Pretty Little Things

So I have been puttering around etsy and other blogs and I have found so many pretty little things that I thought I would share. Being a dancer in my younger years I have still maintained my love of the tutu. I still want to wear one.

I have had a recent obsession with clutches since I bought mine last semester for $12 at Nordstom (steal of a deal I should have bought 2) Isn't this so romantic! I love.

I also greatly appreciate the beauty in Jcrew's recent homepage. Love the wild flowers surrounding this model.
Love the pinks and reds with these blue plates.
SO Love the printed table swatch below these blue vases and pink flowers.
/My all time favorite blouse. So flowy and romantic. I found this randomly while looking for a hair cut. Love Keira, love her blouse more.
Well those are just a few pretty things I have found.

Ta ta for now.

A Lovely Weekend and My Hill billy cast

Midterms were last week and after three horrendous days I finished them up on Wednesday in time to go get Michael from the airport. We borrowed his brothers car and drove down to Riverside to purchase me a car! Ah! Finally, I have a car. It is wonderful. I got a great deal on a Mazda 3 (2009) with 20,000 miles on it. Hertz is selling some of their cars. I got my little red mazda for $2,000 below Kelly blue book. Couldn't be more excited about that!

Michael and I had a weekend with a car. It was great. We went to Venice Beach and flew a kite, went through the Museum of Art in downtown LA, caught Alice in Wonderland at LA Live, and enjoyed kabobs in Little Tokyo, toured the UCLA Medical Campus, and saw Elder Anderson speak! It was so great to have him down here.

Well, I sent him back on Sunday-I got to get back to work ha ha. Today in lab we had to turn in our cast (a ceramic model of a mouth) with the wax ups of # 7, 14 and 30. Well right before class started I dropped my cast and knocked its central, lateral and canine out! (Atleast they weren't any of the teeth I had waxed up). When my professor came to check off my work I had only managed to repair the damage to the central and lateral teeth. I handed over my "hill billy" cast with an apology. He laughed that I called it a hill billy and checked off my work. Phew-good thing that wasn't a patient right?

Ta ta for now

Valentines Day

I have always loved and celebrated Valentines whether I had a boyfriend or not. It might have had to do with the fact that for many years my favorite color was pink, I have a deep love for flowers and chocolate, and I love making valentines (or buying them Papyrus anyone) with lots of sparkles! But this year was I think the best Valentines day I have ever had! I got to celebrate with my love! I can't imagine loving someone more than I love Michael.

I flew into Utah to celebrate the long weekend with him and my family. On Saturday night we had our own little Valentines celebration. Both of us our lovers of sushi so that had to be the main course of the evening but their was a delightful twist! Michael had painted a sushi plate like a checker board in a ceramic class forever ago-so we played sushi checkers! Michael's spider rolls and spicy tuna rolls against my california rolls and citrus rolls.

It was so much fun-admittedly we only played one game-we ate all the ones we jumped but it was a super fun way to enjoy sushi. Then Michael surprised me with a delightful box of chocolate and the beautiful flower ring up top! Its a flower and sparkly all at the same time! I love it. I found it at Zales back in November and mentioned that I really liked it. He remembered and got it for me for Valentines day! Isn't he the sweetest! I felt really dumb when he opened his gift to find his favorite movie (Big Fish) and a couple other fun little things. He was so tickled that I remembered his favorite movie (and that he had lost his copy). We just had to sit right down and watch it right then. Ha ha ha. I love my boyfriend he is so sweet!

Ta ta for now,

Melissa

Three Day Weekends and 35 million dollars

This last weekend we got Martin Luther King Jr. day off of school. To celebrate, a couple dental students and I went up to St. George (one of the dental students parents live there). We spent the weekend repelling and took a hike in Zions National Park. We just did a small hike called Emerald Pools. It was snowy, and raining, and we loved every minute

We arrived back early Tuesday morning in time to hit up class. Whew-not much sleep that weekend but totally worth it, espcially when Michael came and joined us on Monday for hiking!

Yesterday (wednesday). Dean Sadan (dean of the dental school), closed down all classes and had us attend a special event. All students had been guessing over the past 2 weeks what would be so important as to cancel classes. Some of the speculations were announcing the renovation of our clinic (which will be done when I hit the clinic floor! Yiphee!), announcing a new curriculum (which is going to be implemented next fall) or a large donation. Well-it was the last. A wealthy man named Herman Ostrow graduated from USC School of Dentistry in 1945. After practicing for 17 years he stepped into real estate and construction-making big money. He donated 35 million dollars to my school yesterday and so now we are known as the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at USC.

