You may be.....

You may be a GRANOLA if....


.....you are considering buying this backpack, even though you dont have kids.....

ISNT IT CUTE?!?!? I was thinking, i have nieces and nephews right......they dont actually live near me, but i could take up babysitting. Dont worry, i have packs for my future dog too, so when we go backpacking, he can carry his own food! ( i dont own a dog yet, but soon)

Expose for today

I decided to try and and do a little expose about myself (or those around me) once or twice a week which hopefully are embarassing/revealing/and/or humouress...just because it is good to get things out in the open.....



I pride myself on good movie tastes...my favorites are things like Coen brothers films, royal tenenbaums, life is beautiful, last king of scotland, once, juno.....mainly indie films that are very dark, passionate, thought provoking, and well contrived...



this weekend while my boyfriend was away i rented high school musical two...and watched it TWICE!!!! i couldnt get enough, so i went and rented one the next day!!!! It was pretty embarrassing in the line at blockbuster with HS1 one day after i had rented HS2..... i dont care if i am way too old for him, but zac efron is such a dream boat i could DIE!!! (oh and HS2- WAY better than HS1). SUch a guilty pleasurel, but DAMN those tunes are catchy!

SUMMER CAMP!

As many of my close friends will attest to, each year I would run away to a magical land called Diabetic camp.....I know it sounds cheesy, campy even (sorry i couldnt resist) but camp is the GREATEST place on earth. I used to cry for DAYS when i would come home from camp as a kid. Its not just that you are away from your parents, but you are with people who totally get the whole diabetes things, plus it is FUN!

At 18 they kick you out as a camper, but fortunately for me and all other perpetual kids, you can always volunteer. The past few years I have been lucky enough to be program director...specifically in charge of FUN.....

I cant help when the snow starts melting to start thinking about camp fires, skits, and pranks...I needed to dedicate a blog to it, cuz all i can think about is karoake night, the annual camp-wide waterfight, and late nights playing poker with the camp docs.

****WARNING**** some of these pics are SCARY! At camp, make-up and sometimes showering kind of fall by the wayside....so be prepared, things may get ugly and may be inappropriate for children.

talia(my co-director) and My annual grape stuffing contest....i always lose....but i have been practicing so this is my year

karaoke night!

teaching Diabetics good skills (that is right, early morning yoga)

WATERFIGHT DAY!!!!! my absolute favorite especially the giant slip and slide

the camp sleeze (a dirty, messy relay race of sorts) yes, that is my real hair...took a couple of hours to get that back to normal

AHH camp songs

talia and i leading a song or two

The kids (cute little brats)...the reason we give upa week of work and any sort of sleep.....but we sure have fun doing it

And of course I have to give a schpeel about volunteering...if you have any talents (yoga, cheerleading, dancing, mt biking, ANYTHING) you feel you could contribute and would like to come to camp for a day....or the whole week visit this site and fill out an application:
http://fcyd_inc.org

Adult job

So i now have an official adult job and it scares me!!  since this job is really just a job to fill the space between undergrad and med school it scares me even more....because i am supposed to make "contacts".  I honestly have to wear fancy clothes and call up docs from UCdavis and schmooz....but the good thing is....they pay for trips!!!!  February they flew me out to a conference in New Orleans....i stayed on bourbon st and canal....right in the thick of it....and tomorrow i am flying to san francisco for another conference .  As it turns out, docs dont like to stay in motel eight, so we are hitting up the Hiatt at peir 49.......Dont be haters y'all (ok i am WAY to white to pull that line off). 

I guess uncomfortable pants and pointy shoes are a small price to pay for an all expense trip to one of my favorite cities, right on the pier.

