Late In Coming

I took all of these pictures at the first of June in Washington at my Grandpa Acheson's house when I visited with my family for his 80th birthday. I actually took a lot of pictures upon my mothers request. These are some of my favorites, although a lot of them are not actually of his house, but of random items I found around his house. Who knew that a caterpillar would be so captivating to me. The self portrait was added for the enjoyment of those who like pictures with people in them. I don't think that it is the best picture, but it was the best of the three that I took of myself of the beach.

Crazy Ideas

Once again I got a bee in bonnet. I got tired of waiting for blind date number 2 to ask me out again, so I did the only thing that a respectable girl could do, I asked him out. I was excited because I was going to have a Friday night off. That never happens to me, I am always working on Fridays.
I was pretty nervous after I asked him out, because his response was, "Uuuuhhhh, sure." Not real promising. I decided if he was not that sure that it could be really bad, so we might as well do what I want to do. So, up the the canyon we went. Not just the two of us, but my family members as well. I dragged Amber, Brent, Will, and Will's date up Milcreek Canyon and we had a dutch oven dinner and played some card games. Overall I had a good time and my date must not have thought it was too bad either. He decided that we were going to go to the movies afterward. It was great! We both smelled of campfire and I am pretty sure that everyone at The Gateway could smell us. I could smell myself, which I think means that everyone really could smell me. I just wanted to thank those family members who participated in the outing. It was nice to have something to do on a day off.
I am back to the trenches tonight. I get to work once again. The good new is that I have a couple of weeks off from school, which I am definitely taking. I was sad that my 4.0 streak has ended. I got a B in one of my classes this semester. I can't complain because it is a passing grade, so I should be happy.

Red Eyes

This past weekend I was extremely tired. I am hitting the end of the semester and the amount of paperwork and clinical hours have been increasing. I went to work all night after attending clinical for eight hours during the day. I thought that I was doing a good job of hiding how tired I was, but then I was confronted by a small 6 year-old child. She looked directly at me and said, "You must be tired." I replied, "What makes you think that." She stated, "Your eyes are all red." I suppose that sometimes there is no way to fool people, especially children. They are so observant. The real question was what was this child doing up at 2 a.m. and why was she left out in the waiting room of the ER without her parents?

What's Up

Summer semester is coming to a close for me and I am feeling the pressure. I need to have all of my assignments in by the 20th of this months and I am wondering how I am going to accomplish this daunting requirement. I had to rearrange my work schedule to allow me to get all of the hours that I need. It also seems to be that every time that I get busy there are always church callings that need to fulfilled. In the mist of all of this I need to run an activity between my two graveyard shifts. I have a feeling that I am going to be very tired when these two weeks are over.
For all of those who were curious I have not heard back from blind date number 2. I was actually hoping for something, but I think that the problem is that he seemed so normal...and I am just not so normal.
When I read Ann's blog I think about how tedious and unimportant all of the things that I worry about are, but for some reason I can't help it. I suppose that I will just have to pray and hope that everything works out for me the way that it should.

Update

Well, I have been thinking of what to update here about my date and it is difficult because nothing too extraordinary or unusual occurred. He was a gentleman and opened the doors for me, which doesn't happen much for me. In fact, sometimes it makes me a little uncomfortable, but I suppose that means that I need to get used to it and give up my independent stubborn streak. It was also a little different to spend time with someone who is that much taller than me. Yes, I know that Brent is just as tall, but for some reason my date seemed taller. We just went out for dinner, which was good. He is a "health nut" in his words. He was very concerned about eating healthy and exercise, which I decided was a good thing for me. I am always trying to do better, so maybe I could get the to rub off on me a little more. Two disappointment for me were:
1. He can't hike-he has one bad knee from having a femur larger than the other and that causes too much pain.
2. He has never really gotten into camping. He says his father always made camping really rustic. He says his father said things like, "You can go over there and go to the bathroom on that poison ivy over there." On the positive note he thinks that if he did it right that he might like it.

He talked a lot, many times saying things without thinking. That part reminded me a little of me. It made me laugh inside. He told me that he does that a lot and his family thinks of him as the mean one in the family because he says things to them without thinking. Hhhmmm, am I the mean one in the family?

Overall, I think that it went pretty well. I had a good time and I am hopeful for a second date, but I am not getting myself to worked up over it all. I think that I did hear him say that he was going to call me this upcoming week. I don't think that I made that up, so I suppose that I will have to give another update if that happens.

I don't really know what the meat question mark is about. I just thought it was kind of humorous that someone had made a question mark out of meat.