Sunday, October 31, 2010

Harry Pumpkin and Michael Voldemort

For Halloween, I ate a spider cupcake.

And carved a pumpkin.








My pumpkin is obviously Michael Jackson, but next to Danielle's Harry Potter pumpkin, mine bears a closer resemblance to Lord Voldemort. On the other hand, I think Danielle's pumpkin looks more like my dad than Harry Potter. What do you think?


Sunday, October 24, 2010

Don't stress, don't stress, don't stress

During my last year of college, I lived next door to this girl named Aubrey. I think that was her name, anyway.

One day I asked Aubrey if she was stressing over midterms or something, and she said, "No. I used to get stressed, but then I realized there was no point, so I don't get stressed anymore."

Such wise words.

I decided to make "don't stress" one of my year 25 goals, although I've kind of been blowing it lately. But why waste time with unnecessary panic attacks when everything always works out? But things rarely go according to my plans, so when I say things work out, I mean I'm not dead or homeless and I'm surrounded by amazing people. And when it comes down to it, those are the most important things. Am I where I thought I'd be at age 25? Definitely 100% not. But maybe that doesn't really matter.

The main thing I'm trying not to stress about = money. It turns out I really love to spend money. Then I look at my bank account and realize I'm broke when I'm trying to go back to school. Good one, Megan.

So until I have an actual salary with benefits, I'm only buying things I literally need, like toothpaste and underwear. I guess I wouldn't die without either one of those, but I'll allow them to remain in the "literally need" category just the same. You understand.

On an entirely different note, I helped plan an amazing corn maze trip, and look how much fun we had.












Friday, October 8, 2010

Back to school, back to school

Guess who's going back to school.
I am!


I just got my acceptance letter from the Oregon Institute of Technology in the mail yesterday, and it was a very exciting moment to be sure. A guy from the admissions office even called me last night to congratulate me and see if I had any questions. What service!

My dad graduated from OIT, so that's kind of cool for us both--Daddy's little girl attending his alma mater.

Right now I'm pre-medical imaging technology, and once I take a few classes, I'll be able to apply for the program that I want, which will most likely be echocardiography. So now I need to make a game plan to make sure I get accepted into the program because A. I really want to do it, and B. I'm going to be in major debt, and I'm going to need the ultrasound tech salary to pay it off.

I have so much to plan! Woohoo!