So I had an Organic Chemistry test this morning. I have been preparing for this test for a while and have felt really prepared for it. Another thing I had scheduled for today was a meeting with the Associate Dean of Science, Greg Owens a.k.a. the most intimidating person to speak to, discussing him writing a letter of recommendation for me for pharmacy school. The test was at 8:35 and my appointment at around 9:30.
So here is the main point of my story. Last night I had this awesome Harry Potter dream. I have these pretty frequently and they are my absolute favorite. I woke up a couple of times but hadn't heard the alarm yet so went back to platform 9 3/4. Finally I woke up and it was 9:12!!!!! Not joking. I immediately through my phone across the room, because it misbehaved and did not sound the alarm to wake me up. Oh and apparently I smacked Danny in the stomach screaming, "it's 9:12!" I don't remember this...I think I suffer from rage blackouts. Anyways I send two frantic emails explaining what happened and rush to school to see if I can find the professor and convince her to let me take the test.
After some searching I find her after seeing me in my current state of hysteria she says, "Oh sweetheart what's wrong?" (I love the women Chemistry teachers who are just so sweet) Sobbing through the words, "I slept in" she stops me and says, "That's just fine, you can take it...just not like this. Go get a drink, take a half hour, calm down and then come back and take the test...no big deal." Biggest sigh of relief. I did just that. Got a drink, came back and took the test. Which I am happy to report I got a 94% on :)
So for those of you who saw my facebook status today that said, "Prof Holly Sebahar is a saint" you now know why.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Florida!
Danny and I are applying to schools this year and University of Florida is number one on our list of places we want to go.
Here are the reasons why
1-Danny's brother Randy and his family lives there
2-Disney World is there
3-the beach
4-the weather
5-Harry Potter land is there
So we went down over spring break to tour the school and meet some of the administration and try to convince them they should accept us :) It went really well, Danny worked in the Dental and Oral Surgery clinic for a few days which was really cool for him. I met and toured the hospital/school with one of the administrators and got some great one on one time with her. It was a very successful trip! And after the work was done we played...hard!
One day we went down this river that is a natural lazy river that you take tubes down and it takes like an hour and a half to get down. All of us went to go but Randy got called back to the hospital so while Amber took him back Danny and I took our niece Jaynie down the river. It was so much fun. She is 2 1/2 and the cutest dang thing you have ever seen. We had to go on this hike to get to the river. (Those of you who know me know that when I say hike I mean a 10 minute walk on a flat dirt trail) And Dan and I carried the tube and had Jaynie hold onto a rope so she could keep up and not run off. Every once and I while Danny had to stop and stretch because his back was hurting him. (also if you didn't know Danny had major back surgery a little over a year ago...he wasn't just being dramatic about the "hike") And sure enough after the first time that happened Jaynie looked at
Danny and said, "Uncle Danny I can't hold this rope anymore."
Danny-"How come Jaynie Bug?"
Jaynie- "It's hurting my back I need to rest for a minute."
So anyways we get on the river and it was so nice a relaxing. Until. I had the oars and was just making sure we didn't hit a tree on the edge of the river and managed to back us up onto a stick and popping a hole in our tube! We still had 45 minutes until we reached the end! It was a pretty small hole so Danny stuck his thumb in it and Jaynie and I rowed (spelling?) down the rest of the river! It was so funny and she was so excited that she was rowing all by herself. Too funny.
Then we went to Universal Studios one day to go to Harry Potter land which was the coolest thing ever. The butterbeer was to die for, the treats were delicious and the shopping was so fun!
Then we had an amazing day relaxing at clearwater beach. In love.
After being in Florida it makes us want to be able to go to school there so badly. So everyone cross your fingers for us!!!
Here are the reasons why
1-Danny's brother Randy and his family lives there
2-Disney World is there
3-the beach
4-the weather
5-Harry Potter land is there
So we went down over spring break to tour the school and meet some of the administration and try to convince them they should accept us :) It went really well, Danny worked in the Dental and Oral Surgery clinic for a few days which was really cool for him. I met and toured the hospital/school with one of the administrators and got some great one on one time with her. It was a very successful trip! And after the work was done we played...hard!
