Monday, February 28, 2011
Earthquake!
So apparently last night, there was an earthquake about 37 miles from my house. It happened about 11pm and it was a 4.7 earthquake. I slept right through it. I am kind of disappointed in missing my first earthquake. I really didn't know about it until I checked my Facebook this morning and everyone was talking about feeling the earthquake. People in Fayetteville (3 hours away) and even Memphis were talking about feeling it. I kind of feel left out. :)
Thursday, February 24, 2011
ABCs of Me
So several of my blog peeps have done this lately, so I thought I would finally jump on the bandwagon.
A. Age: 25
B. Bed size: Queen
C. Chore you hate: Vacuuming.
D. Dogs: Not yet. I was considering it, and then I dogsat for 3 dogs. Not ready. :) Maybe if I could find one that didn't poop or pee in the floor or bite me...
E. Essential start to your day: Food! I'm always starving when I wake up.
F. Favorite color: Pink, and sparkly. haha.
G. Gold or silver: Silver.
H. Height: 5' 9"
I. Instruments you play: Flute, Piccolo, Handbells. I used to be able to play piano and guitar, but it's been so long that I have probably forgotten.
J. Job title: Clinical Tech II. So now of course you know what I do, right?
K. Kids: None.
L. Live: Arkansas.
M. Mom’s name: Sheila
N. Nicknames: Jess
O. Overnight hospital stays: None
P. Pet peeve: Tardiness
Q. Quote from a movie: Hakuna Matata
R. Righty or Lefty: Righty.
S. Siblings: One younger brother, one younger half-sister, and one really younger half-brother.
T. Time you wake up: Well, my alarm goes off at 6:42, but usually I roll out of bed at 7:33.
U. Underwear: Always.
V. Vegetables you dislike: Mainly just one – Eggplant.
W. What makes you run late: I’m usually early everywhere except to work... and then sleeping is to blame.
X. X-rays you’ve had: Right hand and dental.
Y. Yummy food you make: According to my sister, I am the best cook in America. I make some mean brownies and canned ravioli apparently. But I like to think that I make yummy desserts!
Z. Zoo animal favorite: Giraffe. But I hate the zoo- it smells bad.
A. Age: 25
B. Bed size: Queen
C. Chore you hate: Vacuuming.
D. Dogs: Not yet. I was considering it, and then I dogsat for 3 dogs. Not ready. :) Maybe if I could find one that didn't poop or pee in the floor or bite me...
E. Essential start to your day: Food! I'm always starving when I wake up.
F. Favorite color: Pink, and sparkly. haha.
G. Gold or silver: Silver.
H. Height: 5' 9"
I. Instruments you play: Flute, Piccolo, Handbells. I used to be able to play piano and guitar, but it's been so long that I have probably forgotten.
J. Job title: Clinical Tech II. So now of course you know what I do, right?
K. Kids: None.
L. Live: Arkansas.
M. Mom’s name: Sheila
N. Nicknames: Jess
O. Overnight hospital stays: None
P. Pet peeve: Tardiness
Q. Quote from a movie: Hakuna Matata
R. Righty or Lefty: Righty.
S. Siblings: One younger brother, one younger half-sister, and one really younger half-brother.
T. Time you wake up: Well, my alarm goes off at 6:42, but usually I roll out of bed at 7:33.
U. Underwear: Always.
V. Vegetables you dislike: Mainly just one – Eggplant.
W. What makes you run late: I’m usually early everywhere except to work... and then sleeping is to blame.
X. X-rays you’ve had: Right hand and dental.
Y. Yummy food you make: According to my sister, I am the best cook in America. I make some mean brownies and canned ravioli apparently. But I like to think that I make yummy desserts!
Z. Zoo animal favorite: Giraffe. But I hate the zoo- it smells bad.
Friday, February 18, 2011
My Alma Mater- University of Arkansas
Today I'm linking up with Kelly to talk about my Alma Mater. I can not believe that I am the first one to talk about the University of Arkansas.
