bring it iceberg

ok, I seriously has some crazy anxiety before my first day of the program. Anxiety? -you ask- Yes, but not the hyperventilating, paper bag breathing kind of anxiety. Mine came in the form of dreams...of course. This shouldn't come as a surprise for many of you. I have some of the CRAZIEST dreams. Here are some that I had the night before the program:

#1: a girl in my class stole my credit card and bought an expensive ring. She got mad when I told her she had to return it, and then expected me to give her a ride to class

#2: A member of my class turned into an old decrepit transformer and was falling apart all over me as I was trying to pay attention to the lecture.

#3: I came to class with my scrub top and basketball shorts and flip flops and everyone was laughing at me and the professor was furious

and finally...
#4: I slept in till 5 at night and totally missed all of my classes!

BUT, none of those things happened and I survived my first day. I even made a new friend.

Meet Karen
she's a cutie eh?
(can you see the little uvula? haha)
I get to work on her ...um..."beautiful" choppers for the next two years.
Luck me huh?
and we got to put together our dental kits, which was WAY fun
so overall it was a pretty fun day, and my anxiety is...almost gone. yesterday was like a flake of ice off the tip of the iceberg, so I know that the worst is yet to come. bring it.
loves,
-K

to my Love

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
to the most loving
compassionate
hardworking man I know

thanks for always being there for me
giving me a shoulder to cry on
thanks for always making me laugh
thanks for understanding me and my feminine "issues"
thanks for listening to me
and most of all,
thanks for loving me more than anything

you are my best, and I love you more and more everyday
thanks for making the first 3 months of our marriage the best of my life!

I love you!
happy birthday
-Kristin

Confessions of a Dental Hygiene Student

oh the anticipation of the new school year. So exciting, yet soooo racking my nerves! I can't believe I'm actually in the program that I have been working to get into for the last two years. Another two years of school and then I'm done! I just hope I can survive the next two years. The way the 2nd year hygiene students talk about it, you would think the dental hygiene program was fabricated by the devil himself. Bring it. I like a good challenge. Maybe in a month or so I will be taking it all back as I sit crying over my books, living on 3 hours of sleep. We shall see. I'm almost tempted to rename this blog "Confessions of a Dental Hygiene Student" because I have a feeling most of my posts will be about my so called "adventures" in the program. My schedule is what has me the most nervous. Mon-Wed 1pm-9pm, Thursday 1-3:30, Friday 9-11:30. I will at least get to see Nick off to work in the morning, but I won't get to see him until after 9 through Wednesday! What will he do without me? I know exactly what he'll do. He'll play video games, eat otter pops, and maybe get around to his own homework. haha men. or maybe I should say "MY man". I have no experience with any other man to appropriately nod my head in a knowing way while uttering "men" as if I've met all of them and know for a fact that all of them do this. but you know, it's fun to put the blame on the whole sex for some reason. maybe it makes me feel as if women are greater because they don't succumb to such things as video games and eating 30 otter pops in one sitting.
wow, tangent much? So back to schooly things. I have already started taking notes on the first chapter in my "Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist" book. However, note taking has been temporarily put on hold till the school year begins. Why? Well, because as i was taking notes I realized that I only have a few days left of summer. a few days left to lounge around and read the fourth harry potter book for the fifth time. a few days left to spend every moment I can with my wonderful husband. a few days left with no worries, no assignments, no deadlines. why should I spend my precious few days of summer doing school work when in a few days I will be wishing I had all my free time to keep me company again? So I stopped, and i have been longing to take more notes ever since. There is something about starting a new semester, starting a new course with a new textbook that is so intoxicating to me. my husband doesn't understand the obsession. I don't even understand it. it just is. So today I will do some grocery shopping, read and read and read anything and everything that isn't a textbook, and hang out with my husband and have the time of our lives.
i know, this post is very picture-less, but i hope my words were able to entertain you instead. Sometimes it feels good to ramble on when no one can talk back. haha have a good week! And to those of you in college, enjoy your last few days of summer! make them memorable :)

loves,
-K

Fish are friends, NOT food

we finally got a pet! I mean, PETS! haha

they are affordable
very low maintenance
and i love them

want to meet them?

the males:
Leopard Spot

Maze

The females:
Big Mama

Lucy
and last, but certainly not least...
GARY!loves,
-K
The females are SO preggo. We are hoping they have lots of little colorful babies that will fill up our awesome tank!

M.I.A.

that is a band, and YES they are weird to the max. look them up.
not my style. listen to Mr Buble. he is def my style. AND he made "the list"...no surprise there

I have not been blogging lately, and I would say that I'm sorry, except that I am not.
I am sorry for not being sorry though...

BUT do you know how busy I am? I finally got a new client to work with this week.
For those of you who don't know, I work with disabled children and my new client is the cutest! I would tell you all about him and post a super cute picture of him jamming out to Carrie Underwood in the car, but that would be illegal. He shall therefore be known to this blog as "freckles". Anyway, I have been with freckles from 7 to 4 everyday this week. Which is exhausting in and of itself, and then on top of that...

I had to finish Kelly's awesome birthday gift and super cute Watermelon cookiesthey were delish

plan a super fun lesson on faith for my sunbeams

get blood drawn, drug tested, and TB tested for the dental hygiene programthe nurse scared me yesterday because she thought that I was positive for tuberculosis because of my red bump. She measured it and felt it and then finally called the doctor in who immediately said "oh, you're obviously negative"

stupid nurse.
gave me a flipping heart attack

we went and ordered all my scrubs on Wednesday. I'm a little bummed that that's all I'll be wearing for two years, but at least I don't have to worry about spending lots of money on clothes and at least they're normal colored, right? Do you know that the poor ASU nursing students have to live with wearing maroon tops and WHITE bottoms? yuck. talk about an interesting match, but didn't they ever stop to think that those darn pants will get very very DIRTY?! love me some ASU, but that was not the smartest

AND I have a yucky paper and a nasty group project due on Friday. enough said.

and when I wasn't doing any of that, or my chores around the house, I was spending time with Nick. We have been really enjoying being married. AND we have a surprise that we'll be able to divulge to you all soon enough...
NO I'm NOT pregnant.
right before dental hygiene school? ya right
no it's something completely different, but it's too soon to tell you :)

anyway, that's what has been happening here at casa de la Nick and Kristin :)

loves,
-K