M2- WEEK TWENTY FIVE

Surprise! (if you are reading this from the blog instead of an email) We have a new blog design! It started with a want to procrastinate, a friend changing her blog banner, a new picture of T and I.. and it snowballed from there. A hour or so later just about every detail of the blog had at least changed colors. Unexpected, but fun! The picture came from a friend's iPhone during the Superbowl- thanks D! This blog is a fun project, but it can be time consuming if you let it. It's a constant battle for me to not tweek and adjust every post a thousand times. I read quite a few blogs daily, and it can be challenging to not compare my blog to theirs and let their "perfect pictures" or "flawless posts" get to me. I suppose that is life... trying to constantly improve and live up to your full potential without letting jealousy and a negative attitude creep in. But don't worry, today I am content in my perfectly-imperfect-amateur blog. It lets me connect with all of you! So what more can I ask for?!

Did you enjoy last week? I had a test Saturday over 2 weeks of psychiatry lectures. Two weeks of material (40 hours of lecture- 120ish question test I think) felt so much more manageable than our more typical three week exams. Afterwards, we met two of our fantastic friends at a new-to-us restaurant for lunch Saturday. Have you hears of Lisa's Radial Cafe? We are hooked. I had the stuffed french toast at the bottom of the picture, T had a philly, R had a breakfast sandwich and E had a smorgasbord. It was awesome. My only suggestion is that if you have a need for personal space, ask for a table not a booth. It took some semi-yoga moves to fit the two of us girls into the booth. It's all good though. R and I shared a dorm room for a couple years- we know the drill. Oh. It's also cash only.

Saturday afternoon we had the opportunity to help T's mom purchase a new mattress. So we headed to the Mart and I drooled over all the dream kitchen setups. It went like this:
(k) "T!!"
(t) "What Krista?" said with a little less enthusiasm
(k) "Dude! Guess how much this fridge is! Don't look! Just guess."
(t) "I don't know. $5,000?"
(k) "No! Its TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS! It's not even as cool as that other one!"

So we did that like twelve times- continually shocked at the difference in price between brands/models/etc. We also played the "guess-what-kind-of-appliance-this-is-game". Do you know what I am talking about? All these dream kitchens have built in ovens, fridges, etc that just look like kitchen cabinets. So one of us would pull a random cabinet and then the other would guess what was behind the magic door. Half the time we couldn't even figure it out. The kitchen would already have like three ovens, a steamer, capachino machine, beverage fridge, fridge, freezer, ice maker.. so what is that other thing?! Who knows! Anyway.. its a total blast if you like to drool over fancy things like I do.. :)

Saturday night we crashed at our friends' house, ate awesome stuffed pizza, baby-shower-cake, popsicles, chess bars (see why we are friends!) and watched a movie/yapped until T was dozing off. Have I told you lately that I love our friends?? They are the best.

Oh! And early this week another awesome friend had a cute mustache-themed baby shower. So much fun this week!

Large picture borrowed from here

I am teaching the women today at church so it's time to publish this post and review my lesson. Have a fantastic week!

October is here!

We are loving this fall weather! I am pretty sure we've had the windows of the house opened up for weeks now!

(random picture from the internet)

In school, we have moved on to the torso in anatomy. This high points of this week were looking at the lungs and heart. I really enjoy cardiology. I am not ruling it out, but I don't think it is something I could balance with being an involved mom.

We also have demos in lab from time to time. This week, an ER doctor showed us how you intubate a patient (inserting a tube typically through the mouth, or occasionally directly into the throat). He talked us through the procedures on a cadaver and then we got to try. It was neat to try (mostly because it was nice to get your first try out of the way on someone you can't harm), but it was also neat because he brought the high-tech equipment with cameras so you had a clear view of what you were doing.

This picture is an example of what you see before you insert the tube. (The patient would be lying down, you standing at the head of the bed. So the top of the picture would be by their chin) You are looking at a "windpipe" aka trachea- the tube you use to breath. At the very bottom of the picture (sort of wide and U shaped) is the epiglottis- it flaps down over the trachea when you swallow so whatever you are swallowing goes to your stomach, not your lungs. When someone takes a drink and chokes because it "went down the wrong tube", this is where it went. The smaller V you see in the picture are your vocal cords. Once you get this picture in view, you slide the tube in between the vocal cords. Ta da. You just saved a life!

Outside of school, we battled with car problems this past week. The abbreviated version is that Travis patched his car and we didn't have to buy a new one this week like we were expecting. Yay! My car problems were less severe, I was just in serious need of new tires. It was a little bit of an adventure because I thought the first place I went was trying to take advantage of me because the price was double what I expected. But, it turns out the second place quoted me even higher! My car just has "taller and skinnier" tires that only a few types of cars still use. Oh well, the tires are replaced and my car is safer because of it.

A chunk of this weekend was consumed with General Conference. Simply put, twice a year the top-dogs of our church hold a conference full of speakers and it is broadcasted around the world for anyone to watch. 

An example of one of the speakers.

Its pretty wild. I read this year it was broadcasted in 102 different countries and simultaneously interpreted into 92 languages! It is always an amazing program filled with beautiful music by the choir and spectacular talks. 

The choir from conference a different year

A view of the conference center: the choir is at the right under the organ pipes and the mass of people on the left are the 21,000 members that are in attendance.

Its one of those things where you can't help but walk away feeling uplifted and inspired. 

The top-dogs of the church: Henry B. Eyring, Thomas S. Monson, and Dieter F. Uchtdorf 

Also, just to keep you updated, we are starting another week strong with a fridge full of lunches! Have a great week!

PS- I looked at this blog from your view this week- YUCK. I plan to change some of the fonts/sizes/colors in the near future. Sorry 'bout that folks!