I LOVE KIDS!

So. Let me just tell you how much I love kids. I really think they are so much fun and I really think that's what I want to do with my career... work with kiddos. I don't care what age... just in general. I love the little babies, toddlers are fun, school age is great... I love 'em all. Why this sudden passion? Well it's not really sudden as I must say I LOVED my job over the summer, but tonight was the Tates Creek Elementary School Health fair put on by some fellow students and I went to go help out and was stationed at the Height/weight/BMI staion... which is conveniently what I did all summer!! So I was very comfy with it... I'm just like hey!! hop up here lets see how big you are!! :) How old are you? REALLY.. that old! getting big.... :) and I was perfectly ok plotting on their growth chart and explaining to mom/dad that their kid was normal/overweight whatever... but really... I left there and I'm just flying... I really had fun with those kids :) It's a really interesting thing though, cuz you never spend more than a few minutes with them, but they are still so energetic and bouncy and happy and fun to shoot the shit with :) I love the education part of it too... I really love the well child aspect of healthcare - I really think (no big surprise, but it was nice to solidify it) I do want to do pediatric nurse practitioner and do well child check up and minutely sick kids. I know I'll have to do some hospital peds work... but I really don't see myself enjoying it as much as the well-er child side of it, b/c of course in a clinic your gonna have sick kiddos too, but for the most part, it's just different. Or maybe like Leann suggested... I could be a school nurse... not sure about that one, but it's a thought... could be fun :) I dunno... we'll see... have to graduate first :)....

ok so now I really need to get this paper overwith... tired of it hanging over my head....

Birthday/Halloween!

soooo... I am now 22 years old. wow. I really feel kinda old. I mean not in that granny type way, but in that, I'm a senior in college and about to graduate and everyone around me seems so much younger. It was wild.... everytime someone asked me how old I was when wishing me happy birthday you could see it in their face... oh - old.... as in I've passed the fun 16-18-21 birthday mile markers and now I'm just getting older, without the perks. Cynda and I are going to rent a car when we turn 25 she says... but that's pretty much it. I mean it was a lovely birthday don't get me wrong. Thurs night Cynda and I went out as usual (another never-a-dull-moment evening) and realized that at midnight it would be my birthday so we celebrated after midnight :). Started at Avios, then moved to Redmons cuz we just weren't feelin Avios... Good fun. Larry Redmon thought Cynda was his bouncer's younger sister so that was interesting, and a cute guy hit on Cynda like no other :). Hung out Friday, went to band and everyone was lovely :) Then the parade.. boo, and the pep rally ... BS!!!! I'll just say SAB would do well to remember that the band are students to and include us at events like that since we had to be there anyways and we vastly outnumbered the other groups there.... combined!!!! Definatley a waste of time and glad I don't ever have to do that again. and Lance came in about 10 :D :D :D. Went down to McCarthy's for a bit, then back home and hung out with Lisa and Steve. It was really kinda nice to be around a different crowd... really the old crowd technically.... again. Got up Saturday and had pancakes... went to the game... yay! we won. and did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING Saturday night. Finished my scarf while Lance played guitar, and we then watched tv for a bit and fell asleep on the couch. Again, nice to just hang out with him. Went to mass Sunday, with Billy and then the three of us went to Mellow Mushroom, and then I headed to work and Lance home.
I didn't wanna go, but as I didn't have a choice... however I don't know what it is... I always dread going into work, but I'm fine when I'm there....it's weird.
Halloween!So definately went to band dressed up as Creature Double Feature was right after and I was really supposed to be there around 6 as it started at 7, but since I don't get out of band until 7.... so yeah acc to Katie I was the "weird kid" but at least I wasn't the only one dressed up :) And Kat Liked it :) :) I have to say... if you know anything about Harry Potter... Cynda and I's costumes ROCKED!!! I was Prof. McGonagall, and she Hermione, I had the had with the crinkles and the feather, and the glasses and the cape.... and Cynda even had the tie and the Hogwarts crest on her cape :) We are going to wear them to the Midnight showing opening night :) So we watched the first movie, then helped clean up what we could and headed out.... Decided to go "trick or treating" more or less to show our costumes to some people... so we headed to Jenny's first, then Brents. Both LOVED the outfits :) :) and Jenny gave me her good cape - much better! Then to Katie Red's and McCarthy's for a bit then Home! by that time I was sooooo hungry and tired and grumpy!!! Bed was so lovely.