One day we went down this river that is a natural lazy river that you take tubes down and it takes like an hour and a half to get down. All of us went to go but Randy got called back to the hospital so while Amber took him back Danny and I took our niece Jaynie down the river. It was so much fun. She is 2 1/2 and the cutest dang thing you have ever seen. We had to go on this hike to get to the river. (Those of you who know me know that when I say hike I mean a 10 minute walk on a flat dirt trail) And Dan and I carried the tube and had Jaynie hold onto a rope so she could keep up and not run off. Every once and I while Danny had to stop and stretch because his back was hurting him. (also if you didn't know Danny had major back surgery a little over a year ago...he wasn't just being dramatic about the "hike") And sure enough after the first time that happened Jaynie looked at
Danny and said, "Uncle Danny I can't hold this rope anymore."
Danny-"How come Jaynie Bug?"
Jaynie- "It's hurting my back I need to rest for a minute."
So anyways we get on the river and it was so nice a relaxing. Until. I had the oars and was just making sure we didn't hit a tree on the edge of the river and managed to back us up onto a stick and popping a hole in our tube! We still had 45 minutes until we reached the end! It was a pretty small hole so Danny stuck his thumb in it and Jaynie and I rowed (spelling?) down the rest of the river! It was so funny and she was so excited that she was rowing all by herself. Too funny.
Then we went to Universal Studios one day to go to Harry Potter land which was the coolest thing ever. The butterbeer was to die for, the treats were delicious and the shopping was so fun!
Then we had an amazing day relaxing at clearwater beach. In love.
After being in Florida it makes us want to be able to go to school there so badly. So everyone cross your fingers for us!!!
Cruise Wrap-Up
Some final pictures of the cruise! We went on a zip line and I was SO scared but it was so much fun!
There was a slide at the end of the zip line that went into this water that was freezing!!!
It was such a fun trip and so relaxing!
There was a slide at the end of the zip line that went into this water that was freezing!!!
It was such a fun trip and so relaxing!
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Cruise 2011!
We have spoiled ourselves the past month or so and it's going to be hard to get back to normal life. We decided instead of giving each other gifts for Valentine's Day we would...go on a cruise with us and 6 other couples to the Mexican Riviera and it was so wonderful. And to top that off for our anniversary we decided to spend it in Florida! (to come on the next post)
So almost all of Danny's friend married their high school sweethearts and they have all stayed really close friends and it is always so much fun when we are all together. So the fourteen of us decided to jet off to Mexico on a CRUISE! Best idea ever. We got it for a killer deal and flights for dirt cheap thanks to some of their parents working for the airline. We spent the first night in Long Beach, and went to Bubba Gump for some awesome seafood! Then we left sunday morning for the cruise!
The cruise was great! We went to Cabo and Puerta Vallerta (guaranteed I spelled that wrong) we were supposed to go to Mazatlan but they had closed that port due to violence so we got an extra day in Cabo (we were just fine with that!) Life on the ship was so relaxing compared to life at home. No work, no school and no alarm clocks. The days at sea were spent laying out (even though it got a little too windy some days) eating, gambling, playing games, karaoke and relaxing :) I'll be honest...Danny and I weren't dying over the food. Don't get me wrong it was all fine. Just not great. And we got a little too lost in the casino sometimes. Dangerous. They had some funny comedians that had shows on the ship that were always fun to go to.
The excursions!!
Ok. So I am not the type of person to go on excursions on cruises and vacations. Why? I'm lazy, want to sleep in and usually feel like they are a waste of money. But everyone really wanted to do the zip line, and we also found a really good deal on a snorkeling one so we decided to sign up for the excursions!
