Uh...Say That Again??

So, get this. I called my mom on Friday when I got my acceptance letter to tell her the good news. She was excited and everything and then she said, "I've decided that I'm going to buy you a house." !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I sat there with my mouth hanging open for a second and then said, "What! Are you serious?" because this is totally not my parents style. Don't get me wrong. They've been good to me over the years and everything, but a house? I still don't really believe it. (BTW, Blue and I will pay rent to cover the mortgage. I'm not that spoiled! :) ) Anyhoo, we looked at several properties last weekend, but didn't find "the one" yet. We're going out on the search again this weekend. There are two promising homes on the list. One is in Hillcrest close to where Brooke and I lived and the other is in the Christ Lutheran area kind of near Kat, Karl, Eliz., and Annie's respective houses (Yea! We'd be neighbors!). I am totally over the moon with excitement. It's craziness I tell you, absolute craziness!!!! I'll be able to have dinner parties, redecorate the whole house whenever I want, have a garden, do landscaping...oh, and did I mention have dinner parties? I don't even have words to express my excited anticipation!!! Yahoo!

Get ready to start calling me Doctor!

Two-Fiver

Happy Birthday to my best pal Brooke!

I officially welcome you to the quarter century club.

Hotter than ___________! (insert expletive here)

Is it just me, or is it way too hot? I'm not supposed to sweat until at least the middle of May! Anyone who doesn't believe in global warming is looney. The evidence is right in front of our faces. What stinks is that even if we completely stop green house gas emissions today, the effects of what we've already produced will carry on for years to come. Uggghhh! We're doomed!
All this environmentalism has made me think of something new that I saw recently that I want to own one day...
Toyota has developed a Camry hybrid for 2007!

For those of you who don't know, I drive a handy dandy super reliable Camry and I heart Toyota to the max. They last forever! One day I would like to own this hybrid. They start out at 25 g's, which isn't that bad...not compared to my real dream car anyway...

The BMW 6 series convertible!
I try not to covet very many things, but this car is my weakness. It is gorgeous (and it goes really fast too!). If I'm ever able I might just treat myself to it (yeah right, they start at 96 g's...buy my first house or buy a car, hmmmm). I can dream though can't I? When I ran into one in person I honestly followed the car around for a while because I was so captivated. It's got a hold on me! :) (Here's another picture for you to drool over.)

Screw the tenth commandment. I'm covetting!

Easter = sugar overload

Easter was good with lots of good food. We had a laid back lunch at my parent's house in LR. I made three desserts and some bread. Check them out below (I only managed to take pics of two things, so I cheated...the last two images are from cookbooks, but my end products were strikingly similar so just pretend I made them).















Strawberry tarts
















Challah (a type of Jewish bread)
















Lemon Blueberry Cream Pie (this was extraordinarily delicious)






















Coconut Cake with Coconut Custard filling

2 days early. It's probably sacreligious or something to say it on Good friday, but whatever. Hope everyone has a good holiday. I'll be doing lots of baking for my family dinner, and I'll try to take photos to show off next week. Happy Easter!

Blame it on the physics test, yeah, yeah...

So, my life this week has once again been taken over by physics. I've got my last test of the semester tomorrow (aside from the comprehensive final, which has a good chance of causing me to spontaneously combust...now there's some physics for ya!).

3 more weeks of school left!! (aside from the 3-week summer course I have to take during May; it's principles of accounting = can't be that hard).

I'm getting very antsy about Pharm school. I just want to know already. Everyone else I know has found out whether or not they're getting into their respective schools! Arrrrrgh! They're sending out letters around the end of the month...must practice patients........

Weekend in Review...

Friday: watched The Squid and The Whale
+ Saturday: hung out with Brooke and Trevor
+ Sunday: hung out with Jillian and watched Goodnight and Goodluck
= laid back weekend

So, obviously, nothing Earth shattering happened this weekend in Conway, but that's not the case elsewhere in the world...

A big congrats goes out to two of the craziest kids I know...Chandle and David...so exciting!!

St. Louis Trip continued...

My most favorite place that we visited was the City Museum. A description won't even begin to do it justice (the pictures don't either). Just know that it is way cool, and if you are ever in St. Louis you totally need to go.
The coolest room. Above the ceiling is the maze of tunnels. I bruised my shin climbing through them, but I didn't care cause it was so great to feel like a kid again.

Peter and Jillian in one of the exposed tunnels.

You had to climb up this tube to get into the ceiling tunnel system.

Me and Jillian in a cage.

The next few were taken in the "Enchanted Caves" area of the museum.

After climbing up through the caves we came to this scary area (see below) where you just kept climbing up and up. The museum is a work in progress, so we were not able to get to the top of these spiral staircases. When we got as high as we were allowed, you could either slide down the middle spiral or climb back down the other two. Jillian was the only one brave enough for the slide.

The rest of the time at the museum was spent outside on this insane maze of metal climbing stuff (imagine walking across a 10-inch wide plank of iron grating or crawling through a metal mesh tube 50 feet up from the ground...Scary to say the least, but such a rush and soooo much fun!). It was dark though, so I don't have any pictures of the cool outside area. Just know, that if you're in St. Louis, you must visit this place (preferably at night...they're open till 12AM).

Lou till you drop...

Oy! Getting home at 10pm on a Sunday and then starting back to school after seven days of spring break throws off your whole week. Needless to say, that is why I never got around to posting last week. The craziness of last week was definitely worth the fun we had on our St. Louis trip though. I took lots of pictures and since I haven't had many to post lately, don't hold it against me if I go overboard.

The Arch

Before we went in (it was cloudy, which was disappointing, but it ended up creating some cool shots I'll show later).

These are the scary "space capsule" cars you had to ride in to get to the top. Jillian (my yougest sister) got a little teary-eyed. I'll have to admit, I was a little freaked out too.

This is as close as I could get to the observation windows once we were at the top. I'm afraid of heights due to an incident on the playground that happened when I was really little.

These next few are just some cool shots of the arch itself. The last one is my favorite.

That's enough for today. To be continued.......

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