Hello, my few and faithful readers...
Well, this week I've been getting certified for my phlebotomy classes. Which means I have to get my friends to come in to the place I've been taking classes and let me practice on them :D I have to get 15 sticks in, and I'm going to be officially certified by Thursday! Yay!!
Yesterday, Andy and his friend Will came along with Lauren and our friend Matt. It was a lot of fun, and Lauren took a bunch of pictures! But here are a couple that we took with Will's phone, just so you can see me in action ;)
The above picture is before I got the tube in, just in case you're wondering where the blood is...
Everyone said it's been painless, and Lauren was glad that I didn't move the needle around in her arm even when I had to look around for my cotton ball. I think I'm pretty darn good! I'm really excited to start working in phlebotomy. I never thought I'd ever enjoy needles and blood and stuff.
Not this past weekend, but the weekend before that, Nate and I had dinner at his new apartment, and we had WINGER'S STICKY FINGERS!!!! They are seriously to die for! I looooooooove them! We got a big tub of them, too!
Earlier that day, we biked around campus, which is a lot of fun. We ran into some guys who were biking up and off these big rocks on campus...there are a lot of places around to do jumps off and stuff. The Utah campus is seriously awesome. I love it! This is me in mid-laugh:
Then, Jesse and I went skiing at Brighton, which was a lot of fun!
He snowboards, and it was almost weird being at a resort that allows snowboarders. I'll say, I kind of like Alta because it's skiers-only, which has two huge advantages:
1. Everyone on the hills are a lot more in control, and you don't have to worry about a boarder mowing you over, since they like to go 100 mph down the hills
2. On snowy powder days, the powder stays intact a lot longer, and the snow in general is better, because boards just pack the snow down too much.
Alta doesn't have any Park terrain, meaning they don't have boxes, rails, or big jumps to go off of. Park can be a lot of fun, but Park also means PARK RATS. I shall give you a lovely example of these types of people:
This is probably a kind representation of what I see. These Park Rats wear RIDICULOUSLY long shirts that go down to their knees at the shortest, and are bright neon colors and their beanies stand up about 2 feet off their heads, and NONE of their gear matches anything. The only thing that matches is that it's ALL NEON. Yeah, it may "cool", "hip", whatever, but just like how we snicker at the neon '80's skiing jumpsuits:
Our kids are going to look back at our styles and be like, "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!" Or maybe this is just the beginning of a downhill slope (pun intended) of bad skiing/snowboarding fashion. Because these two styles are both neon...except the modern style is even MORE ridiculous and loose fitting. The mohawk is pretty cool, too. :)
*sigh*
Sorry to those of you who wore these neon skiing jumpsuits ;)
I should have condensed this post to two different posts, but here's an extra long post anyway!
