much finished decorating for the holidays, yipee! 

craft corner

makeshift tree topper star

"snowflakes"

dignified pup

after a long and fairly productive day, i'm sitting back with my feet up enjoying my first piping hot chocolate of the season and a little how i met your mother. before i sign off, i want to let you know that i am so thankful for all of you, my family and friends, and even though i didn't get to spend thanksgiving with most of you i want you to know that you all mean more to me than i can say. thank you for being there for me, believing in me, and liking me even when i'm unreasonable. thank you for being amazing and caring people. i keep you close to my heart and in my prayers.                  

xoxo, 

k & e 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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i got an awesome coloring book in the mail today . . . horray!

here is the creepiest commercial ever . . . augh. kay needs to fire her publicists.   
and finally . . . here's little e looking innocent with an elliphant in her mouth

a very potter musical

there was Christmas music playing in the anatomy lab, and i really really liked it in spite of myself - princess e is the destroyer of all toys plush - do you have knee problems? come visit my lair, i will diagnose you with my new knowledge - artistic renderings of muscle look just like salmon meat. good thing i already gave up fish - voldemort is flipping scary - mani pedi makes me a happy girl (chinchilla is the new popular tone, just fyi) - lily on how i met your mother gave me the awesome idea to start spelling woman "womyn" - trader joes frozen mac n cheese tastes ahhhhmazing - for all the pott-heads like me, here is an awesome way to waste some time:

what i've learned:

•  anatomy is not this simple:

 

• a cross section of the thigh looks like a steak
• harry potter marathon including never before seen clips = study weekend extraordinaire 
• yesterday's coffee reheated tastes just as good
• sometimes you can't take advantage of the most beautiful weekend ever because you have priorities

fall splendor on the east coast

hmmm

walked by a huge car fire on the way home from school - didn't mind anatomy so much today - took e on a jog but she's still hyper - big dinner party upstairs and e is crying to go up and say hi all the people augh - got thai food but forgot that i don't really like coconut curry only peanut curry so boo - does anyone want my leftover coconut curry with mushrooms? - can't believe modern family is forsaken due to the cmas - does anyone actually watch the cmas? - does anyone actually listen to country music? - the night will not be a waste because i'm going to go hole up with gray's anatomy, netter's atlas, and the electronic dissector and learn a whole lot of things if e will settle down and let me - oh and i'll do laundry. xoxo, k & e

hello again!

hello dear friends. I’m terribly sorry its been so long since we’ve talked. there has been much going on. i have finished genetics and am now well into a class called limbs – it is exactly what it sounds like: the anatomy of arms and legs. awesome. not so awesome are the dissections. obviously we talked about this last time, but the real deal is that i do not enjoy cutting into cadavers. i haven’t passed out or thrown up yet, but i also won’t eliminate that as a possibility. i’m still pretty convinced that there are other effective ways to teach anatomy to medical students, but i’ll keep you posted on that.

last friday i was super lucky to get to go to the white house to see the president off on his big asia trip. mr danny s was able to finagle it so that michelle, abby, andrew, bre and i could get clearance to accompany him to the send off on the south lawn of the wh friday morning. it was really exciting to be so close to the west wing, the rose garden, and the obamas themselves (they waved at us). i hope we didn’t embarrass daniel too much. see photos below.

the west wing

waving at us! courtesy of bre :)

press room

after hopping home from the wh, i said goodbye to my little critter e and left her in p’s capable hands for the weekend while i jetted off to boston for a mini vacay with my amazing auntie cassy and my lovely cousin jenn. i’d never been to boston so it was a pretty exciting and fun-filled weekend. on friday we had some yum dinner and turned in early so we could be well rested for a full day on saturday. saturday was a genuine blast: we strolled along newberry street, we maneuvered the freedom trail, saw the sights at faneuil hall, ate boston crème pie at the parker house, hit up h&m due to my freezing feet (i got some amazing boots that i really hope are imitation suede and not real) ran into miss virginia lea in the back of a fine fast food establishment (what a fun surprise!), got some cannoli from mike’s pastries, drank a pint at a faux irish pub (no irish music??) had a yummy dinner at regina’s pizza, and headed out in search of a genuine irish pub to grab a few more pints. unfortunately that was easier said than done. we hit up the green lantern which was not quite irish, but was playing the kstate v texas game which went quite well for our boys in purple (go state!). after the game we finally found a large bar with live irish music, horray! we met a large rowdy group of canadian military men (i know, right? i didn’t know there was a military in canada, either) who kept us quite entertained for the duration of the evening until it was time to go back to the hotel, drink some wine, relax and have girl talk. 

the original boston creme pie

liberty and union now and forever

oh hey there lea!

pastries, beer, kstate football

the gentleman with the hook em horns is crying today

this morning we had a bit of a slow start. we woke up late, and finally got out the door just after noon. miss emily fine graced us with her presence for a while, and it was so great to see her! we did a little shopping and a lot of catching up. cass and i continued to explore the newberry street area and i scored some good souvenirs. i got e a stuffed lobster which was so, so cute (current status of lobster souvenir = destroyed). obviously i didn’t really eat any seafood while in boston due to my vegetarianism, but i couldn’t pass up the cute lil lobster toy for my pup. after a bit, none other than julie duncan met up with us to say “hey”, and she joined us for some dinner! we had a fabulous dinner at a little joint called “the other side” that had an amazing vegetarian chili and vegan blt. i was in heaven. there were like 10 other items from the menu i wanted to order, but i had to settle on only two things. that was crazy and exciting since typically my herbivore diet pretty much eliminates 95% of the menu. the world needs more places like “the other side” no doubt.

 

all in all i had a fabulous time exploring and catching up with family and friends. i am glad to be home though. my little pup e is ready for sleep and i have a long day tomorrow, so it's time to sign off. thanks for reading, and i hope you had an awesome weekend.

xoxo, 

k & e