First Cabo-
Six of us went on the snorkeling excursion. We met up with our awesome guide who took us out into the water and showed us so many cool fish! He even dove down and got a puffer fish that we could hold. Everyone held it but me...I got too nervous. Times like this I wish I weren't so skittish and I were just more daring! Oh well I still have time to work on that. Anyways. He was awesome and when he took us back into Cabo he dropped us off at this awesome street taco stand. I actually surprised myself and decided to try some and they were amazing! The smoked marlin tacos were my favorite. Getting around wasn't too bad either thanks to Dallas learning spanish from his mission. We did some shopping and got a few gifts. After the snorkeling we just laid on the beach and it was amazing. :)
(sorry I couldn't rotate this for whatever reason)
I have alot more to post about the trip...seriously this is only have of it.
And then there is Florida.
But at this very moment I am sitting in the Orlando airport at 2:33 AM waiting for my flight and I am so tired. But I know that if I don't post what I've just done it will never get posted. Seriously. You should see how many drafts of posts I have and never post. It's ridiculous. I'd say "more to come!!" but who knows. I might not even post for 6 more months. I've hit my wall and I'm really tired. Goodnight.
So almost all of Danny's friend married their high school sweethearts and they have all stayed really close friends and it is always so much fun when we are all together. So the fourteen of us decided to jet off to Mexico on a CRUISE! Best idea ever. We got it for a killer deal and flights for dirt cheap thanks to some of their parents working for the airline. We spent the first night in Long Beach, and went to Bubba Gump for some awesome seafood! Then we left sunday morning for the cruise!
The cruise was great! We went to Cabo and Puerta Vallerta (guaranteed I spelled that wrong) we were supposed to go to Mazatlan but they had closed that port due to violence so we got an extra day in Cabo (we were just fine with that!) Life on the ship was so relaxing compared to life at home. No work, no school and no alarm clocks. The days at sea were spent laying out (even though it got a little too windy some days) eating, gambling, playing games, karaoke and relaxing :) I'll be honest...Danny and I weren't dying over the food. Don't get me wrong it was all fine. Just not great. And we got a little too lost in the casino sometimes. Dangerous. They had some funny comedians that had shows on the ship that were always fun to go to.
The excursions!!
Ok. So I am not the type of person to go on excursions on cruises and vacations. Why? I'm lazy, want to sleep in and usually feel like they are a waste of money. But everyone really wanted to do the zip line, and we also found a really good deal on a snorkeling one so we decided to sign up for the excursions!
First Cabo-
Six of us went on the snorkeling excursion. We met up with our awesome guide who took us out into the water and showed us so many cool fish! He even dove down and got a puffer fish that we could hold. Everyone held it but me...I got too nervous. Times like this I wish I weren't so skittish and I were just more daring! Oh well I still have time to work on that. Anyways. He was awesome and when he took us back into Cabo he dropped us off at this awesome street taco stand. I actually surprised myself and decided to try some and they were amazing! The smoked marlin tacos were my favorite. Getting around wasn't too bad either thanks to Dallas learning spanish from his mission. We did some shopping and got a few gifts. After the snorkeling we just laid on the beach and it was amazing. :)
(sorry I couldn't rotate this for whatever reason)
I have alot more to post about the trip...seriously this is only have of it.
And then there is Florida.
But at this very moment I am sitting in the Orlando airport at 2:33 AM waiting for my flight and I am so tired. But I know that if I don't post what I've just done it will never get posted. Seriously. You should see how many drafts of posts I have and never post. It's ridiculous. I'd say "more to come!!" but who knows. I might not even post for 6 more months. I've hit my wall and I'm really tired. Goodnight.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Mini update
So I have quite a large update to do about the holidays but I'm at school without all of my pictures because I'm on a school computer so I'll just do a tiny little post for today and then update later.
I want a puppy.
