Break!!

I'm finally getting my summer break just as everyone else is headed back to school. Tri 6 went quickley and in a few weeks I'll be started Tri 7, and that means it's time for CLINIC!!! I'm so excited! We start off by taking a huge test pretty much on everything we've learned to see if we are competent enough for clinic. Then we are given a handful of underclassmen as patients. We are allowed to recuit our own patients as well, but only upperclassmen, spouses or kids of Logan students. The clinic is 100% free, but no one is obligated to be a patient, so if we do a bad job or they are just not inspired to come, we loose them AND the adjustments that we should be giving them, which will add up to the 200 we need by graduation...not to mention the poor quality of life they will have as a result of neglecting their spine and nervous system year after year. I've been practicing on everyone I can get my hands on for the last 2 years, so hopefully, I will be a good chiropractor and they will love me and bring their entire family to be adjusted. I can hope at least!

This break has been enjoyable already. On Thursday I went to a business sucess motivational seminar called "Get Motivated!". I heard a bunch of great speakers like George Foreman, Zig Ziglar and Colin Powell. I'm a big Zig fan now. I was supposed to have a CORE retreat this weekend, but it was cancelled at the last minute due to low attendance. Instead I spent the weekend with Robb and we went to see one of his friends' band (Spotting Waldo) play at a bar. It was fun.

Sunday we went to a church that we heard was awesome because it has a fog machine. That Sunday they had no fog and we were disappointed. We recognised the pastor from those TV commercials about Jesus. That was pretty cool. He made everyone hold thier crackers and shots of grape juice for literally 15 minutes though, so that was annoying. It was a nice service that inspired me to be more excited about reading the Bible, so it was good overall. Then I said goodbye to Robb (he has to work this week) and drove to Ohio, but insted of going home I went to Columbus to visit my friend Aaron from High school. I was planning on only staying sunday night, but he conned me into staying an extra night by getting Clippers tickets for Dime a Dog night. 10 hotdogs and $1 later the game was rained out, so we headed back to watch TV.

Now I'm back home at the cottage and I'm going out with Dad for supper tonight. I always let Mom have dibs on 1st night, and Dad gets 2nd night, but since Aaron kept me in C-bus for 1st night, Dad still had 2nd night, which seemed like 1st night, and now Mom got rescheduled to 3rd night and she's not so happy about it because even though it's really only 2nd night, she doesn't like getting 2nd. Oh, the drama!

Either way, Tony Monnin (my second cousin) is getting married on Saturday and my nephew, Max's 2nd birthday is on Sunday. Generally I don't get invited to 2nd cousins' weddings, but since he is in my class at Logan ironically, I do. It's amusing to me that 2 people with the same great grandparents can live 15 minutes apart their whole lives and never speak until they move to St. Louis and decided to be chiropractors at the same school at the same moment. How random is that??

Finals Week

It's finals week again as I wrap up my Tri 6 summer courses (all 13 of them). Our practical exams are all finished, so now all we have is written exams, which won't be terribly difficult, especially since I just studied for all the practicals last week. Right now I have 1 done and 10 to go. WooHoo! Speaking of "woohoo", did I mention I am 1 month away from clinic!! White coat - here I come!

Even though the get-together fell through, I'm going home this weekend to see my brother. I haven't seen him since Christmas because he lives in Connecticut attending Hartford Conservatory of Music. He's 21 now, which is hard to beleive. Robb is coming home with me now that he won't have to hang out with the ladies all weekend. lol I'm really looking forward to it. I'm not sure why I always go home during finals when I should be studying, but it works for me. Sometimes it is good to get away and see the bigger picture. Life is so much more than school or chiropractic. As much as I love my profession, that's not the only reason why God put me on this planet.

Thank you all for your input about the children. I really do appreciate it. It is so much easier to avoid talking about because Robb and I don't get upset that way, but this postponing the engagement/wedding crap has to end sometime! We really like going to church together. I love the challenging messages and awesome praise and worship at his church and he likes the way my church gives you a lot of time to reflect and meditate. If we both could get it in our heads that we aren't trying to convert the other one all the time and we are just trying to bring the other to Christ in the only way that we know, I think things would mesh a lot better. He is the bee's knees to me, and I'm smitten, and I couldn't imagine any other alternative besides working this out together. :)