Sniffles, Flowers, and Love

This past weekend I went with my friend Austen to volunteer at this thing called Friday's Kids. It's a thing put on in different locations in Utah every Friday where parents bring their special needs children to be babysat while they go out on a date night -- what a WONDERFUL idea and SPECTACULAR blessing to be had by everyone involved! I got assigned to an adorable 2 (maybe 3) year old named Joslin, and she was just super cute with blond-brown hair and pretty blue eyes. Joslin is the youngest of 3 (her brother Bryton 12 and her sister Avery about 7), and they all have something called Fragile X Syndrome...which is kind of like a neighbor to Autism. All the kids that were there that night were just so adorable and precious. I look forward to volunteering more. Anyway, I started to feel yucky towards the latter part of the night and though I thought it was just my blood sugar and/or this new medication I'm taking for endometriosis, I must have caught a bug or something. So over the weekend I had been feeling yucky with a cold/wannabe flu type thing that carried through the weekend. Then Monday and today (Tuesday) I stayed home from school, eating lots of soup and drinking lots of herbal tea. Well, my amazing, cute, sweet, boyfriend Matt had some flowers and a card sent to me. What a thoughtful person he is. :) The flowers just hit the spot so perfectly because being under the weather makes you feel lousy in a few ways anyway, but I had also been kind of stressed and a little down about some things. The flowers are just so happy in looks, smell, everything...and the card is really sweet. Gah, I am so lucky. :)

Hoodeedoo!!

So many things have happened since I wrote last. Christmas was just sooo nice even though it was only my parents and I this year, so it was slightly depressing in some ways, but it still turned out to just be very nice. For Christmas Eve we went to the Riverwoods Mall and walked around a bit and then ate at The Macaroni Grill -- YUM! Christmas Day we got to Skype with my brother and his fam in Ohio, and we heard from my other brother and his fam on vacation in Washington, so that was nice. :) I unexpectedly got spoiled by everyone this year, I have such wonderful friends and family. They're far beyond what I deserve. :)
The last two weeks of my EKG class after the break went really well and I ended it with an A, so hooray!! I was going to certify as an EKG tech at the end of the class, but I didn't quite feel ready, so I'm taking another month to study more so I can feel more confident taking the certification. My teacher thought I could have done it just fine but agreed with my thoughts because confidence is like 80% of anything we do. I started my new classes on Tuesday because of Monday being a holiday and all -- thank you Mister King. Haha. My classes now are Pharmacy Technology Applications, and Medical Records and Communications. They're somewhat of a snooze, kind of an equal half and half I think. But still cool. I love what I'm doing, so I don't mind the boring classes. :)
In other news, I'm dating my best friend (guy of course), as of January 15th 2012, and I am very happy. He seems to be very happy too. Which is as it should be. :) We've been friends since we were 14 years old and have always had that spark. We have fun together. It'll be fun to see where this goes. :)
Life has just been really good and I don't really have much more to say except that it's awesome. Um, I did get to go on a couple dates with a really good friend before I started dating Matt, and both times we just had a lot of fun catching up and enjoying good company. Nothing else has really happened that I can think of at the moment. So I'll leave it at this for now. :)