Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Plantar Fasciitis: the Flip-Flop Disease.

It's a painful inflammatory condition of the foot caused by excessive wear to the plantar fascia or plantar aponeurosis that supports the arches of the foot or by biomechanical faults that cause abnormal pronation. The pain usually is felt on the underside of the heel, and is often most intense with the first steps of the day. It is commonly associated with long periods of weight bearing or sudden changes in weight bearing or activity. Jobs that require a lot of walking on hard surfaces, shoes with little or no arch support, a sudden increase in weight and over activity are also associated with the condition.
It is sometimes known as "flip-flop disease" among US podiatrists. The condition often results in a heel spur on the calcaneus, in which case it is the underlying condition, and not the spur itself, which produces the pain.

LOVELY.
the mean doctor lady said to throw away my flip flops. YEAH RIGHT LADY.
but i guess i'll wear shoes for the time being. until it gets better. for a couple of weeks. i guess its a good way to get my mom to buy me new shoes. :)
not that they're cute. they remind me of tasha! her brown tennis. aww
looks like i'll be wearing these for a while. NO MAKING FUN! i miss my sandals already.
the time i could save just wearing sandals!!
okay so thats a little pathetic, but its true. i dont have to find matching socks or anything to wear sandals. ughhhh. oh well.
shoes and socks it is.
:(:(

Monday, April 27, 2009

the strangest drive home

so i was coming home from school today, at 1230, and i saw the most ridiculous things. first there was this man-about a 300 pound man, at the crosswalk of moody and ball. that wouldnt be strange, except for the fact that i'm pretty sure he had NO PANTS ON. he had a button up long white shirt on, that covered most..but there were no pants. no shorts. unless they were booty shorts..but what fat man wears booty shorts?? and i dont think he was wearing shoes either. it was basically a long white shirt and knee high socks. and you could see the socks all the way up to the knee high part. and then some hairy thighs too...what was this man doing wandering the streets?? i dont understand. its a sight burned into my memory that i dont want to have there. blehh.

and THEN, at vetran's park, on denni and ball, there were about twenty muslim ladies playing basketball! now dont get me wrong, i'm not judging, i know and love a lot of these people, but can you imagine them in their head covers and long dresses playing basketball at a public park? it was the strangest scene..and after i had just seen the fat man i was pretty much at my quota of strange images for the day.

needless to say, i watched the road & the road only the rest of the way.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

who really needs manners anyway?

i love those days when no one is home but myself during the day.
you turn on music super loud, sing super loud, be totally unmannerly! i was eating some rice on a plate, and i was getting sick and tired of eating it with the fork cuz it wouldnt cooperate! so since no one was home and no one was watching i just picked up the whole plate and started licking the rice up like a dog. i entertained myself too much though, cuz after awhile i started laughing & then choking on it. if no one is home, manners arent needed right? when no one is around, who needs to be polite?
so when im alone at home i like to leave the door open when i go to the bathroom. just for kicks and giggles. & then it feels like a mission. like i'm on a super secret mission but i'm gonna do it with the door open. in plain sight, but not! you know. i know you all have things you do when no one is home. you should comment them!

anyways.

i'm having issues making a decision. (i never have issues making a decision like this, its strange)
freshman academy or no freshman academy?
here is what freshman academy is: i would be doing the life sciences one. (cuz that will be my major, in some way or another.) but you live with the same people who have the same interest (academically) and then you go to all your classes with them as well. so they would be in my pdbio 120 class, my chem 105 class, life sciences seminar, english, and book of mormon, which puts me at 11.5 credits. i'll probably take an exercise class, making it about twelve credits. thats what i'm looking for, fairly easy. but they are pretty hard courses. and i do have to take them if i do freshman academy. so lets make a pros and cons list. yes? great.

PROS:
making friends in my major
easy study groups
professors take special consideration of FA students, especially if its their whole class, they'll meet afterward and such (or so says my sister)
i'll still have winter to plan my own classes
more involvement in school

CONS:
required fall schedule
what if i dont get along with these people?! they are involved in everything i do!
not much free time (?) i'm not exactly sure about that.
too hard for my first semester at BYU? i just want to have fun for awhile..

well tell me what you think..i simply can't make this decision. applications start may 1st..so i should know by then what i'm doing. help me out! i'm desperate here. & it would be much appreciated. ;)

Saturday, April 18, 2009

becca: the murderess

i didnt mean to!
well i did think about it before i did it..for a long time

it was out of rage!
no i was actually kinda scared..more sad though

but i still feel terrible about it.
& that one is the truth.



