A short update

I will try to provide a longer update in the very near future. Anatomy of the head and neck has swallowed me up for a few days.

But I just wanted to say that thanks to many generous bidders, the gourd silent auction brought in $311.00! How exciting is that?

 It will be combined with the money from the bake sale and donated to both the American Red Cross and Unicef. The last time I checked with Naz the bake sale had raised over $1,300.00.  So altogether, our class has raised over $1,600 for Haiti relief. Not that it is a ton of money, but surely every little bit helps, and it is so wonderful to see the class pull together to help people that are in need. It's encouraging to know that the dentists that MCG is sending out into the world are caring and generous people.

So now I have 9 shiny, glittering painted gourds just waiting to be delivered and then you can read all about my next round of shenanigans.

I'm thinking very seriously about having a little get together and making these.

Burlap Valentine Wreath

Props to April for the idea. I just hope I don't run out of time to plan it.

If you have more than one gourd...

You can scrub them clean...

Get some cheap paint...

And paint them to look like fruit (I did that one)....and birdhouses (made by talented Ben)...

And perhaps a monkey or a flower vase (thank you Destiny)...

And then you can sell them at the bake sale this week at the dental school to raise money for Haiti...at least that's what I'm doing with the ones I was gifted last weekend. I hope they can raise enough to make a difference. Just thinking about the tragedy makes me so grateful for the life I have here. I have been blessed with so much.

Speaking of blessings in my life. My loupes came in on thursday. I was sooooo stoked! They are these special glasses that have magnification in the lenses. I practiced my class I prep on Thursday using them for the first time and they were amazing! It was a million times easier to see and although it will take some getting used to, it'll help so much not to have to strain my eyes to see the tiniest details imaginable. I'm telling you. You don't know picky until you've been in dental school. I had a professor tell me once that he wanted to break my 4 hours of work into a million pieces because a marginal ridge was less than half a millimeter too high. I know that it will only make me a better dentist for my patients, but it can be stressful to have all of your hard work looked at with eagle eyes. I'm so thankful for my loupes.

I am also very thankful for my mom and sister, who drove to visit me today.

We went to Takosushi for lunch. Appropriately named, since you can get both tacos and sushi.

And then we went wedding dress shopping for Ashley because she is getting married in June. We had so much fun!

 

Although some of the dresses were uncomfortable.

And some were beautiful, but just not.....the right one.

And then of course, there was...the right one, but I won't post a picture of it just in case Ashley's fiance reads this. It is of course, amazingly beautiful and I cannot wait to see her in it on her special day.

Seriously...I'm stoked.

And now I need to go get stoked about some biochemistry which they have very sneakily renamed this semester as Molecular Biology of Craniofacial Development.

ok this is the first blog I've ever had. So I guess I should introduce myself to the blogging world. This is me. (Admittedly one of my better photographs.)

And this handsome guy is my husband.

We are both currently in school. He is a business management major and I am in dental school. This blog is meant to catalogue my life in a sense, and perhaps to capture some moments that I can look back on when all of this seems to have been a blur. 

This is our story.

A clean slate

ok this is the first blog I've ever had. So I guess I should introduce myself to the blogging world. This is me. (Admittedly one of my better photographs.)

And this handsome guy is my husband.

We are both currently in school. He is a business management major and I am a second semester freshman dental student. I guess I'm starting this blog to catalogue my life in a sense, and perhaps to capture some moments that I can look back on when all of this seems to have been a blur.

So here I go.

Lately, we haven't had a lot of quality time together because of school and other commitments, so Korey asked me if I would want to go saturday for a little road trip to Louisville, GA to see one of GA's former capitols and I took him up on it. It was a perfect day as far as I'm concerned even though it rained steadily and was cold and as it turns out, there isn't much to see in good ole Louisville.

This is the first place of historical significance that we came across on our fieldtrip. The plaque said that it was one of the slave auction places and was probably the only one left standing in GA. I'll just let you read it for yourself.

What a sad part of our state history.

Our next stop was the capitol building which is now used as a courthouse.

You are also welcome to read that sign.

After mulling about town for a little longer we decided that we had seen all that Louisville had to offer and headed back toward home.  On the way we passed through Wrens, GA and ate at "Dutch House" which is a small town restaurant and bakery run by mennonite people. The food was good old country cooking and reminded me a lot of a place we like to eat at in our hometown called Lorretta's.

Across the street from Dutch House was a gourd farm and even though it was raining, I asked if we could go and just look at the gourds.

It was cold and raining but Korey (with a little nudging) agreed to go with me to look at them. There were two women in that barn that were selling the gourds. One was the owner of the gourd farm and she talked to us for a bit while she made a fire in an old cast iron stove. Korey kept trying to get me to buy a birdhouse gourd. He could tell that I wanted one, but I didn't want to waste money on something frivolous. While we were talking the lady kept interjecting with "What are you going to do with just one gourd? You need more than one gourd." Honestly, I don't know what you do with more than one gourd. One gourd sounds like more than enough to me. Finally she grabbed my left hand and looked while she asked me if we were married. When I said "Yes, ma'am" she asked me, "Well do you have any children?" and I said, "no, ma'am." I guess I answered her questions correctly because she said, "you take this bag and fill it up and you save your money for college." I was amazed. You know, they just don't make people like that anymore. I protested a little but she insisted and I didn't want to insult her, so I took the bag and not wanting to take advantage of her kindness, I picked out 3 gourds. It was a little miserable out there picking gourds in the rain so I took the gourds inside to show her so we could get back in our warm car and head back home. That sweet lady pitched a fit though. She wanted us to "fill up the bag." So we went back out and gathered more gourds. I have no idea what to do with all of these gourds.

 

If you ever need any gourds and want to help out a sweet elderly lady, just call that number there on the sign and ask for Lena.