Happy Thanksgiving!

It's about that time of year again! Time for turkey, cinnamon smells, and the giving of many thanks! This year, I will be celebrating 3 thanksgiving dinners with 3 of my favorite groups of people. Last weekend was the first dinner, fully complete with a turkey, all the fixings, and my closest group of friends. Tonight will consist of another turkey with all the fixings, a few local dishes (such as mochiko chicken and some mochi), and another group of wonderful friends! Tomorrow, on the actual day-of-giving-thanks, Jill and I will be off to another dinner full of friends and family, and a couple of smiling children to boot! What a wonderful week to boost the spirits as well as the appetite! Hope Thanksgiving will be lovely for all of you as well!

Merry Turkeyday,

Rachel

More Devilish Tasks

Grad school applications are the devil's tools...

These applications are the windows to my future. However, what is required for these applications have got to be just as hard as graduate school itself!! Seriously...let's do the math.

There are 5+ applications that are in progress. All 5 of them require a personal statement. All 5 of them require a statement of purpose. So...
5 Personal Statements + 5 Statement of Purposes = A LIFETIME OF PAIN

I have 2 more months to complete most of the applications, retake the GRE, gather together my transcripts, ask for letters of recommendations, and pray that at least one school will take me in. I am hoping this won't be a repeat of my pharmacy applications. If I could just fast-forward my life to Summer 2012...

Stay sane my friends,

Rachel

If you had one wish

So I guess I missed my most powerful wishing time on 11/11/11 at 11:11 by one hour. Oops. But then again...what would I have wished for?

If you had one wish that would be guaranteed to come true, what would you wish for? Money, cars, and shiny new things? Those are all too materialistic to waste a perfect wish on. Maybe something a little less tangible, and a little more emotional? Love... Way too volatile to predict a perfect outcome, and much too exciting to have love guaranteed. After all, isn't the best part of love the excitement of the courting and wooing? (Yes...yes...we are in the 1950s)

No, if I had one wish...one very powerful "one-and-only" wish I might actually wish to not even have had the wish in the first place. Everything happens for a reason. If we omitted every obstacle in our lives, we wouldn't be the wonderful people we are today. In order for there to be good in this world, there needs to be the concept of "bad." I would not wish the negativity away because then what would my positivity reign over? Life is tough, and life is unfair. But it is in the way we shine our light on certain situations that allow us to grow as decent human beings.

Shine on friends. Shine on.
Rachel

I'm Back!

Hi All,

I'm back! It sure has been a while, but I think I want to start blogging again. A load of things has happened in the past year...I can't believe that the last time I posted, I was just turning 21 years old! Now I'm 22, a little bit wiser and a little bit more wrinkly thanks to gravity and its "voodoo magic."

This year is all about taking the time to sort out my life goals and taking care of my health. The Crohn's is definitely under control thanks to some hefty doses of Remicade, and boy am I thankful for modern medicine. On the other hand however, medicine as a career path has not been so kind to me. Pharmacy is no longer a passion, but a place where I shall pick up my medications occasionally. :P Perhaps more on this later...

Anyway, I just wanted to check in and let you all know that I am back and writing! I hope to entertain a few in the coming weeks with my midwestern adventures :)

Adieu,

Rachel

Have your cake and eat it too!

21?! Holy toledo, where did the time go?!

Yup, that's right folks, today I am the big 2-1! Which means...nothing! Hahaha, I have early class tomorrow, so the celebrations will have to be cut to a minimum today. To answer some of those burning questions I know all of you must have :P..

1. Yes, it does put a damper on the mood to have my birthday on a Monday

2. No, I did not drink a beer when the clock struck 12. I have to wake up at 7am. (and...I was studying last night)

3. Why do I wake up at 7? Because of Terrestrial Ecology, silly!

4. What was my first present? Freshly baked brownies (with 21! written out in Peanut M&Ms) and Drumsticks from my friends :)

5. What was my second present? A Terrestrial Ecology exam that decided it wanted to kick my butt.

So it's about 10:15 in the morning, just finished with my exam, and now ready for a full day of proctoring exams and going to class until 5! :) Great day, great day. Well, at least I'm looking forward to spending some time with Kelsey at dinner (the location is a surprise, so I'll disclose that to you all later), and seeing the rest of my friends later on tonight!

I think i'll have my brownie..and eat it too.

-Rachel

College Seniors!!

Today is the first day of school, which means...I'm officially a college senior! I really do feel old as I walk the halls of campus looking at so many unfamiliar faces. Seriously...I recognize NO ONE! How is this possible?! Freshmen, I understand...there won't be many familiar faces there, but Sophomores, Juniors, and other Seniors...where are you guys!!! Anyway.

My first class was at 8:30 this morning and parking was even worse than I could have ever imagined. I thought I'd get there early, around 8:10, to park in a closer lot...but when I got there, Lo and Behold! no parking. The lot was full?! So I went to the farther parking lot, and started panicking because there didn't seem to be a lot of stalls left. Oh dear...I guess I'm just going to have to get up early every day until people realize that they don't want to go to their 8:30 classes and leave me with the parking! :D Woohoo! Hahaha...well I'll keep everyone updated.

But until then..

-Rachel

White, Fluffy, and the Devil's Tool

It seems like it snows every weekend. Today is supposed to have 1-3 inches of snow. Lovely. Just lovely. AND! Today...just to mention...is the first day that I've decided to head back to school since I got sick. So i had to spend my wonderful morning sweeping off my car, stressing about the slippery roads and bad drivers, and trudging through this incessant snow. Oh well...all a part of the Omaha adventure i suppose? :P Anyhow...time to get back to the nitty-gritty.