I guess really you could say I have two Alma Maters, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (where I did my bachelor's degree) and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (where I did my master's degree). Honestly though, I really only consider U of A (in Fayetteville) to be my Alma Mater. So let's take a walk down memory lane and talk about the University of Arkansas. I had the time of my life there. It was a wonderful place to be and I love the town of Fayetteville with all of my heart. I was super involved on campus. I was in Alpha Delta Pi sorority, the Razorback band, Society of Women Engineers, Biological Engineering Student Club, Women in Engineering, and I am sure some other stuff but I can't think of it right now. I worked part time at the library on campus for the first 3 years of college, and then my senior year I was a recruiter for the College of Engineering. That job was awesome. I got to meet lots of people and I think it helped me get used to talking to strangers. :) So on to the pictures ( I just raided my facebook for these, so there really aren't any from before my sophomore year when facebook came to our campus).
Of course we love our Hogs! Sports are kind of a big deal. :)
Obviously I was in the band. I played at football, basketball, and volleyball games. I also liked to go to the baseball games and gymnastics meets.
Bud Walton Arena- Basketball
Reynolds Razorback Stadium- Football
Baum Stadium- Baseball
The University of Arkansas gave me some pretty awesome experiences. I got to go to some pretty neat places and do some neat things:
Winter Park, CO for Spring Break with University Baptist Church
Disney World with the band during the bowl game in Orlando
Dominican Republic:
Now this was a really neat one. I was in the college of engineering, and our department developed a relationship with Physicians for Peace in the Dominican Republic. We got to go there for a week and present our senior design projects (ours was an adjustable lower limb prosthesis for children in developing countries) to people in the clinic there. P.S. I look happy drinking out of this coconut. Let me just tell you that was the most disgusting thing I have ever consumed. :)
College Station, TX for a Society of Women Engineers Conference
Atlanta with the band for the SEC Championship
South Carolina for a football game
Did some crazy things:
I was in a sorority. Obviously if you know me IRL, you might think that was pretty crazy for me. I never thought that I would be a sorority girl. However, I had some of my best times with my Alpha Delta Pi sisters. Here are a couple of us buying drinks for a rush party. Coke, Sparkling Grape Juice, and Water. Tons of it. I think we also went to 2 other stores after this. :)
The UofA might be a huge school, but my department was very small. I graduated with about 12-15 people in the Biological Engineering department. Of course, I did have some huge 200 people classes, but mostly I had small classes with these same 10-15 people. We got to know each other pretty well over the four years, and our senior year we started doing birthday cakes in class for everyone's birthday. It was fun.
Of course we always dressed up for Halloween. I'm pretty sure that all three of these costumes were pretty much last minute. Who knew that a free blue foam Statue of Liberty Hat from a Tax company could come in handy? And Yocum Hall, I am sorry for the silver spray paint that I may or may not have gotten all over the sidewalk behind the dorm.
This is me before a football game in Little Rock. Apparently all those years in soccer paid off. I can actually kick a field goal. I mean, sure it might have been a fake one that was considerably lower. Whatever, I was proud of myself. haha. And that band practice uniform was sexy! haha.
I was on an intramural sorority bowling league team. We were the champions. It was fun. Let's just say that sometimes La Huerta was visited before the game.
Traditions:
This picture is also in my last post. I love this tradition at the Uof A. (P.S. When I was writing this, I thought of the commercials that are about the YOU of A. I think that is the dumbest thing ever. Please don't judge the University on behalf of those commercials.) Anyway- back on track. The university engraves the name of each of its graduates on a sidewalk somewhere on the campus. It is always fun to go back and visit my name. The ones from waaaay back in the day are actually hand engraved in the stone. Obviously now, they are done by a machine. The really old ones done by hand are much cooler, though. I am so glad that they spelled my name right!
The GO HOGS spell-out. Every football game, the band does this after the competion of its halftime show. I think it is super fun. Basically the announcer says give me a "G" and then they make the G. and then give me an "O" and so forth. I'm sure you get it. :)
The "Big A". I absolutely love this one too. This is part of the Pre-game show that the band does every game. It is much harder to do than most people realize, but it was always my favorite part of being in the band. And look at how many people are in the stands. I never did get used to being down there in front of all those people. Every time we did a new show, I would get nervous and forget the show right before we started. Of course it always came back to me before we went on the field, but man it sure would be scary.
Calling the hogs! Here is a link to the proper way to call those hogs! This is something that you really can't explain.
Old Main. This is the symbol of the university. I think it is a pretty old building.
So that's a brief introduction to the University of Arkansas. The official website is here. I hope to see some more blogs about UofA and reading about your school! Thanks for stopping by!