i killed the poor spider in my sink! :(



here's what happened: i'm going to bed last night at two thirty and i need to wash my face, take my pills, brush teeth, etc, bedtime routine. but there is this spider in my sink! and i couldnt bring myself to squash him. there was no way! he just kept moving and i felt so bad for him.. plus he was bigger than the normal squashable spider. but he would try to get out of the sink so hard, then he would get to a certain point and fall backwards because the sink is slick..& i couldnt help but feel sorry for him. so i sat there and watched him for a long while..wondering if he could get out, but there was no way. i watched him build webs in the bottom of the sink too. it was crazy. kinda cool. but more sad. anyway i tried turning the water on, but his webs saved him, and he would just curl up into a ball and then be all sad looking, bobbing on top of the water..so i had to stop that. then i thought i could just share the sink with the spider, right? he doesnt go down the drain, so i'll just do my normal stuff while he's in there. but then i couldnt handle it. i had to watch him the whole time..i couldnt let my guard down while there was a spider around! so then i was trying to think of other ways to kill it cuz i could NOT try to chase that thing around with some toilet paper and squash it in my sink. i dont know what my problem was, i've done it before! i swear i have, and i don't have arachnophobia or anything. i think spiders are pretty cool actually.
so i did something wayy worse than squashing it. and i feel terrible! i sprayed it with 409 and hairspray. bad idea. he kinda started convulsing and then flipped over on his back and just twitched his legs trying to turn over again, but he couldnt even come close to managing it.. then i turned the water again and he finally went down the drain. :( that was like, the worst possible way of murdering a spider wasnt it? gahh. i'm a terrible person. i torture spiders. i turned on the water then made it hot too so i could wash my face...and ensure that he didnt come crawling back out of the drain. even though i poisoned him pretty bad. poor spider. i took a picture of him too, when he was alive. but i'll post that later. its time for a nap now. i'll dream of myself torturing poor innocent spiders just trying to get out of the terrible predicament they got themselves into. :(

ohh karina dear coleman:

does not handle pain well.
but is super funny to watch WHILE on drugs. & how about this for chubby cheekness??she's so loverly, right? ps: thats my shirt, she wasnt in the music man, I WAS. apparently she wore it into surgery. & i think thats either ice cream she's eating or buttered squash. yeah i thought it was gross too.
but we do have fun times at disneyland before this lovely widsom tooth deal went down.
check it outt:
oh just kidding this is at devons. she thought she was cool like that, but really, lets face it...she's plugging her nose! puhh.
oh were so happy to be at disneylandd!! (FYI i'm not wearing makeup, dont be alarmed)







we really like star tours, okay??

Thursday, April 16, 2009

ahahaha

so is anyone else creeped out when they come onto my blog and its my eyes staring at them like that??

get over it.

i think its hilarious.
for the time being. i'll get sick of it soon when it starts freaking me out every time i wanna post something. or listen to my music. etc. etc.
:)

ps. dan in real life? fabulously fantastic film. (who noticed the alliteration? i was going for that. ahaha)

post POST script: lifee is gooooooood. real good. like i'm not kidding good. :D

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

update; for those interested in every detail of my past few weeks.

first of all: its goooooooood.
spring break is here, i feel no pressure whatsoever, and i'm doing whatever the heck i want. which is, at the moment, sitting lazily not going to bed even though it is one oclock at night. and only now am i getting tired.
so conference was great. agreement? yes? all around? thought so. all time favorite talk: jeffrey r. holland on the atonement. tear jerker, definitely. and he's so cute when he gets all choked up like that. old men are just adorable. (especially with their pets, but thats a different story)
and that whole weekend was great...spending a few days in the freezing weather of utah..which i LOVED! the cold was amazing. apparently i'm that kind of gal. but i did appreciate the warmth of the sun when i got home, and took a few moments to sit in the sun & soak it all up.. but who knew that snowflakes were actually snowflake shaped?!?!?!? i thought they were just little round things falling from the sky. but they're actually shaped symmetrically?? since when? i swear this is a new phenomenon. well, who can blame the california girl? i wouldnt know, seeing as thats the first time i've ever been in falling snow. it was beautiful. and i can't wait to get the real deal up at BYU. i'm sooo stoked.
well after conference was over and reality struck again, that week following was just about the worst week ever for stress level at school (so far, senior year.) and i believe only the next two weeks (not including this one) will be as bad, seeing as AP tests are coming up fast, and i'm SO looking forward to getting those over and done with. but yeah, that school week was bad. i did have a bit of a mental breakdown on wednesday morning, but its all good-those never last long, especially with kids in preschool to cheer you up when you walk in the door, and their face lights up and they shout your name-first of all they remember your name, out of (lets see, 25 high schoolers per class, 6 class periods...jeff? just kidding, its 150 right? i did it in my head, so anything goes...) 150 students, then they shout it like they're so glad to see you-which they really are-and they grab your hand and drag you down to sit next to them..its a good feeling. hooray for parker&joey! there are others too, but joey and parks are my favorite, so thats all that needs to be mentioned. well..i love all those boys: parker, joey, isaiah, nathan, joseph, devin, carter, eli, eli k...they're all my buddies. and quite honestly, i probably ONLY like the boys in that class. those girls are little shedevils sometimes.
but with friday things got better. and worse. i was sick as a dog on friday, which was definitely not fun. but it turned out to be a great night. i was worried..but i shouldnt have been. :) mamma mia was definitely fabulous. i LOVED it. the choreography was amazing and the music was (of course) fantastic..who doesnt love a little ABBA?? its catchy and amazing. i could hardly stop myself from singing & dancing...the people around me probably thanked their lucky stars jeff was there to contain most of the outward singing&dancing. ;P
then work on saturday; as usual. it went late though. AW i felt accomplished that day..a yellow lab puppy came in-who wasnt eating. he wasnt eating anything, really, and they have only had this pup for a week. plus its a LABRADOR which means they eat like there ain't gonna be no tomorrow. but he wasnt. so i was in the room with them and the doctor had to leave for a little bit..so i took it upon myself to forcefeed the puppy. he wasnt very happy with that, but that has never mattered to me much in that office.. so i just kept forcefeeding him. i couldnt stand hearing his stomach growl every two seconds like it was doing..it was terrible. so i put the wet food on the roof of his mouth where he had to lick it off and swallow it..until he started eating it himself. it was a long process. but he finally did start eating and he progressed to i/d after that..and he was eating it on his own! it was a good sign, a very good sign..and i felt really good about it.
after that, even though it feels like two separate days to me..i played games with jeff and his grandma & various other people...and its unbelievable how much fun i had. heres some famous quotes of the night:

