Summertime

Well, I've been on my summer vacation for nearly a month now, and so far I spend most of my days doing pretty much nothing. I was going to just sit around and be lazy until I started CNA school this week, but I decided to put CNA school off for a while, possibly forever, so I guess I'd better start doing something productive :) My plans for the summer included cleaning my house (with extra emphasis on my room :P, completing my summer reading list which so far is about 30 books long, and getting ready for the nursing program by going through my textbooks and reviewing my pathophysiology notes). So far, I've mostly cleaned my room, done my laundry a couple times, read 2 books, and hung out with my friends, so I have some work to do :) But as far as the going over my nursing textbooks, I can't do that till I get my books, and as while I haven't been reviewing pathophysiology as much as I'd like, I'm kind of surprised at how much I still remember after a month. For instance, the other day my dad said something about ear infections and I totally spent 10 minutes telling him about otitis media (fancy word for ear infection) and why it's more common in children and what the different kinds are and how you can treat them. I was pretty stoked.

As for my summer reading list, I have kind of been rereading my favorite books lately instead of working on my list, but I did start "The Life of Joseph Smith the Prophet" by George Q. Cannon this week, I'm only about 50 pages in, but it's pretty fantastic. I also read "The Fourth Nephite" the other day which is kind of like Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites but shorter and it's in Joseph Smith's time instead of Book of Mormon times. It was a little silly but it was pretty good.

I'm planning on starting Moby Dick this week, hopefully that will happen, I'll keep you posted. I also need to finish the last chapters of Foundation by Isaac Asimov which is pretty much awesome. I've been reading a lot of his short stories lately too.

Just in case you haven't decided I'm a total nerd by now, I have also been watching a lot of Star Trek, I totally stay up till 11 to watch it on TV all the time. I've also been having a Gilmore Girl's marathon, but that's slightly less nerdy :)

So when I get sick of my solitary learning Summer activities, I go hang out with my awesome sauce friends. For instance, this week I had an X-men marathon with my super cool friend Elferingewort, and then on Saturday she and I kidnapped Celery and we all went to the zoo and saw super cool animals. My favorite was the elephant :) And Celery and I brought quarters and pennies to make squished pennies out of, and we each made 5 of them, we're starting a collection. And we totally ran into the same guy and his wife at both squishing machines, he had a whole bag of quarters and pennies, he offered to give us some to help out with our collection but we had plenty :)

Well this was probably my most verbose blog post ever so I should probably stop writing before I bore you to tears :) Here's some pictures of us having an awesome time at the zoo :

They had a hollow tree there so we could know what it's like to live inside a tree, just like a hornbill bird. We totally know what it's like to be birds now :)

This is us standing under the creepy masks up front. Cause we're cool like that.

And this is me sitting on a statue of an Orangutan. Because hey, why not?
We took about a bazillion and one pictures, but I'm not going to put them up, cause that would take forever. And they are already on facebook, so you can see them there if you so desire.

Anywho, hope everyone is having a great summer! :)

That's about it. Peace. :)