Plain and simple, and I'm turning 21 in a few days and wish with all my heart that I could ask for a puppy but seeing as we live with my parents and they (mostly Greg) would kill me if I got a puppy so I'll just have to wait a little longer. We really want some cute little dog for our first dog and eventually when we have kids it'll be small and manageable and hopefully kid friendly...BUT I've decided that when I'm a little more seasoned with age I really want a Blood Hound. They are the prettiest dogs and just seem so cool...yes I know you're all probably wondering if I have ever been around a Blood Hound...well no. But we watched Best in Show the other day and they just look like the prettiest dogs and seem awesome. Who knows I'll probably change my mind.
Wow someone needs to tell Danny that he shouldn't take me to pet stores anymore...well actually I begged him to go just to hold and look at some puppies :)
I'll just do a mini update...
School ended and even though last semester was jam packed it all paid off, Danny got a 4.0 and I got a 3.93. I am so proud of us especially Danny with all of the time he put in this semester. We are currently taking a lighter load this semester because we take our graduate admissions tests to Pharmacy and Dental school this summer and want to have time to study for those. STRESSFUL!!! Oh my heck, getting ready for these tests and trying to find schools that have both Dental and Pharmacy programs, and work, and current classes it is all just so stressful. And then after all of that planning and studying and hard work we don't get in?...STOP...I have to remind myself not to think like that.
We are applying to around 10 schools each, right now we are just in the process of narrowing them down. Are top four we want to go to are 1. University of Florida (Danny's brother is doing his residency down there so it'd be fun to be close to family) 2. Virginia Commonwealth (My sister Carlie is in D.C. so we'd be close to her) 3. Washington State University and 4. UNLV dental while I would be at USN Pharmacy. The appeal of UNLV is that it's close to home and for some reason we both really like the idea of UW. So we'll see! Hopefully it all goes well and all this stress will be for nothing.
...Sorry one more thing I'm stressing over...
so in looking at all of these schools we are also comparing there costs and fees for tuitions...HOLY COW!! School is going to be so expensive I can't believe it! Some Dental schools are 80K per year!!! ....Danny gets frustrated and says that I love to dwell on future problems that I can't do anything about. Yup, it's true. Clearly.
Well I'm off to lunch with my Danny, more updates to come!
I want a puppy.
Plain and simple, and I'm turning 21 in a few days and wish with all my heart that I could ask for a puppy but seeing as we live with my parents and they (mostly Greg) would kill me if I got a puppy so I'll just have to wait a little longer. We really want some cute little dog for our first dog and eventually when we have kids it'll be small and manageable and hopefully kid friendly...BUT I've decided that when I'm a little more seasoned with age I really want a Blood Hound. They are the prettiest dogs and just seem so cool...yes I know you're all probably wondering if I have ever been around a Blood Hound...well no. But we watched Best in Show the other day and they just look like the prettiest dogs and seem awesome. Who knows I'll probably change my mind.
Wow someone needs to tell Danny that he shouldn't take me to pet stores anymore...well actually I begged him to go just to hold and look at some puppies :)
I'll just do a mini update...
School ended and even though last semester was jam packed it all paid off, Danny got a 4.0 and I got a 3.93. I am so proud of us especially Danny with all of the time he put in this semester. We are currently taking a lighter load this semester because we take our graduate admissions tests to Pharmacy and Dental school this summer and want to have time to study for those. STRESSFUL!!! Oh my heck, getting ready for these tests and trying to find schools that have both Dental and Pharmacy programs, and work, and current classes it is all just so stressful. And then after all of that planning and studying and hard work we don't get in?...STOP...I have to remind myself not to think like that.
We are applying to around 10 schools each, right now we are just in the process of narrowing them down. Are top four we want to go to are 1. University of Florida (Danny's brother is doing his residency down there so it'd be fun to be close to family) 2. Virginia Commonwealth (My sister Carlie is in D.C. so we'd be close to her) 3. Washington State University and 4. UNLV dental while I would be at USN Pharmacy. The appeal of UNLV is that it's close to home and for some reason we both really like the idea of UW. So we'll see! Hopefully it all goes well and all this stress will be for nothing.