I guess really you could say I have two Alma Maters, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (where I did my bachelor's degree) and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (where I did my master's degree). Honestly though, I really only consider U of A (in Fayetteville) to be my Alma Mater. So let's take a walk down memory lane and talk about the University of Arkansas. I had the time of my life there. It was a wonderful place to be and I love the town of Fayetteville with all of my heart. I was super involved on campus. I was in Alpha Delta Pi sorority, the Razorback band, Society of Women Engineers, Biological Engineering Student Club, Women in Engineering, and I am sure some other stuff but I can't think of it right now. I worked part time at the library on campus for the first 3 years of college, and then my senior year I was a recruiter for the College of Engineering. That job was awesome. I got to meet lots of people and I think it helped me get used to talking to strangers. :) So on to the pictures ( I just raided my facebook for these, so there really aren't any from before my sophomore year when facebook came to our campus).
Of course we love our Hogs! Sports are kind of a big deal. :)
Obviously I was in the band. I played at football, basketball, and volleyball games. I also liked to go to the baseball games and gymnastics meets.
Bud Walton Arena- Basketball
Reynolds Razorback Stadium- Football
Baum Stadium- Baseball
The University of Arkansas gave me some pretty awesome experiences. I got to go to some pretty neat places and do some neat things:
Winter Park, CO for Spring Break with University Baptist Church
Disney World with the band during the bowl game in Orlando
Dominican Republic:
Now this was a really neat one. I was in the college of engineering, and our department developed a relationship with Physicians for Peace in the Dominican Republic. We got to go there for a week and present our senior design projects (ours was an adjustable lower limb prosthesis for children in developing countries) to people in the clinic there. P.S. I look happy drinking out of this coconut. Let me just tell you that was the most disgusting thing I have ever consumed. :)
College Station, TX for a Society of Women Engineers Conference
Atlanta with the band for the SEC Championship
South Carolina for a football game
Did some crazy things:
I was in a sorority. Obviously if you know me IRL, you might think that was pretty crazy for me. I never thought that I would be a sorority girl. However, I had some of my best times with my Alpha Delta Pi sisters. Here are a couple of us buying drinks for a rush party. Coke, Sparkling Grape Juice, and Water. Tons of it. I think we also went to 2 other stores after this. :)
The UofA might be a huge school, but my department was very small. I graduated with about 12-15 people in the Biological Engineering department. Of course, I did have some huge 200 people classes, but mostly I had small classes with these same 10-15 people. We got to know each other pretty well over the four years, and our senior year we started doing birthday cakes in class for everyone's birthday. It was fun.
Of course we always dressed up for Halloween. I'm pretty sure that all three of these costumes were pretty much last minute. Who knew that a free blue foam Statue of Liberty Hat from a Tax company could come in handy? And Yocum Hall, I am sorry for the silver spray paint that I may or may not have gotten all over the sidewalk behind the dorm.
This is me before a football game in Little Rock. Apparently all those years in soccer paid off. I can actually kick a field goal. I mean, sure it might have been a fake one that was considerably lower. Whatever, I was proud of myself. haha. And that band practice uniform was sexy! haha.
I was on an intramural sorority bowling league team. We were the champions. It was fun. Let's just say that sometimes La Huerta was visited before the game.
Traditions:
This picture is also in my last post. I love this tradition at the Uof A. (P.S. When I was writing this, I thought of the commercials that are about the YOU of A. I think that is the dumbest thing ever. Please don't judge the University on behalf of those commercials.) Anyway- back on track. The university engraves the name of each of its graduates on a sidewalk somewhere on the campus. It is always fun to go back and visit my name. The ones from waaaay back in the day are actually hand engraved in the stone. Obviously now, they are done by a machine. The really old ones done by hand are much cooler, though. I am so glad that they spelled my name right!
The GO HOGS spell-out. Every football game, the band does this after the competion of its halftime show. I think it is super fun. Basically the announcer says give me a "G" and then they make the G. and then give me an "O" and so forth. I'm sure you get it. :)
The "Big A". I absolutely love this one too. This is part of the Pre-game show that the band does every game. It is much harder to do than most people realize, but it was always my favorite part of being in the band. And look at how many people are in the stands. I never did get used to being down there in front of all those people. Every time we did a new show, I would get nervous and forget the show right before we started. Of course it always came back to me before we went on the field, but man it sure would be scary.