nancy: "no, THIS is how you barf daintily. in a cup, see? bleh."
diane: "i twod it, then i fourd it." (say it out loud a couple of times, if it doesnt make sense.)
adriana: "you broke my water, jeff."

that last one made me laugh out loud just thinking about it again. best game night EVER. :)
& then easter rolls around. we missed the sunrise service i really wanted to go to, but no matter, i guess. my dad set his alarm for five pm, not five am. so we woke up quite late and i was given about twenty minutes to get ready for church. anyone impressed i was there on time? and did opening exercises in YW???? me too.
i just choked on my own saliva.
but then i went to grandparents house and sat outside for awhile locked out. but i relived my childhood, climbed a few trees that i hadnt in a while, walked their backyard again, noticed that spring is here with a vengence..flowers are just blooming everywhere! looked out at the view, thought about picking the neighbors guacamoles..i mean avacados. does anyone else do that? i always call them guacamoles. its almost embarassing. AVA-CADOS. but then they came and we had a fabulous easter.

and now i'm even boring myself so i'll just stop. this was, honestly, kind of a pity post. its just been so long since my last one that i wanted to post something, but i didnt have anything clever to post...so i just did this. running commentary on my life anyone?? five bucks apiece. better than anything you'll find in that barnes and nobles store. which reminds me, i wanna go there soon...

Thursday, April 2, 2009

anxiety PACKING

thank you, aunt cami.
i can't pack for these kinds of trips worth beans. you know, the ones where you're actually supposed to look good? i'm set on camping trips, you know...leave the makeup behind, take a bar of soap and some shampoo a hair tie and enough sweat pants to get you by. but the pretty thing? sucks! i'd much rather go camping. i'm stressing so much about this. and i know its silly. but i can't do anything about it! my back tenses up and it starts to hurt like crazy, and i'm sure there are tons of knots in my shoulders by now. i've been at it for three hours. and the fact that everything doesnt fit in the one suitcase really is starting to piss me off. i've even got two going, carryon & suitcase, with the carryon having my shoes in it. & other random stuff. but its driving me crazy! & my back hurts bad. hopefully i can get over this. and on the plane get some rest.
but three church outfits is crazy. and the shoes? and the fact that i'm from california and its warm and in utah its going to be snow cold and i dont have the right kind of shoes or dresses or anything for that! i have some jackets i've been working on for BYU...i think i might die of cold. as much as i can't wait for it! it could kill me. i'm having mixed feelings about it. i think i want earmuffs. that would be cool, right? like in winnie the pooh. i think that was my favorite episode. when piglet couldnt ice skate. oh and i'm so excited for the ice skating in utah! on an open rink! i'll freeze to death, but it will be real!!!!
but i better go finish packing. it could kill me, but i'll do it. i think i mentioned a lot about dying in this post..drama queen today!
it doesnt help that i have a ton of work to do in every single classs (minus preschool...and only a bit in econ) and absolutely no time to do it. al;ksjviouen;alksdf. AOIDHEW;LAJKSDJFGBAQS.
its almost as bad as the stress of getting all crazy ready for a formal dance:

yup. & thats it.
i'm outtt
in six hours i'll be in utahhhh!!!!! yaya for conference! && MAREN!
boooo for packing.