So I have decided that each week I will try a new recipe. Some of the girls at school were talking about trying new recipes and so on. I figured that it would be easy to pick one a week and then it would last for 3 or 4 meals and that would be perfect!
This week I'm trying Black Bean Croquettes! I hope they turn out.
Cooking is also a good way for me to get through studying. It is a great break and extremely productive!! So, if anyone has any good, easy, cheap, and healthy recipes that I could try, let me know!!
On a different note, Monday is our first big anatomy exam. YIKES!! I feel like I have done nothing but study for this test all week. I guess I'm just going to have to figure out the balance thing! With 6 classes, it can be difficult! I think I am prepared, but who knows. My goal is to study to be a good PT not necessarily just to pass a test.
Once I get through Monday, the rest of the week should be great! My mom is coming on Tuesday and then I am headed to Hallettsville on Friday after classes!
Well, I guess this week will be a true test of my ability to balance everything in my life! Wish me luck!
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Hook 'Em
So I decided on Thursday that this weekend would be one of the last times that I would really have a chance to get away for a while since tests and all that fun stuff will begin shortly. EEEKKK!!
Friday I got out of classes around one, and I drove straight to Austin. My intention was to post up at a coffee shop in town and study for several hours until all my friends got off of work and it was dinner time. Did not happen. I don't know if it was just laziness or just lack of motivation or both, but i decided to head up to Crenshaw's and hang out. I got to see all my old co-workers and the kiddos I used to teach. It was a blast. Of course then I was "dragged" to the mall my friend Jenna. Ok, so I went willingly.
It was quite exciting because I discovered I had a gift card in my purse from Dillard's and it still had close to $20 left on it!!!! It was like Christmas in September! After shopping we met up with some of our other friends for dinner at Santa Rita and enjoyed the eveing. I then met up with Casey and we hung out for a little while!
Saturday was my cousin's son's birthday, so they had a big celebration at the tailgate! Jackson turned 2 and his mom baked and decorated from scratch two longhorn shaped cakes. Super cute stuff! It was quite the long day. I spent 9.5 hours tailgating and watching the UT game on Saturday. It was amazing! I got to see family and friends and relax and not think about school and how hard the next few years are going to be.
Sunday it had to come to an end and I headed back to Houston and did all the "fun" stuff to get ready for the week! Grocery shopping and studying! I hope this week goes well. Next week tests begin. I'll have to work on getting some good pictures and fun clips up on this webpage.
Friday I got out of classes around one, and I drove straight to Austin. My intention was to post up at a coffee shop in town and study for several hours until all my friends got off of work and it was dinner time. Did not happen. I don't know if it was just laziness or just lack of motivation or both, but i decided to head up to Crenshaw's and hang out. I got to see all my old co-workers and the kiddos I used to teach. It was a blast. Of course then I was "dragged" to the mall my friend Jenna. Ok, so I went willingly.
It was quite exciting because I discovered I had a gift card in my purse from Dillard's and it still had close to $20 left on it!!!! It was like Christmas in September! After shopping we met up with some of our other friends for dinner at Santa Rita and enjoyed the eveing. I then met up with Casey and we hung out for a little while!
Saturday was my cousin's son's birthday, so they had a big celebration at the tailgate! Jackson turned 2 and his mom baked and decorated from scratch two longhorn shaped cakes. Super cute stuff! It was quite the long day. I spent 9.5 hours tailgating and watching the UT game on Saturday. It was amazing! I got to see family and friends and relax and not think about school and how hard the next few years are going to be.
Sunday it had to come to an end and I headed back to Houston and did all the "fun" stuff to get ready for the week! Grocery shopping and studying! I hope this week goes well. Next week tests begin. I'll have to work on getting some good pictures and fun clips up on this webpage.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Yay I have internet!
I finally have internet at home! Only three weeks in the making! AT & T took 2.5 weeks and still never had it working. Comcast, 3 days and I'm up and running.
School is going well. This week was a lot of info, as usual. I guess I should get used to feeling overwhelmed most of the time! It will get better, but I feel like the next three years are going to be studying, class, studying, class, eat, studying, class, etc. All of the information is so interesting and I just with that I could absorb everything that is said in class.
We learned about sterile procedures and how to create a sterile environment. We practice putting on a sterile mask, gown, gloves and creating a sterile field. Those gowns were hot and I had a tank top and shorts on! I applaud the surgeons and anyone in the medical field who has to wear those things for long periods of time.
I also learned about bandaging of the upper extremities. That was cool. I guess I had never realized that there were different techniques! Now I get to practice, who wants to be a guinea pig???
Well, this weekend will be relaxing and studying mostly. Casey is coming to town so that should be super fun! He said he is going to cook for me tomorrow! I'll let you know how that goes, hopefully my apartment will still be intact post dinner :) (just kidding, he's a good cook).
I hope everyone else has a wonderful weekend! More to come later I'm sure. Maybe I'll figure out the picture thing soon!
School is going well. This week was a lot of info, as usual. I guess I should get used to feeling overwhelmed most of the time! It will get better, but I feel like the next three years are going to be studying, class, studying, class, eat, studying, class, etc. All of the information is so interesting and I just with that I could absorb everything that is said in class.
We learned about sterile procedures and how to create a sterile environment. We practice putting on a sterile mask, gown, gloves and creating a sterile field. Those gowns were hot and I had a tank top and shorts on! I applaud the surgeons and anyone in the medical field who has to wear those things for long periods of time.
I also learned about bandaging of the upper extremities. That was cool. I guess I had never realized that there were different techniques! Now I get to practice, who wants to be a guinea pig???
Well, this weekend will be relaxing and studying mostly. Casey is coming to town so that should be super fun! He said he is going to cook for me tomorrow! I'll let you know how that goes, hopefully my apartment will still be intact post dinner :) (just kidding, he's a good cook).
