Temporary Shower

This past weekend was great. I slept over at the D's house. I think I love him. Everything is just so easy and I miss him like I have never missed anyone before. I am trying hard not to smother him but I literally want to hang out all the time which really scares me because I consider myself an independent person. I relish in having my own career and choosing a path that few women would consider but deep down, I think I am like anyone else who feel the need/hope of love and steadiness. We went hiking with some friend Saturday up Timpanogos which is the 2nd highest peak in Utah. Going from the Aspen Groove trailhead, it is about 11 miles long so quite a long hike. Below are pictures in chronological order. We also had game night sat with D's family and on Sunday, we just loafed around watching movies and things. It was great. Trail Head Second Waterfall 1/3 up Walking through meadows Almost to Emerald Lake Emerald Lake Timpanogos Saddl

I am currently busy...all of a sudden I can't find much time btwn work, gym, and the new bf. Things are going great though. I realized that I like staying busy. Time seems to go faster and I feel like I have purpose. For instance, today I accomplished one big experiment (involving the dissection of 50 eyes), went to xtend barre in between incubation periods, and managed to get some shopping done at costco + target. I went to target because Lilly took my bag....does anyone else have that problem with younger siblings? She took my swimsuit last time, my shoes before that, and she is constantly raiding my stuff when she is home. Anyways, she needed a new backpack this time and I had just gotten a new bag from second track sports. She was eyeing it for it's computer compartment and my parents offered to buy her one so they went shopping for an entire morning. Alas, she couldn't find a bag like mine so I had to give her mine. I was disappointed at first until I saw it as an o

So I have been busy...with work politics, a family vacation, a new boyfriend, and more work stress. I just got back last night from a trip to Seattle with the family. It was a lot of fun but I am sad to be back. We went to Mt. Rainer and Olympic National Park...then I cut it short and flew home by myself. The thing is, I had a big CNV experiment today and lab meeting tomorrow followed by wedding rehearsals and the wedding on Saturday. A labmate is getting married and I get to be a bridesmaid. She is having a pretty non-traditional wedding but it still should be lots of fun. I will try to post pics. I think I am both stressed and jet-lagged. I flew home pretty late last night and I have a lot of work-related stuff I have to do and many of them are small things like filling out insurance forms etc....I hate small things. They pile up and make me stressed. On the bright side, I like to make lists and cross things off so lots of small tasks = lots of things to cross. I guess I am ra

As I mentioned in my last post, I was gone this past weekend at the annual MD/PhD conference in Keystone, Colorado. Amongst the things I learned: the conference is really a mini-vacation and my school rocks! Needless to say, I had a GREAT time. We got some alcoholic beverages on the way down and had enough food/alcohol to feed an army. The resort we stayed at had a full kitchen, hot tubs (yes...pural), swimming pools, and double shower heads. I was in heaven. The only hiccup was that I twisted my ankle the day before we had to leave (on a hike to sunset peak with my parents) so I was limping the entire conference. It's ok....I didn't really want to exercise during my mini-vacation anyways. As for the conferance itself....not much to report. People were doing so many different kinds of research that it wasn't very helpful for me. The highlight was going to the breakout sessions where I learned tricks to writing a good grant and tricks to carrying out a good presentation