Grateful for:

Today I am thankful I don't have dysphagia (difficulty/inability to chew/swallow/eat).

Why?

Four words: pureed diet & thickened water

For the love of vegetables

I am definitely in the right major. Yesterday I did this Grocery Store Tour that Dietetics does for student athletes. Nothing super fancy, we just point out different things in the store and give advice and tips and info about eating healthy on a budget to the athletes. BUT, when we got to the produce section, I just wanted to be 'like guys! this is so fun! Isn't all the fruit pretty? I just love getting vegetables. They're so delicious!'  but the athletes were like

so I refrained. I just get so excited about eating fruits and vegetables. Another case in point: on the latest Dietetics newsletter we got in dietetics, there was a recipe for Parmesan Zucchini Crisps (which happened to be low fat and low cal), and I thought it looked good so I made some for dinner one night. They were  DELICIOUS! Matthew ate one or two, and then I ate the rest (like 15). Two days later, I'm at school, and I'm like 'oh I'm craving those zucchini things' so I made some for a snack that afternoon. Sad? No. I'm just in the right major. Let's be real though, I got super excited about the bag of Cadbury eggs we got yesterday. LOVE them. Matthew hid them for me last night so I wouldn't eat the whole bag. I still don't know where they are...

Scooter!!

 

 

This is right before the first time I actually drove the scooter. What a rush!

Houses

Provo has a lot of cool houses, and some crazy houses too. Here are our top favorites of crazy houses (we apologize if you or someone you know lives or lived in one of these houses, we don't mean to offend...)

 Vomit-colored house (the picture doesn't do it justice)

 

The dollhouse 

(I won't lie, I wouldn't mind living here for a year. How could you ever be sad living someplace so bright?)

The mushroom house

Taxes, chances and whole grains

Pretty sure that almost every day for the past two weeks I've thought oh I need to take a picture of our scooter and put it up on the blog... but somehow I don't really think about it or remember it until its dark and I dunno I just feel like it would look better in a picture during the day. But, then again, its a blue scooter, so its not that hard to imagine. Still, I will get around to it one of these days.

In other news, my family is all coming out to Utah for graduation. I'm so stoked! I can't wait to see all of them. The whole family is coming. Also, I got a pell grant this week. And I realized that I'm probably going to have to pay taxes instead of get any return this year. Most of my jobs didn't withhold much from my paycheck, and being self-employed via balloons means that you automatically pay 15%, which is non-refundable. Lame sauce.


I was recently talking to Matthew about internships, and how my chances of getting accepted anywhere are so crazy low, why am I even bothering. And then Matthew said "hey you still have a chance. The chance that you'd marry me out of all the people in the world is pretty low, and it still happened!" ha. I pretty much think he's the best :)

I've been eating a bag of popcorn pretty much every day. I love popcorn. It's out of control. Good thing popcorn is a whole grain.

It was almost like being in the Phog

That was Matthew's reaction to the crazy wild BYU vs New Mexico game the other night. I'll admit, I came away with some pretty mixed feelings: being proud of BYU fans, and also being horribly embarrassed by them.

Proud: The Marriott center was loud! We did a really good job this game cheering a lot and being noisy. Case in point: at several points, it looked like even the players on the court didn't hear the refs whistle because everyone was cheering so loudly. After the game, our ears were ringing for a while, because it was so loud. (Just as good as Allen Fieldhouse, Matthew said)

Embarrassed: BYU fans like to boo. A lot. Loudly. And at some games (although not this one) its seemed like they boo louder than they cheer. And I personally think it is pretty stupid. Its like a little kid that throws a temper tantrum because you say no more cookies. Because most of the time, we're booing just because a call doesn't go our way. Sure, sometimes the calls have been iffy, but sometimes, we watch the replay and its a legit call. I just think that booing is such a lame thing to do. Very rare instances may justify the use of the boo. But even worse than booing at this particular game was what happened at the end of the game, when New Mexico beat us by two points. People threw garbage and stuff on the floor! If there is anything that is classless, it is that. And one of my friends said something like "that's a typical reaction of fans when you get screwed like that by the refs." Completely disagree! 

All in all, a great basketball game, sad loss, but even sadder reaction of the fans.

We like patterns

This picture has been many grueling, exhausting weeks in the making. A few months ago Matthew and I realized that only red and white/tan cars park in our parking lot. Since then, we have been striving to manipulate the parking schema so that we have a white-red-white-red pattern. Last night we got home to the white cars parked every other stall... meaning that the red cars would have no choice but to park in between. And they did! Success!

Can I just say...

...that I never in a million years thought that I would be heavily following college basketball, and that I will be for the rest of my life. Football, yes. I could see that happening.

Let's just say that I now know the names of all of KU players, many of their numbers, recognize their faces, generally know how they've been playing in the past games, what games they have coming up, who the rivals are, which teams Matthew doesn't like, etc etc etc. know that there is sure a lot more that I could know, but this is already a lot.

Not that I don't like college basketball. I do! I love sports. I like watching KU games with Matthew. I'm totally getting into it! It's just that I never, ever, ever thought that I would be religiously following a team.

Double whammy: The good kind

Valentine's Day happens to also be our 6 month anniversary! So it was twice as special and exciting. I won't say too much about everything, except that it included a rose and some beautiful tulips and daisies, Lindt chocolate, a sweet card, a great breakfast and a delicious dinner. It's been great! We can't believe that we've been married for half a year already. Time is sure flying by.

Goal: step 2

APPLICATIONS ARE IINNNNNNNN! To apply for internships. Friday was an incredibly, much anticipated and looked forward to day. For anyone who hasn't heard, here is the process:
1. Graduate in August with BS in dietetics. However, the degree doesn't really mean much until steps 2-5 are completed.
2. Get accepted to a Dietetic Internship somewhere in the country. Unfortunately, there are a lot more applicants than there are spots, so... only 50% acceptance rate. And we don't get paid. We pay to do it. And its usually 9-12 months.
3. Do the internship.
4. Take the RD exam
5. Be a registered dietitian!!!

Anywhoozle, it was SUCH a relief to get those sent off. It took such a long time to get everything put together and all my letters perfect and polished and such. Basically its been taking over my life for the past few weeks, and so been affecting Matthew's life, too. All I can say is that Matthew is the sweetest husband ever, for dealing with me being all stressed and worried, and just helping me out however he can.

Now I just wait until April 5 to see if I've been accepted. I've decided I'm not going to think positive, and just assume I won't get accepted, and then it's less of a disappointment when I don't get accepted, and it's just really exciting if I do.