I hope everyone else has a wonderful weekend! More to come later I'm sure. Maybe I'll figure out the picture thing soon!
Friday, September 4, 2009
Week One
I have survived week one of Texas Woman's University's DPT program! It has been a long, stressful, overwhelming week. It has also been extremely exciting and informative and I can't wait to keep going. (I know, seems odd.)
Well, there are 50 DPT (Doctor of Physical Therapy) students in the Class of 2012. We have many of our classes together. I believe that it will take us a while to get everyone's name down, but we seem to be making progress.
Our week started with Exercise Testing and Prescription and a pre-test. Our first class we had a test! Talk about intimidating. I hope it was not for an official grade because I don't remember half of that stuff that was on it. :( I am hoping that we will have it all down soon.
Then we had our intro to PT Practice and lunch. And after lunch...... GROSS ANATOMY!!!!
Seems odd that it is called gross anatomy! hehe! As a graduate student we do cadaver dissections, yes that is right! We had to get our tanks ready and prepared for dissections on Monday. No easing into anatomy, we jumped right in!
It was not as bad as I initially thought, but that is ok. Wednesday we actually began dissection. It was kind of interesting to see all the muscles and tendons and how each person differs so greatly.
Tuesday began with drug testing, yay we had to pee in a cup, but part of the program, and we only had one class after that which was amazing! Of course I spent the afternoon getting books, bleh and studying!!! I still feel like I have so much to learn and that I have to keep up with.
More classes and studying the rest of the week! By Friday, we were all ready to crash out and just be done. It has been an intense week of studying and learning and so on...
On top of the stress of starting a graduate school program that is so intense, my home internet has not been hooked up yet! AT & T told me that they would have it done the 26th of August! Apparently they had "no access to the apartment." So... I had to reschedule for Setp 1st. Ok, no big deal I'm thinking. We have wireless on campus and a killer computer lab, I'll be okay for a day or so. Monday morning, no internet in the entire building at school! The entire day Monday, no internet on campus. Talk about a bummer.
I got home Tues thinking that my internet would be working, but... no such luck. Apparently AT&T had put the order as complete but no one had come out to actually hook up my internet. So... Wed at lunch i spent 45 minutes on the phone with them, being passed around to three of four departments and finally got them to put a rush order on my internet. Yay!!! Thurs I had a call from a tech, did not say if he had hooked everything up. So... today (Fri) I spent another hour and a half being passed around trying to figure out if they had indeed come out to set everything up. I found out that yes, they did set it up, but my particular area of Houston has a network outage which they do not have a time frame for when it will be up and running!!! AAAAAAHHHHH!! So apparently everything is hooked up, but until the network comes back online, I won't have home internet. So I packed up and went to my parents a day early! I am spending time regrouping, relaxing and working a little this long weekend! I hope by Monday all will be working and life will be in order.
I am hoping to keep this updated regularly. I promise that not all entries will be as long an boring. I am new to this blogging stuff, so I'll have to figure out the picutres and all that fun stuff. Have a great weekend all!!
Well, there are 50 DPT (Doctor of Physical Therapy) students in the Class of 2012. We have many of our classes together. I believe that it will take us a while to get everyone's name down, but we seem to be making progress.
Our week started with Exercise Testing and Prescription and a pre-test. Our first class we had a test! Talk about intimidating. I hope it was not for an official grade because I don't remember half of that stuff that was on it. :( I am hoping that we will have it all down soon.
Then we had our intro to PT Practice and lunch. And after lunch...... GROSS ANATOMY!!!!
Seems odd that it is called gross anatomy! hehe! As a graduate student we do cadaver dissections, yes that is right! We had to get our tanks ready and prepared for dissections on Monday. No easing into anatomy, we jumped right in!
It was not as bad as I initially thought, but that is ok. Wednesday we actually began dissection. It was kind of interesting to see all the muscles and tendons and how each person differs so greatly.
Tuesday began with drug testing, yay we had to pee in a cup, but part of the program, and we only had one class after that which was amazing! Of course I spent the afternoon getting books, bleh and studying!!! I still feel like I have so much to learn and that I have to keep up with.
More classes and studying the rest of the week! By Friday, we were all ready to crash out and just be done. It has been an intense week of studying and learning and so on...
On top of the stress of starting a graduate school program that is so intense, my home internet has not been hooked up yet! AT & T told me that they would have it done the 26th of August! Apparently they had "no access to the apartment." So... I had to reschedule for Setp 1st. Ok, no big deal I'm thinking. We have wireless on campus and a killer computer lab, I'll be okay for a day or so. Monday morning, no internet in the entire building at school! The entire day Monday, no internet on campus. Talk about a bummer.
I got home Tues thinking that my internet would be working, but... no such luck. Apparently AT&T had put the order as complete but no one had come out to actually hook up my internet. So... Wed at lunch i spent 45 minutes on the phone with them, being passed around to three of four departments and finally got them to put a rush order on my internet. Yay!!! Thurs I had a call from a tech, did not say if he had hooked everything up. So... today (Fri) I spent another hour and a half being passed around trying to figure out if they had indeed come out to set everything up. I found out that yes, they did set it up, but my particular area of Houston has a network outage which they do not have a time frame for when it will be up and running!!! AAAAAAHHHHH!! So apparently everything is hooked up, but until the network comes back online, I won't have home internet. So I packed up and went to my parents a day early! I am spending time regrouping, relaxing and working a little this long weekend! I hope by Monday all will be working and life will be in order.
I am hoping to keep this updated regularly. I promise that not all entries will be as long an boring. I am new to this blogging stuff, so I'll have to figure out the picutres and all that fun stuff. Have a great weekend all!!
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