...Sorry one more thing I'm stressing over...
so in looking at all of these schools we are also comparing there costs and fees for tuitions...HOLY COW!! School is going to be so expensive I can't believe it! Some Dental schools are 80K per year!!! ....Danny gets frustrated and says that I love to dwell on future problems that I can't do anything about. Yup, it's true. Clearly.
Well I'm off to lunch with my Danny, more updates to come!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
One last thing!
I finally uploaded the pictures from when Carlie was here! She was only here for 5 days so it was a quick trip but so much fun! We drove up to our family cabin in Flaming Gorge for Memorial Day with the whole Ericksen Clan and it was so much fun. It is honestly so relaxing there, all we do is eat, sleep and play games. And of course there is always the Ericksen vs. Beck football game...proud to say that Danny got 3 touchdowns! The game started going so late we had to bring up everyones cars to shine lights onto the grass so they could even see. Sad to say though we Ericksen's lost :( but we'll get em next year!
Cute Olivia and I watching the boys play football.
Love the fall, love having family around! So much fun!
Cute Olivia and I watching the boys play football.
Love the fall, love having family around! So much fun!
Monday, September 27, 2010
Back to SCHOOL!
Well, Fall is here and that means Danny and I are back to school and goin crazy! This is actually the start of my SENIOR year I can't believe I've been going here almost 4 years, time has just flown by. I used to not consider myself a U fan but over the past year or so I really have grown to love the University of Utah...sure that my have something to do with meeting my awesome husband here :). Seriously though what more could anyone want...an AWESOME football team, beautiful campus and of course all of those fun liberals that keep class so interesting haha. (seriously some people are nutty up here but it's awesome). We've both got a full load this semester, I'm just finishing up a couple of classes so I can take my PCAT (Pharmacy College Admissions Test) in the spring (wish me luck with that one!) and Danny is doing the same just getting ready for the DAT (Dental Admissions Test). So we're trying to get ready for that and keep up with our classes...it's been a lot of work but hopefully it all goes well!
Wrapping up summer...
Danny and I were absolutely spoiled in August, Danny's brother and his family came home for a week and then my sister came home for 5 days and it was such a treat! We only get to see these guys every like 4-6 months or so, so it was so much fun and we made the most of it!
When Randy, Amber and cute little Jaynie came we did the usual things...going out to eat, seeing movies etc. But then we decided to do something different and go up to our condo in Park City and we all went boating and it was a blast! I even learned how to knee board! (yes I understand that most people learn this at like 4 years old but for me this was a big deal because I am not good at anything that has to do with boating so I was excited!)
The Fair!
So last year Bob, Danny's dad, found out that I had never been to the fair and we went and I loved it so...from then on we've decided to go every year and so we went this year with Danny's parents and had so much fun! I rode the bull and it was awesome I stayed on for like 15 seconds, I was pretty proud. Bob was convinced we could win this game where youhave to hit a ball off a board and into a bucket...even though we tried to remind him that we attempted this last year with no success. However he chose not to believe us...20$ and 10 minutes later we still didn't win but the game worker decided we had tried enough times and just gave us the giant stuffed panda! Sure it was a sympathy win but who cares we'll take it!
This past weekend my friends and I went to St. George to Lauren's condo and had an absolute blast!! We are all so busy that it's so hard for us to get together and it was just what we needed. A few of us drove down early and went to Las Vegas and did a little shopping and went to dinner. We watched the fountain show at the Bellalgio and it was incredible! It always amazes me how pretty it is.
Then we met up with the other girls in St. George and stayed up talking until 3:30 AM!! It was so great. Danny had a similar night that night and played cards with his friends until 4:30!! It was such a blast, the next day we went out to breakfast and just relaxed by the pool, did some shopping and of course lots more chatting and telling stories. Sunday we drove home, even though it was a short trip it was so needed and so much fun. My friends are hilarious and we had a blast!!
Well it's back to real life for now, thanks for the great trip girls! (I still can't believe I didn't get a picture of all of us down there, I'm seriously slacking in the picture department.)
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