Funny names

So at my new job (I work as a research director at Primary CHildren's Medical Center) I get to look at A LOT of kids charts. One thing I have really enjoyed are the odd/hilarious/sad/ peculiar names people name their kids. I feel for these kids I really do....sometimes parents are just asking for their kids to hate them later:

My favorite for the day is


MAXIMUM

NO JOKE! can you IMAGINE the jokes, innuendos, and all sorts of stuff kids will come up with......if i were this kid, i would refuse to ever go to math class

teacher "maximum, what is maximum allowance of volume of h20 in the jar?" \

He better be a poly sci major

ABC tag

Here we go...
A- Attached or single: Depends on who's asking! attached...
B- Best Friend(s): Mike and Nicholas-right now I am lacking on female friends in SLC (dont worry lyndsi-you are always number one)
C-Cake or Pie: ALLERGIC TO BOTH-damn gluten!
D- Day of Choice: Saturday!
E- Essential Item: insulin pump, timbuk2bag
F- Favorite Color: love them all at different times...right now i am into burnt orange
G- Gummi Bears or Worms: BEARS!!  something about the worms freak me out....maybe cuz i used to experiment on worms
H- Hometown: St. George, UT
I -Indulgence(s):too many to list....soydream, chips and salsa, organic PB, long runs, outdoor equipment (mainly coats....i have about ten different parkas), books, good CDS (way into peter paul and bjorn right now)
J- January or July: Oh man, they are both good.  they are also both right toward the end of the season which makes you kind of sick of that season at the time....but i love them both
K-Kids: does my boyfriend count?  i have plants...thats kind of close
L-Life is incomplete without: diet coke, mike, and the outdoors
M- Marriage Date: April 24th, 2009!  hahahah- JUST KIDDING!  that would be news to the Mister
N- Number of Siblings: 6, good gravy my mom was a champ!  had us all natural too!
O- Oranges or Apples: not into fruit as much as veggies....but id say clementines, but if they are big oranges, then apples.....im a weirdo
P- Phobias or Fears: Crickets!!!!  no joke-i find spiders fascinating, but i am scared to death of crickets....and being tickled to death...also not a joke, there is NOTHING funny about being tickled
Q- Quote(s): geez i dont know, there really isnt one i live by.....so ill go with an old favorite "its better to be a slug than a dead slug, right coach?"
R- Reason To Smile: It is getting warmer outside! i get to go skate skiing tomorrow, and next weekend i am in san horhey mt biking, then i go to SAN FRAN with work  :)  YAY!!
S- Season: spring and fall, the others are good too, but it is best running in spring in fall
T- Tag Six: whoever 
U- Unknown Fact About Me: I once got a pine needle stuck in my ear, i also once got my headdress stuck in the scenery during the korean ballet, hmm.....i have never been stung by a bee, i have three chronic disorders (with 7 kids it is inevitable that one would be defective), i once almost died when the hospital misdiagnosed appendicitis and sent me home on morphine....then they tried to kill me when i came back...long story really, and pretty gross at that (that is a lot more than one....so just pick your favorite)
V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: i was a vegetarian for six years!  but try to be a vegetarian and celiac...you are asking for cornmeal the rest of your life
W- Worst Habit: Picking my face (stupid zits).
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: hmm....they are both fine, what a dumb question though huh? WHO CARES?  i guess x is difficult...
Y- Your Favorite Food: chips and salsa....the hotter the better...with big chunks of veggies in them....and lots of garlic and cilantro
Z-Zodiac: Sagittarius....and i live up to it too!

Book Tag!

Grab the book nearest you. 
Go to page 123. 
Go to the 5th sentence on the page.
Type in the following 3 sentences.

The performance of the heart is measured in terms of cardiac output-or the rate at which the heart pumps blood into the arterial system.  Defined as heart rate times stroke volume from on ventricle, it averages 100 to 200 milliliters of blood per kilogram of mass per minute in birds.  A large proportion of the oxygenated cardiac output from the left ventricle goes directly to the legs for the purpose of heat loss.

from Ornithology:  second edition.  I wouldn't necessarily recommend this one to anyone....unless you love birds and science and are a big nerd (sadly i really enjoyed this text book and took this class for fun).  I tag Lyndsi and Crystal.