The Last Week

So sometime yesterday whilst pondering on my current state, I realized that this is my last week before starting nursing school, and it is also my last week of being a teenager. This is a little bit crazy sauce. It's funny because when I was a kid, I figured that I'd be all grown up at 20. I'd have everything figured out, and I wouldn't be scared of anything. Now that I'm actually here I don't feel grown up at all. I'm still just me. I'm still scared of spiders and snakes, and a whole lot of other things, and I have a whole lot less figured out than I did when I was little. Mostly I'm just a taller version of kidly me. :) But it is exciting to finally be in the nursing program, and it's a little weird to be turning 20. I decided I should probably start growing up when those things happen, so I've done as much as I can for the last few days to revert to my childhood as much as possible. Though that's proven a little difficult since I've been spending a lot of my time at work. But I did read the whole Fablehaven series (5 books) in a week, which was pretty awesome and reminded me of the fascination I had as a little girl with fairy stories. I also read The Outsiders, which have read about a bagillion times since I was about 10 and it's one of my favorite books ever. And I've been sleeping in, which I won't get to do much of for the next couple years :)

So that is my not-so-exciting conclusion to my Summer, and to my teen years. Hello homework and twenties!

Libros

So I was looking at a Summer reading list that I made, and of the 25 books that I listed I only read two of them. Which kind of felt like a failure, but on the other hand, I read lots of other books, so I don't feel that bad about it :) So these are the books I've read this summer:

1. Villette by Charlotte Bronte- AWESOME! Totally loved this book, though it hasn't quite beat out Jane Eyre as my favorite :)

2. Elantris by Branden Sanderson- I read this at my brother's house, it was totally amazing

3. Howl's Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones- I loved the movie, but the book is even better :)

4. Castle in the Air- sequel to Howl's Moving Castle, basically awesome, but I liked the first one better.

5. Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen- I liked this book, it was cute, and it kept me occupied whilst traveling to Idaho :)

6. The Nazi Officer's Wife- This is a true story about a Jewish woman who married a Nazi officer during WWII, it's pretty sad and intense, but it's good

7. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke- this is one of my new favorite books ever. It was crazy long and took me a while, but I loved it :)

8. Jane Eyre, again :)

9. Daddy Long-Legs, again :)

10. Dear Enemy, sequel to Daddy Long Leg (both by Jean Webster), basically awesome :)

uhmmm, I've read a couple more, but I can't recall what they were :) Right now I'm in the middle of Mistborn, by Branden Sanderson, so far so good :)

Summertime

So as I am approaching the end of Summer in a few weeks I've been thinking about whether I am excited for school to start up again. And the answer is YES!!!!!! For one thing, it means my dear friend over at Elferingewort will be coming home soon, which is probably sad for her to leave her friends and family she is with, but I will be pretty thrilled to have her back here :) For another thing, I am finally, after years and years of waiting and preparing, going to start nursing school! This is totally weirding me out because I have known I was going to be a nurse ever since I was giving shots to my teddy bears at age 6, but it's always been that distant future type of thing, where it felt like it was never actually going to happen. But guess what, it's happening, in less than 4 weeks!!! Crazy sauce. So yeah, this year is going to be crazy tough, but it will also rock :)

In other news, this Summer has been pretty great. As aforementioned, my sister and her kids came to stay with us for a few weeks before moving across the states. I've always loved hanging out with all of them, and I'm pretty bummed that they're going to be so far away, so it was good to be able to spend some time with them. I don't think it had occurred to me how much I will miss them until Strawberry (my sister's oldest daughter) woke up the morning I was leaving for Idaho and came to give me a big hug and I didn't want to let go :( But I'm really happy that they all finally got to go be with their Daddy who moved a few weeks ahead of them to start working while they finished up school.

In other other news I spent the last few weeks at my eldest brother's house up in northern Idaho. I had a lot of fun and it was cool to get to spend time with him and his family because I don't get to see them very often since they always live so far away. His kids are so cute and fun, and I got to play with them a lot. As soon as I got there his daughter took me outside and handed me a chicken to hold, which was pretty cool cause I've never held a chicken before, and we spent a lot of time playing chickens after that:) The older boys took me on lots of adventures in their yard which mostly consisted of getting lost in the tall timothy grass behind their house, and they taught me a lot of songs from Mario :) And they also have a little toddler who is crazy adorable and he would just run up to me yell "Hey Bon-nie!" with a big grin on his face. It was pretty heart melting. And it was also way fun to spend time with my brother and his wife. It's been a while since I had gotten to spend much time with either of them and they are pretty stellar people to be around :) It was also a bonus that the weather was absolutely beautiful :)

So basically that is what I have been up to this summer. The only sibling I didn't see was my second oldest brother, cause he was up staying with his wife's family, so hopefully I will get to see him sometime soon :) Other than that I have been reading lots of books. So far all of them have been good, someday I'll do a book review for them, but this post is getting a little too long :) But my favorites have been Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel, Villette, and Elantris. I highly recommend all of them :)

Update

So, I haven't blogged in a while. And I am kinda bored. :) So here are some things that have happened to me lately:

1. My sister and her family are staying with us for a while before they move to the other side of the country. They are all super awesome and I'm going to miss them a ton when they live a bazillion miles away. :S

2. My oldest brother came to stay with us for a few days and next week I get to go spend a couple weeks with him and his family in Idaho :)

3. I have read 2/3 of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel, which is a pretty excellent book, I highly recommend it so far :)

4. I went to Bookman's, which is always a mistake because I go in there looking for one thing and I come out with a stack of books, but that's okay, I'm building up my library :)

5. I ate way too many Cheetos and Skittles whilst watching The Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules, with my nieces. I think I'm gonna cut out junk food for a few days to recover :)

6. I watched TV, kind of a lot. Mostly Gilmore Girls, season 2.

7. Uhmmmmm that's pretty much it I guess.

8. Oh yeah, I got into the NURSING PROGRAM!!! In 2 short years I will be a nurse!!! Woot woot! :)

So yeah, that's all, sorry my life is a little boring to read about at the moment, but it's nice just taking it easy with my family for a while :)

Bram Stoker is rolling over in his grave.

Does anyone else think it's kinda funny that vampires have gone from super evil man eating monsters:

To super attractive semi-good guy "vegetarian" teenagers with emotional complexes that everyone wants to date?

It just kinda cracks me up :)

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. :)

MI-5

So I was watching PBS. And MI-5 was on. Which was awesome.

And I realized that all of the male leads in that show have been my favorite male leads from Jane Austen and/or Elizabeth Gaskell movies.

And I'm okay with that :)
That is all.