Calling the hogs! Here is a link to the proper way to call those hogs! This is something that you really can't explain.
Old Main. This is the symbol of the university. I think it is a pretty old building.
So that's a brief introduction to the University of Arkansas. The official website is here. I hope to see some more blogs about UofA and reading about your school! Thanks for stopping by!
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Celebrate 2011 With a jasmere Code!
Do you shop on jasmere? If not, you should! :) It is my favorite shopping site. If you want to join, go here. It is a daily deal site and there is a different product or company every day. I have bought several things from them and I have never had a bad experience. And the customer service is top notch! You can choose to have the deal emailed to you every day if you like. That is what I do.
If you see something that you like, use the code SAVE11, good for 11% off any order. Good through Feb 28, 2011 and apparently you can use it as many times as you want until it expires.
Let me know if you get any good deals!
If you see something that you like, use the code SAVE11, good for 11% off any order. Good through Feb 28, 2011 and apparently you can use it as many times as you want until it expires.
Let me know if you get any good deals!
Monday, February 14, 2011
Fayetteville
On Friday, I decided to make the trip up to Fayetteville to see my friend Lyndsey. I wan't completely sure about the roads, but obviously I made it just fine. The interstates were all perfectly clear- and most were practically dry. The streets in Fayetteville were mostly clear too, except for the neighborhoods. I must say that I was very impressed by the work of the city of Fayetteville after the snow. Their roads were better than those in Little Rock, and they got 25 inches, as compared to our 6 inches! Friday night, we went to eat at Hammontree's, which is a gourmet grilled cheese restaurant. My kind of place! :)
Saturday, we went to see the Razorbacks play basketball against LSU. Luckily, the Hogs won. I think we were good luck. Here we are at the game:
and obviously if you are paying attention, my name is cut out of the picture. didn't want the weirdos to know my whole name. :) I have a picture from last time I was on campus, but this one is much better! I love how the University engraves its graduates' names in the sidewalks. I think it is a neat tradition. I even have a rubbing of my name in my diploma frame that my mom got me when I graduated.
After the game, we went to Target and then to dinner. It seems like all of Northwest Arkansas was out and about. Cabin fever had certainly taken over by that point.
Sunday we went to church and then I had to come home since we started back with the Women's Bible study. This time we are doing Beth Moore's Daniel study. I hope it will be a good one!
Saturday, we went to see the Razorbacks play basketball against LSU. Luckily, the Hogs won. I think we were good luck. Here we are at the game:
Then of course we had to go walk around campus. This is me in front of Engineering Hall, the building where my department is housed.
And of course, no trip to the UofA is complete without finding your name on the Senior Walk!!
After the game, we went to Target and then to dinner. It seems like all of Northwest Arkansas was out and about. Cabin fever had certainly taken over by that point.
Sunday we went to church and then I had to come home since we started back with the Women's Bible study. This time we are doing Beth Moore's Daniel study. I hope it will be a good one!
Friday, February 11, 2011
Snow day adventures
So after my last post, I was wondering what I should do since I had already cleaned almost everything. I was sitting in my bed watching tv and had a huge glass of grape Kool-Aid that we made when my sister was here last weekend. (We just made it this weekend- I did not have it sitting on the nightstand since this weekend) :) Of course, being the graceful person that I am, I managed to knock it over before I even drank any of it. Purple stuff was all over my bed skirt, night stand, computer, wall, and worst of all- the carpet! I somehow managed to get it all cleaned up, but it took a while and a lot of carpet cleaning stuff. Seriously though- how come these things always happen to me? haha I am the clumsiest person I know.
Yesterday morning I got up and did this workout video called Bikini Ready Body. haha we will see if it works. It was mainly a stretching video, and I can say that I am sure not as flexible as I used to be! I have seriously neglected my exercise video collection since before I moved into this house about 10 (!!) months ago. I have kind of forgotten which ones I like, and which ones are worthless, so I am trying to go through them and decide what to keep and what to sell/trash. I am going to try one of the old school VHS ones today. My sister and I actually still watch a lot of VHS tapes since I have a combo DVD/VHS player and I still have all of the Disney movies from when my brother, cousin, and I were little. Hercules is a favorite around here.