Christmas Time

Hello Everyone,

So I successfully finished my first semester in dental school on December 11th and was out on the 12th to Utah! I got to spend a wonderful time with my friends, family and....fia-ha ha ha jk boyfriend Michael. Some of the highlights included attending New Moon with my mother, younger sister, Michael and Matthew (18 year old brother). Matthew wanted to go only so he could squeal as loud as he could when he saw a half naked Jacob. Ha ha ha he and Michael didn't disappoint when Jacob came on screen. I think they were the most excited little girls. But my favorite part of New Moon was when Jacob (werewolf) runs up the side of Bella's house, jumps on a tree and then through her window. As he lands on her floor Ulia without realizing is says out loud, "Parkour BABY!" AH ha ha ha ha. Everyone around us started laughing. Love watching movies with that girl.

I also enjoyed spending Christmas morning with Michael's family. They have this insane tradition that the first kid to get up insanely early (no alarm clocks allowed) wakes the rest, and then they all jump on mom and dad's bed wake them and go open presents. I thought early meant like 8 and I was nervous because we had to be back in Farmington at 9am to talk to my brother in Brazil. Michael assured me we would be fine. At 5:17am I woke up to Michael coming into the guest room says, "It's Christmas morning sweetie!"

"What time is it?"

"......5:18am"

"WHAT! You woke up this early on your own?"

"C'mon baby lets go get everyone else up."

It took some serious coaxing to get me out of that bed at 5:18am, I think he ended up coming up to the side of the bed and picking me up out of it. Next, he ran upstairs and jumped on his sisters bed, stole his other sisters comforter, and made a enough racket to wake up his brother. Love is child like heart ha ha ha. Best part. They were all conspiring how they were going to wake up mom and dad, while Angelea (his sister) yelled MOM incessantly. Sis. Johnson finally came out of her room in her pjs, squinting at the light. Her husband followed, fully dressed in slacks and a button up shirts! Ha ha ha ha. It was so funny to see. Anyway-I'm back in the land of the temperate climates. Starting school again tomorrow. Hope everyone is doing well. I enjoy reading about all your lives girls.

Ta ta for Now

Halloween and Haircuts

Hey everyone,

So this Halloween was a new experience for me. At the request of the group mates at the dental school I went to the Delta Sigma Frat party. It was way fun to see my fellow dental students out of their scrubs! The girl next to me is Swati and the one in the devil horns is Dana. They are two girls in my group that are so cute and sweet. I love them! I even got a wrist band to designate that I was old enough to drink. A friend of mine thought it was funny I got a wrist band and am not a drinker. I jokingly told him it must have been in case someone asked me to hold their beer for them. He laughed proceeded to hand me his beer and didn't take it back. I was so redf faced. I returned it as quickly as he would take it back.

So new hair cut. I decided that I was in desperate need of a haircut when I got a handful of broken ends when I ran my fingers through my hair (terrible I know). So, I went to Alice, a close friend at dental school to ask who her stylist was. She proceeded to tell me that she had a stylist that cut asian hair, which was different from caucasian hair. Ha ha ha. Okay guess I was on my own. I ended up at a salon downtown. It was beautiful and my stylist did a great job on everything except my bangs. Apparently pictures aren't enough for people sometimes. I wanted long bangs. I warned her my hair was naturally curly. She cut them barely long enough and then blew dry my hair.....it curled. Upon looking at myself in the mirror I reminded myself of my second cousin Beth after she cut her own bangs! Yes, it was bad. I walked home SO embarrassed. After restyling them myself they don't look terrible. I still feel like I'm at best ten, but that's what you get when you want something different right? My roommates have assured they are cute, and Michael loves them. I guess I'll have to give them a second chance in a couple of days.

Ta ta for now.

MIDTERMS

So I am an absolutely terrible blogger. But this next week is midterms! AH! It consists of three days of testing. Luckily I am in a C cell which means I get to be tested on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and get Thursday and Friday off! Wahoo!

So midterms is broken down into 3 parts, MCQ (multiple choice questions) COMBOT (computer based testing) and T3 (Triple Jump) MCQ are going to be no problem (besides they fact that they are going to cover more material than I have ever had to cover on one exam before in my life!) COMBOT is what is scaring me a little bit. They flash pictures on a screen in front of you and give you a minute to identify the picture and label the arrows. If could be the anatomy of the heart, histology of the esophagus wall, or the anatomy of the head and neck. It could even be the brain and the cranial nerves. This is all very nerve racking (no pun intended). So you ask why am I on my blog NOW when I should be studying for all of this. GOod question. I thought I would just let you all know I was insanely busy :)