Thankful Thursday dos

Well here is another dose of happiness from my week.

• Only having one class on tuesday and thursday
• Getting my weekend homework done friday afternoon
• Getting to pick the hymns I wanna play for sacrament
• When people say my scars look good
• When I empty my weekly pill case no matter how nasty my calcium supplements are... success!
• Getting 100% on my chem homework
• Having guests at work tell me they missed me
• Getting something in the mail that said I was registered to vote
• Hearing that friends are moving to provo for the summer--LOVE
• Being home taught and completing my visiting teaching
• Realizing the semester is over half way done
• Knowing the next time I will be home
• Saving someone a lot of money on their prescription 

Memory Monday

Well sorry it is almost not monday anymore.... My day has been the busiest thing that has ever happened to me. I was stressed from 7am-10:15pm. STRAIGHT. No breaks in between... My feet aka my knee is crying right now. Anyways enough complaining, I survived and that is all that matters.

So what is my memory today?  I've been trying to think of something really funny... and lucky for you I think I found it.

So my junior year Halloween dance picture has been a sensitive subject for the past few years. Every time my eyes are laid on such a sight I laugh for probably 10 minutes straight. I don't know who could honestly have worse luck with a picture. I don't know how this could happen or why I was making this face.... it really worries me. But what I do know is when Jade and I went to go pick up our pictures down in Rawls' classroom, we went out in the hall to look at them and we honestly were rolling on the floor laughing so hard we could not talk to each other nor breathe for probably 20 minutes... and everyone just kept walking by and looking at us. Talk about embarrassing!! And to think I had to give these to my date for his family and friends to see.....awkward. Poor Paul. I can't wait for my kids to see this one! Enjoy....

Thankful Thursday

Hi. my blog needs some help. I need some motivation to blog more (for my own benefit, not yours). So I'm doing some new things. First, Thankful Thursday. I started doing this thing where I keep a running list throughout the week of things that have made me happy, smile, laugh, etc. So I'm going to share some things on my list each week. Also I'm thinking about Memory Mondays... Where I will share some random memory of my life (once again for my sake, not yours) and we will see how far this gets me. I know myself and this might only last a week or two but it is worth a try right? So guess what day it is????? You guessed it!! So here is my list of Thankful Thursday for the week:

• When I jumped on the couch in the dark and busted out 'I Will Always Love You' By Whitney Houston and some other oldies
• The fact that I cleaned my room last friday and it is still clean!
• Getting a good score on my Biomechanics and Kinesiology test
• my new car air freshener
• Getting a text from a friend saying: I didn't recognize you because you were walking so capably
• Getting a handicapped parking spot at the testing center since there are only 3!
• Having my 2 hour physiology lab canceled this week
• Cold Britta water
• watching my first season of Psych
• When I did my first straight leg raise at Physical Therapy and all of my aides and therapists cheered and were super excited
• Putting Itunes on shuffle and having 5 songs in a row that reminded me of last summer with my Brinz
• Showing Sharon my awfully embarrassing Junior year Halloween dance picture
• When Alan, Carson and I made our chairs squeak really annoyingly and the whole class was staring at us.
• Feeling missed at work
• Having a long conversation over text with someone in Spanish while using online translators and he thought I knew how to speak.. haha
• When Chris Collinsworth from the BYU basketball team got engaged and I got a text from someone who knows my love for him that said: it's okay it was for the better, your kids' legs would've never had a chance.. ha ha
• Realizing someone took the garbage out... FINALLY! cut the cripple some slack already!
• Knowing I've got at least one friend that honestly cares about me and my life--Thank you Luke!

Well that's all for today... Have a good weekend! Love you alllll

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Hi. My name is Melanie and sometimes I forget I have a blog.

So here I am. Since I last graced you with the presence of my words I told you about my "robbed" wallet. Well good news it wasn't stolen. It was just hiding. In the sleeve of my coat of all places. I don't know how it stayed in there without falling out but it took a tender mercy from the Lord to find it. Who uses their coat if it's not cold? I was going to get my license renewed the next day and waste another 20 dollars and go through all that hassle. But low and behold it snowed and I didn't want my hair to look like a mop at church so I went to get my coat with a hood... A coat my mom wouldn't have approved to be worn at church ha ha but I needed a hood! I pulled my coat off the hook and it was super heavy. I put my arm in the sleeve and started screaming and jumping up and down. Haha it was such a happy moment!

Anyways, life is good. I've been home a lot the past two weeks and it has been great! Now I'm back to work and at the disposal of others. It sure was great to have my own life for the past two months. But it is also great to be back at work with good friends and doing something productive.

Other than that I'm just trying to survive this semester one day at a time. I can't wait for this one to be over so I can start on the less-than-a-year countdown. And then I can be done done done with school if I want to be ha ha

well i don't got much to blog about so i'll chat with ya later

Robbed.

Must be my new middle name....

My wallet was stolen. seriously people just leave me alone!! I just barely got my license renewed and now I have to do it all again! And I am still waiting for my new debit card to show up.... really inconvenient.

Oh well. Life goes on.

Midterms are fully underway. Unfortunately. Sheesh. 3 tests this week. I've already been on campus past 8:30 two nights this week and I still have two more tests to take. Gag. me. Especially nasty molecular biology. I honestly don't care about the billion different types of DNA and how they replicate and all that garbage. Teach me something about some drugs and I will show some interest.

I'm getting ready to take the PCAT soon. Well probably more like this fall, but that is still soon!! I looked at a test prep course and it is freakin $650.... I guess I know where my tax return money is going! Even looking at applications they all are like $100 to just submit. dumb. dumb. dumb. I guess I better start saving up cause that is coming sooner than I think.

I took my brace off today :) and I'm not putting it back on. EVER. I will actually be holding a special event to burn it. That's how I feel about it. Also I started getting some contractions in my quad. Best news ever. I estimate I will be able to lift my leg in one week. Hopefully sooner.

Well that's an update on my life. I'm super excited for The Vow to come out!! I love me some Channing Tatum. Maybe I'll go on a date by myself to see it on V-day. hahahaha I'm such a loser.

Churchy.

I'm feeling a little bit churchy at the moment. I don't usually get very churchy on my blog but today I will. Why you ask? Because I just realized that 13 years ago today I was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Probably one of the most important decisions I have made in my life so far. Looking back I don't ever really remember it being a "decision", it was more of a this-is-what-i-do-when-i-turn-eight kind of a thing... I know that as an 8 year old I didn't realize how important what I was doing really was. But wow, I am sure grateful I did it.

In my mission prep class last semester we learned how to know if we are passing the test of mortality. There was a list of 5 things that you must do to pass the test and qualify for the Celestial Kingdom.
1-Baptism
2-Confirmation (Holy Ghost)
3-Priesthood (Melchezdik)
4-Endowment
5-Marriage (Eternal)
It sure is nice to know I am more than half way (since obviously I can't hold the priesthood) done with my test. And it all started with the simple step of being baptized. I'm so grateful that I was raised in the church and have been blessed with the greatest thing in my life: the gospel of Jesus Christ.