Yesterday I also walked over to my friend Mindi's house. She lives just down the street from me, which is good because I was not brave enough to drive yesterday. She sometimes cuts my hair for me. I basically have the same hair cut, but only shorter and without all the split ends. Here is a before and after shot.
P.S. Don't hate- I know you don't wear makeup on snow days either. All this dry weather is making my hair crazy! There is some serious static going on in both of these pictures. How do you keep your hair from looking like a crazy mess with all the dry air?
I am still planning (hoping?) to go to Fayetteville today. I still have not recieved my basketball tickets in the mail, so that does make me kind of nervous. The mail did not make it here the past two days, so I sure hope it runs today and that the tickets are in there. My neighborhood seems to be completely clear, so I sure hope they get here before I try to leave. It should get above freezing both here and in Fayetteville this afternoon, so I am hoping with all the people going back to work and the rising temperatures, that I will be able to make it. My plan is to give it a shot, and if the roads are too bad, I will just stop and get a hotel and try to finish the trip in the morning. The game is at 12:30 tomorrow, so I should be able to make it I think! If I do drive all the way up there though, and I don't have the tickets, I sure hope that they will let me in based on my confirmation email. I will be very upset if they don't!
Yesterday morning I got up and did this workout video called Bikini Ready Body. haha we will see if it works. It was mainly a stretching video, and I can say that I am sure not as flexible as I used to be! I have seriously neglected my exercise video collection since before I moved into this house about 10 (!!) months ago. I have kind of forgotten which ones I like, and which ones are worthless, so I am trying to go through them and decide what to keep and what to sell/trash. I am going to try one of the old school VHS ones today. My sister and I actually still watch a lot of VHS tapes since I have a combo DVD/VHS player and I still have all of the Disney movies from when my brother, cousin, and I were little. Hercules is a favorite around here.
Yesterday I also walked over to my friend Mindi's house. She lives just down the street from me, which is good because I was not brave enough to drive yesterday. She sometimes cuts my hair for me. I basically have the same hair cut, but only shorter and without all the split ends. Here is a before and after shot.
P.S. Don't hate- I know you don't wear makeup on snow days either. All this dry weather is making my hair crazy! There is some serious static going on in both of these pictures. How do you keep your hair from looking like a crazy mess with all the dry air?
I am still planning (hoping?) to go to Fayetteville today. I still have not recieved my basketball tickets in the mail, so that does make me kind of nervous. The mail did not make it here the past two days, so I sure hope it runs today and that the tickets are in there. My neighborhood seems to be completely clear, so I sure hope they get here before I try to leave. It should get above freezing both here and in Fayetteville this afternoon, so I am hoping with all the people going back to work and the rising temperatures, that I will be able to make it. My plan is to give it a shot, and if the roads are too bad, I will just stop and get a hotel and try to finish the trip in the morning. The game is at 12:30 tomorrow, so I should be able to make it I think! If I do drive all the way up there though, and I don't have the tickets, I sure hope that they will let me in based on my confirmation email. I will be very upset if they don't!
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
B.O.R.E.D
So I left work at around 8:30 this morning. I got in 2 hours, so that was good. I was one hour of vacation short of being able to take off the rest of the week due to the weather. It was snowing pretty hard when I was leaving. I made it mostly ok, but when I got off the interstate and had to cross an overpass, I must have hit an icy patch. My car was going sideways and maybe even a little backwards. I was pretty scared. Luckily I didn't hit anything or anyone. I baked some banana bread, made pepper/zucchini fajitas, cleaned my bathroom, vacuumed my whole house, mopped the floors, cleaned the kitchen, washed the baseboards and did all my laundry. I have caught up on everything on facebook and read all the blogs I follow. I am counting down the mintues until the Hogs play basketball tonight so that I can watch it on tv. I am afraid that tomorrow is going to be awfully boring since I won't have anything to do but watch tv. I am still hoping to get up to Fayetteville on Friday night or Saturday morning. They got 25 inches of snow today. We only have around 6 here, but everything is definitely shut down. I'm hoping that the roads will warm up quickly. Here is what the filling of my fajitas looked like, except that I also added some cheese and sour cream:
Any ideas for what I can do tomorrow?
Any ideas for what I can do tomorrow?
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