As promised...

No Shave November!

All the guys in Daniel's office held a competition called "No Shave November," where each guy grows out his beard during the month, and then they have a competition the last week to judge whose looks the best.  The first day they judge beards, 2nd day handlebar mustaches, 3rd day regular mustaches, and the 4th day is baby face day.  Daniel placed two different days and came in 2nd overall.  I was so embarrassed when we went out to eat and he had the mustache in the third picture.  I was so afraid we were going to see someone we knew.  We looked like hicks!  

But I hope all of you enjoy a little laugh as I did when I looked at these pictures again!

first away game

So, Daniel and I went to Tuscaloosa this weekend with friends from church for our second annual MSU-AL game road trip/weekend extraordinaire. This was my first MSU away game to ever attend. I have to say that the Alabama fans in all of the stores we went in were very polite; I didn't even get heckled one time! Not even a comment on the large MISSISSIPPI STATE on my sweatshirt. Nothing. Actually, sitting here thinking about it, I am almost disappointed. I was kinda ready for the heckling. I'm sure I would have had a good comeback. I guess I kinda enjoy a little friendly competitive confrontation every now and then.

Anyway, we had a really good weekend, and I am so proud of our friends for being so brave and leaving their little one at home. I am impressed and think that it's awesome that they got to take some time for themselves and enjoy a little weekend away. I'm sure it takes a lot of trust in God and trust in the caregiver that your little one will be alright. I hope I am able to do the same one day (hopefully years from now) when Daniel and I have a little whippersnapper (or more than likely a gigantic whippersnapper).

Why am I blogging right now? Because I am completely over studying for this interview tomorrow. I am over it! I have pretty much resigned myself that I know all that I can possibly know, and no matter what they still know way more and could easily trip me up with a question.

I'm sure I'll be majorly freaking out tomorrow morning...

5 things...

5 things I was doing 10 years ago
okay so ten years ago I was 15 years old.
1. attending Manchester Academy in the ninth grade; huge crush on Joe Gilder that I was under the illusion that I hid with the skill of Houdini. I believe this was also the year that I took a bite of brownie and got a mouthful of hair with it. This led to me running to the back of the cafeteria in shame Napoleon Dynamite style.
2. learning how to drive in driver's ed. I hated it. I preferred to read on the way to school while Mom drove. I am officially the biggest dork ever.
3. making a 25 on my ACT. boo ya
4. still sporting bangs and probably walking shorts. jealous?
5. in my third year as Holly Bluff Baptist Church pianist extraordinaire.

5 things on my to-do list
1. buy milk
2. get a manicure
3. study for test
4. study for interview
5. clean my house

5 things I would do if I were a millionaire
1. pay off all debt
2. hire a financial planner
3. buy a new car
4. buy Daniel a new car
5. probably still go to anesthesia school

5 places I have lived
1. Holly Bluff, MS
2. Starkville, MS in Rice Hall
3. Starkville, MS in Tri Delta house
4. Starkville, MS in Helen Spruill Apts.
5. Spring Hill, TN

5 jobs I have had
1. radio station assistant(?) - Don't even know my title. I answered the phone and downloaded music and recorded commercials. pretty random
2. camp garaywa - camp counselor! awesome awesome awesome
3. campus bookstore - sold expensive textbooks to poor college students
4. apartment complex - rented crappy apartments to not-so-picky college students
5. nurse aide and now nurse - see random people naked within thirty minutes of meeing them on some days. Some days quicker than that.

euphemisms

Here are some of my favorite recent slang phrases or odd pronunciations of words heard from patients:
plastic urinal - "bent neck bottle"
area at top, inside of leg - "growing area"
a sensation that you wanting to scratch - "eeching"
me scanning their wristband before giving them medicine - "price check"

and my recent favorite:
having a bowel movement - "doing the manly thing"

:)

everyday is hilarious

I think if I ever decide to write a book, it would be entitled Everyday is Hilarious. Why? Because everyday, no matter where I am, I see or experience something that just makes me want to crack up. For example, today I went to vote early down in Columbia. I am standing in line with a bunch of people who were all at least 20 years older than me. Everyone seemed to be very tense and looking around, seemingly thinking "Wonder who they're voting for? They better not be voting for ***!!!!" So I was rather amused at all the glares I was getting, and then I came around the corner. I saw three old ladies (whom a friend would term "blue hairs") working the line. They had the system down to an art.

I thought back to old days when Mom and Dad would go vote at the old Holly Bluff fire station, which was also run by "blue hairs" (one of which was Memaw). When I was really little I thought this was Memaw's full time job.

And now, I cannot fully put into words why I thought all of this was hilarious, but I guess you just had to be there...

blog debut

Ok, so I have been inspired by reading other friends' beautiful (and sometimes hilarious) blogs to try to start one for Daniel and me.



Some of you may not know mine and Daniel's "story", so I figured that would be a good first blog. We met the day after I moved into the dorm at MSU at a freshman gathering on campus that involved free pizza. Then, when I showed up to my huge intro chemistry class a few days later, he was the only familiar face. We sat next to each other, and the magic began! I eventually asked him to my first sorority party, and we continued dating for a year before he proposed. We laugh about this because, when thinking back, we realized that the day Daniel proposed, he was unemployed! I wonder if my parents were mortified that I was getting engaged to an unemployed, 19 year old college student. They hid their fear well though! (What could they say - they got married at age 19?) So, at the ripe old age of 20, Daniel and I got married in Holly Bluff, MS, and honeymooned in exotic Gulf Shores, Alabama. We finished up our degrees at MSU, moved to Nashville for Daniel's job, I went to nursing school, and here we are!